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a voice of northeast earth first!

number four

IN THIS ISSUE:

500 Years of Resistance

.. Revolution

Direct Action

articles on Land, Air, and Water Abuse

with Judi Bari Anne Petermann' Abbey Edwards Michaela de Liuda Orin Langelle Steve Taylor Roadblock autonome forum Snaggletooth MikeZ

.£ and a cast of <:>.. .§ 0 0 250 to 1! .s: a. page 2 The Alarm About this Issue Welcome to issue #4 of the This issue finds many articles on water, land and air ALARM' As you can see the format has abu se. We present these issues not fo r armchair di scu ssion, but c ha nged s li g htly a nd we've g reatly rather as a catalyst to foster direct action to deal with the mess expanded the size of our publication. th at plagues our pl anet. The Alarm! is trying to present many This has led to a couple of dilemnas. ideas that when we put together, expose the real enemies of exis­ The first crisis we are trying to solve is tance. When we identify the enemy, then we can strip them of the money thing. Production for this their clothes and watch them wa lk around naked. Sound like issue skyrocketed and we had to go into fun! debt to publish. An attempt to solve this is putting a newsstand Unti l next time, give the ba tards the hell they de erve. and subscription price on our rag (see back page). Believe us, it's On thi SOOth Year of Resistance, let' pay heed to a Cree prophe­ very hard to be against the concept of money and then have to cy: "Onl y after the last tree has been cut down, onl y after the last ask for it. The second crisis we've encounntered is editorial work river has been poisoned, only after the last fis h has been caught, and responsibility. We're trying to deal with that. In no way do only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." we want to assume an editorial heirarchy. Thus far we've operat­ Th e Alarmists ed on editorial vision. Hopefully, by the Winter Solstice issue, we will have a more cohesive working group or collective. = 500 years of Resistance

They ... brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawk's bells. They wi ll ingly traded everything they owned .. .They were well­ built, with good bodies and handsome fea­ tures ... They do not bear arms, and do not know them ... They would make fine ser­ vents ... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want. --Christopher Columbus' log on meet­ ing the Arawaks

What an arrogant fuckwad. In this piece I planned to describe the on-going genocide of indigenous peoples worldwide and their on-going resistance to oppressive euro-centric domination. But I am too pissed off, and admittingly lack the true knowledge necessary , to bludgeon fuckster Columbus and hi s ilk that have made north and south amerikkka a cultural and ecological nightmare. I am pleased to say that indigenous resistance is impossible to crunch. After all these years "civilization" has failed to Wet'suwet'en, the Cree and all others, the Horse, the spirit of Tupac Katari, and we extinguish the pipe. From the Abenaki, struggle carries on. must be in total resistance. the Oka Mohawks, the Penan, the Peigan For anyone who puts the Earth first, --Orin Langelle Lonefighters, the Gitksan and we must understand the pirit of Crazy

One of Web ter's definitions of alann is "a mechani sm that warns of danger, arouses from sleep, etc." With the ALARM we hope to arouse the human pecies from mental hi hemation. With awakening, hopefully empowerment will follow to prevent the further desecration of Gaia. The ALARM intend to he a revolutionary ecological news qu arterly published by Earth Fi rst! groups in the northeast region. The ALARM is pan of the internati onal direct ac tion movement that takes a no compromise stance in defense of Mother Earth. Responsibility in this publication rests with the individual authors and correspondent s. The contents do not neces­ sarily represent the viewpoints of this publ icati on, the EF! movement, local EF! groups or indi vidual EF!ers. Although the ALARM does not accept the authority of the hi erarchal and patri­ archal state, nothing herein is intended to run anyone associated with the ALARM afoul of any government 's police power. Please send correspondence to: ALARM POB 804 Burlington, VT 05402(802)658-2403 @nticopyri ght @ntiprofit The ALARM is printed on recycled paper. The Alarm page 3 The Action Page continued from previous column MAINE'S COLUMBUS SUCKS ACTIONS Woolman Hill, Keats road in Deerfield PAPER INDUSTRY Unfortanely we don't have the power MA, a council fire ceremony lead by spir­ WANTS APPROVAL to go back 500 years and sink the Nina, itual leaders from surrounding indigenous TO POLLUTE MORE Pinta, and Santa Maria or pants nations will be held as a recognition of all Columbus, but we can be involved in beings in the valley and their relationship The Maine paper industry and making Columbus Day a pain in the arse to the earth. It will be a place to express Governor John McKernan (whose brother for those who glorify it. Hayduke says, our concerns for the present and our is a lobbyist for the paper industry) want "What to do, what to do?" visions for the future. With "Unity under to raise allowable dioxin discharge into It's evident to even us that a quincen­ the creation" in mind, a ceremony of the the water form .013 parts per quadrillion tennial celebration comes only once in a four directions (or colors) as well as the (current federal standard) to .5 parts per lifetime. Has there ever been a more active presence of numerous valley quadrillllion -- an amazing 38.5 % appropriate time to show our disrespect? activists will be integrated into the event. increase. Water quality in Maine has Northeast EF!ers have joined a broad The council fire will be hosted by mem- improved so much recently that in some coalition of activists to oppose any type of OZONE DAY rivers its deemed perrnissable to consume celebration that the fascist state implies. OF ACTION a fish per year instead of just one per year If you haven't figured it out by now, for health standards. See Page 11 euro-centric kulture has just about The Maine Deptartment of destroyed any ecological chance for sani­ Environmental Protection (DEP) will hold ty. If you can't make it to the rotten apple bers of the Pocumtuck Nation, the origi­ hearings to discusss both sides of the pro­ of NY and demand indigenous peoples nal people of the valley who were long posed increase in November. The tenta­ rights to have a seat in the United presumed to be extinct. The event will tive dates are the 5th and 6th in Augusta, Nations, or creatively counter a local mark the reemergence of the Pocumtuck ME. Columbus glodfication ceremony, please Nation, a truly historic event. At question will be the amount of join us in direct actions opposing 500 Both events are open, accessible and dioxine the paper industry wil be able to years of forced domination of Native free to the public, though donations are spew in Maine's rivers when the chlorine everything, October 9-12 and beyond. greatly appreciated. Signers will be on bleaching process is used. A reliable We're pissed and it must show. Contact hand for the hearing impaired and child­ source has informed the Alarm! that the the Alarm immediately if you really want care will be available. Call Don at (413) backroom deals being made by the Maine to ·make a differance. 367-9352 for more info. Forest Products Council and the Natural Resource Council of Maine to work out COUNCIL FIRE the details of how the hearing will pro­ COLUMBUS DAY JAMES BAY PICNIC ceed. Those two groups are described as ALTERNATIVE AND key players in a "high stakes game." On the weekend of October 10 and GATHERING Earth First! agree that this is 11 , people are invited to take part in two "high stakes" but not a game and feel that James Bay supporters are invited to events in western Massachusetts that will environemtnal quality and biological celebrate the earth and her inhabitants and attend a picnic on Saturday l 0/3 beginning at noon at the Unitarian Universalist integrity are more important than the key as a reflection upon the real history of the Church 21 Fairground Rd Springfield, VT players mentioned back room deals or the past 500 years. (802) 885-3327. wishes of industry and their stooge, On Saturday the 1Oth , a theatrical Come celebrate successes, share sto­ Governor McKernan. If you are interested procession will pass through the towns of ries and updates as well as strategize on in attending and/or want to be involved in Northampton and Springfield. This pro­ what we can do next to aid in the struggle. a direct action concerning this event cession promises to enlighten and enter­ Bring James Bay articles, videos, please call Solon EF! (207)643-2732 or tain by honoring the spirits of the native slides etc. write them at POB#4025 , Solon ME people of the Connecticut River Valley. Bring food and drink to share. For 04979. A ritual form of street theater will also those corning from a distance or who dramatically bring forth the issues of would like to stay overnight, there is EF! NORTHEAST these people. For time and place contact camping and some floorspace. ACTIVIST the number below. For more information call (802) 899- 3687 or (802) 885-3327. CONFERENCE On Sunday the 11th at 3pm at SEEPAGE21 continued in next column page4 The Alarm EARTH FIRST! PROTESTS HYDRO POWER AT SITE OF WINOOSKI RIVER'S NEWEST DAM EF!er hangs banner off construction crane

Early in the morning of August 24th, future. If these people truly care about the rivers were severed. an Earth First! climber scaled a 180 foot spawning of fish (which of course they do BLF has been publicly slammed for crane to unfurl a 64 foot banner which not, it is merely tourist dollars about performing such an uneducated and down­ read "Earth First! NO DAMS! Free the right ignorant protest of such a benign Rivers". power source as s mall-scale hydro. The purpose of this dramatic banner However,when told about the protest and hanging was not only to protest the its negative reactions, James Bay Great Winooski One hydro-project which the Whale Chief M atthew Mukash crane was being used to build, but also said,"There is no good hydro. " every dam in Vermont that is up for relis­ All in aU, we succeeded in our goal censing or proposed for expansion. of heightening the debate about hydro­ In addition, this protest was aimed at power by drawing people's attention to the the James Bay project, the mega hydro­ = negative impacts it has and Snaggletooth project in northern Quebec which not only was even quoted in the paper hoping that threatens an area nearly one tenth the size the people of Winooski get enli ghtened of the US, and all the critters who li ve enough to invite him back to help blow up there with biological extermination, but the dam. Perhaps thi s will inspire the crit­ aJso threatens the native Cree and Innuit ters of the river to do just that. people with genocide through the flooding Funding for this direct action was pro­ of their land and the subsequent poisoning vided by the EF! D irect Action Fund of their food and water supplies. (DAF). HaJf an hour after the banner was fu ll y unfurled, police and project head honcho, John Warshow arrived and the which they are concerned) th ey will crane was quickly lowered and the banner remove the dams and allow the fish to ripped down. EF! climber Snaggletooth spawn up the free flowing rivers as they jumped off of the crane and into the cus­ had for thousands of years before the tody of Winooski Police Officers to shouts of protest from the other EF!ers on the ON GETTING HIGH scene. Biodiversity Liberation Front EF!'s by Snaggletooth and I jumped off ready to flee but surren­ presence continued after Snaggletooth was As I can hear the air conditioners hum dered. I relaxed as the banner was cut off hauled off. Upon his return an exchange in the distance, a lone shot cries in the the rig. The fat cop, smiley lieutenant, and of words took place between two EF!ers night... Police Chief Steve McQueen thank me for and Warshow, an anti-nuclear activist sell­ 4am: I've made my way to the foot brightening up their day. They snapped out, when Warshow insisted that, not only of the crane. I see two flags almost hang­ on the cuffs and drove me two blocts into did the project, which had blasted huge ing in the air. American over Vermont. a big garage with powered reinforced holes in the river's bedrock, not harm the Tempting bait but up I go. 168 feet later overhead doors, through the door on the river, it was actually benefitting it by its 4:45. I've taken my time. Safety First! left, chained to a bench and released an allowing the upstream pa sage of fish , an The day is just beginning and the pollution hour and a half later (they let me nap). event that had not occurred there for two in the air makes great colors, the smell of After giving pertinent information (shoe hundred years. The method employed to dead fish is everywhere as the banner size, occupation, etc) I waJked out to news facilitate this miraculous event is forced unfurled, 64 feet of sociaJ comment "Earth channel three with the scoop. The day is fish busing. With this, hatchery-raised First! No Dams! Free the Rivers". In the hot, and the ozone thick in my throat but fish are loaded into trucks below the dam hour and a half that I have been tying the thin up above. I'm all greasy and dirty and and trucked upstream to be released so banner down, the traffic has been building I tell 'em when the people get a little more that sports fishermen can catch them. to a dull roar. As I approached tying off enlightened they'll be asking me to come Such bandaid reform measures can the last comer-s, the first workmen showed back and blow up that dam! History only fail as they attempt to solve the prob­ up. Within twenty to thi.rty minutes, a proves that dams kill! lems of technology through the application dozen and a haJf workers and two police of additionaJ technology, a method which cars had arrived (from two blocks away). has never served any purpose other than to I didn't bother taking the banner down like require even more technology in the they suggested, so they lowered the crane The Alarm page 5 ATTACKS ON BIO-TECHNOLOGY IN THE NETHERLANDS

