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IN THIS ISSUE: Police Violence Against Activists, Sabotage, Direct Action, Indigenous Issues, and articles on Land, Air and Water Abuse. CONTRIBUTORS FOR THIS ISSUE Garth Allen, autonome forum, Billi Barker, Lisa Brooks, Biodiversity Liberation Front, Andy Cantsin, G.L. Doebler, Eastern Predator Project, . Fiery Viruses, Heather Fraser, Helkat, Orin Langelle, Micha de Linda, Marko & Ms. Chyph, Don Ogden, Gwen Parker, Anne Petermann, Regroupement de Solidarite Avec les Autochtones, Roadblocks, Bart Semcer, Spider Web Action Team (SWAT), and George Washington. page 2 The Alarm History of the Alarm

by G.L. Doebler The history of the first Alarm is insepara- was really a collective one involving the efforts What' s in a name? When it comes to ble from the biography of its editor, Albert R. of Albert's wife, Lucy Parsons, and many of journals of social change, names mean a lot. It Parsons, and history of the Haymarket Affair, the other 150 members of the American Group has long been common practice for social revo­ an event that defined the shape and substance of the JWPA, including Lizz ie Holmes, lutionaries to invoke powerful symbols in nam­ of American anarchism and inspired an entire William Holmes, Sam Fielden, and several of ing their journalistic vehicles. Freedom, generation of radicals to pursue their activist the other Haymarket martyrs. Originally Firebrand, Liberty, Lucifer, Mother Earth, careers by demonstrating to the world the sham puplished as a weekly, The Alarm experienced Blast.. . The vivid names of those publications of American justice. On May 4, 1886, a bomb constant financial problems which reduced its reflected the ideals and aims of the radicals was thrown by an unknown person into the appearance to every other week. Making a who created them. They were intended to rally ranks of a column of Chicago police who were virtue of necessity, however, the Alarmists to the faithful, rouse the curiosity and interest attempting to stop a peaceful meeting near the refashioned the publication as a co-operative, of the oppressed, and ring out in defiance of the Haymarket Square. The meeting had been The Alarm Press Club, selling s hares and oppressors. called by members of the Chicago branch of spawning support groups around the nation. the International Working Peoples Party They also organized lecture tours and special THE ALARM. (IWPA)-the anarchist international-to event fundraisers that brought supporters closer protest a brutal police attack on workers from together and ~elped spread th e word about the McCormick factory who were on strikMaine, late in February. Pictured is a I was quite pleased to learn that the folks directed towards th ese anarchists was a conse­ protester being carried away (toward the who publish this journal decided to reclaim a quence of the ruling class' fear of the growing guest accomodations provided) by the part of our hi story by calling it the ALARM. revolutionary movement they were building, authorities. In the first set of arrests~· · all This choice of name reflects a concious deci­ and Th e Alarm, the newspaper of the English­ 13 activists non-cooperated with the sion of the radicals of today to identify with the speaking section of the North American IWPA, state during their two day stay at Club radicals who came before them. Since the rul­ figured prominently in the nightmares of the Maine Med and were treated just like it ing class survives, not only because it accentu­ rich. Th e Alarm appeared from 1884 to 1889, ates differences based on race, nationality, gen­ with a brief hiatis in 1886 when its offices were doesn 't say in the travel brochures. The der and religion, but also because it divides one raided in the aftermath of the Haymarket bomb, blockade continued, and the following generation from the next, robbing us of our his­ and again in 1915 and 1916. (at one time, weekend 21 non-violent demonstrators tory and therefore our identity, it is an act of Italian-American anarchists took up the flag, were arrested. See page 4 for the liberation to maintain the thread of conscious­ printing a journal entitled L 'Allarme.) Albert details. The resistance continues ... ness that connects us with kindred spirits of the Parsons, blacklisted from the regular printing Photo: Portland Free Press (from inde­ past. trades for his involvement in the Great Strike pendent activist video) of 1887, served as editior; but the endeavor

One of Webster's definitions of alarm is "a mechanism that warns of danger, arouses from sleep, etc." With the ALARM we hope to arouse the human species from mental hibern ation. With awakening, hopefully empowerment will follow to prevent the further desecration of Gaia. The ALARM intends to be a revolutionary ecological news quarterly published by Earth First! groups in the northeast region. The ALARM is part of the international direct acti on movement that takes a no compromise stance in defense of Mother Earth. Responsibility in this publication rests with the individual authors and correspondents. The contents do not neces· sarily represent the viewpoints of this publication, the EF! movement, local EF! groups or individual EF!ers. Although the ALARM does not accept the authority of the hierarchal 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, vr 05402(802)658-2403 @nticopyright @ntiprofit The ALARM is printed on recycled paper. The Alarm page fr: The Action Page M@YD@Y! M@YD@Y! CARMAGEDDON An international call is always issued An international day of outrage is to those who feel the employing class and scheduled for May15th, against the infer­ the working class have nothing in com­ nal combustion monster. Northeast gas mon. Meet Saturday morning, Mayday, guzzlers have nothing to fear on that day at th e Onion River Food Coop in as all EF! activists will have crawled to Burlington, VT, @ 10 am for a "LET the Northeast Rendezvous scheduled to be THEM EAT CHAOS" celebration. Bring going on at that time. But have no fear, noisemakers and blow the whistle on we in the northeast will strike on the 17th. those who attempt to control us as we Coming soon to a location near you. frolic through the streets of this supposed­ ly enlightened burg(er). Yes, class war EF! Northeast Rendezvous has found a new home for th e rich! Contact the ALARM if you must. May 13-16 EARTH FIRST! MEETS Georgia Pacific Actions! EF! calls for EF!ers in the Burlington, VT, area A region-wide action is being Tourism Boycott meet on the third Sunday of every month planned for early April in New Jersey at 3 pm in the Last Elm Cafe. The Last See Back Page against the Georgia Pacific Corporation. Elm Cafe is anarchist operated and is G-P is the #1 importer of tropical hard­ located at 167 N. Winooski Ave, in woods in the US. This rainforest wood NAFTA ACTIONS Burlington. They are non-speciesist, so comes primarily from Southeast Asia and bring your animal friends. A-SEED and SEAC have announced, the Amazon basin and is mainly used for in opposition to the North American Free AN EARTH NIGHT ACTION plywood, veneers and moldings. Trade Agreement (NAFT A), borde r On the evening of April 22, Earth G-P continually disobeys federal actions to be he ld at the U.S.-Mexico and Night 1990, an underground faction call­ laws regarding the pollutants that they U.S-Canada borders. These simultaneous ing themselves the Earth Night Action release into the air and water. They have solidarity border actions will be held on Group (ENAG) took responsibility for twice as many EPA violations as any April 4th. Contact your local SEAC toppling power lines around Santa Cruz, other forest product company. chapter for details or Madeleine from the CA. They were protesting the general For more information, call Wetlands Burlington A-SEED group @ (802) 656- dis-empowerment of the human with rela­ at 212-966-5244 4484 or 656-6202. tion to the wilder forces of life that are MAYDAY-On May 1st, anti­ supposedly controlled by the powers that NAFTA proponents will gather at Solidarity Actions be. ENAG targeted Pacific Gas and Vermont's State House in Montpelier to Against Champion Electric (PG&E) who, amongst other atro­ protest this absurd treaty bent on destroy­ cious behavior, made deals that were Tom Carney of Greater Adirondack ing the environment and worker's inter­ against the development of solar energy Bioregion EF! and Billi Barker of Maine · ests and benefitting the multi-national practices. A lot of wet yuppie poodles EF! report that on the 29th of March there corporate entity. Please contact the were not blown dry that night. will be simultaneous demonstrations · Burlington Peace Coalition @ (802) 863- Issue #2 of the then fledgling ALARM occurring against Champion International 2345 for further logistics. (April '92) commented on the in Connecticut and Maine. The demos are occurring in solidarity with an action Idaho Actions International Day of Outrage against the Forest Service on John Muir's birthday. planned against Champion in Tennesee. This Summer Not suggesting anything, a night of out­ Activists are protesting the Champion See Page 13 rage philosophically was mentioned. At mills due to Champion's disregard for the this, the last standing fire lookout tower in environment through their massive PAW PRINTS ROADSHOW a "wilderness area" of the Adirondacks clearcuts and their polluting of the air and Casey Neal and the PAW PRINTS met its demise. water with dioxin. For more info on these ROADSHOW with the elusive Buck Who is to say what will happen next actions, contact Tom at (518) 374-6592 or Young (no relation to Neil) will be in the on Earth Night? Billi at (207) 247-4112. northeast sometime in April. Rumor has British EF! groups are calling for To tell Champion what you think of it that this smashing presentation will be their next Earth Night to take place on their environmental practices, contact in Burlington, VT, on April 22nd. For April 1st and are seeking solidarity act­ them directly at Champion International, details harass the PAW office @ (802) ions from april foolers everywhere. See One Champion Plaza, Stamford, CT 257-4878. their letter to the editor for more details. 06921, (203) 358-7520. page 4 The Alarm Police Brutality Against Mount Blue Activists source: Maine EF! guards placed a towel next to the door. the hyp0glycemic women, they finally Activists blockaded a logging road at One of the women took the towel hostage started reGeiving juice every hour. the Mount Blue State Park in Maine peri­ which infuriated the guards. Eight guards The people were in jail for 48 hours odically for a couple of weeks. Early then came into the cell to retrieve the but were finally released without giving Sunday morning, February 21st, activists stolen towel. They were unsuccessful in their names. The kops did, however, insist went into the woods. finding it and the guards eventually gave on a polaroid. One activist refused, Seven barricades putting heJ shirt over her face to cover it. were erected, the The Kops then held her upside down by road was spider­ her ankles, banging he r head on the webbed, and a large cement floor until her face was uncovered. bonfire was lit in the They snapped the shot and dropped her middle of the road. bead first. At Sam the first The cars , that people left in logging truck Farmington to carpool up to the site were arrived. It drove bashed with baseball bats, and the woman straight through the at whose home near Mt. Blue people had numerous barricades been meeting had learned that she was and was ultimately being [mmediately evicted due to her stopped only by the political involvement. activists themselves Two reporters who had acted friendly who put their bodies toward ,the protestors, informing them of between the trucks what was going on wi th the situation in and the trees. town, ended up to actually be spying on The arrests the protestors for the kops. One reporter, began at lOam. a male, actually used the kop karnkorder People were given to video the arrests. The other reporter 15 minutes to leave, Police drag Mt Blue protestor. Photo: Portland Free Press (from independent video) meanwhile, made sure that she was in after which everyone was arrested, includ- the men water as ransom for its safe none of tlile still photos that the male took ing support people who were not in the return. so that she could take credit for them in road. A total of 13 people were arrested. Charcoal, left in peoples' pockets the regioiJl's capitalist press. The activists practiced jail solidarity and from being dragged through the fire, was A report leaked to the medi a stating were in total non-compliance with the mixed with toothpaste to create graffiti on that several hundred trees in the State Park police. Everyone went limp and no one the walls. At night the men received one had been spiked by a party claiming to be gave their name. Due to the remote loca- mattress and four blankets; the women, EF! may have caused the initially severe tion of the arrests, the kops decided to four mattresses and six blankets. No one reactions of the kops. Whether or not the have fun with the activists. At least one slept but rather rioted in the cells for the site was actually spiked is not known, nor activist, a minor, was dragged through the entire time they were there, drumming on is it known whether it was actually done hot coals left from the blazing bonfire. the doors and chanting. by people sympathetic to EF! or by Feds Two women were dragged such that arti- In the morning, everyone requested trying rto discredit the EF! movement by des of their clothing were tom off down juice but were given coffee. Eventually publicizing this highly controversiahtactic. to their bare skin. Another woman was they were given four ounces of juice. The following weekend, activists forced into a kop kar in a manner that Three of the women begari to go into again blockaded Mt. Blue with the result caused her bead to be repeatedly smashed hypoglycemic shock. One woman threw being that over 30 people were present and against the top of the car. People were up and was uncontrollably shaking. 