Full citation: Evarts, Craig, Josh Laughlin, Ayelet Hines, Jim Flynn, John Bowling, and Lacey Phillabaum, eds., Earth First! Journal 18, no. 6 (21 June 1998). Digitized in cooperation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7037

Copyright: All rights reserved. The user may download, preserve and print this material only for private, research or nonprofit educational purposes. The user may not alter, transform, or build upon this material. • trs Litha $3 ..•50 June-July 1998 THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNAL Vol. 18, No.6 Virtual Lighten Up! Globalization Ain't So Bad! Luddites WORLDWIDE PARTIES RECLAIM THE STREETS 1 BY AYELET HINES AND CRAIG EVARTS Monkeywrenchln~ It's all the rage. Kids love it more than Beenie Babies and sniffing glue. Reclaim the Streets actions debuted in London @nthel\[eb in 1991 and have become a favorite pastime in cities around the globe. Reclaim the Streets (RTS) parties celebrate the anti-roads movement by promoting walking, cycling and free public transportation, while cursing cars, roads and the system that bore them. Paint-it-yourself bicycle lanes, road blockades, street parties and strike organizing have all been BY STEFAN WRAY part of the worldwide effort to reclaim public space and resist our money-grubbing car culture. Computers. Some of us swear by them. May 16 was the international RTS day of observance. Ana!'chists throughout the world defied even the calendar Others against them. But whether by taking back their streets you're for or against computers, they as early as April. The aren't likely to go away anytime soon. partygoers all had a fabu­ They are fast becoming part of nearly lously good time, which is everyone's reality. It is almost impos­ more than can be said for sible to function today without being most of the police who touched by computers. But even if we patrolled them. We ranked somehow manage to live far from com­ police forces around the puterized society, our opponents, like world according to their the federal government and giant cor­ ability to have fun, and < · porations, depend heavily on these here's how the cops scored microprocessing machines. Given that from cranky to swanky: our political opponents are among the Prague, Czech Republic: most wired in the world, it is foolish to Don't take Czech po-po to ignore the computer. Rather, it is im­ your prom. They aren't portant to turn our attention toward it, much. fun at all. In fac t, to understand it and to transform it into they are far and away the an instrument of resistance. For the losers of this year's Golden Luddites of the world who resist com­ Donut, Fun Cop Award. puters, consider using them· to resist. Prague.'s first RTS day of Until recently, most radical computer observance went off with use had been confined to communicat­ a bang. Over 3,000 people ing messages over ·the Internet. In the blocked the city's main· 1980s, social movements began to en­ road with four sound sys- Dancing on the ruins in London. gagein computer-mediated political com­ terns, 20 disc jockeys, 30 drummers, a puppet show and fire performers. Six police cars, a few billboards, three · munication. Today political communi­ McDonalds, a Kentucky Fried Chicken and a skinhead shop were demolished. Police arrested over 100 partygoers. cation by e-mail, supplemented by texts, Local media declared the party the biggest police confrontation in the country in ten years. Forty people were · sounds and images posted on intercon­ injured and 22 police officers hospitalized. A judge ruled that nine party guests, charged with hooliganism and nected websites, represents the bulk of attacking public officials, must remain in custody during an investigation of the party. If convicted, they face up · communicative computer use by radical to three years in prison. The festivities were condemned by Czech Greenpeace, but what do you expect from a party . social movements around the world. The hosted by the Czechoslovak Anarchist Federation, the Rainbow Keepers and Earth First!? experience of the global pro-Zapatista Toronto, Canada: Toronto police lose big fun points for weaving through the party with knives, cutting streamers, movement exemplifies these forms of bursting balloons and threatening people with arrest. Over 600 dancing and drumming riffraff split into two unwieldy international political communication groups reclaiming their streets. The balloon-stomping squad, after harassing people sitting in the street, eventually opened on the Internet. their blockade, allowing partygoers to march down the street. Four people were arrested for having fun, a felony in Canada. continued on page 16 continued on page 21 HANDS OFF THE U'WA!

BY PAN AND FISH TACO Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) plans to drill for oil and lay an oil pipeline in the Samore block of the Arauca state of Colombia, an area that, according to the indigenous U'wa tradition, has been the sacred homeland of their people since the beginning of time. The U'wa have vowed to walk off a 1,400-foot cliff in a mass suicide if their ancestral home is violated. There is good reason to take the threat seriously. Once before, when the Spanish conquistadors came, a large number of U'wa walked over the same cliff. Nonetheless, the Los Angeles-based Oxy corporation continues making plans to drill. Guerrilla warfare always follows oil development in Colombia. Because of guerrilla sabotage, another Occidental oil project, the Canon Limon pipeline, has spilled 1. 7-million barrels of crude oil over the last 11 years, the equivalent of over five Exxon Valdez-size spills. Either by.poisoning their land, destroying their self-sufficient culture or provoking guerilla crossfire or direct attack, the U'wa are certain to be killed by Oxy if this oil project goes ahead. continued ori page 15 "Blood" spilled at Oxy headquarters. EARTH · FIRST! NO COMPROMISE IN DEFENSE OF MOTHER EARTH POB 1415 • EUGENE, OREGON 97440 • (541) 344-8004

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tion property rights and create community. acttvists, especially the usually car-owning leaders, BY ]AN LUNDBERG If an Earth First! with 90-percent fewer cars were too often unwittingly and counter-productively limit Meeting after meeting, fair weather or foul, clan­ to maintain its current campaigns, perhaps serious their · action to piecemeal and possibly pointless destine or public, Earth First!ers generally come environmentalism would become synonymous with objectives. This happens when the big picture is and go by car. Bicycles and public transport are being car free. The few EF! cars still left could be used ignored, i.e. the certainty of climate change com­ seldom used. At best, activists carpool -a lot and for essential purposes: picking up people from wil­ bined with the gross overpopulation of humans, allegedly put their cars to lofty uses. Yet the US car derness actions, dropping off a time sensitive re­ especially polluters. Driving a car more than, say, fleet is the number one source of global climate­ cording to a major media outlet, etc. once a month is the kind of self-deception that changing C02 and.the main source of ozone-layer Nb activist putting the Earth first should sweep . belongs in the long-gone days of early environmen­ depleting chlorofluorocarbons. under the rug the fact that cars are weapons of mass tal innocence, not today. The nomadic culture of living with destruction: Driving is violence. It pollutes, kills Global warming and ozone-layer depletion are · a car or depending on drivers is too animals and funds the crude and oily corporations probably going to fry the forests, and the main large a factor in today's activist factor in those threats is not clearcuts, but move;rnent. Unfortunately, good motor vehicles. Thinking about the planet's activists who have opted out of "up­ whole ecosystem, HH3ould•be that the. loss of ward mobility" tend to hold onto Headwaters forest would not render the global their cars in order to maintain a climate as warmed as a NAFTA Superhighway. particular lifestyle. Going to the for­ Additionally, whether we're walking our talk ests or the next action is so much a with the car issue or not, the easy tendency to car exercise that driving is in effect vilify one greedy soul and one corporate plun­ acceptable, whereas eating a single derer (Charles Hurwitz and Maxxam Corp., for hamburger is a far bigger no-no. example) may serve to mislead mainstream Even a lot of car-dependent activists admit there people into thinking that it's not wasteful, is room for change. But the importance of saving a polluting consumers who are driving the for­ certain grove or moving back to the land, i.e. far ests to extinction. The national lifestyle has to from any bus service, excuses car dependency in change radically, or Headwaters and the planet their minds. Meanwhile, a totally meaningful re­ do not have a chance. bellion against car culture is avoided. Knowing Being anti-car is not our main purpose at the what we know about the vanishing natural envi­ Alliance for a Paving Moratorium. We prima­ ronment and the causes, 1970s-style piecemeal rily fight roads and point to alternatives such environmental action does not suffice. · as car-free living and pedal-powered produce Picture an almost completely auto-free Earth delivery. In our office we are not completely First! that uses cars only fn the case of ~mergency. that despoiled Alaska's Prince William Sound and pure, as we utilize machines and nonrenewable Driving isn't ~ ,g_o 9d p utr,each. If activists gave up contributed to the execution of environmental a<:- resources. We have a website you can check out on their car addictions, t:fie publlc would see at:tivists ' ·u VI-sts iri Nigeria. "' · ' ··some polluti-on -box. Besides on-line fact-sheets, up close and have a chance to interact with them. Nonetheless, cars, even during this war-for-oil there's a roundup of the Kyoto Climate Change Most Earth First! rendezvous could be in or near era, don't evoke an emotional response among Conference from the ·standpoint of roadfighting urban areas, allowing contact with more people and many good activists, compared to issues like road and dissing cars and trucks. addressing climate issues: · · kill. Lesser evils get much more attention; despite Let's look ahead to a revitalized activist move- What would the Earth First! movement be with­ the million animals a day slaughtered on US ment that may somehow grow rapidly, instead of out its car habit? Well, getting rid of 100 percent of roads, a number greater than the total killed by counting hollow· victories and then driving or our cars would cut down on most actions carried animal-pound executions, hunting and vivisec- carpooling to the next meeting, concert or party. out today. But other actions, including the ex­ tion combined. fan Lundberg helps publish and edit the Auto-Free ample of car-free daily living, would be feasible. Focusing on place of beauty and species diversity Times. Contact the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium at Guerrilla depaving may come into vogue: · Food when they are threatened by roads, bulldozers and POB 4347, Arcata, CA 95518; (707) 826-7775; http: could be planted, a la the Diggeis, and then de­ other vehicles toting chainsaws, etc. is essential for www.BikeRoute.com/AutoFree.Membershipin theAPM fended with civil disobedience. This would ques- saving our local and global environment. But many comes with a subscription.

Hey folks, on the Sierra Club ballot initia­ would be clearly racist and classist that fuels our industrial Warm greeting from the Big tive, overpopulation remains the (what color, and how poor, are economy. Island. After observing the way primary force behind virtually most of the immigrants to whom Thanks, Goddess Pele can wipe out roads all threats of life on Earth. And many "close the border" advo­ -DERRICK jENSEN and infrastructure faster than a the last thing the Earth needs is cates object?). It would also be New York second, I was thinking an increasing number of Ameri­ simply too ironic for a culture Dear Earth First! readers, we should try and get Her on our cans, the world's most prolific that invaded this continent, and There is much to be side. What do you think? Can I consumers, regardless of race or that rules it by force, to disallow considered before di­ have permission to invite Her to background. others to enter. viding ourselves over the RRR? -HOWIE WOLKE There is one condition under who is racist: Sierra Club or the same rectSons my ancestors left Cheers, B ITIERROOT MOUNTAINS, MONTANA which I would fully approve of Michael Dorsey. First of all, the Ireland to come here in the 1840s, -AID. this country closing our borders reason for which most immi­ people are starving to death! Let­ Dear SFB: to immigrants: if we simulta­ grants, especially from Mexico, tuce doesn't grow in polluted soil. Dear EF! I was glad to see Garth Kahl's neously close our borders to the are coming here reaches far be­ It absorbs the toxins and dies. Garth Kahl's "Rethinking the article "Rethinking the Border," raw materials we expropriate (in yond their desire for better life. So as we sit in our houses with Border" (May-June 1998) is a about the need to discuss the polite society this is called "im­ In many of the rural areas of electricity to heat it, our gas pow-· thoughtful and intelligent look at possibility of closing .our borders, port") from these same peoples. Mexico their soil and water are ered stove to cook the food we the population/immigration ques­ or at the very least reducing im-· To close our borders to the people polluted by the greed of our­ bought around the corner, yeah tion. Kahl is absolutely correct that migration. Our ecological integ­ while still stealing from them the selves here in America. it sure is easy to praise the Sierra dogmatic "politically correct" left­ rity is unraveling quickly enough resources they need to live would Last year in Durango, Colorado, Club for its strong opposition to ist ideologues such as Alexander that surely we need to discuss all merely be the next cruel stage in a group of "illegal immigrants" Mexican immigration. Oops! I Cockburn cloud the debate with possible remedies. the long and awful history of broke down (mind you there were mean population growth ... absurd charges of racism leveled at I do not believe, however, it colonialism and imperialism that 26 people riding in one van-a bit -KRISTEN MURPHY those who support both birth con­ would be appropriate for us to is destroying the planet. different from the American para­ SAN LUIS, co trol and immigration control. close our borders, in great mea­ Sure, close the borders, but close · digm). When they were asked why Regardless of one's position sure because such an action them first to the stolen property they left Mexico I found it was for contin'!_ed on P.age 28

June-July 1998 Earth First! Page 3 Since early May, seven blockades of 30 to 50 people each at key entry points to the dam site have E W successfully slowed construction. Desperate to re­ sume work and prove to nervous investors that the project would not be delayed, S. Kumars has pushed Thousands Occupy Dam Site (Again) the government to mobilize thousands of police in the area. After the arrests on May 20, about 15 trucks the task force on March 4,1998, S. Kumars urged the were able to penetrate the blockades and deliver BY SUSANNE WONG government to allow construction to resume at construction supplies to the dam site. The Indian government continues to brutally sup­ Maheshwar for "safety purposes." Skeptical about the Nevertheless, protesters have announced their press the peaceful resistance to the construction of the motives of S. Kumars and certain that this move was determination to continue the blockade, and at $436-million Maheshwar Dam in the state of Madhya to reassure investors the project would not be signifi­ press time hundreds of people were traveling to­ Pradesh. Following months of escalating tension, cantly delayed, the NBA opposed this request. Never­ wards the site to replace those arrested. The ongoing police violently attacked and arrested over 200 people theless, the government gave in and issued a notifica­ protests have been organized with the help of the on May 20 in Gandhinagar, Maheshwar, one of seven tion allowing the continuation of "any work for the NBA, India's premier dam-fighting organization. locations where people have acted as human barri­ purposes of safety imd resettlement." The NBA is best known for its struggle against the cades to block construction equipment and supplies The actions of the Indian government triggered infamous Sardar Sarovar Dam and has been leading from entering the dam site. the movement against the Maheshwar Dam. Since October, protesters The police brutality and government misdeal­ from more than 60 villages ing have been condemned in a declaration signed have, on numerous occasions, by more than 186 human rights, environment, occupied the dam site in an women's and labour organizations from India effort to force the government and 35 other countries. This declaration calls for to agree to their demands. After the government to cease the repression at initially capitulating, the gov­ Maheshwar and for companies to withdraw ernment has reneged on prom­ until the demands of the people are met. ises made to the protesters to In an important victory, the vice president of stop dam construction until a US-based Pacificorps Development Company, reviewoftheproject'scostsand which had worked on financing the project, benefits could be completed. announced that the company did "not intend Amongtheconcernsofthepro­ to participate further in the [Maheshwar] testers is the project's lack of · project." He added that if Pacificorps were to environmental impact studies ~ reevaluate the project in the future, "it would and resettlement plans, as well ~ only be under the condition that the needs of as the lack of public participa­ ~ the mass of effected people be properly ad­ tion in the planning process. ~ dressed and consensus regarding how the One of more than 3,000 dams project proceeds [be] reached by all stakehold­ planned for the Narmada River ers, including Narmada Bachao Andolan." [See as part of the Narmada Valley Development Project, further dam site occupations. On April22, over 4,000 Pacificorps article on page 7.] the Maheshwar Dam would submerge over · 5,000 people penetrated police barricades to stop construc­ Pacificorps had been expected to hold or under­ hectares of land and displace 2,200 families. tion until the project was fully reviewed. Despite write nearly half the shares in the project company Preliminary work on Maheshwar began in 1996. sweltering heat, police blocked the protesters' access through its subsidiary PacGen. Recently, Pacificorps Scheduled to be completed in 2002, the concession to to clean drinking water and shelter, forcing people to sold off PacGen, but it has retained all overseas build and operate the 400-megawatt dam was given to . drink oil-contaminated river water. That evening, interests of PacGen, including Maheshwar. S. Kumars, a textile firm with no experience in dam police arrested those remaining at the site, bringing To help the struggle, write the Madhya Pradesh building. The company is receiving public subsidies the day's arrests to a total of 1,200 protesters. Chief Minister calling upon him to stop work at the and guarantees to ensure that private investors will The following day, hundreds more protesters project, withdraw the police and immediately resume make a· profit. As a result, the sizable financial risks of dodged police barricades and once again took over the task force's review: Digvijay Singh, Chief Minster, the project are being borne by the public. the dam site. The police, without warning or provo­ Vallabh Bhavan, Bhopal; fax 91 755 540 501. Follo~ing a year-long struggle, the Madhya cation, reacted violently, repeatedly beating the For more information, contact Susanne Wong, Pradesh government on january 30, 1998, con­ protesters with batons and rifle butts, charging International Rivers Network, 1847 Berkeley Way, ceded tothe demands of Narmada Bachao Andolan them on horseback and making sexual epithets Berkeley, CA94703; (510) 848-1155, fax 848-1008; (Save th¢Narmada Movement or NBA) and issued a against female protesters. By evening, over 2,000 [email protected]; http:/ /www.irn.org. written order announcing that it would suspen~ people were in construction on the dam pending a comprehensive · jail and at least review of its costs, benefits and alternatives. Follow­ 23 hospitalized. ing this action, the NBA called off a 21-day dam site Many badly occupation by thousands of local people. beaten protest­ The task force assigned with completing this review ers were taken was originally established to review the entire Narmada to jail without Valley Development Project. At a special meeting of being treated.

Page 4 Earth First! Litha 1998 ' BY PHIL KNIGHT, NATIVE FOREST NETWORK were instead· purchased with the assistance of An­ cient Forest International. FundadonLahuen, Chile's In the early '60s, at the peak of whale hunting, a first non-governmental organization dedicated ex­ group of visionaries dreamed of a gigantic whale clusively to forest protection and conservation, now sanctuary where the huge sea mammals could find administers the Cani and associated projects, in~ refuge from persecution, enjoy stable population eluding a native tree nursery at Pichares (the first in growth and avoid extinction. Few people believed Chile) and local education projects in which school­ in the dream, much less that it would come true 30- children raise and plant native trees. years later. While in Argen~ne Patagonia, we made a day trip to Antarctica, the last undeveloped CQntinent on Los Alerces National Park, which was deserted except Earth, is also now protected as a world park, with all for a wild boar poacher. While we did not get to the involved countries agreeing to a 50-year morato­ famous but remote forests of alerce, the southern rium on development. version of the redwood, we were mesmerized by the beautifui string of clear lakes and riv­ ers alive with wa­ terfowl, mirroring the green cypress forests and crim­ son lenga trees. Graceful, mad- ~ rone-like arrayan ~ trees lined the lakes and rivers, and colorful edible berries abounded. The first goal of the Gondwana

A few inhabitants of the southern valleys of Patagonia also.share a dream. Gathered behind a program called Proyecto Lemu (Project Forest), they have joined forces with Los De(ensores del Bosque Chilena and Fundacfon Lahuen on the other side of the Andes. Together these groups launched the idea of an all-encompassing sanctuary for sub-Antarctic forests, to be called the Gondwana Forests Sanctuary. This visionary concept is now embraced by a growing and determined coali­ tion of forest defenders around the globe. The Gondwana Forests Sanctuary encompasses the Forest Sanctuary Campaign is to protect the remain­ sub-Antarctic forests of Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, ing primary forests in Tierra del Fuego, comprising New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea, New the southernmost forests on Earth, in both Chile Caledonia and New Britain. The sanctuary would and Argentina. These sub-Antarctic forests are cur­ primarily protect theNothofagus genus of trees (south­ rently threatened by the $200-million Rio Condor ern beech), as well as ancient forests of araucaria, logging project initiated by the US-based Trillium alerce and other unique and imperiled species. Corp. (see accompanying article). Composed of Gondwanaland is the name of the ancient supercon­ 360,000 hectares of 10,000-year-old lenga forest tinent that originally joined these forested territories (Notho(agus pumilio), a wide-ranging, well-adapted during the Eocene era more than 100-million years deciduous southern beech tree, this boreal forest ago. Even today, the forests of these southern areas region is highly fragile. are both biologically similar and severely threatened The Gondwana campaign intends to create an by large-scale commercial logging and woodchipping international system of intercontinental forest re­ by a host of multinational corporations. serves starting at the tip of South America, in Tierra In April, forest activists and scientists from Chile, del Fuego, and spreading northward and outward. Argentina, New Zeciland, Scotland and the US met in Tierra del Fuego will serve as the model for the Chile to launch the Gondwana Forest Sanctuary Cam­ Gondwana campaign, which seeks to prepare a com­ paign "to protect, reconnect and restore the life of prehensive bi-national forest preservation and land Gondwana by creating an international sanctuary of use plan for this huge island. This effort will bring Earth's southernmost forests." together an interdisciplinary team of economists, We visited some of these incredible ancient forests anthropologists, archeologists, foresters, geologists, while in Chile and Argentina. Herquehue National biologists, appropriate technology/perrnaculture con­ Park, in Chile's Lake District, shelters a fantastic array sultants and local representatives. Its purpose is to of huge coihue trees, with immense spreading crowns guide communities away from large-scale industrial draped with vines, moss and lichens, sheltering an development projects like Rio Condor. understory of bamboo-like kila. Higher in the park, Efforts are also underway to create a "Trans-Andean above small lakes cradled among steep green moun­ Wildlands Complex," potentially one of the world's tains and granite cliffs, rise immense stands of arau­ largest protected areas (5,000,000 hectares), 1,000 caria. These bizarre trees give the entire landscape an miles to the north. - incredibly ancient and exotic air. Their leaves are more For further information on the Gondwana Forests like spiny scales, covering their entire umbrella-like Sanctuary Campaign contact Rick Klein/Dave Walsh, crown in prickly armor. Their thick bark forms plates Ancient Forest International, POB 1850, Redway, like the skin of a dinosaur. Far off through the forest we CA 95560; (707) 923-3015; [email protected]. NFN saw the alluring white cone of Volcan Villarica. Yellowstone, Phil Knight, POB 6151, Bozeman, MT, The Cani Sanctuary in Chile provides a microcos­ 59771; (406) 586-3885; [email protected]. mic example of how these increasingly rare and In Australia: John Seed, Rainforest Information precious forests can be conserved and restored. Due Centre, POB 368 Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia; to be logged in 1990, the 500 hectares of the Cani [email protected]. June-July 1998 Earth First! Page 5 David Burns, Department of Interior police, $500,000from US Ecology, thecompanythatwould vents US Ecology from completing tests. The tribes stepped from his white Chevy Blazer with a be­ operate the dump. This ethically questionable land maintain that no further testing is needed be­ nign, almost bemused, expression on his face. Six­ transfer is commonly understood by dump oppo­ cause there will be no nuclear waste dump on the feet tall, tanned, athletic and balding, he walked nents as California Governor Pete Wilson's last sacred land. The most recent DOl ruling re-af­ toward the van where Steve Lopez, a spokesper­ ditch attempt to avoid legislative scrutiny of the firms their position. son for the Colorado River Native Nations Alli­ dump and land transfer. Wilson's only chance now Tribal elders hold sacred ceremonies on site ance, waited to receive a five-day eviction notice. is that a court hearing about CDHS' ability to around the clock. The American Indian Movement Before reaching the van, he saw provides security for the a familiar face, a Quechan man "village." Though the named Preston Arroweed. spirit is often light­ "Hello, David. It's good to see hearted, this is an in­ you, my friend," called out the tensely serious matter. bronzed, middle-aged Indian man. The camp is stopping "Hello, Preston. Good to see some of the most danger­ you also," replied Burns. ous wastes produced by "You know why we are here, our high-consumption, and you know that we will not be high-tech civilization moved. In fact, I am prepared to from being buried. die if necessary in order to pro­ At this point, protest­ tect this land that was sacred to ers say they will continue our ancestors and is likewise sa­ the occupation while cel­ cred to us. And David, if I must ebrating the partial vic­ die here, I. want you to do me the tory. Much of the credit honor of firing the bullet that goes to the encampment ends my life." } and its ceremonies. Q David Burns looked Preston ~ Supporters are asked to Arroweed straight in the eye, shuf­ ~ join elders and tribal fling his feet a bit. Arroweed con­ ~ members in the occupa­ tinued, "David, we have known ~ tion to protect ongoing each other for many years. I know ::s religious ceremonies at you are a good man; That's why I the site. To find out how want you to do me this honor and Children demand a halt to the dump at a recent blockade you can become a resi- no one else. And one other thing ... Don't stop with acquire the land will go his way on June 17. dent of Silyaye Aheace (even for just a short time) me, but shoot us all dead. Because if you put a Wilson says the site, 20 miles from the Colorado contact Save Ward Valley. If you can't come, nuclear waste dump on this land, you might as well River, is necessary to store the state's low-level please support the village by sending food, sup­ kill us." nuclear waste from nuclear plants, hospitals and plies and money. Some of the things especially The occupation of Ward Valley (Silyaye Aheace clinics. But anti-nuclear groups, Colorado River needed now include two-channel UHF radios, in Mojave language) by approximately 200 native Indian tribes and Democratic leaders such as US propane or solar-powered refrigeration, extra tents, and non-native activists is in its fourth month. Senator Barbara Boxer say the possible seepage sleeping bags and hats. For a more complete list, Recently, Ward Valley activists celebrated an im­ from the site would threaten the Colorado River, contact Save Ward Valley, 107 F St. Needles, CA portant victory when the Department of Interior the threatened desert tortoise and the land sacred 9 23 63; ( 7 60) 3 26-626 7; fax 326-6268; (DOl) agreed to halt tests at the Ward Valley to many Colorado River tribes. [email protected], http:/ /www.shundahai.org I nuclear waste site because it believes that the Meanwhile, the occupation of the site is being SWVAction.html; http:/ /earthrunner.com/ California Department of Health Services (CDHS) conducted under the strict guidance of tribal savewardvalle; http:/ /www.ctaz.com/-swv1; lacks the authority to buy the land. elders from the five Colorado River Indian Na- http:/ /banwaste.envirolink.org. In 1991, CDHS attempted to buy the land from tions: Fort Mojave, Colorado River, Cocopah, the Bureau of Land Management with a gift of Chemehuevi and Quechan. The occupation pre- -DAN HAMBURG AND SAVE WARD VALLEY

