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Encampment w/ in the Arcata Community Forest Faces Eviction(Day6)

by BILLY GOAT (antifalovecore [at] yahoo.com)
Statement directly from the 'KIDS IN THE WOODS ENCAMPMENT' "We shall live as a free people in a community of our own willing to work w/ the community, city, and people to provide a safe place for those who have the need for an alternative working and living situation. We will not be made to move or be herded around. We have worked for months to clean-up, salvage, and recycle what we can. We have offered to work with the park to help maintain and rehabilitate these woods w/ little to no response. We will do as we have been, while standing and fighting. This is our home. We need the support of the greater community in sharing resources and knowledge to designate our spot a safe and legal zone. With love, THE KIDS IN THE WOODS."
This morning at approximately 9:00 am, three officers from the ARCATA POLICE DEPARTMENT approached the encampment and asked the occupants to leave. The Encampment once again protested the eviction and the police were faced with the only option available, to leave. Before leaving they used camera's to photograph the person's involved, and the encampment in it's self.

The encampment continues to clean and put forth an effort to create ways to lessen the impact they have on the area. They are skilled in many forest living tactics but do ask for more knowledge on the subject not just for themselves, but for future members.

They have a wish list together which are listed as necessities.(the less waste matter, the better)

Food of all dietary needs

Water

toilet paper(degradable)

tarps

shovels

lanterns

rope(twine, hemp, cord)

batteries(AAA, AA)

trash bags

lanterns

medical supplies

axes(wedges as well)

playing cards

The most important thing they need is friendship and support.

These kids have great heads on their shoulders and they would be able to prove that if you extend your friendship.

Another important thing potential friends and volunteer's can do is be there when the police and Environmental Services to hold them accountable to their actions.

Thanks and solidarity.

Much love ,

REDWOOD CURTAIN ANTI FASCIST ACTION

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by Kevin Hoover
Kids,

"Before leaving they used camera's to photograph the person's involved, and the encampment in it's self."

This reads, "Before leaving they used camera is to photograph the person is involved, and the encampment in it is self."

Apostrophes are used for two things: to indicate missing letters and to indicate possessive. You didn't need any apostrophes in that sentence.

Perhaps the Kids in the Woods could join forces with the Apostrophe Protection Society, to mutual benefit.

http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/

Kevin
by Joyel

Thanks Kevin, but I'm sure the A.F.A. still got the message out.
And before my post, since you are the author is this a joke? http://www.arcataeye.com/index.php?module=Pagesetter&tid=2&topic=3&func=viewpub&pid=877&format=full

I'm hoping it’s just April 1st Kev.

Anyway back to the woods.

Well this thing is only letting me upload 1 thing so this is a quick pan of the camp.


but we're still holding it down in the woods, the police came once already now and we know that they won’t leave us alone that easy, I walked down the hill for the first time in a few days last night and on the way down where the trail meets the ACF logging road is where we have piled the bagged garbage for pickup, I'm told that a truck comes out every-other week at least in order to clean up what the work crews pull out of abandoned camps and most of that garbage is stuff that we have cleaned out of other sites than just ours.
walking around downtown Arcata I could really tell that allot of the people that are usually sitting in front of the closed stores on the bar strip were absent, most of them I know had made it up to camp already and more had started walking that way.
As for the Owls Kevin I understand fully the impact of a horn in morning but I don’t know if is widely known that Arcata regularly logs out of that forest to make money? They call it "sustainable logging" because they only do it a little when a little means a 50 foot wide 300 foot long clear-cut?
we are being very careful about deforestation in and around the camp, yes we have a fire for cooking but 90% of that wood is hauled down from the clear-cut where it’s just laying there choking out the local vegetation while the pampas grass is flourishing, the rest of the wood is deadfall so no trees are hurt and the firepit was dug with consideration to the surrounding roots, we have recently started working on anti-erosion because some of the trails in camp were starting to deteriorate which is something I would like to do for the city's trail 16 because it is eroding faster than any and I don’t even use that trail.
Let us help!!

I've got to go but come visit us in the redwood park if you get the chance.

K.I.T.W.

by REDWOOD CURTAIN AFA (antifalovecore [at] yahoo.com)
solidarity!!!

Sorry for the grammatical errors, i was rushed out of a closing HSU lab. Little time to edit, no time to upload inspiring images of friendships and family.

I'll get that up soon as possbile.
Thank you for holding it down so well K.I.T.W.
by Peasant Dreams
It's good to see you're fighting for some dignity. Even under Jim Crow, blacks had the right to sleep. When such evil is perpetrated, it's only going to get worse, and the antagonisms that sparked the Eureka PD's killings will reappear, whether in the form of brutality, or Humboldt's sky high suicide rate, or the despair that is at least partly responcible for its OD rate.

I'm glad the campground is clean, as much as I believe in the homeless cause, when I was living there, the campers around the Bayshore Mall kept that place filthy. It was disgusting.

You'll be targeted for critisism by the papers, whether fairly or unfairly, it's time everyone called the paper the Arcata Lie.

The war on the Poor is going on all over. I moved to a very liberal town - except for the cops, courts, and the merchants. They have made some scary opening moves over the last 2 years, and it looks like they're ready to use Humboldt-style oppression here, soon.

Any gains any of us make will help roll back the wave of Bush/Cheney fascism around the country.
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