On the weekend of July 27/28, banks of Western corporations and scien­ 1991 3 fields of gentically manipu­ tific institutes. lated plants in The Netherlands were What will result from this, of destroyed by a clandestine action course, is a highly paternalistic and gross­ group call ing itself the Razende ly racist attitude on the part of multi­ Rooiers, (the Raging Diggers). In nationals towards indigenous farming peo­ the town of Rilland, a field of geneti­ ples. The use of biotechnology is racist cally manipulated corn, owned by a against the Third World, because societies subsidary of the Dutch corporation which had long since grown accustomed Suikerunie, was razed while fields of to reaping harvests with locall y available genetically altered potatoes, fro m the labour and with tried and trusted farming Belgian fi rm Plant Genetic Systems, techniques will be cast off as primitive and were destroyed in the towns of inefficient. For in comes the' benevolent' Wageningen and Bant. These two multi-national with its highly-skilled staff last f ield s were operated by the of white Western employees, its stocks of Hettema corporation in conjuction chemicals, and its immense reserves of with Prosperi na BV. In total, th e capital . . . All of this will result in the attacks caused tens of thousands of environmental, economic, political, and dollars damage and set back the cultural marginalization of Third World genetic tests by one to two years. societies. The Dutch press, of course, react­ total artificial food production. Thus, The topic of biotechnology has ed furiously to the attacks. What's more, local populations become increasingly not, as yet, become a central focus for the they made note of the fact that the Dutch dependent on the products of multi-nation­ environmental movement or the autonomist p aper NN had listed the als. But do consumers really want food autonomous-left in North America. And addresses of corporate testing fields of production to be entirely artificial and yet, because of the diverse issues which genetically manipulated plants in its issue thus, corporate owned? To ensure that the are related to bio-technology -environ­ No. 89. public does wish such a 'luxury', biotech mental, political, social - it is an issue To explain their actions, the multi-nationals spend millions of dollars which will become increasingly signifi­ Razende Rooiers issued a lengthy commu­ annually on their public relations/propa­ cant in the years ahead. Indeed, the threat­ nique which was likewise published in ganda budgets. ened destruction of the Audobon Ballroom NN. The Razende Rooiers defend their Just as with the Green revolution, in New York City, (the site of Malcolm militant approach in their communique: the use of biotechnology will bring great X's assasination) and its replacement with "The destruction of a test field is gai ns to the food production sector, yet it a multi-million dollar Columbia designed to both start a discussion on the will also carry with it newer and bigger University genetic research facility has subject of biotechnology, as well as to problems. Far from solving the world's started raising the awareness of both envi­ offer a direct counter to pro-biotech propa­ hun ger problem, (which actually stems ronmental and social-activist groups of ganda in the form of sabatoge. from un equal di stribution and not from their common ground on this issue. Resistance-in whatever form-to under-production) biotechnology will sim­ It is important that both the biotechnology is not onl y necessary, it is ply serve to further marginalize the Third autonomous-left and the radical environ­ also legitimate. World. The use of biotechnology will be mental movement begin to formulate a But the group not onl y defended destructive to the environment, as geneti­ coherent critique of biotechnolgy and their tactics in the communique, they go cally manipulated fields require certain begin to work out an effecti ve and con­ on to further di scuss the theoretical neces­ 'necessary' chemical applications, (which crete strategy to resist its implementation. si ti es of offering concrete resistance to the multi-nationals can themselves gladly Though the Razende Rooiers attacks were biotechnology. supply). What's more, the proliferation of carried out in Europe, th e relevance of Technology is playing an increas­ manipulated plants will result in a drastic their message and the issues raised in their ingly greater role in food production. This loss of genetic diversity. Already, 50% of communique are clearly just as relevant to means multi-national corporations are the world's population are fed by three our movement here in North America. controlling a greater and greater share of plants: wheat, rice, and corn. Biotech And after all , you don't have to the world's essential resources. At the would drastically reduce the numb.er of be an expert of use a shovel ... same time, the uses of biotechnology naturally occurring varieties of these submitted by auto nome forum reduce the multi-national's dependence on plants. Al so, 93 % of the present world's local resources, thus opening the door to supply of genetic data is stored in the gene page6 The Alarm ITS ALMOST ANTI-COLUMBUS DAY. .. Do you know where your local Native Americans are? by Abbey Edwards Combined with a propensity for greed, and First of all , I want to make it clear the Biblical mandate that, because I li ve on the American conti­ to put people before a ll other crea­ nent, and am relatively ignorant of the tures, the in vaders spread like fireweed nati ve customs in countries other than after a bi g fire, onl y they weren't nearl y as North, Ce ntral a nd South America, pretty. Canada and Mexico, this article is neces­ White atti tudes are reflected best in sarily ethnocent.Jic. However, what little I adolescents of our culture: Youth are know of other places, such as Africa, New charged with the euphoric di scovery that Zealand and Australia, it seems clear that life is challenging, fun , and their's to do wherever you go, the Natives know what's with as th ey please. Elders are oppressive, best for the land, and the white European stupid and to be avoided at all costs. And in vaders know best how to destroy it. it's no wonder. As a rite of passage kids Why are the Natives so much smarter than ~ get dri ving lessons and meaningless jobs. the whites? Is it genetic? Or is it experi­ l- = In stead of an appreciati on for the beauty ence? I hope it is experience, because and magic of li fe and the Earth they get .YI then there is hope, and because then I ~ television and an understanding that five don't have to hate my self. I don"t have ~ days a week ad ults do something they ~ answers, but I certainly have my opinions. hate, and don't have time for their kids, " and two days a week they get to have fun . Native American Land Ethic .. like riding around burning old dinosaurs I am going to assume the readers j on a jetski or snowmobile, while their kids of this paper know rougWy what I mean ! watch or stay at home with a babysitter. by Native American land ethic. But in ~ No wonder there is no respect. summary, it is respect and understanding When a kid begins to have questions, for the land, the fungus, plants and ani­ but the parents aren't there to answer, and mals li ving on the land, and all of the community is nonexistent, the answers are interactions within and between the land, We were kept outside of the antiwar move­ nowhere. They think th ey are the only ment and on the fringe of the civil ri ghts fungus, plants, and animals. I admit it is a ones who ever thought of such things, and movement. When human rights were the big somewhat glorified view of numerous and thing, they never mentioned Indians. Now, they had better be like everyone e lse complex cultures, but this is a philosophi­ with the advent of the environmental and because acceptance is a necessary human cal piece, so give me some slack. anti-nuke movements, most people would still comfort. The people who were here before prefer to ignore us. Indians just don't fit in Our adolescent rebelli on again st the anywhere. Columbus had li ved here for thousands of authority in our culture is a good thing. It -Russel Means years. They had fun, fell in love, killed seems to me a res ult of our lack of com­ ticed infanticide in hard times. each other in wars, told stories, made art, munity. But that disrespect is inapp.ropri ­ The Native Ame ricans and o ther believed in spirits, worked hard and ately directed at Nature, too. I think thi s is indigenous c ultures have respect for relaxed w henever they could. But I because there are reall y very few ro le knowledge gained over time. When there assume the first people had some troubles. models. We don 't have e ld ers with was a problem with love, with fishing, They probably ate things that kill ed them, enough experi ence in the ways of the land with the storms, the elders would sit and froze to death because they were ill-pre­ to teach an appreciation, and those white's tell of times past when they went through pared for winter, and took too many fish who try to teach their kids something such things. Knowing you are not alone in from a river so there were none the next about the land mostl y have experience in your experience is empowering, and when year and their families starved. But they agriculture .. . farming trees or food crops. people include the land and all other crea­ learned, and they passed the experience on Unfortunately, most of the early settlers tures in their community, the evidence to the next generation. A few thousand chose to ignore the warnings of the elders shows th at the results are good: a land years is a long time for a culture to exist. that were here before they arrived. It ethic that is healthy for all. They did something right. And of course, seems as though our culture has at its a healthy respect for the power and author­ foundation that adolescent energy, still Euro-American Land Ethic. NOT. ity vested in Nature, kept them from over­ unharnessed, without the comfort of com­ The world's troubles began when populating their land. Some even prac- munity, and therefore destructive. white people learned how to sail overseas. con t ~ u ed on page 7 The Alarm page 7 continued from page 6 NATIVE AMERICAN CONTACTS NATIVE AMERICAN CONTACTS In some as pects of our society we are Sovereign Abenaki Nation finally begi nning to appreciate the teach­ Veteran Peace Action Teams POBox 276 POBox 743 ings of Native Americans. While we can Missisquoi, VT 05488 Winslow, AZ 86047 still go into many a store and see books (802) 868-2559 (602) 289-4460 and trinkets from tribal cultures there are Red Knife (Indian Activist and P.O.W.) some folks who want the respect of Beedaudjimowin * mail to: Steve Layton #80663-011 263 Roncesvalles Ave Native peoples, and a few even earn it. 3901 KJein Blvd Toronto, ONT M6R2L9 Lompoc, CA 93436 The Biodiversity Liberation Front's affili­ CANADA ation with the Abenaki is a shining exam­ (416) 534-4811 ple. This is not a Native American French Anarchist Federation (Organizing support for N.A.'s) Wannabee syndrome-it's an understanding Refugio Del Rio Grande POBox 3566 or 901 A.D.I.R. and acknowledgement of respect for our Harlingen, TX 78551 B.P. 1031 elders. 16001 Angouleme Cedex Beyond Humans Apache Survival Coalition FRANCE Land too, like elders, has the benefit POBox 11814 of experience over time. The fire, rain Tucson, AZ 85734 Alan Smoker (contact for National and wind teach the forests how to survive. Summit on Indian Strategies 1992) Support for Native Sovereignty* Collectively we have not learned to listen 16001 Angouleme Cedex POBox 2104 c/o Debra Melichar-Smoker to or respect the elders of the land, either. Seattle, W A 98111 501 W. Granite #401 Ancient forests still fall prey to corporate Butte, MT 59701 sawst and wars are still waged over the Support for Future Generations (Big Mountain/ Dine resi stors) rights to cut the last of them. Economics Canadian Alliance in Solidarity POBox 22134 based on nothing but paper and trust in Flagstaff, AZ 86002 with Native Peoples God, (no mention of the Goddess, the POBox 574, Station P vital second half of the equation: either Leonard Peltier Defense Committee * Toronto, ONT M5S 2Tl CANADA alone· is dangerous and incomplete) con­ POBox 583 Lawrence, KS 66044 tinue to strive for patriarchal power. . . continued on page 15 (913) 842-5774 defined by who can wreak the most havoc on that wench nature. But these economies are collapsing, and taking with them in a whirlpool of loss the owls, the salmon, the catamount, wolves, cedars, fungus and the list goes on into the mil­ lions. And so here we are in a hurry-a hurry to stop this crazy, careless disre­ spect. So what to do? Well, simultaneous with working full-time to facilitate the downfall of western civilization, we need to bring respect into our lives, and the lives of others, in any way we can. We need to begin using the word everywhere. In our scientific papers, in our pleas to protect habitats, in our proposals for fund­ ing and on our banners. We need to form alliances with Native Americans wherever and however we can, so we can under­ stand respect as it applies to the place where we live. In the spirit of anti­ Columbus Day, DO SOMETHING. Begin organizing now. Ed Abbey said: "There comes a time when we must act on -...... ·- __...,.,.,, our ideals, or forgo them." Let's act! Abbey Edwards lives in New Hampshire and page 8 The Alarm Indigenous Abenaki and Earth First! form Northeast Alliance by Orin Langelle Biodiversity Liberation Front