A wolf with its eye on some four-legged dinner to the Student Environmen­ tal Action Coalition in Moscow, Idaho, for its campaign to buy state grazing Wolves & Poodles allotments. SEAC-Idaho plans to restore the allotments and use them for educational projects. However, the state Land Board has denied SEAC's bids (so A dead poodle hanging from a barbed-wire fence to Bruce Babbitt for far), even when there have been no others. killing coyotes. Sixty-seven coyotes were shot by Animal Damage Control aerial A proud alpha wolf sleeping late on this Father's Day to those men who had gunners on land owned by Babbitt's family north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Their the balls to get their balls disconnected. As Earth heads toward a population excuse for shooting the coyotes was to "protect antelope fawns." of six bagillion, and we all ponder how fucking miserable that's going to be, just A poodle full of holes to the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the city of remember to say, "thanks"-not to Dad, but to a non-Dad. Get him a card, a cup Bethany, Oklahoma, for killing over 200 great egrets. City employees were of coffee or some cinnamon toast. Show him you appreciate his sacrifice. Ask to armed with shotguns and a permit from the USFWS to kill 500 cattle egrets, but, hear the story, ask to see the little scars. But most important, just say thanks for not su{prisingly, the untr

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BY ANDREW CHRISTIE The brutal ritual of the Canadian spring as the Western harp and hooded migration from the Arctic to ice floes on seaboard. Once fueled by a demand for East market for seal penis aphrodisiacs dian governmentto invest more than This year the Department of ~ ~ ...... ". sanctioned the killing of 285,000 seals, since they were first established in the astounding figure doesn't represent the killed. Sealers only recover about one attack. It is estimated that this year's true mortality rate will ex­ ceed more than half a million seals. Ice conditions this international outrage by preventing the year, the worst on world from witnessing the level of barbar­ record in over a cen­ ity and chaos under which the seal hunt tury, have raised actually operates. Thus, it is illegal for non­ natural pup mortal­ hunters to approach the seal hunt within a ity. Most years, the ice half-nautical mile without a special permit. floes in the Gulf of St. Reber & Co., the giant Norwegian-subsi­ Lawrence form a dized seal processor, is one of the economic floating nursery. If forces driving the seal hunt today, along the ice is too thin or with the demand for aphrodisiacs in Asian . the floes too small, markets. The Canadian government's po­ the seals give birth in litically motivated objective of eliminating the water and the the harp seal aims to appease voters in the pups drown. They are ,., traditional fishing provinces, who believe often the lucky ones. ~ that the seals are responsible for the col­ The ice shortage has ~ lapse of eastern Canada's fish stocks. caused seals to crawl [ The pelts are sold to Asian fisheries with onto the beaches of the seal penises attached; it's only legal to Prince Edward Island, A mother seal vainly defends herself sell penises as a by-product of harvesting wher~ th~ .locals are extraordinarily brutal. pelts. But the pelts are discarded, and the penises Anonymous locals on the island, who fear retaliation, · powdered for inclusion in aphrodisiacs or sold whole in report individuals cutting off the flippers of several pups, gift boxes for $100 to $400 a pop. rolling them over with their feet, kicking them and leaving No one really knows how many harp seals there are them to bleed to death. The flippers were later seen hanging off the east coast of Canada. The Canadian govern­ like trophies from pickup trucks. There have been numer­ ment currently assures everyone that the harp seal ous reports of seals skinned alive, penises tied to car radio herd is not endangered and vaguely estimates their antennas and an incident in which an adult seal, half numbers between four million and 10 million. Canada skinned and still alive, was dragged behind a truck while is supposed to conduct an annual seal census every the four blood-covered occupants in the cab yelled out the year prior to the hunt but hasn't botl)ered to do so windows. The DFO continues to deny knowledge of these since 1994. Due to the extremely poor ice conditions, violations, and au.thorities routinely release perpetrators it won't do one this year either. Instead, it goes right on for lack of evidence, despite witnesses' statements. assigning kill quotas without current figures on popu­ Butthe poor ice lation and rate of reproduction. Even if the high end of conditions pro­ Canada's best guess is correct, abundance has generally duced one posi­ been no match for the stupidity, greed and arrogance of tive effect: There the people behind the industry. was only one ice For more information contact the Sea Shepherd Conser­ floe of any size vation Society at POB 628, Venice, CA 90294; (310) 301- and consistency SEAL (7325); fax 57 4-3161; [email protected].

AND THEN /'?AD£ THE. FA!l\L 1")15TAK,E OF 'SE.L.LIN6 ?MO~<;E)'Tl;E ~ A6 A 5POf:.E5PE.R.50/'J FoR. \JIA6R.A. gate safety warnings to youngsters. inspector general and a Smokey fan. Fifty-four years later, two genera­ House Resources Committee Chair­ Smokey Bear-traitor to his species tions of American children have man Don Young, R-Alaska, said to USFS or captive love slave of the US Forest grown up on Smokey's warnings. Chief Michael Dombeck, "Anyone Service? It's a question every serious Now the Smokey legacy has a knows you can't sell Smokey Bear, and activist ponders and troubles over. pricetag. To aid in selling cars, Subaru you sold him-for a cheap price, I Few know, however, that Smokey America swapped $1.6 million in cash might add." is modeled after a real bear encoun­ and car loans to the Forest Service. Dombeck responded: "There were tered by K.D. Flock, an Idaho native, Subaru provided $35,000 in cash and some errors made." Forest Subcom­ while supervising a New Mexico for­ loaned the Forest Service 34 new ve­ mittee Chairman Helen Chenoweth, est in the 1940s. The first Smokey hicles for two years. R-Idaho, also got in her licks, "Who is was a cub hurt in a fire. K.D. pro­ But the Forest Service canceled the going tci prevent the Forest Service moted this Smokey as successor to agreement after it was condemned as from pandering and misusing its re­ the cartoon character that the. US a violation of qepartment of Agricul­ sources?" It's nice to see that Helen Forest Service was using to promul- turepolicybyRtdgerC. Viadero, USDA feels Smokey's pain.

fu';le-fuly 1998 Earth First! Page 7 THE REVOLUTION IS HERE! Chris: You'd agree with the statement, "No com­ promise in defense of mother Earth?" Ramona: Absolutely. I've talked at length with Judi Bari, and we completely agreed that the Earth is to be defended uncompromisingly. Paloma: MOVE members have been shot at, bombed and burned alive. Pregnant women have had their babies beaten out of them by cops and killed in front of them. MOVE members are still in prison for upholding their beliefs. Ramona: We haven't backed up one bit. How can we give into an enemy that will do these things to us? To compromise to this system will not protect us. When you continue to take a strong, uncompro­ Paloma: What does MOVE stand for? be dealt with, but so is the attack on our health. mising stance against the system, you may not be Ramona: MOVE is not an acronym, it means just Now you have black people, dark-skinned people free from the attacks and brutality of the system, but what it says-to move, to generate, to move in who if they sit out in the sun, their lips start getting sun you know that you're willing to defend what is harmony with life, to move against and to remove burnt. Thatdidnothappen2Sto30yearsago. We start right ... MOVE members have been in jail for years, anything that is going against life. It means to move talking to people about why that's happening. About and they had the opportunity to get out of jail if against the abuse of life;· all life-animal life, hu­ the hole in the ozone layer of our atmosphere ... they would abandon the fight, abandon MOVE, the man, marine, plant life-all life. It means to be Now people can't even drink the water any­ revolution, but MOVE members wouldn't do it. I active, to be involved, to be moving.. . and to un­ more. They have to buy water. If someone said 25 couldhavebeenoutofjailin 16months, butlspent compromisingly oppose anything that exploits, years ago you'd have to buy water, you'd have said every day of seven years because I wouldn't give up. oppresses, enslaves, maims, kills or poisons life. they were crazy ... I wouldn't abandon the revolution. We have people Paloma: You say uncompro­ Paloma: You were doing a lot that have been in jail 12, 13, 16 years. mising. What types of things has of actions and getting things in Chris: What advice would you give EF!ers in jail? MOVE done to facilitate change? the media, but you were also Ramona: To remain strong. Mainly to remain ac­ Ramona: MOVE was founded very community based. tive. That's what will keep you sane, keep you going. in 1971 or '72. MOVE emerged in Mario: That's something the Exerdse. If you run, run daily if you can. Do any kind peaceful demonstrations at the media and the government will of physical exercises because jail is an oppressive, Philadelphia Center at the never put out about MOVE. They frustrating place to be: It can get to you if you let it, but Ringling Brother's Barnum and want to make it seem like the frustration and anxiety is nothing but pent up energy Bailey circus opposing the exploi­ people were against MOVE. In that has to be released. Now, you can release it by tation and abuse of animal life. fact, MOVE had a tremendous going off and fighting a guard or something which We went to conferences and sym­ amount of respect and commu­ isn't going to get you anywhere, or it'll be released posiums on the environment and nity support. through the energy-robbing disease of depression. the energy crisis, and we con­ Paloma: You. spoke of the Releasing that energy through activity, you also fronted the people that were hav­ need to unify EF! and MOVE. strengthen your body and relieve your mind. ing these conferences. They were Who would you say are our Outside support is very important. Any Earth First! people like DuPont Laboratories x:. common enemies? member or member of some other organization de­ who had the audacity to talk about Ramona: There are a handful serves and needs support from their members on the being environmentally friendly ... of super-rich industrialists that outside. People can be supportive through letters, Meamvhile, they were poisoning ------staying in contact, visiting if the environment. They were making millions of "Unity is .the root of this revolution. We can't afford possible, keeping information dollars while putting poisons in the water, and they to let our enemy manufacture dividers between us... aboutthemonthestreets.Let tried to convince people to buy a water purifier people know why they are in created by their laboratories. That was their solution We can't afford not to work together." prison. to the poison they were putting in our water. MOVE - Ramona Africa While in prison, people can wouldn't have it. We confronted them about that ... organize, teach, let other We set an example with the way we lived in not run the world, that make the decisions that affect the people know what's going on, why they should be poisoning the environment and living in harmony entire world ... Political puppets are put between us involved, how it affects them. I'm not saying it can't with the Earth. MOVE, back in '71 or '72, started and so must bear some of the flack. .. Those industrial­ get overwhelming sometimes, but that's when you taking our potato other, but have to rely on your beliefs to carry you through. put them back with Chris: What role do you see direct action playing life so that life what is in the revolution? they put all of Ramona: It's not necessary for the masses of us. We have people to be involved in direct action, but it is on everything. Not necessary for the masses to support those that are between us amounts involved in direct action in upfront movements ... serious thing that we When you are talking about life, protecting that oppressor. We which is alive, then it is not only acceptable and to rid ourselves righteous, but it is our responsibility. that, we'll find we Mario:]ohn Africa teach MOVE the work of revolu­ strong food ... is a fight on so tion is just that, it's work, confrontation ... It's not people in the comm were level, environ­ about debates, term papers, publicity stunts and press their gas shutoff. Weboughtbulkfoodandgavefood mental and social justice levels. People are not being releases. It's about doing the work of revolution. away to people who had lots of children ... MOVE did asked to abandon the particular front that they are Ramona: John Africa teaches," Application, don't community clean-ups and things like that. MOVE dealing with. There's a full picture here, and the more need no conversation." had and of our Paloma: Revolution-is it possible? We Ramona: It's here! The revolution is here. Any­ body that don't feel the need to be involved in it... this system's got something to make believers out of you. The revolution is here! WRITE THE MOVE NINE: Dl'hhie Sims ,\!rica #006.{07, Janet Iloilo\\ d\ .\frica #00630~ and Janinl' Phillips .\!rica #O()(d(). -L'i I lulkrt;n is .\!rica #.\1\1-197:{ and <:hark~ Sim~ .\lrica #.\:\1 -197.1 .11 'i( I using Crdtcrtord, I'OB 2-1-1, Crat,·rtnrd, 1'.\ I 'J-l..'ll-(12-l-t. •Ld• people. we ward (;oodman ,\!rica #.\1\1-197-l, St I ( .lrnpllill. I'( ll; aryorganization... We must deal with the entire issue. were doing and still are doing. Only we've had to 200, Cttnp llill. 1'.\ 17001-02(Hl. •\Villielbert Orr .\!rica .11 \( II l.dld'. about police brutality, that's a serious issue and must because we were put into the legal system. · I lrai\TI' f.:, I l,lil.l,, 1'.\ I ~1112. Page 8 Earth First! Litha 1998 FiGHT ·THE PowER

All spring Pacificorps has been in a officials refused to answer questions BY CASPER AND GUACAMOLE multi-billion dollar bidding war with about future investments in Peabody, In the high-elevation desert of the Texas Utilities for control of TEG. citing Secuiity and Exchange Com­ Four Corners region, the traditional Texas Utilities won in early May, mission rules. Dinehlivetheirhumblelives. The sheep with a bid of more than $12 billion. graze the rolling red hills, the wool is Pacificorps had put hundreds of Reservation Displacement sheared and spun, and the corn grows workers into early retirement, closed Northeastern Arizona is facing an out of the baked Earth. In the mud­ a major mining operation in Wyo­ environmental nightmare. Back on caked, pinion pine hogans and ming and stretched its assets to the the reservation, the wells have dried throughout the sagebrush canyons, the limit to come up with the liquid cash up, the corn is covered with black elders pass down the knowledge to the to buyTEG; Texas Utilities had more. soot, the rains don't come often and next generations, keeping their wis­ The week Pacificorps lost the bid, its there's almost no topsoil in areas dom alive. But for centuries, this simple stocks dropped $20 million. For the south of the Hopi Mesas. A water and peaceful band of traditionals has time being, Pacificorps' consumers report contracted by the Hopi Tribe been struggling. Most recently, since have been spared a direct connec­ in 1997 reports that there may be no the 1970s, they have been fighting to tion to the human rights violations water left in the aquifer in as little as retain their identity while being sub­ on Black Mesa. five to ten years. According to the jected to a federal relocation program Later, Texas Utilities sold the "experts," the options are to: stop to facilitate the mining operations of Peabody portion of TEG to Lehman the Black Mesa water pipeline, build the world's largest coal producer, Merchant Banking, an overseas part­ another pipeline from Lake Powell Peabody Coal Company. ner of Pacificorps, for $2.3 billion. The to supply water to the residents of As the largest coal stripmine in the coal from Black Mesa may soon spin the Navajo and Hopi reservations, or world, the Kayenta mine, located on the Northwest's voltage meters .. relocate the entire populations of Black Mesa in northeastern Arizona, both reservations. Ward Churchill has forced the relocation of more The Stockholders Meeting states in his book Genocide in Ari­ than 10,000 traditional Dineh and Sitting in Pacificorps' annual stock­ zona, that the Four Corners area has 100 Hopi from their homes. Many holders convention on May 13 made already been recognized as a "Na- have died at the relocation area-the site of the largest radioactive waste spill in US history. The UN Working Group on Indigenous Peoples classi­ fies the situation on Black Mesa as the -third worst case of fristitutionalized · cultural genocide in the Western hemisphere. Nonetheless, Peabody continues to produce more than 12 million tons of coal each year from the Black Mesa/Kayenta mining site. Last year the company produced 165 million tons of coal worldwide and fueled more than nine percent of all electricity in the United States. Since the mine's opening in the early .1970s, Peabody Western Coal Company, headquartered in Flagstaff, Arizona, has stripmined more than 100 gravesites, nearly emptied the Resistance is a way of life for the Dineh fighting coal mining on their ancestral homelands. Navajo aquifer, poisoned and killed hundreds of head of livestock. Las us feel like instant millionaires. About tional Sacrifice Area" by the Depart­ Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix con­ 400 shiny and polished heads gra­ ment of Energy and the Department tinue to gobble up the cheap energy ciously watched a company executive of Interior. In other words, the re­ coming from Peabody. open the meeting, reporting on sources in the ground are far more Pacificorps' annual earnings, setbacks important to the government than The Northwest Connection and goals for the future. Here were the the people who have been living Today, the situation with Peabody is people who own the future of Ameri­ there since before the United States changing-unfortunately not in a posi­ can energy policy. was founded. tive way for the traditional Dineh. The A coalition of groups had bought If Pacificorps continues its stock­ company may soon have some new single shares in the company in order holder revenue-boosting strategies customers purchasing its bloody coal. to speak against Pacficorps' invest­ through the merger with Peabody Until recently, Peabody Coal was a sub­ ments in TEG and call for no further Coal, energy users in the Pacific sidiary ofThe Energy Group (fEG). TEG attempts to purchase Peabody Coal. Northwest may soon be accomplices is a British-owned conglomerate with Upon hearing what their company to the genocide of the people of ~lack holdings in coal and natural gas re­ had been investing in, some share­ Mesa with each utility payment. And serves throughout the world. Peabody holders sighed, others sneered. Over­ as energy deregulation continues to Coal is its pride and joy and by far its all there was shocked silence. hum in the media, Pacificorps has biggest money maker. Outside, citizens rallied to protest vowed to offer the cheapest possible In the spring of 1997, as the families Padicorps' investments in massive coal energy to its consumers. This dirty of Black Mesa were struggling with plants like the one in Centralia, Wash­ energy strategy places the burden of relocation, harassment and the new, ington, the emissions of which cause conscience on its consumers. Soon, highly restrictive Accommodations a documented 110deaths a year. Mem­ people in the Pacific Northwest may Agreement (a 75-year non-renewable bers of Amnesty International spoke have a turn fighting the power com­ lease), TEG went on the open-market. against Pacificorps' energy invest­ ing to their mailboxes; For the past two years, Fred Buckman, ments in Turkey, a country guilty of For more information contact the CEO and board chair for Pacificorps, ethnic cleansing of Kurdish separat­ NoEndRup. Committee, a TEG watch­ headquartered in Portland, Oregon, has ists. The transnational has also been a dog group at [email protected] or been in England working on plans with huge player in the financing of the the Indigenous Support Coalition of the heads of TEG to have Pacificorps monstrous Mahesh war dam project in Oregon at POB 11715, Eugene, Or­ inherit the massive conglomerate. India (see article on page 4). Pacificorps · egon, 97 440; [email protected].

