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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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Logging Will Restart in Jackson in Face of Tribal Negotiations

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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 Jackson Demonstration State Forest In the fall of 2021, in response to protests, CALFIRE agreed to stop logging on Pomo homelands in Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) in Mendocino County, while discussing Co-Management Agreements with local Tribes and rewriting its Management Plan. Please join us …

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May 24 is Judi Bari Day! Marking Milestones and Honoring Fallen Warriors

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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 First!ers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney is May 24, 2022. We’ll gather at 11 am at the place where the bomb exploded and nearly killed the activists. Join us so together we can create revolutionary art in the street (wear clothes you can paint in) and hang banners and pictures! After creating street …

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RALLY TO PROTECT POMO HOMELANDS

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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 Forest (JDSF), from the beginning. The campaign is working toward a co-management agreement between the Tribes and the State of California–this is currently under discussion. On March 2, State Sen. McGuire announced that the Jackson Demonstration State Forest management plan would be rewritten. This presents an opportunity to revisit a …

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Recent News From the Forests of the Northcoast

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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 only ones by any stretch, but two of the most active campaigns right now responding to reckless logging are unfolding in Jackson Demonstration State Forest (JDSF) on the Mendocino Coast, and surprisingly, in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, the iconic park off Highway 101 with cathedrals …

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31st anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney: Monday, May 24 JOIN US!

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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 Judi’s car seat as she drove through Oakland, to mark the moment, as well as bringing people together for discussions of radical activism and solidarity, and as a memory against forgetting. This year, we can again invite you to join us in person! (Please observe covid …

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Oct. 12 – Berkeley Indigenous Peoples Day

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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 that idea for 28 years. We gather on Zoom this year to review that history and to exhibit the beauty and joy of Indigenous social circles.

Passionate and Persistent Activism in the Pandemic

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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 for active involvement. Some news from the inspiring activists out there “doing the work” follows. Redwoods, Frogs, Birds and Fish: They Need Each Other and We Need Them to Thrive. You may remember previous news we have sent you about the many-years-long efforts to protect …

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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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30th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney ~ Sunday, May 24

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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 the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature. I believe we already have such a theory. It’s called deep ecology, and it is the core belief of the radical environmental movement. A revolutionary ecology movement must also organize …

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