This manifests itself as rioting, vandalism, wire cutting, hunt sabotage, participation in Animal Liberation Front- or Earth Liberation Front-style activities, and in extreme cases, bombings.
The U.S. Justice Department labels underground groups the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front as terrorist organizations.
In 1999, on New Year Eve, the building was subject to an act of eco terrorism when the building was set on fire by the members of the Earth Liberation Front, causing more than $1 million of damage protesting research involving genetically modified crops being conducted at the university.
The group uses the same leaderless-resistance model as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which consists of small, autonomous, covert cells acting independently.
For example, the Earth Liberation Front has claimed responsibility for a number of incidents of property damage, but claims to have never harmed a living being, and in fact has a doctrine forbidding members from doing so.
The issues carry several articles on the philosophy of direct action in defense of earth liberation, news concerning the struggle and the environmental crisis, practical discussions on strategies and security issues, as well as listing the diary of actions for various earth liberation groups like the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front.
The types of actions are said to have influenced the formation of environmental organizations such as Greenpeace and the Earth Liberation Front.
Earth | Earth-616 | Google Earth | People's Liberation Army | Earth Day | Western Front | People's Liberation Army Navy | Eastern Front (World War II) | Friends of the Earth | From the Earth to the Moon | Cursed Earth | Western Front (World War I) | National Front | Eastern Front | Earth, Wind & Fire | Zapatista Army of National Liberation | Middle-earth | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | Libération | The Front Page | Kosovo Liberation Army | Bangladesh Liberation War | From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries) | Animal Liberation Front | Rwandan Patriotic Front | Revolutionary United Front | Manfred Mann's Earth Band | All Quiet on the Western Front | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Liberation |
Daniel G. McGowan, environmental activist jailed and fined in 2006 for his involvement with Earth Liberation Front actions