/JD~e-fuly 1998 Earth First! Page 9 by Hazel. When the trees came down, loggers repeatedly rammed them against the inhabited tree, jostling the cargo net. Hazel spent five days in the cargo net, suspended 150-feet off the ground between three 500-year-old firs. "The sound of the machinery split my spine as it ripped the stumps out AND TREE-TOP ROULETIE of the ground," she told me. BY A YELET HINES A timber sale appeal failed to preserve this place, formerly protected by its Poking at the ashes of the fire ring, a shaggy haired young man who calls designation as critical habitat for fish and wildlife. The Clinton Administration himself "Yew" tells me about a man who visited the camp a week before. "He reopened the area to logging under Option 9, the compromise that gave half the hiked out here to learn about the tree village, asking me, 'Are these climbers Northwest's remainingancient forest to the timber industry and the other half to trained? How are the platforms made? Are they safe?' I told him it didn't matter, the US Forest Service (presumably for logging at a future date). This place provides that we were monkeys. Besides, I'm ready to die for this place." Cascadians are sanctuary for deer, ospreys, hummingbirds, nuthatches, hawks, Northern spotted a risky lot; perhaps their treetop roulette dissuades Forest Service climbers from owls, salamanders and skunks, to name a few. Hiking to the camp, four snakes removing the-m. During a recent visit by Forest Service employees, "Free," crossed our path. Brazen gray squirrels darted around our feet, feasting on the secured oJ.ly by his safety millet spilled on the ground. line, startl.ed the workers Having grown up on the Gulf coast, Ophelia tells me, by jumping six feet off a "When I'm at the beach, I never look up, only out. I rope walkway 200 feet high think about oil spills and red tide; deforestation is so in a tree, chanting and distant to me. Understanding it is a tactile experience, screaming. The camp re­ like putting my hand on a tree, my eyes following the mains undisturbed. length up the trunk to such a towering presence." This fire ring and sur­ Fall Creek lies in the back yard of this year's Round rounding camp sit on a log­ River Rendezvous. If you've never entered an ancient ging deck in the nine-acre forest, seeing this area will ignite your passions and Clark timber sale near break your heart. Come on out and learn how to Lowell, Oregon, some of climb. Live free ofrent and bills a hundred-feet off the the last unprotected ·low­ ground while defending a majestic watershed and elevation old growth in the catching up on your reading. See for yourself that the central Oregon Cascades. commitment of these activists can only be surpassed I've come out here with "'~ by the grandeur of this land. Ophelia, another native For more information contact Cascadia Forest Defend- Southerner and my closest Elder trees taken down, some illegally, at the Fall Creek encampment ers, POB 11122, Eugene, OR 97 440; (541) 343-7305. friend from Texas who has listened to my endless tragic tales about the impending ecologic Armageddon. Chicken Little fussing about how the sky is falling typically causes Ophelia's eyes to glaze over, but she agreed to trudge through the mud to witness the KNAUF FIBERGLASS creation of a tree village. IF MEDFORD TAKE ScREWED This forest is in its climax stage, with many downed logs and snags. Hemlock WoN'T IT, .SHAsr A's and vine maple fill the lower canopy, with old man's beard, a soft green usnea, Anyone who has been to Medford, Oregon, knows it's not a real environ­ draped throughout. The typical cloud cover diffuses the light in which the mental town. Probably every region has a city that. is a wasteland ·of understory of salal, Oregon grape and sword ferns thrives. Red cedar and industrial development. In Oregon, Medford is that place. So when Shasta, Douglas fir, the largest as old as 600 years, tower overhead. California, agreed to house the fiberglass plant that Medford had rejected as The Clark encampment began on April20 when activists hoisted a platform too damaging, the citizens of Shasta knew things were bad. 200-feet grassroots group Citizens for Responsible Growth used the mandatory hearings called for in· the California Environmental Quality Act to force two revised drafts of ttle Environmental ImpactsReport. But even the newest draft is inadequate: Hundreds of letters have been written and pickets have been organized. Citizens for Responsible Growth would love to hear from others who have waged similar battles. Suggestions and donations can be sent to 13613. Jaybird Way, Redding, CA 96003. For more information, call (530) 275-0325 ·or 243-5212; http:/ /www:shastalake.com. · Page 10 Earth First! Litha 1998 TEsT SITE OccuPIED PRECEDENT SETTING VICTORY DEMONSTRATORS LEFT IN PEACE FOR 24 HOURS IN 11-IE

BY jENNIFER VIERECK, HEALING GLOBAL WOUNDS UMPQUA "The grassroots indigenous people have fought on the front lines against BY FRANCIS ETHERINGTON great odds, out of the limelight, yet they have often won by relying on their A federal district court ruled on April 29 that the National Marine Fisheries traditional teachings," says Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indig­ Service (NMFS) is not doing enough to protect endangered fish and ordered enous Environmental Network. "By putting forth grassroots cultural resis­ government agencies to stop dozens of timber sales until they have ensured tance as a model for change, we are challenging both native rights and salmon and trout will not go extinct. The ruling is expected to result in environmental movements to be true to their roots." Goldtooth said this as increased protection for salmon and trout on public lands throughout the West, he, representatives of the Western Shoshone Nation and over 400 supporters starting in Oregon's Umpqua basin. The ruling by Judge Barbara J. Rothstein from all over the world spent their Easter weekend at the entrance to the arose from a case brought by fishing and conservation groups, including Nevada Test Site. With a strong unified voice, all demanded a halt to the Umpqua Watersheds, seeking greater protection for the endangered Umpqua destruction of traditional Shoshone lands and an end to violations of Shoshone River cutthroat trout. religious freedoms. The best way to begin the new millennium, they said, is The Umpqua National Forest and Roseburg Bureau of Land Management to honor the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Ruby Valley Treaty with (BLM) offered dozens of timber sales last year in areas with endangered trout the Shoshone Nation by shutting down the test site. or salmon. Judge Rothstein's ruling makes it clear that the sales must meet the On April13, over 150 people entered the test site before dawn and participated standards set by the Endangered Species Act for protecting fish. Wherever in the first traditional Shoshone Sunrise Ceremony held there since the land was federal agencies are planning timber sales that could affect salmon or trout, seized by the federal government in 1948. Led by Corbin Harney, a Western this decision will apply. Shoshone spiritual leader, the occupation continued for 24 hours with no Imperiled fish, and commercial fishers, cannot withstand more of the same response from the Department of Energy. Ten people who headed further into clearcutting and road-building that has degraded aquatic h-abitat and caused the test site were arrested later that day for trespassing. As the occupation the current fish crisis. The judge found that the federal government failed to intensified throughout the weekend, 91 people were arrested at the Circle of prove the Umpqua cutthroat trout can survive the extensive logging, clearcutting Rebirth Easter ceremony at the test site entrance after crossing the property lines. and road-building authorized under the Northwest Forest Plan. "We were put here by the Creator as a native people to take care of this land and While the ruling was a very welcome reprieve for many beautiful places, it does all the life on it," stated Harney. "Shoshone people have taken care of this land for not apply to sales above natural barriers to endangered salmon. Sales within thousands of years. The government has stolen endangered fish habitat this land from us, and now it is very contami­ that were sold under the nated. They have kept us from doing what we can Salvage Rider; which ex­ to take care of it and heal it. For SO years they have empted the agencies from kept us out with fences and guards." complying with all envi­ Healing Global Wounds, the anti-nuclear alli­ ronmental laws, are not ance hosting the gathering, pointed out the affected by the ruling. overwhelming health and environmental ef­ About a dozen of the an­ fects after 4 7 years ofnuclear weapons testing on cient forest clearcuts that traditional Shoshone lands. In addition to re­ the judge ruled to be ille­ newed 11Subcritical"weaponstesting, these prob­ gal are shielded by the Sal­ lems are now compounded by shipments of low­ vage Rider. The court did level radioactive waste pouring into the test site stop 24 timber sales. from con,taminated weapons facilities all over Agencies often propose the US, at the rate of four truckloads a day. large clearcuts in old-growth Recent reports show that four out of five trucks forests, thereby opening the from Fernald, Ohio, alone have been leaking on forest canopy and causing interstate freeways. Congress continues to move rain to run off the steep forward with mandating Mobile Chernobyl, slopes faster, stressing the the shipping of US spent reactor fuel to Yucca creeks below and sometimes Mountain, located within the test site. Current Crossing the lines into the test site resulting in landslides. Be- studies have shown the location is 25 percent as active as the San Andreas fault cause the Northwest Forest Plan prohibits such watershed degradation, the in California [see Mobile Chernobyl article on page 14]. agencies "compensate" for the new degradation by repairing some old logging The test originally scheduled for April has been postponed until later this roads. However, the judge said that, "The road mitigation achieved was slight." summer due to safety and contamination issues at Lawrence Livermore Labo­ The ultimate fate of the halted sales remains unclear. For instance, in spite of ratories where the plutonium is being produced. Those gathered vowed to the judge's clear agreement with the "evidence of adverse effects," Roseburg BLM return in October for the fall Healing Global Wounds Gathering (October 10- will not admit that clearcutting the public's ancient forests degrades watersheds. 13) as well as for Mother's Day 1999 to further the resistance . .Shundahai BLM's response is: "The ruling by Judge Rothstein stated that the affected sales Network in Las Vegas will conthme to coordinate a resistance to subcritical were 'procedurally' out of compliance with ACS [Aquatic Conservation Strat­ nuclear weapons tests. To participate, contact Shundahai Network at 5007 egy] ... that NMFS had assumedagency compliance... not that the agencies were Elmhurst Ln., Las Vegas, NV 89108-1304; (702) 647-3095; fax 647-9385; in non-compliance." In other words, a little shift in paper work is all they feel is [email protected]. needed to correct the problem . . they were brought in from Idaho and Oregon solely for these two trees. No LIBERTY· IN BELL CREEK When the loggers left,''t1ie trees were set"Wit1i web platforms and a walkway. Attempts have been made SflyiERS TAKE TO TilE 1REES to remove the tree sitters, including one in which Through the northern part of the Headwaters diameter and the other 12. These trees had been left Pacific Lumber's notorious activist-evictor "Climber forest flows Bell"Liberty" Creek, a residual riparian standing on the steep slope because Pacific Lumber Dan" climbed to the 160-foot web. Once at the web, zone currently being helicopter logged by Pacific lacked the technology to remove them in years past. he couldn't figure out a method to remove the Lumber Co. The timber harvest plan will cut an area A five-person crew went in the night before the precariously perched activist. The loggers on the 300-feet wide, stretching for two-and-a-half miles cutting to find and protect the two massive trees. ground began to shout encouragement to Dan. He directly along the creek. Climbing and setting platforms in the trees took repeated that there was no way to safely remove the Earth First! activists have occupied the area for the all day. Bulldozers could be heard on the road 30 unharnessed occupant. The loggers became agi­ last seven months, digging and burying dragons; feet from one of the giants. After securing a line in tated and shouted commands to Dan, "Remove her cutting and stashing tripods and constructing tree each tree, the climbing crew slept soundly on the tarp! Take her water bottle! For Pete's sake, Dan, take villages. Last fall over 10 platforms were fully bridged ground that night. something! Take anything!" Climber Dan got angry together, including the 15-person love pod. Chainsaws were their wake up call. Loggers had and shouted furiously, "Idiots! Idiots! Idiots below On April20, the Environmental Protection Infor­ stealthily cut the rope on the largest tree before me! Idiots above me! I'm surrounded by idiots! I'm mation Center (EPIC) requested a temporary re~ anyone could climb it. Fortunately, the rope on the coming down." He hasn't returned. straining order to stop logging. Humboldt county other tree was safely out of the loggers' reach. They The tree sit remains in place. EPIC plans to sue to Judge Dale Reinholtsen, a former Pacific Lumber brought in the largest chainsaws manufactured protect the creek. Road actions have been on-going employee, denied the request on April28. EF! activ­ (with 70-inch bars) and began to discuss how to fall and will continue until there is a resolution. To ists began road actions with equipment lockdowns. the enormous redwood. In a spur-of-the-moment arrange your redwood eco-tourism travel packages While exploring the northern section of the area, action, three women free-climbed into three smaller contact Northcoast Earth First! at POB 28, Arcata, photographer Doug Thron found a nearly intact trees to keep the loggers from cutting the giant. CA 955 18; (707) 825-8911. grove with two massive redwoods in its center Baffled, Columbia Helicopter's loggers spent the marked to be cut. One was reported to be 17-feet in day scratching their heads and explaining that -NORTHCOAST EF! fune-fuly 1998 Earth First! Page 11 SLOVAKIAN FoRESTS DAMMED . •• "Ecological Activists Stormed the Starina Dam" "The Biggest Drawn Joke in the World Shined on the Dike" "WOLF Demonstrated at the Starina Dam in Favor of Forests" (Newspaper headlines after the action)

BY MARIA HDDAKOVA On an overcast day in March, the WOLF Forest Protection Movement stormed the dike of the Starina dam in eastern Slovakia, protesting dam construction and forest management policies. Activists separated into two teams as they approached the dike. A small team entered the area first to create a diversion. The larger team carried a massive 10 by 20-meter banner. As the smaller group veered toward a building on the dike, four dam employees watched from behind a fence with unconcealed wonder. Demonstrators distrib­ uted leaflets to the employees through the bars of the gate. A macho, middle-aged guy-apparently the supervisor-appeared and shouted, "Clear out! It's none of your business to be here! It's prohibited to enter!" A nearby sign proved him right, stating, "Water Source. Area of Hygienic Protection of the First Degree. No Admittance Except on Business." But the real message of the supervisor was about "It's better to have w~ter up to your knees than dams up to your necks. " intimidation, as he threatened to release a young German shepherd in a cage. But all this was .. just th~ diversion. Most of the activists entered under a gate to talk to the angry employees. Said one, "I don't know what they want. They and then swarmed across an access road to the dike. The atmosphere ignited. came here to protest but they want to have water running in their apartments! "What are you climbing there? To hell with you!," yelled the macho guy. When I would know how to deal with them. I would f--- them until they turn green!" his protests didn't help, he released the dog. However, the dog, kept in the cage (loosely translated from colloquial Slovak) for who knows how long, ran around like a ballet dancer let out of solitary With this action, the WOLF Forest Protection Movement hoped to bring the confinement. His behavior was accompanied by applause and laughter from general public and responsible authorities' attention to the long-standing devas­ the protesters. Instead of biting, he licked the activists' hands. The macho guy tation of Slovak forests that has resulted in enormous diminution of the landscape's couldn't stand it and called the police. ability to retain water. Runoff has intensified, and the landscape suffers alternately At that moment, the big banner (with a cartoon and caption drawn by the from catastrophic floods in rainy periods and drought in dry periods. famous Slovak caricaturist Fedor Vi co) was spread on the dike. The banner Instead of providing fundamental changes in forest management policy, the stated, "It's better to have water up to knees than dams up to necks." A guy Ministry of Land Management tries to resolve this situation by building standing in water up to his knees said in Rusinian dialect, "They preach of water expensive dams. Unbelievably, 91 dams are planned in Slovakia. Each costs but suck our blood." (Rusins are a minority who had to evacuate seven villages from US$100 to $160 million. Yet the state budget lacks the $100 million because they were flooded to make the dam.) needed to solve the housing problem, help the collapsing educational system The activists pulled down the banner as the police arrived. A policeman or revive inadequate health services. stated that the nature conservationists, although they had trespassed, were at The action received significant media attention. . Articles appeared in national that moment doing nothing illegal and therefore no action could be taken and regional papers, and there was a report on the Slovak TV station, as well as ' · against them. on several radio stations. Wrote one journalist, "So far the biggest ecological The whole action radical action in eastern Slovakia took a peaceful course that was nicely and was witnessed by exotically impressive." journalists from ra­ The dam authwity said it wou.Id sue us fer illegal entrance and mentioned dio stations and from our "violent" behavior. They also accused us of being blind as we are not able the most popular Slo­ to see how.dams are important. vak commercial TV Themajor expenses for the action were covered by a grant from the Earth First! station, Markiza. Direct Action Fund. .We are .• also thankful to GLOBAL 2000 from Austria for Some reporters tried assisting with the production of the banner. ... HELP SAVE THEM- ·BuY YouR OWN TREE! ity of these countries, especially their water use all means of action to protect them. We decided regimes, is significantly higher than the rest of to save a beech-fir stand in the middle of the Cergov Europe thanks to these forests. Mountains by buying it. The stand is 21 hectares in The ecological diversity and presence of large size, between 800 and 1,000 meters above sea level, predators in these forests have no equal in the and neighbors a mountain ridge. The headwaters of rest of Europe. For example, in Slovakia a 49,000- a beautiful, clear stream originates from a cold square-kilometer area contains more than 50,000 spring deep in the forest. species of plants and animals. Wildlife surveys The former owner of this land has agreed to sell it estimate that there are 800 bears, 300 wolves, 70 for 3.2-million Slovak crowns (approximately pairs of golden eagle, 900 lynx, more than 1,000 US$93,000) with the condition that WOLF is named wild cats and 200 pairs of Ural owl in the area. as the official owner. As this stand contains 3,000 to BY WOLF fOREST PROTECTION MOVEMENT Unfortunately, political trends in the past several 4,000 trees, we decided to ask the public for help by Along the Morava River lies a European border, not decades have been hostile to these forests. Fir trees, purchasing one tree per person for 1,000 crowns a state border but a natural border, a border between which grow quickly to large dimensions in Euro­ ($30). This will allow us to pay off the balance of the forests. To the west lie states where native forests have pean conditions (up to two meters in diameter in asking price in 1998-if we find enough people. been lost and have been substituted with cultivated 300 years), have been so intensively logged that WOLF is now taking the necessary steps to have landscapes or artifidal forests. These countries (from regeneration is impossible. Ultimately, nonnative this stand declared the first private reserve in Cen­ Great Britain in the north to France, Germany, Swit­ spruce have encroached on the forests. The conse­ tral Europe with statutes to ensure that no wood will zerland and down to Spain and Portugal in the south) quences have been evident; large-scale insect infes­ be removed from the stand, even after natural and exist only because they exploit areas several times tations and wind exposure, along with increased logging-induced disasters. larger than their own territory. Their water regimes are flooding, has wreaked havoc on the forests. Every tree buyer will be regularly informed about unstable, resulting in extensive dry seasons and fires The WOLF Forest Protection Movement originated the condition of the planned reserve and the level of (as in Spain, Yugoslavia and Greece) or floods (as in to save native forests and has used several means to do contributions reached. Help save the native eastern Germany and the Netherlands). so. In 1993, a successful legislative campaign changed Slovak fir-beech rainforests of Europe. Buy your To the east of the Morava River are relatively large forest laws to ban clearcuts. In 1995, a World Bank own tree. People outside Europe should make checks tracts of native forests, little altered by develop­ project that would have completely destroyed our payable to Rainforest Information Centre and mail ment. Most of this area is between 400 and 1,000 remaining native forests was defeated. In 1996, a them to the Earth Trust Foundation, 20110 Rockport meters above sea level. In this region, the native blockade stopped logging in the Slanske Mountains. Way, Malibu, CA 90265. forest is predominantly fir-beech. Large undisturbed Some forests cannot be saved by ·any of these Contact the WOLF Forest Protection Movement areas of such forests are found in Slovakia, the methods. The natural value of the native fi~-beech at c.d. 27, 082 13Tulcik, Slovakia; phone/fax +421- Transcarpathian Ukraine and Romania. The stabil- forests of eastern Slovakia is so great that we must 91-941488; [email protected]. Page 12 Earth First! Litha 1998 ~~ Traditional oavaks Resist Forced Resenlement

