Full citation: Coronado, Rod, John Bowling, tkintz, Josh Laughlin, and Errol Schweizer, eds., Earth First! Journal 19, no. 5 (1 May 1999). Digitized in cooperation with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7045

Copyright: All rights reserved. The user may download, preserve and print this material only for private, research or nonprofit educational purposes. The user may not alter, transform, or build upon this material. • trs Beltane Vol. 19, No.• 5 May-June, 1999 THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNAL $3.50 ACTIVISTS MURDERED I THREE SLAIN IN CoLUMBIA HELPING U'wA FIGHT OcciDENTAL I somewhere in Colombia. She had been kidnapped. And so death is a teacher about BY CECELIA RoDRIGUEZ I have no word yet about how or where or when she what life should be. There is a cassette of music I just bought and on it, died. Only the word of her death and the silent And so in this numbness all it says, "All over this world, this Indian way is hard." shaking I feel inside. Profuse, hot, quick tears and I can do is write. I can write Today these words mark my heart with great pain. sobs, because crying is beyond you, when death is so and ask the same questions I I just received word that Ingrid Washinawatok, a much your friend. You turn suddenly and death is asked after I was raped. I can North American Menominee Indian who served on there looking at you, reminding you that she is write and ask the same ques­ the board of the Indigenous Woman's Network, always with you, always with your people. It is a tions I did after Acteal. Why? who had a big, bright smile and was always laugh­ shadow, a breeze, a gift sometimes from the constant When will it end? How many ing and who also cried easily at the many tragedies doubt that causes you to hesitate. "Don't hesitate, do more must die? suffered by Indian people, was found dead today it right," she says, "because your life is not forever." In these days when my body is wracked with exhaustion in the struggle to explain to people why they must act, the ques­ tion is one which each day de­ mands an answer. An answer BOMBERS TARGET buried under the tons of paper of the insane foreign policy of this country which sanctions plunder, displacement, impov­ FOREST GUARDIANS erishment and "genocide." continued on page 7

BY CHARLOTIE TALBERTH, NATIONAL fOREST PROTECTION CAMPAIGN On March 19, the outreach coordinator for Forest Guardians, Mike Cherin, discovered a pipe bomb in the mailbox at the group's Santa Fe office. According to police, an explosion would have killed anyone within several hundred feet, but thanks to a rare wet snow the fuse went out before detonation. Three days later, Forest Guardians received a letter with a target and crosshairs drawn over the group's name and the message, "M.M. was here. See ya later." M.M. stands for the Minutemen, the same group that claimed responsibility for a shotgun blast that shattered windows at the Santa Fe office of Animal Protection of New Mexico late last year. A report by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety called the Minutemen, " ... an extreme right-wing private army developed , in the 1960s to carry out guerrilla warfare and fight communism. The group was ~ known to stockpile weapons and plan bank robberies and bombings ... " Do we know exactly who tried to bomb Forest Guardians? Not yet, but by examining some of the dynamics going on between the counties movement, ~ wise-use, land grant activism and the environmental movement, we believe we ~ can gain a clearer understanding of the context. ir continued on page 29

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continued on page 25 EARTH FIRST! NO COMPROMISE IN DEFENSE OF MOTHER EARTH POB 1415 • EUGENE, OREGON 97440 • (541) 344-8004 COMBATTING ECOTERRORISM Earth First! Journal "It is always the oppressor, not the oppressed who dictates the · Until then responsible citizens, agencies and organiza­ Beltane form ofstruggle ... " tions should take full advantage of the waves created by -NELSON MANDELA EF!, ELF, ALF and other earth defenders to publicize bti'f .' May I. 1999 .-_ The day I arrived in Oregon after my imprisonment, the US cause. Earth First!ers and other environmentalists must Vol. 19. No. 5 Coast Guard and Navy were desperately attempting to sink the recognize the effectiveness of a cohesive long-term strat­ The Earth First! Journal is published by an New Carissa, the multinational-owned freighter ran aground on egy that directs our collective energy toward common editorial staff from within the Earth First! the Oregon coast while on a run to load wood chips for export to goals-without the divisiveness that presents the public movement. Entire contents are copyrighted Asia from the timber port of Coos Bay. The ship spilled over a perception of a movement that is afraid or unwilling to 1999. We allow reprinting if creditis given, 100,000 gallons of crude oil and, at last count, more than 1,200 acknowledge the legitimacy of direct action. except for those articles specifically copy­ birds and other wildlife have died in the heart of th~ endan-. By taking unabashed responsibility for even those anti- righted by the author. 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The contents the New Carrissa, unheard were the accusations of ecoterrorism this to avoid expending time and energy in a recurring do not necessarily represent the viewpoint that are today a normal response when environmentalists are · debate that prevents our movement from taking its place of this .newspaper, the Earth First! movement, local Earth First! groups or forced tousedirectaction toexposeandhindercorporatedestruc- in J:listory as the spearhead of the radical environmental individual Earth First!ers. tion of America's last wild places. movement. There is no comfort with what we are forced Submissions are welcomed and should Earth First!ers unequivocally agree that the real ecoterrorists are to endure-the court battles, harassment, imprisonment, be typed or clearly printed. Send a SASE if those engaged in legally sanctioned actions that destroy and threats and actual violence, including death. But we must you would like them returned. 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In light of this we are increasingly Walt Bresette, an Anishinaabe activist, died on Febru- · forced to determine our path of resistance not only by our Earth First! Journal ary 21 of a heart attack. A member of the Loon Clan, the POB 1415 adherence to biocentric and nonviolent principles, but also 51-year-old Red Cliff Chippewa defended treaty rights Eugene, OR 97440 through the appropriate application of tactics and strate- · and fought to prevent mining across northern Wiscon­ Phone: (541) 344-8004 gies best suited to our individual campaigns. · sin. He was a co-founder of many groups including the Fax: (541) 344-7688 Earth First!ers are the real anti-terrorists. We should continue to Witness · for Nonviolence, Midwest Treaty Network, E-mail: [email protected] use non-cooperation and refuse to renounce illegal, nonviolent Anishinaabe Niijii, and Wisconsin Greens. An •elegant http://www.enviroweb.org/ef intervention to prevent terrorism until governments and corpo- , writer, Walt Bresette wrote Walleye Wtzniors: An Effective Business Manager: Jessi Alliance AgainstRacism and for the Earth with Rick Whaley. rations renounce violent attacks on all Earth's innocents. We need Merchandise Goddess: Isabella At a meeting in Tampa, Florida, during the 1980s, Subscriptions: Frog to force governments to restore representative democracy (re­ Walt received the war club belonging to the Sauk member, we environmentalists are the silenced majority), rather Editorial Staff: Rod Coronado, John leader Black Hawk who, more than 150 years ago, Bowling, tkintz, Josh Laughlin, Errol than cater to corporate interests who supercede democratically fought the US Army trying to move him and his Schweizer achieved environmental victories with global trade agreements people from their homeland. Walt Bresette carried Poetry Editor: Dennis Fritzinger that prioritize economy over ecology. If federal law enforcement Black Hawk's war club to ceremonies, mining pro­ Volunteers: Ponderosa, Sara, Anne agendes really want to prevent terrorism, we have plenty of tests, schools and churches until his recent death. Arcky, Kim, Dustin, Avalon, Katie, information to assist them in bringing true criminals to justice. -JOHN PEcK_., Tammy, Diane, James, Craig, Jeff Artists in this issue include: Vaughn ------1 Frick, Ken Avidor, Faith Walker, Errol, Kauz, BY FAITH WALKER Sky Jacobs, Julie Draper, Asante Riverwind Cover photo by: Jim Sim (Reclaim The them from visiting others. So they yell. And females find it Streets Garden Solidarity Festival, April 11, attractive. A male waits on the raft he crafted that is his 1999 in New York City) . mating platform, yelling increasingly frantic.ally when he is . Back cover by: Dungel © '~ left alone or as the female gets closer to another harem male. 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Beltane 1999 THE URBANIZATION OF EARTH FIRST!: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR THE MOVEMENT for ecologically-orientedurban campaigns. our spirits because we were a living symbol to the BY BOB GREENBERG Minneapolis has one of the largest urban Ameri­ larger community of the alternative to the homog­ The Minnehaha Free State symbolizes a necessary can Indian populations in the United States, yet enized, neatly over-packaged, corporate, consumer turn off from the forest road Earth First! has been federal money goes mostly to the reservations leav­ culture that is destroying the Earth. We forced them following for nearly two decades. Grandma Earth is ing very little assistance granted to .the urban Na~ to take.the mask of democracy off and expose the not dying. She is being murdered, and, as Utah tive Americans who are .up against systemic dis­ face offascism that truly rules here. Phillips says, the men and women who are murder­ crimination, · poverty, _police oppression and . are Our experience in Minneapolis has led us to believe ing her have names and addresses. These are the struggling to simply survive. In response to this it would be wise for all of us to create communities same people who are exploiting the working poor for state of affairs, AIM in Minneapolis has created a and develop infrastructures that will meet the basic profit in the cities, and our struggles are made one support network to help the urban American In­ through common enemies: the multinational cor­ dian population maintain its culture. AIM works to porations who exploit all life and the rich that provide housing, education, social services, secu­ "Ifwe organize effectively enough own them. - rity patrol, recreation, job training and placement. Earth First! must be present on the prairie, in the They have realized these services are necessary for we can build the mass movement desert and at the ends of lonely, frozen forest roads strengthening a sense of community. AIM helps to physically stop the destruction. But by also reach­ people on the fringe of society who have been necessary to incite cultural ing out to the disenfranchised in the city, we can murdered, coverted, or misled into assimilation to revolution, de-industrialization, build strong relationships that are critical to orga­ realize the power we all wield when we join to­ nizing a mass movement. While many of us have gether towards a common goal. AIM understands it radical redistribution of wealth been victims of state-sponsored brutality and op­ is necessary to make sure people are fed, housed, and peace." pression in the forests, residents of cities are often spiritually inspired, educated, entertained and their the victims of this same brutality and culture maintained. oppression. Poverty has been AIM has been vigilant in·addressing criminalized in the city just as the issues that define the community, needs of a culture of creative resistance in city neigh­ efforts are being made to sys­ such as spiritual and cultural redis­ borhoods throughout the nation. If we build geo­ tematicallycriminalize . covery, celebration and ceremony, graphically concentrated communities of people activities in the forests repatriation ofland and the return of who share a common vision, we stand a greater that save Grandma human remains and artifacts. The chance of sustaining ourselves through certain Earth from the lesson is that people are more likely state oppression, potential starvation and poten­ profit-crazedrul­ to be motivated to action if their tially violent chaos. If we are surrounded by ing class. From basic needs are met. people we love and trust in land-based commu­ Idaho, where it For the first time in an nities within the city, we will be much more able is quite literally urban area, Earth First!ers to respond to the changing conditions of the illegal to be an in the US have created an world. We will be prepared, rather than left Earth First!er, to ongoing land occupation reeling and reacting to crisis. the North Coast that works towards realiz­ We can join squatters in reclaiming homes to of California -~~~ ing these shared goals. The provide housing. We can work with Food not where nonvio- . Minnehaha Free State Bombs on their turf, as they have always sup­ ~~~ lent protesters in meets people's basic needs, ported our forests actions. Guerrilla gardeners congressman ;;.· .J;~~~~~rij II:~;;;;~~~ ~~::;~~~~~~~ - is culturally diverse and should reclaim empty city lots, creating beauty Frank Riggs' of­ provides hope. We have and food. Anarcho-punks, artists and radical fice had pepper established a sovereign theatre troops can provide entertainment, sup­ spray applied directly to their eyes, we have the nation that operates by consensus and have built plying not only bread but circuses as well. It is chance to make links between these issues, to bring cross-cultural alliances that have energized and important for our movement to be able to pro­ on a revolution, to set people's wills free and release activated many people. Artists and activists from all vide for our basic needs if we want to build a the grip the State has on everyone's life. over the country have visited our community, brighter future. If we organize effectively and As the year 2000 approaches, each and every one including Mitch Walking Elk, Robert Hoyt, Casey densely enough we can build the mass move­ of us needs to think about organizing for this Neill, Thunder Nation, Dennis Banks and Whiteship ment necessary to incite cultural revolution, opportunity to destroy the corporate-capitalist hold of Peace from japan. Free Staters have supported de-industrialization, radical redistribution of on power and dream of replacing it with our vision peace activist actions, publicly denounced the wealth and hopefully bring about peace. of eco-anarchism, community self-determination, bombing of Iraq, supported Mumia, joined protests Urban organizing, in conjunction with forest playfulness and industrial collapse. The triumph of against police brutality, spoken out at hearings to save activism, may be Grandma Earth's best bet for creative nonviolence over state-sponsored terror­ the buffalo and participated in Critical Mass bike survival and our best bet for destroying the con­ ism would bring freedom of choice and balance to blockades. We are supporting other struggles and trol the capitalist patriarchy has over the web of communities once again. There are lessons to be being supported in return. life. We have both the opportunity and the learned from the history of the Black Panthers, The powers-that-be could not allow the imperative to build these communities. Only MOVE, the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Minnehaha Free State to survive because. of the with the nurturing and support that true com­ even the White Panther Party. Although each of rebellion, hope, and imagination it inspired; so last munities like the Minnehaha Free State have to these movements is unique, understanding their December 600 cops raided it, torturing people for offer will our movement thrive as a source of goals and tactics will help us develop useful models acting as if they were in a free country. They tried inspiration and a wellspring of active resiStance.

DEAR S#!T fER BRAINZ! draw from the existing EF! and aries for whom rebellion is only ers conference. Those who think Dear EF!, Greetings, extend .her thanx to form their own movement, a game. Even if it sounds "intol­ that non-violence is always at­ Answer: A vacation. all at Earth First! for the support which would exclude mere re­ erant," revolutionaries must tainable are watching too much Question: What do the yokels they have continued to give to formers, liberals, leftists, etc. form a movement that is exclu­ tele-tubbie! There's some bad in my area of the country call the Green Belt Movement. We at who are afraid of" alienating the sive to the extent that it incor­ people afoot who will do bad sitting on the front porch with a GBM are grateful to you and middle class." (Imagine how the porates none but real revolution­ things to you as it is their only 6-pack and a bug zapper? thank you for raising awareness war against Hitler would have aries. Only in this way can the means of expression. Are you They also get their kicks by of our struggle with the Karura turned out if Allied soldiers had movement have cohesion and ready for them? Have you seen running over turtles in the road. Forest in the Journal for Earth been afraid of "alienating the the capacity for vigorous action. the Klan in action when they But I've got an idea that should First! (Sometimes I feel that one Nazis.") Such a splinter EF! Feel free to pass this note on to know the police will not inter­ curb their penchant for turtle­ exclamation point is not enough) movement might start small, but the editor of the EF! Journal. She vene? Seen the video of the cakes. Shape mud in the form of :-).Thank you . I have a feeling that it would can publish it if she likes. Greensboro massacre? We've got a turtle and fill it with large nails. -MUTA, GREEN BELT MOVEMENT, grow pretty rapidly. Best regards, some ultra right-wing red necks When it dries, disguise it with NAIROBI, KENYA. I suggest that one of the big­ -TED KACZYNSKI round these parts who won't hesi­ black, brown and green spray . gest mistakes modern American 04475-046 tate to dish out abuse as the rap­ paint. Then place it in the road Ted Kaczynski to John Zerzan revolutionaries make is that, in ADMINISTRATIVE MAXIMUM FACILITY, ture is imminent anyhow! Don't on the yellow line within 100 November 29, 1998 the name of "tolerance," they PO Box 8500, FLORENCE, CO beanyone'spunchingbag,friends. feet of a four way stop. That way, Dear Oohn), let anyone and everyone of a 81226-8500. Ramona Africa stated that accept­ no one will be going too fast, and Yes; send me a copy of your vaguely rebellious disposition ing violence to one's person is a only the jerks wanting to kin a new book. join their movements. The re­ Dear SFB, form of condoning it. She's right! turtle will have to change a tire. . Concerning EF!, my sugges­ sult is that they get diluted, or Great to see the "open letter on -FREEBIRD IN N.C. Sincerely, tion is that the' real'revoluti0n•· ·. even swamped,· by large num­ political divison within EF!" I -MARK LYNCH · aries among them should with- bers of make-believerevolution- agree with the 75atthe organiz~ continued on page 26

May-June 1999 ·Earth First! Page 3' collaboration. And such collaboration and provide opportunities to open dis­ is not merely "proposed"-it has been cussion about more strategically signifi­ alive and kicking since October. This cant future collaboration. has helped open communication be­ Point 3. Most EF! activism is already tween enviros and working-class people basically reformist, aimed more at a Green steal in other industries. One pointthat most ch_ange in corporate or government Should EF! Work with the Steel Union? of us have emphasized froni the begin­ policy than revolution per se. Either ning is that steelworkers don't have to way, our strategy does not depend on Ties to bureaucratic organized labor become environmentalists, and we don't unions anymore than it depends on the BAD IDEA constitute a much more mediated, have to become unionists. · Sierra Club. It does depend on broaden­ offidalized direction than EF! has previ­ Point 1. The USWA does not build ing our radical outreach, education and BY jOHN ZERzAN ously stood for. How about directly smelters, they just advocate for those communication efforts to the broadest In recent months some Earth First!ers communicating with workers rather who work them. If the USWAever bolds possible audience. What we seek is have assisted the United Steelworkers of than agreements with their Union a "Build More Smelters Now!" rally, you direct, unmediated communication America (USW A) in their strike against agents? It would be harder, but going won't find me or many EF!ers there. I with individual human beings about the Maxxam corporation. Maxxam and against the grain always is. am not personally as concerned with mattersofmutualconcem. We've been its boss, Charles Hurwitz, have been the So very unsurprising that the main the "health of the USWA" as with the able to do this with the steelworkers. In enemy in the EF! attempt to save red­ _push to link up with the United Steel­ health of the individual human beings the case of Pacific Lumber employees, woods in the Northern California Head­ workers of America comes from North­ whom I've met and the concerns they unionization would finally allow this waters campaign. em California, that hotbed of model have. Guess what? Most of us want the communication to take place by re­ Now there is growing talk of an anti­ citizen "activism." The tame, reformist same things: Home, family, meaning­ moving the fear of being unemployed Maxxam, pro-environment alliance be­ outlook of these folks counsels others to ful livelihood, community, health­ and homeless simply for talking with tween EF! and the steelworkers union. get behind this projected development, basic stuff. Both John and I have eco­ their neighbors. A USW A organizer proposed such a to be "practical." I think abolishing the nomic situations that allow us freedom No radical efforts will be limited by partnership in March at the Environ­ whole devouring, ruinous system is the and spare time to be activists. You broadening the movement. Individual mental Law Conference in Eugene, Or­ "practical" thing to do! Let's go forward won't get very far telling someone with EF!ers and autonomous EF! groups can egon, to enthusiastic applause. with what needs to be done, not back­ a family and house payments that in­ always choose their priorities for them­ I think such a development would ward into the embrace of what has so dustrialism is a disaster so they should selves. The steelworkers would never be a serious step backward, not a way obviously failed nature and added to just quit and make their living publish­ let EF! dictate how to run the Kaiser forward for the radical environmen­ the domestication of humans. ing radical books for the anarcho-primi­ strike so why would anyone think that tal movement, consider the follow­ tivist micro-ghetto. EF!ers would let the USW A officials ing aspects: Point 2. It has been argued that the direct the forest campaigns? Both sides • Industrialism GOOD IDEA reason that many industrialists invited should proceed with openness and a Industrial civilization is a disaster for unions in to organize their plants was friendly skepticism. the natural world. The health of the BY MIKAL ]AKUBAL to guarantee employee discipline and Point 4. We should go to union halls, United Steelworkers of America is more The Journal staff asked me to reply to prevent things like anarcho-syndical­ hang out at picket lines, go to bars with steelworkers, more steel mills. Kind of John Zerzan's comments since I have ism and wildcat strikes. So? This is not them, party together. That, in fact, is obvious. been involved in the enviro/labor effort about "unions," but about people and exactly what we've been doing. •Unionism with the United Steelworkers of America opening l~nes of communication and The reason that the "main push to The USWA is out to "topple (USW A) since the beginning. While it link up with the United Steelworkers Maxxam!" Baloney. It has never will be clear that I differ with John on comes from Northern California" is that toppled anything and never will. As most of his points, I nevertheless find it both of us are fighting a common en­ most workers (and even most leftists) useful that someone has begun this emy-Maxxam-and this gave us a realize, unions are police agents, in discussion. I'm less concerned here with simple and logical point around which place largely to control workers. Each proving a point than with offering per­ to begin communication [Ed. note: A union local is the property of an inter­ spective. My views a:re based on my own great deal of steelworker outreach is also national union, and dissident activity experience and observations, and I en­ being organized in Washington state]. goes nowhere for that reason. If a local courage continued critical discussion. Nearly all activist groups have "out­ starts to get out of line, the interna­ Last October, forest activists from reach to the labor movement" on their tional puts it into receivership, i.e. Humboldt County, CA, contacted the Deep-cover Earth Agent, fakubal scabbed for days agendas but don't- know how to go takes it over. Meanwhile, the USWA USWA (who also work in aluminum), inside aluminum plants, sowing seeds he hopes about it. We finally opened the door. gets free pickets and other EF! support. and went to the struck Kaiser Alumi­ will help environmentalists and workers I know that John has had some (ap­ What does the environment get? num(aMaxxamsubsidiary)plants.Con­ overthrow Maxxam. parently bad) experiences with unions •Reformism nections made on these trips sparked action between us. Enviros don't have in the past. Perhaps he and others could Unions are pillars of industrial soci­ several actions, including the dramatic to become cheerleaders for unionism share their insights with newer activ­ ety. Any strategy that depends on and Kaiser ore-ship blockade at the Port of anymore than the other way around. ists. That would go further than blanket strengthens unions further cements the Tacoma (see EF!J Feb-March 1999) and Anyone wondering about how work­ dismissals and absolutist statements. If dominant, oppressive order. An "envi­ ananti-MaxxamrallyinScotia, CA with ers feel about the union should go ask nothing more comes out of this whole ronmental" policy that issues from an 150 steelworkers. There have been on­ them personally. eco/labor effort than a little more hu­ EF!/USW A partnership would be very going joint enviro/labor actions around Our joint actions have been fun, edu­ man communication and some new tame and limited, more likely on the the country since then, and the move­ cational and beneficial for both sides. perspectives, it will have been worth it. order of current Environmental Protec­ ment is rapidly growing. And there have been as many "pro­ For more information, contact Rob tionAgency orientation, and would tend As for John's comments, there is no, environment" actions as "pro-strike" Lalicker of the USW A Local 7945 in to limit radical efforts. "Earth First!/USWA alliance;" it is better ones. Being realistic, these actions have Tacoma, WA at (253) 272-4748; •Absence of Autonomy understood as a labor/environmental mostly served to boost mutual morale www.uswa.org.

