>< >< INVITATION from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters November 14, 2006 >< >< Please join us to celebrate ACTIVISM at our gala event: Silent Auction, Live MUSIC by the Mercury Dimes, Pat Nevin (Grapefruit Ed) & Friends and Truth Out editor Kelpie Wilson speaking about bonobos & signing her novel Primal Tears plus Delectable Appetizer Buffet!     Sunday, December 3, 6-10pm     La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck, Berkeley (near BART) Benefits the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters The wonderful auction items on display include ~ sleeping bags, Patagonia gear, Hot Springs retreats at Orr, Wilbur, Harbin, Osento ...

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Public COMMENTS NEEDED on endangered marbled murrelet habitat For a moment, imagine yourself in charge of a wildlife agency responsible for ensuring that our premier environmental law-the Endangered Species Act (ESA)-was working to help endangered species recover. You learn that the population of a bird dependant upon old growth forests for habitat has plummeted dramatically over the last couple decades, hanging on the precipice of extinction in some areas, including California. What would be the responsible and logical thing for you to do?  Slash its critical habitat acreage by over 90 % ? That is precisely what the U.S. Fish …

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The Misty Redwood Run is a 10 K fun run on a gorgeous trail through the towering redwoods in Redwood Regional Park in the east bay. It benefits the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters. WHEN: Sunday, September 17, 2006 8:30 am start 10:30 am age group and division awards WHERE: Redwood Regional Park, Redwood Gate entrance in the East Bay Hills 7867 Redwood Rd., Oakland. Directions below. Register online at  http://www.theschedule.com/eventinfo.cfm?eventID+10675 $20 online registration fee. Last day for on-line registration Sept. 15; $25 day of race registration. (For mail, make check payable to Ecology Center/BACH and mail to Bay Area …

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Buffalo Field Campaign Road Show with music by 7th Generation Rise (Indigenous Funk) Join us for an evening of storytelling, music, discussion and video presentation to find out why state and federal agencies are using your tax dollars to kill America’s last wild buffalo. When: Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 7 pm Where: Ecology Center 2530 San Pablo Ave. (betw. Parker & Dwight), Berkeley wheelchair accessible Contact: 510-548-2220 Mike Mease, co-founder of Buffalo Field Campaign, will share exclusive video footage shot last winter, discuss the plight of Yellowstone’s wild buffalo, and tell how we can stop the senseless slaughter of …

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We are asking you to call your elected representatives to oppose the “log the Sequoia Monument” bill, HR 5760, and also tell them to support and co-sponsor the “Act to save America’s Forests”, S.1897. See details below. On July 11, Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of California’s 21st District introduced bill HR 5760 titled the “Giant Sequoia National Monument Transition Act of 2006,” which would allow expired timber sales to be implemented in the Monument. The purpose of the bill is to arbitrarily counteract the court decisions of 2005 that halted timber sales grandfathered in by the Proclamation and to forestall …

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Five years after replacing John Campbell as president of Pacific Lumber, PL president and CEO Robert Manne is leaving Maxxam/PL. Campbell was with PL when Maxxam took over the company in 1985, and things have certainly changed since then. The past five years have been a time of major change, as Maxxam clearly is designing their end game for Pacific Lumber and their holdings of redwood forest on the north coast. Particularly since major refinancing in 1998, keeping the purchase debt at extraordinarily high levels, and the Headwaters Deal in 1999, with most of the cash from that lucrative deal …

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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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