21 peo,pl'e were arrested. This time the cuffed so tightly that in many cases, their Despite their demands for help, no one treatment was much better and they were circulation was almost completely cut off. came for an hour. A "paramedic" came in quickly rre leased, again without giving They were then dragged down the road by and asked what kind of insulin they were their names. On Thursday, March 4th, 50 the cuffs. Others were dragged by the col- on. Insulin, it was pointed out to him, is or more activists went to Augusta to rally lar of their shirt, severely choking them. for high blood sugar, not low. What these in supportl of Mount Blue. Once they got to the jail, conditions women needed was juice. They were give This ~ampaign is intended to continue did not improve. Seven women and 5 men four more ounces of juice-not enough. over the next two winters as the contract (the minor was released) were crammed It was not until the jail was visited by calls for winter cutting through 1995. The into two small cells. The men had no sink an irate father, the Associated Press, cutting for this year is slated to be finished or toilet and were given no water for over Channel 8 and support people for the by Marc 15th. For more information on 7 hours. In protest, the women, who did activists, that they finally began to see bet­ the campaign please contact Billi Barker have a sink, poured water under the door ter treatment. After the guards received a at (207)247-4112; POBox 507 N. of their cell. To mop up the water, the call from the emergency room regarding Waterboro, ME 04061. The Alarm page 5 Activists in PA Fight for Mount Graham Black Bear Need Hunt Sabateurs in PA by Bart Semcer c lass as a result of th e acti o n. Brunk by Bart Semcer On March 3rd, activists converged on appeared confused and annoyed. During the 1992 seaso n, hunters in the campus of Muhlenberg College in The protestors moved inside as the Pennsylvani a killed 1,584 black bears. Thi s Lehigh Valley, PA, to draw attention to talk began. A woman activist was pre­ was the fo urth largest black bear kill in th e the situation atop of Moun t Graham, a pared to give a statement. Having been state's hi story. Lycoming Coun ty had the sacred Apache site and home to the endan­ completely ignored by Brunk, she stood highest number of kill s with 140. Clinton and McKean Counties came in a close sec­ gered red squirrel in Arizona. The action up and began by condemning th e intent ond and third. was call ed to correspond with the appear­ toward ecological destruction that has Several unique genetic specimens were ance of NASA consultant William Brunk. been di spl ayed by all project partners as lost in the m ass slaug hte r. In Carbo n Thi s was du e to NASA' s involvement, well as the religious bigotry put fo rth by F. County, an 827 pound bear was killed. It along with the Vati can, in bu ilding a huge Coyne of th e Vatican Observatory. She was the heaviest bear ever officiall y weighed telescopic observatory atop Mt. Graham to reminded NASA th at, as a government in P A and was possibly the largest ever search for extra-terrestrial life (dubbed the agency, it is subj ect to the demands of the recorded. In Pike County a fe male cinna­ Columbus Project). Vatican astronomers American public which has co me out mon-ph ase bear weighing 171 pounds was have announced that if such life were repeatedl y against th e Mount Graham also killed. fo und, they would consider baptising it to Observatory. She demanded that NASA bri ng it into the fo ld of the Catholic cease all plans for developing on Mount DDT Infects Chu rc h. Graham. Brunk's reaction was one of Pennsylvania's Rivers Twenty or more activists held signs, tense sil ence. The action received exten­ A recent report issued by the chanted and shouted outside of the lecture sive media coveage. Environmental Protection Agency has found hall where Brunk was scheduled to speak. Actions such as this help to sound the th at eating four ounces of fi sh per month A banner reading "Scopes and Squirrels alarm. It is doubtful th at many Lehigh from the following areas increases one's ri sk Don' t Mix! Save Mount Graham!" was Valley residents had ever heard of the con­ of cancer to mo re than o ne in 10,000: hung fro m the building's main gallery in troversy before, and while it did not stop Delaware River at Torresdale and Eddystone; clear view of the lecture attendees. Fliers the bulldozers, it did equip people with Little Valley Creek at Paoli; Susquehana were also presented to the crowd info rm­ knowledge which hopefully may inspire River at Ransom and Pittston. ing them of th e project and its conse­ them to join us in the battle for life. The study looked at 388 di fferent sites and DDT concentrations were fo und in near­ quences for the mountain ' s inhabitants. M o unt Gra ham w ill host the EF! ly all of the fish examined. The report issued Several student pro testors were asked to Round River Rendezvous this summer. a risk list of 46 sites across the country. Both speak about th e to pic the next day in a th e Nati onal Wildlife Federation and the Enviro nmental Defense Fund looked at th e Panthers in Pennsylvania?!? study and found similar risks at 4,000 differ­ ent sites. by Eastern Predator Project this is du e to a gradual migration of the . The mountain lion has been thought cats from Canada plus a remnant popula­ dead cat or pl aster tracks and even then it to be extinct in Pennsylva ni a since 1871 tion that has always existed. is questionable whether they will act upon when the state ' s last puma was killed. Critics argue that since no physical it. S in ce 1964, how­ evidence of the cougars has been present­ The Eastern Predator Project (EPP) ever, th e number ed, they do not exist. Photographs of the needs your help in protecting the cougar of sightings has animals in the wild are dismissed as circus as it makes its comeback to the been increasing runaways or released pets. With the num­ Appalachians. We need your documented until 273 panther ber of sightings increasing, however, these photos of the cats or their tracks detailing sightings had been excuses become harder to swallow. exact time and place where th ey were recorded between Physical evidence that has been taken. Places marked o n USGS maps July, 1983 and ;...--'!.11,... obtained in PA is several deer kills in would be most helpful. If you happen to December, 1991. Potter County. Mountain lions kill their find a tracks or a carcass, notify your state The mountain prey by biting it on the neck, evidenced by Game Commission, the USFWS and th e lion may be offi­ two puncture wounds. Dogs and coyotes EPP. cially listed as kill by attacking the hamstring of the ani­ This project can only work with your extirpated in P A, mal. Dogs and coyotes will also eat the help. We can' t be everywhere in the but it is becoming entrails and bones which cougars will not. woods and are unfortunately stuck in front increasingly evi- ' As the puma reclaims its ancestral of our computers much of the time. So dent that the big cats are returning. This home we must act vigilantly for its protec­ get out there, stay quiet and see what trend is evident throughout the east with tion from hunters, skittish citizens and walks by. 1500 cougars being reported since 1965. government agencies. It seems that the Eastern Predator Project, Muhlenburg John Lutz, founder and President of the only thing that will convince the Game College, Box 1631, Allentown, PA 18104 Eastern Puma Research Network believes Commissions of their existance is either a (215) 740-4255. page 6 The Alarm EF!ers in Green Mountains Fight Illegal Timber Sales

by Anne Petermann Biodiversity Liberation Front and Two Rivers EF! succeeded in shutting down logging operations at the Spruce Lodge timber sale in the Green Mountai n National Forest on December 23rd. In an hour-long confrontation, EF!ers blockaded loggers from entering the site. Forest Service personnel ended the fun by informing the loggers that there would be no cutting that day . The official reason for this delay was for soil mitigation because the ground was unfrozen and muddy. The Forest Service had not, however, had any problem with allowing a logging road to be bulldozed into the area after heavy snowmelt and rainfall earlier that week. Claim ing victory at the site, the EF!ers then moved their protest to the Middlebury District Ranger's Office, occupying it and calling for the immediate resignations of Forest Supervisor Terry Hoffman, Forest Planner Mary Jeanne Packer and of course Forest Service Chief An EF!er covers USFS sign with banner at the Middlebury District Ranger's Office. Photo: Langelle "Freddie" Dale Robertson. where a Forest Service meeting was to Forest Supervisor Terry Hoffman at 151 The Forest Service was forced to keep take place. West St. POBox 519, Rutland, VT 05702 the loggers out of the site until the ground The reasons for the opposition to this (802) 773-0300. Tell him what you think was well frozen in mid-January. When sale are numerous and include such rea- about his habit of preparing incomplete they did return, EF! was there to protest. sons as th e fact th at th e area is a black Environmental Assessments to sell illegal When the EF!ers arrived, they found the bear feeding ground as evidenced by bear- timber sales to the A Johnson Co. road clogged with blockades and spider­ clawed beech trees; the Forest Service did webbed extensively with ya rn. The log­ no scoping prior to the sale, violating the Diall-800-You-Suck! gers returned to find their equipment spi­ National Environmental Policy Act; to log derwebbed also. the are a, a portion of the Nationally President Clinton, in all his good­ The A. Johnson Co. did eventually Recognized Emily Proctor Trail was oblit­ ness, has set up a series of 1-800 num­ kill the trees on the site with the illegal erated; the New Haven River, a bers to "report waste, fraud and abuse in help of the USFS but not without paying Significant River and proposed Wild and Federal agencies." To express concerns the price of the surrounding community Scenic River with one of the best trout about dioxin, call the EPA at 1-800- becoming aware of the travesties occur­ populations in the state, and its tributaries 424-4000; call the Dep't of Energy at ring on the National Forest. As a result of will be clogged with silt by erosion from 800-541-1625; call the NuClear these protests and other organizing the clearcuts; there is a strong possibility Regulatory Commission at 800-233- endeavors, a new EF! group has formed that the shelterwood cut violates the 3497; call the Dep't of the Interior at on the Middlebury College Campus. One boundaries of the Breadloaf Wilderness 800-424-5081 and demand that all of these EF!ers was lured to the Campus area; visual quality and soil mitigation 'Warranted but precluded' species be Security office under false pretenses and standards were violated and the size of the immediately protected under the ESA; then intensively interrogated about the cuts were greater than stated in the and be sure to demand Terry Hoffman's Spruce Lodge protests. (When this type of Environmental Assessment. and F. Dale Robertson's resignations at harrassment happens, remember, you What is truly appalling about the vio­ the Dep't of Agriculture, 800-424-9121. have the right to say nothing. Anything lations associated with this sale, however, It must be noted, however, that you say WILL be used against you and is the fact that this sale is merely one of Clinton admitted recently that he no your comrades.) Their ploy to entrap or fourty different illegal sales that are being longer pays attention to these hotlines frighten off this EF!er was unsuccessful. slaughtered wholesale to beat any poten­ because they are getting too many calls BLF has been opposed to this timber tial lawsuits or direct action that might be from a certain fascist slob afternoon talk sale since last summer when a banner brought against them. show DJ. So much for government lis­ which read "Forests Not Stumps" was WHAT TO DO tening to the people. hung at a recently clearcut area of the sale Contact Green Mountain National L The Alarm page 7 Earth First! Invades Conservation Congress

by Anne Petermann the wealth of people who were economi­ timber, does not really care about workers On February 20th, Earth First! cally successful." (actually, we will never due to the fact that, in Vermont over the activists invaded the second annual take their wealth away by voting, but past ten years, the timber industry had Conservation Congress in Bristol, rather by dismantling the system that gives· increased its cut by 31% while the number Vermont. We went there to protest them their wealth and power-Alarmists) of timber-related jobs has decreased 18%. against millionaire Bill Sayer, one of the He continued, in typical "Wise Use" fash­ Bill never responded to the basic problems head honchos of the A Johnson Lumber ion, to explain that the right to own prop­ that these figures indicate but rather Co., the largest Vermont-owned timber erty is the most basic freedom from which focussed his response on a defense of company in the state. all of our other freedoms, such as freedom technology. Another question pointed out The A Johnson Co. was responsible, of speech, religion and press, stem. He that it is the pressure from large industries along with the Forest Service, for the trav­ felt that it was a "great irony that such as A Johnson that forces the small esty that occurred at the Spruce Lodge the ... staunchest defenders of the First independant contractors to buy expensive Timber Sale on the Green Mountain Amendment. .. are some of the first to pieces of equipment such as skidders National Forest (see related article). In attack the right to own private property." which in turn forces them to have to sub­ addition, Bill is a developer who owns an To cement his train of logic he point­ stantially increase their timber quota to be astounding amount of land in Vermont. ed out that because wetlands are some of able to pay off the debts incurred by the For this reason he is highly opposed to the most productive agricultural land, that machinery purchase. development restrictions. He also took a it could be considered an abuse to protect All in all, the session was very receyt trip to Russia where it is speculated them. There are even ecological trade­ enlightening. The best way to defeat that he attempted to stir up interest in mas­ offs, he reasoned, due to the fact that wet­ one's enemy is to know how they think. sacreing the large areas of old-growth for­ lands produce methane which contributes Bill touts the (un)Wise (ab)Use line very est that still remain standing there. to the greenhouse effect. faithfully and thus his responses are very At the planning session to which Bill The EF!ers present successfully dis­ predictable. This is important because we was invited as a guest speaker, he rupted this planning session by shifting the will be facing off with Bill and the A. expressed his _?pinion on a variety of top­ focus from the