A two-faced poodle that only gives lip-service to supporting biodiversity Wolves & Poollles to the Smithsonian Institution for petitioning the Feds for an exemption A wolf barking up the right tree to Wall Street Journal reporter Bob Ortega to the Endangered Species Act so it could import the carcass of a rare Central for breaking out of the pack of the running dogs of the counter-revolution and Asian bighorn sheep killed by infamous Texas trophy hunter Kenneth deftly exposing the checkered past and present of our incredibly inept, but still Behring. To thank them, the blood-thirsty aristocrat and former Seattle annoying, arch-nemesis Barry Clausen. His March 2, WSJ profile, "To Barry Seahawks owner, donated $20 million to the venerable Institution a few Clausen, the Woods are Full of Eco-Terrorists," hit all the high points: weeks later. Clausen's shadowy drug connections with the Feds, cozy relationship with A neurotic poodle rearing its ugly head again to mad scientist Dr. the timber giants that fund him and the outrageous ways Clausen Reinhold Rasmussan, who has been making headlines by touting his manipulates the media into helping him accomplish his life's theory that trees cause pollution. Rasmussan first made the kooky "killer mission of jerking around Earth First! trees" argument about the deleterious effects of natural hydrocarbons An aging, but still raging, silver granny wolf to released by trees while acting as an advisor to foolish former-president shotgun-wielding Hildegard von Waldenburg, 79, Ronald Reagan. Fortunately, once again botanists have who confronted workers cutting down trees near her been quick to dismiss Rasmussan's claims. Nassau, New York property. An AP story said she told A clean-shaven poodle with cultural co-optation the fellers, "If you don't stop cutting my trees, I shoot on its mind to Mademoiselle. In its April-issue feature you!" Whoa, Hildegard, that's not very nonviolent! story about the radical womyn who attended the 1998 A defiant wolf whose spirit remains unbroken to Ruckus Womyn's Acti(>n Camp in Austin, Texas, the British animal liberation warrior Keith Mann who magazine's photo editors underhandedly was recently released after four years in prison for airbrushed away the golden locks that naturally criminal damage to meat vehicles, attempted incitement, adorn the armpits of' one of the radical womyn, possession of explosive materials, attempted arson and escaping evidently so as not to offend their Nair-addicted from police custody. We're overjoyed to have you back in our pack! readership. Page 4 Earth First! Beltane 1999 HEADWATERS DEAL and breathe a sigh of relief for the ancient groves that will BY KAREN PICKETI never see the sharp side of Hurwitz's chain saws. And Seven minutes short of the March 1 midnight deadline, perhaps a shorter sigh can be breathed for the other old­ government agencies and Pacific Lumber/Maxxam signed growth groves-Allen Creek, Shaw Creek, Bell Lawrence and the Headwaters forest deal. What really happened? What the other remnant and residual tracts of that are does it mean, and what do we-who have been fighting for designated off-limits for the the ancient redwoods, salmon and other wildlife-do now? crucial to realize that only 10 this has been a hostage situation since day one, with · ·is . permanently protected. corporate raider Charles Hurwitz sitting in the driver's seat. endangered species As a long-time Headwaters activist said in reaction to Many areas passage of the deal, "Now that we've paid the ransom and ··ancient· freedthe hostages, it'stime to gO after the kidnappers." This deal rewards Hurwitz handsomely for his crimes the people and communities of California, against l.J!l~ t,wvvi shareholders and crimes against nature. The Headwaters forest campaign years. For over two years, the been very politically '-""""''~"" i-l;u:>Pf':r.,,r~ .., ,i-,<>r.: "a ?SO-acre approved log­ agency officials an~d~le<:ted the boundaries of the preserve on the dous vested of the Elk River, one of the five best coho streams in California remains unprotected, as does the site where David "Gypsy" Chain was killed. This area has been protected by a continuous vigil and treesits since his death on September 17. The precedents this deal sets are dangerous on all counts! such as Dianne You can bet that Louisiana Pacific, Georgia Pacific, and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Weyerhaeuser, Simpson, Plum Creek, Boise Cascade and r!;)JL!cllc;) Service (NMFS) staff and other other timber giants were paying close attention to this deal, negotiating with PL/Maxxam corporados. watching how far the agencies could be pushed. The most Those who fought for Headwaters from the beginning were visible and publicly scrutinized HCP process to date has left not at the table. Nor were the scientists. them licking their chops at the high price commanded for public acquisition of habitat. The deal in a nutshell There is no doubt the coho got screwed by this deal. As diverse as the forest biology is, as multi-faceted as the Salmon habitat is so severely degraded and depleted that campaign has become, so was the deal which carried a survival, much less recovery of the Northern California number of tenants, all of which needed to be approved for coho, is certainly not assured. Under the law, incidental take it to be finalized. Once the dust settled, this is what the deal permits, central to the HCP, cannot threaten the survival gave us in a nutshell: and recovery of endangered wildlife, but this one does. But •Transfer of 10,000 acres of redwood forestland to public as longtime frontline forest activist judi Bari said when this hands. This includes the 3,000-acre Head~aters Grove, deal was first proposed two years ago, "We need to save what Elkhead Springs Grove and we can now, and fight like · surrounding buffers. The pur­ hell for the rest." chase of Owl Creek Grove, and acreage in Grizzly Creek How do we fight like was authorized separately hell for th~ rest? and is being negotiated based •Support the legal chal­ on appraisals of the land ., lenges that the Environmen­ (abouthalfofthe lO,OOOacres s tal Protection Information is old growth). Providing for s ~ Center (EPIC) is mounting. this acquisition is an expen­ ~ It will be costly and tough, diture of nearly half a billion "' and we all need to support taxpayer dollars. According i their efforts in whatever way to a '9S Department of jus­ we can. Send donations for tice evaluation, that's nearly At the HCP hearings in Oakland, CA, in November legal challenges to EPIC, POB 20 times the fair market value. 397, Garberville, CA 9SS42. Charles Hurwitz paid $900 million for the whole company •Debt for Nature Swap: The Office of Thrift and Supervi­ in 198S when it was rich in assets and old-growth forests. sion and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, arms of You do the arithmetic. , the US Treasury, have outstanding claims against Hurwitz • A habitat conservation plan (HCP)/sustained yield plan and Maxxam stemming from his crashing of his Savings and (SYP). This SO-year management plan for the rest of PL's Loan in Texas that cost taxpayers $1.6 billion to bail out. If 210,000 acres is essentially an application for permission to satisfaction of the debt were translated in to assets other than kill endangered species and destroy habitat protected un­ cash (i.e., redwood forestland owned by the debtor Hurwitz), der law. Rather than assuring full compliance with the this debt for nature swap could go a long way in achieving embattled federal Endangered Species Act, the plan pro­ fuller protection for Headwaters. Write to Chair, Federal vides bucketloads of loopholes through catchy provisions Deposit Insurance Corporation, SSO 17th St. NW, Washing­ like "watershed analysis" and "adaptive management" ton DC, 20429 and to the Office of Thrift and Supervision, processes. All of these plans are subject to a "no surprises" 1700 G St. NW, Washington DC, 20SS2. clause that allows changes in only one direction-weaken­ • Real protection for the now designated "Headwaters ing the protection that full enforcement of state and federal Preserve" will include an Environmental Impact Statement laws would otherwise provide. process and public hearings, which are expected to com­ •A contract with the state of Califorrria. This provides mence in early summer. Headwaters Grove has been opened protection for nearly 8,000 acres of potential marbled to the public without any environmental assessment of the murrelet habitat for the SO-year life of the HCP. However, impact of trampling in this pristine wilderness. It is under less than half of those acres are actually viable habitat Bureau of Land Management jurisdiction in the interim, because the bird is old-growth dependent, and only 1,446 and the first thing the agencies did was install a public toilet. acres are old growth and 2, 700 are residual. The contract We don't want a Headwaters Disneyland! also provides penalties for illegal logging by PL/Maxxam, •Support frontline activists like julia Butterfly who re­ for which they have become infamous. Logging in off­ mains 180-feet up defending the trees unprotected by the limits wildlife habitat now brings a$1,000 fine plus ISO deal, as does Nate Madsen tree sitting up in the Freshwater percent of the stumpage value of each tree. For murrelet watershed, as are sitters in Grizzly Creek. It is not time to nesting trees, the penalties are a $3,000 fine plus 2SO unplug yet. Contact Northcoast EF! at POB 28, Arcata, CA percent stumpage value. 9SS18; (707) 82S-6S98. . Stay in touch with the Headwaters hotline for updates at What's wrong with the deal? (SlO) 83S-6303. For more information contact the Bay Area We got ancient forest lands out of Maxxam's hands and Coalition for Headwaters, 2530 San PabloAve., Berkeley, CA into the public's. That is good right? It makes sense to pause 94702; [email protected]. May-June 1999 Earth First! Page 5 GOIIERNMENT AND INDUSJRY BEAT SEALS BLOODY 275,000 harp seals to be clubbed to death in Canada smeared on both their faces. A helicopter with RCMP vessels face into the ice as a Coast Guard helicopter BY PATRICIA GRAY AND Roo CoRONADO officers landed shortly afterwards and questioned the hovers above, monitoring the brutality of three seal­ Canada's resumption of its seal war began this sealers before releasing them. ers. Two snowmobiles towing pelts move in the direc­ year when an estimated 300,000 harp seals were On March 22, two international reporters were tion of the vessels. A Coast Guard helicopter appears spotted off Prince Edward Island (PEl). Thirty seal­ arrested and forced to march to a Coast Guard vessel and the official inside motions us to leave this zone. ing vessels advanced into the area of the herds, for allegedly failing to maintain a 25-meter distance What terror lurks beyond the barrier Department of opening a national park area to hunting. But the from sealers. An observer and member of the British Fisheries and Oceans has erected? If this way of life is Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) says Parliament stated, "There is international concern valid then why would the institutions charged with that, "there is a misnomer that there is a protected over the Canadian seal hunt, and observers from protecting it hide it from the world? Where is the pride area around PEl where the seals cannot be hunted. different countries are therefore in everyone's interest. that motivates these people to continue with their Some people actually want to call it a sanctuary." Since arriving last weekend I have witnessed hassle traditions? Canada seems likely to go to any length to Canada's harp seal hunt is the largest marine mam­ and obstruction of those seeking to witness the hunt. prevent the world from discovering blood on its ice. mal slaughter in the world and just the latest in an This will only heighten concerns that there are prac­ The Canadian government has effectively closed the ecological war of genocidal proportions waged tices happening that the authorities would prefer we sealing area to observers and imposed an Iron Curtain against seals for over 200 years. did not see." A spokesperson for IFAW also said, around it in an attempt to hide the truth." On March 19, the killing fleet was in place. A "There is clearly a campaign of harassment by sealers, A primary excuse to justify the slaughter is that seals Canadian Coast Guard ship sailed from the Magdalen aidedandabettedbytheCanadiangovemmentagainst threaten local fisheries. But the government ignores Islands breaking ice for a small fleet of sealing vessels. citizens and visitors who have a legal right to witness reports that harp seals feed on non-commercial fish By afternoon they were five miles off PEl's North Shore this open-air hunt. Each year sealers head to the ice that prey on commercial fish, and nursing seals fast accordingtoPatGray, a resi­ and openly while in Canadian waters. In 1998, a petition by 97 dent documenting the violate Marine Society for Marine Mammalogy biologists stated, "All siaughter. The seals were on Mammal scientific efforts to find an effect of seal predations on moving ice four miles off­ Regulations Canadian groundfish stocks have failed to show any shore in PEl National Park. and the Cana- impact. Overfishing remains the only scientifically Fisheries Minister David dian Criminal demonstrated problem." Anderson has set this year's Code. It is clear The ecological balance between seals and fish dem­ quota at 275,000 seals that this gov­ onstrates why prior to commercial exploitation, tens though it is estimated that emmentisun­ of millions of seals coexisted with what once was some tens of thousands more die able to prop­ of the world's most abundant fish populations. A after being wounded. DFO erly regulate French settler in 1760, after seeing harp seals pass in acknowledged that hun­ the hunt, and their annual migration near Newfoundland, said, dreds of carcasses washed ·it is clearer still · "they filled the sea from shore to horizon for ten days up on PEl shores last year, · and nights!" Meanwhile, pri­ stating that they didn't re­ vate experts say it's only a flect "any great increase in matter of time before either the number of seals who the bankruptcy of fishing perish each year. It wasn't ·· companies or. the extinction ·, anything extravagant." DFO of their quarry arrives. An says the hunt area is subdi­ American delegate to a Febru­ vided into administrative ar­ ary meeting of the world'~ eas, and any one area can be closed down. This is not that the fishing nations stated, tl:ta!, to protect seals but to prevent the public from witness­ would rather co- "globally, the problem of ing the slaughter. "We try to maintain a five-to-seven erce arid intimi- overcapacity in the world's mile distance so it's not visible on shore," said DFO. date journalists fleet .is probably the single Photographic evidence shows seals are repeatedly than have there- ·greatest threat to ·the world's clubbed and not killed with a single blow. ality of the hunt fish resources. Within the On March 21, Gray wrote, "I had been told that seal continue to be nextdecadeorso,ifwedonot pups were spotted along the western shore of the seen by Canadi~ takestepstoaddresstheprob- island. I was surprised to see the remains of a seal hunt ans." lem of overcapacity, then the offshore-carcasses of seal pups left on the ice and On March 26, demand for wild fish stocks is blood everywhere. I spotted a fishing boat with four Gray reported going to exceed the supply." people on board slowly working its way through the from the air, Slaughtered in the name of seafood. Some experts say this has al- ice, stopping now and then to allow a sealer to jump " Against a black sea far below are tiny qark shapes ready happened suggesting that fish are being caught onto an ice pan and drag pelts onboard. There were lying scattered in a pristine world. Absorbing the faster than they can reproduce. Until the collapse Coast Guard helicopters in the area buzzing back and warmth of early spring sunshine, seal pups huddle in comes, harp seals and other marine wildlife will con­ forth, setting down on the ice and taking off again to their ice cradles around cracks of open water between tinue to be scapegoated. somewhere between PEl and New Brunswick." ice flows. The helicopter flies further north. Below the In addition to the seal's fur, penises are being mar­ The Canadian government-in an attempt to pre­ horizon a faint grey wisp of smoke rises from the blood keted as aphrodisiacs and sold in Asian herb shops vent photographic documentation of the slaughter­ red hull of the Canadian Coast Guard ship, Sir William worldwide for as much as $200. Newfoundland's requires journalists to go through a criminal back­ Alexander, as it breaks through thick pans of ice. Fisheries Minister has been promoting seal products ground check. They also cannot get closer than 25 Dwarfed and following close behind are four sealing in China, Thailand,JapanandKoreaandrecentlytold meters from a sealer, are restricted to a five-mile radius vessels. Ten more sealing vessels can be seen scattered a reporter, "If we do our marketing right and get into of a fixed point and must update DFO about their along the lead just opened by another Coast Guard these countries, in five, ten years down the road whereabouts. ship. In the midst of this convoy of death, a sealing sealingcouldbeworthatleast$100millionayear. The International media complain the government is helicopter sets down on the ice. Snowmobiles towing Chinese are looking for new products, new meat, new infringing on the freedom of the press to report on the sleds loaded with bloodied pelts work their way to- species of animals such as seals and other marine atrocities that take place on the ice. On March 24, ward the aircraft. The scene is grizzly with strings of mammals." Echoing this is Roger Simon, DFO re­ Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed bloodied snow crisscrossing to form Crimson trails source manager in PEl who on April 5 said, "With the that sealers attacked members of International Fund over the ice and black skinned carcasses are every- increase in seals and prices, the sealing industry is on for Animal Welfare (IF AW) and journalists observing where. This is not a hunt; this a systematic slaughter. a comeback." the hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The group While these pups lie at the ruthlessness of clubs, the A missionary explorer once used the newborn harp obtained permits and landed in an area designated by rest of this battle against nature is waged with all the · seal to explain Bible stories to the indigenous people of the DFO next to a Coast Guard helicopter. The Coast trappings of modern technology; helicopters, ATVs the North. The"lambofGod"wastranslatedto"kotik" Guard helicopter left the group to observe the blood andsnowmobilesgirdthisevent, butamoreprimitive or baby seal. That was then, this is now. On Prince and seal carcasses all over the ice unescorted. Two killing method prevails. Sealers use a "Hakapik," a club Edward Island Pat Gray voices dismay at this year's sealers approached on a snowmobile, picking up pelts with a hook at one end, to gore and repeatedly plunge slaughter, "This is a crime against nature-these seals while waving and beckoning to other sealers a short deep into the young seals' skulls. do not belong to Canada; these seals are migratory distance away. The observers, sensing there may be A Canadian Coast Guard helicopter appears. An animals. They belong to the world." After over 30 years trouble, walked back to their helicopter. Suddenly, RCMP officer oa board motions to get away. A voice . of protests, letter writing, boycotts and direct action, both observers were hit and one was grabbed from the crackles over the radio, "Too close, too close!" Flyiing the killing still continues. If the combined efforts of the back, his video camera tom from his hands, the further west, sealers can be seen moving on the ice. animal welfare, animal rights and conservation move­ camera and film destroyed. A club was placed under Small boats are scattered, and everywhere there are ments cannot stop the Canadian seal slaughter, what his chin, pushing his head back, and seal blood was trails of blood and still black forms. Six more sealing hope is there for the rest of the natural world? Pqge .6, Earth First! Beltane 1999 MuRDER, G£Noao£ AND PfJROL IN CoLUMBIA bia living in oil regions, however, this has brought by the threat of guerrilla violence and increasing BY SHANNON WRIGHT AND STEVE KRETZMANN only pollution and conflict. ' militarization of the region. By opposing the oil "We are seeking an explanation for this 'progress' that Oil and violence are inextricably linked in Colom­ project, the U'wa are exercising their right to protect goes against life. We are demanding that this kind of bia. Occidental's Cano Limon pipeline, just north of their people and land and to avoid turning their progress stop, that oil exploitation in the heart ofthe Earth the U'wa people's territory, has been attacked by homeland into a magnet for violence. The U'wa is halted, that the deliberate bleeding of the Earth stop." guerrillas more than 500 times in its 12 years of have declared if their rights are not respected and -STATEMENT OF lHE U'WA PEOPLE, AUGUST 8, 1998 existence, spilling some 1. 7 million barrels of crude this project proceeds, they as a people will commit We were in Oregon at the Environmental Law oil into the soil and rivers. The Colombian govern­ suicide. If their land and their culture is to die, they Conference to address the connection between oil ment has militarized oil production and pipeline are determined to die with it. and human rights violations when we got the news zones. In the process they persecute the local popu­ The risk in pursuing this project is clear. that Ingrid Washinawatok, Lahe'ena'e Gay and lations that they assume are helping guerrillas. Occidental's former business partner, Shell, pulled Terence Freitas had been murdered in Colombia. Arauca,. where out of the deal last year, saying it did not want We never imagined our friend Terry would become our friends were "another Nigeria." A few months earlier, the Orga­ the latest victim of petro-violence. Terry led an killed, is a major nization of American States (OAS) and a team from international campaign in support of the U'wa, an oil-producing Harvard University recommended "an immediate indigenous Colombian group of 5,000 opposed to region, and has and unconditional suspension" of oil activity on Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum's plans to one of the high­ U'wa lands. Occidental, however, is still pressing drill for oil on their ancestral lands. Justice for our est documented forward with plans to drill on the U'wa lands, friend requires an examination of Colombia's cycle rates of human further endangering the communities in the region. of violence and of the role that oil projects play in rights abuses in Despite the fact that oil is not the only cause of that ongoing cycle. Colombia. Colombia's strife, ongoing investment in these Our national thirst for oil comes at a high price. In April1992, war-torn regions by oil companies plays a central Colombia has the worst human rights record of Occidental was ~ role. Two years ago, the OAS' InterAmerican Com­ any country in the Americas. In 1994, the US cut granted an ex­ ~ mission on Human Rights recognized oil compa­ off financial assistance to the Colombian military ploration per­ ~ nies as responsible for the human rights violations, over human rights concerns. A concerted lobby­ mit to much of ~ including the environmental and cultural destruc­ ing effort, led in part by the oil industry, suc­ traditional U'wa ~ tion, their activities bring to indigenous lands in ceeded in early 1997 in restoring then drastically territory. The ! Latin America. Oil companies argue that their increasing US military aid. company be- [ "constructive engagement" in countries like Co­ Colombia is the fourth-larg­ ~ lombia is a force for peace, but they adopt no est and fastest-growing ex­ ~ measures to back up these words. porter of oil in South America. Peace in Colombia cannot be achieved simply by Under pressure from the diplomatic overtures. For the U'wa, this peace will United States and international only come with the cancellation of the oil project financial institutions, the Co­ lieves the field holds ap­ slated on their land, which, in the words of Terry lombian government has proximately 1.5 billion Freitas, "hangs over them like a shadow of death." turned to increasing oil pro­ barrels of oil, slightly less Steve Kretzmann is Oil Campaign Director for Project duction as a way to pay its than what the US con­ Underground and can be reached at (510) 705-8982. debts. The US imports some sumes in three months. Shannon Wright is the Director of the Beyond Oil 260,000 barrels of oil a day Since the beginning, the Campaign at Rainforest Action Network and can be from Colombia, making it the project has been plagued reached at (415) 398-4404. top ccrnsumer of·Colombian oil. For the peoples of Colom- ExTRACTION BAN IN EcuADOR PARKS

BY PRATAP CHATIERJEE EZLN ON COLUMBIA DEATHS Ecuadoran PresidentJamil Mahaud banned oil drilling, mining, logging and continued from front page colonization in two major Ecuadorean national parks which lent a degree of On one of the first trips I made to Washington DC, an American Indian protectionto some 10,000 peoples from the Huaorani, Tagaeri and Taromenare woman brought up the word "genocide" to describe the situation of the tribes. Mahuad issued a decree on February 1 pledging to protect Cuyabeno­ Zapatistas. And a severe criticism was embedded in the hushed room of a Imuya and Yasuni National Parks in eastern Ecuador, near the borders of Peru roomful of bureaucrats, Indian representatives and press. "Don't you think and Colombia. The parks total2. 7 million acres. Presidential decree gives these you're exaggerating using that word, genocide ... it is such a dramatic word." two national parks protection while Mahuad is in office. What is wrong with a society that cannot acknowledge the brutality which is Organizations are now working to push this decree into Congressional law to supposed to be ignored, because the victims of it, Indians, are invisible? ensure the area's permanent protection. Meanwhile, conflict between commu­ And I remember Ingrid's bright round eyes and the way they would fill nities _and oil corporations continues throughout other parts of Ecuador with with tears when she would hear the stories over and over again, when she Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Occidental and Texaco-all of whom are US­ would tap that well of sorrow which she knew so well as an American Indian. based oil multinationals-making the news in the last few weeks. The day after And I know somehow that at the moment of her death, she had no regrets Mahuad issued this decree in Ecuador, representatives from indigenous Ecua­ about the way she had lived her life. In the hope that if this voice screamed dorian communities were in a New York federal court before US District Judge loud enough, somehow this would make it stop. Jed Rakoff to testify in a $1 billion class action lawsuit being filed by the And now I also imagine the pundits at the State Department are running through communities against Texaco. The case has gone back and forth in courts with the official halls trying to figure out what "spin" they will put on Ingrid's death. a judge ruling in 1994 that communites could sue in the US. "How will · the death o r Americ A tragic accident, a travesty, The judge e that decisiondieci shortly afterward and Rakoff, who took a dramati d e D f& ~ore the oil over the ca gove · t ad to join e~~ t hich deny the suit for ' Rakoff to

.•t.s ··:I ..rv , hich melt make up h ador. The ·'· • pt police indigenou .. . US courts verywhere because th~jti s revenues, This is the and its cou hav 1 Bonifaz, ;.,edsoon... " lawyer for he-they '· 'ng witness contamina fish and ~ to someth 4J,g~ imbalance created a ·~ come." that imbue~ ~- , e lives and On Febu . w ~ ople who condemns the large majority to nothing but a march, a protest, a hunger strike, a had occupied an oil installation owned by Atlantic Ric orp ration for a land occupation, a gun, a hardened, wrinkled hand bunched together in a fist. day near the town of Puyo in the Amazonian province of Pastaza. Locals from Forgive me if in my sorrow I am rhetorical and all over the place. This was my way Pastaza descended on the camp to demand that Ecuador's government spend of giving voice to the pain of her loss. Of honoring her life. Of marking her death. $4 million in investments needed to complete a road to the town. The protest I send to Ingrid's family and her loved ones all our consuelo, our hugs, our forced the company to cease work temporarily. "Despite an agreement with the handshakes. We say to you that we honor Ingrid's life and mourn her death. army, the 300 protesters were brutally removed," said Romulo Jurado, Secretary From the Zapatistas who knew Ingrid, even though they never met her, who General of Puyo. Meanwhile, Occidental was forced to back down last month dreamed her dreams, who touched her heart, who know that in her death she from its attempt to enforce an illegal agreement it made with a few Secoya will live forever, we salute Ingrid. Her hope remains untarnished. Her death leaders from one village who gave the company permission to drill for oil in the now becomes another of the calluses which cushion our feet as we continue eastern corner of Ecuador. This temporary reprieve was won by the threat of this long walk to freedom. We will endure, Ingrid. We will win. legal action in Ecuador and lobbying at Occidental's US headquarters by the Cecilia Rodriguez is the EZLN representative in the United States and works for Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies, the Secoya Indigenous the National Gommission for Democracy in Mexico. . Organization of Ecuador and }:riends qphe Amazon Secoya.