From the federal and state occupied bioregion of the Dawn/and: "We were nations before they got here. They raped our land, murdered our people and we 're supposed to sit here and say nothing?" Chief Homer St. Francis

On the quincentennial of the discovery of Columbus by the Native Americans, Earth First! has formed an alliance with the Abenaki; the traditional guardians of the eastern gate. The Abenaki of the Dawnland, although respecting peace and all creatures that inhabit Mother Earth, welcomed Giovanni da Verrazano's landing party in 1524 with a shower of arrows. Unfortunately that self-defense attempt was not enough to stop the invasion and Euro-centric onslaught that followed. Abenaki oral legend says contact with Europeans first began over 900 years ago down near Swanton, VT. Although there Native American population of this coun­ when Norsemen visited the eastern shores. were no human physical injuries (this try or to other indigenous peoples through­ Even though interaction with the invaders time), irreplaceable artifacts were out the world. The American Indian has been going on for centuries and the destroyed in the conflagration. Some of Movement (AIM) had tremendous vio­ foreign occupation has raped the land and the artifacts were the chief's headdress, lence levelled on them through FBI insti­ attempted to wipe out the indigenous peo­ talking sticks and lithographs. An oil can gation, and a number of AIM's leaders ple' s culture through war, disease, repres­ was found on the scene and arson is more were assasinated in a US government sion, and most recently a Vermont than suspected. Twenty days after the attempt to break the potentially powerful Supreme Court ruling, the Abenaki today burning of the camp, Chief St. Francis was Native American sovereignity movement. are still fighting the occupiers. indicted on a bogus felony charge. The offensive against AIM culminated "We're fighting a paper war," says out­ These attacks are part of a pattern of with the massacre at Wounded "Knee, spoken Chief Homer St. Francis. the powers-that-be attempting to put down South Dakota in 1973, and the political Although the Abenaki do not believe in the Abenaki self-determination movement. imprisonment of AIM's Leonard Peltier. the jurisdiction of the United States or The present pattern began with their fish­ "Well, hell, that's the same thing going Vermont's legal system, they are using the ing rights being violated and then harass­ on here," said Chief St. Francis. "They're courts to fight the paper war. The ment by the authorities for their display of trying to get us to shoot one of their cops Abenaki have signed no treaties with any Native American liscense plates on their so it would give them the government, nor have they ceded any land vehicles. The situation escalated to vio­ authority to move the army in, or whatev­ to Vermont. The paper war is to try and lent attacts on Chief St. Francis, and other er, to exterminate us." re-establish their right to self-determina­ members of the tribe were brutalised by Besides numerous death threats to tion and sovereignty in an illegally occu­ state and local law officials. As testimony Chief St. Francis, he says there is a two pied bioregion. Because of these efforts, to this, Swanton Village police have been and a half million dollar price tag on his repression and violence have shown their issued numchucks, a dangerous hand•held head issued by the governor and state of ugly faces . martial arts weapon that has been used by VT. When asked about that type of In December of 1991, the personal police against the Abenaki. imtimidation, Chief St. Francis replied, None of this is particulary new to the camp of Chief St. Francis was burned cont.Qmed on page 9 The Alann page 9 Earth First! will be called on to help tear down the man-made dams that plague the Missisquoi River. continued from page 8 last October to discuss a mini-hydro pro­ court hearings, we've held emergency "Well, as long as I got the Great Spirit on ject on the Missisquoi River. The addition meetings of solidarity in crisis situations my side and the truth, I will prevail no to the dam at Highgate Center will result and have tried to involve various commu­ matter what. They may shoot me, but I in more habitat destruction and further nities in resistance through education and got a dozen others ready to take my place. destroy the ecological balance of the eco­ information. We only put a few on the front line at one systemas well as flood Abenaki sacred Because of all thi s, gifts were time." burial grounds. exchanged between the Abenaki and Earth In a further act of repression the We were told that the Abenaki were First! in the Abenaki traditional way to Vermont Supreme Court ruled this June not working with a ny environmental further seal the bond. In addition, that Abenaki aboriginal rights had been groups because the only time environmen­ Abenaki Tribal Judge Michael Delaney extinguished "by the increasing weight of talists came to them is when they needed recently told a reporter from Akwesasn.e history." The ruling was immediately something. Since EF! has a radical repu­ Notes, of the Mohawk Nation, that when denounced by the Abenaki tation and was known to take measures of the Abenaki regain their soverei gnty, and their supporters. "We're headed for defending the Earth that no other environ­ Earth First! will be called on to help tear the US Supreme Court on this one," Chief mental group seemed willing to take, the down the man-made dams that plague the St. Francis said. Abenaki took time to li sten to us. And we Missisquoi River. One of the most heinous acts of intimi­ took the time to li sten to them. This solidarity is important not just to datioc and attempted genocide apparently When we spoke about the dam, biodi­ our bioregion, but to others as well as the occurred earlier'this century, relates Chief versity and the equality of all species, alliances grow. The Cree have said they St. Francis. Under the guise of Zoology, a Chief St. Francis said, "What's more will succeed from Quebec if Quebec suc­ eugenics study was done concerning the sacred than water? It's holy water. If you ceeds from Canada. One can visualize Abenaki and other indigenous people by don't have water, you don't have life. what could become of Quebecois Premiere certain factions in the United States. They're polluting so fast now that you're Bourassa's hideous dream: the nightmare "Their main ~object ," says Chief St. not going to have anything shortly. If it of the James Bay Hydro-Quebec travesty. Francis, "was to get rid of all the aborigi­ ain't up to us and you people (to stop the The Abenaki also have a strong alliance nal people by any means possible: castra­ destruction) well, the corporations don' t with the Cree. tion, guinea pigs in mental hospitals, jail give a shit. So, who does?" He said the We must remember that the indigenous and. murder." Chief St. Francis produced a birds go south and they are poisoned off people were here living in a balance with letter that was sent from a professor at because they eat the crops and then people the natural world before Columbus Ohio State Uni versity to the director of the holler about the mosquitos here. He rammed the western hemispere. As one eugenics study at the U niversity of responded, "Who the hell eats the mosqui­ Abenaki told me, "This Struggle ...... it's Vermont dated 1/27/1934. An excerpt tos in the first place. It's common sense." all about Mother Earth." "The hi story read, "If Hitler succeeds in hi s wholesale As time passed the alliance grew. wants to forget," said Tribal Judge sterilization of Europe, it will be a demon­ When Chief St. Francis' camp was burned Delaney, "but we can't forget." stration that will carry eugenics further down EF! immediately issued a press than a hundred Eugenics Societies ever release publicly stating our solidarity with WHAT YOU CAN DO: could." Currently the Abenaki are trying the sovereign Abenaki tribe and con­ Disrupt every Columbus quin£en· to raise the money it will take to open all demned th at act and opposed all acts of tennial celebration with the truth and of the eugenics files for public scrutiny. It genocide toward native peoples. We also creative theatre. is certain that the Abenaki would like to stated that we "view those atrocities as Write letters of protest to: have the facts of'why certain members of another act by a predominant greedy white 1. Vermont Supreme Court, 111 State their tribe di sappeared during thi s time corporate power structure whi ch senses Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 period. itself on the verge of toppling and strikes 2. Governor Howard Dean, 109 State out senselessly in an attempt to ri ght Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 THE ALLIANCE itself." We further pledged our assistance 3. Governor's Advisary Commission on Although the .1991 Round River and resistance for the Abenaki, all native Native American Affairs, c\o Jetr Rendezvous (EF! national annual gather­ he ritage cultures, and all species of Benay, 17 Grand St, Swanton, VT ing) was held in the Green Mountains of Mother Earth that are under attack. 05488. the Dawnland, the beg innings of the EF! in the northeast region has tried to Please send much needed donations Abenaki/EF! alliance occurred when assist the Abenaki in many ways. Besides to the Sovereign Abenaki Tribe, POB EF!ers visited the Tribal Council office organizing rides to, and showing up for 276, Missisquoi, Vt. 05488. page 10 The Alarm IF VOTING COULD CHANGE THINGS THEY'D MAKE IT ILLEGAL by Anne Petermann includes state-fortified communist govern­ ty control without first dissolving the pre­ There are a great many environmental ments and any governments that set up an sent system. Some may even believe that activists who continue to have faith in the artificial hierarchy to oppress. the two can peacefully co-exist. Judi Bari system of thi s country. They feel no need It is similarly for this reason also that and Darryl Cherney, two EF! activists in to work toward a revolution. They work this government can never pass any truly Northern California, were blown up by a rather toward a reforming of government meaningful .environmental legislation. pipebomb in an ass~ss in a ti on attempt for believing that if we only had better people Already we have enough ecologically their hi ghl y successful work to unite the in office that things would be just fine. favorable legislation on the books that we timberworkers and environmentali sts We wouldn't even need to di scard capital­ should be able to preserve vast tracts of which they saw as the only way to achieve ism. With Corporate and gov­ community control of production thus pre­ With this in mind, they lobby for serving the redwood ecosystem into perpe­ "eco-friendly" legislation or encourage ernment links that run so tuity. Industry worked to elimi nate them people to vote for whichever candidate deep it becomes obvious that and the FBI aided and abetted by destroy­ happens to be the lesser of two evils. anything .. that threatens ing evidence and launching a smear cam­ They offer numerous justifications for this industry-:will be-:p-ut down paign to make it appear that the two had decision--He will appoint ecologically-ori­ by government forces. bombed themselves. ented people/ He will be opposed to this With C01:porate and government links particular bill while favoring these bills/ that run so deep it becomes obvious that He will strengthen environmental regula­ wilderness, outlaw clearcutting and save anything that threaten s industry will be put tions. Never mind that this particular can­ all biologically threatened species from down by government forces. Witness the didate has had a horrendous environmental going extinct and yet the devastation con­ Persian Gulf war where the US sent troops record thusfar. BUT! He is better than tinues. This is simply due to the fact that over to slaughter hundred's of thousands the other guy! if this government was created to protect of Iraqis to protect oil interests. Around Some activists have even been very the property of industry as Locke states the turn of the century the FBI was created upfront in stating that talk of revolution is then it cannot protect the environment. to deal with the Industrial Workers of the mere rhetoric. In that case, let us examine An essential step toward converting World which threatened to unite all work­ what is really needed for ecological sanity people to the necessary biocentric world­ ers giving them the power to sieze control with a di scussion on how this can be view suggested is an overall end to the of production. Wobbly organizers were achieved. social ill s plaguing the human race. It is shot, hanged, had their throats slit, were Most environmental activists would extremely difficult to be concerned with castrated or sent to prison. agree that a biocentric viewpoint for all the other species on the planet when your In short, thi s government, with its people is necessary in achieving a healthy own day-to-day survival cannot be guaran­ duty to protect the wealthy elite, will go to planet. Do they, however, realize that bio­ teed. Be you the mother of a dying child great and viol ent lengths to insure that the centrism and capitalism are two world­ in Iraq or Yugoslavia or El Salvador or control of production lies in the hands of a views that can never be reconciled? That Somalia or inner city USA, basic immedi­ few . Given thi s fact, we can see that assigning a dollar value to something ate survival instincts of oneself and one's reform of a corruption thi s thorough and automatically strips it of any inherent family come before the survival in stinct complete is impossible. The only -;neans worth. If people continue to be forced to toward the planet. A necessity toward the toward an ecologically and socially just be slaves to the almighty dollar under the solution of the problems of the oppressed world is to make a fresh start without the assumptions that they can "own" property (people and species) the world over is the burden of these completely insane people. or resources and thereby sell them, trans­ redistribution of ecological "wealth" now Accomplishing this goal will be a bit forming them into capital, then ecological being hoarded and squandered by an elite more difficult than writing about it but if sanity can never be achieved. It would few. Such an equal distribution can never we, the oppressed people of this earth, can take capital out of the system which would be achieved in a capitalist system where give up the pipe dream of reform and see make it much to costly. Our government the rule is whomever has the most wins. that we all have a common oppressor, be is rooted fmnly in a capitalist philosophy Again the only solution is an abandonment we people of colour, women, homosexu­ and could not function without it. As John of government for a collectively run free als, "disabled", workers or poor folk then, Locke so precisely put it "Government and equitable society. as we realize that we outnumber the bas­ was created for the protection of proper­ This type of society mu st be rooted in tards by about 250 to 1, we will gain the ty". To do away with "property" as a bio­ community control and self-sustainability. courage necessary to dismantle the sys­ centrist must, one must also do away with Indeed there are reformists who believe tem. all governments and all boarders. This that we can achieve this type of communi- The Alarm page 11 INTERNATIONAL OZONE DEMO KICK-OFF Several eco groups to participate Oct.28