BY BRIAN BuRCH AND mountainsofKalimantan.Miningcom- armed police, when the Paras refused panies from Australia and Canada are to be forcibly resettled. Similar re­ DAVID KAPPLER-BURCH engaged in wide-scale exploitation ports abound. While global attention is riveted to of the mineral resources of Borneo, The funds to build the infrastructure theoustingofSuharto, thereisacrime much of it on land formerly occu­ for mining and forestry come from such that continues in Indonesia and its pied by the Dayaks. The best known global institutions as the World Bank, neighboring countries, no matter who of the mining interests is Rio Tinto, which loaned $50 million to fund roads is in power. That crime is the destruc- but others such as Properties tion of a traditional way of life and the Kalimantan Gold Corpora­ erosion of an ecosystem. tion are also actively mining Spouting the usual rhetoric about in Dayak territory. As well as improving lives and providing greater displacing people, these min­ prosperity for all, logging and mining ing efforts destroy vast tracts of interestsaredisplacingoneoftheoldest land. Rio Tinto and the Indo­ indigenous cultures in the world. Dayak nesian-based Jarita Jayaraya people are being pushed aside to ensure have admitted that over three­ the unchecked expansion of palm tree quarters of 1,200 hectares of plantations, gold mines and large-scale cleared land for one jointly deforestation in Kalimantan (formerly ·owned mine cannot be reha­ known as Borneo), their traditional bilitated due lo heavy metal home. The highlands of Kalimantan are contamination. believed to be covered by some of the A final threat is the forced oldest rainforests in the world. relocation of settlers into The Dayaks' lives are complicated by now-deforested Dayak terri­ the fact that their territory is ruled by tory. This has created the first three nations-Indonesia, Malaysia and widespread settlements in ar­ Brunei Darussalam. The Dayak people eas previously unoccupied by themselves are composed of 37 differ- permanent populations. The ent groups. Though not a pacifist soci- Dayaks, with their tradition ety (they were historically described as of shifting agriculture, lived headhunters), they were able to live in in close harmony to an eco­ relative harmony with the world system now facing urbaniza­ around them until fairly recently. tion, chemical-dependent ag- This culture was largely able to con- riculture, tree plantations of exotic to transport logs from the last remain­ tinueits traditional wayoflifethrough species, logging and mining. The ing primary rainforest in Sarawak. ''"'' the'-'196t>s. Daya'k ·ute - ~~ centered'· tnewcomers are-from a 'diff·erent reli-" ' · While receiving these funds and· around communal long houses. Sev- gious, cultural and linguistic back­ moving into indigenous lands, the era! long houses clustered together grounds than the Dayaks, perpetuat­ corporations involved try to sound make up a village. They practice shift- ing the ongoing cultural genocide. like good corporate citizens by claim­ ing agriculture, moving from place to Resistance by the Dayaks and their ing to provide the education and op­ place as soil becomes depleted, thus supporters is often severely countered. portunity for traditional peoples to permitting the forest to renew itself. It is also virtually ignored by the West­ become part of the dom:inant eco­ This traditional practice is disharmo- ern media. As Alex Ryan, from the nomic system. For example, nious with logging interests. Sydney, Australia-based Rainforest Ac- Kalimantan Gold Corporation claims, In 1966, with thecomingtopowerof tion Group said in an interview, "The "The company is committed to social Suharto's New Order government, the Dayaks have been blockading for over development and protection of the first large-scale logging began. Since 15 years-it only came to public atten­ environment. A number of initiatives then, there has been grave deforesta- tion when [Swiss environmentalist have been established to provide train­ tion accompanied by massive destruc- Bruno] Manser gotinvolved. The voices ing and education for villagers. These include a training program to teach local Dayaks drilling and exploration skills, a scholarship program for village "The Davaks have been children, a village development pro­ gram and a nursery for the collection blockading tor over 15 vears." and research of the endangered Garuh tree. The company is also co-sponsor­ ing a Participatory Rural Assessment tion of the villages and culture of the of the Dayak, who comprise 44 percent program in the villages near the. .. work Dayaks. Some reports indicate that half oftheSarawak [astateofMalaysiafound area. This program is designed to assist of the forests have been logged, with on the island of Kalimantan] popula­ villagers in identifying the types of six million hectares so badly damaged tion, are not heard." projects and activities that could be they are no longer productive. Participants in blockades have been implementedforvillagedevelopment." The Dayaks have been forced out of jailed, fined, beaten and shot, with at Effective solidarity actions are ham­ the forests by logging. In some cases least one killed. Protests have included pered by a lack of direct contacts with there have been resettlement efforts, creative efforts, including an attempt the Dayaks. However, Down to Earth but often they have simply been driven by three Dayak people to patent a and the Borneo Resources Institute away from their homes. Oil palm plan­ claim on the home of Rio Tinto's ex­ are two good sources of information tation owners work closely with gov­ ecutive director to develop rice pad­ on the Dayaks and their struggles, as ernment officials. They force Dayaks dies and fish farms. well as for ideas for action. Consult into surrendering their existing land In an effort to draw attention to these.groups before considering a soli­ claims in order to move the people their struggles, representatives of the darity action. Efforts like the 1991 into permanent settlements, offering Dayaks toured Australia in February of occupation of a Malaysian tourist of­ jobs on the plantations as an alterna­ this year, focusing their talks on Rio ficeto draw attention to the struggles tive to hunting, gathering and tradi­ Tinto's mines and their p~rsonal ex­ of the Dayaks are effective when linked tional agricultural practices. Resistance periences dealing with the oppressive to the most current needs for action. to these efforts has, at best, only slowed regime working hand in hand with For more info, cantact Down to Earth, logging for short periods of time. the mining and timber interests. 59 Athenlay Road, London SE15 3EN, As though the logging isn't bad Daniel Paras, one of the Dayak rep­ England; [email protected]. Borneo Re­ enough, mining companies want the resentatives, and his family were sources Institute, GOP LB 23- BN 354, large mineral deposits, including gold, driven out of their home by the Mo­ 98009, Miri, Sarawak Malaysia; copper, coal and iron, in the hills and bile Brigade, a special troop of heavily [email protected]. June-July 1998 Earth First! Page 13 Why We Need Zero Cut, Reason #217: The Badger Sale decision notice, we cried foul and asked the Forest Service for a full period in BY KAREN COULTER which to prepare our appeal. We sent our letters describing all the big old trees Sometimes even the US Forest Service inadvertently surpasses even the most marked for cutting to the forest supervisor and regional office, and the decision articulate voices in making the case for zero commercial extraction on public notice was withdrawn. Victory #2! In a meeting between BMBP, the district lands. For example, the Forest Service tried to pass off the Badger timber sale in staff, the district ranger, the forest supervisor and his staff, the district ranger did eastern Oregon as a "salvage" sale with "widespread mortality" from "epidemic not even attempt to explain why old-growth trees outside the riparian areas levels of fir engraver and Douglas fir tussock moths." were marked to cut. Instead, he just admitted that They called it an imminent, large-scale stand-re­ he'd found some of the trees, and yes, they would be placement fire just waiting to happen. remarked to save. On paper, the area sounded like a disaster scene of Never trust the Forest Service. We went out and dead trees. The Forest Service promised not to log rechecked a lot of the sale units after the district any live old growth outside of riparian areas (not that assured us that the old growth had been completely it makes any sense to log inside riparian areas, but remarked. We found live old-growth pine still marked forest plan amendments excuse logging of "en­ to be cut in every unit we checked. A very consistent croaching conifers" that sneak up on aspen trees in pattern of "mistakes" was discovered. To this date, riparian areas). the trees have not been remarked. Ground-truthing the sale (taking the Forest Ser-. Okay, to make a long story short, we went through vice inventory of the area and determining its inac­ psychological warfare with the Forest Service and curacies) in 1996 revealed a vibrant, healthy forest, industry representatives who attacked our opinions about 90- to 95-percent green, well within normal with no referee. Our concerns weren't resolved. We endemic levels of insect and disease activity. Some­ appealed the sale and have thrown the book at them what shocked by the Forest Service's blatant misrep­ in court. A lawsuit was filed in January of this year. resentation, I called the district office and asked how Badger is a magnificent area with stunning old­ much of the sale theythoughtwasgreen. "At least 75 growth ponderosa pine groves surrounded by waste­ percent" was the answer. Well, that made things ~ lands from prior logging. We can't let old-growth easy, as this was enough to bump Badger out of the ir pine groves, as well as pileated and white-headed Salvage Rider (the day before its auction) for not [ woodpeckers, elk, songbirds, the Malheur mottled meeting the definition of an appropriate Rider sale. ~ sculpin (a fish listed as sensitive under the Endan­ Victory #1! But trust the Forest Service to never give ~ gered Species Act), the Sierra onion (another sensi­ up on logging an area (especially in an isolated ~ tive-listed plant), pine marten, wolverine and district unaccustomed to the scrutiny of environ­ ~ redband trout be ravaged by the Badger sale. mentally minded citizens). [ So, we're asking you to help us stop this travesty In the spring of 1997, the district re-offered Badger ~now. Please write and call the officials listed below. for sale. The Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project ! Demand the complete and permanent cancellation (BMBP) commented on it, as did other groups and of the Badger sale and ask that the area's old-growth dedicated individual! who had seen the sale area and Badger: a disaster scene of dead trees? You be the judge. groves be afforded permanent protection from log­ fallen in love with it. No one who commented ging. This forest is far more valuable as a wildlife critically was sent the decision notice, lessening our chance to appeal the sale preserve, with all unnecessary roads and cattle removed, than as disposable and potentially preventing us from having standing to file a lawsuit. When we products for a gluttonous consumer society. The continued clearcutting of found this out and confronted the district staff, they made vague comments forests east of the Cascades creates an unsustainable economic boom that will about "office restructuring." lead to an inevitable crash. Eventually the resource-extraction economy will We checked the area again, as it was now marked for logging. We counted so have to come to terms with dwindling resources. many healthy ponderosa pines over 30 inches in diameter marked to be cut, we Please contact the following villains so we can achieve a lasting victory in stopped counting. Many were over 40 inches, which is big and old for this arid, stopping the Badger sale. Dan Glickman, Secretary of the USDA, 14th and high desert forest transition zone (where previous high-grade logging has taken Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20250; (202) 720-3631; Bob Williams, out the biggest trees). In one aspen area, we measured two live old-growth Regional Forester, Region 6, POB 3623 Portland, OR 97208-3621; (503) 808- ponderosa pines 40 inches and 50 inches in diameter that were marked to cut. 2200; Jim Lyons, USDA, OSEC NRE Rm. 217 E, Mailstop 0108, 1400 Indepen­ Since some of our time had been stolen by the district's failure to send us a dence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20250; (202) 720-7173.

put it. The money in the Nuclear Waste Fund is collected to fund a permanent, not interim, reposi­ tory and is expected to be inadequate, even for that purpose. Interim transport and storage will only MOBILE CHERNOBYL increase the deficit of funds. Industry reps also argue that storing waste in one isolated site is environ­ The communities now targeted for. waste trans­ mentally safer than keeping it at many reactor sites port are showing vehement opposition. And the throughout the country. Some day that might be BY ROXANE GEORGE news from Yucca Mountain studies confirms what true, but only if the reactors have shut down for Perpetuating ill-conceived nuclear waste poli­ many knew all along: There is no good place to good. Until then, storing wastes at Yucca Mountain cies, Congress passed legislation last year to ac­ dump nuclear waste, especially here. only increases the number of dumps by one. Reactor commodate the nuclear industry at a tremendous More than a decade of study and the expenditure of wastes have to remain on site for a minimum of five cost to the US public. Collectively known as Mo­ billions of dollars have revealed that Yucca Mountain to ten years before they can be transported. Even the bile Chernobyl, HR. 1270 ·and S. 104 mandate may be a particularly unsuitable site for permanent Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, a Congres­ transportation of nuclear wastes to an "interim" waste storage. The area contains no fewer than 33 sionally established independent oversight body, storage site near Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the earthquake faults and has a class four earthquake zone has stated that "there are no compelling technical location currently under consideration as a perma­ designation, the highest United States Geological reasons for moving commercial spent fuel to a nent, centralized repository for high-level nuclear Survey rating. As recently as june 1992, a 5.6-magni­ centralized storage facility at this time." wastes. If Mobile Chernobyl passes, either thou­ tude quake struck nearby, causing substantial damage Policy-makers must clearly acknowledge that there sands of waste shipments will have to be trans­ to project surface facilities. The repository rock is presently exist no safe technology for disposing of ported twice through communities (once to in­ highly fractured, and important questions about un­ this deadly material, nor is it likely to ever be devel­ terim storage and again to a permanent storage derground water movement remain unanswered. oped. The best we can hope for at this point, for the site) or Yucca Mountain will become a de facto So how is it that Congress voted to expose this wastes that already exist, is a lesser of evils, a least permanent repository, even though it isn't safe. region to the risks involved in transporting thousands unsafe solution. There are no guarantees of safety for Department of Energy (DOE) representatives often of nuclear wastes shipments to an unsafe site? Simple. anyone or any place near reactors, transport routes or proclaim that the proposed site in the Mojave Desert The nuclear industry, desperate to get the costs and storage sites. For these reasons, true responsibility is nothing but a worthless arid wasteland where no liability for its wastes transferred to the public, poured means shutting down nuclear production now. one lives. The Western Shoshone, the people indig­ more money into lobbying and campaign contribu­ Clinton has promised to veto the Mobile Chernobyl enous to the area, continued struggle to defend their tions than ever before. legislation. Please urge him to keep that promise and culture and the land sacred to them. The DOE and The industry argued that there is a waste storage lobby your representatives to sustain the veto. If they Congress also discount the plants and animals that crisis and that the government has a responsibility voted right the first time, th~nk them. Organize. call this area home, including the threatened desert to take the waste because rate payers have paid Groups like the Nuclear Information Resource Ser­ tortoise. Congress is more interested in fulfilling the billions into a nuclear waste fund. A federal court vice (NIRS) can offer invaluable assistance. reckless promise the government made in the '50s to has found, however, that while the government's For more information, contact Flagstaff Opposed take the wastes created by the energy "too cheap to contract for the waste is binding, it can pay the to Nuclear Transport at 2155 E. Maple #17, meter." Many years later, the repercussions of that additional costs of prolonged storage at a re~ctor Flagstaff, AZ 86004; (520) 774-6542 or 226-1884; decision have come fully to bear. rather than accepting waste without a safe place to [email protected]. Page 14 Earth First! Litha 1998 TIMBER PRoTEST IN PENNsYLvANIA WoLF KILLINGS cutting 8,200 acres (3,020 acres of clearcuts) in a Go UNPUNISHED BY MIKE Moss 141,000-acre area (one-sixth of the entire forest). It The Allegheny National Forest is a reminder of will remove SS million board feet of wood, con­ what Eastern forests used to be. The stands of 500- struct or reconstruct 90 miles of roads, spray over BY CRAIG EVARTS year-old hemlock, white pine and beech, home of 3,000 acres with herbicides, and log areas previously A camper shot and killed a Mexican gray wolf on the endangered Indiana bat, are one the most set aside as old growth. April28, just a month after it was released as part of heavily logged forests in the East. The forest is a After two hours of songs, chants and our demand, a reintroduction program. Arizona1s Gila headwa­ day's drive from a third of the country's popula­ "Get out of our forest, and we'll get out of your ters ecosystem. Arizona Fish and Wildlife Service tion and the site of the largest timber sale east of office!," the cops, Freddies and an Emergency Medi­ recaptured the wolf's pregnant mate and returned it the Mississippi. It is also a national forest where cal Technician removed the U-lock and arrested one to a wildlife refuge. She gave birth on May S. direct action has never The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is re­ happened-until now. sponsible for investigating the shooting and provid­ On May 20, several cars ing a report to Arizona's US Attorney, who will then packed with enthusiastic. decide whether or not to prosecute. But the USFWS activists pulled up behind will not reveal any information about the shooter. the Allegheny National The potential penalty is one year in prison or a Forest headquarters in $10,000 fine. But, according to wolf activist Tom Warren, Pennsylvania. Beno, few wolf killers are ever prosecuted. The With U-locks and following cases remain unresolved. lockboxes, a small group • January 1995-Wolf #13F killed by "unknown entered the building. Af­ person" while eating a dead calf in central Idaho. ter a quick "hello" to the USFWS determined that the wolf did not kill the receptionist, they cruised ., calf. No arrests were made. up a staircase and down a ~ • April 1995-Wolf #10 killed by Chad McKittrick hallway to Forest Supervi­ 8 near Red Lodge, Montana. Three years after being sor John Palmer's office. ~" found guilty and sentenced, he's still not paid any Even though a meeting :.: fines or served time. was in session, activists ~ • February 1996-Wolf #12M killed near Daniel, interrupted and intro­ Wyoming. No arrests: duced themselves. "Hello, • March 1996-Wolf #llF killed by Jay York near we're Earth First! We are Meeteetse, Wyoming. Mr. York, reputed to bill him­ here for a peaceful protest. We aren't going to activist. Then, they proceeded to lift up the three­ self as "The Man Who Smoked the Wolf," was fined hurt anyone or damage any property, but we are person lockbox triangle and squeeze it out the door. $500. US Attorney David Freudenthal said, "This is taking over the office." Still locked together, the Earth First!ers were carried an appropriate disposition." The shock on the faces of the Freddies was won­ down a thin, twisting staircase. One woman's arm • January 1997-Wolf #28M is killed near Three derful! Three people locked arms in lockboxes and was almost broken. The three didn't unlock until Forks, Montana. No arrests. laid on their backs to form a lockdown triangle they were at the police station. Meanwhile, a group • Late 1997-"Auntie" of the Ninemile pack, subject with a pile of overlapping legs in the middle. After of activists outside the building handed out fliers, of a Rick Bass book, killed near Moscow, Idaho. An an Earth First! flag was hung off the pile of feet, a talked to the local people and chanted. One of the investig~tion is "ongoing." No arrests. fourth activist U-locked his neck to the triangle. best chants of the day was "John Palmer you silly • December 1997-Wolf #31M killed in Montana, Outside the building, banners saying, ."Stop the goose, F,ast Side Project ain't multiple use!" north of Yellowstone. No arrests. East Side Project" and "Camping ~qt ~utqng, J!..f~J:;t,~ -;, ". On that day, .we , alert~d John .J;> almer and the • .December 19?7-Wolf #38M suffers for 11 days ation for Lasting jobs in the Allegheny" were quickly Forest Service to an Earth First! presence in the after being shot north of Yellowstone. No arrests. hung in the trees in front of the building. One Earth Allegheny. All that needs to happen now is .... more • March 1998-Wolf #39F, the only white wolf in First!~r chained himself to a tree to give the Freddies action! Legal action from the Allegheny Defense Idaho is shot north of Yellowstone. She was possibly a preview of what they can expect in the forest. Project has reduced planned logging from SS mil­ pregnant. Charges are pending. The action was in response to the East Side Project, lion board feet to 16 million. Once the Forest • April1998-Wolf# 1S6M is shot and killed less than also known as Mortality II, the biggest timber sale Service starts the East Side Project, however, we two miles from the release site in Arizona. No arrests. east of the Rockies. Mortality II was halted in court will need to put up some serious resistance. • May 1998-Alpha pair #6F and #8M found dead in when a federal judge said it would require an Envi­ For more information, contact the Allegheny Idaho of yet to be announced causes. No arrests. ronmental Impact Statement (EIS) in order to pro­ Defense Project, POB 245, Clarion, PA 16214; (814) Since 1995, therehavebeenonlytwoarrestsforthe ceed. In its infinite pursuit of forest destruction, the 226-4918; [email protected] or NYC Earth First!, killing of 12 wolves. Five hundred dollars in fines Forest Service's EIS doubled the damage and changed Wetlands, 161 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013; have been paid, and no one has served any time. the name to the East Side Project. Now it calls for (212) 966-5244. Information provided by Tom Beno.

began rappelling down the front of mats. In the end, they waited about Hands Off the U'Wa, cont... the building. They stopped directly four hours for the climbers to voluntar­ continued from front page brows. When asked by police, the opposite the upper floors of Occiden­ ily ascend back up to the roof, where For over a year now, Oxy has held this guards claimed the activists had been tal Petroleum to unfurl a 1, 500-square­ they were arrested. Four people from death sentence, this unthinkable delivered inside the pipeline-which foot bright orange banner that read, the pipe, three from the banner and choice between genocide and suicide, shows how well they were paying at­ "Warning to Oxy: Your Colombian one on the ground with a radio, were over this semi-nomadic forest tribe. tention. The outside of the pipeline Oil Project = Death of U'wa Indians." carted off to jail to catch up on some The entire amount of oil in the region was decorated with multiple warnings Twenty-five police cars, IS fire de­ much needed sleep. is estimated to be enough to fuel the to Oxy such as, "Oxy Oil= U'wa Blood." partment units, a couple ambulances This action"is a strong wiuning-to US for a mere three months. Realistic-looking stage blood (corn and two bicycle cops appeared on the Occidental Petroleum to immediately Recently, activists from the South­ syrup, red food coloring and soap) was scene. The firefighters used the jaws of stop all plans to drill on U'wa land. ern California area carrie together with splattered all over the pipeline and ran life, as well as a few other tools, to The notorious Shell Oil has already Amazon Watch and Action Resource down the front stairs of the building. ·extricate the activists from the pipe­ said it wants out of the project, al­ Center (ARC) to send a clear message The first officer kept asking if this was line, a process that lasted about two though Chevron is said to be consid­ to Oxy that what it is doing will not be an animal rights protest and, "Who hours. Meanwhile, a public demon­ ering joining. A full page ad in the New tolerated. On Earth Day, a 23-foot locked 'em in there anyway-they stration informed the gridlock-bound York Times recently asked sharehold­ mock oil pipeline was delivered to couldn't have fastened themselves in drivers about the issue (the police shut ers to divest of their stock in Oxy if it Occidental's headquarters by flatbed now could they?," while looking ac­ the street down for convenient park­ does not stop this genocidal project. A and carried into the front lobby. Occi­ cusingly at our faithful support crew. ing of their emergency vehicles). The joint study by Harvard and the Orga­ dental is conveniently located on the Simultaneously, across the street, pipeline project kept everyone busy for nization of American States has rec­ busiest intersection in the US, the cross­ several climbers and support people awhile, and it took law enforcement a ommended the immediate and un­ ing of Wilshire and Westwood Av­ took an elevator and stairwell up to bit of time to switch their focus to the conditional suspension of all enues in Los Angeles. Three activists the 26th-story roof of the unsuspect­ banner hangers. Firefighters set up res­ Occidental's drilling plans. climbed inside the carpeted, lit and ing Oppenheimer tower. One climber cue mats on the ground, and rope lines For more information or addresses double-ventilated pipeline (with bat­ cleverly concealed her harness and on the roof, allegedly preparing to cut to. write the corporations or govern­ tery operated intake and exhaust fans butt-bag as a pregnancy, while the windows out in an attempt to bring the ments involved, please contact either: on either end). They locked down other stashed his backpack-full-of-ban­ climbers in. Unfortunately, dead radio Amazo.n Watch at 20110 Rockport with steel lock boxes and U-locK.s ner inside of three bottomless card­ batteries prevented us from informing Way, Malibu CA 90265; (310) 456- around their necks and waited. board file boxes stacked on top of each the · climbers of the police and 1340; http://www.amazonwatch.org Stunned security guards looked on other. When the pipeline was deliv­ firefighters' threats to cut down the or Action Resource Center at POB 2104 with gaping mouths and furrowed ered across the street, the two activists trees below to better maneuver the air Venice, CA 90294; (310) 396-3254.

June-July 1998 Earth First! Page 15 continued from front page strike certain keys on their keyboards. If many people together send a reload Immediately following the january 1, request to a website, it can effectively blockade access to the site. The site becomes 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, overloaded with requests. Mexico, EZLN communiques began to Building on this relatively unsophisticated method of repeated simultaneous appear on e-mail listservs all over the downloading, software has emerged that automates this action. These small world. This rapid widespread dispersal of programs are called ping engines. They are basically small looped programs that communiques and other information, impart the same instructions repeatedly. Pinging some sites may have relatively and the subsequent establishment of in­ little impact, especially sites that don't get much traffic. But pinging, and hence tercontinental networks of solidarity and blocking, highly trafficked sites that contain "useful" information may cause a resistance, are among the reasons the greater disturbance. Zapatistas survive. . Another tool is the offshore spam engine, a (<;>rm-driven website based in In the 1980s we saw the emergence of another country that enables a user to automatically distribute massive quan­ the computer hackers-people skilled in tities of e-mail to particular addresses. One problem associated with the offshore programming with the technical knowl­ spam engine is that once a targeted address becomes aware of an e-mail edge to break into computer systems in onslaught, a cyber security team can put up barriers. order to disrupt, remove, add or destroy Besides devices that act upon the entranceways, programmers are now devel­ information. Early hackers were seduced oping intelligent agents that can crawl through a website. One such agent is by the pure joy of figuring out ways to called a spider. hack into the computers of the Depart­ Good spiders are ment of Defense, banks or other large­ designed to crawl scale computer-dependent institutions quickly through that maintain massive databases. Some websites in search young hackers later turned corporate, of pertinent infor­ applying their sharply honed skills as mation. But bad security specialists. But the first genera­ spiders are being tion of hackers is still around and active. designed to crawl Moreover, a second generation of hack­ very slowly with ers emerged in the 1990s. While all hack­ the iritent of caus­ ers are clearly not adverse to transgress­ ing disruption. ing the boundary between the legal and Issues of per­ the illegal, not all are political. The po­ sonal security arise liticized hacker, however, is a growing when considering subset of the larger hacker world. tactics that go be­ We are witness to a convergence of the yond sending computerized activist and the politicized hacker. This coming together of messages with po­ forces will open up unforeseen doors andpossibilities. As a way to envision litical content f:W ?HIT~ f'AS.SIVE HIPPIES ARE l"'ioRE FUN To~ .. . what this hybridized activist-hacker might engage in, it is instructive to to an adversary, i.e. when the message form becomes a disruptive instrument. borrow the metaphor of civil disobedience with its tactics of trespass and It is not illegal to send letters expressing dissent to government or corporate blockade. When we apply this metaphor to cyberspace we imagine electronic e-mail addresses:· But questions of legality -emerge with the application of civil disobedience. mpre sophisticated techniques that,automate dispersion of multiple elec­ The National Commission for Democracy in Mexico called for protests at tronic signals that cause an eh:ictronic disturbance. The higher a hacker is on Mexican consulates on April10 to coincide with major mobilizatfons in Mexico the tactll:al scale/ the more crucialit is to mask identities and not leaveyaces City. Soon thereafter, the New York Zapatistas called a protest at the Mexican of actions. Having several different free e-mail accounts under assumed names consulate in Manhattan and endorsed a call for electronic civil disobedience. is one way to accomplish this goal. A numberofwebsites now offer free e-mail T~1.at news moved swiftly across the Net. accounts where anonymity is possible. just as people may physically trespass upon real property, people may trespass Given that this politicized hacker/computerized activist hybridization is upon virtual property. just as people may blockade entranceways to buildings, still in its incubation period, we can onlyexpect that sophisticated tactics like offices or factories, people may blockade entranceways to portals in cyberspace, ping engines, spiders and offshore spam engines are early prototypes of more to the doors and bridges that allow entrance and egress into corporate or to come. While these types of computerized tactics come out of people's governmental computer systems. This level of cyber-activism is still in its experience within the context of the global pro-Zapatista movement, other incubation period. While radical social movements have used e-mail for the last radical social _movements are also showing sighs of interest in the~e ' new ten years and website-based communication for almost five, the strategies and cybernetic direct action tactics. Urbanized environmental movements, like tactics of disrupting the electronic fabric are still being developed. the efforts of the Lower East Side Collective in Manhattan to save community Electronic civil disobedience already occurred earlier this year. Following gardens from city encroachment, have started to go on-line using their the Acteal massacre of 45 indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico in late computers and modems to send fax jams to New York City government offices December 1997, there was a global upsurge of condemnation. Information [see article page 22] . about the massacre and announcements of protests at Mexican consulates There must now be thousands of activists throughout the world who are and embassies were transmitted over the Net. The largest response was in the independently coming to similar conclusions about how we can use computers form of physical street protest, drawing crowds of 5,000 to 10,000 in places to take political action that goes beyond political communication. While valid like Spain and Italy. But there were also calls for actions in cyberspace. On the arguments can be raised against the computer, and against the technological lo~et cybef<'activf!M:l, -people sent large amounts of e-mail to selected society that the computer engenders, it is foolish to turn one's back on that targets. In some of these instances, the intent may only have been to deliver machine, especially when the machine offers possibilities for resistance to the a powerful message. But if pushed to its limits, massive amounts of e-mail can very society that created it. Those already convinced of the efficacy of comput­ cause system overload. ers for political action should continue. Those with critical stances toward Injimuary, the Anonymous Digital Coalition issued a plan for virtual sit-ins on computers should take a second look and consider how computers might be five websites .of Mexico City financial corporations. They issued information used as instruments for committing widespread massive electronic civil disobe­ about the time zones so people could act together at 10 a.m. Mexico City time. dience against the corporate, governmental and financial institutions currently They instructed people to use their Internet browsers to repeatedly reload the responsible for destruction of life on this planet. websites of these financial institutions, requiring many people to repeatedly Stefan Wray is a doctoral student at New York University, sjw21 [email protected]. Thing1 You Can Do For The Earth ..... FROM PRISON cities in California now have their trash sorted by what it was in 1990. The inmates earn between 50 BY CRAIG EVARTS inmates. The inmates and their guards cruise out and 95 cents an hour, which is not bad for corpo­ The Earth First! Journal has many readers who live to the Correctional Resource Recovery Facil'ity. rate prison slave wages when you figure food, in correctional facilities. Many of those readers send The inmates sort 100 tons of trash a day, retriev­ rent, electricity, clothes and commute costs are poems, pictures and letters. Many ask what they can ing glass, steel, aluminum, two grades of news­ paid for. do while in prison to help the environment. One print, office paper, mixed paper, plastics and Fidel Castro and friends organized a revolution from inmate suggested this: other scrap metal. Even organic material is sent to prison, and this idea can be just the beginning of your The' California State Prison System has a pro­ be composted. Under the program the city of political career in the clink. Petition the warden today gram: that eco-inmates could latch on to. Five Folsom has reduced its waste to 54 percent of to start a sorting program at your facility. Page 16 Earth First! Litha 1998 Predators Returning to the Wild South~est