May-June 1999 Earth First! Page 7 TRipods BusTEd,up; HoRsE BuTTE BisoN TRAp Buih NEW fAcilhy sENds 4 5 buffAlo off TO slAuqliTER witness without provocation and handcuffed him. again, the DOL closed off the area and hazed 29 BY Two }AILBIRDS Two others were arrested soon after. A fourth buffalo into the trap; 18 were shipped to slaughter On March 18 the Montana Department of Live­ videotaped the incident and was repeatedly as­ tne next morning. Two more volunteers were ar­ stock (DOL) stepped up its intimidation tactics sured they would not be arrested. Over an hour rested for obstruction when one locked herself to a against demonstrators protesting the slaughter of later, when the county sheriff arrived, the volun­ cattle guard on the road and another attempted to America's last wild, free-roaming buffalo. More than teer was arrested and his radio, video· camera and lock the gates of the Duck Creek facility. 20 law enforcement officers from the DOL, the the tape were confiscated. When asked why they Activists were able to document on video two Gallatin County Sheriff's Office, Montana Highway were being arrested, the DOL gave no consistent separate permit violations, including snowmobile Patrol, the US Forest Service, and the Montana response. Trumped-up charges of negligent endan­ hazing in a zone 1 restricted area within one-quarter Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks arrived at germent, for supposedly threatening the DOL with mile of a nest site, as well as hazing activities within the tripod that blocked the DOL from building a buffalo, were filed the next day. one quarter mile of open water on the Madison River new buffalo capture facility. before 10:00 a.m. Copies of the video­ The two-month blockade incited a legal dispute tape of the violations were submitted between the DOL and the Forest Service over which .., to both the Forest Service and the agency should bear the liability for removing the ~ Department of Fish and Wildlife, re­ structure and protesters. Deciding that killing dozens ~ suiting in a warning against the DOL. of buffalo on their winter range was more important ~ The permit, however, will not be re­ than the liability issues, the DOL signed the permit ~ voked unless more violations occur. and two days later moved in with force. ~ A white candle salvaged from the With their excess of law enforcement, the coop­ ? ruins of the blockade will be lit as erating agencies were able to remove the ground [ part of an altar for the buffalo sacri­ support person. As plowing of the road and re­ ". ficed this year in the name of cattle moval of several slash piles began, members of the and disease. The candle will burn for Buffalo Field Campaign gathered forces in sup­ The government-sanctioned kill has murdered 94 wild bison this year. the 94 buffalo killed by the DOL and port of the sitter to protest the actions against the Wasting little time, the DOL began construction of for the hope and efforts of all those involved in the buffalo. Numerous protesters filtered through the the new bison trap within the next few days, moving struggle for the Yellowstone buffalo. trees, gathering together in a presence of power forcefully in their effort to control the wild buffalo as Please support the Bison Legal Defense Fund and help encircling the scene. As the sitter began to sing they do livestock. By the third week of March the trap us stay out of jail and in the field where the buffalo need the words to a Neil Young song, "It's gonna take was nearly complete. Set in the area of an active bald us. Send non-tax-deductible donations to the Bison a lot of love to change the way things are," silence eagle nest, the trap's construction required the US Legal Defense Fund at the address below. Join us in came over the area. Several hours later, at about Fish and Wildlife Service to issue a biological opinion saving the last free-roaming buffalo from the DOL and 3:00p.m., she was removed with a cherry picker authorizing a "take" of the nest, ~hich allows the get free food and cabin lodging at the same time. and arrested for obstructing a "peace" officer and facility to displace the site and render it inactive. Contact the Buffalo Field Campaign (formerly Buffalo resisting arrest. However, the take was authorized under the assump- Nations) at POB 957, West Yellowstone, MT 59758; Adding insult to injury, later that day, four cam­ tion that the trap's construction would be completed (406) 646-0070; 646-0071 (fax); [email protected]; paign volunteers walked alongside four buffalo as when nesting season began on February 1. Construe- www.wildrockies.org/buffalo. several DOL agents remained on the road. When the tion likely caused even more disturbance to the nest Ed. note: On April14 the DOL captured 71 bison in the agents saw the buffalo approaching they blocked the thaf.l operation alone, as it invo1Ved?heavy niachin: '' newly:fJUilf'Horse Butte captilfe fadlity: Forty-five were road with their snowmobiles refusing to move. The ery, a generator and floodlights that illuminate the sent to slaughter; four more died in the fadlity, and two volunteers managed to move the buffalo around area at night. of the 22 bison released died of gore wounds from their them over a 10-foot snowbank. The first major hazing effort at the newly-built confinement. During this buffalo capture there were After walking the buffalo to safety, the volun­ Horse Butte capture facility occurred March 31. With multiple arrests of campaign volunteers. Many of the teers walked past the agents, who tackled one the help of numerous law enforcement officers once arrests were on trumped-up charges. ·

Taylor Ranch and two commercial timber compa­ nies to stop destroying local water resources and the Zachary Taylor Gets a Personal Parade . environment as they have been logging in violation CROSS•COUNTRY CARAVAN GREETS THE EARTH PILLAGER oflocalland use regulations. This case demonstrates ·that local governments of rural western communi­ Environmental activists from Ancient Forest Res­ puppeteered a IS-foot-tall cardboard cut-out in ties are increasingly willing to exercise their powers cue (AFR) have been living in the community of San Taylor's likeness with money in one hand and a to adopt and enforce land use laws for the protec­ Luis since June 1996. In that time a unique bond has chainsaw in another. tion of environmental and community values. In formed between Hispanic farmers and ranchers, Volunteers from AFR have brought lawyers from addition, because environmental attorneys are rep­ Chicano activists and Anglo environmental activ­ the Western Environmental Law Center and the resenting rather than resisting local government, ists working to stop the brutal logging on the Taylor Costilla County commissioners together to try and the Costilla County case represents a major turning Ranch, locally known as La Sierra. do something about Taylor's blatant disregard for point in the relationship between the environmen­ Zachary Taylor of New Bern, North Carolina, the newly enacted county land use codes. The tal movement and local western populations that owns the timber deeds to 77,500 acres of forests in Costilla County commissioners recently filed a cut­ generally have been skeptical of the movement. the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Southern Colo­ ting-edge lawsuit to force the owners of the vast . -. ANCIENT FoREST RESCUE rado. Heavily mechanized logging is threatening the entire watershed of the Rio de Ia Culebra, which is the irrigation source for 178 small family farms. Taylor is an absentee landlord who refuses to ac­ knowledge the devastating consequences the log­ ging is having on the people of San Luis. In an historic and unprecedented event, 18 local resi­ dents along with environmental activists from San Luis and across the country took their long struggle with the Taylor family to his hometown during the first week of March. During the visit, San Luis locals had the opportu­ nity to tell their story of struggle against a timber baron at a press conference which aired multiple times on the nightly news .. A candlelight vigil was held one evening in downtown New Bern to pro­ mote fhe return of environmental and social justice to San Luis. The culminating event of the week was a parade through downtown New Bern lauding a way of life and vilifying the threat against it. About 40 members of Ancient Forest Rescue, students, farmers and community members representing Costilla County (population about 3,000) wielded banners, carried signs and chanted. Three people Page 8 Earth First! Beltane 1999 PENNSYLVANIA ACTIVISTS SPIED ON

BY jiM IMary Hosmer, believes Ruckus Society. The Ruckus Society is an organiza­ ADP as an organization, have a history of appealing activist Mark Goldberg," ... has it in for commercial tion based in Montana that trains people in environ­ virtually every timber sale project proposed on the activities such as logging, export agriculture, cattle mental activism and civil disobedience. My guess is Allegheny National Forest for the last five years ... The ranching, mining and oil exploration" and she refers that this means he is planning to move his organiza­ ADP has now been joined and is being supported by to Goldberg as a "professional protester." Forest tion to the next level." numerous individuals and organizations "support­ Service Law Enforcement Officer StevenS. Burd sends September 17, 1998: "The ADP has scheduled a ing their cause." These groups include some who weekly memos on the activities and associations of "Fall Defender's Gathering" for September 18, 19 · have a history of practicing and supporting acts of the ADP to the Warren County Sheriff's Office and and 20th. A copy of this [gathering] schedule is civil disobedience and· criminal vandalism on Na~ the Warren County Pennsylvania State Police Bar­ attached for your informaticin ... The Forest Service tional Forests throughout the Country. These groups racks. Some of the more interesting excerpts from has advised the contractors of the planned ADP include: Sierra Club, Earth First, Buckeye Forest Coun­ Burr's communiques follow: _activity. At this time we have no information that cil, Heartwood ... The Allegheny National Forest Su­ April3, 1998: "There have been no observations or the group intends to purposely disrupt any logging pervisor has the authority to close portions of the reports of any "visitors" to either job site. Timber or protest at any location ... Although at this time we National Forest to public use for the protection of contractors are making regular visits to the sites to have no information that anything is planned, it is health and safety if he feels it is necessary ... " (The check on equipment an(j have not reported any always a possibility that there will be some sort of next 23 lines of the memo are blacked out.) problems to date. Horest Service Law Enforcement counter demonstration or gathering, We will keep .We know this is just the tipofthe iceberg and there ·and Timber Sale Administration staff continue to you advised of any potential problems that may is more information on forest activists in the Forest make random visits to the sites." require action by your agencies." Service files. For more information.contact the Al­ April 7, 1998: "Two -dates to take note of for An odd attachment included copies of a police leghenyDefenseProject,POB245, Clarion, PA 16214; increased possibility of 'protest' activity; 1) April 9- report on a civil disobedience action in the Wayne (814) 764-5763; ·764-5779 fax; [email protected]; 15. Easter Break at Clarion University, 2) May 15-17. National Forest in Ohio from November of 1996. In www.enviroweb.org/adp/. Eagle Creek s·- 'BAMA FORESTS FIGHT FOR THE .... ~~..... ,.. ~ BY IvAN MALusKI LOCKED UP ·Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest is a place of great beauty, old-growth forests, picturesque water­ Alabama forest activists won a major victory on sheds and, unfortunately, an out of control logging February 12 when the State of Alabama suspended program. Here, the US Forest Service's willingness to timber sales on all four of its national forests as a result break the law for timber companies is a habit. In the of "irregularities" found in the timber sale program for Eagle timber sales southeast ofPortland, the beauti­ the Shoal Creek Ranger District in the Talladega Na­ ful Old Baldy trail, 800 acres of unprotected wilder--· tional Forest. According to Wild Alabama's executive ness and a municipal watershed for over 175,000,· director Lamar Marshall, "This shutdown vindicates are threatened. Last summer the US Forest Service · the many years ofhard work we have done surveying, ignored its own· rules at Eagle by logging out of watching and litigating over-destructive and illegal season at the Salmon Huckleberry roadless area and Forest Service practices. We may have been a lone without conducting wildlife surveys. voice howling in the wilderness once, but now, every­ The fight over Eagle has spanned a few years; one knows we were right about something being very Eight protesters were arrested in 1998 stopping the wrong with how the Forest Service manages our public logging at Eagle (see EF!J August-September 1998). lands in Alabama." In addition, hundreds of individuals· have hiked, The Regional Forester's office in Atlanta acknowl- camped and rallied for its preservation. On April!, The Old Baldy trail looking at Mount Hood, slated to be obliterated edged that this action is due in part to the years of 1999, nearly 40 people gathered at the Regional . announcement of a five-year moratorium on log­ work and litigation done by Wild Alabama and Headquarters of the Forest Service in Portland and ging in the highly visible Zig Zag Ranger District. WildLaw over illegal timber sales. Other contribut­ made news by turning over petitions signed by Before the moratorium began, the Forest Service ing factors were a recent Inspector General's report over 1,000 people opposed to the Eagle sales. They pushed through several last-minute sales threaten­ documenting violations of federal laws in virtually gave Regional Forest Supervisor Bob Williams the ing the Salmon Huckleberry Wilderness and the every National Forest timber sale they examined in "Golden Stump" award for 1999 for his leading Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). Fifty protesters, but no Virginia and Mississippi, and inside reports from role in carrying out the destructive Northwest bidders, showed up for the Salmonberry sale auc­ courageous Forest Service employees who confirmed Forest Plan. tion and the destructive Abbott Salmon sale on the the agency's gross noncompliance with environ­ Meanwhile, law enforcement is cracking down PCT was shut down by an appeal. But this couldn't mental regulations. on forest activists as they prepare for the logging stop the USFS who sold portions of Abbott Salmon WildLaw, Wild Alabama and the Alabama Wilder­ season at Eagle. In early February, warrants were with some of the rules relaxed. "No trace" logging ness Alliance have worked on protecting the national issued for five of last summer's protesters, and they · along the PCTin wolverine habitat occurred months forests in Alabama since the mid-1980s. Since then, were soon after charged with one felony and two before the start of the logging season. we have caught (and proven successfully in court and misdemeanors apiece. The activists are now being It is clear that as environmental laws are broken, in administrative appeals) the Forest Service failing prosecuted for felony destruction of government protesters that are willing to put themselves on the to consider the cumulative impacts of their timber property exceeding $500 ($5 78 to be exact) for line are being slammed by an oppressive legal sys­ sales, as required by the National Environmental minimal road damage that occurred during last tem. No place is safe right now, and logging of the · Policy Act; failing to protect endangered, rare species June's blockade. If found guilty, they could face as remaining 800 acres of native forest and unprotected and migratory birds; violating the National Historic many as five years in prison and a $100,000 fine. · wilderness at Eagle could begin again at any time. Preservation Act by not protecting historic Native The trial is set for June 1, the day logging is The Cascadia Forest Alliance in Portland is lead­ American sites on the Bankhead National Forest; and "legally" supposed to resume at Eagle. ing hikes to the various Mount Hood sales, orga­ using up to 19 times the legal limit of herbicides on Mount Hood is no stranger to protesters. Massive nizing direct action and also supporting efforts for the national forests and converting native forests civil disobedience to save native forests and sacred the Eagle Creek 5. Please contact the group at POB into pine plantations. Since 1995, legal work by the sites on Enola Hill in 1995 resulted not only in a six­ 4946, Portland, OR 97208; (503) 241-4879 if you groups has halted timber sales on more than 55,000 month federal sentence for one activist but also the can help. acres of public lands in Alabama. May-June _1999 Earth First! · Page 9 and other vegetables that do well in who as we speak prepare a new wave our particular climate. We must use of daring direct action strikes. They "alternatives" in everything that we advise us through deeds, that it's time do. We must come together to reclaim for many of us to trespass, to make 1?1 areas. We must build sustainable, free­ new laws, to cross the lines of power WII from-any-attachment-to-society, in­ and cross our own lines of fear and ••• tentional, solution-oriented commu­ apathy. A time that couldn't be better nities of activism. (though maybe a bit late) to launch a I feel that we can utilize things like coordinated and persistent attack computers to undermine the infrastruc­ against the Agents of Ecocide. ture of our corporate-dominated soci­ The call to action will be heard and ety, but we must be careful and not an upwelling of support and collabo­ cross the line into dependency. Every­ ration will begin. The end of our one I know that gets too caught up in domination and repression by global technological energy loses their deep capitalism and its technology starts sense of connection to the Earth and as soon as enough of us light up the becomes imbalanced. Ultimately, we fires of Love and torch the symbols need to get technology out of our lives. and mechanics of Greed. You want to find a way to free soci­ People need to promote openly and/ ety from the technological strangle­ or secretly: a purpose, plan and targets. hold? Get rid of your computer. Get Purpose: Ensure protection of en­ rid of your car. Get rid of your stereo. dangered ecosystems, bring down You get the picture. It's a bit hypocriti­ dangerous corporations, defend our cal to say that we want to free society survival plan and recruit warriors who from technology while continuing to will adopt targets from the Emergency use it daily. The absolute best way to Hit-List. Send out a loud message and lead is by example. We must practice stop the destruction of each what we preach. community's ability to survive the Humans are guided by value sys~ coming collapse without further eco­ terns. We place values on things that logical calamity. destroy life. Ultimately, I believe the Survival Plans: If the smoke clears wide, and environmental crises every­ answer lies in love-coming from a from 2000, it will not be impossible LUDDITE FANTASY where. They must begin thinking place where we are for something in­ to care for communities, refugees and about how to withdraw themselves, at stead of always focusing on what we the land. Basic needs can be met in least as much as possible, from this are against. Let us envision what it is most areas. Everything will have to BY KIRKPATRICK SALE juggernaut, how to order their lives so we want and begin living that every be shared and food production will As a Luddite, I can only relish the as not to be in a steady thrall to ma­ moment of every day. be the priority. If the community is whole Y2K brouhaha. I have no idea chinery and how to wake the world up As a movement, we need to find strong and their defense vigilant, then what's going to happen, of course, to the peril we face. ways to come together even more. I there will be no need for fighting or but it's wonderful to see the techno­ For that, Y2K is at least handy. believe we need a global network to damaging the environment. Coop­ logical culture spending upwards of People are already beginning to see bring in and disseminate informa­ eration will replace competition and $100 billion to try and avert its own that serious dislocations are possible tion. We also need a "Civil Rights people will find their groups to live machine-made disasters, having no and even the experts are not so sure movement"fortheenvironment. We and work with. Community celebra­ way of really knowing if they can do they know how to avoid them. When need to converge onthe White I;fouse tions and live entertainment will it. It's wonderful to see the culture January 1, 2000 comes and the disas­ and various governnientalplaces, all ' complement our work to renew each · that has all along assured us that ters a~cumulate-as they certainly of us, with bipods, tripods, lockdowns, other and Nature. nothing can go wrong is actually in will, no matter how much time and marches, street theater, whatever it is Emergency Hit List: Roads, bridges, turmoil because they know full well money the technophiles spend-I that we do, taking it to the people dams and equipment which threaten that this time things really can go trust that even more people will come who are controlling our lives and watersheds; industries with a history wrong, and they're not sure they know . to have second thoughts about let­ controlling the technology that con­ of pollution; corporate buildings and how to fix them. ting their lives be turned over to com­ trols our lives. Then, take that energy Along with the absurd push to wire puter chips and living in the milieu and momentum and network back to every fifth-grader, and the recurring those chips demand. our own fights and use that to .em­ global financial crises caused by 24- Kirkpatrick Sale is the author of such power ourselves. We need to con­ hour megabyte wheeler-dealing, Y2K great books as "Rebels Against the Fu­ tinuously converge at major strategic offers the best example around of ways ture," "Human Scale" and "Dwellers strongholds. We need to "dump the to get people to start thinking about in the Land: The Bioregional Vision." tea back in the harbor." It is time for the broad, encompassing dangers of a revolution of consciousness. our technological embrace. LoVE IS THE ANSWER Julia "Butterfly" Hill has boldly occu­ Jacques Ellul, the French philoso­ pied an ancient redwood in Northern pher in whose name a new society of California for over 16 months (and count­ techno-critics has just begun, once BY jULIA "BUITERFLY" HILL ing), confronting millions ofpeople with put the problem this way. Think of Most humans operate in a crisis men­ the challenge to defend the Earth. technology not as a set of machines tality. We require drastic problems or but as a culture, as the philosophy and the threat of them to motivate us to mindset and worldview that goes with take action. Ultimately, I believe the HoWL TOGEIHER the machines, as a milieu. Then one potential crisis of Y2K provides fertile must assess the impact-not of one soil from which some wonderful pos­ ORHANGTOGEIHER particular invention or tool, but the sibilities can grow. effect of all of them together; not just Society as it exists today is a false BY ZziNNIA individual tasks, but how they all com­ reality-an illusionary house with all The Wilds and Her creatures ask us bine to alter society in psychological, the amenities, but built on a founda­ to be brave in Her hour of need. Seize economic, political, environmental, tion of extraction which must result the opportunity during the "Chaos of cultural and perceptual ways. The in its eventual crumbling. Our work 2000" to strike hard with a message of problem now is that the high-tech must encourage that crumbling at a liberation and Gaia self-defense. milieu is so powerful and all-encom­ rate that will supercede the complete Since the government ignores the passing in the modern world that it is destruction of the environment's life­ Endangered Species Act and refuses taking over, radically changing, and, giving systems. What will survive this to implement an emergency program in effect, destroying both the social crash and grow from its fertile ashes of sustainable living and ecological communications; almost anything and natural milieus. are those people who have placed their restoration, extreme action in defense goes, except be careful of and respect That is the way we Luddites might roots back in the Earth, from which all of endangered regions is required. all life. Consider the impacts of all view the millennium. We would like life grows. With this is mind, where do Ask enlightened Healers. They know your actions. Support the warriors people, to understand the multiple we find the practical applications to the moment arrives soon. Healers un­ and may they listen to the voice of downsides of all the hardware that implement this process? derstand the inevitability of self-de­ caution and modest restraint. Give us surrounds their lives. We would like First, we must take personal respon­ fense and their duty to help keep the courage to change what we can. people to reckon the costs this tech­ sibility for all things. We must find violence to a miflimum. To do that The patience to accept what cannot nological rampage is ringing up, costs ways to make our ideals and actions requires they plug in now and that be changed, and the Weapons to get that are quite obviously creating seri­ meet on all levels. If we occupy the they prepare to defend the goals and the job done. ous economic dislocation and inequal­ forests, we must find ways to do it even the tactics of the ALF, the ELF Zzinnia is a longtime activist, poet and ity, social and political tensions world- more sustainably. We can grow sprouts and the vanguard of young warriors a "nutty" prophet. Page 10 Earth First! Beltane 1999 be taking the floor on these issues now REvoLUTION EMERGES OlF.snON TEOINOLOGY rather than letting the "panic and buy­ THE TIME HAS CoME my-high-tech-survival-food" rhetoric BY ERNEsT CAlu.NBACH AND LM: SIMPLY dominate public thought. Panic, help­ BY STINGING NETILE lessness and selfishness (the consumer To be frank, I'm doubtful that the In January of the year 2000, aliens BY KAREN COULTER mentality) are not conducive to peace, celebrated Y2K problem will lead in will not land, Christ will not come social equity or ecological integrity. Ecotopian directions. For one thing, The assumption that Y2K is a crisis is and the US government will not col­ The way to end neoliberalism and neo­ technological society is astonishingly pathetic and revolting when you con­ lapse. One more thing that I know colonialism is to act on the local level resilient when it has to be, i.e. when­ sider the far more horrific circumstances for sure-,-LA will not be peaceful. with bioregional and international soli­ ever money-making is threatened. But of the world's last remaining indigenous Everything else is uncertain. But if darity. It's time to get to know our more importantly, serious and durable peoples and the great diversity of other there's enough social upheaval in neighbors and seek consensus on the change doesn't happen randomly or species vanishing daily from the Earth this country, the paper-thin illusion way out of this mess. The transnational suddenly. It's planned, organized and because we are using all these unneces­ of the American Dream may finally worked for over a long period of time. sary and wasteful technologies that US corporations set up this doomed sys­ tem; the internet won't be there to bail be torn apart. There are really no "revolutions";what citizens now fear losing. When I was The American Dream has long been us out-it never was. seem to be revolutionary changes are growing up there were no personal com­ a nightmare for the homeless, the always the products of gradual shifts puters, videos, fax machines, copiers or Karen Coulter is a no compromise activ­ istworkingon ending corporate dominance. working poor and the 1. 7 million in in economic and power relationships. microwave ovens. I was not deprived. · jails and prisons. It's been a 500-year Human agency counts, however. To Only SO years ago, there were no jets, reign of terror for indigenous peoples use a depressing example, the current global commercial air travel, television, TED IS RIGHT. and native plants and animals. Yet ideological drift toward the right and clothes dryers, electric typewriters, free­ the US loudly proclaims itself to be ever-accelerating environmental de­ ways, suburbs, shopping malls, artifi­ BY }OHN ZERZAN the pinnacle of democracy and jus­ struction have been striven for by a cial organs and chemical pesticides. We tice. It spins a mythos that the corpo­ People won't see Y2K as an oppor­ whole generation of amply financed don't need these things. rate-run marketplace delivers happi­ tunity without understanding more right-wingers. Over the long run, We need to free our minds from the ness, prosperity and freedom to all. though, many subterranean trends will corporate colonization telling us we about technology than they get from mass media. What is it, at base? This is the ideology of capitalism, push us in Ecotopian directions for need all these things to be happy. We and ideology is more important than Where is it taking us? How does this mere survival. If we wish society to need to redefine "property" to exclude armies in maintaining empires. movement work? move toward Ecotopian sustainability the buying and selling of the com­ There's been no competing vision Already there is a growing sense that with some grace, it will come only mons-land, air, water, wildlife and since the end of the Cold War. the "promise" of a high-tech world is through the patient, massive mobiliz­ space-and need to re-assert peoples' Being at the center of the Capitalist a false one.That instead of empower­ ing of people, not through some tem­ control over societal institutions, in- Empire, the US voraciously gobbles ing and connecting us, for example, porary concatenation of circumstances. up resources from around the world, the computerization of society is The only real long-term good I can decimating local cultures and ecosys­ disempowering and infantilizing us envision coming out of the Y2K situa­ tems. Its chief export is Hollywood and is. a big factor in the growing tion is that it is leading a fair number films, the propaganda of the empire. isolation or separation of people. of people to reconsider their By selling the American Dream to the In addition to providing news about technophilia-their belief that tech­ neo-colonies, it seeks to create con­ nology can save us. Some of them may all the latest assaults on nature, we need to provide more analysis, more sumers in emerging markets. It seeks come to understand that it is ecology, to justify the US as the world's police­ of the reasons we say "actualize in­ not technology, which is the real foun­ man and world's premier energy and dustrial collapse." dation of human life. resource glutton. Beyond Y2K, of course, lie many As Horkheimer and Adorno· put it, "technological rationale is the rationale So here comes the Millennium Bug, other challenges to the brave new tech­ poised to hit the US harder than any nological era. Bioengineering is likely of domestication itself." Fifty years lat~J­ it's all the more clear the technicizing of . other nation because we have im­ to produce unforeseen problems that mersed ourselves in a technological will make Y2K seem trivial. Popula­ life works to erase value, meaning, ac­ countability. Resting on the founda­ nest of computers and embedded tion and consumption driven stress chips. The corporate oligarchy is too will,. multiply. Phone numbers will tions of division of labor and domesti­ cation, it estranges us even further from entrenched in this country to sud­ have to become much longer and will denly vanish. But if significant social be more error prone. License plates, the natural world and each other. Y2K is the first major sign that this juggernaut turmoil erupts, the rest of the world Social Security numbers and other will see that this system hasn't made identification systems will go through is not invincible, just as the turbulence in global capital exposes that system as people happy or free. The happy face painful expansions. Date-sensitive pro­ painted on American fascism will be gramming problems will also turn up less than secure. In fact, of course, technology and washed away. With the myths de­ in the Global Positioning System and eluding corporations and instill a bunked, alternative visions can gain capital are not distinct and never were. other technological interconnections. biocentric ethic in all communities. ground in the distant lands of the But these are all just details-gears I've been much happier since I gave Technology itself is not at all a neutral tool. Rather, it is the embodiment of empire where people still have intact and bolts in the technological jugger­ up electricity in my home, including families and communities. naut. What's really going on is more electric lights, automatic hot water, com­ capital, its latest incarnation, express­ ingits basic, alienated priorities. "Indus­ As this unparalleled opportunity ap­ profound; in the grip of a lunatic eco­ puters, central heating, refrigeration, proaches, EF!ers seem unable to think in nomic dogma, we are destroying the TV, fax, etc... I'm now much better trial Sodety and Its Future, " the so-called Unabomber Manifesto, shows persua­ terms larger than their solar panels, biological substrate that human popu­ prepared for Y2K. I grow and gather garden plots and food stashes. Y2K dis­ lations depend on. Moreover, we're some of my own food, make herbal sively how technology rules out free­ dom and fulfillment, techno-capital cussions rarely encompass geopolitics creating explosive tensions within hu­ medicines, enjoy the sounds birds and or biocentrism. They revert to egocen­ man societies by systematically de­ coyotes as my music, spend more time must expand or die. This imperialism is the reason the biosphere is similarly trism: the me-first survival mentality of stroying both informal (family and with friends and family with a clearer most Americans. Or they settle for community) and governmental secu­ head. Some things-like giving up mo­ doomed unless the whole megamachine, all its categories and anthropocentrism: "I gotta help out my rity nets. We're expecting ourselves tor vehicles and developing compre­ neighbors down the street whom I've and others to live as if Homo economicus hensive barter systems and mutual aid dynamics, is destroyed. Folks feel that everyday life is in­ never talked to." That's all very nice. were more than a mad fantasy. networks-are easier to do in cities. It's That's what a good liberal would do. But But fundamentally we are anthro­ not just a "back to the land" argument. creasingly barren and texture-less, that this emptiness is taking over. it's far from taking a radical approach. poid mammals, with both the poten­ Over-population is a big problem, but This is a time for situationist pranks tial and limitations of our species. We overconsumption and inequity in the Postmodern nihilism or cynicism is the Cultural expression of the enlarg­ to hype the chaos and no-holds-barred like to play and joke, to hang around distribution of essentials is even worse monkeywrenching. Corporations and together, to work intermittently and in terms of actual and potential reper­ ing of the Dead Zone of technology. "Its aUfucked, so who cares." technology are the enemies of the cooperatively, to sing, dance, make cussions. Their correction is also easier Earth, so why wouldn't you hit them music and make love. We also can be to implement and involves real democ­ Y2K will be an opening if people see what is going on and that there is a while they're down? This maybe dan­ murderous, irresponsible and greedy. racy rather than fascism. In cities where gerous if the National Guard is mobi­ At some point, we must realize that there is wasted space and opportunities, response. The only valid, authentic, inspiring response is the call to erase lized. But in 1936 thousands of anar­ our fundamental task is to reorganize let's use Y2Kto tear up side streets and chists traveled to Spain with just the society so that we can live not like plant community gardens and spread the whole strangling ensemble be­ fore it completes its trajectory of de­ clothes on their backs, risking their machines for profit-making, but like the word about the sanity of sharing, lives to fight fascism. Isn't today's Ecotopians. Y2Kmayprovesomesmall rather than fighting over, scarce re­ stroying the individual, society and the wild. As the situationists said, "A corporate techno-fascism far more in­ help in this, but it's not really a long sources. This will help avoid mob strife sidious? Where are all the eco-anar­ term inspiration for the kind of on the streets when Y2K hits. society that has abolished adventure makes the only adventure the aboli- . chists willing to do battle? We are in changes we need. All of these subjects are relevant to the heart of the empire, and we have ErnestCallenbach is a visionary thinker community survival when theelectronic tion of that society." fohn Zerzan is an anarcho-primitivist, a responsibility to the rest of the planet. and author of the classics "Ecotopia" infrastructure collapses ending depen­ Stinging Nettle is a nomadic eco warrior. and "Ecotopia Emerging." dency on the corporate elite. We should writer and all around enemy of the state. May-June ·1999 Earth First! Page 11 ldci.IBELAPPKAI, KIWIS SAB SPUDS .ORB •c&GOJNIY In the early hours of March 11, a dozen people jumped a fence at the Crop and PASTI10 Food Research Centre, just outside of Christchurch, New Zealand. Within The verdict in the long-awaited environment. The court rejected the minutes, they uprooted an experimental, genetically-modified potato crop, McLibel appeal case was handed down contention by the McLibel 2 that ruining a $200,000 research project that involved combining potato genes with March 31 by the Royal Courts of multinational corporations be genetic material from toads and silkworms to make the potatoes rot-resistant. justice in the UK. The court ruled it prevented from filing suit for libel This major act of environmental sabotage has prompted scientists and politi­ was fair to say that McDonald's over public interest issues, but cians from all over New Zealand to call for a high-level inquiry into genetically employees worldwide "do badly in acknowledged "that may be seen as an modified organisms. terms of pay and conditions" and it argument of some substance." The timing of the action, claimed by the Wild Greens, a direct action youth was true that "if one eats enough As a local TV station said at the end faction of the Green Party, occurred just as opposition to genetically-modified McDonald's food, one's diet may well of the original trial, the case will go become high in fat ... with the very down as "the biggest Corporate PR "This major act of environmental sabotage has real risk of heart disease." · disaster in history." McDonald's aim As a result of their further findings of suppressing the "What's Wrong prompted scientists and politicians from all against the corporation, the three Lord With McDonald's?" leaflets over New Zealand to call for a high-level justices reduced Mr. justice Bell's award spectacularly backfired. to McDonald's. No sanctions have Information on the case is available inquiry into genetically modified organisms.'' been taken against the company, from the McUbel Support Campaign, despite these findings. The appealcase 5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DX, food was mounting in New Zealand. Even the Prime Minister, jenny Shipley, began oil january 12, 1999. Helen UK Tel/Fax 0171 713 1269; announced she was in favor of labeling GM food, the day after the government Steel and Dave Morris represented mcli bel@globalnet. co. uk; called labeling "costly and unworkable." themselves and challenged the use of www.mcspotlight.org. The most common reaction from environmental group leaders was an attitude libel laws as a form of mass censorship. of cautious support of the sabotage. The predictable exception was Greenpeace They argued for overturning the NZ. One anti-GE activist commented, "These corporate scum [Greenpeace], original verdict against them in the posing as environmental activists put out a media release condemning the attack, controversial case brought by the presumably on the grounds that a media stunt by a bunch of yuppies in silly McDonald's Corporation. costumes is a more effective way of attracting donations." Despite the strong arguments made Most of the media were quick to use the word "eco-terrorism" to describe the by the defendants, the court has failed act of uprooting some potatoes. Meanwhile, security has been stepped up at to provide any real protection for the Ruakura Agricultural Research Station (the biggest vivisection lab in the public's right to scrutinize and criticize southern hemisphere where genetically modified coWs are bred) and other crop companies whose business practices research labs around the country. Police are investigating the incident, but at may affect people's lives, health and the t~me of this printing no arrests have been made. LETTBEWILD RSRUNFREEI FIFTY-FIVE EvENTS TAKE PLACE IN TwENTY CouNTRIES ON INTERNATIONAL .DAY oF AcTION