There really is a fire out there ... arrests, hold Environemtnal War Tribunals, and try the corporate executives Wedensday, October 28, 1992 will mark who fail to obey the law. The charge: the international kick-off of demonstra­ Premeditated mass murder of life on this tions protesting the ever increasing Ozone planet. Hole. From that day onwward, people STARTING OCTOBER 28th, Direct Action everywhere are urged to don radiation EVERY WEDNESDAY IS.- Wearing radiation suits as a suits every Wednesday to call for a ban on protest has been tried in seven countries the manufacture of ozone depleting chemi­ RADIATION with great success. Greenpeace has even cals and for the containment and neutral­ canvassed in them . Although wearing ization of those already made. This cam­ SUIT radiation suits is a first step in public paign , w hich has been initiated by WEDNESDAY awareness, direct action, shut downs of Greenpeace, and most recently by No CFC manufacturers at the point of produc­ Sweat, SeacRet, Earth First!, and the tion must be the comerstioen of thi s cam­ Industrial Workers of the Worlds (IWW), paign. is called Radiation Suit Wednesday, or What You Can Do " R ad ~Wed n esday" for short. Don rad suits on October 28th Ozone Hole while helping to shut down production at a Reports from NASA a nd the CFC plant near you and keep wearing United Nations assert the ozone hole is those suits every Wednesday until its safe indeed for real and is now growing rapidly to go outside. Unfortunately, as we go to in size. The effects are catastrophic and press, we don't know where in the north­ include ski n cancer, blindness, crop fail­ east a major acion will occur but a safe bet ure, dying oceans, and immune system would be the E .I. DuPont facility in deficiencies. An ozone "hole"is defined as Wilmington, DE. Call or write the Alarm a 50% reduction in the normal density of for further details or contact the following ozone molecules in the stratosphere and agitators: 'lbere Really is a Fire Out 'Ibere tht; one over Anarctica now covers an area three times the size of the United States. Green peace The Clean Air Act Amendments PLUGGING 1436 U St. NW of 1990 state: Effective July 1, 1992, it THE HOLE IN Washington DC 20009 shall be unlawful for any person ... to attn"Mark Glyde knowingly vent. .. release or dispose of THE OZONE (202)319-2466 any ... . substance used as a refrigerant...in a LAYER send em 5 buck and they'll send you a rad manner which permits such substance to suit enter the envi ronment." In other words, it's illegal to further destroy th e ozone SEACret layer. nantly in fire extingui shers, and methyl POB 1175 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's) are bromide, extensively used as a soil fumni­ Newark, DE 19715 extensively used ·as refrigerants in refriger­ gant, both contai n the element bromide ators and air conditioners. It's the chlorine insted of chlorine, but the ozone depleting EF! atom from the chlorofluorocarbon mole­ potential of these chemicals is just as POB 34 cul e that catalyzes ozone destruction after great. It can take up to 20 years for the Garberville, CA 95542 it has floated up into the strastosphere. chemicals to float hi gh enough to do their (707)468-1660 Carbon tetrachloride' which is mainly used damage. The effects we're seeing now are as a cleaning solvent, and methyl chloro­ only the begi nning. NO SWEAT! form used mainly in industrial processes Environmental War Crimes POB 10346 are other widely employed ozone deplet­ Is the EPA going to enforce the Olympia, W A 98502 ing chemicals containing chlorine. Clean Air Act ammendment? NO! The (206)866-2684 Halons, which are used predomi- time has come for people to make citizen page 12 The Alarm ALBION UPRISING A COMMUNITY VICTORY