Rising from the Sonoran Desert, through America's largest contiguous ponderosa in 1998. The ·Blue was chosen because it has over 500,000 acres of roadless pine forest to snowbound spruce peaks, the Gila Headwaters/Sky Island Bioregion country in which to roam. An additionall.2 million roadless acres lay nearby in the is a wilderness jewel. Twenty million acres ofrugged canyons, sparkling peaks, and Gila and Aldo Leopold Wilderness Areas. In all, the seven largest roadless areas in desert rivers. The Gila Headwaters is ranked with the North Cascades, Central the Gila Headwaters create a wildlife haven of over 2.1 million acres. Idaho, and the Everglades as one of America's six premier wildlands by Foreman Though one male wolf has already been shot, the rewilding of the Gila has and Wolke in The Big Outside. They rightfully caD it "the best opportunity for an begun and will continue with an inevitable force. Jaguars are coming back on their ecologically complete Wilderness in the Southwest." own~ Once thought extinct in the U.S., they have been seen along the Mexican Which means predators-big ones-because no ecosystem is complete without border in recent years, testing the waters to see if the time is right for its return. It them. The ranching industry and its subsidized government guns eradicated major is. For the first time since cattle arrived in the Southwest some 400 years ago, the predators from much of the American West by the first half of this century. They grip of the livestock industry over our public lands, tax dollars, and wildlife is also slaughtered prairie dogs, elk, beaver, coyotes, and every other real or imagined loosening. Lawsuits, petitionS, appeals, agency whistleblowers, and public outcry threat to their cattle, including Apache people. have forced cattle off over 250 miles of streams in the Gila Headwaters/Sky Island The Mexican gray wolf, the grizzly bear, and the jaguar once haunted these Ecosystem this year. Logging has decreased by 85% in the last decade thanks to the mountain wilds with -....,;·------Mexican spotted owl, northern goshawk, and a plethora of lawsuits and public majesty and grace. The loss "Since the beginning. time had outrage. of these species changed gnawed at the basaltic hulk of The Gila is the Southwest's great wilderness ecosystenHhe last, best place for theecosystemdramatically. Escudilla, wasting, waitinfl. and endangered predators. As antiquated extractive·industries phase out, we have a It also fundamentally building. Time built three tf11ngs on chance, perhaps our last, to learn to live once again with the land, its rivers, and its changed the human the old mountain, a venerable great bears, wolves, jaguars, and goshawks. relationship to the land, aspect, a community of minor. because a land without animals and plants, and a grizzly." wolves is a different land. --Aido Leopold The Land With Bears "Life in Arizona," wrote Leopold in the 1930's "is bounded underfoot by gramma grass, overhead by sky, and on the horizon by Escudilla.'' Escudilla bounded and defined the land (and human place within it) because Escudilla was the home of Old Bigfoot: "When the warm winds had softened the shadows on the snow, the old grizzly crawled out of his hibernation den in the rock slides and, descending the mountain, bashed in the head of a cow. Eating his fill, he climbed back to his crags, and there summered peaceably on marniots, conies, berries, and roots ... No one ever saw the old bear, but in the muddy springs about the base of the cliffs you saw his incredible tracks. Seeing them made the most hard­ bitten cowboys aware of bear. Wherever they rode they saw the mountain, and when they saw the mountain, they thought of bear." But to leave even one place for the grizzly is unthinkable to the mind of commerce. Government trappers were called in at taxpayers expense to kill the grizzly, so that the livestock industry could make even more money off public lands-on the grizzly's land, its mountain. "The government trapper who took the grizzly knew he had made Escudilla safe for cows. He did not know he had toppled the spire off an edifice a-building since the morning stars sang together ... he did not know that the spires might be as important as cows ... Escudilla still hangs on the horizon, but when you see it, you no longer think of bear. It's only a mountain now." Wolves and Cats Coming Back Leopold envisioned a day when people would remember the value of grizzlies, wolves, jaguars, and river otters. When a sense of beauty, rightness, and sharing would prevail. That time has come. This spring, the first wildborne wolf pups in many decades stirred in the Blue Primitive Area. They were borne to a group of II wolves in three packs, reintroduced to the Gila Headwaters/Sky Island Ecosystem "From its slightly ramshackle pink adobe headquarters in a working-dass neighborhood of Tucson, the Southwest center for Biological Diversity ha:S launched a fusillade of dozens of legal actions against federal agencies seeking greater protections for everything from farge mammals like the jaguar to obscure insects like Thome's hairstreak butterfly. n -Washington Post, 1998 The Mexican Gray Wolf· Wolves were extirpated from various ranges in the U.S. and are now:endangered not because of habitat loss-but because of a f,;;deral, state, and private campaign to exterminate them. The reason: ranchers wanted them gone. S tar:ting in 1914, Congress appropriated $115,000 to hire hundreds of federal hunters whose primary job was killing every wolf, mountain lion, coyote, and major predator in the nation. The Mexican gray woit: a subspecies of canis lupus unique to the American Southwest and Mexico, was completely exterminated from the United States by the mid 1920's. For decades after this, however, the government kept­ a full-time trapper on duty along the Peloncillo and Animas Mountains of southwestern New Mexico to kill wolves migrating north from Mexico. But in the 1950's, with export ofthe deadly new poison, Compound 1080, the population in Mexico began to crash as well, and today it is questionable whether any wild wolves remain south of the border. This past spring 11 Mexican wolves-progeny ofa tiny handful ofsurvivors captured alive in Mexico­ were reintroduced into the Blue Range of southeastern Arizona. The Blue Range was the site of Aldo Leopold's killing of a wolf in 1909-an act he later lamented in his famous "fierce green fire" passage ofA Sand County Almanac. The wolves were released under the "experimental, nonessential" provisions of the Endangered Species Act, which precludes designation ofcritical habitat and allows killing of\Vol:\{el)thatkJf.lliy~tock under some·­ Native Trout circumstances. But this sop to ranchers has not prevented one wolf.fram tittng slfbt a:tr~;'->: - Native trout are synonymous with .wilderness. There is no The murdered wolfs pregnant mate was recaptured by Fish and Wildlife for fdri'fshe could not feed her better indicator of clean water, cool forests, and healthy pups alone. Another wolf who strayed west outside the bounds of the official recovery ~rea, ~as also Te­ watersheds. The Gila Headwaters/Sky Island Bioregion is imprisoned. There are hopes, however, that two other Mexican wolves may have given birth in the wild:_a · - the Southwest's great trout 'Yilderness. It is the only frrst in the United States in over haifa century. _ -.. ·- ____ , .. " "--"'"' ecosystem which supports three of the Southwest's four The recovery area for Mexican wolves includes the entirety of Gila National Forest, . well as the the a~ native trout. The Rio Grande cutthroat trout lives on the Blue Range. But it excludes adjacent public lands. While the Gila is clearly the best remaining habitat for the ·. eastern slope in streams draining into the Rio Grande River. species in the Southwest, ultimately wolf corridors should be reestablished in thePeloricillo Range-and the The Gila trout is nestled in the heart of the Bioregion in the species that strove for decades to reoccupy its northern-most habitat shoulq b~ _ allowed to migrate south and - wilderness headwaters of the Gila River. The Apache trout reclaim the entire border less ecosystem it once knew as home. . . ' . - - ,?:~- .. -.•. : reigns in the northwest corner, in the headwaters of the Salt River which eventually joins the Gila in the desert far below. "The Southwest center is-unapologetic about its "no The Gila and Apache trout are already listed as compromise" stance. When species have reached cris-is endangered species because of overgrazing, road incursions, numbers and habimt is so diminished, there is no room for and stocking of non-native trout. In February 1998, the Southwest Center, Sky Island Watch, and Southwest Trout compromise ... " teamed up to put the Rio Grande cutthroat on the Endangered -Kem Valley Sun, 1997 Species list as well. Overgrazing, logging, road construction, and fish stocking have driven it from 95% of its former range. ___ __ 1J~!~ is no excuse for allowing subsidized public lands cattle in the Gila Headwaters to trample its streams beds, pollute its waters, and chomp its riparian forests to dust. The Southwest Center filed a petition to designate 16 entire watersheds, from top to bottom, as critical habitat for the Gila Trout and will soon challenge the Fish & Wildlife The·Jaguar Service's anemic trout recovery plan. Full of power and grace, the jaguar is a symbol of mystery and wilderness throughout the Americas. El tigre is known far and wide as a magical cat--elusive, crafty, and fierce. While they prefer to live near warm, wet, riverine areas, jaguars thrive in a multitude of habitats from the jungle to desert to pine forests. So powerful was the jaguar that ancient civilizations worshiped it as a god. Now it is on the brink of extinction. Centuries of reverence quickly turned to hatred. Hunting, logging, overgrazing, rampant development, and government predator "control" programs have all but eliminated the western hemisphere's largest cat from the American Southwest. The jaguar once roamed free throughout Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas-with sightings recorded as far n()rth as the Grand Canyon. Now, this magnificent cat has only been seen a handful of times since 1994 in the remote mountains of Southern Arizona and New Mexico. - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) claims it "accidentally" failed to Jist the jaguar as endangered in the U.S. through an "oversight" in 1973. The oversight was never rectified and hope for the imperiled cat quietly faded away. In 1997, the FWS fmally relented and ordered the jaguar to be listed as endangered in Arizona and New Mexico, and threatened in Texas. The listing was the result of a series of Southwest Center lawsuits, beginning in 1993. Historically, cattle ranchers and others have hunted the jaguar into near-oblivion. Fortunately, a few jaguars survive along the border of Mexico. We are now working to reintroduce the jag;uar to its historical range throughout the Gila River Basin. The Mexican Spotted Owl The remote forested canyons ofthe Gila Headwaters/Sky Island Bioregion contain the world's largest Mexican spotted owl population The Pinalei'ios, White MoWltains, Mogollon Highlands, and the Black Range still harbor great stands of old growth harboring the secretive owl and its prey. In the mid-1980's; having decimated most ofthe Southwest's flatland old growth, the Forest Service set its sights on liquidating the deep canyon firs-putting it on a collision course with.the Mexican spotted owl. In 1989, Robin Silver the Southwest Center's Conservation Grizzlies on.my mind Chair, petitioned to list the owl as an endangered species. In 1995 the Southwest Center led a by Mike Smith coalition which won a lawsuit designating 4.8 million acres of critical habitat, including huge

have we lost our spirit swaths of the Gila Headwaters. Later that year, just as the Salvage Rider hit, the Southwest what do we think we know Center led. another coalition in a suit which shut down logging on 11 national forests for 16 the natural world is leaving do wejustwatch it go months Wltil the Forest Service agreed to implement the Fish & Wildlife Service's spotted owl reCovery plan. is one f orm pflife more important than the others The owl is not secure yet, however. The Forest Service consistently violates the recovery ··-""·· .·,., ,,,.., are \tie thinking plan and even managed to change it to allow salvage logging in "protected" areas. The loggers, as we decimate our brothers meanwhile, convinced a court to strike down the critical habitat because of a legal technicality. it is not nostalgia So it's back to the courts and back to the woods Wltil all the forests ofthe Gila and Southwest to want things the way they used to be are permanently protected. it :S looking in the mirror the eyes there should be free

jaguars, wolves, and grizzlies ·"When it comes to wilderness preservation, a small, grassroots group important to us all be carefol about how you 're out of Tucson, Arizona, is.proof that the big guys don't always win. f eeling '" fact, when you look ·at the southwest center for Biological your soul is the first to fall ·Diversity's track recora;you realize that if this group comes after you, there's a fairly goOd chance you'll be on the losing end." -Backpacker Magazine, 1998 The Northern Goshawk The go shaw~ is legendary for its ferocity and beauty. In . world to support both the Apache goshawk !rnd the ancient Persia it was called Baz-Nama, the King Hawk. Northern goshawk. Both subspecies, however; are Linnaeus named the species Accipiter gentilis in the 16th severely threatened by logging, overgrazing, and century, for its nobility (gentilis) and awesome ability industrial scale recreation. The wolf, grizzly, and to seize ( accipere) squirrels, rabbits, birds; .and other jaguar have already been driven out of the prey on the fly. Southwest, the goshawk may be the next to go if Goshawks have lived in and coevolved with old the Gila's magnificent ponderosa pine mesas and fir growth forests in the. West for thousands of years. clad canyons are not completely protected soon­ Powerful, short rounded wings, and protective eye tufts and forever! enable them to blast explosively through the forest In 1991, the Southwest Center petitioned the understory in pursuit of prey. Their incredible U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to list all goshawks in maneuverability comes from their long, rudder-like tail, which can quickly the western U.S. as endangered. Because ofthe tremendous blow this would spin them around trees· or dive them under shrubs and brush. . No other deliver to the timber industry, the agen~y twice turned our petition down. forest raptor combines the goshawk's speed, maneuverability, ferocity. They Both times, however, we took them to court and won prompting a federal will even attac:k·bears and wolves that come too close to their nests. judge to note that the agency seems to have a policy against listing species 'The Gila Headwaters/Sky Island Bioregion is the only ecosystem in the as endangered if they live in trees valued by the timber industry.

~ . The~GriZzly Bear Just 150 years ago, between 50,000 arid I 00,000 grizzlies roamed western North America, ranging from the Great Plains to the California beaches. Grizzly bears were once common in the Southwest, where 1,000 to 2,000 grizzlies likely inhabited grasslands, riversides, and mountains. Today, barely 800 grizzlies live in the contiguous states. None remain in the Southwest. Grizzly bears currently occupy less than two percent of their original range and numbers. The introduction of millions of cattle and sheep in the late 19th century-without regard for the land's capacity to produce forag~led to the disappearance·ofthis widespread, intelligent bear. Livestock eliminated much of the vegetation that comprises around 90 percent of the grizzly's diet. As a result, some bears turned to livestock. And starting in 1914, Congress began appropriating money to a special government agency designed to exterminate stock-eating animals. Grizzly bears were almost wiped out through predator control, habitat destruction, commercial trapping, and hunting. In the 1930's, the last known grizzly bear inN ew Mexico was killed in the Gila Wilderness after being discovered near a dead cow. Grizzlies were frrst listed as threatened with extinction in the lower 48 states in 197 5. great bear back to the wilds of the Southwest. The Southwest Center has renewed the call for grizzly bear reintroduction into While trying to recreate and rebuild th,e pieces of a shattered ecosystem, .the the Gila Headwaters. We are in the process of working with other groups and Southwest Center has been heartened to }earn that t~ere at:e millions of people who see scientists to,.qpdate a 1974 grizzly reintroduction study~ and to begin educating the tl;le,~uty and majesty ofwildernesS:: ~t,~s a)ld know that cr~tures like the gt:~ly ,.public onJ®.very realistic, achievable, and soeially.desirable goals of bringing the . b~, have a.rightful place here. .. · Protecting the Gila Headwaters/ Sky Island Bioregion

Cattle grazing is undoubtedly the most ubiquitous form of ecosystem degradation in ultimate goal of removing all cows from Southwest rivers. To that e,nd, we are now the West. A recent study by the Forest Service determined that cattle grazing is the developing a federal buyout plan to get all cows off all stream sides In the 60 million most prevalent threat to endangered species in the Southwest. In this arid region, acre Gila River Basin. cattle grazing was just never meant to be. Yet federal and state land agencies continue to allow cattle to dominate the public landscape. You can Help oust cows Too ______For over a century, the cattle industry has eaten, trampled, and fouled Southwest rivers and riparian forests. The Rio Grande cutthroat trout, Southwestern willow Please write to Ellie Towns, U.S. Forest Service Regional Supervisor, and demand flycatcher, loach minnow, Chiricahua leopard frog, cactus ferruginous pygmy owl, that the EIS propose removal of cows from the Gila Basin and all habitats for Threatened Endangered species. ·· " · ,., · and Gila trout are just a few of the dozens of Southwest species being driven to & extinction by overgrazing on public lands. Write to: Ellie Towns U.S. Forest Service 517 Gold Ave S W Welfare Ranchers Abuse the Land Albuquerque NM 87102 Cattle ranching on federal public lands is subsidized to the tune of $300 million Phone 505.842.3292 Fax 505.842.3457 annually, when taking into account the plethora of federal activities that directly and Visit our web page to access the extensive resources compiled on livestock indirectly support livestock grazing. Our tax dollars are footing the bill for these land grazing. These documents will give you the information necessary to become an barons to overgraze 270 million acres-90% of the federal public lands in the II active participant in the management ofour public lands. Our web page will also give western states-destroying rivers, grasslands, forests, and endangering native you up to date action alerts on grazing reform and other public lands management, wildlife. This destructive government handout has to stop. http://www.sw-center.org We're Ousting the Cows Logging Massacre Proposed • In 1997, the Southwest Center forced the Bureau ofLand Management (BLM) to remove cattle from all or part by Gil~ National Forest of 32 allotments along the middle Gila Though lawsuits and petitions Arizona and New Mexico. With your help, we intend to stop the River, including the Gila Box National have. dramatically decreased Negrito Eco-cide Project as well. The Forest Service has catered to Riparian Conservation Area. logging' in'the Gila Headwaters the timber industry long enough. , • In April 1998, the Southwest in recent years, the Gila The Forest Serviee commonly proposes absurdly huge timber Center and Forest Guardians forced the National Forest is trying to jump projects, then scales them back in negotiations, claiming they have Forest Service to remove cattle from start its timber program with the reached a ''reasonable compromise" even though that "compromise" largest logging project in would never have been accepted if proposed on its own. The 250 miles ofstreams on 52 allotments in Southwest history. The largest Southwest Center will not attempt to negotiate this atrocity down to the upper Gila Basin. An additional threat to the wildness ofthe Gila a more ''reasonable" level of logging. settlement is pending to oust 'em off29 high country is the recently The Southwest Center has vowed to continuously inform the more allotments. proposed Negrito Ecosystem public, litigate, and if necessary occupy the site and wage a • Our litigation has forced the Project. The Gila National campaign comparable to the 1996 Eagle Peak Roadless Area battle. Forest Service into doing an Forest plans to log over 90 The Gila National Forest became a national disgrace in its failed Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) million board feet-over 20,000 logging trucks-of timber on 65,000 effort to log Eagle Peak, which is sacred to the Zuni. The campaign on the impacts of grazing on 13 acres over the next eight years. This is by far the largest timber exposed Forest Service employee arson, illegal alterations to the endangered species. However, they are project ever proposed on a Southwest National Forest, where timber Mexican Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, and resulted in an USDA still ignoring many other species sales typically range from 1-3 million board feet. Inspector General's investigation of the Gila National Forest. Incredibly, the forest has responded to an outpouring of public including the Sonora chub, yellow­ shock and outrage by denying the existence of its proposal! In a well billed cuckoo, Rio Grande cutthroat How can You Help?____ _ planned misinformation campaign, the Gila National Forest is trout, and Lesser long-nosed bat. Some sending out letters and email in response to public outrage, saying Write, call, and fax the Gila National Forest today! Tell them the ofthe protection for fish is good, but the that no 90 million board foot sale is planned, and that only one small project should be permanently abandoned, anything short of that is plan is very weak on birds. All cows timber sale is under consideration. The Forest's own Negrito unacceptable. Stay up to date on this project by checking our web need to be removed from Southwestern Ecosystem Analysis Report 1997, however, clearly describes, maps, page regularly for current infonnati'dn on the progress to stop this willow flycatcher critical habitat. andproposes 15 timber sales totaling 90 million board feet. outrage, http://www.sw-center.org These unprecedented wins will help Using sound science and the courts, the Southwest Center has Write to: Abel Camarena Gila National Forest Supervisor us to ensure the survival of native fish, halted or revamped over I 00 timber sales. In 1995, we prevented the 3005 E Camino del Bosque birds, amphibians, and mammals. We Gila National Forest from roading and logging eight million board Silver City NM 88061 are working on more lawsuits, with the feet in the Eagle Peak roadless area. For 16 months in 1995 and 1997, we stopped every timber sale on all 11 National Forests in Phone 505.388.8201 Fax 505.388.8204

"The southwest Center is one of the very few things 0$25 Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy Owl 0 $500 Jaguar that give me hope for the future of our priceless and 0$50 Leopard Frog 0 $1,000 Golden Eagle irreplaceable wildlands and remaining intact 0$100 Northern Goshawk OOther $ ___ ecosystems." -sw center Member Name ______Phone ______Fax ______Address------City, State, Zip ______Email ------~----~------Include your E-mail address to receive our regular Biodiversity Alerts