BY ALETA BROWN On March 14, the International Day of Action no longer exist. On the banks of the Liesbeek River, try as one that is higher than 15 meters). The Against Dams and for Rivers, Water and Life, hun­ a river blessing was performed and Liane Greeff of reservoirs created by these dams cover an area the dreds of people marched through the streets of the Environmental Monitoring Group said, "We size of California. Tens of millions of people have Baguio City in the Philippines carrying banners chose the Liesbeek for the ceremony because its been moved to make way for dams, and those dis­ and streamers and shouting in protest, "Ayashi!," degraded state reflects the poor state of most of placed people are almost never fairly compensated the indigenous word for "No!," to the San Roque Cape Town's urban rivers-the Lotus, the Kuils and rarely experience an improved quality of life. Dam Project. They finished the day with an ecu­ and the Elsieskraal." Earlier in this century, dams were looked upon as menical service where one of the workers said, "Let In California, groups including International Riv­ symbols of progress and prosperity. As the century us not allow them to imprison our waters in a dam. ers Network, Friends of the River, the Sierra Club turns, however, we have learned that dams can Let it flow to the countryside and lowlands and let and several fishing organizations held a "Free the uproot people and cultures, severely deplete fish it benefit all populations, de- creatures of stroy ancient ar­ this Earth." cheological sites, In Columbia, drown great a group pro­ swaths of the duced a docu­ world's best mentary film farmland and called, "In Be­ forests, and ad­ tween Thirst versely affect and Water," and both biologic hosted a com­ and geologic life munity forum. downstream. Tbe group But there is stated, "We clearly a change would like to be in how the world part of the glo­ views large bal efforts where flowing is what is constant and where dams. The independent World Commission on dams can not have the deadly effect of stillness." Dams is in the process of assessing the effectiveness On the second annual day of action, 55 events and destructiveness of dams. Although major dams took place in 20 countries. Demonstrations, marches have often been built with impunity in the past, and rallies were held in India, Thailand, Taiwan, several countries have aborted projects mid-way Brazil and Spain. Adults and children cleaned rivers through construction because the benefits were and planted trees in japan and Slovakia; forums and •..IBTBm.oD uncertain and the costs enormous. Furthermore, press conferences were held in Costa Rica, the US Water Relay." Water impounded behind the Nim­ in the US there is a growing movement to take and elsewhere; and people met at their rivers to bus Dam on the American River was hand-carried existing dams down. celebrate, dance, and share poetry, ideas and strat­ by kayak, bicycle, sailboat and commercial crab For more information, contact International Riv­ egies to protect our precious rivers. boat to the San Francisco Bay. A celebration and ers Network, 184 7 Berkeley Way Berkeley, CA 94 703; Residents of Beaumont, New Zealand, organized press conference was held at Fisherman'~ Wharf (510) 848-1155; 848-1008 fax; [email protected]; a community picnic and kayak trip to celebrate the where the escorted water was freed into the bay to www.irn.org. fact that their river, the Clutha, is still flowing free symbolize the need for more freshwater flows in Aleta Brown works for International Rivers Network in despite attempts since 1965 to dam it. South Mrica's California rivers. ' Berkeley, California, and is the information coordinator Cape Town was dotted with blue crosses signifying The world's rivers are now obstructed by more for the International Day ofAction Against Dams and rivers that have become polluted, diverted, or that than 40,000 large dams (defined by the dam indus- for Rivers, Water and Life. Page 12 Earth First! Beltane 1999 longer than what is currently planned, and is more environmentally benign because of the location. EROSPIJDA This option was rejected because planners said its the green lungs of Europe. It is an area of low expense would be outrageous. Another option is to urbanization, sparkling clean air and protected ar­ build a short bridge (250-300 meters) that would eas that are home to a multitude of wildlife and span a small portion of the area. The decision made plant species. Augustow authorities plan to begin by local authorities can still be changed because of construction this summer. the diversified planning that takes place at different The ECONET project has declared Rospuda a site levels of local and national government. of international ecological significance. Scientists Workshop for All Beings, the Earth First! contact assign the same ecological value to the Rospuda group in Poland, is mounting a large-scale cam­ wetlands as those of nearby Biebrza National Park, paign to protect the Rospuda wetlands and prevent the largest national park in Poland. Also nearby is the destructive road building. Please help us protect • ... the Earth First! contact group Bialowie~a;National Park, the Polish park that holds these valuable wetlands! Direct action is not out of scale campaign to protect the Rospuda wetlands ... " the last wild, primeval forest and the last European the question and may be implemented this sum­ n the northeastern region of Poland, the Via bison on the continent. The large mammals now mer, if need be. Baltica is the main route for freight trucks inhabiting the Rospuda wetlands include elk, deer, We are requesting your assistance in the simple I traveling between Poland and the Baltic coun- foxes, wild boar, beavers and otters. Bird species that form of letters of protest. hiternational input to our tries. The Via Baltica runs northeast from Warsaw will be driven from Rospuda by the bypass are the campaign adds much credibility, diversity and fur­ through the center of the Polish city of Augustow northern hobby, buzzard, bittern, crane, black stork, ther highlights the spread of international aware­ (population 30,000). To reduce the number of large crane and snipe. If road building takes place, the ness and protest to the destructive road building. vehicles in the city center, local authorities recently Rospuda wetlands will be drained, eradicating the Send it to Mr. Jan Szyszko, Polish Minister of Envi­ designed a bypass around Augustow for the Via musk orchid. This flower is found only in Poland, ronmental Protection, Natural Resources and For­ Baltica. Even though there were several choices, the the Rospuda wetlands and a handful of locations in estry, Wawelska 52/54, 00-922 Warsaw, Poland; fax authorities decided on a route that will cut through other European countries. (48)-22-825-3326. the Rospuda wetlands. There are viable alternatives to the destructive The Workshop for All Beings would appreciate The bypass will destroy this nationally and inter­ bypass. For Polish activists, the Rospuda wetlands receiving a copy of your letter for our campaign nationally valuable wetland area, a gem in this are not to be compromised. In fact, prior and in records. Contact us at POB 40, 43-304 Bielsko-Biala region of largely untrammeled wetlands, lakes, riv­ contradiction to the plans for the bypass, there was 4, Poland, (48)-33-8183153 tel/fax, ers, valleys and parks with sparse human popula­ a plan to establish a Rospuda wetlands nature re­ [email protected]. tion. This region of Poland is widely referred to as serve. Another road option is only three kilometers -WORKSHOP FOR ALL BEINGS N BIELSKO-BIALA SLOVAKIANS SLAG OLYMPIC SKI PLAN protesters as the official delegation BY MARIA HuoAKovA walked to the opening. An entire en­ lovakia's WOLF Forest Protec tourage of policemen, secret police tion Movement organized a and railroad security watched us care­ Sprotest in the High Tatras Na- fully. They couldn't do anything else tio~al Park during the opening day of as this was only a quiet protest; how­ the World Winter Universiade. The ever, there were drums to catch January demonstration targeted people's attention. clearcut logging in two Slovak na­ When visitors were settled, activ­ tional parks that have been planned ists appeared between the landing under the pretense of our candidacy runs of two ski-jump towers. The po­ for hosting the Winter Games in 2006. lice were carefully watching while Activists distributed leaflets declar­ the most active group climbed up to ing, "Forests for Life, Not for Death" the ski-jump towers and displayed and called for saving forests from the digital logo. They created the slo­ Olympic bulldozers and stressed the gan, "Forest for Life," and after a importance of forests. On the open­ while it changeditto, "Not for Death!" ing day, Olympic organizers .were The logo continued "flashing" for quiet when they saw a Slovak leaflet, about ten minutes while visitors were but when they noticed that an En­ taking photographs. Afterwards, at glish version was being distributed the request of the officials, activists ceremony, as well, they started to talk about rolled up the cloth pieces of the logo message "Forest for Life", and after a while changed it to "Not for Death!" "international shame." and left. The "official" ceremony then The opening ceremony "started" started. Some people said the rest of curious as to who did this, but we just is US $78,000. So far US $30,500 has with WOLF's protest. We placed our the ceremony was not as impressive shrugged our shoulders. We hoped the been raised. Send checks payable to the banners (English and Slovak) on a as our opening. sleep-deprived appearance of some ac- Rainforest Information Center and mail hillside that had to be passed by ev­ The rising sun at the opening day of . tivists would not give us away. It had them to the Earth Trust FoUI1dation, eryone that hurried to the opening the Winter Universiade exposed the been a long night. 20110 Rockport Way, Malibu, CA. including government officials. To situation in the sub-Tatras region, as You can help protect Slovak native For more information contact the prevent the officials from seeing the stickers and posters saying, "Save Slo­ forest by purchasing a symbolic tree. WOLF Forest Protection Movement, protest, organizers placed two larger vak Forests from Olympic Bulldozers," Each tree costs US $30. The total price c.d. 27, 082 13 Tulcik, Slovakia; +421 vehicles to obscure the view of the were posted everywhere. Officials were for the reserve currently being purchased 91 7789488 tel/fax; [email protected]. GUATEMALAN MILITARY BAcKs 011 TAKEOVER 11 MAYA BIOSPHERE If oil companies are allowed to explore for oil in serve in mid-July 1998 for new oil exploration include: Basic Resources, a subsidiary of Union the 1.5 million hectare Maya Biosphere Reserve, one without prior knowledge or consentfrom the com­ Pacific of the United States, Compania General de of Guatemala's last remaining intact rainforests in munities living in the area. Combustibles of Argentina, Natural Gas Petroleum the country will.be destroyed. "In a few years, the oil The government is planning to set up military and Gas Ramrod of Canada and Petrolera -del companies could destroy the forest that we're count­ camps in the region on the pretext of combating Atlantico of Guatemala. ing on to feed our families," said a woman from the drug trafficking and illegal immigration, even Send letters of protest to Jack Messman, CEO, community of Uaxactun. though the region is 50 miles from the Guate­ Union Pacific Resources, 777 Main Street Ft. Worth, The Maya Biosphere Reserve is an important bio­ -mala-Mexico border. This move by the military TX 76102, fax (817) 321-7566. logical corridor linking Guatemala to Mexico and is violates the spirit and the letter of the 1996 Peace For more information about ongoing activities to home to crocodiles, dermatemys turtles, jaguars, Accords, which required the army to reduce its protect the Maya Biosphere Reserve, contact the tapirs and red macaws. In addition, some 10,000 role in the country and to concentrate on protect­ World Rainforest Movement, [email protected] Mayan archaeological sites are located in the area. ing Guatemala's external borders. or [email protected]. The Guatemalan government opened up the re- The companies drilling for oil in this region -WORLD RAINFOREST MOVEMENT

May-June 1999 Earth First! Page 13 II ILIIIEI: AN INTERVIEW WITH CARL ANTHONY first people to raise the cry about protecting the vast people, 100 jurisdictions and nine counties-as a kind American forests. People, made these figures one­ of a cohesive human settlement exerting pressure on BY ERRoL ScHWEIZER dimensional and dealt with conservatiOQ.)~~if it were the ecosystem. Carl Anthony is the director of the Urban Habitat unconnected to these social issues. In terms of the whole pattern ofglobalization, the Program and the former president of the Earth I~land : The same thing happened in the 1960s. The Civil metropolitan region offers a framework for really Institute ...The ..Urban Habitat program, founded in Rights movement had a big impact on the environ­ addressing issues of globalization. For example, the 1989 as a part of Earth Island, promotes and develops mental movement of the 1970s and the 1980s. The questions of wherethe food comes from and whe.re multicultural environmental activism in the San Fran­ arguments around animal rights were all based on the the water comes from, and questions of how toxics dsco Bay Area. Over 100 community-based org~niza­ abolition of slavery. And all of the non-violence get handled at the metropolitan scale. As cities tions work with Urban Habitat on issues such as anti­ techniques used by Earth First! and Greenpeace are grow, they create huge environmental disparities. sprawl campaigns, inner-city reinvestment, urban actually a direct descendent of the struggles of... the I call them shadow ecologies; they're externalities in transportation, taxies, brownfield cleanups, military Civil Rights movement. Even the phrase "No Com­ terms of uprooting land-based peoples and a whole base conversion, and multicultural environmental promise in Defense of Mother Earth" comes down variety of things. education. Now independent of Earth Island, the directly from the abolitionist struggle, "No Compro­ EF!J: What are the tactics and strategies you support, UrbanHabitatProgram'sCarlAnthonyrecentlyspoke mise in the Struggle Against Slavery." from legal to ... to the Earth First! Journal. When Earth Day 1970 came along, it was the end of CA: Direct action and all that stuff. We need to make a decade where a lot of people felt very uncomfortable all ofthese strategies effective. We support... every form EF!J: How do environmental issues manifest themselves about the social struggles. It was very convenient to of resistance that anybody can come up with. in urban communities, espedally low-income and commu­ shift the focus to a safer political ground, which was EF!J: What do you think of the labels "anthropocen­ nities ofcolor? theenvironmentalmovement. And duringthe 1970s tric" versus "biocentric?" Do you think this dichotomy CA: Well, of course it depends on how you define and 1980s the environmental movement organiza­ is appropriate? the envirpnment. The dictionary definition is "the tions distanced themselves from social issues. In CA: Well, the whole concept of being biocentric is environment is ·the sum total of the influences that the 1990s when the people of color movements very creative, well intended and useful to get people to affect the survival of an organism or a com­ understand their empathy with the larger natural munity of organisms." Obviously, we are world. But . logically it is also incoherent because talking about the natural world-the rivers people are a part of nature; fish have societies and so and the trees, watersheds and stuff like that. do horses, so do ants. Nature is also a part of people. We also talk about our human communities, . But I think also the worst part is that these concepts of the low-income communities that are most being biocentric are either deliberately or uninten­ burdenedbyenvironmentalissues, with toxic tionally misused to hide reactionary arid racist poli­ waste dumps in their neighborhoods and tics. I mean, Hitler loved animals. So fucking what! So outmoded housing that is vulnerable to lead you are making this big deal about. how great thE! poisoning, but also freeways that have bro­ Fatherland is and you love the animals, but you are ken up their communities, leading to prob­ ]- killing six mi,llion people! What kind of ethics is that? lems of congestion, air quality, •. traffic acci­ ~ ... B\l~ . J . w,~¥.~d ~r~ue that. .the oppo~it~op. ~~ : IJ~ dents. So in many ways, low-income com­ ! between b10centnc and anthropocentnc.I would munities are anindicatorofthehealth of the c:: say it is between biocentric and technocentric. It is (3. whole urban region. !l either the tendency to root one's hope and faith EF!J: How do you organize around these issues ~ in the future in technology versus groundingj.t in urban areas? ~ in the natural world. · · CA: We try to work with the people who ~ EF!J: A lot of people of my generation have a very ~ are working on narrow issues to find the :~ fatalistic attitude about social change. How can we common threads to other people who are change that? working on narrow issues. It's really impor­ CA: When I was 23 (I am 60 now) I was in New York, tant to build bridges between single issues and I ran into all these people that started the sit-ins. and the larger frameworks. began to get national attention, it became very They were living in a time, a culture that is very similar EF!J: Have you seen a convergence between environmen­ clear that the apocalypse that the environmental to the way things are now, especially in the South, tal groups that work mostly on preservation issues and movement was talking about was already happen­ where people said "you can't do anything about this." those that are environmental justice groups? ing in communities of color. Martin Luther King JR., when he was a church pastor CA: Well, actually there is a long common history EF!J: Where do you find this history? These ideas have leading the Montgomery bus boycott, he was 26. All that is not acknowledged. The way the traditional not been represented by deep ecologists, soda/ ecologists of these people, like Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, environmentalists frame the story of the environmen­ and eco-sodalists that I have come aaoss. were quite young. tal movement is not complete. The way it is typically CA: People write history because they have a certain It's important to link the very local... with the framed is here was this wonderful John Muir-type set of intentions. It's shocking to me... that the larger understanding that we are on a journey, that that got into a fight with a Prussian forester about African American community has the longest, most we are the end product of four billion years of life what to do with Yosemite or Hetch-Hetchy. This is continuous relationship with the land of any group in on the planet. I think that young people can get an important story, but it is not the whole story. North America but the Native Americans, and their that. We see enough young people involved around Basically the conservation movement arose at the experience is totally invisible. What kind of environ­ here to give us a sense of hope for the future. end of the closing of the frontier. That represented the mental movement is that? But it has to be said that at I think it is hard to organize. You have to be critical, theft of the land of native people as well as the the beginning of the 1960s, nobody gave a shit about you can't take anything for granted. You have to learn extension of the metropolitan development across endangered species. We have to be grateful to the to trust yourself. And as you get older, there is a kind the whole country. And at the same time there was environmental movement because they brought up a of humility that comes. I think about my ancestors also the powerful segregationist impulse that was set of issues that we never would have thought of that were in those holes at the bottoms of those ships rampant in the country at the time, based on white without them. I think these are a key to the transfor­ and I think well, if I am about to despair, how would supremacy and Manifest Destiny. The conserva­ mations of our struggles for social justice. The envi­ I compare myself with them? I get a lot of personal tion movement arose in an area that many people ronmental movement and the social justice move­ strength knowing that whatever they did, it made thought of as safe for white supremacy, which was ment are just tributaries of a much larger dynamic, it possible for me to be here and I owe it to the the Pacific Northwest. and we have to bring it back together again. future generations to do whatever is necessary for So we take issue with the story. And the story creates EF!J: How is the Urban Habitat Program realiz­ them to be there. I think we are hypnotized by so the sense of separate movements. Henry David Thoreau ing this history by what they do? How can other much access to media and information that it is opposed the Mexican-American War. He wrote his groups do so as well? kind of hard 'to hear your own soul. famous essay on civil disobedience in jail opposing CA: We are fortunate in a way, being located in the The main thing [is] ... the honoring of the natural this war. That essay inspired Tolstoy, Gandhi and Bay Area. We have not only a high level of awareness world, the honoring of our communities, the cre­ Martin Luther King. Frederick Law Olmstead, the in the culture of this region about environmental ation of some sense of hope. The overload of founder of the national park idea, wrote three best­ issues, we also have an incredible diversity of popula­ materialism and sexism and racism has created selling books about the ecology of the south and tion. It is important is to link neighborhood struggles such a sense of dimness in people, that somehow slavery. Karl Shultz, who was Secretary of the Interior to a vision of the metropolitan region. We can, also this is so fucking big that we will never get over it. during the reconstruction era, was a German immi­ look at issues of the watershed ... 17 rivers that come My sense is that however big it is, the universe is grant who rallied German communities in support of down and empty into the bay. In a practical sense we bigger and we are in tune with that, and we have the Black people against slavery ... and was one of the see the notion of the Bay area- with 6.5 million the potential for hope. Page 14 Earth First! Beltane 1999 CULTIVATING·RF818I'ANCE IN NYC Gardens! Coalition, a grassroots group of gardeners and BY RosE TENDER their supporters, brought puppets, color and life to the Spring in New York City. Throughout the city, drab, regimented hearings. community gardens and oases of green space spring The administration made no effort to respond to back to life after a gray winter. More than 750 gardens the people so the More Gardens! Coalition felt that in the city promote safety, beauty and opportunities more direct statements needed to be made. At the for people of all ages to freely interact with nature. third hearing, the coalition brought songbooks Developed by dedicated people who refuse to tol­ with an adapted version of "Solidarity Forever" erate waste-strewn, abandoned lots in their com­ and distributed them. Several hours into the hear­ munities, gardens provide indispensable green ing, the room erupted into song, causing the hear­ space in the midst of a sea of concrete and skyscrap­ ing to adjourn for ten minutes. ers. Sweets scents, fresh food and brilliant colors By the fourth and final hearing, the More Gardens! soothe senses inundated with garbage, steel and Coalition decided it was time to adhere to the old pollution. And this year, gardeners are also cul­ inantra, "Direct action gets the goods." Because Mayor tivating a movement to truly revitalize the health Giuliani, who had yet to attend a single hearing, has of New York City. ultimate authority over the sale of city-owned prop­ For over 20years, community gardens have flour­ erty, we decided that if he would not show up to ished in New York City under the caring hand of listen to the people, we would hold a sit~in on the city residents and an agency known as Green steps of City Hall. After we arrived at the hearing in Thumb. However, the city did not grant gardens the morning on February 24, the mayor did not permanent protection. Last May, gardeners and show; he was in Washington DC, politicking to begin garden advocates were appalled when Mayor his upcoming campaign for Senate. Energy filled the Rudolph Giuliani ordered the Department of Hous­ room as we all waited until the moment we would ing Preservation and Development (HPD-other­ take the steps of City Hall, which had been closed to wise known as Housing Prevention and Destruc­ the public for over a year. As we made our move, we tion) to place an emergency hold on all commu­ were pushed back inside the building as iron gates nity gardens and put them on the auction block. swung shut, denying us access to the steps. Twenty­ auction for May 13, when 126 gardens will be sold Giuliani's representative announced that the garden five activists sat down and immediately began chant­ to the highest bidder. Cherry Tree Garden, which sites would be sold only to develop low-income hous­ ing, "More Gardens, More Democracy," and refused is on the auction block, sits in a triangle amidst a ing. People found this unacceptable knowing that the to leave until the mayor came. People from the highway, a bus parking lot and a densely popu­ 14,000 abandoned lots in NYC,could be utilized both hearing, media, elected officials and police gathered lated housing project. The fragrant flowers and aroundus. Many trees provide refuge in an area saturated with joineduscharit­ garbage1 fumes and cars. Yet, if it is bought and ingandsinging, devel

