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Celebrate revolutionary ecology on judi bari day

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 On the 35th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari, Darryl Cherney & COINTELPRO attack on Earth First! A celebration and statement of revolutionary resistance & movement solidarity. Saturday , May 24  11:30-12:30 Park Blvd. & East 34st St., Oakland (near MacArthur Fwy at Park @ alcove @ ~3401 Park Blvd across from Arco) Help create pavement art as a tribute to Judi and all facing state repression today. We mark the moment of the bomb explosion in Judi’s car under her seat. Commemorating an act of extreme violence against an activist 35 years ago is not an isolated incident. …

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News from the forest…and news from the streets

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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 have ascended to the trees again to defend a redwood grove a few miles north of Trinidad in northern Humboldt County. Green Diamond Resource Company (GD) plans to clearcut the forest under an active Timber Harvest Plan (THP). The 40.5 acres of the THP is …

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Redwood Forest Defenders Occupy Trees in Strawberry Rock Timber Plan–Call on Green Diamond to halt logging

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On Wednesday, April 1, Redwood Forest Defenders occupied tree sits in the contentious Strawberry Rock timber harvest plan, calling on Green Diamond Company to stop logging now! Green Diamond Resource Company (GDRC), a private timber company, has started industrial logging operations in the Strawberry Rock area in northern Humboldt County, a site culturally significant to the Yurok tribe. The group, Redwood Forest Defense is currently occupying the forest and a treesit platform has been raised into the canopy. The group is calling for GDRC to halt all logging in the area immediately. Link to photos in Google Drive with a …

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Forest and Species Issues Making News in Northern California

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Forest and Species Issues Making News in Northern California Mattole Forests The intrepid Mattole Forest Defenders are organizing an action training camp in the Lost Coast area for mid-March. Stay tuned for more details as local activists gear up for the logging season.  Contact efhum@riseup.net, or us at bach@headwaterspreserve.org. In the same neighborhood, another hard-working group of local residents in the Mattole River Valley—the Lost Coast League—is in the midst of challenging Humboldt Redwood Company’s (HRC) heavy use of herbicides and their THPs (Timber Harvest Plans) filed in ” legacy forests” via a different avenue. That route is a formal challenge to the “certified as sustainably …

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Protected Headwaters Threatened by Green Diamond

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! We hope this is a good year for wild places everywhere and all of our fellow species!  Take action to make it so. With Maxxam gone, other timber companies threaten integrity of Headwaters Forest Reserve Thirteen years after the historic transfer of the largest groves of ancient redwoods left on Maxxam/Pacific Lumber’s ravaged land to public hands and protection as Headwaters Forest Reserve, other companies in the mold of Maxxam/PL are nipping at the edges of that precious forest.  The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has done a stand up job over the last decade to protect and …

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