ELF Topples Two Radio Station Towers in Washington

Everett, WA: Two radio sta­tion tow­ers were torn down ear­ly Fri­day by the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front (ELF) in the Lord’s Hills val­ley in Sno­homish Coun­ty, WA. The tow­ers, owned by sta­tion KRKO, have been a source of con­tro­ver­sy for years. A sign left at the scene claime­drespon­si­bil­i­ty by the ELF.

Earth Liberation Front Topples Two Radio Station Towers in Snohomish County, WAEarth Liberation Front Topples Two Radio Station Towers in Snohomish County, WAEverett, WA: Two radio sta­tion tow­ers were torn down ear­ly Fri­day by the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front (ELF) in the Lord’s Hills val­ley in Sno­homish Coun­ty, WA. The tow­ers, owned by sta­tion KRKO, have been a source of con­tro­ver­sy for years. A sign left at the scene claime­drespon­si­bil­i­ty by the ELF.

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Sep­tem­ber 4, 2009

Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front Top­ples Radio Sta­tion Tow­ers in Sno­homish Coun­ty, WA

Everett, WA: Two radio sta­tion tow­ers were torn down ear­ly Fri­day by the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front (ELF) in the Lord’s Hills val­ley in Sno­homish Coun­ty, WA. The tow­ers, owned by sta­tion KRKO, have been a source of con­tro­ver­sy for years. A sign left at the scene claimed respon­si­bil­i­ty by the ELF.

” Due to the health and envi­ron­men­tal risks asso­ci­at­ed with radio waves emit­ted from the tow­ers, we applaud this act by the ELF,” stat­ed Jason Craw­ford, a spokesper­son for the North Amer­i­can Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front Press Office. “When all legal chan­nels of oppo­si­tion have been exhaust­ed, con­cerned cit­i­zens have to take action into their own hands to pro­tect life and the plan­et.”

For the past eight years, oppo­nents have waged a legal bat­tle against the tow­ers, argu­ing that AM radio waves cause adverse health affects includ­ing a high­er rate of can­cer, harm to wildlife, and that the sig­nals have been inter­fer­ing with home phone and inter­com lines.

Last year, the first four tow­ers were erect­ed by KRKO after numer­ous hear­ings and appeals. KRKO plans to build two more tow­ers to boost the sta­tion’s broad­cast­ing pow­er.

” We have to weigh our pri­or­i­ties and the local ecosys­tem in Everett, along with the local res­i­dents, do not need addi­tion­al sports news radio sta­tion tow­ers that come at the expense of reduced prop­er­ty val­ues and harm­ful radio waves,” Craw­ford con­tin­ued. “We sin­cere­ly hope that peo­ple con­tin­ue to take direct action to stop the threats to human health, wildlife and the plan­et.”

The E.L.F. is an inter­na­tion­al under­ground orga­ni­za­tion that uses direct action in the form of eco­nom­ic sab­o­tage to stop the sys­tem­at­ic exploita­tion and destruc­tion of the plan­et. Since its incep­tion in North Amer­i­ca in 1996, the ELF has inflict­ed well over $150 mil­lion in dam­ages to cor­po­ra­tions and gov­ern­men­tal agen­cies that are prof­it­ing from the destruc­tion of the Earth.

The North Amer­i­can Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front Press Office is a legal news agency rep­re­sent­ing the earth lib­er­a­tion move­ment. The NAELFPO reports on the covert direct actions tak­en by the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front in defense of the plan­et. Tar­get­ing defor­esta­tion, genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied organ­isms (GMOs), urban sprawl, auto­mo­bile and indus­try pol­lu­tion, and oth­er threats to the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment, the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front uses non­vi­o­lent eco­nom­ic sab­o­tage to com­pel indus­tries and gov­ern­ments to reshape their envi­ron­men­tal­ly destruc­tive poli­cies.

The NAELFPO can be found on the web at http://www.elfpressoffice.org

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