economic to the ecological. Johnson Co. in the future due to the fact ics. He thoughtfully stated that, as de The EF!ers took over the question and that they are the company whom the Tocqueville pointed out, "The real threat answer period with accusations that Bill Forest Service is contracting to destroy the to democracy in the USA was when the Sayer, who had previously accused EF! of ecologically imperative Lamb Brook people began to figure out that, through "attacking decent hard working families" region of the GMNF. Stay tuned to these the voting process, they could take away who were trying to earn a living cutting pages as the fight develops. How to Avoid Cabin Fever by EF! Spider Web Action Team under any pressure to finish in a hurry, (S. W.A.T.) consequently it was a work of art. Not We all met at Midnight one January only was it probably aesthetically pleasing evening, by the paddle ball courts, and in the morning, but also a real bitch to get introduced ourselves to the other deformed through. bundles of clothing we didn ' t already The falling snow and the lateness of know. We separated into two cars and the hour together had a very peaceful, headed for the current logging site near the almost magical effect. Everyone was hav­ Emily Proctor trail; one car approaching ing a wonderful bonding experience, so from Ripton, the other from Bristol. It we motivated to build log blockades - one was snowing, so we had some rather at the beginning of the spiderweb, and one stressful moments (without 4-wheel drive) at the end. managing already snow-packed Forest Feeling a sense of satisfaction (and a Service roads. However, it was discovered bit chilly), we got back in the cars and all that the consumption of frozen legumi­ headed back the Ripton way. We speculat­ nosae alleviates stress and has enormous ed about the tracks of some drunken four­ calming effects. Somehow (destiny - or wheeled brother/sister, which continued in extreme luck), the two cars met at the site, Kop collects yarn for evidence. Photo: Petennann the snow down Rt. 125 for at least 10 at approximately the same time. effectiveness of our own work, as we miles. We arrived back home at the Our plan was to spiderweb the site. tripped over it. The webbing was very ridiculous hour of 4 a.m. It was a great Yam was distributed and the action began. thorough; it was tied to many trees and action enjoyed by all and it left members We had all forgotten to bring flashlights or spanned the range of human height. We of our group motivated to directly act on head lamps, so we soon discovered the even webbed the skidder. We weren't short notice again. page 8 The Alarm HYDRO-QUEBEC's SAINT MARGUERITE-3

(the alarmists note: in issue #5, we ran a and includes the Quebec-Labrador impact of the SM-3 proj ~ct. No surveys piece entitled "H-Q to Invade Innu Native Pennins ul a. In the Innu language­ have been made of any rare species in the Lands. " We received reports and one com­ Innumun-the word "Nitassinan" means area. plaint that our information was not entirely " our land". For over 9,000 years the The SM-3 project will also generate factual. For this we apologize. We tried to inhabitants of thjs territory have been able millions of tons of carbon dioxide and valididate all the information in the story before it was printed. At least two sources con­ to survive from generation to generation, methane from the rotting flooded vegeta­ firmed. We also tried to contact Gilbert Pilot developing their language, their culture, tion. In additon, the trees destroyed by the for on site verification but his phone was not in their way of life-in short their existence. flooding will no longer help remove car­ service. It is extremely difficult to obtain infor­ Their vision of the world begins with bon dioxide from the atmosphere. In mation concerning this developing story as the their land and arises from their interaction short, the project will contribute to the Innu (Montagnais) evidently are in dire finan­ with her. Their presence in Nitassinan for greenhouse effect. cial straights and sometimes can not pay their millenia is witness to their tenacity and The roads from the dams will have a phone bills; much less afford faxes. So far no their wealth as a nation. pronounced effect' on the environment due one involved in th e ALARM has been able to Since the beginning of this century to activities associated with th e increased make th e journey. To make matters worse, it appears there is a community conflict going on those inhabiting this region of the access to the region. This impact will be and with that come divisions. If th e ALARM is Americas have had to endure the cofise-_ intensified by the construction of alu­ to have a position on the entire matter it fol­ quences of rai~roads , highways, fe nces, = minum smelting plants and other industrial lows that it 's time to put the Earth First!) communication imd high tension lines that plants t~ be built as the Quebec govern­ sEce and partition the land . The Innu have ment tries to create an artificial market for Hydro-Quebec's Saint Marguerite-3 seen th eir territory plundered by mines, the electric output. (SM-3) project involves constructing a the massive cutting of forests, and hydro­ The transmission lines associated with dam across the St. Marguerite River, 360 electric exploitation. the project have their own negati ve krn inland north of Sept Isles, a town on The SM-3 amounts to cultural geno­ impact. The defoliants used to keep them the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Quebec's cide of the Innu people. The Maisie ruver clear are dangerous, especiall y within an eastern shore. Two additional dams 840 has served as a vital waterway for access economy dependent on hunting. Some of km further north will divert th e Pekans to the interior areas. For food, the lnnu the defoliants being used are identified as and Carheil Rivers into the St. Marguerite. are in the position of choosing between being more powerful than agent orange­ These two rivers are currently tributaries mercury-poisoned fish or depending on the defoli ant used in Vietnam that had of the Maisie River (renowned fo r the size junk food supplied by the welfare society. long-term health effects. The long-term of the 12,000 to 32,000 salmon that return The SM-3 project involves the flooding of Electro-Magnetic Radiation effects of to spawn every year) which empties into ancestral burial grounds and many sites these high tension power lines has not the Gulf of St. Lawrence about 60 km held sacred by the Innu. been fully documented. Effects that have north of Sept Isles. The diversion will The environmental impact caused by been documented include sterility. reduce the flow of the Maisie by 40% at th e SM-3 will be devastating. Mercury Too make matters more grave, it the confluence of the three rivers. It has contamination occurs when vast areas of appears that the vested interests profiting been estimated that in the reservoir of the land are flooded. As the flora decays it from the H-Q nightmare have become th e more northerly Carheil, the mercury levels produces conditions favorable to the dominant force in Quebec politics. They recorded in the James Bay projects will be methylation of mercury. Methyl Mercury are fanning the flames of separatism so surpassed. The current construction cost is a bioaccumulative poison that affects that H-Q can remain independent from of the project was estimated in 1991 at just many forms of life as it becomes concen­ federal environmental review or fe"deral under $3 billion. trated. Besides poisoning humans, (the human rights protection for the indigenous Construction of access roads for work Cree have had health disorders due to the peoples whose lands are being confiscated at the lower St. Marguerite dam began in James Bay projects) -many forms of for the development projects. The compa­ June of 1992. These roads will connect wildlife including aquatic species are also nies and institutions originally created to the site to the port of Sept Isles. Road affected. serve a governmental goal of energy inde­ construction, scheduled for July of 1994 The H-Q projects alter enormous pendence are now controlling the govern­ for access to the diversionary dams to the areas of an ecosystem that is productive ment. north, will provide land access to Labrador yet fragile due to the cold northern cli­ Source: The Coalition for Nitassinan and City and to Baie-Comeau. These roads mate. While the river areas that are the Regroupment de Solidarite avec les will increase motor traffic considerably destroyed form a small part of the land Autochtones. between Nitassisnan and other parts of mass, they are a crucial part of the ecosys­ Canada. tem. Almost every species in the area is NEXT ISSUE: The Great Whale Project Nitassinan is the vast territory inhab­ affected in a negative manner, from the (La Grande Baleine) and a Native Forest itied by 10,000 people of the Innu salmon to migrating birds to mammals. Network report on the multi-national ties (Montagnais) Nation situated on the No independent Environmental and internationalism of H-Q. Lower North Shore of the St. Lawrence Assessment has been made concerning the The Alarm page 9 Power Poles Sabotaged in Vermont In early January it was reported by No one has yet claimed responsibility with cultural and de facto genocide du e to Vermont' s Rutland Herald and the for the sabotage. CVPS is offering a plans to relocate the people into manufac­ Associated Press that ten electrical trans­ reward of $20,000 for information leading tured villages where they are subject to mission poles, in five different Vermont to successful indictment of those responsi­ alcoholism, drug abuse and suicide. In locations, have been sabotaged since ble. addition, the traditional hunting grounds April, 1991. Due to the violation of two Federal are slated for clearcutting and/or flooding A letter was laws, the FBI has begun an investigation. and the water is becoming contaminated received by th e One of these laws states that anyone found with th e deadly, bioaccumulative com­ Central Vermont guilty of interfering with interstate com­ pound methyl mercury due to th e new Public Service merce through threats of violence can be reservoirs. The largest breeding ground Corporation (CVPS) fin ed up to $10,000 and imprisoned as for migratory water fowl in the eastern in April of '91 stating ...______..:....____, long as 20 years. Another Federal law hemisphere will be destroyed which will that three utility poles in Rutland County carries a penalty of $50,000 or 10 years in significantly deplete the waterfowl popu­ needed to be replaced and that there would jail for destruction of an energy facility. lations throughout North America. One of be other consequences unless CVPS, who Governor Dean was upset by the act two populations of fresh water seals hold the largest contract for electricity claiming that it was the first time that acts worldwide are threatened with extirpation with Hydro-Quebec, cancelled that con­ of "potential violence" like this had as are the beluga whales that live in the tract. occurred in Vermont. He is excepting, of Bay. Vermont does not need this form of The wooden poles were all notched, course, th e poisons dumped by industry deadly electricity from H-Q and the con­ cut ot drilled in a way that they could fall and the tremendous acts of violence lev­ tract with that utility is a disincentive to over in high winds or heavy snow. This is elled at the indigenous community here. conservation efforts. according to Thomas Hurcomb, Vice . The contract between Hydro-Quebec Guy Versailes, Cheif Media President of Public Affairs for CVPS. In and the 17 Vermont utilities has been the Mouthpiece for H-Q stated that hydro­ all cases, a "Q" roughly approximating the focus of controversy for several years. electric power "remains the most ecologi­ Hydro-Quebec logo, was painted or drawn The Canadian Utility 's plans threaten the cal solution." An EF! spokesperson in crayon on the vandalized poles. Cree, Inuit and Innu (Montagnais) people replied, "When pigs fly! " Hydro-Quebec Sets Up Private Police Force Ottawa, Ontario (February 8, 1993) ing the early days of the La Grande Phase In spite of the fact that there have not I Project (1972-75), the police in northern be~n any reports of vandalism by the Quebec had a supply of burial certificates Cree people, Hydro-Quebec has set I'm from the pre-signed by the coroner. The Cree fear up a police force to combat this Utility a repeat of similar cowboy tactics and imaginary threat. The report by CBC dirty tricks under the new Hydro-Quebec - Radio Canada (French) says that force. this force has the right to "arrest sus­ "This is a potential violation of Cree pects and raid their homes." human rights and is potentially in contra­ "The Cree way is one of non­ vention of the Canadian Constitution," violence. By driving around in their stated Bill Namagoose. police cruiser with shotguns hung in Why is there a police force in the the back, Hydro-Quebec is doing Cree territory which was never agreed to more to provoke violent confronta­ I'm here to help. by them? Why is there a police force in tion than to avoid it. The recent Canada which reports to the President of announcement of this force, headed Hydro-Quebec rather than to a Minister of by a former Director of the Surete du the Crown? Quebec (SO) is probably part of A report obtained by environmental Hydro-Quebec's public relations groups in Quebec indicates that these strategy . to smear the Cree people in The creation of this special police forces will also be operating in Vermont Quebec and thus raise racial tensions force with broad and uncertain powers and will assume that all environmentalists against us." stated a 'Cree press release. If reinforces the Cree's belief that their terri­ and Native Americans working to oppose the issue of the proposed mega-projects tory is a (unwilling) colony of Quebec. H-Q's efforts are ecoterrorists. were to be treated in a logical and normal There are two standards applied here, way the Quebec public would realize that there is a system of justice in the south and For more information please contact: they are being hoodwinked by self-inter­ a declared private police state of Hydro­ Bill Namagoose, Tel: (613) 761-1655 or ested parties into accepting $40 billion Quebec on Cree lands. 829-2587 or Brian Craik, Tel: (613) 724- more of American debt. It has recently been revealed that dur- 1097. page 10 The Alarm BLOCKADE IN SASKATCHEWAN