Contributions and gifts to the Southwest Center are tax-deductible. Southwest Center for Biological DiversitY PO Box 710 1Ucson AZ 85702-0710 5l0.623.S2Sl RECLAIMING THE continued from front page Belfield, Germany: Police here scored in the lowest one percentile on the fun-o-meter. Organiz­ ers chose April 25 to reclaim the streets. The date STRE marked the fifth anniversary of the A33 motorway basecamp, where police failed to disband 300 ravers, lent streets of one of the The truck with the sound system met the party in their mobile stage and a sound system. especially uptight when the party a ·seaside parking lot, and people in the streets This time, the police cordoned off the area, forbid- · people neared the headquarters of the World Trade turned the traffic jam into a roaq rave. There were ding long-hairs, hippies and young folks from leav- Organization, where heads of states were gathered to boisterous demands for clean air, public transporta­ ing. Thirty people escaped the corral; many who celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Global Agree- tion and bicycle lanes. The party was part of the · remained were carted off to the big house. ment on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade campaign against the Trans-Israel Highway. Plaindothesed police twice lobbed tear gas at the Organization. Perhaps they can take fun clas.ses from Berkeley, California: A little beer and a lot of pot crowd while the fire department attempted to re- the anarchist party guests who unfurled their rage on may be responsible for the mellowness Berkeley move two tripods. Two people who locked onto banks, jewelry stores and McDonalds, smashing win- police force. They made like wallflowers as partygoers barrels were and beaten until they released. The dows, hurling paint bombs, torching a car and scrib- paraded and bicycled through the streets. Four hun­ hullubaloo of the street party provided ample oppor- bling anti-globalization graffiti. Thepartypoopingpigs dred people reclaimed Telegraph Ave. with a disc tunity for the partygoers to slash squad car tires. ruined the mood by bombarding the crowds with tear jockey, fire eaters, a bonfire, free food and a televi­ There were over 240 arrests. gas, and received a storm of stones and bottles in sion smash. Police intervened only to extinguish Lyon, France: Lyon police may have the poten- return. A police helicopter and a line of riot cops kept the fire and prevent area apartment dwellers from tial to be fun, but they get real serious real quick watch on the party. throwing water baloons at the crowd below. when shopping malls are involved. A tripod blocked Berlin, Germany: The Berlin police seemed Sydney, Australia: Consider inviting Sydney police the street under the gigantic Credit Lyonais Tower, hungover from the May Day riots that created a to your next party. Though they played hard-to-get blocking a major parking lot of the Part-Dieu shop- wave of anti-police~ violence sentiment. The Ger- with idle threats ofinterference, the cops allowed the ping mall. Unamused, the police charged the block- mans considered their cops well-behaved, saying 94-decibel party to proceed. The Solidarity Choir, ade, scattering the partygoers, who late,r fo~n,q a .. there,,were "only three arrests and a handful of drummers, disc jockeys, a Central Techno Sound fountain to splash around in. Two hundr.ed people · 'people' were hit by police." -' ··· ·Tower ari(f'Hip~Hop/Reggae/D\lb ·sound stage and with anti-corporate costumes arid signs; bicycles, The RTS party went off big with almost 1,000 folks electric · string quartet dazzled the attendees. Four drums, whiStles and a float joined a demonstration claiming an intersection in the center of Berlin. The thousand people attended. Sydney RTSers perhaps against theCextradition of Algerians. Even dogs demonstrators' spirits were high as they smoked, charmed the police with· their sheer decadence; they showed up for the party, which passed through a ··· drank and played volleyball and chess to the music spread carpets and arranged sofas in a lounge space chorus line of exotic dancers donning feathers and of Radikal Rave. replete with three chai stalls, a food fundraiser, a bikinis for World Cup soccer events. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Forty people reclaimed the skateboard rail, a five-terminal sidewalk Internet sta- Lancaster, England: British police always seem to streets by cruising around on bicycles, roller-skates, tion, two sandstone sculptors, poets, fire twirlers, have their knickers in a twist about something, and wheelchairs and on foot, averaging 5.3 krn/hour. streetgardeners,andrecyclingandgarbagebins.Speak­ Lancastercopsarenoexception.(Wouldn'tyou ifyou Tallinn, Estonia: Their in abstentia status won ers updated the audience on the New South Wales were a cop without a gun?) Dalton Square was heavily these cops fun points when 50 bicyclists and pedes- forest campaign, the Jabiluka uranium mine, the patrolled by police and other evidence gatherers in trians converged Multilateral Agreement on vans, on motorbikes and on horses. Costumes, volley- alongside a six-lane Investment and why RTS is ball, a sound system and drumming occupied a round- road at the former site so radical. The sights and on~R~'i~~ )Yq~rf;!g~J;ty~e,st,s ,ust;~ . J?aint Cl,p.d -~o~~!'r?lifi- , of a crosswalk. In a sounds were loaded onto a cally on anything that stood still. The square·was filled town where ' pedes~ laptop for frequent Internet with an anarchist bookstand, food, music and a dragon trian crossings are in- uploads. Over 1,700 hits on thattbe kids chased. A stranded car was slowly beaten creasinglyrare and of- the site occurred within 24 to death. The cops chaperoned the ball, standing three ten obstructed by bar- hours of the party. or four lines deep. They initially sported head gear, rica des, people held Brisbane, Australia: Lookin' for a good the police politely asked the time? Then don't call the Brisbane police. partiers to please go home. They'd probably just cuff ya and stuff ya Utrecht, The Nether- into a paddy wagon. It took them an hour lands: The Utrecht police are to tum off the music (must have been one The GB summit to be held the undisputed winners of . of them newfangled extension cords). in Binningham, England the Golden Donut, Fun Cop They then promptly towed the source was relocated due to the Award. The five-hour street away. Despite this, 200 party ,guests h · RTS bash. rave on May 16 was a wild danced, drummed and whistled for an- dance party of 800 people other few hours then went home, their blockading a six-lane highway. Throughout the day, spirits undaunted. Nine were arrested. cops mingled with the crowd and sat on the pavement Birmingham, England: Birmingham's waiting for the sound equipment to arrive. When it police may be fun someday. But for now finally did, the police helped start a generator. They they're not. They had to be run out of the eagerly followed the party wherever it took them. In party attended by 60,000 people. One early evening, the police announced that the city officer was custard-pied for attempting to street cleaners would help clean the party area. take the sound system. In Seattle, a Nike shoe gave cars the boot. Bogota, Colombia: The planned festivities were A samba··band, volleyball, banners, postponed due to more pressing human rights dem- clowns, a tripod and thousands of people set the actual accident, cars slowed down to view the car- onstrations in response to threats against union and atmosphere for the G8 superpower summit sched- nage.Peoplecarriedabannerreading,"Kellelekiirteed left-wing activists from fascist paramilitary death uled to take place in Birmingham, as did the techno piirded," or, "Some get highways, others get fences." squads. Keep your eyes open for future actions. sound system, fire eaters and banner-hanging lamp- Retaining the street party spirit, 900 cyclists did a Now you know which cops to invite to your next post scalers. Donated boxes of lettuce, tomatoes and three-day tour in central Estonia, obstructing traffic party. Streets were also reclaimed Tuscon, Arizona; cucumbers became ammunition to hurl at police. on some of the nation's busiest road. Dublin, Ireland; Derry, North Ireland; Ankara, Tur- The Stars and Stripes and Union jack were set ablaze Tel Aviv, Israel: Even Dick Clark might have given key; Darwin, Australia; Goth en berg, Sweden; atop a bus while other activists overturned a car. the Tel Aviv police a 32 for having a beat he could Nuremberg, Germany; Madrid, Spain; Vancouver, Finally the cops figured out how to attach wheels dance to. Festival-goers secured a permit in advance Canada; Seattle, Washington; and Stockholm, Swe- to a tripod, and rolled it away. for the two-street party, allowing them to publicize den. For all our readers in law enforcement, you may Geneva, Switzerland: An aperitif before the party their event on radio, television and in newspapers. notice that the more fun you are, the easier it all goes might have loosened up the Swiss police enough to When over 500 people showed up, the police just down. But when you score low on the fun-o-meter, enjoy themselves. Instead, those who patrol the opu- made sure attendees didn't get hit by cars. things get broken. June-July 1998 Earth First! Page 21 advertising) to do planning to go after multiple targets in DISRUPTING THE Po\NERS THAT BE ... otherwise. What­ a single institution, you will of course everyou choose to want to get all the numbers you need do, keep in mind before the fun begins.) that the number 3. A coordinator to call the jams bye­ you use can be mail and administer the e-mail list. traced quite easily Some jams are planned well in ad­ if you do some­ vance (to fall, say, on the anniversary thing stupid, like of some heinous deed); these are best fax a threat. announced through an alert mailed BY L. A. KAUFFMAN charge that, after a certain point, the one to two days beforehand. Others Through the tactic of the fax jam, a faxes had lost their communicative Conducting the Fax Jam are called as a nearly instantaneous small group of determined activists, value and were pure harassment. Campaign response to an event. armed only with computers and mo­ The key to First Amendment-pro- You'll need: Keep your C!:Ction alerts brief and dems, can disrupt business as usual for tected faxing is to emphasize the po- LA group of activists with e-mail. concise, and place the ~tucial infor- their opponents of choice. The fax litical content of your fax so ..------.. mation in the ffrst 12 lines. jam was pioneered by the AIDS activ­ ist group ACT UP in the late '80s and is an excellent way to involve people :~~~~;{u~ic~:: ~!,i:':/:.~ Wllat eF -~ ~i~:?,~l!~d~;, ~~~~:~ in direct action who have limited time •t for activism. These simple instructions will show ~=~~~~~£iii'~,:.~~;;l= lAIR M¥f :!?r~!~,s~~~~:~~~;;~; you how to conduct a fax jam with­ ••••OU . out running afoul of the law. I devel­ ~~::o~:·:~n!r~a~u~ef.~i.it~~~ ~ · TIE ~~--? g~~d~~ ::~ O:~~:.ming to oped these tips the hard way. One write'it one word to a page so WHEN: Friday, May 1, all evening in October 1997, two New that it's hundreds of pages day long. York Police Department detectives long. You send it in coordina- FAX: (212) 534~5021. arrested me at my apartment and tion with others. charged me with "aggravated harass­ Three Cautions: ment" under an anti-stalking statute. Creating the Faxes 1. If your fax jams are suc­ My alleged crime? Sending faxes to In your word processing pro­ cessfully disruptive, your op­ the New York City Partnership, New gram, write a long letter stat­ ponent will probably start York's Chamber of Commerce. ing your political opinion looking for ways to make you Indeed, I had personally sent several about the matter at hand. Use stop. Any individual who is . thousand faxes to the partnership, and 72 point type for added em­ Earthworm asked · to stop faxing by a a large and growing e-mail list of activ­ phasis and readability. You'll specific target should do so ists (known as the E-mail Army) had find that in a matter of min­ to avoid any possibility of a begun subjecting the partnership to utes you can create a 100-page SAVE THE GARDENS! 0 civil suit. day-long phone and fax jams on a document. With just a bit more 2: A full-scale fax jam is regular basis. We were protesting its investment of time, you can easily 2. Faxnumber(s) for your opponents. usually most effective fairly late in a role as the architect of a city plan to increase that to 500 or more pages. This step can sometimes entail a bit of pressure campaign, after less disrup­ bulldoze hundreds of community gar­ Save this document as a file; you research, for it requires first pinpointing tive tactics have failed. dens and replace themwith $120,000 could call it "faxjam." Then fax the specific individuals who have the power 3. The person responsible for deal­ condominiums. document to your target, using your to take the action you want: say, the city ing with the fax mess is usually some­ The District Attorney declined to fax/modem software. Get 10, 20 or commissioner who could pull a com­ one other than your actual target, prosecute the case so the whole area of 200 people to do this on the same day, munity g~rden off the auction block. most commonly a clerical worker. "fax crime" remains legally murky. and you'll create major disrupti"on with ·,_There's .. no need for any cloak-and­ Our group of community garden de­ During the process I learned a few minimal effort. · dagger tricks to get the fax number. Just fenders has made a habit of sending things that can help you avoid pros­ I always put my real name and fax call up and ask, "May I have the number lavish bouquets or flowering plants ecution. I had faxed the same message, number on the fax. It is technically a for sending faxes to so-and-so?" The to the receptionists affected by our "Don't bulldoze the gardens!," over violation of federal communications receptionist will almost always give the jams, along with an apology for the and over. That left me open to the law (aimed at stopping unsolicited fax number without further ado. (If you're increased work load.

know, yarn is one of the worst things to ever happen are a variation of the time-honored Classic. The BY TIMBER WOLF to chain saws. It completely gums up a saw, sometimes double tripod is essentially two tripods with a long Summer is fast approaching. You can feel it in the permanently. If the workers are warned, 16-penny pole suspended between them. The pole between air-leaves on the trees, the soil drying out, the roar nails work great too. One or two bumps into the nail them should be approximately five-feet longerthan of chain saws cracking through the stillness of the leaves a saw so dull it won't cut at all. The poor loggers the tripod poles. The tripods' apexes should be set dawn. All the beauty and pain that summer brings. spend more time sharpening their chains than clear­ the length of a tripod leg away from each other. The The call of the wild brings us to the places we cherish ing the road. Wire and acrylic yarn are great for pole should be pulled up, anchored and then lashed and to the points of destruction. We ask ourselves, making it impossible to pull a slash pile apart by hand. to the tripods. Attach a hammock filled with two "How to do it this year?" Another way to make slash piles ultra effective is to arrestees to the pole. Here are a few tips for those of you who have decided build them over lock down positions (like a sunken One last little secret to share with all you free that nonviolent civil disobedience and direct action dragon), "weaving" the slash into a dense structure, staters is the dragon's roost. This is a sure headache are effective means to achieve your goals. Many of the wiring, nailing and yarning it all together as you go. for Fred for years to come. The basic design is two 18- ideas that follow are ones that were tested at Cove/ An additional way to use slash is to buy extra time foot culverts, cabled together, standing on end. Mallard last summer. If you don't have a working to set up actions. In Idaho, activists discovered that They are erected with a climbing rope anchored at knowledge of basic blockading and safety techniques, scattering small obstructions in a Freddies' path, the top, buried in the road about three feet or so, please don't go out and try these contraptions. even one log just big enough so they can't drive over rebarred down and cemented in. Use the climbing Whenever putting an implement on a roadway to it every ten feet, really slows them down. This is rope to get up the culverts. Pull up tons_of dirt and stop machines, the first step is finding the narrowest more effective than building huge piles of debris in rocks, and fill the culverts to a few feet from the top. spot on the road, or the choke point, at least a mile a couple of spots because it makes them move their Fill the. top three or four feet of one with cement, from the area you are defending. Many people rig ten feet at a time. Just getting in and out of the fitting a lockbox in the top. Now, mount a platform like spots with very steep slopes on either vehicle takes way more time across the top of both culverts. Leave an arm hole in side to prevent new roads from being built than moving the slash. the platform to fit over the mouth of the lockbox. around the blockade. (This has happened This tactic has been used This setup allows for all the pleasures of home. The often, even when it violates the law or so successfully that one dragon's roost is basically a free state device, requir­ costs an exorbitant amount of money.) time it took a Freddie ing some time to complete. Ifyou ever try this, it is For this reason, some people think almost an hour and a extremely important that there is plenty of cement the ultimate chokepoint is a bridge. half to drive a half below and all the way around the lockbox. Once your point is established, mile, leaving plenty Just remember, the resistance is constantly evolv­ many things can miraculously ap­ of time to secure a ing and so must our techniques and tactics. Don't pear overnight. Slash is a great nasty little lock­ stifle yourself into ineffectiveness. Be creative. Be tool for slowing down the indus­ down in the road. innovative. Try something completely different to trial machine. As many of us Double tripods keep them guessing and keep it wild! Page 22 Earth First! Litha 1998 DEAR NED LUDD DEAR NED LUDD IS AN IRREGULAR FEATURE IN THE EARTH FIRST! JouRNAL FOR DISCUSSION OF CREATIVE MEANS OF EFFECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST THE FORCES OF INDUSTRIAL TOTALITARIANISM. NEITHER THE EARTH fiRST! MOVEMENT NOR THE EARTH FIRST! JOURNAL NECESSARILY ENCOURAGE ANYONE TO DO ANY OF THE lf.iJRJR!I!~~Hf~~~mrrn THINGS DISCUSSED IN DEAR NED LUDD. SEND US YOUR SUBMISSIONS. II Now You'RE CooKIN' WITH GAs! How TO GRAB RoNALD McDoNALD BY THE BALLS for another day with the chicken parts and fish pieces. BY }EBIDIAH The best part is it's just plain fun to grab a corporate This little gem of a trick is a quick way to really fuck up fast-food joint by the nuts and twist. I like to wait until a fa~t-food joint for awhile. The beauty is that it only takes the lunch rush is hopping and the drive through is full, a second, can be performed with no real preparation and is then coolly cruise up and shut off the gas while tying my totally safe. You can do it on your way to grandma's, the shoe or whatever. No one will notice, no one notices store, work or church. The only tool you need is a 12-inch anything. Then walk to a good hideout to watch as the crescent wrench. drivers screech away pissed off. You can laugh over a Walk up to the fast-food slop-shop with your crescent sprout sandwich or a jug of Jirri Beam. The fun will be wrench. Locate the gas meter behind the building (usually over in 40 minutes when the gas repair guy comes near the back door). It looks like R2D2's little brother. It rolling in and figures it out. But by then lunch is over, will be a medium gray color and will have either a few three or four hundred bucks in profit are gone, lots of gauges or a digital readout in a plastic case on top. There customers are pissed, and McSchmuck owes Jebediah will be one pipe coming in and one going out. Examine the the gas repairman $60. So all in all, it's got a pretty good pipes, and on the incoming one (usually the left one) there result-to-effort ratio. Plus, it's funny as all hell! · will be a little valve. It looks just like any other fitting Here's a quick rundown of the most vulnerable chain except there is a circle about the size of ci 50 cent piece in restaurants: it. Coming off this circle is a rectangular tab with a hole Boston Market, McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, Skip­ drilled in it. That's your baby. Just grab the tab with your pers, Jack Off in the Box, Kentucky Fried Chicken, super­ Stanley drop-forged crescent wrench, turn it 90 degrees markets with delis and any pizza joint. These places not and watch greasy tears roll down the faces of all those sad only rely on gas equipment, they intentionally hire em­ people in the drive-thru. Orders will quit going out within ployees who will never figure out how to fix it. five minutes. Since I know, I'll give you a quick rundown on what is going on inside. Jim Bob just dropped his last load of fish sticks into the fryer for today's lunch rush. The safety valves on all the fryers and grills just closed, and the grease is quickly coagulating. The man­ ager is having chest pains as her labor-to-profit ratio plummets before her eyes. One honor stu­ dent gives a shit. And the rest of the crew snicker and give each other looks while they get a well­ deserved break. Dozens of sorry souls are denied their chickenmikwhopperwithfrize. For you tree huggers, that means a ream or two of paper bags, ANI/IV\l.. napkins, boxes and shit doesn't l..I~ON walk out the door. For you ani­ 1='Rt»Sr FREE · mal lovers, that means that ~EToY~ Bambi's cow cousin stays on ice

Jun~·July 1998 Earth First! Page 23 Dahm.e:t; IIEIIlS Bun~ To understand the agreement, one BY jOHN BOWLING needs to realize the dramatic power After five years of railing on the shift that was occurring among key 1\ila.nson, world's largest corporate destroyer of players at the time the deal was finally forests, the Rainforest Action Network struck (after three years of heavy ne­ (RAN) struck a deal with Mitsubishi gotiations). The three kingpins of the Mitsubishi. Motor Sales America (MMSA) and agreement-Tachi Kiuchi, acting presi­ Mitsubishi Electric America (MEA) this dent of MEA, Dick Recchia, CEO of Jbu g;et: the picture. February, attempting to turn Mitsubishi MMSA and Randy Hayes, executive director of RAN-were all- retiring. ~~, iu'!!lflt'(f/l.kfl:~fl}-~~1#'~t{/Otft.~ : J~~JfU,~fi-J¥W9JtN>~-,jlifii(4Jirc f..UO~ green. The agreement, although a long • ...... ~,...... ~"'o!Q·"'-·'7!.Jr,," •,.,.,.. ,_,..;._Ji ~~ Network. way from perfect, was only made with They wanted to close the deal before these two companies, and the boycott they left. It was unclear if RAN could An old RAN adfrom the days of auto show shut downs and appliance store antics ... continues against the 160 other com­ wrest any other concessions from panies of the gigantic, interlocking MMSA and MEA than those Mitsubishi keiretsu (corporate family). already in the agreement News of the agreement sent shock by holding out longer. But waves of confusion, elation and frus­ were these promises worth tration through the environmental settling over? WITH lTSUBISHI movement. After the agreement was The entire agreement is signed, MEA ran an ad in the New York not legally binding; it is only a good mitigation cost through a voluntary Nikon cameras and Kirin Beer, but Times with a picture of the Earth which faith accord. What's more, the details fee imbedded in the price of its cars, Mitsubishi's connection to these prod­ boldly announced, "Before, Rainforest of how MMSA and MEA will imple­ which they will promote as benefiting ucts is obscure. Without prominent Action Network & Mitsubishi Electric ment the agreement are too general. forest communities. consumer products branded with America Were Barely On The Same For instance, the dollar amount to be The most difficult obstacle for the Mitsubishi's logo, the campaign lacks Planet. Now, They're On The Same awarded to the Forest Community Sup­ campaign to overcome will be how to a clear message. Page." Infineprintatthebottomofthe port Program has not been set. The articulate the boycott itself, especially Only time will tell if the agree­ after publicity like the New York Times ment, with all its ambiguities, will ad. At best, that ad certainly confused challenge other Mitsubishi compa­ the people who actually knew some­ nies and extractive industries to cease "We're no fools. We know that this agreement is not thing about the campaign. At worst, it tearing down forests and extermi­ worth its weight in the agricultural residue that it's led a lot of people to believe that the nating indigenous cultures. For now, printed on if MMSA and MEA do not come through boycott is over and the forests are it remains unclear whether or not saved. So, what is the campaign rally MMSA and MEA will even fulfill the on their obligations." cry now, "Boycott Mitsubishi! But not promises of the agreement. In the -RAN Mitsubishi Motor Sales America and words of RAN's campaigners, "We're Mitsubishi Electric America!"? no fools. We know that this agree­ The campaign is now targeting ment is not worth its weight in the ad, it generally described the agree­ money is supposed to come from a fee Mitsubishi Corporation, Bank of To­ agricultural residue that it's printed ment in a lot of environmental rheto­ tacked onto the price o{only one line kyo-Mitsubishi, Union Bank of Cali­ on if MMSA and MEA do not coine ric. The RAN and MEA logos were of MMSA's cars. This fee will approxi­ fornia, Mitsubishi International and through on their obligations." Send printed side by side. There was no mate the cost of mitigating the envi­ Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. This lim­ your questions and concerns to RAN mention that the boycott continued ronmental and social impacts of that its direct action to the big cities where at 221 Pine Street, San Francisco, CA on all the other Mitsubishi companies. car over its lifetime. But MMSA says these entities operate from. There are 94109; (415) 398-4404; fax398-2732. The bottom line is that Mitsubishi that it wants consumers to pay the still consumer products to target, like Corporation continues to oversee log­ ging, mining and cultural genocide. The Bank ofTokyo-Mitsubishi and its subsidiary Union Bank of California finance it, while Mitsubishi Heavy Industries supplies the weapons for the crimes. These three entities con­ trol most of the other companies in the keiretsu which manufactures and invests in everything from nuclear energy to beer. All of the comp•;mies conduct business in a way that would violate most US anti-trust laws. They share the logo, rotate executives, have interlockingboardsofdirectors,main­ tain exclusive contracts with each other and aggressively finance one anothers projects. In the agreement with RAN, the three major programs that MMSA and MEA promised to implement are as follows: • Wood Products Procq.rement: transitioning to using no old~growth forestpulp or products and eventu­ ally using non-wood-based paper • Forest Community Support Pro­ gram (FCSP): establishing a small grants-type fund to support the pro­ tection, conservation and restoration of forests and forest-dwelling com­ munities • Ecological Accounting: develop­ ing a system to identify ways to in­ crease product sustainability and re­ duce pollution, waste and energy use. In return for these promises, RAN agreed to exclude these two arms ofthe Mitsubishi keiretsu from the boycott.

