Join us to protest giant corporate undermining of democracy! The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is meeting in SF July 19-23. Never heard of ALEC? Read on… Join us in protest! Press Conference with speakers: Thursday, July 20, 2 pm Marriott Hotel 55  Fourth St., downtown SF (Powell St. BART) Funded primarily by large corporations, industry groups, and conservative foundations, ALEC is one of the nation’s most powerful and least known corporate lobbies. If you have worked on any issue coming under the broad rubric of the progressive agenda, be it health care, labor rights, resource exploitation, fair trade, privatization of …

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Maxxam/PL Has Filed Numerous Lawsuits to Quell Protests The trial of Pacific Lumber (PL) and Scotia Pacific (ScoPac) Corporations versus Kim Starr (Verbena) began with opening statements last Thursday (see below) in Judge Watson’s Superior Court in Humboldt county. It took an astounding 8 days to seat a jury in a jury selection process that weeded out anyone who seemed passionate about the earth and people unhappy with ‘corporate personhood’. This is the first of three civil lawsuits, known as S.L.A.P.P suits, filed by the timber company against forest activists. “S.L.A.P.P” stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation and are …

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hobbits, sprites and elves UNITE! …to Stomp the Stumps ! on St. Paddy’s NIGHT ! Stomp the Stumps! St. Patrick’s day dance party  >>Friday, March 17 8 pm ~ 2 am Wear the green …to call in the tree spirits for the lush green endangered redwood forest >>Ashkenaz club~1317 San Pablo Ave.(at Gilman), Berkeley a benefit for Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters & Earth First! with: Funky Nixons (political satire folk rock) Gary Gates Band (live band with a Dead flavor) Day Late Fool’s Band / Ren & Skimpy / Richard Hubbard on flute Also in the back room: ACTION …

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A segment related to the Hurwitz (Charles, CEO of Maxxam) – Pombo (Congress’s most vehement attacker of the ESA) – DeLay (Texas Congressman fallen from power, buddy of Hurwitz) connection will be part of a FREE SPEECH TV show airing this Sunday! This season’s third episode of FreeSpeech TV’s news magazine SourceCode, on Deregulation, was broadcast this Sunday, March 5th at 9am EST. (Check your schedules.) The episode will features BACH’s Karen Pickett as a guest. You can access SourceCode (http://sourcecode.freespeech.org) SourceCode is Free Speech TV’s weekly news magazine, focusing on social justice issues with the aim of turning audiences …

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This is a message from a tree-sitter in the Nanning Creek old growth redwood grove near Scotia on Pacific Lumber land. PL has been cutting on the plan since November and we have been opposing it since PL submitted it to CDF since it is prime and pristine (was) habitat for the endangered marbled murrelet. There is habitat left! Nanning was the focus of BACH’s demonstration in December at Sen. Feinstein’s office. We print the note below unedited. HELLO FROM THE NANNING CREEK TREESIT We Forest activists in the Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Co. Timber Harvest Plan (THP)1-05-097 HUM, “Bonanza,” still protect …

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Pacific Lumber Plans to Sell Up to 60,000 acres This does not come as a surprise, but no one but the company insiders knew just when it would happen. Note that PL did not notify its bondholders and also note the figures on how cut-over the land is. Press release from the Humboldt Watershed Council below, followed by links to several news stories about this most recent development. See BACH’s newsletter for background at http://www.headwaterspreserve.org/ February 9, 2006 Re: Maxxam Begins Final Liquidation of Once-Proud Pacific Lumber Company Business plan right on target, say observers The Humboldt Watershed Council announced …

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We have been a bit out of touch due to travelling and holidaze, but have some info to pass on to you, our constituency, colleagues and friends. There are several links in this update to stories in the media over the last coWe have been a bit out of touch due to travelling and holidaze, but have some info to pass on to you, our constituency, colleagues and friends. There are several links in this update to stories in the media over the last couple weeks–you may have seen these through other sources, but their importance bears repeating. >>>REDWOODS ON …

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Resistance continues in the ancient redwood forest in Humboldt county because, unfortunately, the logging continues in the Nanning Creek Grove, home to the threatened and endangered marbled murrelet. Thank you to all who joined us for the marbled murrelet fly-in and demonstration at Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office in San Francisco on Dec. 6. We brought attention to the fact that this logging in endangered habitat due to a loophole provision of the Headwaters Deal, which Sen. Feinstein helped negotiate with Maxxam’s Charles Hurwitz. See the story and photo on IndyBay Media at http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/12/1788210.php. Since then, there have been vigils and …

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Come out and Stand Up for the Ancient Redwoods! EMERGENCY RALLY !! Tuesday Dec. 6 at noon Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office One Post St. @ Market, San Francisco PLEASE COME DURING THE LUNCH HOUR AND SHOW THAT WE THE PEOPLE OPPOSE LOGGING OF ANCIENT REDWOODS! We will be painting murrelets and planning on Saturday, Dec. 3 at 4 pm at the BACH office in West Berkeley (address below). Come help if you can and get flyers to distribute. WHY WE MUST DO THIS NOW- On Veteren’s day, Maxxam/Pacific Lumber (PL) started logging in the Nanning Creek Grove in Humboldt County, and …

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We have sent you several alerts about the Bonanza logging plan in the NANNING CREEK GROVE starting in the early summer when many of us commented on this plan in ANCIENT REDWOOD FOREST and home to the threatened marbled murrelet. Things have been heating up since logging started on Nov. 11, and GIANT TREES ARE FALLING nearly every day. This is a tragedy, and as we await a decision from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, resistance is growing. There are TREE-SITS in the grove, and TWO WOMEN LOCKED to a truck and the gate on the access road early …

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