source: Regroupment de Solidarite land and began clearcutting acres of forest. Despite freezing tem-peratures includ­ avec les Autochtones These harvesters are then followed by ing a cold snap of -40 degrees, POME "mulching machines" which uproot all of continues to occupy the Wiggins Bay log­ A blockade was begun on May 13th, the underbrush and overturn the fragile ging road. The camp needs food, money 1992 near Canoe Lake in Northern northern topsoil leaving sand-a literal and physical and moral support. Contact Saskatchewan and continues today, now in desert. This sand then blows or washes Ruth Iron (306) 829-4320, FAX (306) its eleventh month. This blockade/ away, causing siltation in the rivers and 829-4424. Donationl> by check: c/o Butch encampment consists of native elders and lakes. Nothing can ever grow back in Irons, General Delivery, Canoe Narrows, families from Cree, Dene and Metis com­ these areas. Sask. SOM OKO. munities who have taken the name Protectors Of Mother Earth (POME). The Poisoning of the Missisquoi They are protesting companies like Millar-Western who are clear-cutting the by Lisa Brooks shed are gone, replaced by fish that are forests for pulp to be sold to US compa­ "small, slow and unaware." Everyone says nies. Scott Paper is a major client and use The pollution of Ndakinna's waters is the same thing-the waters are more pol­ the trees for paper towels and toilet paper. one of the biggest proqlems that th-e:: luted, the fish are smaller and there are a The people were made aware of Abenaki cominunity faces today. The lot less of them to catch. "No matter where Millar-Western 's plans to destroy the land waters which have given us, and all of the you go,-there's not a when, with no warning, mechanical har­ Jiving things that we depend on, suste­ brook or pond that 's vesters suddenly appeared on the treaty nance are being rapidly polluted and not not contaminated ." enough is being done on a local, state or The e lders know WUTTAWOLUNCKSIN national level to stop it. The Missisquoi there is no easy by D. Ogden area has the highest concentrations of solution. Phosphorus and Nitrogen of all of Lake Another elder Wequamps was of the Great Beaver's Champlain. Missisquoi Bay, which used to said that they 've bones contain the best f ishi ng spots in seen the power How did the strangers come to own them ? Missisquoi, is at the very top of the list. plants, toxic waste Maybe he had had enough This area now has the least diversity of dumps, additives, Ever since the white people organisms. All of 'these factors indicate e tc. come in and Came into the Valley that the Missisquoi area of the lake has the they've seen cancer Bearing trouble for the people poorest water quality. Because of high lev­ and the poisoning of Where the Quinnehtukut flows the waters come out. The elders can see His days had changed. els of PCBs and mercury, the Lake Unable to hunt the west side of Champlain health advisory has recom­ that "the whole system of the earth is Pemawachuatuck mended that "infants, children under the beginning to change." The elders and As he did a boy with his father, age of 15, and women of childbearing many other Abenakis know this because Missing the easy smile of Mashalisk age" should not eat fish from Lake they know the land. They can see the sea­ Who fed more than his hungry stomach-, Champlain and that anyone else should sons passing too quickly through the Witnessing the power of the rum among only eat large fish once a month . plants whi-ch bloom too soon. They can the people, Nowadays, feeding yourself and your fam­ see it in the increased number of thei~peo­ The strange unfriendliness in his dan, ily through traditional subsistence meth­ ple dying of lung diseases from breathing He grew despondent. ods is not only difficult, but dangerous. air that is increasingly contaminated. To throw his friends the rocks Fishing has changed dramatically in They can see it in the waters from which Thru the white man's frozen water panes they derive their life. They realize that Was a small act. the past couple of generations. When Peter In payment judged by rules unknown Kalm travelled through Missisquoi in there is no easy answer but they can also He gave away his home. 1749, he described Betowbagok (Lake see that the people who have the power to Today, dosing the circle, Champlain) as "abound[ing] with sturgeon stop the destruction are sitting still. We offer the selectmen of South Deerfield ... which we often saw leaping into the "Damage to the land equals damage to the Three truckloads of window glass air." Even into the latter part of this centu­ people," and so-called professionals like For their town. ry, according to an Abenaki woman, the "engineers and the politicians are not The first "they'd snap right on and you could just thinking of the country, of the poor people in memory of Wuttawoluncksin bring 'em in, one after another." Now, she who must get their food off the land." wronged by town fathers so long ago. said, "you can sit for hours and someti1pes Especially in this case, the so often heard The second catch only one or two." According to one stereotype of the "stupid Indian" is a in honor of the land taken for granted, treated like dirt! of our most honored elders, the "beautiful painfully ironic and, in the long run, uni­ The last to see through our mistakes trout" people used to catch from the versally detrimental lie. and find the people waiting outside. springs and brooks of the Missiquoi water- The Alarm page 11

NORTHEAST RENDEZVOUS ·114 Abenaki Cases to go to Trial MAY 13-16 by Garth Allen once and for all. These court cases were This year's major northeast The last week in February, the US all placed on hold because, back in Rendezvous will take place by Duck Pond Supreme Court made it known that it January, a mistrial was ruled in the "key­ in Willoughby State Forest near Barton, would not hear an appeal by the Abenaki stone case." The case was an alleged 1991 VT, May 13-16. A Carmageddon action Nation regarding the Eliot decision of assault by Chief St. Francis against a cop will follow on the 17th. We're holding the Rendezvous a couple of weeks earlier 1992. The Eliot decision is the infamous in East Berkshire, VT. The mistrial was than last year's "Black Fly 'Vous" (held ruling that stated "due to the increasing the divine intervention of a sleeping juror at a different location in Willoughby) hop­ weight of history," Abenaki people do not after three days of jury draw and long ing to catch the area between snow melt have a claim to "aboriginal rights" in the opening statements by both the prosecut­ and black fly invasion. state of Vermont (see This ing and defense attorneys. The mistrial Alarm #4). The Duck Pond area offers easy judgment brought sparkles to the eyes of judgment only temporarily delays the access for activists with children, yet is one Howard Van Benthuysen, State's process, which is due to start up again in remote enough to enjoy the pristine beau­ Attorney and Grand Persecutor of the late March. ty of the northeast kingdom. There are Abenaki Nation. Howard has 114 cases on Biodiversity Liberation Front is con­ many hiking trails and Blake Pond is only hold in Franklin County Court, all against tinuing their solidarity with the Abenaki a short plod away. Be prepared for primi­ Abenaki people. This decision, by the US Nation and is now working on an informa­ tive camping and changing weather. Supreme Court, will make it difficult for tional sheet to distribute throughout the Please bring your own food, libations, and the defense to claim "aboriginal title" in bioregion to muster support for the a no compromise attitude. these.. 114 when in fact these cases are all Abenaki people and their struggle against We plan to have entertainment and about "aboriginal title" or, in other words, the state of Vermont. Court cases will various workshops/seminars that will the Abenaki Nation's ability to control its most likely resume in the end of March or include tree-sitting, direct action tactics, own affairs without the interference of a the first week of April and support by all group reports, a NFN update, northeast foreign government or power (the USA & peoples (by their presence or monetary strategies-where hopefully we can for­ the state of VT). donation) will be essential. mulate a northeast action plan- and dis­ cussions on the national movement and These 114 cases (plus the support of This struggle is not an isolated one. how we fit in. Anyone can give a presen­ the recent US Supreme Court decision) are The results of these court cases will be tation even if it's stupid. without a doubt an attempt by the state of precedents for other First Nations who Maine EF! will be co-ordinating this Vermont to mobilize a fi nal offensive also are struggling to return to the public event . For further info, maps, etc., please against the Abenaki Nation, their objective eye and claim what is rightfully theirs, in contact: Billi Barker (207) 247-4112 being a closing of the books on the this beginning of the sixth century of resis­ POBox 507 N. Waterboro, ME 04061 A~enaki Nation's claim to aboriginal title tance against European genocide. ABENAKI HERITAGE CELEBRATION WEEK

Commencing this year, Vermont Rutl and, and Woodstock. Artists and Governor Howard Dean will sign a proclama­ performers will be sharing the tion dedicating the first week of May to recog­ Abenaki experience with school chil­ nizing the Abenaki contribution to the cultural, dren. The Abenaki Cultural Ex hibit social, and educational diversity, both past and (Spirit of the Abenaki) will be di s­ present. This proclamation will be signed at the played at the Chandler Art Gallery, in opening celebration on May 2, 1993 at the Randolph, VT. Franklin Field, adjacent to the Swanton We wish this period to be a time (Franklin County State) Airport in Highgate, for our citizens to recognize, explore, VT on Route 78. and understand this ten thousand year­ A day long program is schedul ed (10:00 old culture, and for promoting appre­ a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) with artists, storytell ers, ciation of the diverse cultures that musicians, and speakers such as: Joseph make up the State of Vermont. Bruchac, Jeanne Brinks, Dee Brightstar, To help the Abenaki Cultural Wolfsong, Cheryl Bluto, Pablo Hurtado, Tom Heritage Week, donations may be Obonswin, Children's Dance Troupe, and oth­ made to Abenaki Cultural Heritage ers. Native arts will be displayed and sold Celebration, C/0 Mark Mitchell , RD 3 throughout the day. Th'is event is open and free Box 289A, St. Johnsbury, VT 05819, to the public, although don ations would be or telephone/FAX 748-8477. accepted. Though the Governor proposed the Information about the event also celebration, he has said that no State money is is available from the Governor's available for the event. Advisory Commission on Native During the week we have targeted five American Affairs, C/0 Jeff Benay, 17 communities best able to help host cultural Grand Avenue, Swanton, VT 05488 or events: Burlington, St. Johnsbury, Montpelier, call 868-4033. Duck Pond: this year's Rendezvous site. Photo: Langelle page 12 The Alarm NATIVE FOREST NETWORK UPDATE by Orin Langelle Burlington, VT. We hope that the confer­ EASTERN NORTH AMERICA ence will draw participants of indigenous International Hot Spots Identified people, forest activists, conservation biol­ NFN The NFN has identified several ogists and non-governmental organiza­ Orin Langelle POB57 forest campaigns that we will be working tions from all over North America and will Burlington, VT 05402 on in 1993. These international hotspots have a notable keynote speaker. A NFN (802) 658-2403 include: 1) Tasmania; 2) East roadshow will start in early fall in the west (802) 863-2532-FAX· Gippsland-Victoria, Australia; 3) Chile; coast and weave its way across North 4) Pacific Northwest-northern America to the conference. For further WESTERN NORTH AMERICA California, Oregon, Washington, coastal info on joining the NFN, receiving our British Columbia, Alaska; 5) Wild publication, Native Forest News, or other NFN Rockies-Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, matters concerning this international Suzanne Pardee Alberta, inland British Columbia; 6) autonomous collective please contact us POB 60164 Seattle, WA 98160 Northeast Forests-Vermont, New through the NFN Directory. (206) 542-1356 NATIVE FOREST NETWORK Hampshire, Maine; 7) James Bay­ (206) 632-6122-FAX Quebec; and 8) Siberia. These campaigns DJRECTORY = are by no means the only areas NFN will SOUTHERN -, focus on, but they reflect the input and HEMISPHERE direction from participants attending the NFN NFN Inaugural Stategy Meeting held last Tim Cadman November in Tasmania, Australia. 112 Emu Bay Since my arrival back in the Road States, I have proposed that the NFN Deloraine, closely monitor the Adirondacks and Tasmania 7304 include the Forest dis-Service's Region #9 Australia which stretches from the Shawnee (003) 622 713 National Forest in southern Illinois (003) 623 056-­ FAX through the White Mountains here in the northeast. The timber industry and the FS NORTHERN claim Region 9 forests are mature and ripe HEMISPHERE for "harvest." Despite the apathy towards the NFN Hydro-Quebec destruction of the James Jake Jagoff Bay region caused by a New York state Randall Restless cancellation of one of their contracts last POB 6151 year, the situation of that region is highly Bozeman, MT 59715 critical. From reports it appears that sal­ (406) 587-3389 vage logging is going on and Hydro­ (406) 585-9211 Quebec is moving forward with their (406) 596-0036-­ damned dams. The NFN hopes to be FAX working soon with indigenous people and Illustration: Gwen Parker environmental groups opposed to the SUMMER & FALL INTERNS NEEDED FOR NATIVE destruction of James Bay. Of note, a bus will be leaving the FOREST NETWORK northeast this summer eventually headed The Native Forest Network ship programs should be motivated self­ to Idaho for the Cove/Mallard campaign. (NFN) is offering internship programs this starters who wish to learn more about the This is a major campaign for Earth First! , summer and fall in the Burlington, VT, vanishing forests and inhabitants of this and could develop into one of the biggest area. The NFN is a global autonomous planet and a concerted global effort to pro­ EF! direct actions ever (see related arti­ collective of Forest Activists, tect them. These programs offer an oppor­ cle). NFN in the northeast needs to sup­ Conservation Biologists and Non­ tunity to see how an international network port this effort in whatever way possible. Governmental Organizations whose mis­ that disseminates information and fosters North American Continental sion is to protect the world's remaiQing activism on a grass-roots level functions. Temperate Forest Conference Native Forests to ensure they can survive, Anyone interested should con­ This conference will take place flourish and maintain their evolutionary tact: Eastern North American NFN, POB toward the second weekend of November, potential. 