By Judi Bari After eight weeks of continuous tree­ sits, logging blockades and civil disobedi­ ence actions, Ecotopia EF! is celebrating a victory in our struggle to save the last of the redwoods in Northern California. To even our own surprise, we have succeeded in shutting down Louisiana Pacific, the biggest landowner and corporate power in our area, in an entire watershed along the Albion River. And, although thi s victory may not be permanent,(court orders can be overturned and corporate promises bro­ ken), it shows the power of community based direct action. · The Albion uprisi ng began in late April, when the small rural community of Albion got fed up with watching their forestlands . being devoured by L-P. --.., Neighbors had been working for years, fil­ warriors assist a wounded comrade, Judi Bari, center. ing lawsuits to try to protect the redwoods, name and asking them to stop cutting the spoke at one of our rallies and denounced wruch grow on steep slopes leading down trees. Local teenagers, born and raised in the companies lies that we are to blame for to the Albion River. But when the system the area, blockaded heavy equipment that their mill closures. Another worker at an inevitably failed them and the courts ruled was being brought in to destroy the land L-P mill wore an EF! shirt to work (and to ignore environmental regulations and that they grew up in and love. got away with it! ) in solidarity with our let L-P cut, the people of Albion did not In an action called the Albion Vehicle actions. A long-time logger helped rig give up. They went in to the forest to save Abatement Program, innumerable junk one of the tree-sits, and another fifth gen­ the trees themselves, and they called on cars, trucks and even a travel trailer have eration logger whose uncle is in charge of Earth First! to show them how. We shown up abandoned in front of L-P log­ the Albion cut has publicly joined our showed up with our music, our tree-climb­ ging gates. In another action, while L-P protest against the corporation. ing gear and our years of experience in security stood on a log truck to video the Goliath Sues David forest actions, and joined with Albion's crowd (who were singing and playing In the face of such overwhelming sense of community and intimate love and music), a demonstrator snuck under the community opposition, L-P has turned to knowlegde of the forest they live in. The truck and locked himself to an axel, way­ the legal system to try and bully us into combination proved dynamic, and the laying the truck and the six others behi nd submission. They got a restraining,_order Albion Uprising was on. it. A new tactic introduced in Albion is and an injunction against our protests, and The actions we staged together have spiderwebbing, in which brightly colored filed a SLAPP suit against us. Their legal been phenonemal for their spirit, creativity yarn is densely woven in and out of the harrassment has included overly enthusi­ and non-violence. We put up and main­ trees to block roads and logging sites. The astic process servers chasing us around tained eleven tree-sits (including Dark yarn cannot be cut with a chainsaw as it trying to serve legal papers on us. One Moon, who stayed up for 31 days!) and wraps up in the chain, and cannot be cut even crashed a private party, disguising managed to resupply them and even with a knife or logger's axe because it is himself as a party-goer, and tried to serve switch sitters under the nose of L-P's 24- too flexible. The only efficient way to the people there. hour security guards. We have also held remove it is with a decidedly un-macho At one peaceful demonstration an L-P regular blatant occupations of L-P land, tool--a scissors. security man suddenly began pointing out with the Albion Navy coming up the river The Albion Uprising bas cut across "leaders" on our side, ordering our arrests in canoes and rowboats wrule other com­ traditional divisions in the environmental for supposedly violating their injunction, munity members hiked down to join them movement. We have bad Native even though we were breaking no laws. from the homestead lands that surround American and Lesbian tree-sitters, and Police lunged into the crowd at L-P's the L-P cut. Neighbors have confronted women's civil disobedience and spider­ orders and summarily hauled four of us neighbors in the woods, calling them by webbing actions. Two L-P millworkers continued on page 13 The Alarm page 13 continued from page 12 were not going to back real political power through our actions. over the L-P property line, down, things suddenly So for now the chainsaws are silent includin.g myself. Despite began to change. In one along the Albion River, and, with the win­ the fact that I am disabled week's time, three seper­ ter rainy season approaching, this area is (having been crippled by the ate judges handed down safe until at least next spring. Some of the timber industry's 1990 car favorable court rulings 600-year-old redwoods are lying on the bomb assassination attempt stopping L-P from cutting ground, victims of L-P's assault, but we on me), I was pushed to the on six different timber have saved the area from the total devasta­ ground, them lifted up and plans along the Albion, tion L-P had planned for it. And if they force walked over the L-P and L-P "voluntarily" try again to take the rest, you can be sure line. At this the other withdrew a seventh plan. that we will be there to meet them again. demonstrators sat down in These were the same WHY WE WON'T GIVE IN the road and blockaded the judges that had been rul­ Much is at stake in the Albion police from taking us to jail, ing against us for the last Uprising. Our constitutional rights have until they finally admitted it three years. And now been violated with their SLAPP suit, and was a false arrest and had to there was only one active brave local people are being bullied by a release us . cut left, a relatively small scoundrel corporation. But most impor­ Throughout all tills, we clearcut near the ridge tant is the trees. The redwood ecosystem stayed together and refused top. is dying from the south due to liquidation to be intimidated. There Meanwhile, unable to logging practices, and the Albion River is have been 92 arrests in the stop our ragtag band of one of the last relatively intact watersheds course of these demonstra­ hippies, EF!ers and com­ in Mendocino County. It is a tidal estuary, tions, some deliberate and munity members, L-P was where fresh and salt water mix to form some unintended. But the thrown into internal tur­ critical spawning grounds for many most serious legal assault moil. L-P President marine species. that L-P has subjected us to Harry Merlo shocked us In response to our Albion actions, L-P is their SLAPP suit all by suddenly and with­ admitted that in the few short years that (Strategic Lawsuit Against out notice firing his top they have been here they have already Public Participation). These corporate executive and loggd 90% of their trees in this county. lawsuits are being increas­ chief henchman in our That's not 90% of the old-growth, that's ingly used by earth raping area, and hiring the 33- 90% of the trees. These last remnants of corporations to try and stop year old son of another mature second growth and residual old pe.ople from exercising their Vice President to replace growth hold the genetic code for any hope tight to protest the destruc­ him as head of L-P's of eventual recovery for tills once magnifi­ tion of the planet. L-P is Western Division. The cent forest ecosystem. suing three groups (includ­ new L-P exec, Bobby In the course of hearing our case ing EF!) and 115 individu­ Simpson, offered to meet against L-P, one of our local judges was so als, seeking damages for the with us demonstrators on impressed by our numbers and dedication supposedly irreparable harm our terms, in a place cho­ that he decided to tour the forest to see the our protests have caused tills sen by us. We chose a area whose fate he was deciding. After huge multi-national corpora­ log deck in the middle of seeing the area, the judge said that the tion. And suddenly people their devastated cut area, Albion is "one of the half dozen most who merely trespassed or in and just to show what we beautiful places in Mendocino County." some cases just came to a thought of their negotia- L-P's attorney cynically replied, "Yes, it is rally have found .their homes tions, we blockaded that one remaining beautiful, but its not a park. It's zoned for and livlihoods at stake. active clearcut the day before the meeting. timber production." Well we in Ecotopia TURNAROUND Bob Simpson, the boy wonder corpo­ EF! have rezoned tills land for forest and AND VICTORY rate exec, turned out to be a smiling liar habitat restoration. And too many trees This .SLAPP suit is still hanging over and an inexperienced fool. But he did have already gone down. our heads, forcing ~s to spend our time sometillng unprecedented in our local tim­ and resources mounting a legal defense ber wars. He withdrew the timber plan For more information please call the against L-P's indefensible tactics. But and shut down that last clearcut in direct Mendocino Environmental Center at (707) even the SLAPP suit failed to stop our response to EF!, with no court order or 468-1660. demonstrations or break our will to save legislative directive making him do so. To send donations please make the redwoods. And when it finally Like a union that wins recognition from a checks payable to Albion Defense Fund at became clear to the powers-that-be that we company after a strike, we have gained 106 W. Standley, Ukiah, CA 95482 page 14 The Alarm

"The trail is in better condition now than it was before the cut" Green Mountain National Forest Planner Mary Jeanne Packer US FOREST SERVICE AND A. JOHNSON CO. CLEARCUT ON THE EMILY PROCTOR TRAIL, GMNF

Over 80 acres of Green Mountain violates Federal law! be cut (the Shelterwood) would be 47 National Forest land alongside the Emily Laws broken by this sale: acres. The stand sold by the USFS to A. Proctor Recreation Trail were cut down National Environmental Policy Act Johnson was 65 acres. this summer by the A. Johnson Company. which requires a scoping process, whereby The clearcuts were supposed to be 2 This logging took place with the illegal members of the public are asked to submit to 3 acres each, scattered over 20 acres. cooperation of the US Forest Service. their concerns on a proposed action. No This was a 20 acre clearcut. To cut this trail, the Forest Service did scoping occurred for this sale. Over the past 18 months, every single not even follow their own Environmental timber sale offered on the GMNF has been Assessment and rather than having the A. After the decision was made, the reversed for failure to comply with Johnson Co. use an old existing logging Forest Service announced the sale to a Federal laws, after actions were taken by road, they allowed them to transform the very limited segment of the public. In the PAW. Emily Proctor hiking trail, a spur to the decision notice, the Forest Service failed Even the Forest Service admitted that Long Trail, into a skid road three to four to mention that the sale would take place every one of their timber sales last year times as wide. adjacent to the Emily Proctor Trail. was in violation of the law. This is an The clearcuts themselves are also The Forest Service also failed to con­ example of a timber sale from three years outrageous and criminal. They violate the sider effects to the New Haven River, ago before PAW began appealing illegal National Forest Management Act, the whose headwaters will be degraded by the sales. Who knows what else is out there National Environmental Policy Act, and sale, in their Environmental Assessment. about to be cut down!!! the Forest Plan. These lands are public The New Haven is classified as a The Forest Service had agreed to meet lands. They are supposed to be managed Significant river and is a potential with concerned members of the public by the Forest Service for the public. No National Wild and Scenic River. regarding the last uncut section of this tim­ one in the public was notified of this tim­ The maps on the Environmental ber sale but as Biodiversity Liberation

ber sale before a decision was made. This Assessment stated that one of the stands to contimi~ on page 15 The Alarm page 15 continued from page 14 necessary non-violent means as the USFS reseeded. EF! informed PAW of this who Front Earth First! stated in a press release, and A. Johnson raise the stakes in their then called the Forest Service to remind "We have previously stated that we will attempt to destroy wildlife and their habi­ them that if the area was cut before the not negotiate with terrorists like the USFS tats through piracy and terrorism." ground froze, it would further violate the or the A. Johnson Co. Our position bas So instead of attending their meeting, law and their own Environmental not changed and the construction of the Earth First! dropped a banner at the meet­ Assessment due to the presence of an Jog skid road, formerly known as the ing site which read "Forests not Stumps! intermittent stream which could not be Emily Proctor trail, further justifies our Earth First! Groups attending this meet­ travelled across until it was frozen to pro­ stance. THe USFS is nothing more than ing with the Forest Service included the tect the soi I. agents of piracy, whose booty are the Sierra Club, the Green Mountain Club and BLF is mounting a direct action cam­ National Forests, which are being raped the A. Johnson Co. The "compromise" paign to save this last section of the forest and pillaged. Earth First! believes that all reached by these groups was that A . from being cut. If you would be interested civilized people have the right to repel Johnson could go ahead and cut the final in participating, contact the Alarm. pirates and will understand concerned citi- cut using the Emily Proctor as a skid road zens' actions to defend mother earth by as soon as possible so the trail could be OPEN PIT MINE PLANNED FOR NOVA SCOTIA To recoup some of the losses incurred they will be permitted to open the mine. Recently in Pictou County, Nova in the shutting down of the Plymouth The coalition does not believe that this Scotia, 26 miners died in the underground mine, Westray now wants to begin operat­ will be any sort of an answer due to the Plymouth mine owned by Westray Coal of ing an open pit mine in the nearby town of fact that these E.A.'s are often used as a the ullagb Resources Co. Some of the Stellerton. "shield for industry ... to mislead the pub­ bodies have yet to be recovered. The Federal and Provincial govern­ lic" as stated by activist David Orton. The Because of this trajedy, Westray was ments were ready to allow the new mine requirement of the E.A. will, however, forced to shut the mine down. to begin production with no environmental buy additional time to formulate a plan of The trajedy occurred because, in assessments (E.A.'s). People of the town, opposition. The people in the town are Westray's push for profits, they had in coalition with seasoned environmental claiming a victory for now with the real­ ignored warnings about the lethality of the activists and the Stellerton Town Council, ization that the battle is nowhere near mixture of coal dust and methane, a prob­ have created enough public pressure that over. lem that had been noted in the Plymouth the Provincial government is now requir­ mine. ing Westray to complete an E.A. before continued from page 7 American Indian Movement ADC/ Huracan NATIVE AMERICAN CONTACTS 643 Virginia St. POBox 7591 St Paul, MN 55103 Minneapolis, MN 55407 Campana Continental- 500 years of resistance Leonard Gwarth-ee-lass Peltier Resistance also OH-TOH-KIN MST, Rua Ministro Godoy 1484 No. 89637- 132 POBox 2881 05015 Sao Paulo, SP POBox 1000 Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3X4 BRAZIL Leavenworth, KS 66048 (510) 834-4263

