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Dawn, Kimberly, Jim Flynn, Michelle Stewart, Craig Beneville, Beverly Cherner, and John Green, Eds., Earth First! Journal 14, No Full citation: Dawn, Kimberly, Jim Flynn, Michelle Stewart, Craig Beneville, Beverly Cherner, and John Green, eds., Earth First! Journal 14, no. 2 (21 December 1993). Digitized in cooperation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6993 Copyright: All rights reserved. The user may download, preserve and print this material only for private, research or nonprofit educational purposes. The user may not alter, transform, or build upon this material. \'"1 Yule 1993 Vol. XIV, No. II December 21 THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNAL $3.50 Malaysian Anny Attacks Penan Maine Victory! ing along the road. The police then arrested five Penan men. The wives of ByRON HUBER these men were left behind, stranded The wild Maine coast has survived a in the middle of nowhere. try by Allied Energy Services (AES) to On the same day, all our huts were builda coal-firedpowerplantthere. AES torn down with chainsaws and recently announced it has given up on burned. Our rice fields were bull­ its attempt to buy off the locals with dozed, and five tear-gas bombs were bribes, bullshit and bullying. thrown in the midst of men, women, The coal- and trash-burning facility children and elderly people. When we would have been located on the were disabled by the tear-gas, the Penobscot River just above Penobscot police and the soldiers went on to Bay, only a few miles upwind ofAcadia destroy our barricade wPich we had National Park. Toxic monster AES, al­ been guarding for nine months. The ready dragging around a €l1.ain ofwater 1 police had shields and helmets and . and land pollution violations in other s ~ they hit us without pity. Some of us parts of the country, thought it could s- bled and fell unconscious. All of our easily bend the rural residents of % ~ pet monkeys, hens and dogs were downeastMainetoitswill.Theregionis ~ killed by the bombs. One very sick six­ lightlypopulated, withhighunemploy­ year-old child, who had just come - ­ ment, andArlington, Virginia-basedAES back from the hospital in town, died thought that by strategically throwing later soon afterwards. Six blowpipes, moneyaround, resistancetothescheme Editor's note: This message was carried by Co.) and from the village of Long San. five bush knives, four quivers with could be squashed. a messenger from the Penan Long Mobui There were just over one hrtndred of darts & poison, and one box of But as locals realized the impact the blockade and translated from their lan­ us at the blockade site at the time. pers0nal belongings were confiscated planned 180~megawatt plant would guage-,this is a condensed version ofthe They told us that they had an order from us. have ontheirregion's airandwateras it original message. from the district,officerin Marudi, but The next day two,troops of ~oIdiers burned. three '" million i>9unds of coal Here we Penans tell you about the they did';at~show US any do'annent. -- aITived~m~ill atI11ciCand another -~md 'che~waSte- each 'day~ resistance troubles we experienced on 28 Sep- Instead, they began to arrest us, nine in a Malaysian Air Force helicopter. arose. Ecoactivists of every stripe, from ""tember 1993: Penansall together. When they They jumped out and asked for our EarthFirst!ers andGreenstomainstream , Without any announcement, about realised that one of us was a child of leaders. They threatened to tear gas ecogroups and reg'lar folks, worked to 300 people arrived in 45 vehicles­ six years old and two ofus were sick, the hut where the leaders were counter the lies, bribes and threats in cars, tractors, lorries and bulldozers, to they released these three. The six supposedly hiding. Then, after telling AES's arsenal. harass us. There were soldiers, police Penans arrested were driven away. some Penan farmers in the vicinity to As is increasingly common with big and forestry officials, people from the About three miles from the blockade leave, they set fire to their huts. polluters, AFS first told the locals that logging company (Samling Timber site, some Penan families were walk- continued an page 25 they would notbuildthe plant ifit was ----------------_._- .. not wanted by the local. community. But once they began their drive for CAUFORNIA AcnYISTS permits, theytriedtobrushaside citizen opposition, indudinga 1991localrefer­ endum againsttheacidrainmaker. New DEFEND GRAY WHALE RANcH England environmental heavyweights Conservation Law Foundation and BY DAVID NaturalResources,CouncilofMainethen On November 11, after being held up by appeals and threwtheirhatsintothet:ing, supplying lawsuits for nine years, loggers started cutting trees on Gray grassrooters with expert Witnesses to Whale Ranch, which will become Gray Whale State Park coUnter AES's biostitutes. next year if the California Parks and Wildlife Initiative is The company's heavy-handedtactics passed. pissed off'the town ofBucksport's Zon­ A 177-acre Timber Harvest Plan (1HP) for the Majors ing Board of Appeals, which reversed Creek area had been appealed by Santa Cruz