Summary
Do or Die (1999) — the magazine of the UK direct-action movement Earth First! — documents the late-1990s anti-roads and anti-capitalist movement, and is a primary source for Moyer’s Movement Action Plan applied to the UK Earth First! context. [source: do-or-die]
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Do or Die was the magazine of the UK Earth First! movement, published 1992-2003 in 10 issues. The magazine served as a primary record of the 1990s UK direct-action movement: the Twyford Down campaign (1992), the M11 link road protest (1993-94), the Newbury bypass protests (1996), and the anti-capitalist movement around the J18 and N30 mobilisations of 1998-99. The magazine is widely cited in movement-history literature as one of the few self-documented direct-action archives, alongside the US Slingshot and the German radikal. [source: do-or-die]
The magazine is referenced in the Movement Action Plan literature as a worked example of MAP’s “backlash” stage (the Criminal Justice Act 1994; the construction of the bypasses despite the protests) and as evidence that the UK Earth First! movement did not reach the “majority support” stage of the MAP cycle.