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Converging for the Forest and the Climate

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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 Headwaters and Earth First!, I had pitched in on organizing, and then attended this extraordinary gathering in October 2019. It was The Resurgence: the Forest and Climate Movement Convergence, that took place after 2 years of planning, in the beautiful deciduous woods of the Shawnee …

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Save the Date! Friday, Sept. 27: The Buffalo people are coming to town!

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The intrepid Buffalo Field Campaign roadshow crew has hit the highway out of West Yellowstone, Montana, heading west with their multi-media story-telling, music and video show, coming to our neighborhood soon! When: Friday, Sept. 27, 7 pm (doors at 6:30) Where: The Art House Gallery and Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley This event will be on the heels of the climate strikes and actions happening on multiple days in various locations around the Bay this month, so put it in your calendar NOW, and save some energy for the wild bison! If you can help bring flyers to events, …

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Update from the Mattole Forest Campaign

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Update from the Mattole Forest Campaign After 60 days in the canopy, Rook has returned to the ground… Message from Rook: “After two months living in Trickster, I’m on the ground again. I’m not some arboreal creature. I can’t live 100 ft. up sitting on a net, eating clif bars indefinitely. I did what I could as long as I could, and I desperately hope it was enough. All those weeks ago, when I lost the traverse to other trees, which would have blocked the road, I had to figure out my priority. Do I try for a more strategic …

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Two events of interest with short notice:

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** A community night cafe benefiting BACH… ** And our friend from Seattle-singersongwriter Jim Page playing at Heyday Books: Friday July 26 and Sunday July 28 BACH’s Karen Pickett will be speaking at an event (come heckle, add your story, have beans and a beer…). It benefits BACH! MERCURY CAFÉ’S MONTHLY COMMUNITY NIGHT Who:          ·      Karen Pickett (B.A.C.H.) and Steve Ongerth (I.W.W.) on the legacy of the late environmental and labor activist Judi Bari ·      Michael Eisenscher, Labor Rise for Climate, Jobs, Justice & Peace ·      Neha Mathew-Shah, President, Progressive Workers Union ·      Jason Henderson, Professor of Geography & Environment at S.F. State on Street Fights in Copenhagen Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green …

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**Action Camps for Mattole Forests** **Celebration for and in Richardson Grove**

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There are two action camps coming up in the Mattole River area, to support the continuing activity in the all-out effort to protect the precious forests and habitat of Rainbow Ridge. Since the chronology we sent you in our June update, there has been another tree-sit, rallies, lock-downs, strategic work and pressure from the Lost Coast League’s challenge to Humboldt Redwood Co.’s dishonest sustainable certification and other work. You can listen to an interview with tree-sitter #1, Rook, (still aloft, at this writing) on KMUD. as they mark one month in the tree: https://soundcloud.com/kmudnews/forest-defender-celebrates-month-long-tree-sit-at-rainbow-ridge We got a brief update yesterday from the folks …

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Earth First! Journal Roadshow in Berkeley June 9

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The Earth First! Journal–now on the west coast and turning 40! 
 Come out and welcome their roadshow to Berkeley When: Sunday, June 9 – doors at 6, program at 6:30
 Where: East Bay Media Center 1939 Addison St., Berkeley

 The Earth First! Journal, purveyor of news and cutting edge strategy of the radical environmental movement made their cross-country move to Oregon this year. Join other rabble-rousers and earth defenders to welcome and support this grassroots media collective in its 40th year. Join us to hear more about this multi-generational project, and why print media is important. The Journal and the …

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Judi Bari Day: May 24

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Join us to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney & attack on Earth First! and Redwood Summer, with a Speak-Out, Sing- Out, and Show of Solidarity. When: Friday, May 24. Gather @ 11:30 am. We’ll mark the moment of the bombing: 12 noon Where: E. 34th & Park Blvd, Oakland (nr. MacArthur at Oakland High School) :: :: Bring musical instruments, poems & your voice. A bit of history: Northern California Earth First! activists Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney were subjects of a bomb attack by an unknown assailant in Oakland on May …

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BACH in Earth Island Journal, plus this Sunday: Music Benefit for Climate Justice & Direct Action

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    NOTE: There was just an article in Earth Island Journal looking back on the Headwaters Forest Campaign, and in particular the women involved, who were campaign leaders, on the 20th anniversary of the protection of the 7500-acre  Headwaters Forest Reserve. You can read it here.    Reminder–this Sunday! Join us! Music Benefit for Climate Justice and Direct Action in Oakland–early show– The show will feature great music and lots of activist fun! including…     – Casey Neill & the Norway Rats – Loretta Lynch – Wayfairy WHERE: Elbo Room, Jack London Square, 311 Broadway, Oakland CA [venue …

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Mattole Action Camp; Richardson Grove Back in Court

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    GATHER FOR the MATTOLE ~ IN the MATTOLE! This Action Camp and skill sharing will be a great time to plug in with other forest defenders on the North Coast, find out what is on the horizon for this spring and summer, and hike in some beautiful forest. You can contact BACH at our email for details and car-pooling and we will try to help. Find out why people are so passionate about protecting the forests in the Mattole River Watershed! Info in Humboldt: efhum@riseup.net; Save the Mattole’s Ancient Forest on FB Richardson Grove in Court (again) March …

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Richardson Grove court report; Forests & Climate hearing this week!

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Update: Richardson Grove Court Date A number of us were in Federal Court last Wednesday to hear arguments from both defendants Caltrans, and environmental organization plaintiffs in the Richardson Grove court case, back before a judge once again. This has been a long saga. After extensive arguments and many questions from the court, Judge Alsup took those arguments under consideration, and will deliver a decision sometime in the foreseeable future. There was a post-court radio story with an interview with Karen Pickett on KMUD radio here: https://soundcloud.com/kmudnews/litigation-continues-for-richardson-grove-expansion and a press release from the Center for Biological Diversity, a plaintiff in the case: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/richardson-grove-11-28-2018.php Courthouse News also …

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