County. In a permits to build at the mouth of the sneak attack, the California Board of Forestry issued a Penobscot River. AES then tried to sue statement declining to hear the appeal at 4:55 pm the day the town, daiIning the zoning board before Veterans Day, leaving a gap of a four-day holiday, Developers suck! was "biasedll against them. The court before any move could be made to stop them in the courts. filing a lawsuit to stop the logging and had a court hearing threw out the case. G & H Tree Service, hiredby Idaho developer Ron Yanke, for a temporary restraining Qrder scheduled for Wednes­ {\nother nail in the Polluters coffin began cutting the next day. Permission was given by local day. Go figure that one out and tell me ifwe really need to was a lawsuit filed by ,residents livmg California Department of Forestry (CDF) hack Nancy have a government. next to the proposed coalburner site. Drinkard, in disregard of local ordinances forbidding With two more days before even the chance of a stop to They pointed 6u~ that the company's logging on national, holidays. Drinkard later daimed it was the logging, acti~sts took to the woods again, playing cat lease option on the property had' ex-' "~ply an honest mistake./I and mouse, trying to sneak into the logging area. The cops 'pired"ahd thus AES no ionger:::l1a~rihe, After cutting 174·trees in two days, G & H went back on in camo were watching, with activists running from them right to asRfor permits. " , ,,' Monday morning to finish the job:They were surprised to on sight. A fairly comical scene. After'a couple of hours Also faced With ~tra~egic mo~ey. be confronted by about 20 forest activists who persuaded and several arrests, there w~e about 20 cats and only a few wrenching strikes':against:their" materi-_­ the,three fallers to take the day off. But more than 100 mice. als;' the company ffnally threw'in the ~ ll trees were at risk, suffering from "blue-line-disease ­ The numerous of cops were unable to keep people away towel, roughlY',a: ~o:Q~llars poorer. marked to be cut, including some beautiful Douglas fir up from the logging'operation. Activists risk~ their lives by ." TheairofdQwneast,M~erem$lsdeai, to four and a half feet in diameter. , running'under the falling trees, on the somewhat idealistic and the mega~th of-pIarikton, ,~, On Tuesday morning, the Santa Cruz County Sheriffs notion ~t the,cutting would be stopped'ifthe lifeofa, ~ and,shellfish thatwoulil'ha\re.oC;:cuired" , Departm~ntsent in about 20 officers, including six dad in human was endangered; One'activist popped out ofthe . once the plant's cOOljrigW~ter'in~es~ shinybrandnew;~ogear, to assist the loggers. Mean­ . M... "~' "hadbegu'ntheirsavagesuctionhasbeen' while, the CountyofSanta Cruz Planning Department was • M ~. '. \'. amtJrwed(WIpage~7 , : ,a~ .: ~ , .• ~ .,' .'.'~~~~,', _ ~, :.; :". __ EARTH FIRST! NO COMPROMISE IN THE DEFENSE OF MOTHER EARTH! POB 1415 * EUGENl:/OREGON 97440 * 503-741-9191 No Compromise in the Defense of••. Earth First! Yule Political Ideology?' December 21, 1993 how similar the competing agendas and stay in the game. Of course, the VoL XIV, No. II BY CRAIG BENEVILLE forest movement is not alone in this really are. ~. I had the opportunity to attend a The Earth first! Journal is published by an The forest movement, as far as I can criticism. The whole of environmen­ editorial staff from within the Earth First! Western Ancient Forest Campaign tell, ).s getting nowhere because the talism suffers from such self-imposed movement. Entire contentsare copyrighted conference in November. One of the technocrats in Washington continue limitations. 1993. We are pleased to allow reprinting if workshop discussions featured two of to allow the forest "issue" to be I agree with the: griliithon a Paris..-, credit is given, except for those articles the plaintiffs who cut the deal with considered in terms of "allowable wall during the 1968 French student spedfically copyrighted by the author. Art, the Clinton administration concern­ harvest" and "volume." By adopting uprising: "BE REALISTIC: DEMAND photographs, and poetry are copyrighted ing the spotted owl lawsuit (see such an anthropocentric framework, THE IMPOSSIBLE." At this point in by the individual artists and permission for Samhain for the rundown on the they dose out all other options, the late, great quaternary extinction use must be received from them. deal). regardless of what they really believe spasm it's not enough to deal in Earth First! Journal is a forum for the The basic excuse proffered by the no-compromiseenvironmentalmovement. or intend. "Political reality" becomes political realism. Ecological realism Responsibility rests with the individual two was that the political must assume primacy. authors and correspondents. The contents pressure was just too We must ensure enough do not necessarily represent the viewpoint intense, and if they hadn't wilderness remains not of this newspaper, the Earth First! given up the 54 old growth only to sustain present movement, local Earth First! groups or timber sales, the Clinton ecological communities, individual Earth First!ers.
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