Thirteen years ago today, a grassroots movement took to the streets of Seattle and shut the city down, effectively ruining the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) summit and turning the global tide against corporate rule. Four years later, we faced off with the one of the most well-funded police forces in the world in the streets of Miami to expose the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) summit.

This evening we will be celebrating these amazing events of Novembers past at the first annual Earth First! Film Fest, hosted by the EF! Journal Collective, with independent films from about the mobilizations in Miami and Seattle, along with other films on industrial globalization and its discontents.

For three decades, Earth First! has at the forefront of the movement against corporate globalization, bringing skills and passion from backwoods road blockades into the city streets, side by side with indigenous communities, unions, students and other activists.

If you can’t make it to the event, but want to contribute towards keeping a crucial voice of the direct action movement alive, subscribe or donate to EarthFirstJournal.org

For the Earth First! Film Fest schedule and details, check here

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The EF! Journal collective will also be presenting a full spread of literature and merchandise, from back issues to buttons, stickers, shirts, books and more. Some come prepared to do some of your holiday anti-consumerism shopping.