Page 24 Earth First! Litha 1998 mLTSUBLSH.L AnD mEXLCO TO PLUnDER . - SAN IGNACIO lAGOON

BY jEFF PANTUKHOFF, THE WHALEMAN FouNDATION San Ignacio Lagoon is a breathtakingly beautiful place that has remained virtually untouched by modern society. The area hosts a variety of plantS and wildlife, many of which are threatened or endangered, including the California gray whale, dol­ phins, sea turtles, ospreys, peregrine falcons, Brandt geese, golden eagles, pronghorn antelope, coy­ otes, mountain lions and

in San Igncaio Lagoon heart of San Ignacio Lagoon. The whales. Toxic by-products, along with plan calls for 116 square miles of the waste water from cleaning the salt, evaporation ponds to be con­ would be dumped directly back into structed out of the surrounding the lagoon. Just the exhaust alone terrain. Salt from the lagoon will from the diesel pumps, heavy ma­ be sold around the world for use chinery, and huge trucks and ships ~ in making PVC plastics, chemi­ would have an impact on this fragile ~ cals, chlorine, gas and road salt. ecosystem. In short, this United Na­ ~ ESSA's initial proposal was turned tions World Heritage Site and Whale ~ down by Mexico's Ministry of the Sanctuary would be forever altered, ~ Environment in 1995 because the turning it into yet another ugly, pol­ R"' project met neither Mexico's own luting, industrial complex. environmental laws nor the stan­ We simply cannot allow this to hap­ dards established under the United pen. The guidelines outlined by the A newborn gray wltale in the San Igancio Lagoon -Nations treaty. United Nations treaty pertaining to North_America's southernmost man- In 1996, Mexico changed its envi­ commercial development within a grove forests. There are no paved roads, ronmentallaws making it easier for a United Nations World Heritage Site noelectricity,rioplumbing,noTV,no revised salt plant proposal to pass. In ­ and Biosphere Reserve are straightfor­ humandevelopmentsofanykindwith October 1997, Mitsubishi announced ward. First, the development must be the exception of a few small fishing it had redesigned the salt plant to a conservation activity; it must main­ and eco-tourism camps. For these rea- address environmental concerns and tain cultural values; it must come from sons, San Ignacio was designated an that a new Environmental Impact or aid the local community; and it United Nations World Heritage Site Statement (EIS) would be done by an must protect the core of the World and Whale Sanctuary under a treaty international scientific panel, requir­ Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve. ratified by 159 countries including ing an estimated 18 months to com­ The proposed salt plant fails to meet Mexicb and Japan. This imparts the plete. The otiginal465-page Environ­ these criteria, which leaves only one same international protection to San mental Impacts Assessment devoted course of action: Mexico and Japan Ignacio Lagoon as that upheld at the only 23 lines to the gray whale popu­ should withdraw their proposal while Grand Canyon, the Great Barrier Reef lation. ESSA is using its existing salt honoring the United Nations treaty and the Egyptian pyramids. plant in the El Viscaino Biosphere Re- they signed. It's that simple. Every winter thousands of gray serve as justification for building an­ Here's what you can do: whales swim over 5,000 miles from other plant within its boundaries. But Tell Mitsubishi you will boycott its the Bering Sea to the warm salty la- when the existing plant was built, products unless it withdraws the pro­ goon waters of San Ignacio. Within there was no biosphere re~~JX~ and no posal. Tell Mitsubishi and the Mexi­ weeks, these sheltered lagoons are United Nations treaty. That plant has can government that we as world citi­ teeming with playful one-ton new- drastically altered the lagoon, which zens will not permit the destruction of barns. Gray whale mothers have been can be easily surmised by visiting it. a World Heritage Site and Whale Sanc­ visiting these lagoons since time im- By ESSA's own admission, the pro­ tuary because of greed and shortsight­ memorial for two reasons: The warm posed salt plant would sacrifice over edness. Tell the Mexican government lagoon waters help the infant whales 100,000 acres of land for the network to preserve and protect San Ignacio retain precious heat, and the high of roads and buildings alone. Four­ Lagoon by honoring its commitment salinity buoys up the newborns, al- teen giant, loud diesel engines would to forever keep this lagoon off-limits lowing them to learn to swim more pump over 6,000 gallons of water out to commercial development and ex­ easily. San Ignacio is the only one of of the lagoon every second to flood ploitation, otherwise you will spend Baja's three lagoon nurseries that re- over 100 square miles of surrounding your travel dollars elsewhere. mains undisturbed. land. This would adversely alter the Send your letters or postcards to Mr. In 1988, the Mexican government lagoon's temperature and salinity Motohiko Numaguchi, president, designated the lagoon and surround- while flooding mangrove forests and Mitsubishi International Corporation, ing area part of Latin America's largest the desert ecosystem. A mile-long pier 520 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022- biosphere reserve, named El Viscaino. would be built in a prime abalone and 4223; (212) 605-2000 and Mr. Hermina In 1994, the gray whale was offi- lobster fishery to accommodate the Blanco, SECOFI, c/o Embassy ofMexico, cially removed from the endangered super-sized diesel tankers and cargo 1911 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washing­ species list. That same year, the Mexi- ships, greatly limiting the gray whales' ton, DC 20006; (213) 351-6820. can Ministry of Trade and Japan's movement in a prime mating area. At Contact the Whaleman Foundation Mitsubishi Corporation (through a least six of these huge ships would for more infbrmation at POB 1670, joint venture known as Exportar de Sal, come to the site each month, creating Lahaina, HI 96767; (808) 661-8859; S.A. or ESSA) proposed building the the risk of diesel fuel spills, bilge water [email protected], http://www. world's largest salt plant right in the contamination and collision with the whale_man.org. June-JuJy 1998 1Earth First! Page '25 tva's r1•

every possible charge BY JESSE J. AIMs until they can no Colorful lightning and far-off thun­ longer make bail." Ac­ der shatter the early morning dark­ cording to a 1977 Roll­ ness. The persistent rain blowing ing Stone article, through the screened porch soaks me, Zigrossi saw the FBI as a reminder of the belief that Anna Mae "a colonial police Aquash's voice is present in the rain­ force" and was quoted fall. I think to myself, "Expose that as saying of the indig­ evil tucker Zigrossi and never let him enous people, "They're rest in peace for what he's done and a conquered nation. what he's doing." My mind charges, And when you are con­ my body and soul ignite. I like to think quered, the people you the rain is whispering words of en­ are conquered by dic­ couragement and, at the same time, tate your future. This dousing the flames that threaten to is a basic philosophy burn out of control. March 20 was the of mine. If I'm part of a conquered tion such as sexual relationships and make nuclear bombs, at three of its international day of nonviolent civil nation, I've got to yield to authority." financial profiles. He also fabricated a reactors: Watts Bar and Sequoyah in disobedience in support of Leonard Zigrossi is now the chief administra­ hierarchical chart diagramming KEF! Tennessee and Bellefonte in Alabama. Peltier, which we observed in Knox­ tive officer and executive vice presi­ with generals (a title reserved exclu­ Given this ugly and sordid history, ville, Tennessee. (After 22 years be­ dent of business services for the Ten­ sively for males) and second-in-com­ Zigrossi and TV A were natural targets hind bars, Peltier was recently denied nessee Valley Authority (TVA), a fed­ mand types. To make matters worse, for the Leonard Peltier day of civil parole. His next parole hearing doesn't eral agency born in the 1930s to man­ Zigrossi recently hired a 20-year FBI disobedience. It's difficult to say ex­ come up until 2008.) age water resources in the Southeast veteran to head up TV A's heavily actly when the civil disobedience of Norman Zigrossi was second in com­ that now invests in development armed, thousand-strong rogue police our rally occurred. It was probably mand of the Federal Bureau of schemes and energy generation. Those force. According to TV A's website, he when Gil Francis, TV A's public rela­ Investigation's (FBI) Counter Intelli­ of you who were at the Round River thinks the move should make TV A's tions officer, tried to dictate where gence Program (COINTELPRO), co­ Rendezvous in 1994 may remember force "one of the most effective police and how the people demanding free­ created by Richard Held. Both are Norman Zigrossi as the head of police agencies in the country." dom for Leonard were going to as­ responsible for the violent deaths of and investigations when the Watts TV A is strengthening its police to semble .and protest. at least 60 American Indian Move­ Bar nuke plant was shut down in Rhea protect its multi-billion dollar invest­ During the day, we got our mes­ ment (AIM) supporters during a 36- County (appropriately, he had a ren­ ments in nuclear power and weapons. sage across that Zigrossi is in fact a month death-squad campaign dezvous shitter named after him). The Department of Energy (DOE) and racist and fascist. There is no doubt mounted by the agency in 1973 to Immediately after the '94 Watts Bar TV A are proposing to transport nuclear he is withholding personal testimony "neutralize" AIM activists. demo began, Norman ordered agents materials for use iri submarines, air­ that could free Leonard Peltier. Ac­ One FBI document pertaining to to a local rendezvous organizer's mo­ craft cauiers and in other countries cording to Peter Matthiessen's In the the standoff released under the Free­ tel room to ransack his belongings. for the generation ot energy. Accord­ Spirit of Crazy Horse, he is personally dom of Information Act recommends Zigrossi did an extensive "special in­ ing to a DOE Environmental Impact responsible for giving the order that that local police "put leaders under vestigation" into Katuah Earth First! Statement, TV A plans to produce tril­ put a bullet in the forehead of AIM close scrutiny and arrest them on (KEF!), digging up personal informa- lium, a radioactive isotope used to activist Joe Killsright. He also gave the order to cover up the real cause of the death of • . . A b. 1., 1.,.. '1 N'I.OfZ.£. 1.-1 c.:rv 'I, s ~ Anna Mae and to have A WJN1""~i2..1oRflt)R: ... her hands cut off at the wrists and sent to FBI headquarters (never to be returned to her family and friends for burial). In an interview with Myrtle Poor Bear in Robert Redford's documentary, Incident at Oglala, Myrtle recounts that Zigrossi threatened to take her child if she did not give the false testimony that won the extradition of Leonard Peltier from Canada,eventhoughshe lfact· never met Lediia'ra. He forced Myrtle to look at pictures of Anna Mae's cut-off hands and said, "If you think that's bad, we'll put you through a meat grinder." There was great power with us at the rally against racism here in Tennessee. These annual rallies will continue until Norman Zigrossi's crimes are fully exposed and justice is fi­ nally served. There will also be a demonstration in front of the White House on June 27 de­ manding amnesty for Leonard Peltier. To con­ tact KEF!, write the Ten­ nessee Valley Faction, POB 281, Chattanooga, TN, 37401; (423) 624-3939. Page 26 Earth First! Litha 1998 DIRTY DIAPERS SUBURBAN DEATH (Scottsdale, Arizona, 1989) You all recall when the great war ended And the baby boom came to town Suburban Death If there was any trouble, just leave it to Beaver Eat it shit it out do it again. Beaver wouldn't let you down Food is not survival for you. NORTHERN It is entertainment. There was one baby born that really goes "boom" You mindlessly graze SPOTTED OWL And it hasn't reached retirement yet while your masters get fat. The nuclear power industry Penned up in a feedlot AMANITA Strix occidentalis caurina The best and the brightest, you bet that you don't even see. MUSCARIA How could you? She sleeps all day, taunted by crows, mobbed But, now, unlike your average baby When endless oral fixations by the tiniest sparrows, and holds to that This kid has some nasty shit keep your head to the ground. branch, eight talons tucked beneath her. Can't just boil it or flush it down the toilet A new car, A new house, A new everything. She tempers her power, tamps threat It's gonna take a real special pit Just throw the old ones away. The creation dies while you graze. into sexual fire, screams in courtship, Mama! Change my dirty diapers! Intelligence-beauty beyond comprehension. mates on the knife-edge, doesn't build So you want safe energy? You'll throw this out too. but steals nests from treetops, from the gaping Tell that to the NXC. Because you are diseased with a cultural stump's heart. Her eggs are hard. Where they license reactors disease that is a constant jones. like third-hand tractors Gimme, gimme, gimme. Night unravels slights and ruses; And only the mistakes come free More, more, more. woodrats rustle the leaf-litter---crush

· ·. - - - ~ :1. - r ""\. n J.- Winter homes are built here. the skull undercut the belly We can't just leave this stuff where it is While people starve over there. swallow it whole! The reactors are choking on their own crap Like the bloated pigs we are And it's no fun we commandeer the lives of millions. She is mind incarnate: cerebrum, to put it somewhere already trashed To serve us our desserts; coffee, cerebellum, medulla oblongata, dark We need to find a blank spot on the map pineapples, oranges, bananas, tea. eyes that see too far. She's the fallen angel Suburban Death at the lip of the timberland; her breast Of course, we'll set aside a glacier here and there Eat it shit it out do it again. 'Cause you hippies all need a place to play is as dappled as bark. Hurled from the story, But don't fuck with the power moguls, chumps -PETER J. GALVIN she scans the cold mechanics of the mountain, Cause we're accustomed to getting our way the river's alluvium, the falls and its deception­ the once and broken covenant of fir. Mama! Change my dirty diapers! So this is the home of the brave? -BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Then can we take a little wilderness saved? FROM THE TRACKS WE LEAVE, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS God no; there's bugs and bears and cooties out there Much safer to have it all paved PAPAVER SECRETS FROM THE SOMNIFERUM The Dept. of Energy is pleased at this chance MOUNTAINS ABOVE NAGOYA To clear up some common misconceptions And we'll lay it on the line, Sitting in the mist 'cause everything is fine between two boulders Contrary to any misinformed deceptions I cannot see the way in this bamboo wood, These are not nuclear bombs we're blowing up COVE/MALlARD but the birds sing beneath the Earth and there is the chirp They are "nuclear events;" Yesterday these forests were crimson pink and bellow of frogs and that's a whole other story through the smoke of summer fires And this is not just a filthy nuke dump we're (as if the very air were bleeding here); In layers of fern and limb putting here today i stand soaking wet a sudden stillness, This is a high-level nuclear waste repository looking thru rain-smeared glasses the mist has cleared sweaty from dancing with thunder; a deer emerges, Mama! Change my dirty diapers! walks to the edge of water, So this is the home of the brave? Drumming tumbles with guitar, banjo & oboe drinks, and moves on More like the home of the depraved between Grand fir, bear grass completely content, We keep promising ourselves a better life & sweet purpling huckleberries. without regard And keep digging that nuclear grave The tapping of the rain for the white iris comforts me. Reminds me of earlier, blooming there So this is the land of the free? down the hill wherethey're cutting Tell that to the D.O.E. . I .too am content, When we're forced to pa.~or thei-uhitty ideas when i wrapped my arms halfway 'round singing softly to That's right, junior, you and me a doomed grandmother pine at dawn myself -and, crying, i prayed for her deliverance. to the birds So you want Mama to change your diapers and frogs Sorry kid, it just won't pass -SusAN McCAMPBELL RING that answer Your mother's taken too much shit already 14 VIII 94 /with silence You'll have to learn how to wipe your own ass I take off my clothes dance in the fern, -MATIHEW HAUN ' Send poems to: drink from the pool. VALERIANA PsiLOCYBE OFFICINALIS SEMILANCEATA Warrior Poets Society My footprint ASUCBox361 and the deer track Berkeley CA 94720-4510 are one.

all rights reserved to the authors -RAYN RoBERTS Aimed Wtlh Visions Clear aS cut glass ·· & just as .dangerous IY? VeD'JeA7eD S&;t!l/Je& YNN RETURNS TO THE