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(Silence of the Sallee) By Steve Taylor Big River Earth First! (in exile)

Amidst an air of apparent calm - various legal motions, criminal trials, and congressional initiatives edge toward radi­ cal reform in the Shawnee National Forest. In recent years the Shawnee forest in southern Illinois has provided some of the most progressive management plan revi­ sions and federal legislative reform in the national forest system. Despite the fact that a few arrogant humans still demand that it be "managed", (forests need guid­ ance you know - you don't want them In Aug. '91 The Shawnee FS imported_special law enforcement from around the growing up all old, decadent, and full of natioii, further. ilulicating that the agency needs to trim some fat. bark and stuff) the Forest Service has been Chuck Daugh~rty , a spokesman for the also stated that Boe has replaced former forced to publicly re-evaluate and even timber lobby states, "The Shawnee is a test forest manager Sallee until hi s permanent revise their mismanagement policies. case because more radical environmental- replacement arrives. Earth First! has long Although rare and beautiful habitat ists believe that if they can stop the har- demanded Sallee's di smi ssal. Also com­ was lost through the logging of the vest here, they can stop it across the municated by Glisson, was that the new Fairview sale in August of last year, the nation." acting manager had indicated that there Forest Service may have sealed their own Yet the Forest Service seeks still more would be no cutting this election year due fate by cutting in defiance of congression­ deceptive means to "get the cut out". to concerns in "Washington" of noisy al and public appeal. Even though their new Draft Forest protests. As reported by the A. P., the Riding a wave of public debate Management Plan allows for only two Forest Service spent in excess of 315,000 inspired by dozens of arrests last year, thirds less timbering (by board feet), the dollars in law enforcement alone to defend Representative Sidney Yates (D-Crucago) agency has proposed an increase in cutting against Earth First's interference with last has introduced a directive into the 1993 for alleged "wildlife" openings, along with year's cut. F.S. budget that would ban all timber sales the removal of thousands of acres of pines As thi s goes to press Earth First!er in the Illinois National Forest. The mea­ under the guise of "ecological restoration". John Wallace prepares for jury trial early sure passed the House on July 23rd, but Recently both Joe Glisson, and Bill this September. Wallace, one of nine for­ was not included in the Senate version of Cronin of R.A.C.E filed appeals challeng- est defenders still to be tried from the orig­ the bill . The fate of the directive will be ing these policies. Stays were granted by inal 34 arrested in August of last year, will debated by both the House and Senate as the regional forester Floyd Marita, virtual- defend himself against charges of mob the bill goes to committee. The agencies ly bringing to a halt timber sale prepara- action and loaded log trucks when Earth renegade style of corporate welfare log­ tion of the forest. First!ers coupled themselves to the vehi- ging had already been cramped by provi­ "We have them by th e gonads, and cles with (Gorill a Brand) kryptonite 1ocks sions in the 1991 Interior Appropriations they want to talk". said Glisson, referring around their necks. Bill which outlaws clear cutting in the to a phone conversation he recently con- This forest update brought to you by Shawnee. ducted with Norbert Boe, the new acting Gorilla Brand Bicycle locks "THE BEST Tensions run high in the corporate manager of the Shawnee. Glisson reports DANG LOCKS AROUND". logging community. As reported by that Boe wishes to meet with both litigants Associated Press Washington Bureau, to discuss possible concessions. Glisson THEY end in Ann Arbor, MI. The Wobs have ed the main meeting on day one and J.R. WOBBLED been very supportive of EF! actions, espe­ piddled and sniffed and made friends with WW J.R. the terrierist, Orin cially during Redwood Summer and the a poodle named Molly Maguire. Langelle and Anne EF! occupation of the Shawnee National on the labor-environmental scene Petermann represented the northeast EF! Forest in Southern Illinois. progress was discussed concerning the movement at the annual Assembly of the Anne facilitated a labor-environmen­ IWW-EF! work with the logging commu­ Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or tal workshop and was a co-facilitator in a nity in Northern California against Wobblies) held over the Labor Day week- direct action workshop. Orin co-facilitat- continufd on page 21 L The Alarm page 17 THROUGH THE HINTERLANDS by Roadblock undoubtedly save the day. We hope. OK, forget grammar and syntax. Style? I So I'm guessing that if you're like me haven't got any. But we just finished this you know we (all Species) will survive 8,000 mile elipse through Amerika. The this holocaust in some form or another. thoughts I've had have been painful some, But it's also possible that homosapien may but all real enough. I don't necessarily survive in a small presence. So who might want to involve anyone else, but I think, survive, us or them? maybe, that I'm possibly living in my own It occurred to me at the rendezvous fool's paradise. It's worse than we dare how little we know about the natural his­ admit. tory of the very Earth we are a part of. Now I don't know, I guess a strong Some of us spend too much time writing stomach isn't one of my belongings. Tills and not enough time feeling. Even simple nonculture of the late 20th century is tree identification can't be assumed. It fiercely relentless. The fascists have near­ also occurs that "low impact use" forgets ly all angles covered. They created most don't pack it in . Homosapiens may be part IT' S ABOUT TO BE SUCCESSFULLY DISM of the angles just to confuse and control. BY THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER NOT BE GEARS of most ecosystems, but campstoves and IN A MACHINE. Very tricky. And dangerous. freeze dried food aren't . Be careful all my relatives, it's impor­ don't have a clue. Putty in the hands of - I need to know how to be part of the tant for us to survive. who? Maybe we could use that to our out back without hauling all kinds of shit Back to our trip. What we whitnessed advantage? Hah, not likely, at least not to out and back. Even back at my roost the was a.,passive and obedient death (suicide) an anarchistically bent bunch like us. ongoing lessons of meeting my own needs march. ["Marching diverts people's Amerika is a showcase for fascist suc­ can't wait. thoughts. Marching kills thought. cess. Every power freak, greed- head in Srut, I just had a major scare. I don't Marching makes an end of individuality. the world can look to this country and Marching is the indispersable magic stroke ever want to slip back into Amerika. And dream of getting a part of the action, any­ I don't want you to either. That's why we performed in order to accustom people to where. Manipulation well on the way to need to create an opportunity for EF!ers a mechanistic, quasi-ritualistic activity its evil end. and other radical slime to learn how to until it becomes second nature" - Friendly OK, I'll admit suffering from the cul­ Fascism B. Gross] ture shock of going "out there' and return­ survive with the Earth. Not along the edge Subtly gaining complete control. In the ing. When I get out of the woods its into of wasteful overdone Amerika, but in the military (basic training) you march every­ the still negotiable back waters of New absence of all those high calorie table where. In Amerika you march every­ England (hate that name). But look at all scraps. Anyone out there interested and wl'\ere. There's even a cadence in suc­ these people not shocked but numb for all knowledgeable should contact me through cumbing. tills srut. the ALARM! Industrial collapse will And everyone's dressed the same. At I'm not well. Amerika is in remission have some very ugly consequences. When rest areas across the country the same in me. So I'll continue this activism that is our population collapses I want to see your neon bright white socks, sneakers, shorts long on truth but short on success. But smiling faces. and striped (going up and down) shirts maybe there's more. Techno greed, techno from K Mart (Walmart). These people death. The inseparableness of the two will VERMONT CIVIL COALITION AGAINST PROHIBITION A Hemp Legalization rally was held in can be used as a pleasant mind altering the state of Vermont who are running on a City Hall Park in Burlington, Vermont on recreational drug. pro-cannabis platform. Anyone interested September 5, 1992. An estimated crowd The interest that the end of cannabis pro­ in more information can contact: Vermont of over 200 people attended. rubition should hold for Earth First!ers is Civil Coalition Against Prohibition Hemp has a long and glorious history of that it can completely replace trees as a (VCCAP), 209 Church St. #13, use in this country. The constitution of the source of paper and fossil fuels as a source Burlington, VT 05401 (phone # 802-864- United States was written on hemp paper! of heating and transportation fuels. 7107)/// Business Alliance for Commerce Several of our Presidents farmed hemp Also there is the issue of government con­ in Hemp (BACH), POB 71093, L.A. CA and some are believe'd to have smoked it. trol and prohibition over what should be 90071-0093 (phone# 213-288-4152) /or/ The Hemp plant can be used for fuel, for each individual's personal choice. You BACH- VT, RFD 1 Box 140A, Newport, fiber (cloth, thread, rope, fiberboard), and can go out and buy a six-pack of beer and VT 05855. for medicinal purposes. The seeds can be get drunk, but you can't grow a harmless used as a protein source for people, pets, herb in your yard. and livestock. And last, but not least, it There are several political candidates in page 18 The Alarm The Alarm Presents its Second "It's All Bullshit" Award

