CalFire announced today that logging would resume in the Jackson Demonstration State Forest in Mendocino County, previously put on “pause” while negotiations with local Tribal nations were underway. CalFire made this announcement without informing the Tribes that they have been at the table with for six months.
Shame CAL FIRE’s Deception & Stop Logging in […]
Join us at 11am at Park Blvd and E34 St in Oakland on Tuesday, May 24 to celebrate and honor Judi Bari and Dennis Cunningham. We’ll create a street mural and speak out as we renew our defense of civil liberties and biodiversity on earth!
The 32nd anniversary of the politically-motivated and nearly deadly 1990 bomb attack on Earth […]
RALLY TO PROTECT POMO HOMELANDS State Capitol, Sacramento MARCH 25, 1 – 4 pm
3-25-22PomoSacRallyRegular readers of our Northcoast forest updates will recall that many Native people from the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians in Mendocino County have been very involved in the campaign to stop the over-logging in Jackson Demonstration State […]
In most of past forest preservation campaigns, forest defenders were going nose to nose with big corporations like Sierra Pacific Industries, Green Diamond, Mendocino/Humboldt Redwood Co.,Pacific Lumber/Maxxam, etc. But in 2021 and 2022, the bad management practices decimating increasingly scarce forest habitat in Northern California have different players: CalFire and PG&E. They are not the […]
Marking milestones and honoring fallen warriors
The 31st anniversary of the dramatic and aggressive bombing of Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney is upon us: May 24, 2021. In years past, Judi’s comrades in the Bay Area commemorate that event every year by going to the place where the bomb exploded under […]
Berkeley INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY
POW WOW & Indian Market 28th Annual Celebration
1992-2020
Monday, October 12, 2020, 2 pm
A Virtual Commemorative Event on ZOOM
Join Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81672395529
Meeting ID: 816 7239 5529
Berkeley’s Indigenous Peoples Day Powwow and Indian Market has been the ongoing celebration of […]
It’s been a while since we’ve communicated with you, and you can likely guess the reasons. Everyone is overwhelmed dealing with our world in 2020, and the hits keep on coming. But the issues we care about are not only still there, but most campaigns and work have higher stakes, sooner deadlines, and greater needs […]
We haven’t posted in a while, so our solidarity statement is coming a bit late. But we have been acting on our solidarity, in the streets, and in our lives.
After putting up tree-sits earlier in the spring to protect redwood forest in California’s far north coast, upon discovering active logging in April, forest defenders […]
Marking milestones and honoring fallen warriors in the age of coronavirus:
“Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately, revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of […]
Dear friend of the Forest,
I arrived home from a gathering last month exhausted but excited. Energized. Inspired. My brain was racing—processing, analyzing, sorting through the conversations and questions. And, in keeping with the goals of this gathering, I arrived home ready to hit the ground running and work.
Representing the Bay Area Coalition for […]
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