May-June 1999 Earth First! Page 15 Rotu~.d · River Rendezvous SAN . JuAN MTNs., CoLORADo, JuNE 21-28, 1999

The 1999 Round River Rendezvous will be held in No dogs! self to the place when you arrive and know what the high country of the southern SanJuan mountains, Please find your dog a caretaker before you come to not to disturb. Pack out every scrap you pack in! just north of th.e Colorado/New Mexico border and a the RRR. If you bring a dog, you and your dog will stay bit east of the continental divide. The site is iri the San in the non-optional dog camp near the parking area. Doing your part Juan National Forest north of Highway 17, which runs People who bring dogs will also be asked to help in Take care of yourself and your friends. Bring $25 to through two 10,000-foot passes between Chama, New the dog jail. Any dog not under their owner's control help defray costs of the Rendezvous. Everyone is also Mexico and Antonito, Colorado. The Rendezvous will go directly to dog jail. Repeat violators will be expected to do a security shift, help with latrines, and beginsJune21-thedaybeforeSummerSolstice-and asked to leave. · generally help the Rendezvous happen. winds up on the full moon, June 28. Feel free to come early to help set up or linger to help restore the site Alcohol and to help with the San Luis and Vail campaigns We encourage moderation to facilitate a more through the summer. cohesive, coherent and productive Rendezvous. Many of us will drink, but remember, being shit­ faced is not a license to be inconsiderate to others. The area South To Persistent rumors of survivor Grizz in SG.n ;J"ue.n AI No beer will be provided. these majestic mountains keep this W 1 1cltrn~ss the wildest heart of the Southern Directions Rockies. In the sweeping green val­ From Durango, CO: Take Highway 160 east to leys below, in towns like San Luis, Pagosa Springs. In Pagosa Springs, take 84 east and Antonito and Chama, cultures that 2i5 south to Chama, NM. In Chama, take Highway 17 east predate US colonization still resist about 20 miles. After Cumbres Pass, look for FR118 on assimilation into industrial capital­ the left to Trujillo Meadows. After a mile and a half, ism. Chicano and environmental follow signs to the left. (Last stop for tofu: Durango activists from around the country Natural Foods, 575 E. 8th Ave; (970) 247-8129.) have put aside their differences and From Santa Fe, NM: Take St. Francis Dr. (84/285) united to protect the area's endan­ north. At Espanola, take 84/285 west and north, then gered forests. stay on 84 through Abiquiu and Tierra Amarilla to Chama. From Chama, follow Highway 17 east about Local campaign T• 20 miles. After Cumbres Pass, look for FR118 on the To Help Culebra EF! stop the largest D"~ s....to. F'e. left to Trujillo Meadows. After a mile and a half, follow logging operation in the US, which signs to the left. (Last stop for tofu in Santa Fe: Wild is systematically destroying one of Oats (2 stores) or The Market Place, 627 West Alameda; the last and most significant habitat cor- (505) 984-2852.) ridors in the Southern Rockies. Also at stake are a From Alamosa, CO: Go south on Highway 285 generations-old, sustainable Chicano farming com­ towards Antonito, CO. In Antonito, take Highway 17 munity and several threatened and endangered west about 25 miles. After La Manga Pass, look for species. With recent developments in our cam­ FR118 on the right to Trujillo Meadows. After a mile paign, we now have legal support in our cau~e and and a half, follow signs to the left. (Last stop for tofu may have our first opportunity to win a temporary Self-sufficiency ,. in Alamosa:.Yalley Food Co-op, 7565 US Highway 160 injunction. It is crucial for us as a movement to Bringwhatyouneedtosurvive.Acommunalkitchen (719) 589-5727.) , I stand in solidarity with la gente (the people) of San has not been organized. Bring: food for 7-10 days, hat Call us before leaving for the rendezvous! Things Luis, so that this area can be saved. and sunscreen (very important at high elevations), can always change with the weather. Contact the stuff to hang your food, bug protection, adequate organizingcommitteeatPOB 3412, Tucson, AZ85722; 10,000-plus feet protection from the elements, raingear, tent, cold­ (520) 620-1839. The Rendezvous will be near the Great Divide at over weather clothes, sleeping gear, TP, shovels and other 10,000 feet. Altitude sickness, thin air, intense rays useful tools and $25 to defray costs. from the sun, and cold weather (possible snow!) are a few things to prepare for. So protect yourself from Water 19 Rendezvous Later altitude sickness. Precautions include: staying hy­ Carry your own water bottle and clon't share con­ 1981 Moab, Utah drated, avoiding alcohol, gradually acclimating your­ tainers. There is a campground with drinking water 1982 Little Granite Creek, Wyoming self to higher altitudes and hiking· 1000-feet higher about three miles away from the site (bring large water 1983 Kalmiopsis, Oregon than your campsite to help your body adjust. containers). A creek, waterfall and lake are within 1984 Heron, Montana walking distance. 1985 Uncompaghre, Colorado Yes, bears! 1986 North Fork of the Big Lost River, Idaho We will be in bear country. Be prepared to hang your Fires 198 7 North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona food out of bears' reach. Bring 30-plus feet of rope and TheSouthwestisdrythisyear. Wewillhavealimited 1988 Kettle Range, Washington stuffsacks to hold all your food, toothpaste and any­ number of fire circles. No other fires will be allowed! It 1989 Jemez Range, New Mexico thing else that might smell good to a bear. will be extremely important to be cautious with cook 1990 Gravelly Range, Montana stoves, cigarettes and anything else that produces 1991 Green Mountains, Vermont considerable heat. 1992 San Juans, coloradc{ 1993 Mount Graham, Arizona Workshops 1994 Katuah, Cherokee National Forest, North There will be plenty of workshops this year, as Carolina/Tennessee always. Some things to watch out for: Y2K prepared­ 1995 Mad River, Northern California ness and getting back to basics, local campaigns and 1996 Cove/Mallard, Idaho cc :;; issues, action bow-tos. We're striving for an orderly 1997 Wolf River, Wisconsin flow of presentations rather than a free-for-all. Please 1998 Twin Lakes, Umpqua, Oregoh help by I~tt:ing the RRR committee know the subject, length and 'requh:errients ot yq.w . ~otks~l9P .' asap:Cati the number below. · ·· · Shitters_.(. ·· T-here will be· siit latrines· (ri'o plastic portapotties). Please don't shit anywhere else . .Please bring yourqwn. TP, and observe the . basil=s . o.fl~trin, e etiquette: use ash.or lime. .~o · coyer yqyi:'po_o~o nodm th.e ' tr~nch With : dirt-and wash yerpaws. Be nice to the site! This place and its inhabitants will have to deal with your impact long after you've gone back to the pavement. Sensitize your- iijj[LET OUR. C.IR.C-LE & 5TR,ON(7 AN!) FVLL OF 1-!Et:>IC/NE ~ Page 16 Earth First! Beltane 1999 Alter Exxon Valdez BP's CONSPIRACY UNCOVERED

headquarters learned of the alleged fal­ Chugach's Valdez property, Alyeska sification of reports to the US govern­ hired the natives for this emergency ment years before the spill. In Septem­ work. They practiced leaping out of ber 1984, independent oil shipper helicopters into icy water, learning to Charles Hamel of Washington DC, surround leaking boats with rubber bar- shaken by evidence he received from . pers. Bt1t natives soon found they were Alyeska employees, hopped the first assigned to cover up spills not clean available Concorde at his own expense them up. Their foreman David Decker to warn BP executives in London about told me he was expected to report an oil the frauds in the Valdez labs. spill as two gallons when two thousand Furthermore, Captain Woodle swears gallons had spilled! he personally delivered his damning list Alyeska kept the natives at the termi­ Critical Mass Anchorage takes to the streets 10 years after the Exxon Valdez spill; get on your bikes! of missing equipment and personnel (a nal for two years-long enough to help violation of code) directly into the hands break the dock workers union then, "the miracle barrel." of BP's Alaska chief, George Nelson. It quietly, fired them all. To deflect in­ BY GREGORY PALAST A confidential letter dated April1984, became a matter of corporate self-pres­ quisitive inspectors, Alyeska created The tenth anniversary of the Exxon four full years before the big spill, writ­ ervation for BP that Woodle's letter, sham teams, listing names of oil termi­ Valdez oil spill on March 24 was com­ ten byCaptainJames Woodle (then the Hamel's London trip and many other nal workers who did not have the foggi­ memorated by the solemn retelling of oil group's Valdez port commander), warnings of the deteriorating contain­ est idea how to use spill equipment, lies. The offidal story is, "Drunken Skip­ warned management that due to a re­ ment system never saw the light of day. which, in any event, was missing, bro­ per Hits Reef." Don't believe it. duction in workers, age of equipment, Alyeska showed Woodle a file of his ken or existed only on paper. The captain, Joe Hazelwood, was-be­ limited training and lack of personnel, marital infidelities (all bogus), then of­ When the Exxon Valdez ran low decks, sleeping off his bender. The they seriously doubted that a medium fered him pay-outs on condition that aground, there was no native spill man left at the helm, the third mate, or large size oil spill could be contained he leave the state within days and prom­ crew, only chaos. would never have hit Bligh Reef had the and cleaned up effectively. ise never to return. Yet, Alyeska was able to settle all claims ship's radar been operational. The com­ According to Woodle, there was a As for Hamel, the oil shipping bro­ for only two percent of the acknowl­ plex Raycas system costs a lot to operate spill at Valdez before the Exxon colli­ ker, BP in London thanked him, then edged damage-roughly a $50-million so frugal Exxon management left it bro­ sion, though not nearly as large. When secretly launched a campaign to hound payout that was fully covered by an ken and useless for the entire year be­ he prepared to report it to the govern­ him out of the industry. They hired a insurance fund. A jury ordered Exxon to fore the grounding. ment, his supervisor forced him to take CIA expert who wiretapped Hamel's pay $5 billion, though the petroleum There's more to the story you've never back the notice, with the Orwellian phone lines, smuggled microphones giant continues to stall payment. (The been told. command, "You made a mistake. This into his home, intercepted his mail only lesson BP learned from the oil spill Just 10 months before the spill, the six was not an oil spill." and tried to .entrap him with young catastrophe must be to keep your name oil companies that own Alaska's oil The fable of the Drunken Skipper has women. The industrial espionage ca­ of( the ship.) held a secret, top-level meeting in Ari­ served the oil industry well. . It trans­ per was personally ordered and con­ I often return to Prince William zona where Thea Polasek, their chief of forms the most destructive oil spill in trolled by BP executive James Hermiller, Sound and get news from the native Valdez operations, warned that it was history into a tale of human frailty-a President of Alyeska. A US federal judge villages. At Chenega, they are prepar­ "not possible" to contain an oil spill in · terrible, but one-time accident. Butbto­ told Alyeska this conduct was "remi­ ing to spend another summer scrub­ the center of Prince William Sound­ ken radar, missing equipment, phan­ niscent of Nazi Germany." bing rocks. Last year, they pulled 20 exactly where the Exxon Valdez tom spill personnel, faked tests-the BP's inglorious role in the Alaskan oil tons of sludge off their beaches. At grounded. Polasek needed millions of profit-mad disregard of law-made the game began in 1969 when the oil group Nanwalek village, the state again de­ dollars for spill containment equipment. spill disaster not .an accident but an bought the most valuable real estate in clared the clams inedible, poisoned by The law required it. The companies inevitability. all Alaska, the Valdez oil t~rminalland, persistent hydrocarbons. Salmon carry promised it to regulators. Then at the The canard of the alcoholic captain from the Chugach natives. Alyeska paid abscesses and tumors, the herring meeting, they vetoed it. has also provided effective camouflage one dollar. never returned and the sea lion rook­ Smaller spills before the Exxon disas­ for the party most responsible for the Although a US Supreme Court Justice ery at Montague Island remains silent ter could have alerted government destruction in Alaska: British Petro­ explained to the natives the worth of and empty. watchdogs that the port's oil-spill con­ leum (BP). their claim on this land, their own law­ But despite what my eyes see, I must tainment system was rotting. But ac­ Alaska's oil is BP oil. The company yer, the state's most powerful legislator, have it wrong, because right here in an cording to Erlene Blake, the oil group's owns and controls a majority of the advised them not to press for payment. Exxon brochure it says, "The water is lab technidan, management routinely Alaska Pipeline system, the consortium Within months of signing away the clean and plant, animal and sea life are ordered her to change test results to called Alyeska. Exxon is a junior part­ natives' rights to Alyeska, he became healthy and abundant." eliminate "oil-in-water" readings. The ner, and four others are just along for Alyeska's lawyer. Gregory Palast's series of investigative procedure was simple, Blake says. She the ride. Captain Woodle, Technician When the pipeline opened in 1974, reports appears fortnightly in the London was told to dump out oily water and Blake and Vice-President Polasek all law required Alyeska to maintain round­ Observer, Manchester Guardian Media refill test tubes from a bucket of worked for BP's Alyeska. the-clock oil spill response teams. As Group. For reprints or comments, contact cleansed sea water that they called, But we now know that BP's London part of the come-on to get hold of the [email protected]. uk.

didn't count on the Truth Squad holding a press conference with Ted before hand. Slick Actions at the Seattle After hearing the testimony of Alaskan scientists, natives and fishermen, what else could Ted do but ream the oil industry in his keynote address? It's not often you can hear a pin drop in a crowd of hundreds of people, but, after Ted's opening day speech addressing the slick oil industry, you ·could. Befuddled oil execs were BY Oil Spill Conference BucKWHEAT stunned speechless. Senator Slade Gorton (R-W A) announced he plans to oppose Almost exactly 10yearsCJ,fterthe _~xxo~ V~ldez disaster, a group of fishermen, the Exxon/Mobil merger until Exxon pays its $5 billion judgment. Also opposing scientists, and envirdninenta1istsJrciin F~iilceWilliam Sound and beyond headed the merger were many environmental groups and the city of Cordova, AK. down to the 1999 Oil Spill Cdnf~reriC'e iri Seattle. Calling themselves the Alaskan On March 9, day two of the conference, citizens from Alaska, Oregon, Truth Squad, they came to expose the ,reality of oil spills and the industry's lies Washington and California took out two Greenpeace Zodiacs and a banner to the public. They illuminated truths such as Prince William Sound has not reading, "Big Oil, Big Lies, the Exxon Disaster Continues," to an on-water oil spill recovered from the 198Q oil spill1• Exxon has yet to pay on its lawsuit, and clean-up demonstration. As the tide came in over the net-like oil clean-up device, ecosystems and fishing commu,nities still suffer. They said Prince William Sound demonstrating why oil recovery doesn't work, many took to the water and the can not take another spill_and·heither dn the western shorelines. dock with signs demanding prevention as hundreds of people watched. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was one ofthe biggest human-made disasters in "What the hell is that?" asked conference goers on the final day, browsing the history. Forty-thousand tons of 6ude oil covered 10,000 square miles of the once­ latest in oil spill technology in the demonstration product advertising room. pristine Prince William Sound. This ..caused billions in damages to fishing They were referring to the fish covered with oily rocks taken from the Prince communities and native villages, threatening their subsistence lifestyle in the William Sound only a week earlier that a well dressed woman was serving on sound. The death toll indu<;l~s. an estimated 250,000 seabirds, 300 harbor seals, an appetizer tray. Also on the tray was a flier about the myths and realities of 2,800 sea otters, 2SO,billd eagles·; 22 kilie~ whales, almost the entire herring oil spills. "I felt I needed to bring home the reality that, unlike what has been population and many more spedes. ''O'f the species surveyed, only two have said here, an oil spill is not a minor accident, but a catastrophe that will maybe recovered in the last tenyear~.v ci :. · never heal... I've seen the oil on the water, the sound has not recovered," said Every oil spill~ol).fe.,~;~~j::e p\lt;()q ~Y. :.\J1g ~ljl;~\1~~l)!,needs a celebrity speaker. This a Truth Squad member. year, conference organizers hoped Ted Danson would make them look good. They The next oil spill conference will be in Tampa, Florida in 2001. See you there. May-June 1999 Earth First! Page 21 tween November 30 and December 3. Already, global free trade has proven devastating to forests in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Chile. The 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFT A) brought Canadian forests under the disci­ pline of binding international trade rules. Deregu­ signed to supply Asian marketS with more timber and lation, privatization of public resources, govern­ BY KAREN COULTER minerals while ripping through one-of the most ment subsidies and liberalized trade have together Challenging corporate governance over the Earth is diverse native forests in the tropics, fragmenting habi­ given rise to a huge export-driven wood products key to achieving our goals in almost every issue tat and opening up previously inaccessible lands to industry in Canada. Since NAFTA, 15-wood prod­ problem we face-from poverty, racism and sexism to logging, mining, ranching and settlement. In Brazil, uct corporations have set up operations in Mexico, unprecedented worldwide forest destruction and spe­ the Hidrovia Project is being promoted to expand and with much of their investments targeting some of des extinction. For instance, poverty, radsm and accelerate the transport of goods along the Rio de la North America's largest remaining inJact forests. sexism are institutionalized through corporate-im- Plata. This project would dry out Pantanal, the world's NAFTA also brought about the repeal of Article 27 posed property law and scapegoating by largest wetland, which contains the highest diversity · of the Mexican Constitution, which gave the Mexi­ a wealthy elite eager to hide the real of mammals on Earth. can people rights to communal land ownership source of societal ills. Framing our work In the melee of the global economy, countries can't and eliminated Mexican restriction on foreign own­ within the broader context of ending strengthen environmental regulations that increase ership o(property (previously limited to 49 per­ corporate rule gives us a strategic focus corporate costs without violating the binding agree­ cent). Since 80 percent of Mexico's forests are and new targets that address the issues ments of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade found on indigenous reserves or communal land on a systemic level, dismantling the (GATT). For instance, the Amazon's rubber tappers, holdings, new legal status for private, industrial mechanisms of corporate control that who sustainably extract latex from rubber trees scat­ tree plantations was obtained to protect investors. continually throw more of the same tered throughout intact forests, will have to compete International Paper used the Mexican problems at us. We've been fighting with rubber grown on Asian plantations created by government's attempts to attract foreign capital endless brushfires instead of dealing clearing entire tropical forests because tariffs on natu­ after the 1994 peso crash to compromise Mexico's with what fuels the inferno. So that we ral rubber imports are due to be eliminated under laws governing forest exploitation, gaining large may more effectively defend the Earth, multilateral trade agreements. Accordingly, federal subsidies and "new flexibility" for the En­ it is important to recognize the effects transnational tire corporations such as Michelin and vironment Secretariat to waive protections for that the globalization of finance has Goodyear, which have plants in Brazil, may challenge biodiversity, soil and water quality. A controver­ on biodiversity. rubber tappers' rights to exist as an industry. sial project in Chile is the proposed investment by Corporate globalization violates envi­ To increase competition in the face of unrestricted the Trillium Corporation in logging hundreds of ronmental sustainability by promoting global trade, corporations increasingly cut costs by thousands of acres of rare native forests for chip the use of resources beyond the ability of drastically reducing the number of their employees. exports. (see EF!Jfune-July 1998). Trillium also has a ecosystems to replace them; it pro­ The Valdez oil spill occured in part because Exxon pending investment to log 140,000 acres of lenga motes consumption and waste of non­ reduced its supertanker crews by one-third. forests on the Argentina side of Tierra del Fuego. renewable resources beyond the pace Corporate globalization directly stimulates the tWo Soon after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, of development and use of renewable leading causes of species extinction: habitat destruc­ the Brazilian government announced that private "substitutes" and pollution emissions tion and the introduction of inv~sive exotic species. interests could legally challenge indigenous land titles, exceeding the ecosystems' assimilative Rampant exploitation of the natural world provides which cover vast forested areas throughout Amazonia. capacity. Examples of how globaliza­ unprecedented opportunities for inve~tors to_increase Peracchi, a logging corporation well known for its tion operates include Taiwan and South their capital return. .. illegal logging of mahogany on indigenous lands, Korea as both suffer extreme environ­ What's more, gluts in the world timber markets moved in to claim land forming part of two indig­ mental degradation as a direct conse­ ~om unrestricted investment and production cause enous reserves in the State of Para, threatening the quence of World Bank-imposed policy governments to increase logging subsidies and roll Apyterewa and Bau people's cultural existence, as Well over the last decades. They have also back more regulations .in an attempt to maintain as the forest. ,Since 1996, Brazil has lured several Asian achieved tremendous rates of economic competitiveness. A memora:J,;~le example of this was logging corporations to purchase the logging rights to growth so the World Bank uses the two the 1995 Salvage Rider in theUS. Essentially, this was millions of acres. Champion International recently as models for all Third World nations, a "Global Competitiveness Restoration Act";for do­ sold its degraded land in New England and is joining despite these "successes" being overshad­ mestic logging corporations· that faced decreasing the expansion of logging operations in Brazil and owed by the domino effect of the related access to forests, increasing regulatory costs and greater other countries in South America. · Asian economic crisis. competition from cheap importst The US Jogging What's more, the financial meltdown in Asia­ Creatingaglobaleconomymeansgen­ industry wanted unrestricted access itself an effect of the global­ eralizing this destructive process and to more trees at less cost. The ization of financial mar­ transforming the great numbers of still Salvage Rider proyided this by kets-will have major ef­ largely self-sufficient people in rural areas of less suspending all laws applicable fects on how and by whom developed countries into unsustainable consumer cul­ to logging on national forests. Indonesia's forests will be tures. Already, the strain of increasing levels of con­ As a consequence, some of the controlled. Bailout agree­ sumption, the adoption of environmentally destruc­ last remaining roadless areas ments with the IMF will tive ways of living and gross disparities in wealth in with large, intact forest habi­ put Indonesia's forests un­ developing countries is putting people in direct com­ tat went up for bid at below- · der more direct control by petition with other species. market cost. This effectively foreign corporations and

