monkeywrenching
Eco-activist equipment destruction
Monkeywrenching is sabotage of equipment or infrastructure, especially in environmental activism—disabling logging machinery, spiking trees, or damaging construction equipment to obstruct development.
The term comes from Edward Abbey's 1975 novel *The Monkey Wrench Gang*, about eco-saboteurs in the American Southwest.
The FBI investigated the monkeywrenching incidents at the pipeline site.
Deliberate disruption of operations
- disablingCausing loss of function
- machineryCollective mechanical equipment
- equipmentTools for a task
- destructionAct of completely ruining
vandalism · direct action · ecodefense · spiking · decommissioning · disrupt · disable · damage
Militant nature defender
- wilderness preservationProtecting wild areas permanently
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
civil disobedience · underground · old-growth · roadless · wildlands · biodiversity · habitat protection · frontlines
To leave behind completely
- SouthwestArid American expanse
- damWater-holding barrier
- novelNew and unusual
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
wilderness · rebels · outlaws · antiheroes · fiction · protest literature · Arizona · Utah
sabotage
Deliberate disruption of operations
destruction · vandalism · direct action · ecodefense · spiking · decommissioning · disrupt · disable · damage · industrial
ecowarrior
Militant nature defender
- wilderness preservationProtecting wild areas permanently
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
resistance · civil disobedience · underground · old-growth · roadless · wildlands · biodiversity · habitat protection · frontlines
desert
To leave behind completely
counterculture · wilderness · rebels · outlaws · antiheroes · fiction · protest literature · Arizona · Utah · Colorado Plateau
monkeywrenchingcompliance
Adhering to requirements
cooperation · conformity · obedience · collaboration · acquiescence
monkeywrenchingconstruction
Process of building something
building · repair · maintenance · creation · restoration
monkeywrenchingpeaceful protest
Nonviolent collective expression of dissent
nonviolent resistance · civil disobedience · legal advocacy · lobbying · petition drives
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