57, Burlington, VT 05402; or phone 1993. Presently the location will be in Those interested in these intern- (802)658-2403. The Alarm page 13 IDAH0-1993 NATIONAL EARTH FIRST! CAMPAIGN by Billi Barker Montana thru the Bitteroots-one of the take a .little hike to do some surveying on Are you wondering what to do with most spectacular mountain ranges on the our own. We were arrested and held at yourself after the RRR? Don' t have a sum­ planet. gunpoint for violating the Federal road mer job; want to travel and don' t have the I know we all work hard in our own closure. This was my second arrest. We money for transportation, food or rent? bioregions saving what's left, or trying to were carried out on stretchers by forest Hop on the bus! The Idaho-bound bus that re-wild what we've got, but let's band fire fighters a few miles to the nearest road is! together for a working vacation and save since we didn' t feel like walking out with After the RRR in Arizona, Ramone, the largest roadless area in the lower 48's. them. one of the key organizers for the Idaho Another success was bringing this Cove/Mallard campaign, and the rest of WHY GO TO IDAHO? otherwise unknown issue to the public in the bus crew will be headed for Idaho for Beauty the second time in this six year campaign The Nez Perce National Forest is a to stop the massacre of the largest roadless roadless corridor that links the Frank area in the lower 48 states. Church River of No Return and the Gospel Once you' re at the Idaho camp, fine Hump designated wilderness areas togeth­ vegan and vegetarian cuisine (and I do er. The Forest dis-Service has sold the Nez mean the finest) will be served twice a Perce to land rapers who are in the process day. Camping is free on the beautiful pub­ of building 145 miles of logging roads in lic lands of Idaho and you will be within a order to remove 80 million board feed of day'sJJ.ike of old growth, the clearest rag­ beautiful old growth Ponderosa Pine, ing rivers, and hot springs- an eco-war­ Douglas Fir and Lodgepole Pine. Virgin Forests 1620 rior's paradise. The area is prime Wolf and Grizzly And of course there will be actions Bear habitat as well as home to many galore. If, by chance, you don't want front other sensitive species such as the Pine line action there will be a six-week long Martin and Fischer, salamanders and hike for the Wild Rockies from Dixie, frogs, fungus and orchids. The four rivers Idaho (population 17) to Missoula, that grace this area are host to spawning Salmon. ANCIENT FOREST BUS BRIGADE Revenge Last summer was a success in spite of The AFBB has purchased the relatively few people we had in base another bus for the purpose of hauling camp. Our camp population (Freddies not activists first out to the Earth First! included) ranged from 10-25 people. We national Round River Rendezvous and sustained these numbers for two months Virgin Forests 1989 then to Idaho to defend the after the RRR. Our success, though we Cove/Mallard region. unfortunately did not stop the road build­ the form of a daily news story. As a The bus will be leaving from ing (this will require the droves of activists result, a few financial donations came in Newburyport, Massachusetts sometime we hope to lure out there this summer), to support the legal pursuit of suing the FS around the 15th of June. The RRR is was in slowing up the slaughter and cost­ based on the Endangered Species Act. An being held from 6/27 through 7/4 on ing the forest rippers over $500,000. So injunction is still in the process. Mt. Graham in AZ, and after that it's up come on out and help us turn their hoped­ Next summer the land rapers plan to to the permanent EF! base camp on 20 for-profits into debt and frustration. finish most of the road building and start acres near Dixie, Idaho. The trip is one­ At the end of the third week there cutting. Once this is done the worst has way and riders need to bring some were six arrests-apparently the Forest happened-I don ' t need to explain the moola for gas and food along the way. dis-Service didn't like us explaining to the devastating consequences of 145 miles of road builders that what they were doing new roads and 80 million board feet being East Coast Coordinators for this grand was illegal. Their answer was to restrict removed in a now incredibly breathtaking excursion are: our access to the road. We were not land that is the habitat of the wild ones. Billi Barker allowed within 50 feet of the work sites. With enough people we can stop them. POBox 507 We didn' t abide. But people we need. What's holding you N. Waterboro, ME 04061 As usual, the FS has not completed back? Bring your instruments and or (207) 247-4112 their sensitive plant and animal surveys dancing feet, creative energy and sense of for the area, as was documented in · their humor-that's all that is required ... Natalie Springuel Environmental Impact Statement (their Box 241 excuse is that they don't have the fund­ For more details call or write Billi Barker, Manset, ME 04656 ing). So, since we were supposed to keep POB 507, N. Waterboro, ME 04061 (207) (207) 244-9456 away from the roads, two of us decided to 247-4112. page 14 The Alarm

A BIODIVERSITY LIBERATION FRONT COMMUNIQUE TO THE EF! MOVEMENT

Regrettably, the BLF EF! collective sense. In essence the Shawnee confer­ the Missoula maze would be considered can no longer deal with the the Earth ence, with activists present from thou­ interns in any type of a reputable news First! Journal. After representatives sands of miles away, should have focused publication. Our apologies to those in cur­ attending the Shawnee activist conference on tactics of how to stop the destruction of rent and past collectives and friends in reported back to the collective, it was our planet. Instead the conference turned Missoula who do have a clue. decided by the BLF group that it was not into a rehashing of Journal issues th at We need editors. And we don' t mean feasible to publish our actions in that were supposedly decided at the RRR and in name only. We aiso don' t mean setting newspaper. This is a unanimous collective the Portland activist conference. up a hierarchy. We do believe in trust. To decision that is in effect until the Round THE BLF PROPOSAL us it seems like the EF! movement has River Rendezvous (RRR). We have lost None of us should have to spend time tried to re-invent the wheel concerning the all faith in the structure of the EF!J. rehashing the same bullshit year after year. publication of a newspaper. Anyone who However, this does not mean that we has studied journalism understands th at are dropping the banner of Earth First! someone has to be responsible for the con­ Quite the contrary, our voice is loud and tent of th e printed word. Without that clear that we put the Earth first. We will responsibility there is a strong possibility continue to stand for biodiversity, that the truth can be skewed. wilderness, and sanity for our planet; Uf'!.like the capitalist press we have and we will refuse to compromise. the great responsibility of coherently We feel th at a critique of the presenting the facts about t be EF!J is neccessary. Our collective events that are leading to the col­ would also be remiss if we did not lapse of our life support system. offer solutions to what BLF feels But we can learn from our capital­ ist antithesis. Their presses print garbage in order to make billions of dollars. But those publications have editors. Those editors oversee the philosophy of ignorance and sup­ port th e money cha ngers. And it intolerable mess. No one who puts their works. life on the line for Gaia knows who will If the EF! movement is to have an speak for us in the next issue. international biocentric voice we need to Although there are good people that have a responsible editor. To take this a revolve in and out of the EF!J, we never step further and divest hierarchy, we need know who the hell will be next or what edito ri al news bureaus in o ur various philosophy the revolvers will have. This bioregions. Those "field editors" will is not a healthy situation. In the Brigid have the task of collecting and disseminat­ issue, two extremely offensive pieces were trusted in the movement to straighten out ing news and philosophy within their almost published. One was racist and the the situation of the EF!J. Like their deci­ regions and have the collective responsi­ other promoted violence. If either of sion or lump it, but let's get back to what bility of making certain our movement is those articles had been printed a lot of us we have to do to protect Gaia, and not represented in a truthful, sane, and holistic in th e movement would have had to keep being caught in some bizarre psy manner. denounce Earth First! The psychological ops. Because of the openess of our move­ Another solu tion to the EF!J would operation (known to the Feds as " psy ment, it is impossible to make journalistic simply be its dismantling. Hopefully ops") of considering the publication of decisions at the RRR or activist confer­ bioregional newsletters would fill the these articles was quite effective in ences. void . At th e Northeast Rendezvous in destroying the Shawnee conference. SUGGESTIONS FOR JOUNALISM May '92, we decided to publish our own Whether a nut or an agent submitted those Get rid of th e revolving collective. publication, the ALARM. articles does not matter. What matters is Some of us bought that concept at the Smash the state, have a nice day, and that they were considered for publication Boulder ' 90 conference because it was fuck shit up! For those of yo u that don 't after consensus was reached last year at presented th at the revolving collective understand this communique, dial 1-900- the RRR which strictly forbade the print­ would encompass tried and true activists GET-A-CLU. Oh yeah, please take us off ing of such trash. A conscientious editor, who had a background in our movement. the directory list until the Earth is put first if one were present in Missoula, would Nowadays, we unfortunately don't recog­ in stead of putting Earth First! first. have thrown those articles in the trash bin nize the names of a number of those folks Rudolf the Red knows rain, dear! ' Nuff of history. That would not have been cen­ who are defining our movement. In actu­ said (almost). sorship, that would have been common ality, most of those characters revolving in Illustration: Marko'& Ms Chyph The Alarm page 15 Th~ ALARM's Fourth "It's All Bullshit" Award Goes to ... There are so many folks in the run­ that was envisioned by Quebec Premier given the task of editing the EF!J. The ning nowadays that for the next issue we Robert (Boo-Boo) Bourassa. problem for a lot of us in the movement is might just have to pick names out of a hat. When the CVPS poles in VT were that Mike is hardly ever in Missoula where Two characters from (we hope) different notched (see related story), good old Guy the Journal is put to bed. Unfortunately sides of the fe nce get to share the honor responded to th e destruction th at H-Q is when Mike is present he dictates what's in this time: Guy Versailes from H ydro­ wreaking on the James Bay region by stat­ the pages with a heavy authoritarian band Quebec and Mike Rosell e fro m Earth ing that hydro-electric power "remains the like forbidding a communique sent to the First! most ecological solution." What a dipshit! EF! movement by Biodiversity Liberation Guy Versai\es is Chief Media mouth­ Our other bullshit recipient is Mike Front. Get a grip, Mike. Grow some veg­ piece for H-Q. For those of yo u just wak­ Rosell e, a founding patri arch of the EF! gies or go back to Greenpeace. ing up for the last twenty or so years, H-Q movement and now the current editor/dic­ We almost gave this quarter's is the corporati on that wants to destroy the tator of the Earth First! Journal which "Bullshit Award" to ourselves. By golly James Bay region (and elsewhere) by purports to be th e international voice of we use those awful computers, are not damming rivers to convert them to elec­ the movement. Mike, in his early years, paid for doing this, get little or no finan­ tricity. In the process they are responsible was a brilliant and daring activist who cial or physical help from northeast EF! fo r the destruction of entire eco-systems spent many long days and nights in jail for groups, and find that almost no one who and robbing of traditional people's lands his defense of the earth. At the Portland submits to this mag knows what the word and culture. It's an eco-genocide thing activist conference last year, Mike was deadline means. We're full of it. Eco-Bitch Speaks by Helkat flesh. Hey, let's have some fun! Boys, move over and make room for I see very slow changes coming to Within our hard work we can blow the Queen of Meshugana a nd her Earth First!. Changes I most heartedly the socks off our contemporaries. Let our entourage! Wild women don ' t get the welcome. In the rough an' ready macho voices ring with much jovial hilarity! Pop blues. Big Mama's Amazons are comin' male world of Earth First! there are other your cork, let the juices flow . Magic to shake up the place. Our holy temple is voices: new voices. awaits. in need. Let us work together, warrior and Voices of women, mothers, les­ worker. bians, bisexuals, women in relationships Calling all folks near and far! Corne with changing men, warrior women, join the dance. Sha Boom! Come into quiet laid back ones, loud screaming the trance. Ommmmm... Let us be ones... Ah, so many to watch and love Shaman, Shamana, Shamarna. Warrior in awe. Witches, Magical Bitches, savory sor­ Voices of men, adventurous cerers/ sorceresses. Into the, spirit activists, gay, bi, rad faeries, eco­ world we walk, whisper, wage war and defenders, fathers, men who want to wail. "rock-the-boat" within a boat-rockers Life is a great grand adventure. Yes, realm. le.t us add venture into all of our Voices who want to change and e ndeavors . Stir up th.e cauldron. bend our world's view of reality. Let us Bubble, bubble. Bless Earth First! learn from Queer Nation that our actions with venerated vulva venus voyages, and voices can be more expressive, vim and