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UC Berkley is planning next week to remove the Oaks Grove protesters from high in the canopy using old Pacific Lumber(PL) henchman, Eric Schatz, according to the the recent article in the San Francisco Gate. Long time activists experienced with PL's violent and life-endangering tactics are concerned about Berkley's choice to utilize Eric Schatz, whose sketchy methods have brought lawsuits against PL, as well as himself. (Photo of Erik choking a Forest Defender on a branch hundreds of feet above the ground, the Tree-Sitter has no safety on)
Frank Bacik, vice president for Pacific Lumber, also stated over the past few years, the most successful means of removing treesitters is ignoring them. However, Frank's comment is much further from the truth. Two Humboldt Forest Actions will celebrate the success of maintaining two actions, one of which for six years of dedicated occupation, as the two Timber Harvest Plans expire this fall. Let's just say Frank is lying...again. The last time Schatz was in one of our trees was in the Fall of 2007. No one was extracted.
Humboldt Forest Defense is putting out an ACTION ALERT for the UC Berkley Oaks Tree-sit. We are calling all Forest Defenders from past and present to come to support your brothers and sisters fighting for this sacred space. We need your help now! Please help protect the Oaks and protect the lives of their defenders. Visit http://www.saveoaks.com/SaveOaks/Main.html to learn about the location of this long running action and history. Map
Let's help the Oaks continue to stand by standing(and sitting) together in peace, non-violence and solidarity! The extraction could be attempted at any moment. Please come show your support of these amazing trees and the fearless protecters who defend them.
In peace and love for trees,
Jeff Muskrat
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UC Berkeley prepares to remove tree-sitting protesters near stadium
Pacific Lumber has been extricating protesters from trees for about 15 years, ... The past few years, that's been Pacific Lumber's most successful means of ...http://www.sfgate.com/.../c/a/2007/11/10/BA80T9PMH.DTL&hw=berkeley+tree+protest&sn=005&sc=575 - 18 hours ago - Similar pages - Note this
It is strange because the last comment on the article was made on 02-09-2008. I'm not sure why the google search brought it up as new. The 11/10/2007 tag should have been obvious enough.
This was a mistake and I apologize. Berkeley is always in danger, and in need of food and supplies. Please visit them at
http://www.saveoaks.com/SaveOaks/Main.html
I'm back on vacation, but I will be still around virtually and in spirit to cause more trouble:)
Much love and peace to all!
Meanwhile, Eric Schatz was playing the "good cop," telling Climber Ox to "get off of him" and "give him air," yet was doing nothing to enforce his weak, almost whispered, commands.
Truly, these men should never be allowed to perform an extraction again, and should still have criminal charges brought against them for assault, battery, and kidnapping.
The only way a private citizen has the right to tackle or otherwise physically apprehend another citizen, in the context of a citizen's arrest, is when citizen A physically witnesses citizen B committing a felony, and even then citizen A opens him/herself to civil and criminal charges, if citizen B feels that excessive force was applied. Trespassing is only a misemeanor, and the context is much different; the exception to the rule is intended to stop someone who may be trying to flee the scene of a felony or to stop a felony in progress, while activists in trees are not going anywhere, so the extraction climbers have absolutely no legal basis for laying a hand on anyone. Only officers of the law, who have gone through years of training, have the right to physically apprehend a free citizen of this country. Most officers aren't adept in the tree-tops, however, and the police dept. doesn't want to absorb the liability for the climbers, so they won't deputize them, and the whole operation is allowed to proceed, with the police standing by, all under the color of law, all illegally, for big timber and other powers-that-be.
Be sure to remind the climbers of these facts, if you ever run into them...hopefully they're out of the mercenary business for good...Earth First!
Forever Wild,
Shunka Wakan
The attempt to tie the removal of a few trees planted near the stadium in the 1920s (of live oaks, species that has 250,000,000 standing trees in California) to the rape of ancient redwood groves by Pacific Lumber is totally pathetic.
You guys should give it a rest, you're marginalizing bona fide environmental causes with all the politicized outrage around the UC Berkeley stadium renovation project. Enough already!