1 Defining characteristics of economic globalization privatized public lands at a ··t •_.. ,_. market forces. include an emphasis on exports, increased transport highly subsidized price. Bio-invasion of exotic of goods, greater competition among transnational Increasing access to over­ species is another threat to corporations, deregulation and standards of free trade seas timber is also undermin­ biodiversity from ex­ that fail to incorporate measures to protect ecological ing efforts to reduce wood panded global trade. In the integrity. All of these factors increase pressures on fiber consumption in the US. San Francisco Bay and ecological stability and biodiversity. Paper mills that invested in Delta, one of the world's Structural Adjustment requirements imposed by technology upgrades to pro­ busiest ports for trade ac­ the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on coun­ duce higher recycled-con­ tivity, at least 21 alien spe­ tries with development loans include reductions in tent products are being un­ cies have successfully im­ domestic spending on environmental protection dercut by cheap and plenti­ planted themselves. and increased production of cash crops (felling ful supplies of unused pulp. Baykeepers, a group of lo­ native forests for timber exports or converting wild US logging corporations cal biologists, estimate that lands to monoculture agriculture) to pay back the continue to expand into 85 percent of the species loans and staggering interest rates. The transport of markets. overseas under in the bay are exotic. On a exports creates i:idiculous ~cenarios of high energy the favorable protection broader scale, several tree use and pollution from shipping goods to countries ofinternational trade con­ species have been nearly that.often export the same or similar resources pro­ sortiums such as the eliminated in the US after duced locally. Examples of this are raw log exports World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Asian the introduction of exotic fungi and insects, includ­ from the US while simultaneously importing wood Pacific Economic Commlinity (APEC), whose mem ~ ing the chestnut tree, the Dutch elm, the white pine products from Chile and shipping US apples to Japan ber countries are home to 63 percent of the world's and the Port Orford cedar. Half of the species listed as while importing New Zealand apples. In 1991, four­ last primary forests. These forests are the target of endangered in the US are listed, in part, because of billion tons of freight exported through shipping used a sweeping new agenda to irtcrease worldwide invasive species. · as much energy as the entire economies of Brazil and consumption of wood products, open up native This concludes the first part ofthis compelling two-part Turkey combined. forests to logging, weaken environmental protec­ special report on the impacts of corporate globalization. Immense highway projects are also being constructed tions and, incidentally, open the door to invasive Make sure you catch the second part next issue, as Coulter across wild and indigenous communal lands in coun­ species. This disastrous initiative is scheduled to be discusses the origins of trade agreements and elaborates tries like Mexico and Brazil to accommodate increased introduced for negotiation at the WTO's third on how they enable corporations to circumvent environ­ global trade. The Trans-Amazonian highway is de- ministerial meeting in Seattle, Washington, be- mental regulations. Page 22 Earth First! Beltane 1999 LYNX PRmEmoN SCAM wildlife is destroyed. It also fails to address the root cause of BY NICOLE RosMAR!No AND Roo CoRONADO species imperilment, including the commercial trade in Since February, the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDW) endangered wildlife. has released 12 Canada lynx into the Weminuche Wilderness The decimation of the lynx can be attributed largely to of the Sanjuan Mountains, marking the latest development the fur industry. In the 1960s, high demand by the fashion in the battle to save this wildcat from disappearing in the industry for lynx fur drove pelt prices skyward. As a result, Lower 48. "They're back!" declared a CDW biologist as he the '70s and '80s witnessed lynx over-trapping in the opened the first cage; another biologist quietly proclaimed to contiguous states with trappers flying into the most remote reporters, "never left ... " What the state reintroduction effort ofhomelands in Canada,·trapping out entire regions as pelt hides is a strategy on the part of state and federal agencies to ptices rose to over $500 each. strip away future protection for the lynx under the Endan- The lynx nation's fight for survival does not end :in gered Species·Act (ESA). ' Colorado. With wild lynx populations pillaged and ttir- · Lynx experts and biologists from the Colorado and US Fish rent pelt prices at $75-$125, US fur dealers have tunl.ed to and Wildlife Service (USFWS) believe that a small, remnant the fur farm industry to supplement the wild Canadian lynx population still lives in Colorado, and more than a and Russian lynx fur supply. hundred sightings of lynx and/or tracks have been made in One of the largest lynx farms is Fraser Fur Farm in Ronan, the area slated for destruction by ski resort developer, Vail MT, located on the Flathead Reservation. In the 70s, Stuart Associates. Colorado's economic growth-promoting politi- Fraser, a commercial trapper, live-trapped wild lynx from the dans have long feared that ESA protection for the lynx would Mission Mountain Wilderness and began a lynx-breeding curtail commercial developments, especially the operation. With approximately billion dollar ski industry that is the backbone of 60 breeding pairs of lynx, Fraser Colorado's tourism industry. Fur Farm "produces" average lit- With the upcoming court-ordered listing of ter sizes of three kittens, some- the lynx under the ESA in July, Colorado has times with two litters a year. implemented,its oWn lynx reintroduction pro- Licensed by the US Depart- gram with wild-trapped lynx from Canada and ment of Agriculture, these rna- Alaska rather than afford full ESA protection to · jestic cats are forced to live in the native cats. four-foot square wire cages, and CDW admits its undertaking is intended to wild-caught lynx can be seen avoid federal measures to ensure protection for pacing their cages in view of the lynx in Colorado. If the transplanted lynx sur- snowy peaks of their former wil- vive in the San Juans, CDW will proclaim lynx derness homelands. On Fraser's recovery; if they die, Colorado will proclaim that farm, in addition to the neurosis there is no suitable habitat. Either way, Colorado's and stereotypic behavior all wild politicians and ski corporations will be insulated animals endure in intensive con- from ESA infringement and can continue with finement conditions, lynx (and business as usual (i.e. lynx habitat destruction). approximately 150 bobcats) suf- TheUSFWShasresistedlistingthelynxforover fer from cut, bleeding and swot- five years. Had it done its job and responded · len paws caused by steel wire earlier to the lynx's imperilment without legal cages and diarrhea, weepy eyes pressure fromenvironmentaltsts, USFWS· could and noses caused·by a slaughter- have provided desperately needed protection for house by-product diet. Colorado's shrinking lynx homelands and safe- The lynx kittens on Fraser's guarded the prime lynx habitat destroyed by Vail farm have their fur evaluated; Associates in its CAT III expansion. Life imprisonment on Fraser Fur Farm cats whose fur quality is not up Like wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone and the South- tostandardarelabeled "fur rejects" andsoldasexoticpetsfor west, state and federal officials will determine the legal $500. Fraser recommends that lynx sold as pets be declawed, listing of not only reintroduced lynx but also surviving defanged and neutered. According to a survey among own­ populations in Colorado. Should authorities mandate less ers, 75 percent oflynx and bobcats sold by Fraser Fur Farm are ESA protection for lynx with a listing as "threatened" as unmanageable and cannot be handled. Those not sold as opposed to "endangered," penalties for killing lynx would . petsarekilledatthreetosixmonthsandfrozenfortaxidermy be less and restrictions on activities that threaten lynx mounts or sold for scrap fur. habitat would be circumvented. This would serve commer- The ESA should legally prohibit lynx fur farms in Mon­ cial interests more than the lynx and diminish the effective- tana, Utah, Minnesota, Idaho and North Dakota from ness of the ESA to protect endangered species and the breeding and trafficking in endangered species. But in July, homelands necessary for their survival. when USFWS issues its decision on whether lynx in the Even the Sanjuan lynx reintroduction site is acknowledg- Lower 48 states will be listed under the ESA as threatened or ment of the continuing threat to lynx habitat in Colorado. endangered, it plans an exemption to leave lynx farms in While believed to still live near Vail in the White River business. Such action encourages commerce domestically National Forest, the ongoing habitat destruction by while creating an avenue whereby lynx illegally trapped in Colorado's ski industry precludes releasing wild-caught the US could enter the international fur market. lynx there. Instead, the reintroduction is relegated by CDW With as few as 400 wild lynx remaining in the contiguous to the southernmost margins of the lynx's range, 200 miles states, our vision for lynx preservation calls for full federal south of the White River. ESA protection as endangered, no weakened state classifica- State lynx reintroduction programs like Colorado's fraudu- tion, thorough protection of areas where lynx still survive lent one must be prevented and not serve as a replacement for and complete bans ~n the commercial breeding of lynx and much-needed protection throughout the lynx's range in the the trade in lynx pelts. This action is not radical; it simply lower 48 states. Also, CDW should not obtain wild lynx from fulfills the legal measures and protection the ESA intended. the fur trade, the very interests responsible for the lynx's USFWS should also negotiate to transfer all captive lynx demise and who profit from their continuing exploitation. At from fur farm ownership to facilities where reintroduction the February release, news footage shows that lynx reintro- · candidates could be rehabilitated for release into the wild. duced into the San Juans had trapping injuries. Some were Those unsuitable for reintroduction should be housed in visibly lame and four, including two ten-month old kittens, natural surroundings, similar to Mexican wolves in the have died from starvation. USFWS breeding program, to eliminate the need to translo- Furthermore, the removal of lynx from Canada and Alaska cate wild lynx from the wild while also serving as a breeding threatens indigenous lynx populations. For the Colorado colony for further reintroduction efforts. relocation, 110 lynx will be relocated from British Columbia We must demand that USFWS and state wildlife agendes and Alaska. Lynx populations naturally rise and fall in a ten give lynx the full legal protection they deserve as mandated by year cycle along with their principal prey, the snowshoe hare, law and shut down the commercial trade of our lynx relations. and it's hard enough for them to survive without the threat of The ELF and other groups have brought the lynx's plightto the trapping for fur or relocation. world's eyes; now let's remind Americans of the need to Environmentalists and wildlife advocates should chal- organize in defense of all animal nations threatened by the fur lenge the compromised nature of many endangered species trade and commercial development. Free the lynx! reintroductions. Such projects often provide green cover Write Rocky Mountain Animal Defense, 2525 Arapahoe while the habitat of remnant populations of endangered #E4-335, Boulder, CO 80302; (303) 449-4422; www.rmad.org. May-June 1999 Earth First! Page 23 (AB)012IGINAL KNOWL£DG£ PRIMmvisM.,_ N(1861) A: BELIEF IN THE SUPERIORITY OF A SIMPLE WAY OF LIFE CLOSE TO NATURED! BELIEF IN THE SUPERIORITY OF NONINDUSTIWJ. SOCIETY TO .THAT OF THE PRESENT 2: THE STYLE OF ART OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES OR PRIMITIVE ARTISTS patiently and diligently, scraping it, ets, a bit of desert survival, and a BY BuGBREArn soaking it in brains, wringing it out, discussion of EoT (end of time). Other I used to feel breaking it, buffing it, smoking it until classes offered included bow making, annoyed with it was velvety, like worn-in flannel, pottery (made in a pit fire), cordage, .the universe for ready to be carried with me. I am grate­ digery doos, rattles and other instru­ placing me here ful for the little deer whose life and ments, finding and collecting water, death has become a part of my life. spoon carving, knife sharpening, plant Feeling myself existing within these walks, survival skills and abo travels, cydes of life and death, learning felting, beading, yucca sandals, track­ how to meet my needs using mate­ ing, trapping, moccasins, weaving, ab­ rials from the Earth, experiencing original backpacks, nets, masks, intimacy and connection with the healing, pattern making, sewing, cro­ source, is humbling and inspir- cheting, atlatls, birchbark baskets, blow ing. I have always enjoyed ar­ darts, acorn cooking and cactus eating. tistic creation. I have Wintercount folk provided examples experimented with vari­ of exquisite, detailed, labor-intensive ous mediums, but by crafts. More than any particular for­ on Earth at this last summer, I was mula for "how to," a resourcefulness time. I felt lost and fed up with paper and a new way of viewing the world displaced. This world and pens and around me made me a participant in­ of concrete and otherfac­ stead of a consumer. I am involved in clearcuts was not my . tory- constant transformation. Now a plant world. I know the joy made ob­ stalk is potentially fiber for rope, sap and connection of being jects. How could and c:harcoal are glue, a carcass is a part of a tribe living in har­ my creative energy sacred array of useful bones, sinews, mony with Earth. I know it be funneled through skin and meat. deep in my genetic memory "artsupplyproducts?"My In our travels around Arizona after so strongly that I am sure I experiments with basket the gathering, my sweetie and I had have lived before in a primitive weaving brought a revelation. I could an invigorated approach to creating village of forest-ocean people. I long to pick up parts of plants and rearrange shelter in a variety of environments be free of the linear time trap and to them to create something new. It was and weather conditions. bne night know wholeness again. pure-my energy combined with the we filled a stick frame with high-piled But as I learn about the changes hap­ plants' energy. No blowtorches, elec­ dry pine needles and ferns to insulate pening to the Earth, I understand that tricity or weird processing that steals ourselves from the snow-covered it is a great honor to be here at this energy from the Earth. At Wintercount ground. Snuggled in our soft nest, we difficult and exciting time. l know that I was exposed to a plethora of new/old · were actually hot while the ground my soul has chosen to participate in a mediums. The skills and crafts shared, froze around us. vast event, the passing of one world by the generous and knowledgeable Primitive skills are about experimen­ into the next, and I pray that spirit will instructors go way beyond survival. tation and experience. They're about guide me, that I will be open to receive The potential for artful self-expression getting your hands in the dirt and the messages. Sometimes, the way be­ is wide open. muck and pulling civilization out by fore me becomes clear and I know what Along with hide-tanning, I was able the roots. Did you know you can eat I must do. to attend or peruse workshops on pine­ every part of the cattail and make mats This was my experience last summer needle baskets, fat lamps, shell etch­ and hats and torches from it too? Did when I knew that somehow, somewhere, ing, mineral paints, knapping obsidian you know it's kinder to our mother to I had to go to a primitive skills gathering. blades and other tools, knots and lash­ eat roadkill venison than a banana A winter of forest activism had left me ing with natural materials, gourd can­ which is shipped across the seas to feeling burned out, as if all the energy teens, roadkill, pecking and grinding grace your health food store? had been sucked out of me. I was craving stones, arrow making, stars and plan- As the changes come, survival is rejuvenation. Before I even made it dependent upon working with the to the gathering at Wintercount, I UP UNTIL ABOUT 8,000 YEARS AGO, EVERYONE, materials around us. This system challenged myself and expanded EVERYWHERE, WAS LIVING IN THE STONE AGE. THE TOOL KIT of factories and transportation my parameters of the possible by BELOW IS WHAT THE AVERAGE PERSON USED TO MAKE A LIVING won't cater to our soy-milk­ departing from veganism and eat­ drinkin', polypro-usin' lifestyles FOR THE FIRST 2.4 MILLION YEARS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE. ing agrasshoppertoasted on a camp­ much longer. Step by step, we fire on the bank of the Verde River progress down the path toward in Arizona. HAMMERS a>oa .,.,$UT11N6 the glowing vision of harmony On the first day at Wintercount, ~ ~ @ @ ~ \) ~ with Earth, departing this world of c.ow. SpMro~ ~Dllcoiol ....,....., I made fire. No matches, no lighter, ICfi!Kt - ~ koyaanisquatsi as it falls down just wood and friction. I used three UGIIT-OUlY•= around us. Let's make the changes HEAV't'·DUTY- IUTCHfr.Y- different methods-a drill, a bow () ~ ~ in our own lives now while we still drill and a fire plow-to transform ~ ® \11 ~ have the luxury of a safety net that Fkkt Oilcoldl Flatt A.O pure energy into a tiny smoking ... "'"'SCIIIPir ~ .... ,. gives us room to remember the eHIIOdw CMvw ~,.. coal which I then carefully treasures stored in our genetic dropped into a tinder bundle and lONE BREAkiNG HEAVY-DUTY WOOOWORIING tnemory. A wise woman recently fanned into a fireball. What a rush! told me we need to learn nothing Something which had seemed re­ new, we need only remember what mote and difficult was suddenly at ...... we already know. my fip.gertips. It was not only tiDE SCRAPING The Earth Circle Gathering will liG HT·OUTV WOOIWOftUIG NUT CAACUIG achievable, but fun! be held in Grangeville, Idaho, July l) Q) Ilia The next day I began the project ® \) ~ 0 ~ 26-31, $125, for information call ...... _ .... Ho-~ that would be my focus: brain­ ,,__, ,""'.... ICttJ« ...... (406) 685-3222; Earth Knack Gath­ ....I -Oilceid - tanning a deer hide. As I looked at WOOD RNIIHIHG - - ering Boulder, Colorado, June 18- the fresh skin spread on the ground 24; $225, ( 406) 685-3222. The with a bit of flesh still attached Rabbitstick Rendezvous in Rexburg, CONJAJNEJIS here and there, I was in awe. I ...... Idaho, September 12-18, $225, (208) hesitated before touching it. Be- 359-2400. For more information fore it dried, I took it in my hands .,W74ii8J about upcoming abo skills events and started puncturing the edges (work/trade opportunities are avail­ with a knife so we could stretch it able), contact Hollowtop at (406) on a frame. For days I persevered 685-3222; www.hollowtop.com.

Page 24 Earth First! Beltane 1999 habitat in the watershed face oblitera­ tion, nor that taxpayers lose millions RED CLOUD THUNDER yearly subsidizing logging. Yet, alleged continued from front page the destruction. We've endured attacks violations of 14-day camping limits Surrounded by 25-year-old tree by "law" enforcement, fierce winds, draw more attention than two recent farms, the tree-sits now defend the last arctic cold fronts, snow, general chaos government reports condemning the islands of ancient forest in the water­ and the pull of gravity (a real "law" Forest Service for consistently violat­ shed above Fall Creek, Oregon. These that can't be broken!) . . ing environmental laws. vital wildlife sanctuaries have survived In relentless hit-and-run raids last fall, On February 4, a tree-sitter named a century of logging and still harbor paramilitary Forest Service cops.confis­ Frodo spoke eloquently and at length the diversity of millions of years of cated or burned everything left on the on radio personality Art Bell's national evolution. Due to massive overcutting ground, fordngus to disband our ground . show. His interview prompted enthusi­ on public lands, less than one percent support camp. A major change, but one asti<; responses from .support~rs from of the Notfuwest's climaX: stage hem­ that helped the campaign. mature in Hawaiito New York City. Art Bell is now lock forest remains. Although rare due many ways. The occupation evolved organiZing a discussion between Frodo to its low elevation (1200 feet), the us from a ground-based tree-sit support and a timber industry representative to Forest Service (USPS) wants to remove camp that included various elevated and be broadcast later this spring. Continu­ the valuable old-growth timber to "pro­ subterranean road blockades (tunnels, ous pressure on Representative Peter mote ari ecology of interior, non-frag­ monopods, bipods), to a self-sufficient Defazio (D-OR) has resulted in his tacit mented habitat over time." Formerly basecampin the air. Without the strength support of the cancellation and buy­ designated as critical habitat for spot­ · and adaptability o(our community, any back of the Clark timber sale and of ted owls, the area now lies in the one of the these things might have Due to massive overcutting on public lands, less ending old-growth dearcutting on pub­ "matrix" of Clinton's Northwest For­ defeated us. Yet, together we are creating than one percent of the Northwest's climax stage lic lands. But Defazio claims he can do est Plan. The matrix is .the sacrifice this amazing village and today five tree­ hemlock forest remains. nothing and logging may begin May 1. zone for the dying timber beast. This houses provide shelter for up to 20ewoks. had to retract to avoid a slander suit. We expect to be a thorn in the side time Zip-0 Log Mills of Eugene, Or­ Each house is equipped with a simple The Forest Service's public relations of Zip-0 Log Mills and the Forest Ser­ egon, plan toexportthelumbertoEast kitchen, a common library that holds department is in damage control mode, vice throughout the next logging sea­ Asia where old growth gets the highest dozens of books and tree-sitters are able focusing on petty details such as the son and beyond. An active, educational price. But there's hope yet ... to regularly visit each. other using a net­ presence of compost on the ground support network links the tree-sits to For the past year, at heights of up to work of rope walk-ways. and litter that occasionally falls out of the community and trains new climb­ 250 feet, the canopy of the Clark Meanwhile, the US Forest "Service" the trees. USPS spokesperson Patti ers. If you would like to join us, come timber sale has been occupied by hu­ tries to slander and discredit activists at Rodgers, who visited the site only once, as self-sufficient as possible and be mans. Why? Since some humans don't every opportunity. The authorities, des­ claimed feces were "all over the forest prepared for rain through June. For value the lives of other species like the perate to divert the public attention floor."Nottrue! We bury our shit. Tree­ more information contact Red Cloud tree voles, owls, salamanders, flying from the real issues, have resorted to sitters were accused of dropping jugs of Thunder/Cascadia Forest Defenders at squirrels and wolverines who live blatant lying. The local daily paper urine on officers, but where is their POB 11122 Eugene, OR (541) 684- there too, we appeal to their human­ printed a false police press release re­ evidence? It is of no concern to Rodgers 2997; [email protected]; www.efn.org/ ity by placing our bodies in the way of garding a jailed activist, which the USPS that 96 acres of the last old-growth -redcloud and www.ecoecho.org. :·······~·: . "'IGHT! .·. . '!~ N' EWS':. i'l . •: ~;• =mj• .·Miidi« N . . . ·,·· NIGHrNEws(IU· ...... ·~ ...... June 18 Call To Action From animal liberations-11; Highway the ALF's largest lab raid ever. Ten years tended to all sentient beings that we The Earth Liberation Front construction-49; Hunting-33 (118 ago at the University of Arizona in· share earth with, ALF raids and rescue "ELF .:. UK" [email protected] hunting towers were alsodestroyed); Tucson, 1,231 animals were rescued missions will continue to be justified The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is McDonald's-70 (plus 5 to 10 uncon­ and two animal research buildings were by those opposed to the terroristic calling on all our underground and firmed); Shell Oil-35; Meat, milk destroyed by fire. campaign against animals occurring top-lander brethren and sistren to join and leather industries-61 (plus to The UoM raid demonstrates that ALF in the world's laboratories under the in the June 18 Global Day of Action 15 unconfirmed); and Other hits-38. is .still able to penetrate the security guise of science. and carnival in financial districts the cordons that have been set up to hide The ALF communique concludes, world over. The ALF Raids University of the horrors of vivisection from the "Our hearts go out to our (animal) While others work on this day to Minnesota- 116 Liberated public. Videotapes, computer files and friends that could not be rescued, their overtly distract, we have the grand Despite the Animal Enterprises Pro­ research notebooks from the UoM were future depends on you. Act now!" opportunity to covertly act! Remem­ tection Act, ongoing federal grand ju­ seized by the ALF and will be ber, no injury to life, only profit! For ries and the imprisonment of several released tcrth~tiblic. more information and a listing of operatives, the Animal Liberation Front After targeting the UoM, planned party sites, check out the (ALF) has struck again. ALF highlighted the fact June 18 web site at http:/ I .. As much of the world celebrated that none of the rescued www.gn.apc.org/june18/. Easter, ALP operatives prepared a raid animals had even Finnish Fur Web Auction on two animal research laboratories minimal legal pro- at the University of Minnesota at Min­ tection under the ShutDown neapolis (UoM). While others com­ federal Animal Not even one hour into the virtual memorated the resurrection of Jesus Welfare Act sit-in of the Finnish Fur Sales (FFS) Christ, who·took direct action against (AWA). The pi­ website auction, the FFS web servers money-changers and the Roman Em­ geons, rats, mice stopped accepting the electronic fur pire, the ALF delivered justice and and salamanders purchases and started returning "Net­ rebirth to vivisectors and 116 animals that were being work Connection" errors. All connec­ destined to die in experiments. tortured are not tions to the Finnish Fur Sales Before the night was over, 48 mice, even considered [www.ffs.fi] website server shut down 36 rats, 27 pigeons and five sala­ animals, but are when more than 1,000 computer us­ manders were in the arms of rescuers. referred . to as ers from all over the world converged That morning, animal research ter­ "non-animals" on the website for an electronic civil rorists awoke find their animal vic­ and over 20 mil­ disobedience action. tims missing and over $3 million in lion are killed ev­ damage done to computers, research ery year in Finland Scores High on equipment and cages in Elliot Hall experiments in Direct Action and the Lions Research Building. theUS.TheAWA A recent report in the eco-revolu­ The ALF .communique stated, "The allows these ani­ tionary Finnish zine, Muutoksen following animals will never be harmed mals to be poi· Kevat # 12, chronicles 737 accounts again at the hands of vivisectors. The soned, burned, of sabotage in the pursuit of Earth UoM tortures 130,000 animals every electrocuted and and animal liberation. year with taxpayer money. Medical drowned without Here are the statistics, by target, for doctors from around the world de­ anesthesia or any actions from 1993 to 1998: Fur shops nounce vivisection as harmful to hu­ humane consider­ and wholesalers-327 (plus 10 to 30 mans and animals." ation whatsoever. unconfirmed); Furfarms-35; Fur in­ This latest attack on the vivisection Until legal pro­ dustry fodder mill arsons-2; Other industry came on the anniversary of tection is ex- May-Tune 1999 Earth First! Page 25 BLAH BLAH BLAH. NEXT TIME, KEEP IT UNDER 300 WORDS, JACK@$$!