This quarter's award was a tough deci­ idea is no more than forced bussing for nuclear fuel rod that was radiatin g . sion between state's attorney Howard Van Salmon. Warshow also claims that his Anither idea is that durin_g his hydro study Benthuysen, Green Mountain National dam is a clean envirnmentally safe pro­ his head was under water so long he forgot Forest Service Planner Mary Jeanne ducer of energy. Seems like John-Boy to come up for air thus damagi ng needed Packer, and Winooski One hydro-project needs a refresher course in Ecology 101. flows of oxygen necessary for logical developer John Warshow. Congrats, Mr. Warshow got his start in hydro thought. Warshow! For all you do, thi s bullshit because he opposes nuclear power. award is for you. Among other anti-nuclear activities, he So, John, frame thi s award and wear Warshow, while developing hi s was even arrested in 1977 for trespassing your silly little hard hat to protect you dam(n) project on the Winooski River in during a sit-in outside the Vermont when the salmon unite and tear down your VT, claims to be a conservationist because Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, dam. of a half a million dollar "trap and truck" VT. To runner ups, Howard and Mary structure which will transport salmon via We're not sure how Warshaw's envi­ Jeanne, take some reality pills and watch truck from downriver to upriver from the ronmental reasoning developed. One this space in the next Alarm! dam. Alarmist theory is that while protesting Technology to the rescue. This stupid Vermont Yankeee he sat too close to a FREDDIESSUCK = Throughout the sum- sticks to children. mer of 1992, Earth First! Then other serious direct action has been actively opposing occured. Three activists shut down road two massive timber sales production for almost seven hours. Two on Idaho's Nez Perce locked on with bicycle locks around their National Forest. EF!ers necks while a forest defender climbed and have set up base camps, occupied a tripod (not to be confused with blockaded, locked on, a camera holding device). The locks had been harrassed and ulti­ to be cut off while the two and a cherry mately arrested in an picker rescued the tripod sitter from bond­ attempt to defend the ing with the tripod. The arrestees were largest roadless wilderness given a $50,000 bond, which was later complex in the lower 48 reduced to $1000. They went to jail for a states. while, hunger struck, and were released. EF! targeted these The most bizarre aspect of the EF! sales as examples of what rescue muffins was made clear by Idaho is happening to the virgin County Sheriff of Grangerville who indi­ forests of the Wild TERRA-1ST cated that EF! protesters will be held liable Rockies due to the scale of for any injuries which occur in the area, be the planned destruction, the they injured protestors, workers, or FS importance of th e affected Maine EF! organizer, Billi Barker, was personnel. EF! will also be held liable for areas as wildlife habitat and migration cor­ arrested when she pressed the camo boys any malfunctioning machinery. The_ sher­ ridors, and the fact that the areas in ques­ to turn over their film. Billi was released iff also indicated that he has no co'ntrol tion are entirely roadless. EF!'s goal has on $100 bond (more later on her second over vigilante actions and that locals been to oppose in every possible way the arrest) and Gaia only knows what pervert would be encouraged to take the law into construction of roads into these pristine Robertson is doing while reviewing the their own hands, with the sheriffs blessing. forests. candid snaps. WHAT YOU CAN DO--Nationwide As usual the Forest (dis)Service lied Billi's second arrest was much more occupations of Freddie offices seem and mislead the activists in various ways, threatening to the powers that be. Billi appropo. Contact the ALARM for with one freddie assuring them that road­ and Erik Ryberg were looking for the rare details. building crews would survey possible wolf plant, Allotropa virgata, also known as --contact: William Roberts (406)549- den sites as they built roads. To this, candystick. This is a serious offense in 4336, John Lilburn (406)721-4255, Wild EF!er Randall Restless replied, "Sure, and Idaho. The activists refused to walk out Rockies EF!, POB 9286, Missoula, MT the Pope uses condoms." and had to be carried on litters. Billi and 59806, or Randall Restless ( 406)585- The sleaziness of head Forest Service Erik are free on bond and rumored to b_e in 9211, Yellowstone EF! , POB 6151, magnate and voyeur, F. Dale Robertson, Lithuania peddling Allotropa virgata. Bozeman, MT 59715. was realized when armed FS employees in International reports state that Billi and camotlauge were discovered taking pho­ Erik are having no luck peddling candy- tographs of wild womyn warriors bathing. The Alarm page 19 EF! POLITICAL PRISONERS Support Mark Davis and Peg Millett By Roadblock out much notice or consequence. Another claims Mark was/is part of an 'ongoing At this year's Round River 'privilege' we have is to indulge in fantasy. conspiracy'. S0 what was that fantasy Rendevous(RRR) in Colorado, the names The general masses don't think that any­ about due process? The intent of the fas­ Peg Millet and Mark Davis came up a thing is so wrong that even more of the cist government is to punish Mark beyond number of times. For those that don't same can't fix it. And us? We suspect anything his plea bargaining set out. And know who they are, I'IJ get to that in the that the ecological holocaust might be of course we're all supposed to know next paragraph. For some detailed articles even worse than we feared. But we think about it and be deterred from stepping out­ about the Arizona 5 see the EF! Journals that in this country we're both free and side the constantly narrowing lines of "the from 1991 (sorry I'm vague about which safe to sound the alarm. WRONG! Need law". ones). proof? Write to Peg and Mark or any of So what can we do? As earlier men­ Peg and Mark are our sister and the thousands of political prisoners in this tioned, know the danger we're all in for brother, our kindred spirit alter egos who country. being who we are. Maintain our solidari­ were entrapped by the Nazi FBI and now I'm not suggesting that ultimately we ty. Our collective strength is our collec­ are in federal prison for their courage and can avoid the knock at the door in the mid­ tive courage. Write to Peg and Mark and commitment to Mother Earth.* Since dle of the night or possibly the sound of offer whatever help you can. Mark feels their incarceration last fall an on-going the door being knocked off its hinges: that public pressure in whatever form pos­ appeal has been requesting all of us to Amerika's Kristalnacht. What we can do sible might be his only hope to avoid a write to them and help them in our own is know what's going on and use every railroading. ~ way. At the RRR, the appeal continued available means to evade and turn back Lastly, be careful and be fu ll of the and a large newsprint with hundreds of this repression. Though remote, it's still strength one has in the knowledge that we messages was collected and sent to them. possible for our growing minority to help are all part of this living planet and the Solon EF!ers have been writing to avert the disaster that is the apparent goal universe it is a part of. Mark since last fall. We hadn't met him of the Nazi capitalists. before but over_t his past year we have dis­ Back to Peg and Mark. These people Please send letters of support to: covered a kinship that I'm sure we all need support. They need to know and feel Peg Millett, #23 I I 8-008, 37900 share. We decided to write Mark because our presence there in prison. 112 No. 45th Ave., Dept. I785 of his longer sentence. So first of aU this Both of them have special needs that Phoenix, AZ 85027 is an appeal to everyone to write our some contribution$ could help with: mail Mark Davis, #23 I 06-008, FPC friends. That it's them in jail instead of us money, phone money, attorney's fees, Box I 000 MB064 is purely circumstantial. good books and periodicals, etc. Mark has Boron, CA 93516 ~ Which brings me to the next point... two daughters. It costs money to transport The FBI and their Nazi masters. Many of them for visits. *(Alarm note: They were caught in a us (most) are white Amerikans who in Mark's hope for an early release (6 yr FBI COINTELPRO type operation. The spite of what economic level we were sentence) through the parole process has purpose was to discredit the radical envi­ raised at, still enjoy a certain privilege hit a snag. After a reasonabley good first ronmental movement and bust Dave granted to white folks. This includes hearing in June, the federal prosecutors Foreman for publishing the book "Eco­ 'going peaceably'. At any time we can have convinced the parole board to li sten Defense- A field guide to monkeywrench­ drop back into a brain dead society with- to 'evidence' never heard at the trial that ing")

A SHORT QUIZ on ORV can hear him and are not afraid or both­ guidelines has way too many environmen­ use in the GMNF ered. talists as members. (Green Mountain National Forest) 4) Special interest groups are rewriting For the answers to the above questions, TRUE OR FALSE: the foreplan guidelines regulating ORV call the National Forest Service at 802- 1) While ORV's are NOT currently use and are attempting to change even the 773-0300 and ask for Ann Mates and get allowed in the GMNF during the summer, flimsiest of environmental standards. on the working group- it only meets once the Forest Plan (Foreplan) does allow for 5) ORVing is a traditional American a month in Rutland, VT or give me a call their eventual invasion. Sport dating back to Pre-Columbian times. at 802-649-2940 for more info -Mike Z­ 2) ORV users are worried about degrad­ 6) The NFS , with few exceptions, seems Earth First! - Admittedly a Special Interest ing the environment in the GMNF. bound to catering to the whims of fossil­ Group! 3) When "man" enters the wilderness on fueled recreationists, and lacks the guts to foot, he enters as an enemy but when he defend their own environmental standards. travels on motorized vehicles the animals 7) The working group that is writing the page 20 The Alarm The Marketplace or Yuppie Hell I AM A BITCH The street teems with Yuppies- a sea of white faces It's western-theme weekend! I trot down the path. Stiff gleaming white cowboy hats My teats swing side to side. Polished perfect snakeskin boots and new red bandanas As I gain speed they squirt, Celebration of the massacres Jetting out my rich milk into the grassland. Native American communities They are fu ll after my hunt. Dead in the dirt. My young pups yelp in the den. Horses in bondage drag lazy bored people Mama, mama! Yip! Yip! Yip! back and forth on "hay rides--Free I 0 to 4" I hear their cries on the hillside. Shit sacks dangle beneath the horses' tails children scream horses plod. My kill hangs from my jaw, bloody and fresh. Execu-Gold card buys The wind covers my tai l from the others. Hip Guatemalan handiwork At the hill's crest my mate, my sister, my Deadhead Heaven daughter from two Springs ago call and greet me. From Sweatshop Hell. We nod, sniff, lick each other with joy and knowing. A dollar for the man Driven crazy by the sickness I drop the prey, take my share to the den Of this society. where ttw little ones squeal. Clear conscience -I chew and tlren give to them. Happy consumption. Balloons for the kiddies After their meat they suck my nourishment. Brightly colored "Shop at Woolworth's" Full, they lick my face with dripping lips. National Guardsmen They roll and wimper and love each other. Camo-Buddies all They sleep in a warm, soft pile, Evidence of the Police State head on belly, feet on ear, tail in face. Blatantly shown Safe ... That no-one sees. Shoppers speak English, some French I leave the den giving the pack the sign. Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, German My sister and daughter follow into the grasslands. Yet all are identical The hunt is on again. Homogenized into one The mates stay. Consumptive greedy culture. All is good. The old man pushes a shopping cart Picking 5 cent cans from the trash Days of my heat will come again. Recycle or Die! We will mount with blood and cries Hi s life's motto. to make new life. Completely controlled environment Clean swept bricks and dying trees I am she-wolf. This is the world you have created I am coyote. You are doomed to walk these I am bitchmother, protector, Dead barren streets elder clan leader, seer. Seeking to buy happiness. It will not replace the sacred The wind calls us as we hunt You will remain empty in the full moon's light. And dead. This is your Hell. Micha de Luida Enjoy. Anne Petermann

another letter to the editor Dear Alarm business, but school is about to start. enough to at least cover sending me a few Thanks for taking time to write back to me If there is anything I can do on weekends more issues of the Alarm. Thanks again. and send me that Alarm. I loved it. or from home, that would be great. I'm· Sincerely, Propaganda is one of the great legal highs. also planning to see if any of my class­ Livia Gershon Anyway, I'd like to help with getting mates are interested in that sort of thing. Alarm published or with any other EF! I'm sending a little guilt money, hopefully The Alarm page 21 The Northern Forest Land Scam