vigor and a vindicated and more radical, in a joy-filled way. Eco­ vigilant view. Voom .. . theatrics extrodinaire. Let us in EF! cel­ Let us awaken the sparks to kindle the ebrate life in new ways. The way of the fires. Burn baby burn. (Eat the rich) cosmic clown, the trickster. Let's have (Have aK en and Barbie-Q). a parade, Earth First! circus. Let us Join EF!, come play in field and for­ laugh at ourselves and the world around est. Hug in the hills. Frolick on tundra us. As Orin Langelle says, "We must Illustration : Gwen Parker and slither at seductive seasides. Be a have humor in all of this." Oh, the pansies grow wild in the part of the pleasure. Be a prankish prova­ Let's not allo~ ourselves (New woods. Faeries sprinkle their alluring cateur. Purrr.. . Be merry and glow. Be England EF!ers) to be influenced by dust. The dykes echo flooding waters of you wirnmin, faery, animal or shadowy Puritanical thinking. Honey let it all bang power, they usher forth. We can ride a bi- ghost. We annoint you with earthly out!!! cycle both ways. essence. Shake your tits in the wind, wiggle Let EF! parents raise Terra-Eco- Rattle, shake and let your heart beat your butt in the face of authority, spill Party-Warrior-Defending youngin'. its drum. your seed on the holy ground, Gaia's Change is in the wind. page 16 The Alarm AGAINST BIO-TECHNOLOGY! Fiery Viruses Communique source: autonome forum In the night of 10/11 August 1992, a field of geneti call y manipulated corn was destroyed in Rilland, Holland. At the same time, an agricul­ tural exhibition on bio-engineering at the four­ yearl y Floriade was ' dis mantled'. These actions were claimed by the Vurige Virussen, the ' Fiery Viruses' . The following is a reprint of their communique. With the help of bio-engineering, a han dful of multi-nationals want to capture a monopoly on life and award their own practices with oppression and exploitation both here and in the Three Continents. Four years after the first Dutch field experi­ ments started with geneti cally manipulated pl ants, the group called ' Ziedende Bintjes' opened the weeding season in the summer of '89. A year later, the 'Woendende Excorts' fol­ lowed their example (at two places in the same time), and in 1991 the ' Rasende Rooiers' (Raging Diggers) dug up potatoes and corn plants at three different locatio ns. Next to the direct damage (of about a few hundred-thou­ was the same as last year: the determination of ronmentall y-friendl y way with the help of bio­ sand guilders) the acti ons especiall y opened the characteristics of the geneticall y manipulat­ technology. Science is saying that bio-engi­ room in the press for groups with arguments ed corn under field circumstances. A PTe­ neering is based on no more than just the against bi o-technology and thereby got th e resistance is built into the cornplants against newest pl ant im proving techniques, and the issue on the ' political agenda ' (something the weed-killer ' Basta' (of the chemi cal con­ government lets us know that they' ll see to it groups hardly succeeded in before). One peri­ cern ' Hoechst'). Again, this year, th e experi­ that everything is kept under control by means odi cal of the bio-engineering lobby wrote: ment had been brought to a premature end . of their procedures and a comm ission of "The ruining of the field experiments ... empha­ Van der Have NV belongs to the most promi­ experts. This bio-technology propaganda is sizes the necessity of a much broader base of nent bio-engineering concerns of Europe. This cloaked in a serious problem: the surplus of support : therefore the establishement of a wide­ year, Van der Have received three licences fo r population and food-s hortages of the world. ranging and publicly working commission field ex periments with geneticall y manipulated The ex hibition can't be visited anymore. The which goes into the more social questions is crops: corn, beets, and rapeseed. All three World Wonder Garden has lost a myth. desirable" (From " Biotechnologie in crops were continuations of experiments from "What's the problem? The large number Nederland" 1990 - 4). The bio-engineering previous years. Van der Have therefore asked of poor people, or the 23 percent of the world lobby is really putting their back into it, at the fo r a dispensation of a few safety measures like which uses 80 percent of th e natural level of the E.C. as well as in Holl and, to make those prescribed by the Provis ional resources?" -Vandana Shiva, during the shad­ bio-engineering publicly acceptable and linked Commission on Genetic Modification (VCO­ ow conference of UNCED to adaptable legislation. In Holland , for exam­ GEM). R . van der Meyden of the Among the many blessings which have ple, this [was shown] this year at the Floriade. ' Rijksherbarium ' research institute of the been bestowed upon mankind thanks to bio­ Bio-technology has to have a friendly image: University of Leiden chose to do the dirty work engineering is th e banishment of hunger.Jn the friendly to people and to the environment. And for the sake of economic interests. He gave the world, this is, at least, one of the most penetrat­ although the resistance to bio-technology is 'arguments' to take away the fear of the ing sounds which are produced by the bio-tech­ slowly growing under environmental, rural, (results of) field experiments. Van der Meyden, nological drum roll. The reasoning is simpl e: food, and agricultural organizations, the Dutch as the Dutch pioneer of bio-technology, said: "In the near future, there will be an enormous Greens (Groen Links) for example, has a cau­ "Van der Have already wants to modify sugar growth in population. All these people have to tious bio-technological standpoint (it's OK if cane, grasses, sunflowers, lettuce, cucumber, be fed and it is noticeable al ready that the there is good legislation). and tomatoes"(Parool, 3.8.91). Next year as world food production doesn't keep pace. Rice The weeding actions hit the industries well? is the most popular food for many people, so it directly and they also made clear to ordinary In Zoetermeer, we find the Dutch petty­ is of great importance that there be many vari­ people that food is being manipulated in their bourgeoisie variant of the Spanish Expo: a eties which are resistent against diseases and own backgardens. That's why, for two years gleaming and prestigious (and creepy) view of plagues." (Prof. Sc.hilperoot in "Transfer­ now, lists are published in Holland which show the history, the present, and the future. In the nieuws", June 1992). The world food problem where field experiments will take place. So, World Wonder Garden, as the Floriade is pro­ is thus reduced to a technical problem to which take your spade in hand! moted, is the exhibition "Plant Improvement an answer is already being crammed down our In the village of Rilland (Zealand), for the and Bio-technology". The exhibition is exem­ throats. The hereby-propagated idea that bio­ second successive year, the plant improvement plary of the symbiosis of business, science, and technology is the solution to world hunger is a business 'Van der Have NV' carried out a field the government (including Van der Have). The denial of the structures and historical relations experiment with genetically manipulated corn industries promise that, in time, there will which produce hunger. Moreover, it proclaims (breed HE 89). The purpose of this experiment finally be enough food, produced in an envi- that bio-technology is a neutral and values-free The Alarm page 17 Against Bio-tech th e Dutch chariman of the agricultural commis- ti ve were private ins tituio ns like the technology. Jt is developed because of charita- sia n of the General Agreements on Tariffs and Rockefell er Foundation, the Ford Foundation, ble motives and with the best intentions. Bio- Trade (GATT). (Onze W ereld, December, and institues like the Internati onal Monetary technology as the Good. This is a vision that 1987). It is exactl y this racist notion of superi­ Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. This 'Green just conceals the truth . The development of o rity that paved the way for ce nturies of Revolution' meant large-scale intevention in bio-engineering takes place behind the closed exploitation and oppre sian. the agricultural structures of the Third World . doors of the C-3 and C-4 laboratori es of the Farmers of the Third World knew agricul- Local breeding methods had to leave the field. The use of varities with high yields and mono­ companies and universities, during the pri- ,------A---~-~--G---E---R-----, vate meetings and working consultatio ns cultures, large-scale and intensive use of fertil­ between the technological lobby and the 0 izers, and the introduction of modern agri cul ­ IN CASE OF AN ACCIDENT THIS IS A tural machines had to lead to an impo rt ant state, envisaged by the experts of advisory committees and patent bureaus. Developing BIOLOGICAL exte ns io n of the y ie lds. And in the firs t technology is an extensive program, one HAZARD ZONE instance this also happened. But after a period that is based on specific interests and per­ of time, th e w inners and the losers became spectives. It's based on balances of power known. The losers a re the local fa rmers. and it 's an important factor of power itself Because of the introduction of mono-cultures, as well. It has the power in and of itself to pl ant diseases increased and it became neces­ (re)defin e what is the nature of the prob­ sary to use more weed killers. To do this, hi gh lems in questi on: what is the solution and investments were needed, so s mall farmers what isn't; what is superior and and w hat dropped out of th e race. Acres with artifical isn 't. Technologies carry, to a high degree, fe rtilizer need more water, so irrigati on pro­ the codes of the balance of relations in jects had to fo ll ow, but there were no draining which they have developed and produced. syste ms. Large a reas werem pe rma ne ntl y A capital-int ensive technology, fo r exam­ flooded or changed into deserts. A few years ple, forces an e ntrance into dependency later, the farmers are left with the results: a destroyed agriculture, spo il ed soil and water, relations with banks and fi nancers. This warning is being posted in antic ipation of b iological wortore research of Letterman Army Institute of genetical erosion, hi gh debts, crops with an So this appli cation leads to the reproduction Research (LAIR) on the Presidio Army Bose. In the event of of exactl y those relati ons that "built in" the hazardous bacteria or toxin releases no evacuation or over-sensitivity to all kinds of diseases, and an safety measures ore p lanned. matter of technology. ~ inc reasing use of all kinds of expe ns iv e Bio-engineering is not a technology ~ ~ . :.:.:~~.::_:;:~;:.:,:.~;.:.:_:::::.. Western inputs like artificial ferti li zers and which is free of values, nor is it at all a .__.=:....______::...::...... ::.....=-----_J weed killers. A vicious circle of misery and solutio n to hunger. It clears the way fo r a !ural structures that were based on a knowledge hunger. The winners were the major chemical sharpening of the relations of explo it ation, about plant species and varieties, and agricul­ concerns and the seed industry and the Brabant which has already characterized the relation tural methods that were acquired and passed on fa rmers. Due to the overp roduction of corn , the between the North and the South for ages. It is throug hout the centuries. Several kinds of food for pigs is almost free. A new class of in these social structures that bio-technology is grains and seeds existed which could be used poor, landless slum inhabitants came into exis­ developed, and in these structures it will do its fo r the dryer or wetter periods. The agriculture tence. wo.rk'. was self- sufficient, aimed at the local food-pro­ In agriculture, two-thirds of the work is Huneer duction, adapted to the local circumstances and do ne by women. In s tatistics and offic ial In 1887, Itali an priests brought a ship with social structures. reports, this is usuall y concealed by quali fying Italian cows and bulls to Eastern Africa. With Almost all crops people feed th emselves it as domestic work, or it is not worth mention­ th at, they imported a form of hoof-and-mouth with come from the tropical and subtropical ing because these jobs are unpaid . The engi­ disea e which eradicated 90 percent of the East regions of th e world. The "original" Dutch neers foll owed this patri archall y beaten-path African cattle stocks. At once, all of Eastern potato was not a discovery of Vincent van and deni ed th e importance of the knowledge Africa was threatened by starvation. The myth Gogh, but comes from the Andes. Nowadays, and work of women. The large scale interven­ of natural disasters as the reason fo r hunger and there is not much left of these wealthy and self­ tion in the social structure, under the pretext of poverty was born. s ufficient structures. The European rule rs ' modernizing', was exclusively directed to If this had been onl y an isolated case, it didn' t only take away the peoples' own crops male farmers. Thus, the germ for her failure would have maybe turned o ut better than and methods, but negli gentl y pushed out th e was already laid. The consequences of these expected. But everywhere where th e whites local customs and habits. They stole pl ants and actions mostl y affected women. Men left and passed by, they took their supposedl y superior began to plant them at home. They imposed an went to the cities or to the large plantations as cattle and food-crops with them. Raw materials agricultural model which was adapted to agricultural labourers. Women, who did most from the colonized countries filled the holds of W estern needs. It is these structures which of the work already, had to work even more. their ships on their way back. After centuries of cause hunger. In the whole, there is more than They lost their land to big companies, the bur­ intensive Western interference with the coun­ enough food production to feed the population. den of providing their own food rested only on tries of the Third World, millions are now fac­ 80 percent of all these raw materials are eaten their own shoulders. (Bio-tech article continued ing starvation. by 20 percent of mankind, those living in the next issue) Images of swollen bellies, dry fields, and rich North. Hunger is the result of the econom­ For Additional Info on Bio-technology: dried-up acres fill our TV screens regularly. ic war of the North against the South. The ALARM received