DearSFB, gland at Dear Earth First!, There are things wrong with many pro­ Thanks to the determination the movement, everything from tests, and I and courage of Nigerian protest­ bickering to ineffective actions. broadly agree ors, worldwide organizations, and Of all these, the two I am going to with the ar- a3 the international media the story addres are two of the worst and tide but parts 1' is out about Shell. Powerful, are the only ones I know solu­ were mislead- J money hungry, multinational oil tions for. The first is the actions. ing or not ex-~. companies support the Nigerian Some of these are quite effective, plained. Prop- \ government's brutalmilitarycon­ but more often than not, they are erty damage is trol in order to continue exploit­ flashy, (sometimes) make front widely used in ing the environment. The bloody pages and are quickly knocked the UK and is backlash waged against the Nige­ down. Warner Creek wasn't held seen as eco­ rian nonviolent protestors has not together by nails or concrete; it nomic sabotage been ignored. The people will not was support that held it together. the same as block­ be snuffed out quietly. Recent Of course the location helped, ades and companies public radio programs have been but also it was an ongoing cam­ having to hire extra broadcasting about this evolving paign started long before the security guards. How- hostile situation between the Ni­ blockade. In many of the newer ever, it does remain a topic Dear Journalistas, gerian people and the oil compa­ actions the feeling has been, "lets of discussion, and there are Upon reading Jim Page's ar­ nies. Our call to action has been go do an action" instead of "lets many criticisms of poorly activists. While I was in England ticle in the last issue, "Tying heard, and protests are now un­ go ·find the support we need." planned or stupid destruction there were nights where I wore a the Knot," I was very disap­ derway against Shell in Santa Cruz. The first one is necessary because and of times when it was the mask and things fell apart, but as pointed to learn that Paul In the March article titled "Nige­ it provides the flashiness that only form of action while other we learn from British activists, Watson is again willing to align rian Protestors Killed," I felt like a draws new people in. This does forms would have been more we have to understand the differ­ himself with racists. Even fur­ brief history of Nigerian not mean the media work and appropriate. ence in the US and procede care­ ther I was disappointed that, environmnetal and human rights other less macho elements can be Although the UK has no First fully so that in the end we are when confronted with this in­ abuses was fully needed to inform left out. There are other reasons Amendment, the laws are much successful. formation, Sea Shepherd people people about the present situa­ actions don't work, everything milder than in the US, for in­ -TRISTAN ANDERSON would defend the action by call­ tion. The direct connection be­ from isolation (sometimes you stance, office occupations aren't ing a said racist, "a political tween the violence against pro­ can't get a support base) and even illegal. British Dear Earth First! maverick who votes his con~ testors and the exploitation of police brutality to old tac- culture is more con­ Hello! My name is Garett Beal. science ... " Yes, and the same Nigerian lands should be empha­ tics. Another big prob­ frontational and I am 20-years-old and am cur­ could be said for Ollie North or sized. Overall, I felt the article did lem is that people are pushing and rently serving a six year prison David Duke, but I certainly a good job of summarizing the spread too thin. (In smashing things sentence in Shelby County, Indi­ wouldn't align myself with situation and encouraging action. the action after the is more ac- ana. I'd rather not say exactly them, regardless of how they I think this quote sums it up, 98 RRR at one point cepted by why I'm in prison, but I will say felt about a whale. I say "again "When you buy Shell gas you are the only people were the police, that I did not harm anyone or do willing" because Paul has previ­ pumping the blood of the Nige­ from Chicago!) There but at the anything abusive! ously aligned himself with eu­ rian people into your car!" is no simple solution same time For the past 21 months I have genicists and neo-nazis when Thank you, to this problem, and sat in my cell and have basically he endorsed the Sierra Club's -CHARMIAN TAYLOR indeed there may be no solu­ done nothing but waste away! anti-immigration initiative. tion since we are forced to Until I heard an interview on the Such limited thinking in cam­ Dear EF!/SFB/whoever hates Earth fight an uphill battle. Art Bell show, discussing a group paign planning only serves to hurt Killers and their kind, Groups could of of people in Eugene, Oregon, who the movement in the long run. I don't care what you do with course consolidate, are living 250 feet up in these In order for the radical envi­ this letter, print it or whatever, but although this beautiful trees to stop loggers ronmental movement to be suc­ · but I wduld like some advice back could make the in­ from cutting them.down. I was cessful in its aim to protect all on this very sensitive topic. I just dividual groups extremely moved by these life on Earth, it is going to have don't know how to.go about this stronger, we could peoples love for Mother Earth to come together with all left without fucking shit up violently. lose many places. and decided to start doing some­ movements for social change­ I don't like hatred, but this pisses The better option thing myself! feminist, workers, anti-racist, in­ me off. I understand the kinds of would be to join in on severalpeoplearecur- rently While I was a free man, I expe­ digenous and environmental love and passion you all put into the fight for other in jail convicted of criminal dam­ rienced traveling with the Grate­ justice to name a few. In order to saving the planet. I'm trying to people's areas when they start age. Drugs and alcohol are much ful Dead and going to Hemp Fests accomplish this, we must foster do the same but am restricted by getting hit. more common on protests lead­ etc., etc ... But even though I was a safe environment for people school and other bullshit. But The second problem is the lack ing to crazier events. At most promoting hemp and going to all from these other movements to here's my subject. Every day I of new people. The older activist environmental protests there are these different places, I really get involved with ours, as well witness murder. Murder so dev­ movement seems to be burning only security guards who have wasn't in the right state of mind as reach out and become in­ astating that it could destroy our out at a phenomenal rate, and I few powers, and even when po­ to learn anything! volved in theirs. It will be more oceans. (I live in Key Largo, FL, don't seem to see new recruits lice are present they seldom carry So, what I want to do from here, difficult to accomplish this if and wrote once before.) There filling that gap. The biggest prob­ weapons, and the whole scene is . is gather as much info as possible members of our movement pro­ are these fudged-up corporations lem I think is in our outreach; the much mellower. Lastly the media to help me understand more about mote the objectives of the op­ that for some reason love to rip words "Earth First!" are great at as a whole is much better than in the Earth and what all I can do! I pressors (racists, captains of in­ turning people off but not much the US. have all the time in the world to dustry, rapists, etc.). This is not else. Instead we need to find One very important difference get educated, and once I start re­ about "political correctness;" things that they are concerned in the UK is that EF! is not the ceiving some information, I can this is about achieving our ob­ about (i.e., corporations). I think environmental direct action try to educate others. Anyone who jective of overthrowing the we need to work on people one movement. EF! is more the intel­ is willing to send any letters, pam­ Earth-destroying state (which, by one, intensively, developing a lectual elite of the movement phlets or whatever else will be incidentally, is run by the friendship, and then when they and many EF! people have a de­ greatly appreciated! Do not send exact same people who know you aren't from the Far side cent analysis of society, capital­ anything with staples. Also, I will oppress workers, steal tell 'em your views. (Heck, a ism, anarchism and other topics do my best to respond to all of the land from indigenous month spent teaching someone relating to environmental de­ mail I receive! peoples and think of is nothing compared to the work struction. The article said that I recently had the good luck of women as inferiors). they will do once they get going.) action camps aren't common; having an Earth First! Journal, and Besides, it has been Because of this being however, this is untrue. As I write I have never seen anything quite documented that Adolph unforgivingly brutal and my gen­ this the Chrystal Palace protests like it! I'm still amazed at how far Hitler was an animal lover. eral tone being "we aren't being site in London has been evicted some of you all go to save our But I doubt any of us would very effective," I am more likely except for the underground bun- . Mother! You all have rightfully have recommended that PET A than ever of being hit by snow­ kers and hundreds of police sur­ earned my deepest respect and or ALF join forces with him. balls. To make sure they aren't rounding the area. There are love! Maybe one day, I toowill I am sorry that Paul Watson slushy, I add this: "We could be many types of actions in the UK have an influence on people, like and others at SSCS feel that their more effective." but the main one is protests sites you all on me! actions networking with racist pristine living coral from the bow­ P.S. I'm 13 years old; you should where people camp in the path Anyway, I wish the best for oppressors are defensible and in els of the sea. They're called "Shell be thinking of this stuff. of destruction. Sites provide a everyone out there who is doing order witl~ achieving their goals. Man," "Shell World" and the like. -SASHA CouLTER CALLIES place for people to live and orga­ their part in the fight to protect While they may achieve a short They sell tons and tons of raped nize and a place to fortify since our beautiful Earth! term goal, they set us all back creatures in their stores. Most of Dear EF! Journal, they have to be evicted before Love, from achieving our overall goals. the coral is legal to sell by other I'm writing in response to the local environment can be --GARRET BEAL,107 w. TAYLOR ST., Win the battle-lose the war. countries. We are the reef's last Annie Oakley's article about Brit­ destroyed. The final major dif­ SHELBYVILLE, IN 46176 Save a whale-lose the oceans. chance. Tourists think it is so ish EF! in the Dec./Jan. issue. The ference is public support. In the But I hope that in raising this cute to buy dead "souvenir" cor­ article's main point was that prop­ US we deal with a hostile public Dear Earth First! Journal, debate, it will allow others of us als, crocodile heads, shells, etc., erty damage was common in the from logging towns while in the Jim Page sees two choices: to take pause and learn a lesson to take home. It makes me puke. UK, made the movement so much UK the local public is all in favor "complete depletion of the hu­ from this incident about what it I've tried to tell people this, but better, and we should do the same of preserving green space and man population or an inten­ means to be truly effective. all kids (and adults) do around here. I spent four months in En- works eagerly with direct action tional radical shift in our power -ANNE PETERMANN here is drink, trip and smoke Page 26 Earth First! Beltane 1999 ganja. I would like to try and paranoid state of mind why not to expect that once a year of stuff, looking for guys/gals violence. Obviously, there are organize a campaign or some­ return the favor. It's the least we the Journal support the with $$$, etc. ad nauseum. So, still people who do not under- thing to try and slow or stop this could do. Watch out folks! We movement and dedicate a how about it? . stand this, as evidenced by the deadly process. I (and the corals) have the ability to really rock · page or two to inform However, if you did have a vicious tirade delivered by the need help. Please write back, this your shit, and we are not afraid to those who could not at­ personals section, here's an ap­ self-appointed King of radical ac­ is urgent. I love you all for what do it! tend the Activist confer­ proximation of what my ad tivism, Daryl1 Cherney (Brigid you do and I would write more Though I do question the tim­ ence about what actually would look like: issue). However, it seems like but I'm suffering from a pissed ing of the act, as well as the transpired. From the ar­ Treehugger seeks things are changing for the bet­ off writer's block at the moment. targetting of the particular build­ ticle it seems as if the main woman who belongs ter. Clearly, the Vail action and Please print this so more people ings and not the actual equip­ focus of the conference among the David Chain's murder have can become aware of the coral ment being used, I do not ques­ was hiking and partying, wildflowers. changed how people look at what reefs. tion the act in and of itself. not business and strat­ Sometimes we are accomplishing. I am still Your friend Monkeywrenching, for lack of a egy. Unfortunately, this enviro activ­ reading things in Journal that I find -Toou BoosT, 114 GuMBO better word, is valuable when used could become reality as ist seeks part­ are out of touch and downright LIMBO DR., KEY LARGO, FL 33037 properly. It is a tool, we as a more people begin to at­ nership with offensive, but I wouldn't have it movement, for some reason have tend the Activist Con­ an intelligent, any other way. I want to be in­ I recently read a news article turned our backs towards, effec­ ference, based on there­ hum o ro.u s, formed on all existing viewpoints. about a possible "threat" by Earth tively eliminating one possible port from the Journal, monogamous I don't need the Journal or "the First! against vineyards in the strategy of protection. When an looking for a party. female who de­ Elder" Daryl Cherneydecidingwhat Santa Barbara County in response act occurs we tend to run in the Beyond its lack of sires life away I should be reading. Every tool in to widespread clearing of oak trees other direction, distancing our­ scope, what really from the ratrace . . the box, right? by various wine companies. If selves and isolating those indi­ pissed me off about the I am old enough You are simply documenting this is a real threat-then you viduals on our own side. Is this article was the refer­ to know better but viewpoints and tactics that are must know what you will be up the correct thing to do? Should we ence to Saturday young enough to still relevant for informed decision against. Santa Barbara county condemn those whose ultimate night's fiasco as a "Pa­ care, blond/blue, thin. making. Keep it up. Please do not Sheriffs have three helicopters goal is identical to our own: a wild gan Debauchery." Motorcyclist and bicy­ be intimidated by celebrity bul­ equipped with FLIR surveillance Earth? Even if their particular ac­ While there is no doubt clist, truthseeking, lies threatening to pull their sup­ devices. These devices sense heat tions are different from our own? that it was debauchery there was writer, ethical vegetarian who is port. There is much more at risk and form images as a result of the I think these are questions the nothing pagan about it. A group tolerant, always an iconoclast. than ideas. Disagreeing with tac­ heat patterns. The systems are movement needs to think about. of drunken college kids would Live part time on the old home­ tics is fine. Dismissing them with­ manufactured by a company The Vail arson, to many, was an have behaved in the same way. stead in Northern Minnesota, out review, or attempting to cen­ called Infrartietrics. Some infor­ irresponsible and senseless act; how­ There was nothing spiritual about with an occaisional black bear sor discussion about them, is mation is available ·on the web. ever, the ultimate intent, the ulti­ that cheering, jeering and pure in the yard. Mosquitoes are hell unaccaptable. Daryll Cherney These systems have zoom capa­ mate goal was not the complete crudeness that was displayed at in summer (primary on the food has obviously deteriorated into a bilities of up to X84! They have protection of the Two Elks and the that fire. While pagans did occa­ chain), and the winters are damn self-aggrandizing, inane, preten­ usage of up to five miles! They lynx, and never will be. If we begin sionally cut loose, it was done cold (which makes it a good time tious windbag~ Trying to usurp have improved imaging that can to question the intent of others, we within the social constraints of to travel). Off grid, with solar and or control the movement is ty­ see through smoke, fog and rain begin to question our own intent the society with a spiritual goal. wind generated electricity, under­ rannical and unintelligent. (to some degree). The best I can within the Earth First! movement. At our conference the group be­ ground house, garden that needs Thanks again for standing up find out from available literature Are we for environmental protec­ haved as ugly Americans with weeding. I'm cute enough, and for objectivity and free-speech is that if viewing distance is ap­ tion by any means necessary (while no regard to the other folks, you probably are too. More of a and for realizing that the eco­ proximately doubled or tripled continuing to act in a non-violent including kids, who call that "Son of Hayduke" than PC. Still a logical crisis calls for more than in poor environmental condi­ manner, respecting alllifeforms) to beach home. I was ashamed of dreamer despite heartbreak, do democratic concessions. This is tions. Flight time for surveil­ borrow a phrase from Malcolm X, and embarrassed for my tribe. you exist? And read the Journan what differentiates radicals from lance helicopters is unknown. or are we for Earth protection The fact that I was forced to OK, no hate mail please. Not liberals, and this is the radical Typical missions are three through the acceptable channels support it because some of the racist, ageist, specieist, sexist or environmental movement, right? hours-but I swear I have seen provided for us by an establish­ money I paid at both the Ren­ homophobic-just happen to be At least as many people are in­ them active from sunset to sun­ ment we struggle against? This is dezvous and Activist Confer­ white hetero male human. spired by this new approach as rise. I think these refurbished something we need tocometoterms ence was spent by the commit­ So keep up the good work. No are alienated. You have my un- military choppers have addi­ with. As actions like Vail increase, tee on the four gallons of fucking compromisE!! conditional support. · tional gas tanks installed for as the struggle continues to evolve, margaritas that kicked the party -SMOKEY, RT. 2 Box 192, In solidarity for the wild, longer missions. So what you off only adds insult to injury. CLEARBROOK, MN., 56634, -CHRISTIAN HUNTER have is a helicopter stationed It is time that we stop enabling POWELL99@v AHOO.COM about two miles in the air that those dysfunctional folks in The pros and cons of the Vail has an incredible field of view. our tribe. Pagan is not a word Dear EF! J Mountain arson in the Feb-March How do you defeat these units?­ to be used to excuse any Greetings from Southern Or­ 99 issue makes me think, where Unknown- I have thought of behavior. It is a spirituality egon! It has always been my have I heard all this before? The using an umbrella (with additional with a basis in the Earth opinion that the EF! journal controversy is as old as IR opaque material draped over and includes many dif­ would best serve by being a voice monkeywrenching itself and I the top). Likely a small fan might ferent ways of practic- for the whole environmental think the best way to deal with it have to be attached to the um­ ing. The common movement. My impression ofEF! is almost as old. brella pole that pulls cool air thread between these is has always been that if you are Many years ago, when the through the umbrella cover. If not drunk and stupid taking a proactive stance for the novelty of monkeywrenching you do not have this fan, it is but a deep ingrained Earth, no matter what you are was on the wane, and negative likely your breath will heat the love and respect for the doing, then you are EF! It was reactions on the rise, Dave umbrella shroud, and your um­ Earth and all living be­ disheartening to find out first Forman suggested that brella will heat up and give a valid ings including our hand that the EF! Journal has monkeywrenchers quit taking IR signature. I hope this is all a community, tribe and not been as interested in a vari­ credit for their actions. Instead, hoax by the Ag community. ourselves. None of that ety of ideas as they have been remain mute and shroud the Happy hunting. was present at the Satur­ with toeing the movement party action in mystery, letting com­ day party at the Activist line. Five times in three years, mon vandals be suspect. Ed. note: The US Marine Corps Conference. The war is esca- myself and several others have Remember that become invisible to FLIR's by wrap­ lating and it time for us as a submitted relevant, articulate monkeywrenching is about eco­ ping themselves in a wet wool blan­ movement to get real. Lets stop criticisms of the existing men­ nomic sabotage and not public ket, covering the blanket with adhe­ are we going to evolve with it? Or thinking the oppressors dis-ease tality (fanaticism is a better word) outreach. (See EF!J Dec.-Jan. 99, sive and rolling in dirt and leaves. are we going to remain within our is some how cool and start calling in the movement, only to have Annie Oakley Visits UKEF!). In any own comfort zone? drunk and stupid, drunk and stu­ the editorial staff censor our case, the entire movement is, or To the Movement, -A SMALL VOICE FROM VERMONT pid. And lets print a comprehen­ viewpoint. The state of the should be, about saving the planet, Is it the actual act of arson sive article of the Activist Confer­ planet is so bad, it is counterpro­ not inflating the ego. towards Vail we, as a movement, Dear SFB, ence. I know you have one. ductive to dismiss any tactic Leave to speculation the iden­ are so disturbed by, or is it the I was appalled by the cover­ -DELYLA WILSON without circumstantial review. I tity and motives ofwrenchers and end result, the backlash created, age of the Activist Conference. know lots of people who gave up allow room to maneuver for other the loss of public support, all the This is a major gathering to dis­ Dear fecal material in the cranium, on the Journal long ago. The people working out in the open. It hardwork threatened? I think cuss.very important issues, and I'm writing the Journal after a fanatical non-violent faction of does no good to put people like this is a question we all must the article covering it deserved discussion with my friend, who the movement seemed to have a our hero julia Butterfly Hill into an answer within ourselves. You more than 600 words with recently called and asked why the strangle hold on "the voice" of awkward and difficult situation. can'ltell me you didn't get chills about a third about hiking and Journal doesn'trun personal ads. A the movement. Anyone who In Her Service, and crack a small smile when partying. Regions are encour­ letter was suggested, so here it is. questioned the sensibility of us­ ~LoRD TOAD you heard of the fires at Vail and aged to send only representa­ Fact is, the personal ads, in­ ing civil rights era tactics in the the S 12 million hit they took. tives to the Activist Conference cluding Concerned Singles, direct action campaigns of $12 million is a lot of money. and depend then on the Journal don't reach enough of the right the '90s was labeled an ad­ True they have more, lots of it, to find out what happened. type of people, at least, consid­ vocate of violence. but an economic loss is an eco­ Much of the information and ering the demographic hell Sharing ideas and nomic loss. It serves notice to discussions that the conference people like myself find ourselves reporting on is­ other corporate slimeballs. The said would be printed in the in. So one subverts the domi­ sues and actions economic loss may be minimal, Journal was cut from the ar­ nant paradigm, buys some land is not, by any if noticed at all, but the psycho­ ticle by the editorial staff of near wilderness and sets up a means, the logical ramifications might have the Journal. The movement homestead. Needless to say, this same thing as been effective. They have in­ supports the journal in many is not mainstream... and the ads advocating or stilled, within our movement, a ways and it isn't unreasonable cater to the buy more, have a lot condoning May-June 1999 Earth First! Page 27 py AGENT APPLE San Francisco Judge Ernest Goldsmith thought the draconian six-month sen- appeared without a trace tence dished out to the Cherry Pie 3 by effecting an appro­ (CP3) for pieing Mayor Willie Brown priate fossil-fuel-free would deter any further· pie-litical getaway on bikes and pressure (see EF! J, March-April '99). . foot. Derr was targeted But in fact, a reaction opposite to becauseofChevron'smur­ what the forces of Law and· Order der of nonviolent activists demanded has occum~d, and politi- in Nigeria and "Operation: No cal re-pie-sals .have risen witQ pie- Blood For Oil" was d~dicated to ping hot intensity throughout the those struggling to defend the Ea~th industrial world. and their cultures from corporate oil The Biotic Baking Brigade (BBB) has · exploi ta­ claimed responsibility for 18 of the 35 tion, and in confirmed pie operations worldwide memory of since Milton Friedman received his the six who tasty comeuppance last fall. In the US, lost their lives while opposing Occi­ with pies in a pastry assault. from California to New Hampshire, dental Petroleum's plans to drill on pain-The Collectif Autonome freedom-loving peoples have reached indigenous U'wa land in Columbia. Sde Chomeurs pied the Belgian the conclusion that pie is justice-no The next actin theroundandcreamy Minister of Labour, while he was in matter how you slice it. revolution occurred when an anony- Spain. Carles Campuzano, a member On March 5, a communique from mous pie-slinger targeted Minnesota of the Spanish Congress for the Catalan the BBB-Nor'eastah Irregulars (BBB- Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura. A . party Corivergencie i Unita, was pied Nl) announced that Dr. Neal First, week later, a communique from the twice in January. ·· · geneticist and animal cloner from the Midwest Faction-Coldwater Cell of the anada-British Columbia's At University of Wisconsin, was given BBB claimed responsibility for the Ctorney General Ujjal Dosanjh his just desserts after a lecture at the entartementofaMinnesotastatesena­ was pied at Simon Fraser University in University of New Hampshire. First tor.AgentPecanasserted,"Inresponse Burnaby, BC. A few weeks earlier in had just finished presenting the latest to the backhanded, backroom dealing ·Manitoba, Hoops Harrison, Executive on his "science" when Agent Rusty to. stop the protection of Camp· Director of the Caiuidiah Alliance of flung·a red-tinged cream pie from the Coldwater Spiing; a Dakota sacred site, · Student Associations, . was struck in lecture hall doorway straight into Dr. and Minnehaha-Park from ·destruc­ thefacewith threecreampies. The Les First's placid face; warning all present, tion by. the reroute of Highway 55, Entartistes of Montreal have pied close "Don't Fuck with Mother Nature!" State Senator Carol Flynn, Chair of to a dozen targets, including recent Moments later, the good doctor was the Senate Transportation Commit­ target Roger D. Landry, Presidentof La served a second helping of humble pie tee, received an entartement because Presse media syndicate, in a solidarity by two more BBB-NI agents insisting she believes she is upper crust and can gesture to the CP3. They've also that cloning is no clowning matter. decide for the people what tasty mor~ . creamed the:-mayor and the chief of After Agent Creamy Genes (aka Dave sels of public policy are available to police in Montreal, as well as federal Pike) was taken into custody for sus- us." Agent Pecan (Bob Greenberg) of politicians. pected crimes against science, his ac- the Midwest Faction was charged with nited Kingdom-Our British complice Lemon Souffle, speaking fifth-degree assault. His action ... ·.U counterparts attempted to flan from an unknown kitchen, warned, prompted television footage of the the Chairman of British Aerospace, Sir "We must free Creamy Genes and all notorious paramilitary police raid on Richard Evans, during a lecture at genetic material from the jail cells and Minnehaha Free State (see EF!J Febru­ South London University. Regretta­ test tubes of sourpuss scientists and ary-March '99) to be rebroadcast on bly, security at the event was quite their donut-eating henchmen!" local TV for days. tight and the pie-tosser was uncer­ In response, the BBB's Ecotopia Gen- April 8 brought word of yet another emoniously ejected from the room. In eral Command met in emergency ses- Heartland pie toss. The venue was the a testament to the belief that "If at first sion to plan our next pastry fusillade. incredibly scary "Biotechnology and you don't succeed, pie, -pie again," An injury to one is an injury to all. After Agriculture" conference being held on Welsh Action Against Genetics networking with pie militants both in the campus of Grinnell College in Iowa. (WAAG) next put its creamy sights on Am erika and abroad, we consensed on The deliciously deserving target was the UK Science Minister, Lord David the following call for solidarity. The free market biotechnology advocate · Sainsbury, while he was at Swansea Dennis Avery, University. "Procter & Gamble CEO John Pepper was whoservesasDi- I shall close this faithful account of pelted in Chicago by PETA, the second time he rector of the the brave actions of militant anarchist has been peppered with pies in a pastry assault." Center for Glo- bakers everywhere by making a plea bal Food Issues. for solidarity with those entarteurs following is an excerpt from "Feed the The Central Iowa Anarchist (CIA) cell who now face state repression for prac­ Rich!," the call to action written by of the BBB conducted "Operation: ticing in-your-face politics. Our man members of a Dutch pie brigade: Avery's Savory" as a response to Avery's Creamy Genes is in need of funds to "Pie actions or comparable direct ac­ shameless and flagrant support of bio­ mount a defense. Dave has consis­ tions are performed all over the world. technology and industrial factory farm­ tently been there for many of us and In a certain sense we ·are connected ing. During the keynote speech, BBB­ the Earth, now we need to be there for because we aim at the same targets, or CIA Agent Carob replaced the bald him. Please send letters of support and 'fight' for the same or comparable rea­ spot on Avery's head with a delightful money to the BBB-Nor'eastah Irregu­ sons. International solidarity is our an-. vegan and mostly organic (it is Iowa, lars, New Hampshire Earth First! at swer to such an abuse of power. As after all-no Mecca for natural foods) POB 4101 Portsmouth, NH03802. For protest and to draw attention to this carob/almond/apple sauce pie and then more information on the BBB contact crime, we call for a worldwide cam­ disappeared without a trace. the Friends of the BBs:-Ecotopia, 3288 paign against local mayors, corporate We have since received numerous 21st #92, San Francisco, CA, 94110; executives and sellout NGO leaders." brief reportsfrom the frontlines of the [email protected]. Soon after, the Ecotopia Cell of the current global pastry uprising, includ­ "The Pie's the Limit" is a hilarious BBB sWung into action, delivering just ing the following special deliveries: 28-minute video features a cornuco­ desserts in the form of three pies to S-Sierra Club employee pia of political pie-throwings in San Chevron CEO Kenneth Derr. Agent U Charlie Raines received a ba­ Francisco and beyond, including a brief 3.14launched the first gustatory strike, nana cream pie facial delivery while history of consumable comedy and alluding to Chevron's "People Do" speaking at a panel.on land exchanges behind the scenes interviews with un­ .ad-campaign by questioning Derr, "Do at the ELA W conference in Eugene, derground pie-tossers. To order con­ people really kill Nigerians for oil? Oregon. Procter & Gamble CEO John tact Whispered Media, POB 40130, People Do!"Then multiple pie-throwers Pepper was pelted tn Chicago by PETA, San Francisco, CA 94140; (415) 789- successfully tossed three pies and dis- the second time he has been peppered 8484; [email protected]. . Page 28 Earth First! Beltane 1999 WHEW! ... THE FUSE WENT OUT Arriba County." But do the county commissioners public lands through logging, grazing and fire continued from front page speak for an angry majority, or are they only a small suppression have resulted in unhealthy forest Northern New Mexico is a mountainous, forested group that is attempting to provoke anger and hos­ growth that is vulnerable to catastrophic fire and region, including roughly one and a half million tility by making the most inflammatory claim pos­ must be logged, both to restore forest health and acres of state, private, and tribal forest lands and sible-that environmentalists are out to kick the help local economies (win/win). three million acres of national forest. Arizona and poor off the land? In reality, there is no proof that logging reduces New Mexico are among the top ten states in terms of The fact is this same sentiment is echoed in the either the frequency or severity of fires and improves number of endangered species, most of which are newsletters of wise-use groups such as La Jicarita, a forest health, or that logging provides net economic found in high elevation and riparian forests. Forest "watershed protection coalition" that bills itself as an benefits to communities or the public. There is con­ Guardians litigates extensively on logging and graz­ environmental group. In an opeh letter signed by · siderable evidence to the contrary. Implementation ing abuses in these areas, and is the only group in locals, loggers and Club officials claim is c:tr::~t~=•ov involves creating "partner­ New Mexico that actively supports the national made resource extractors, man­ campaign to end logging on pubic lands (Zero Cut). members of the local According to theWestern States Center, a group that monitors hate crimes in the West, "In rural communities, militia organizing has often come on .work against de­ the heels of wise-use county rule campaigns to take majority of the over local government and declare authority over with vested ex­ federally managed public lands." The attack on For­ all local, col­ est Guardians came after a forum was held to discuss for increases a lawsuit the group recently filed that contends the the bioregion who and grazing. entire federal timber sale program is illegal and are refusing to endorse for the public should be stopped. The forum was organized by .ing positions such as Zero Cut, ecological value officials of Rio Arriba County. Afterwards, violent over small millowners. (Perhaps subsidies now in threats were made, flamed by unconscionable rheto­ themselves Small Mill Owners First!) , could be recti- ric suggesting that the true aim of the Forest Guard­ What the editors of La Jicarita chose to jobs restoring eco­ ians is to dispossess local people of their land. statistics which show that between '90 and reducing In a 1994letterto the editor of the New York Times, Mexican spotted owl restrictions on public alternative fibers and the commissioners stated that, "Many local villagers effect) the timber cut from the Carson and for private woodlands. do not recognize the jurisdiction of the Forest Service National Forests dropped by 88 percent. Yet, acc:or<1- it must continue to oppose over local lands... lawsuits currently pending by ingto the US Labor Department for Rio Arriba County, on public lands, no matter Forest Guardians threaten traditional use of private wood products employment actually rose from 127 how it is packaged, for the simple reason that lands... and threaten to force many off of their employees with a $1 .5 million annual payroll in '90, forests are worth far more ecologically and eco­ inherited lands. Indo-Hispanic villagers view this as to 225 employees with a $3.6 million payroll in '94. nomically standing and growing where they are an extension of Manifest Destiny; they view Forest Another insidious wise-use idea gaining popular­ than liquidated for short term profit and gain. Guardians and other outside Anglo environmental ity with a public concerned primarily with human Charlotte Talberth is a former board president of organizations as colonizers. The inability of unrecog­ stress reduction is the notion that there are win/ Forest Guardians and a founding member of the nized indigenous peoples to make their plight known win solutions for timber operators and the forests. National Forest Protection Campaign, formerly known further increases the potential for violence in Rio The line goes that decades of mismanagement of as the Zero Cut Campaign. David lvt~ReNLew - o{-"W~JLMYtW~~WorUV' ltovics BY ANNE ARCKY ~"P~ v~ ett-co-c;Wcveek:' · David Rovics is one of the few modern activist in Georgia last Fall (for which he wrote an impromptu "line crossing" anthem), fol~singers writing topical songs in the s irit of the music of the early Amerikan to the Minnehaha Free State, for which he wrote a campfire song. From his street radical labor movement. His ne :;!.'f~ e as a pair. performances in the subways of Boston to university history department lecture !£ We Just Want the World is.an ~~c;p.Wt"acting h the Nazis; A clever, ir~it humor drives tne bluegras "Parking Lots and str· ·malls." Da · ' workers' histo masterpiece, "Glo ndFame"gota ecording thisalbum beg · g the question of the legacy of rking clas~ stru e, "Wi!,l.I lie forgotten, or arise?" "C tras, Kings and nerals IS a mournful ballad dedicate o the Iraqi peop : "Missiles flying in the third world ut fits and starts everywhere/from the mountains Chiapas/to the stree · Tompkins Square/Empires t , this one will too/so here' '