By Roadblock politically appointed NFLC that has been form selling off their land holdings. That's Do you know anyone who is in favor working on 'strategies'. An alliance of read, incentives, and we all know what of th e Northern Forest Land Study 'environmentalists' have been monitoring turns industry's heads. (NFLS), the NFL Council (NFLC), the NF the NFLC, and now, a politically appoint­ So now there's all this tax money Alliance (NFA)? Maybe you know some­ ed CAC. being spent on th ese people (salaries), one who's part of this process or these We should all know what happens some of whom have made it a career of groups, or a member of the newly appoint­ when politics meets the forests. And it cashing regular government checks. Do ed citizens advisory committees (CAC). has ! they want to study it some more? You If you do, kick their asses until Oh yeah, all this under the guise of bet! And what do they recommend in the they either come back to their senses or the potential loss of 'traditional land uses' short term? Tax incentives to the indus­ get off the planet. These people must be to development tries so they can finish their goal of strip­ crazy! Or fucked up . Probab ly the latter. This is a revolting subject... diffi­ ping the northern forests before they sell And they think (do they really?) that we're cult to write about without puking on thi s their land. too stupid to see this on-going scam. reused paper. Another reason I'm glad I What a brilliant strategy! It's the A little background for those new don't have a computer is I'd have to clean same problem of the rich monitoring the to thi s issue ... In 1988 the U.S. Congress up the parti ally digested garden fresh rich. So what's to be done? Well, call a commissioned a study (NFLS) to develop lunch I just enjoyed. spade a spade and a scam a scam. Do not strategies for the future of the huge area What it boils down to is that the support the NFLS/NFLC. If you've got it stretc4ing from the Adirondacks to north­ industry controlled government has in you , work against it. And if you know ern Maine. So the politically appointed appointed industry shits and sympathizers or meet someone participating in this task force produced a study that created a to recommend ways to keep the industry process, kick their ass!

Northeast Earth First! Activist Conference coming this October Earth First!ers" are organizing a northeast activists around the northeast to plan how mined. EF! activist conference in Binghampton, to activate and mobilize people here. We NY on the weekend of 10/30-11/1. will also have a discussion of issues wor­ If you are interested in attending this con­ Planned for this weekend will be guest thy of our attention as well as inform one ference contact either the Alarm or Scott speakers on a variety of topics from liti­ another of upcoming events. Thiele at (717) 278-1396. gation to direct action. Also planned is a Plan for camping at least one day. How major strategizing session for EF! food will be handled is yet to be deter-

CALANDAR See related article this issue for details. coincide with these hearings. See related OF October 12, Mon. article for details. UPCOMING Activists will be headed to NYC to EVENTS demand a seat for Native Americans on October 3, Sat. the United Nations General Assembly. James Bay supporters will be holding a For more info contact (212)732-0485 conti nued from page 16 picnic at the Unitarian Church in October 28, Wed. Springfield, YT. See related article for Radiation Suit Wednesday activities details. planned nation-wide to protest ozone­ THEY WOBBLED October 9, Friday depleting chemical producti on. See relat­ the Louisiana-Pacific Corporation Earth First! northeast direct actions in soli ­ ed article for details. (see Judi Bari's piece in this issue). The darity with 500 years of resistance. October 30-Nov 1, Fri-Sun Wobs also pledged support for actions Contact the Alarm for details. Northeast EF! activist conference to be concerning the loss of ozone (see related October 10 &11, Sat & Sun. held in Binghampton, NY. See related story this issue). Street theater and other educational activi­ article or call Scott Thiele at (717) 278- A proposal by Orin was passed on the ties planned for the Burlington, VT area to 1396 for details. last day of the Assembly where the Wobs oppose the Columbus Day celebration. November 5&6, Thur&Fri next year and at all subsequent Assemblies Contact the Peace and Justice Center (802) Hearings will be happening in ME to will incorporate a direct action as a part of 863-2345 for details. determine whether the paper industry there the Assembly just li ke EF! does after each Theatrical processions and a counci l fi re should be all owed to dump more dioxin Round River Rendezvous (the EF! will celebrate Native American hi story in into the rivers. western MA. The Pokumtuck nation, National Gathering). Solon EF! is calling for direct action to believed extinct will publicly re-emerge. No Wobs were arrested, died, gave page 22 The Alarm Fowler Brook Timber Sale Reoffered The Green Mountain National Forest as a justification for the further fragment­ stitute for informed decision making based (GMNF) Service is reoffering the success­ ing and degrading of the forest while caus­ on EA's which provide an understanding fully appealed Fowler Brook Timber Sale. ing the certain demise of those creatures of environmental consequences. If a team This sale, which i s blatantly illegal , that require remote interior tracts of forest­ of biologists had been sent up instead of a appears to have been chosen by the Forest land for survival. team of NEPA experts, this appeal might Service (FS) as a test case to see what they Forest Supervisor Terry Hoffman has have been avoided." can get away with on the GMNF. They even publicly admitted that the Forest Plan PAW's response to the challenge of brought in experts from Washington, DC is being implemented in an unbalanced the new and improv~d EA wa to submit a and Wi scons in to help write the new fashion. He promised to write a letter to new and improved 70 page appeal (the Environmental Assessments (EA)s for the the FS regional office and congressional average appeal runs 10-15 pages) which sale. Their goal: To provide enough delegates due to the fact that he blamed has undoubtedly ruffled feathers all the domumentation to make this timber sale the problem on their allocation of funds to way up to head honcho, FS Chief and unappealable even though it was taking him. He lied, of course, and at the next friend of timber barons everywhere, F. place in an area that was never intended public meeting announced that he had Dale Robertson. for timber production, namely the White "changed his mind" and that the Forest The politics of this timber sale make Rocks National Recreation Area its outcome very intriguing. If (NRA) the FS agrees with PAW and Their own Forest Plan states remands the sale a second time "The White Rocks NRA repre­ then precedent will be set to ban sents a large remote habitat in the all cutting in the NRA (a very GMNF. This habitat is important large land area) which would cer­ to Bobcat, Black Bear, and Fisher tainly pi ss off the timber lords. which require varying degrees of The FS would also be faced with remoteness for food, denning and the embarrassment of having rearing of young. their "experts" be defeated by The Green Mountain ecosys­ grassroots activists. tem is being impacted by ... If they go ahead and approve home ... and recreational develop­ 5MOKE.Y I HE:- BEAR ~.1\YS ..•• . the sale, however, they ri sk the ment. The quality of remoteness UH, He 5A)15, LJMM,UH,.. HMMM/'1 ... , wrath of the public. Especially l.A-IHI1 . . . , ~ is being downgraded rapidly .. .The since their recent highly publi­ NRA provides a stable environ- cized Emily Proctor fiasco (see ment where research results are needed to Plan was indeed being implemented prop­ related article). More importantly, they forecast habitat trends for deep woods erly even though there are stacks of docu­ risk the wrath of the environmental com­ species on the NF." It also states, "No tim­ mentation to the contrary. munity and with PAW undoubtedly ready ber management will occur in backcountry The GMNF Service in their promise to take this one all the way- very publicly, areas where we would like to offer oppor­ to "Improve the National Environmental of course- to the top, and with EF! strate­ tunities for primitive recreation." In the Policy Act (NEPA) process" has interpret­ gizing in the wings to take over with direct Fowler Brook EA. however, they have ed that to mean bringing in NEPA experts action when the legal process b!eaks translated this to mean "Congressional to teach the FS how to write EA's in such down , this sale could prove, like the direction for managing the White Rocks a way that they can continue to cut and Fairview Sale in the Shawnee NF, to be NRA calls for the cutting of trees to main­ violate their own laws, but with enough politically deadly and very expensive (the tain, improve or increase habitat for edge documentation that they can get away with Fairview cost over $350,000 in law species." This is an outright lie. Public it as they have done with the Fowler enforcement alone). law is quite specific in stating that the pur­ Brook sale. Fowler Brook is not the only sale like pose of the NRA is to "Preserve and pro­ Preserve Appalachian Wilderness this, there are possibly up to 40 other tect the existing wilderness and wild val­ (PAW) project Coordinator Buck Young equally illegal sales ready to be cut in the ues and to promote wild forest and aquatic who has filed both of the appeals on the GMNF. Stay tuned to future issues for habitat for wildlife, watershed protection, Fowler Brook sale responded to this updates. For more info contact PAW at opportunities for primitive and semi-prim­ "improvement in NEPA" by stating, "The (802) 297-1022 or write POBox 52A itive recreation, and scenic, ecological, Fowler Brook II documents show that Bondville, VT 05340.To be added to the and scientific values." some progress has been made toward 'bet­ GMNF direct action list, contact the As usual, however, the FS is manag­ ter paperwork, but no amount of paper­ Alarm. ing for those species which like clearcuts work--even excellent paperwork--can sub- The Alarm page 23 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hi Alarrri, newspaper THE STARK TRUTH should Dear Alarm folks, Thanks for sending the copy of ALARM - send $10 for the first three issues. This Thanks for sending us the looks pretty good, better than the average barely covers the cost of printing and ALARM! At last, an EF! voice with fresh enviro grass-roots stuff. Please extend my mailing -- as you probably know from ideas. I think a critical action to overcome appreciation to all the fine folks carrying your own balance sheet. the problems in "the movement" and the on the battle in the Northeast. You've all I also have one of the largest collec­ Journal is to have many small, decentral­ got my support and love. tions of the Haldeman-Julius Little Blue ized publications. Shit, you folks are I'm waiting to hear from the National Books which I am now in the process of doing a great job. I've enclosed a small Parole Commission - the local guys gave selling. I am offering five of these books publication of our own. Keep it up! The me a thirty month incarceration, but when for twenty-five dollars plus five dollars @nti-ST ATE/POLICE stuff is right on! the written Notice of Action came back it shipping and handling. PE@CE, LOVE, @N@RCHY, was different; said that the case had been By the way, back during the late Ned referred to the National level for final dis­ 1950s I taught the sciences at Woodstock Western Canada EF! position. So I don't know what my fate is Union High School in Woodstock, Box 61245 Brentwood Stn. NW yet. I had some sort of naive idea that Vermont. Calgary, AB T2L 2K6 Canada once you were sentenced and in then Please publish this letter and ask your things would sort of settle down ... Hah! readers to copy it and give copies to their ALARM I'm having to fight like hell to try and get friends, asking them to do the same. RESOURCE DIRECTORY out in a reasonable amount of time. The Cordially and fraternally, NECE-3, Jim Higgins things the lawyers told me to get me to YOURS FOR A TRULY FREE PRESS POBox 85 take tHe plea agreements were mostly lies. Garry De Young, Editor Cambridge, VT 05444 Oh, well. 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