another good, The Green Counter-Revolution The striking structures of exploitation, howev­ informational piece regarding biotech­ The example of what is optimistically Cl!Lled er, have simply been 'zapped' from the screen. nology, but we did not have the space to Poverty and hunger are apparently uprooted, the ' Green Revolution' in the history books run both. To receive this second piece their causes reduced to too little rain, too many shows, in a nutshell, how such processes work. children, and stupid farmers. "The African In the 1960s, many countries set up large agri­ please send $1 to Andy Buckley POBox agriculture is backward", stated Aart de Zeeuw, cultural programs. The ones who took the intia- 708, Littleton, MA 01460. page 18 The Alarm To Kill a Computer by Roadblocks be sent without a computer. nothing better than to see us living in the Think about it. Why do we need an most primitive way, with no computers, In the Yule EF! Journal, the book In Alarm! and an activism that crosses the electricity, autos, pens, paper, monkey­ the Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander borders of insanity on a regular basis? wrenches, etc. For without these tools, was reviewed. The subtitle reads 'The That is, who and what are we battling and our effectiveness is diminished. We need Failure of Technology and the survival of what are their tools? This fusion of evils telephones to contact and rally activists, Indian Nations". We felt that a further that uses computers to "instantly move we need autos to get to the actions, etc. If mention of this book was in order. staggering amounts of capital, information we are going to indulge in any technology It seems that it is very obvious that and equipment throughout the world, giv­ then we need to think about what tech­ there is a real world and the ing an unprecedented power to the largest nologies will increase our effectiveness MANufactured world. We, unfortunately, institutions on earth. In fact, computers and use them. Through their use we are are stuck with the ever more pervasive and make these institutions possible" . striving to render them obsolete. ultimately destructive MANufactured Meanwhile we use computers to edit and In fact, fuck Gutenburg and his press world. For us this is offset by knowing network information and think we are and even the first wild thing that uttered that the Earth is the real world and by the empowered. Computers are disempowe_r­ the first coherent word as communication. fact that we live in the woods. How much ing and if yo_u· smash _computers you-' H Most of us would rather grunt, fuck, fart more obvious can it be when we return smash the state. After·all isn' t that the and grow our own vegetables in peace home from a difficult day spent in the sti­ goal? instead of having to fight the beast. But fling presence of techno-world. So finally we' d like to say that we without the on-going resistance we fear Now this book arrives in our life, spent last weekend in jail. It was very everything would be further shackled by printed, distributed and even researched obvious the role computers played in the state and there would be total absence with the aid of technology. Yet the mes­ maintaining this jail and controlling the of the wild, and evolutionary potential sage is clear and undeniable. Technology jailers. If it weren ' t for computers we would cease. has failed; failed in its promise to improve wouldn ' t have been there and there The computer is merel y another tool the lives of this one species as well as wouldn' t have been a there. Technology that helps us fight the state . Computers improving on the character of the planet. is a failure and needs to be abandoned decrease the amount of time it takes to put Time and again the technological jug­ ASAP starting with computers. out the ALARM which is essential due to gernaut has used the ' best case scenarios' The second half of the book deals the fact that we are full-time front-line to make promises that fail to materialize. with techno-fascism as the neo-colonial activists. This time-saving function has More often than not, it has been the 'worst executioner of Native Peoples around the also been essenti al for the fact that very case scenarios' which the inventors sus­ world. It details how these nations have few of our writers meet deadline. Very lit­ pected, that ends up owning the moment. withstood this charge and what is happen­ tle of what you read in this ALARM would So do we head back to the ing now, not just then. Let's understand have been in here, including "To Kill a Pleistocene? Probably. Can we do it that indigenous people pose one of the last Computer", the Maine action piece, and quickly? No. But we need to take a direc­ and most powerful threats to the techno­ the info from PA if it weren 't for the com­ tion that does not in any way count on logical age. There cannot ultimately be puter, due to the fact that they were sub­ technology to fix what it 's already fucked any coexistence. That a reverence for the mitted so late. We will continue to put out up. Retrace our steps. earth "is subversive to Western society the ALARM and we will do it with a com- Back to this book. For us the case is and the entire technological direction of puter. .,_ made, beyond a doubt, that technology is the past century" is obvious. So the ques­ Why, then, do we need the ALARM at not neutral. It effects things just by its tion remains, which side of the spectrum all ? As we point out in our statement of existence. Even its creation requires tech­ do we (mostly non-native) want to travel purpose, an "Alarm is a ' mechanism that nology. Where, a generation ago, govern­ toward and can we get there carrying tools warns of danger, arouses from sleep, etc.' ment, the military and industry each used that don' t belong there? If we owned a With the ALARM we hope to arouse the technology to gain their separate ends, computer we'd smash it! human species from mental hibernation. they have now become fused along with With awakening, hopefully empowerment and a part of the technological rush to ALARMist Response to Roadblocks: will follow to prevent the further desecra­ oblivion. This brings us to our main bitch We at the ALARM have no argument tion of Gaia." We need the ALARM to about technology-the computer, that that technology sucks. We, too, are work­ provide a voice to activists throughout our slick rig that seduces and produces. We ing toward the disbanding of the system region and to provide a forum for commu­ have our bias. We are computer illiterate and abandonment of technology. But how nication that helps to bind us together and and proud of it. You'll be reading this in far do we take our anti-technology stance to inspire each other. It was after report­ the Alarm! (we hope) with the aid of a and still remain effective? If we choose to ing in the ALARM about the banner hang­ computer layout. Big fucking deal. Can't be completely technology-free, we also ing off of the Winooski-One crane that the get it done without the computer devil? If choose to limit our effectiveness. The Dartmouth students hung the banner that government, in our opinion, would like not, we better think of an Alarm! that can (continued on page 19) The Alarm page 19 Dope Growers Can Save Northern Appalachians by George Washington hundreds of occasions say that we need porate dope grower. Millions of acres of Virginia Hemp Farmer "balance" when examining environmental paper company land could fall (free of issues. Although the more cynical may charge) into the public domain overnight. What do clearcuts and the war on scoff that industry doesn't want balance, And all because of the wonderful war on drugs have to do with wilderness restora­ they just want to muddle the truth, our drugs. tion? As the War on Drugs intensifies the higher thinkers respond to industry th at Many may worry that they will be grip of the police state around your throat we, too, seek balance on this dope grow­ caught by helicopter surveillance while and mine, it offers law-abiding citizens ers' land confiscation policy. they are in the middle of one of Maine's like us a chance to bust corporate, land­ So, green thumbers, here's the plan of th ousand acre clearcuts. Not to worry, raping scum paper corporations that are action: plant marijuana in the clearcut those heli coptors are employed by the replanting their clearcuts with cannabis soils of the paper company lands. After multinational industrial police state. Their sativa-marijuana. you harvest your fair share, be sure to job is to harrass you and me. They do not Some states confiscate land from citi­ leave a tithing-a sort of offering to the patrol over the kingdoms of their lords and zens who cultivate this sweet-smelling soils that nurtured the sweet weed. Next, masters. They'll never spot yo u. herb. Once the land is confiscated, it will contact (anonymously) the state' s Drug A more serious threat is posed by her­ never be returned, even if the owner is Enforcement Agency and turn in the cor- bicide spraybombers that defoliate as found not guilty of any charges. The much as 80,000-100,000 acres of police-state reasons thusly: either you are Maine clearcuts. Not only is it guilty, or you are an inattentive land possible that the toxic air force owner. If pot is growing on your land, will spot you, but, worse, it might you are responsible, even if you didn ' t defoliate your crop (and you). know it was growing there. The solution is to diversify your Many people are outraged by this land garden sites. Plant o n huge theft by the government. But a few of our clearcuts; plant in smaller higher thinkers~ believe that this law can clearcuts; plant in strip cuts; plant rescue all privately-owned land that is in the middle of an opening; plant abused by its owner. on the edge. And, most important­ We have heard industry apologists on ly, plant on different (absentee multinational or trust fund) owners To Kill a Computer "land". A list of the ten largest "owners" in Maine should provide (co ntinued from page 18) food for thought. helped convince the Board of that college And, here's the best part. to cancel a $7.8 million contract with Assuming that your bumper crop Hydro-Quebec. reached the market place, the Believe us when we say that we money earned selling "clearcut would not devote three weeks and $750- ·····~~!il~!l tobaccy" can be used to buy the $1000 each quarter if we did not think that Illustration: Gwen Parker confiscated industry lands. the ALARM was necessary. nology ideas when you talk about the book Talk about a renewable resource! As for the argument that without com­ In the Absence of the Sacred being printed puters there would be no jails-in ancient and researched with the aid of technology. Enjoy that Northern Appalachian times a prison was used for the detention Witho ut technology that book would High! of persons who displeased their ruler in remain an idea to which very few would any way. The oldest known prisons were have access. Even it's review was printed tered time and again. With the ALARM, the jails or gaols, established in accor­ in the EF! 1 ournal which also uses com­ we are attempting to learn from history dance with the Assize of Clarendon, a puters. and enhance communication among decree issued by Henry II of England in While it is true that the indigenous activists so that we can learn from each 1166; clearly before computers were people hold the keys to how we, as other and avoid mistakes as well as avoid invented. Roadblocks, you went to gaol humans, can live harmoniously with the re-inventing wheels already created by because you disple ~se d the rulers who earth, it is also true that the Native people others. allow greedy bastards to rape the earth. of this country were pushed to near extinc­ Maybe someday soon a virus will You went to jail because of your commit­ tion because the invaders invaded quicker wipe out all computers everywhere. Until ment to defend Gaia. Thank you for your than the word was spread about how dan­ that day the ALARM will continue to use no compromise stance. gerous these pale-faced people were. computers and regard our use of them as You even make the argument for Hence the native communities fell into the just another monkeywrench in our tool using technology to disseminate anti-tech- same trap time and again and were slaugh- box. page 20 The Alarm Vigil for Jonathon Paul On February 13th, Biodivers ity Liberation Front activists held a vigil for Animal Liberation Front activist Jonathon Paul in front of the Federal Building in Burlington, VT. During the vigil, leafl ets were handed out explaining what the Grand Jury is and how anyone can go to jail for committing no crime but the refusal to testify, for up to 18 months. Many people stopped to ask questions about Jonathon and the Grand Jury sys­ tem. Of these folks, most were genuinely shocked that the government had the power to strip people of their rights in that manner. All in all the action was a great success. Jonathon Paul continues to remain in jail. He will likely be there until next August or November and possibly as late BLF hands out fliers for ALF acti visl Jonathon Paul. Photo: Langelle as January, 1994. ing jailtime. At this point the government too, will go to jail rather than rat on fellow Rik Scarce, another activist whom the is threatening Rik with immunity if he activists. government believes is affiliated with continues to refuse to testify. After he is For updates on the status of these two ALF because of a section he wrote about granted immunity, he mu st answer all activists, people should contact their sup­ them in his book Ecowarriors, is also fac- questions or go to jail. It is likely that he, port team at (503) 236-0649. Snagged in Court signs in his path to the crane and that he Activist Found Guilty On January 8, 1993 Biodiversity was not given "reasonable notice" to get For the second time in a month, an Liberation Front went to court for the first off the crane when he had no intention of Earth First! activist was fo und guilty of time under the jurisdiction of the State of remaining up there to slow work fo r the the heinous crime of attempting to wake Vermont. Thomas Carney was being day (it was just a banner hanging, jeez). the public up to the ecological reality of charged with trespassing onto the site of To the delight of the State's Attorney, the death Kulture's effect on the earth . who had a sick resembl ance to Da n the Winooski I Hydro Project, where the At this trial, Anne Petermann of Fielding of Night Court, the verdict came banner that graced