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Come onout and epjoy the outside of Anchorage, in Girdwood, Alaska. fun. Plan to be self-sufficient, and Come on up for the training camp and please keep pets at home. For more stick around for a summer on the Copper 1\..fiYI.. IJtl information please contact North links compatible, River Delta. june 1st will be the tentative socially conscious Forest Earth First!, 748 Algoma Blvd, singles who care date to kick off a campaign of direct action t•Jl'I,III~Ill~f· about 11le earth, Oshkosh, WI 54901; (920) 424- lila environment, to keep this 700,000 acre pristine wetland 0265; [email protected]. ,J(JNI~ 11-15 and a haal11ly society. roadless and wild. Contact Delta Defend­ Loosely defined as a free punk/ ers at POB 1464, Cordova, AK 995 7 4; (907) anarchist convergence with a radi­ 424-4394; [email protected]. cal environmentalist slant, this year's gathering will take place in the wilds of Cascadia just south of Eugene, OR. Come but (before heading to the Colorado RRR!) for a short week of info/skill shar­ ing, workshops, discourse, net­ working and a variety of outdoor activities. Contact ANTIPATHY at Feeling cold and lonely? Come POB 11703, Eugene, OR 97440; Sponsored by the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee [email protected]. to ~here the sun shines bright and June 25, 26, and 27, 1999 the heat never stops. Culebra EF! is Haskell Indian Nations University • Lawrence, Kansas looking for a few flame retardant BIODEVASTATION 3 souls to work on "HOT" forest WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS: defense issues in Colorado includ­ MAYIS-20 Future Actions to Free Leonard Peltier •.Legal Presentation • ing the Vail and San Luis cam­ paigns. We are looking for self­ Lobbying· Building a Support Group Network· Prison Issues SEATILE. 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Send $15 for a postpaid video to Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers at POB toring of timber sales, stream sur­ will kick off another Summer and 7941, Missoula, MT 59807; (406) 728-0867; [email protected]. vey techniques, tracking wildlife, Fall of resistance in Otter-Wing. edible and medicinal wild plants, Contact us at POB 8968, Mos­ nonviolence training, legal reali­ cow, ID 83843; (208) 882-9755; ties, base camp and backcountry [email protected]. We eat curry BAIL OUT AMAZON ACDVISTS logistics, and video work for ac- lentils and never sleep! On Earth Day 1998, seven activists delivered a 23-foot-long bleeding pipeline (complete with three activists locked down inside!) to the lobby of Occidental Petroleum's corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. Across the 1999 END CoRPORATE street two activists rappelled off of a 26-story tower and unfurled a 1, 500 square foot banner reading: "Warning to Oxy: Your Colombian Oil Project= Death DoMINANCE CoNFERENCE to the U'wa Indians." 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It came from the South From the land of the.Tarheel; It said to the people, "/have such a good deal.'' . · ... •' . ABE LINCOLN MEETS .WALT BRESETTE Just let me have trees, 1 /life green trees and scam; OvER ExxoN's DEAD ORE &or I'm a real hungry monster, The name's Champ-l-am. ."In God We Trust" It was early dawn and it was on the road . . And, oh, by the way, With that familiar and now somewhat tarnished profile I /life lots of trees-fast; Good ol' Abe Lincoln · · ·cause cutting trees slowly Is a thing of the past. Yep, there's copper in dem der North Woods! ./ .· ~;- too bad all that other "stutr' is in the way / (\ 1 need green trees and Scam, ••• water weeds, swami? lands, blanket asses... · i\ : And I need them right qulcif; Still-ifyou hold a com close enough to your eye, it can blot out the \ entiresun . I'll taife all you've got, Bottomline blinders for the Exxon as it does Its corporate The thin and the thlcif. calisthenics . Grab••• Gorge... Growl•. .AGAIN! Grab.•• Gorge••• Growl.. .AGAINt ·course, I'm a real heavy cuss, Grab••• Gorge••. Growl•• .AGAIN! can't get around much, I guess; So my heavy log trucifs I picked up the cast offpenny and ,laced it in my_pocket Will maife your roads quite a Soon enough, tho_ught I could feel1t burning a bore · mess. Sulfuric acid ooz~ aown­ bur~ng my le~ poisoning the water, fouling the earth, And your streams will run muddy, searmg my soUl And flood more In the Spring, Last Djg_I!t I saw another well known weathered face But, why should you care? that ofWalt Bresette-Anishinabe activist, Gaia guardian That's not such a big thing. His voice crescendoing in the camptire His vision traversing seven generations As for f/shln' and huntln', Hey, have no fears; Eve~one was there in solidarity: old, young, black, white, twig, They'll be bacif at their peaif feather, fur, shell . . In seventy-five years. Their strewrth and coura,ge_fueling the eternal flames, climbing into the midSummer starligllt, scattering to the four winds But, walt! said the people, Their home, OUR HOME, would be here long after the bloated Starting to fuss; Exxon beast belched its last breath ofputrid profit Walt! Walt! Champ-l-Am, What's In It for us? "Exxon, what's that?"-the ~t AWeat ~eat ~t ~t grea! . ~at grandchildren ofWalt and Abe will wonder as they fiooltc m Oh, yes, said the monster, the North Woods . \ ~:o.iiiP. What can I do for you slobs? and corporate paleontologists will scurry to unearth eVIdence of Oh, walt, lifnow, the rumored monster- How 'bout a few jobs? Where are the bleached bones? Where are the toxic tai:limrs? Nooooooooo! said the people, and with a little luck and a lot ofhard work, they'll find nothing We don't /life this at all. but a worn copper coin So, tough! Said the monster, "E Pluribus Unum" John E. Peck You can't fight city hall.

Oh, we'll see about that, Said the people out loud; We'll see what you thlnif, TACOMA, WASBINGI'ON, 197Z When we come out In a crowd. Weyerhauser World Headquarters Squats low, layers of terraced concrete The people together, wll/speaif up Surrounded by bulldozer-sculpted hills For the trees. But I am a company, said Champ-l­ Gazes through hom-rimmed glasses Am, Out at the vinyl-lined lake Where hatchery trout 1 do as 1 please. dream of rivers Not any more, said the people, We've got news for you. Weyerhauser World Headquarters The people united Crouches flat, horizontal, concrete logs piled in a golf-course meadow can be Company too. Grins in its plaid suit Confident from the moon missions We can watch you and stalif you Demands coffee from its pale-lipped secretary And report violations, Knows it's invisible. With our sisters and brothers And other relations. In Weyerhauser World Headquarters A memory of forest We can bug our Inspectors ricochets, And point out your flaws; Ricochets We can pressure lawmalfers trapped inright angles Till we have strong timber laws. Falls defeated to the carpeted floor Scuttles off to hide behind the Xerox machine So you see, Champ-l-Am And feed there on bits of old memos We're not helpless, not we. From the shredder. The people united Will always be free. Electricity drawn in To Weyerhauser World Headquarters (to be continued} Surrenders to coffee-makers Send poems to but remembers the river Anthony Lay ,As the white-painted concrete still knows it was sand Warrior Poet Society As the square lake remembers ; The rain. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ASUC Box 161 TO THE AUTHORS Berkekty. CA 94720-4510 Glacier Lily . Page 32 Earth First! Beltane 1999 If A Tree Falls Alice Di Micele Greg Keeler Ned Mudd and Joanne Rand · Benefit album about saving Ali~e is arguably the Goofy, intelligent, country­ Joanne's strong and versatile the forest co-produced by Northwest's most talented western parody, Keeler's songs His Rustic Band voice climbs and dances poke fun at everything worth through her powerful songs. EF!er Darryl Cherney~ featur­ singer/songwriter. Her voice and ·Ned's music is neither technically poking fun at. "Choosing Sides" ing John Trudell, Zero, Robert · lyrics cut straight to your heart. nor politically correct. 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Directory 228 Commercial St., Dept. #174 MassEFI Piankasha EFI Check out the international PB #14, Cochin 682001, Kerala Nevada City, CA 95959 POB 35, Montague, MA 01351 7992 Hopper Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45255 Earth First! web page at: (009) 484-25435 Davis EFI/FOW-Cascadia Mass Direct Action OREGON www.k2net.co-uk/ef Bander Bagicha Southern Willamette EF! POB 73063, Davis, CA 95617 POB 484, Somerset, MA 02726 AUSTRALIA Near Maurya Lok PATNA-800 001 Fairfax Action Team . Heather La Capria POB 10384, Eugene, OR 97440 Rainforest Information Centre Bihar, Post Box 229 POB 393, Lagunitas, CA 94938 135 Eutaw St #3, East Boston, MA 02128 (541) 343-7305; [email protected] POB 368, Lismore, NSW 2480 SOUTH KOREA F.R.E.A.K.·ofNature EF! (617) 569-3969 Cascadia Forest Defenders (066) 21 85 OS Green Korea Unlimited roB 8493, Green Valley Ulke, CA 92341-8493 Boston EF! POB 11122, Eugme, OR 97440; (541) 6848997 Australian EF! Acdon Update I OF, Garden Tower Bldg., 98-78 Bay Area EF! POB 398060, Cambridge, MA 02139 [email protected]; www.ecoecho.org [email protected] Wooni-dong, Chongno-gu POB 83, Canyon, CA 94516 (617) 806-7547 Kalmiopsis EFI www.green.net.au/ozef_update/ Seoul 110-350 (510) 848-8724 [email protected] POB 2093, Cave]unction, OR 97523 EF! Australia Community THE NETIIERI.ANDS (541) 592-3386; [email protected] Bay Area Activist Hotlines MICHIGAN Lot 9 Halliford Rd VJ.a Dalby, Qld 4405 Groene Front! (510)594-4000 x222; (415)332-5800 x324 World Tree Peace Center Blue Mtns. Biodiversity Project ph/fax 61 (0) 7 3207 0033 Postbus 85069, 3508 AB, Utrecht Santa Cruz EFI POB 50814, Kalamazoo, Ml49005 HCR 82, Fossil, OR 97830 [email protected] http://groenfr.huizen.dds.nl POB 344, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 (616) 383-9317 Blue Heron EF! CANADA PHILIPPINES (408) 425-3205 Huron River Valley EF! Reed Coli., SAO, Portland, OR 97202 EFI Prince George Ariel Betan, Green Forum Santa Barbara EF! POB 1735, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (503) 771-1112 x7875 Box 1762, Prince George, BC V2L 4V7 3rd Floor, Liberty Building POB 12799, Santa Barbara, CA 93107 MINNESOTA Cascadia Forest Alliance Boreal Owl Pasay Rd., Makati, Metro Manila Los Angeles EFI North American ALF Press Office POB 4946, Portland, OR 97208 Box 1053, Kamloops, BC VZC 6HZ (2) 816-0986, 851-110, 818-3207 POB 4381, N. Hollywood, CA 91617 POB 103, Osseo, MN 55369 (503) 241-4879; fax 235-9976 EF! Manitoba 15-222 Osborne St. Volimteers for Earth Defense (818) 569-5592 (612) 601-0978; [email protected] PENNSYLVANIA South, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3L 1Z3 189 San Antonio Ext. SFDM Alluvial EF! Forest Ecosystems Action Group Allegheny EFI .. (204¥.453-9052 1105 Ouezon 'Cltv POB 77027, #102, Pasadena, CA 91107 ,2441 Lvndale Ave So. MJ>ls. MN 55405 POB 81011, Pittsburg, PA 15217 EFI Toronto POB 195 Stn. B, 119 POLAND . (909) 42+-l~?.; ~~. spgecouncil.co~ (~12) 450;917~; p._ari~~·Ofg . Antoinette Dwinga Spa9l\ta.Aye,, "f.oronto, ON MST Workshop for All Beings Tribes EFI c/o DR Chance · - · 842 Lltlraiy Ave, Carnegie, PA 15106 Big Woods EFI . ' 1 2W1; eatthfirst.toionto,@tao.ca ul. Modrzewskiego 29/3, 43-300 POB 10487, San Bernadino, CA 92423 POB 580936, Mpls, MN 55458-0936 Allegheny Defense Project EFI Ottawa Box 4612, Station E Bielsko, Biala; ph/fax 048-33-183153 [email protected] (612) 362-3387; POB 245, Clarion, PA 16214 Ottawa, Ontario KlS 5H8.. In Defense of the Earth MojaveEFI [email protected] (814) 764-5779; [email protected] Autonomous Green Action Towarzystwo Ekologiczne POB 492, Lancaster, CA 93584 Wilderness First! TENNESSEE . POB. 4721, Station E "W OBRONIEZIEMI" Domonika Baryla (805) 948-6291 POB 16075, St. Paul, MN 55116 KatUahEF! Ottawa, Ontario K1S SH9 ul. Limanowsklego 138/42, 91-038, Peninsular Ranges EFI [email protected] Tennessee Valley Faction [email protected] Lodz, Poland, (+48 42) 653-38-16 POB 4738, Irvine, CA 92616-4738 www.geocities.com/RainForest/7094 POB 281, Chattanooga, TN 37401 EFI Montreal, Diffusion Noire [email protected] Baja Ecotopia EFI (423) 624-3939;[email protected] MISSOURI c/o Librairie Alternative ~ Upper TN/Lebanon ~FI POB 7745, San Diego, CA 92107 Ray 0. McCall 2035 St. Laurent, 2 e etage Rainbow Keepers (10 local groups) (760) 740-1174; [email protected] Rt l Box 89, Mountain Grove, MO 65711 1902 Westgate Dr. Montreal, Quebec HZX 2T3 POB 14, Nizhni Novgorod 603082 COLORADO Pink Planarians Springfield, TN 37172 CZECH REPUBLIC (8312) 34-32-80 SanjuanEFI POB 7653, Columbia, MO 65205-7653 TEXAS Zell).e Predevsini Rainbow Keepers (Moscow) POB 3204, Durango, CO 81302 (573} 443-6832 EFI Austin POB 237, 160 41 Prague 6 (095) 954-91-93, [email protected] ·wilderness Defense! 7 4 74 7 [email protected] 2900 Lafayette St., Austin, TX 78722; [email protected] ECODEFENSEI POB 460101, Aurora, CO 80046-0101 (512) 478-7666; [email protected] Chinquapin Resistance ~ Moskovsky prospekt 120-34236006 wildreness [email protected] South Texas Contact POB 63232, St. Louis, MO 63163 An Talamh Glas c/o Anne Kaliningrad/Koenigsburg www.geodties.com/rainforest/1443 (314) 772-6463 4114 Claudia, Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Abbey St., Ballinrobe, County Mayo ph/fax +7 (0112) 43 72 86 Art Goodtimes MONTANA (512) 937-6019 LiiD.erickTalamh Glas [email protected] POB 1008, Telluride, CO 81435 Northern Rockies Biodiversity Project East Texas EF! 41 Glasgow Park, Limerick SCOTLAND · Rt 1, Box 2120, Point Blank, TX 77364 Tim Haugen POB 4431, Whitefish, MT 59937 00 353 61 313308 Gl~JSgow EFI POB 81, Gulnare, CO 81042 (406) 862-4945 Lusus Naturaes Environmental ENGLAND POB 180, Glasgow G4 9AB; 44 (0)41 Gunnison Basin EFI Wild Rockies EF! Collective Over 35 EF! groups exist in England; 636 1924/339 8009; fax 44 (0)41 424 POB 592, Crested Butte, CO 81224 POB 9286, Missoula, MT 59807 1421 Longhorn, Houston, TX 77080 for a ·list, contact: 3688; [email protected] CulebraEFI (406) 728-5733 (message#) lususnaturae71 @hotrnail.com EFt Action Update/Cornerstone SLOVAKIA POB 762, San Luis, CO 81152 Yellowstone EFI J.l.IAB Resource Centre Slobodna alternativa [email protected] POB 6151, Bozeman, MT 59715 Autonomy House 16 Sholebroke Ave., Chapeltown Staromestska 6/D, 811 03 Bratislava FLORIDA NEBRASKA POB 11015, SLC, UT 84147 Leeds, LS7 3HB; 0113 262 9365 SOUTB AFRICA Big Bend EFI • Environmental Resource Center Wild Wasatch Front [email protected] Earth Action! POB 20582, Tallahassee, FL 32316 370 Bordeaux Rd, Chadron, NE 69337 847 W. 700 St, Brigham City, UT 84302 www.k2net.co.uk/ef/earthfirst.htrnl POB 181034, Dalbridge, Durban 6016 VERMONT (904) 421-1559 (308) 432-3458 OxfordEFI ~ Clearwater EF! NEVADA Biodiversity Liberation Front Box E, 111 Magdalen Rd., Manuel A. Demandes, Taller de E. A POB 17838, Clearwater, FL 34622 Western Shoshone Defense Project POB 57, Burlington, VT 05402 Oxford, OX4 IRQ, (01865) 791391 A. CURUXA,J. B., XelmirerJ, Campus (813) 538-9050 POB 211106, Crescent Valley, NV 89821 Save the Corporations South Downs EF!, Dead Trees EFI Universitario, 1570 S Santiago Alachua EFI (702) 468-0230; [email protected] 169 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301 and Do or Die (81) 584321; fax 584533 POB 1638, Alachua, FL 32616 NEW HAMPSHIRE (802) 254-4847; fax 254-7358 POB 2971, Brighton BN2 2GY SWEDEN (904) 462-3374 VIRGINIA ,New Hampshire EF! [email protected] Morgan Larsson '-· MiamiEF! POB 4101; Portsmouth, NH 03802 ' Virginia EF! 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