For more than 40 years, organizers with the no-compromise environmental defense movement known as Earth First! Have hosted an autonomously organized national meetup known as the Earth First Gathering. Every year since 1980, barring 2020 at the height of the covid-19 pandemic, organizers have taken on the task of hosting the event, which has grown from a small gathering of a few dozen environmentalists in the early years to a convergence for hundreds of anarchists, abolitionists, and land defenders. In 2024, organizers hosted the gathering on a rural plot of land in eastern Pennsylvania. Unicorn Riot spoke with some of the organizers of this year’s event during the 44th annual Earth First Gathering.

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