the cover of the Fall Biodiversity Liberation Front was found down "Guilty, as charged." A stiff fine of issue of the ALARM was hung from an guilty of " reckless endangerment" for 140 ft crane. It read, "Earth First! No $250 was tacked onto the action, which stopping a car driven recklessly by an off­ Dams! Free the Rivers! " Tom has not yet paid. duty police officer. The officer in ques­ The court proceeding highlights SO ... here it comes, with the news tion was attempting to show off for his included testimony from cops and the comes the heartache of cash flow: if you winner of the ALARM'S Fall "It's All have a couple extra bucks for Tom and fiancee by driving at a high rate of speed Bullshit Award .... " John Warshaw. The Biodiversity Liberation Front's legal costs toward protesters who were blockading protester-turned-developer came into the you can send it to the BLF PoBox 804, the road. courtroom with his little hard-hat, took Burlington, Vt. 05042 Needless to say, the jury believed the the stand with his little hard hat, and left WE CAN ONLY HOPE police officers and th e fiancee, none of with it under his arm like a security blan­ As we go to press an unverified whose stories coincided with the others. ket. The only exciting thing he did on the rumor has come to our attention. The protestors, already prej udged by a stand, besides playing with a picture of Apparently one of the turbines in the jury who admitted disliking EF! tactics, his torture site filling in the " No John Warshow ("It ' s All Bullshit were not believed even though their sto­ Trespassing" signs (showing what side Award" recipient, ALARM #4) ries all matched perfectly, and clearly he's really on!), was the dramatic movie­ Winooski-One Hydro Project failed to showed the actions of Anne to be justified TV action of pointing out our banner function when turned on. It appears that by the reckless actions of the officer. hanger. "That's Him! " he said, his pointy one of the parts of the million dollar tur­ Once again the system, with all of the finger extending to the defense table bine did not work and the whole opera­ odds stacked in its favor, won the battle. (Torn being the only one sitting there tion is shut down until it can be replaced. The end result of this pyrrhic victory was because the fine was too low for a public We wonder if a radical squirrel from the the activists involved becoming more defender). Biodiversity and Anarchy Revolutionary determined than ever to work toward the Torn, all by himself, tried to prove Faction (BARF) sabotaged it with a well dissolution of the monster. that there weren't any "No Trespassing" placed nut. The Alarm page 21 History Of Alarm Mother Earth OASIS Heather Fraser Andy Cantsin (continued from page 2) Alone in the desert. tuated each issue. Oh- Mother I struggle on, crawling, dying of thirst. The Pittsburgh Manifesto of anarchist I dreamt the machines planted trees instead of telephone The thirst for the truth. principles appeared in every number of The In this barren cultural desert, Alarm and on its masthead was listed its funde­ poles Everywhere I look, mental goals; "Equality of Opportunity for All­ And the monstrous shovels that All I see are meaningless distractions. - Hence, extinction of privilege and restriction, strip you away Fragments of empty commercialism, greed, lust protection and oppression, chartered and vested layer by layer and one-upmanship. wrongs. Free Land, Mutual Credit, Equitable came to rest and you took them to Too much competition, Commerce--Hence, abolition of rent, interest, your breast At the expense of love, compassion and what really matters. and profit. Sovereignty of the Individual-­ and returned them to yourself with blankets of vine The land of consumers. Hence, liberty, the cessation of authority, or Yet little consumed has value these days. industrial emancipation and social co-opera­ and time Under that fancy packaging it's mostly filler, tion." And a big wind came and But still we happily swallow whole, After suspending publication at the behest rolled back the asphalt and concrete What is force fed to us, of the Chicago police in May 1886, The Alarm that smothers you Resisting little, obeying muc:h. was revived the following November with And your children came home Most never even bother to question, Dyer Lum, a great American anarchist, at the with hands together Perhaps afraid of what the answers might bring. helm, assisted by Lizzie Holmes. It took the They took comfort on the pine beds This desert wasteland looms large, lead in defending the Haymarket prisoners and crystal lakes and Expanding to the horizon in every direction, For as far as the eye can see. against the anti-radical mob consciousness that listened - finally Many are intimidated by it's size. swept America in the aftermath of the bomb­ to your sweet laughter and Yet still a few, however small the number, ing; it took the lead in condemning the hanging felt - finally Trudge onward, of innocent men; and it took up the martyrs' the glowing warmth of your arms. Searching for their oasis. cause-justice, peace, and freedom- in the years after the executions. when there is an abuse. Th e Alarm disturbs the to environmental defense. Despite this differ­ The re-appearence in the 1990's of a radi ­ slumber of the imates, but it awakens them to ence in focus brought on by a century's time, cal publication with an anti-authoritarian, direct the dangers that threaten.' This paper was both journals share a love of freedom and hap­ action perspective entitled the ALARM repre­ founded and conducted on the idea that, with piness, a respect for this world and the living sents both the fufillment of a prophecy and the all its mistakes of head or heart, it has done things that inhabit it, and a reverence for assumption of a legacy. Writing from his death some service in behalf of despoiled and suffer­ human worth and spirit. Both stand for a world cell on October 25, 1887, hardly three weeks ing humanity in arousing them to a conscious­ whose resources exist for the benefit of all. before his execution, Albert Parsons predicted ness of the 'dangers that threaten.' And both "denounce the greed, cruelty, and To other hands is now committed the task abominations of the privileged class who riot which was mine in the work and duty as editor and revel on the labor of their wage slaves." of this paper. Though fallen, wounded perhaps We have come full circle- may it this unto death, in the battle for liberty, the standard time remain unbroken. -the press--which my bands bore aloft in the (Some information for this article comes from midst of the struggle is caught up by other Paul Avrich's The Haymarket Tragedy. I am hands, and will be again and again, if needs, till also indebted to the State Historical Society of the crimson banner waves in triumph over the Wisconsin for the use of their Albert Parsons enemies of peace, brotherhood, and happiness. Papers collection.) · Therefore, give to them in their work your heavy support. And now to all I say: Falter not. Lay bare DEADLINE The deadline for the summer soltice edition the iniquities of capitalism; expose the slavery of the ALARM is June 1st at 11 :59 pm. Articles submitted of law; proclaim the tyranny of government; after that will be used for toilet paper, with the exception denounce the greed, cruelty, and abominations of Mac Discs which we may return to stick up your ass. No longer can we tolerate excuses or apologies. Either of of the privileged class who riot and revel on the those and four bits will buy· us a cup of coffee. We 're labor of their wage slaves. Farewell." really not kidding. Not only has this issue been difficult for the For Parsons and the supporters of the first fact that very few (especially field editors) respected those A. R. PARSONS IN HIS CELL MORNING NOV. II, 1887. whose task it was to put this journal together, it seems Alarm, the cheapening of labor and and human that, for the second issue in a row now, submission mail is life and the resulting labor unrest, the miserable not reaching us. A few correspondents have sent it priori­ that the struggle for a better world would go on conditions of the working class, and the ty or two day priority and it never gets here. We suspect that they are in the possession of th.e federal authorities and that other hands wo'uld reach out and carry increasing wealth and power of the capitalist who have an office four floors above the Burlington, vr, forth the cry for justice. He envisioned the re­ class in the late 1800's were the immediate Post Office. The confiscation of our submissions only appearence of this journal, and his words speak "dangers that threatened." Today's ALARM, makes us more determined to publish. to us clearly as though only spoken yesterday: faced with the terrible facts that many species A solution for submitting material you wish to be published would be to fax it in. Earmark your chick­ become extinct every 24 hours, that our forests, eo skratches to EF!, FAX# (802) 863-2532. C.J. Kaneda "The Alarm, as you know, ever rang out air and water are disappearing into junk bond at autooome forum suggests anotbe.r way to possibly strong and clear the dangers that threatened the scams, and that our fragile world is being insure delivery would be by registered mall. By the way, the FEDS SUK and so do you if people. Edmund Burke said: 'I love clamor exploited to the point of destruction, rouses us you don't meet deadline! page 22 The Alarm letters to the editor

Hey Y 'all! at ourselves? What abou·t changing things FLIGHT right in our own homes and work spaces? It ' s about time I sent you some -by Micha de Liuda money! Thanks for keeping me on your This woman will not take the blame list. The ALARM is definitely a worth­ A bird flies from for hundreds of years of earth killers. No while publication and I don' t even miss Its parents' nest one will ever tell me what to do with my getting the EF! Journal! body. I will do what I see fit. I'll give I wish I had more freedom in my A flight into the unknown birth, give suck, suckle other' s babes, schedule (not to mention more freedom in Yet the instincts help women abort, abort myself and sleep general) so that I could join you on the Are always there with both men and women. Emily Proctor-perhaps later. Perhaps It is sad that so many men are jealous A resonance I'll also find time to write an article about that women can create life. Is it disem­ Of the Cosmic Pulse. Killington which ought to be decommis­ powering to men that we only need your sioned. seed? If it wasn' t for women, womb and For the Earth first! Dear ALARM, tits, you wouldn 't. be here at all! Here to -a friend I have been·- disturbed about s·ome of enjoy thi s gnind adventure called life. the attitudes frNEW ENGLAND "Toxic Trio" Ski cancer and mutations. Dioxins bioaccumulate Race Disrupted (increase in concentrati on as byEF! they progress up the food chain); once they enter the Earth First! went to the body, they never leave. This Killington Ski Area in means the concentrations are Sherburne, VT on February highest in carnivores. The 15 and to Mount Sunapee, di"oxin dose consumed by New Hampshire o n eating a predatory fish that February 22 to protest the resides in contaminated pro-dioxin stances shown water is equal to all of the by Governors Dean (VT), dioxins consumed by all of McKernan (ME) and the fish eaten by that fish Merrill (NH), also known over its lifetime. Because as the "toxic trio". dioxins bioaccumulate by At both of these attaching themselves to fa events, an EF! activist was cells, th ey are especiall y assaulted by an individual harmful to female mammals wearing a ' Ski Vermont' and their nursi ng young. jacket. In Vermont a kop Thus, the dose received by a went so fa r as to threaten nursing baby are many times the EF! er with arrest for The "Toxic Trio". New Hampshire Governor Merrill {left), Vermont Governor Dean (center) and Maine that consumed at one time by being assaulted. Governor McKernan (right). Photo: Langelle the mother. In Vermont, an EF! er infiltrated the ski quadrillion (ppq), 77 times higher than th e Earth First! is demanding the immediate race with a press pass and asked the Governors Federal standard of 0.013 ppq. This is likel y end to the release of all forms of dioxin into about their pro-dioxin stances. Governor due to th e influence of the paper industry in air, water or land. Earth First! believes it is McKernan responded to a question regarding New Hampshire, a major dioxin polluter. time to put biological health before industry's the militant EF! actions against dioxin deregu- Governor Dean has been pushing for an profits. lations in Maine by stating "what Earth First! air toxins amendment that would relax restric- WHAT YOU CAN DO does doesn't matter." So much fo r representa- tions against airborne dioxin. This new amend - To bring the issue home to the Governors, lion. ment would allow for the re-opening of a ear- Earth First! is calling for a New England wide In New Hampshire, two EF!ers got in cinogenic incinerator near Rutland, VT. tourism boycott. We strongly urge readers of Governor Dean's face asking him how he, a Governor McKernan wants to increase the the ALARM to fo llow the example set by th e physician, could propose weakening di oxin all owable levels of dioxin in Maine's rivers by Alaska tourism boycott as it was successful in regulations without being a disgrace to his pro- 38.5 times. This interest in killing that state's stopping the wolf hunt. People from around fession. His intelligent response was "did you rivers may be due to the fact that McKern an's the country called airlines to make reservations drive here?! Cars pollute you know!!" His day brother is a lobbyist for the paper industry, the to fly to Alaska and made hotel reservations in was clearly ruined. main industry to benefit from the new regula- Alaska only to cancel them stating th at it was These protests of the Governors stem from tions. due to the wolf-killing tendencies of that their pro-industry and pro-dioxin stances. Dioxins are one of the most toxic groups State's Governo1:, The same tactics could be Governor Merrill governs a state whose of substances known to humans. Microscopic effecti ve in countering the 'pro-dioxin stances level of water borne dioxin is 1.0 parts per amounts are known to cause many forms of of Merrill, McKernan and Dean. ALARM BULK RATE P.O. BOX 804 U.S. POSTAGE BURLINGTON,VT. 05402 PAID PERMIT NO. 550 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED BURLINGTON, VT

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