# Event Details - **Event Name**: Matthew Wolfe w/ Clayton Page Aldern, FIRES IN THE NIGHT - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 30 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 30 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: The explosive true story of a secret group of radicals, the Earth Liberation Front, who launched a clandestine battle to save the planetAbout this EventMatthew Wolfe launches his book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage, the definitive story of the ELF’s rise and unraveling, stretching from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest to the Seattle streets of 1999’s legendary WTO protests to the paranoid aftermath of September 11. He is joined by researched and writer Clayton Page Aldern.The explosive true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet—and what their legacy illuminates about the past, present, and future of the environmental movementIn the early hours of October 28, 1996, a driver in rural Oregon spotted flames rising from a federal ranger station. Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze, but not before discovering a cryptic phrase spray-painted on a nearby wall: “EARTH LIBERATION FRONT.” Over the next decade, the Earth Liberation Front would carry out the most audacious series of politically motivated arsons in American history. Their targets—car dealerships, slaughterhouses, lumber companies, a $12 million Vail ski resort—were chosen to send a message: if the government wouldn’t halt the destruction of the natural world, they would. Despite causing no deaths, the ELF would soon be branded the foremost domestic terrorism threat in America and become the target of one of the FBI’s largest investigations.Fires in the Night is the definitive story of the ELF’s rise and unraveling, stretching from the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest to the Seattle streets of 1999’s legendary WTO protests to the paranoid aftermath of September 11. For years, members of ELF, many of them close friends, led double lives, meticulously planning and staging their attacks, using secret book clubs, dead drops, and anonymous communiques, while trying to manage interpersonal friction and stay one step ahead of a relentless task force of police and federal agents. Drawing on years of original reporting and interviews, including with reclusive activists breaking their silence for the first time, as well as thousands of pages of unreleased investigative files, journalist Matthew Wolfe offers a thrilling, intimate account of a moment in American life when the actions of radical environmentalists challenged mainstream complacency. As the climate crisis continues to accelerate, Wolfe asks the most pressing question of our time: facing the end of the world as we know it, exactly what kind of resistance is justified?Matthew Wolfe’s reporting has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the New Republic. He was previously a national fellow at New America. He has a PhD in sociology from New York University, where he is currently a fellow at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.Clayton Aldern is a neuroscientist turned environmental journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New Republic, Mother Jones, Vox, Newsweek, The Economist, Scientific American, and Grist, where he is a senior data reporter. His climate change data visualizations have appeared in a variety of forums, including on the US Senate floor in a speech by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. A Rhodes Scholar and a Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, he holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford. He is also a research affiliate at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington, a grantee of the Pulitzer Center, and has contributed to reporting teams that have won a national Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Online Journalism Awards, and the Breaking Barriers Award from the Institute for Nonprofit News. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/matthew-wolfe-w-clayton-page-aldern-fires-in-the-night/100001989718662080 - **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - door_time: 2026-07-01T01:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour - Location: The Elliott Bay Book Company - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Seattle - **state**: WA - **country**: United States - **location**: The Elliott Bay Book Company - **lat**: 47.614679 - **long**: -122.319631 - **full address**: The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Matthew Wolfe w/ Clayton Page Aldern, FIRES IN THE NIGHT - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/a1e7f79cb16e4ca833fc81f166b99d66474cd6b2fc709fc4d8d8c610622b7520-rimg-w1200-h600-dca9d2c4-gmir.jpg?v=1778929791 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Matthew Wolfe w/ Clayton Page Aldern, FIRES IN THE NIGHT being held? - **A:** Matthew Wolfe w/ Clayton Page Aldern, FIRES IN THE NIGHT takes place on Tue, 30 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 30 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm at The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Matthew Wolfe w/ Clayton Page Aldern, FIRES IN THE NIGHT? - **A:** Matthew Wolfe w/ Clayton Page Aldern, FIRES IN THE NIGHT is organized by Elliott Bay Book Company. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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