Simon-to the fact is that the bill completely and tain of complaints with you is left. 1 find the utterly ends the federal timber withdrawn. I also promise to race-baiting ex­ sales program in its entirety on all NEVER contact you again. Please tremists from federal public lands nationwide leave a telephone message for the left particu­ forever. It doesn't matter what me when you have decided if larly sickening the agency calls it-forest health, you will publish this or not. because they restoration, salvage, recreation, Thank you. pontificate whatever-no more timber sales. with great self This provides more protection for Dear SFB: assurance and national forests against logging It is time to get angry. It is hubris for the than either the national parks or time to disrupt the destructive environmen­ wilderness areas currently have oppressive power:s that be. We tal move­ (timber sales are not explicitly all have our favorite campaigns. ment from prohibited on national parks or Next year we need to converge the social wilderness areas). and disrupt. By flooding DC justice per­ The author also incorrectly states with Earth First!ers we can form spective. It (as does the editor's note below s·trong coalitions with animal was seven years the letter) that there is a stronger rights groups, union groups, ago that I started to better under­ bill in Congress-one that deals feminist groups, native groups, gotten any better. On stand what Thomas Malthus had not only With logging, but also civil rights groups, gay rights the contrary! But now it is not intimated 200 years ago. Before with mining and grazing. This is groups andotherswho fight for continued from page 3 PC to mention the driving force he went to jail, Mark Davis gave simply not true. The McKinney/ the oppressed. PET A, justice for Dear Subfollicular Fecal Material, for population growth in the US: me a copy of Overshoot by Will­ Leach bill is the boldest and most Janitors, Act Up, Plowshares, Contrary to a headline I saw immigration! iam R. Catton, which I found to far-reaching national public Peace Action, NOW and in Beltane, Cove/Mallard will Talk about the numbers of im­ be a real eye-opener. I consider it lands protection legislation NORML are only a few NOT rest this summer. I don't migrants, fertility rates, and what to be the most important book currently in existence, and of the active groups in know whose idea that headline it is doing to the environment, about carrying capacity and the is the strongest environ­ and n:ear DC. NOW or- was, but it was a bad one. Head­ and you find yourself called a comucopian myth. mental legislation ever ganized a march in 199 5 lines like that might make some­ racist, xenophobe and an immi­ The Social Contract is an infor­ introduced in the his­ that attracted 400,000 one decide to go to Headwaters grant basher. Just look at the mative quarterly journal about tory of Congress. people. That same year instead, and they would later recent EF! article on the Sierra issues concerning population. Sincerely, justice for Janitors regret having missed the Big Club initiative! The summer issue will celebrate -CHAD HANSON blockaded a Wild. So for anyone who only Like most people who come to the 200th anniversary of EXECUTIVE bridge in DC. saw the headline and missed the California from other states or Malthus's essay "On the Prin­ . DIRECTOR, }OHN And NORML actual article, I want to stress countries, I am an immigrant, ciple of Population." Their MUIR PROJECT has held its an­ that there are still very bad things who came here from over­ phone number for more infor­ nual Marijuana happening in the Greater crowded Europe 17 years ago. mation is: 616 347-1171. Dear Earth First! March and smoke-in on Salmon-Selway Ecosystem and Centuries of overpopulation had I think that Malthus's ideas are Journal, the fourth of July since the very good people getting to­ destroyed the last tracts of wil­ equally as important as the ac­ Please publish mid 70s. The march starts at gether to get in the way. derness. I W!J.S so overjoyed to tions of Ned Ludd at the ·begin­ and accept my Lafayette Peace Park di­ Mackey Day and Otter Wing find it here, but I'm also very ning of the Industri;d Revolution. letter of disas­ rectly across from the could easily be reached from base painfully aware of how fast this He could not have foreseen the sociation. My c'7_...... _ White House. camp in a day. Very nasty timber country is following the destruc­ techx10logic.al developments view is that So if you are angry, harvesting is going on there, and tive course of Europe. would delay the mass starva­ Earth First! came to an end at the determined and interested, this is they're within the same contigu­ My wife and I decided to lessen tion he predicted for an explod­ 1989 Round River Rendezvous the proposal. Hold the annual EF! ous tract of unprotected wilder­ our environmental impact and ing population exceeding its re­ in New Mexico. The following ronde in the beautiful Virginia ness as Cove/Mallard. Above the forgo having children. Our per­ source supply. nine years did not see an ex­ mountains. Descend on DC for a Mid-Fork Clearwater, helicopters sonal decision turned out to be To me his most enduring mes­ panded international radical day or two of disruption. Then are plucking giant bundles of logs meaningless: California has sage is that we are just as depen­ Earth First! movement, as was move on to New York City to off the mountain and into the grown by one third (about 12 dent on the carrying capacity of hoped for. The Earth First! Jour­ deliver the second punch. sky. Not just roadless, that area, million people) since my arrival the biosphere as any other species nal did not realize a significant Bring your energy to this year's but soon treeless too. And yes, in 1981. There are many admi­ withwhom weshareacom­ increase in its subscription base. annual in Oregon and cast your you heard right, Fish Bate in rable battles waged mon destiny. What actually happened, i~ that howl for Ronde 99 in DC. Northern Idaho, once canned, is against urban sprawl, But we have the after the '89 RRR, most of)who -GREG MACK resurrected for fire suppression loss of biodiversity, de­ ultimate free­ was EF! left to do impo'rtant POB 8968 instead of blister rust control. struction of wilderness dom-and re­ bioregional work with other Moscow, ID 83843 There will be actions, training, and ancient forests, but I sponsibility-of groups. Since we made the mis­ education, outreach, more ac­ increasingly have a sink­ choice: as indi­ take of not ending Earth First! Hi! tions, and plenty of good times ing feeling in my stom­ viduals, to limit our right then and there, including Any chemist in the EF! move­ happening all summer long in ach, and the slogan on the numbers; and as a the Earth First! Journal, a parade ment? I would like to know how the Wild Rockies. I hope every­ fridge, rings more true ev­ society, to decide of pseudo leftists, retrohippies, to chemically treat paper so it one read past the headline and ery day (clipped from an how many Greens, and those more com­ will spontaneously burst into got to the important parts of that oldEF! Journal): "No mat­ people can be mitted to Gandhian nonviolent flame several days later. The idea article, but you can't take that ter what your cause, if it sustainably precepts than radical environ­ is to write police departments, sort of thing for granted. is not overpopulation, supported by mentalism, have latched onto FBI offices, Forest Service of­ Love and kisses, it is a lost one." ·-. · agivenbiore­ the name, logos and newspaper: fices,etc. Some innocuous-seem­ -SHAMELESS It is projected that gion with­ Having been involved with EF! ing letter that they will place in California will have 50 out destroy­ since the beginning, I am not their files. Soon after, hopefully Dear SFB: million residents by ing its vi­ mistaking the current EF! milieu at night when nobody's around I am writing in answer to your 2020. The environ­ ability. for what EF! legitimately was in to notice, it sets the filing cabi­ cardinvitingmetosharemyviews. mental effects of high I hope that the past. You need to fully realize net on fire, destroying a lot of Ten years ago I got exctted about immigration and the high this letter an- that Earth First! is gone! I would official records. the arrival of the latest Journal. It fertility levels of many immi­ swers some questions, like to see the Earth First! Journal What we need is something was the only publication where grants are amplified by a high­ and creates new ones. If you pub­ go out of business. The stupidity that the paper can be coated among other hot environmental consumption life style that every lish it, I will be interested to read of the current clique's powerhold with or impregnated with that issues I found information and resident joins as their economic others' responses. on it is a secondary reason. The bums on contact with air. This opinions about the most funda­ condition improves. Immigration -CLAUS SIEVERT primary reason is because it is must be covered with something mental threat to nature: Homo is at the highest level in history, with necessary to retire Earth First! in that oxidizes away slowly. Sapiens! Overpopulation was the largest number coming to our all currentmanifestations, so that When the top coating is gone, viewed as a bad case of cancer, state. It scares me to think about Dear SFB: a needed global militant environ­ the substance underneath will Miss Ann Thropy was writing the impact of such a human flood In your last issue, you printed mental movement may evolve catch fire. Of course, both coat­ outrageous opinions, Ed Abbey on this incredibly diverse, fragile, an unsigned letter which con­ and emerge. If you are serious ings must be transparent, or at had just published his essay "Im­ and beautiful bioregion. tained misinformation regarding about the well being of the least not make the paper look migration and Liberal Taboos," The support for continuing on HR 2789, the National Forest Pro­ Earth, and couldn't care less too unusual. and Malthus was a household the present course is impressive. tection and Restoration Act (aka about "Earth First! first!", then If anyone knows enough chem­ word. Great! There was a glim­ It reaches from the political the "Zero"Cut" or "McKinney/ you will see the truth herein istry to suggest something that mer of hope! right-including the Pope and Leach" bill). The anonymous au­ and agree with me. might work this way, please pub­ Over the years EF! has become other religious leaders, thor incorrectly claimed that the -CRAIG STEHR lish it here. awfully quiet on these issues­ Agribusiness, Silicon Valley, and bill contains loopholes which al­ P.S. If you publish this in the -TSINDAR not because overpopulation has no-limit economists like Juline low various types of logging. The E~rth First! Journal, my moun- Page 28 Earth First! Litha 1998 but we have to ask where the oil To Earth First!, grams. In the words of Robert My family hid Jews in their comes from to help run our cars. Those who seem to be running Meeropol, "Attending a school basement, they witnessed This is something which, I be­ the Earth First! show-and it is a or summer camp that celebrates rape and murders, and my lieve, must be examined more show-often base their nice, le­ economic and social justice could mother has seen local young closely. Bec.ause what good is gal, good-for-media approach on have a powerfully positive im­ men hung in the streets. My it just to protest against.Oil a tactic of community-based or­ pact on a child whose parents grandparents were civil dis­ corporations contaminat­ ganizing" The dogma that rules were attacked for participating obedience and they were ing a Rainforest etc. etc. if out real opposition in favor of in such struggles [We] are mak­ chased down and left the coun­ when we go home and the old, non-creative, obviously ing an investment in a new pro­ try by foot and walked to France. turn on our lights and inadequate ways to go often jus­ gressive generation." There is pride in Hungarian heat etc. which only tifies itself in terms of "commu­ According to RFC staff, many heritage, there is passion deeper helps with the de­ nity-based organizing." activists need encour- than any of us tree climbinghip­ struction we are But never has "community" agement to apply for pies would ever know for free­ trying to stop. dom. We have no idea what true been more defined and con­ grants, assuming in­ official When I look oppression is. When I speak to trolled by wage-labor and correctly that they opinion, at how far our my family about communities consumerism, the technol­ are not eligible un­ but the eco­ culture has to and communal living, they want ogy that is their matrix, less the harassment logical Spain go on a spiri­ and the pigs that enforce they face results in to slap me across the face. "Com­ groups says tual level I be­ mune" meant starvation, rape it all. In other words-=.­ severe injury or that it is lieve it will be time to face it­ death. To ask for and death. true. It may impossible to I think the Hungarians are there is no com­ help, or to make be justa ru­ hang on to·it, and the fierce warriors and ,if we can just munity. Think a tax-deduct­ mor but sooner we realize we must recall in them their own sense of about where that ible dona­ in fact let go of it the better. freedom and let them know we leaves us. tion, con­ Spain has Sincerely, are all in this great war for Earth The only other thing tact the a lot of nuclear garbage and -]0]0 RIPPA wrong with "community­ Rosenberg Mother, they would fight to the there's no place to put it. So based organizing" is the Fund for death, as my family did. the logical place to put it, Dear EF, organizing part. An orga­ Children, 1145 Main -HEATHER ANNII;>C\J ask him to ex­ divide people jured, lost jobs, or plain it further up who care. course of their even though no If you talk the matter how many times the in­ talk, walk thewalk but don't come terviewer tried to change the down on people who don't talk subject Mr. Trudell always came the talk. Everyone who cares has back to what he felt was the a gift to contribute. Other then main problem which is how we, that, enough of all this boring Western Culture, does harm to drivel about Bravery and cow­ the Mother .Earth regardless if ards. i was a hero once, and i was we are living peacefully, or vio­ scared shitless and hope it never Robert Meeropol, for lently, in the privacy of our own happens again! i have no com­ R(j)senberg, who knows homes or working and living pulsion to prove my manhood, hand the trauma of losing outside them. This is because ev­ and while youthful enthusiasm parents (Ethel and Julius erything we do in our Culture, gets many jobs done, when shar­ Rosenberg, executed in the Western Culture, is designed to ing thoughts and feelings in this 1950s) for political reasons. not only .conspire against Mother journal, i'd personally like to see The RFC recently granted Earth First, Nature, but to literally rape Her. some of the contributors grow $5,000 to a college trust fund for I'm writing because Spain, our just sitting at home and peacefully up a bit. All thai: you can ask Judi Bari's children. The organi­ neighbor country is trying to watching television with our fami­ anyone is to do the best they can. zation gives money for counsel­ citizens to form a revolution. built a nuclear cemetery near lies destroys the Mother Earth · Otherwise we're headed for the ing, airfare to visit jailed parents, My grandfather was a "FREE­ the river that separates the two and ourselves simply because of EF Olympics. and educational opportunities in­ DOM FIGHTER," my mother and countries. the way we extract energy from Sincerely, cluding tutoring and politically uncle were instructed how to, So we may need help about it. the Mother Earth. Driving our -CORRY E. MASON alternative summer camp pro- and did, blow up army tanks. The nuclear cemetery is not a cars just doesn't pollute the air Junf!-July 1998 Earth First! Pagf! 29 su Katuah EF! Regional Rendezvous · Justice for August 13-17 JudiBari Please join us in the beautiful Katuah bioregion for a regional rendezvous. Come to northern Georgia for fun, workshops, blockade training and knowl- July 31, 1:30pm PRESS OFFICE OPENS edge about the area. Come prepared to plug into "fun activities." A field kitchen Oakland Federal Bldg. will be provided, but food donations or cold cash are very useful. Bring your The Animal Liberation Front is sleeping bag, tent/tarp, rain gear, sunscreen, your own dish and utensils and all Come pack the courtroom for the proud to announce the opening of a the other necessities. ContactJohnJohnson (423) 624-3939 or Nina (706) 355- pretrial status conference on the FBI North American press office in Min­ 9_9_6_3_f_o_r_d_i_re_c_t_~_n_s_a_n_d_m_o_re_I_·n_f_o_rm_a_t_~_n_.______~l~ruH!~~d~~~~ffii~~ nesota. Similar to the ALF Press Office - dence will be discussed and we will be in Britain, the NA-ALF Press Office demanding a full trail. Call the Red­ exists to explain why the ALF carries wood Summer Justice Project at (707) out actions, how it does and how Deep Ecology Tour 88 7-0262 to confirm the date and time. non-humari animals are treated by our species. with john Seed & Ruth Rosenhek 1------1 Any anonymous information re- ceived by the Press Office which de­ The Council of All Beings is a series of re-Earthing rituals created by John Seed tails ALP-style actions will be commu­ and Joanna Macy to help end the sense of alienation from the living Earth that Luna Video nicated to the media. The Press Office most of us feel and to connect us with new sources of joy, commitment and will be available as part of the network inspiration that follow from union with our planet. The Stafford Giant Tree-Sit is the of contacts for the media. It will be Through sharing, meditation and ritual, we will explore the depths of our story of the longest tree-sit in US his­ able to confirm actions that fall within concern for our planet. Rediscovering our "deep ecology"-our tory. The giant redwood tree known as ALF policy and explain the animal interconnectedness with all beings-we find empowerme11t as agents of heal­ "Luna," was discovered blue-marked suffering that necessitates such actions. ing change. We step aside from our solely human identification and let other for cutting by Earth First! during the As a public face for the ALF, the Press life forms speak through us. We allow ourselves, through group visualizations, Fall '97 Headwaters campaign. One Officer is available for interviews, to re-experience our four-and-a-half-billion-year evolutionary journey. extraordinary woman named Julia phone-ins, news reports; etc ... The (COAB is Council of All Beings; JS is John Seed; and RR is Ruth Rosenhek.) "Butterfly" has remained in the tree for group is 100% volunteerrun and dona­ • Aug. 24-28 Practicing Ecological Interdependence, Omega Institute, NY; RR 1 over six months! Here's the inside view tions are needed for a computer, office & JS; (800) 944-1001; [email protected] · of one of the most inspiring acts of civil supplies and to cover phone bills. Any • Aug. 29-30 COAB for Youth, Eagle-eye Institute, Peru, MA; JS, RR and ·disobedience ever. reporters or in teres ted parties may con­ Anthony Sanchez; (617) 776-1238; [email protected] For copies of this video send a $20 tact Katie Fedor at the NA-ALF Press • Sept. 3-4, Cindy Thomashow, Environmental Ed., Antioch, NH donation to the Headwaters Action Office, P.O. Box 103, Osseo, MN 55369; • Sept. S-7 Gender and Deep Ecology Earthlands, Petersham MA; Heart Video'Collective at POB 2198, Redway, 612-690-1503; [email protected]; Phoenix, Jeffrey Weisberg, JS & RR; (508) 724-3428; [email protected] CA 95Sq0; (707) 459-5490 ext. 582. www.envirolink.org/ALF. • Sept. 11-13 Timeline of Light Shavano Institute, Boulder CO; John Fowler, ]S & RR; (303) 440-4153; [email protected] • Sept. 18-20 COAB, Santa Fe, NM; JS; (505) 466-9118; [email protected]: • Sept. 18-20 Despair & Empowerment, Mountainair, NM; RR; (5'05) 847- Free Leonard Peltier Rally 0637; [email protected] • Sept. 25-26 Naropa Institute Environmental Leadership class; JS & RR; June 27, Washington, D.C. [email protected] Contact the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee: • Oct. 2-4 Practicing Ecological Interdependence, Willits CA; RR & JS, (415) POB SIB, Lawrence, I

Page 30 Earth First! Litha 1998 a nouns ants Indigenous Environmental Network Food Not Bombs ArrENTION: Protecting Mother Earth Conference Western Regional BIOCENTRIC ANARCHISTS, TROL'BLJ: :\L\KFRS, Luwrn:s, August 2-5 Gathering · PRI:\IITI\'ISTS, BIOCI \:THIC I'HI­ The Seventh Generation Fund is hosting a conference at Medicine Lake to LOSOPHLI{S Ai\'D DE\'L\NTS! draw attention to the threat of two geothermal power plants to the area. Known San Francisco, CA as the "Fourmile Hill Geothermal Project" on the Klamath and Modoc National There is a new biocentric anarchist Forests in northeastern California, two energy corporations, CalPine and quarterly coming out called FERAL CalEnergy, propose to build the power plants in a roadless area, 1.5 miles from July 10-12 dedicated to expanding biocentric Medicine Lake. The high-elevation wonderland has been used in sacred cer­ theory and practice. This is for every­ emonies by the Pit River tribes for thousands of years and is home to pine one who believes in wildness, freedom, martens, bald eagles, spotted owls, goshawks, ospreys and many nesting wilderness and animal defense or any­ migratory birds. For more information and conference details contact the one who is into independent thought, Seventh Generation Fund at POB 4569, Arcata, CA 95518; (707)825-7640. pushing the boundaries of creative dia­ logue. The first issue will be released winter of 1998. We are presently ask­ GAIA ing for submissions (deadline is Sep­ Music FESTIVAL DooR DIE tember 1), donations, contacts and help with distribution. Please contact us for jULY 17-19 The latest issue (164 pages!) hit the a mission statement, submission .re­ streets in March. This compilation of quirements, merchandise list or dead­ Musicfornature-basedspiritualityand voices from activists within EF! comes lines and themes for future issues. environmental defense will be held in highly recommended. "We almost erin o Send requests and donations to Laytonville, California. Costis $20/day, killed ourselves and each other doing with ih ot FERAL, 530 Divisadero, Suite 321, $35/weekend, including camping and it, so we think it's quite good!" Send andskills~ar San Francisco, CA 94117; parking. This gathering will bring to- £2.50 (incl. shipping & handling), $6 discussingtfi~t , [email protected]. gether environmental troubadors and overseas to South Downs EF!, POB ing and celebrating our movement. 1------goddess/pagan bards with the inten- 2971, Brighton BN2 2GY, England. Contact us at POB 40485, San Fran- tion of bringing spirit to activism and cisco, CA 94140; (650) 985-7087. activism to spirit. All proceeds will ben- ...,.. ______,...------., efit the Headwaters forest campaign, The Caretaker Gazette is a unique THE LEONARD PELTIER ~====-Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Green Egg Magazine and other non-prof­ newsletter containing job openings, works to protect the Earth's rainforests its. Musicians, vendors and volunteers advice & information for property and support the rights of their inhab­ can send inquiries, demo tapes, etc. to caretakers,housesitters & landowners itants through education, grassroots Environmentally Sound Promotions, Published since 1983, each issue has organizing and nonviolent direct ac­ _P_Q)t n5:l ," ~ ~e

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MUSIC REVIEW BY NEAL TRUITRUP which the FBI infiitrates an environmental group. Adam Bregman's "The Bears" is a hilarious tale of Wi(c{ to tlie Last Watch music; it is an importimt art/orm. Rulers should renegade bears wreaking havoc in human society. be careful about what songs they allow to be sung. Leeona Klippstein's "Stabbing at the Sacred" is.a . BOOK REVIEW BY KRIS SIESS -PLATO beautiful examination of the conflict between To a life of shame and failure, modern technological society and ancient, femi­ Of sorrow and despair. Yeeha! Awoooooo! I'm damn happy to introduce nine, Earth-centered cultures. To a life undiversified by hope or joy. Warrior Poet Society's A Night to HoWl, a new The second tape opens with Peg Millet's beautiful All desire gone, collection of Earth First! poetry and music. This "Medicine Wheel Song." Next, a biting song from All hopes ground into dust. three-tape set thoroughly documents two amazing Terry Stone challenges those who have "A Whole To a malevolent God, evenings of performance from the 1994 Los Wheat Lookand a Wonderbread Mind." Dennis' To jail, Angeles and 1996 Tucson Activist Conferences. poem "High Explosives" expresses his r~gret that To fate. The tapes contain over 80 songs and poems from the us Army didn't prepare him to be a militant And to the Wild Rockies, 30 artists. This release is a high-water mark in the environmentalist. Leslie Hemstreet sings of the Wild now, wild still, wild to the last. growth of Earth-honoring culture. power of women's cycles in "PMS Avenger," the These tapes do what art is sup­ power of shoplifting in "I Am So goes the old Wild Rockies Earth First! drinking posed to do. They mirror, warts and An Anarchist," and the powe~ toast that serves both as frontispiece and title to all, the diversity, passion and of violence in "Fantasy." Chuck Pezeshki's new book, Wild to the Last­ intelligence of the community that Mathew Haun takes on the Environmental Conflict in the Clearwater Country. produced them. They explore the topics of animal testing, Pezeshki, a professor at Washington State Univer­ issues that have been at the heart of phony environmentalism, sity, carries an uncommon level of street credibility, EF! activism in recent years. In nuclear waste and the men's or in this case skid-trail credibility, for a guy with a some ways, they tell the story of movement. Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. As a founding our collective life more effectively In the early 1980s, there member of the than any EF! Journal article or were only a few courageous Clearwater Biodiversity rendezvous workshop. artists devoting themselves to Project, which has Since this collection reflects our this type of art. Since then, worked closely with the diverse community and the dire the number of artists and the Cove/Mallard cam­ situation we face, prepare to be both quality and quantity of their paign, and a tireless inspired and challenged. Several work has increased dramati­ defender of the pieces go to the heart of the recent cally. Their efforts are reviv­ Clearwater drainage of violence/nonviolence debate. ing the ancient and desper­ North Central Idaho, Others deal with the gender issues hashed out in ately-needed tradition of culture that honors the Chuck has certainly recent years. Here's a quick peek: Earth and her defenders. paid his dues. This The first tape opens with the witty words of At the 1989 EF! Rendezvous, I first felt this shows in his erudite Dennis Fritzinger, "something historically demc:md­ culture's power give a voice to our love of the and passionate plea for ing, simply love and understanding, put away natural world and our rage over its destruction. It what remains of his thoughts of pride and pelf, and simply love the affected me deeply and helped me recognize the favorite places. Earth for itself," from his'poem "Agenda." Adam Earth as my home and its life as my family. It The Clearwater Bregman's "The Greenpeace Store" is an exquisite inspired me to devote my life to honoring ana drainage is at serious risk of being lost, another slam of eco-shopping. Peter Bralver's "About protecting the Earth. · · proverbial place "that no one knew." The Trickster and Two Stories," reveals a sinister govern­ Earth- and activist-oriented-art is needed more Clearwater stretches from Selway/Bitteroot country ment plot to induce a "single agonizing controlled than ever. At a time when people are deeply alien- . in the south to the St. Joe in the north. Its heavily delay, final and adjustable, catastrophic ecospasm." atedfrom nature, art can help people reestablish logged front country masks some of the best blocks After the ecospasm, the talented and spirited Kids and maintain healthy bonds. For tho~e paralyzed by of pristine habitat anywhere. This is an area where for Konservation will give you hope for the future as ·grief or rage, this art is powerful mediCine. These a very few wild salmon still make their epic 500- they coverWalkin' Jim Stoltz's "A Kid for the, voices sing loud and clear in open defiance bf the 11 mile swim to the high country to spawn, a place Wild." Dwight Worker's poem "Wild Assed" pro­ destroyers. "How cart we keep from singl.ng? · where, despite humanity's best effort, the wolf and vides the movement with material for future gender To order the three-tape set send $20 to Arizona grizzly have not been fully extirpated. · dynamics discussions. Earth First!, POB 3412, Tucson, AZ, 85722 (for Pezeshki knows this place. He has run its rivers Side two starts with Mark Williams' "Mesa Roja," just the one tape of Los Angeles, send $10, two and tramped over its ridge tops. He has discov~ . a brilliant piece that relates a "fictional" situation in tapes of Tucson, send $15). erect his favorite places being destroyed. He brings .. ~; ~.: an engineer's sharp eye for fact and figure to this There are also two songs about the joy we feel work while demonstrating a heartfelt passion for DRJ\GONS oN THE Rom in communion with our friends: "Merry Hearts" the land. Pezeshki is logical yet lyrical, precise and "Sing To Say" about an all-night jam in and poetic at the same time. MUSIC REVIEW BY }IM PAGE Eugene after an EF! gig. "The Black Horse," which The book conveys a sense of place through the Timothy Hull is amazing. He is the master of I still can't get out of my head, is. a beautiful printed word with uncommon clarity. In his what I would call"mythological realism." His searching journey through "the landscape of my words, "I call it the Heart of the World, and when songs mix the gritty fabrics of daily struggle with mind." "Holy Air" asks all the right questions I sit in the hot springs scattered across the face of-. the magical visions of symbolic power, creating a about religion and love. "Sacramento River Song" the land, I can still feel the passion and the magic landscape we can all move and act in. His new is a chilling look at a chemical spill that devas­ of creation welling up beneath me. The heart of tape, Dragons On The Road, is a must-have tated these waters, spread­ the world is not cool." The book treats personali­ for anyone concerned with our current state ing from the tiny life all ties on both sides with sensitivity and wit and of unnatural affairs. There is brilliance, the way to the eagle-"The winds up with a stinging, unsettling essay on the depth and the dark haunting tears of the national symbol sick on essentially totalitarian nature of the Forest Ser­ ancestors. The guitar work is superb, with the poison that we made." vice/industry juggernaut. an enormous sound, sometimes delicate, This song is amazing-one Chuck has, over the years, worked with anyone sometimes driving, with rhythmic complex~ can only cry and then get he thought could help save the Clearwater. He ity. The vocals are strong and clear. You mad. And when you're has certainly rubbed elbows with sellout enviros wonder how he can sing and play like that sufficiently angry, "Tough and politicians. But he has also brought fiery at the same time. These are the works of a Reckoning" gives you a oratory and conviction to mud-soaked basecamps true artist. place to put it. A great .. - and otherwise tame demos. He would, literally, The title track pits the dragon of the road piece of righteous defiance, give the shoes off his feet to a starving EF! activist blockaders against the St. George of the a perfect way to end a great and has personally fed me a fair amount of veggie lumber companies. But Hull's mythology is z recording. chili and beer. not Christian so this time the dragon wins. ~ These songs and this This work is at once an exhortation, eulogy, "Nailed and Boarded" unravels the cruel :::: singer need to be better plea and prayer, the product of a determined, illusion of private property, capitalism's most known. We deserve this unflinching and studious blend of analysis and sacred cow. He sings of urban sprawl battlegrounds kind of quality. intuition. Check it out. 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