“No matter how much you lobby, the Bureau of Land Management isn’t gonna listen to you if a timber company is paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars,” says Ben, an anonymous Earth First! activist who participated in the “Elliott Free State” blockade. “Forest defense is direct democracy: participating in the world you want to see.”
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