Images from early morning Tree-Sit eviction scene

we are very worried about remedy...anyone have any news?

Latest word, via cell phone from the lower village, is that Remedy is locked down at the top of Jerry, and Wren in Eversteen, and the climbers are sending up grinders to cut out the lock boxes in Jerry and Eversteen. The road is reopened, so ANY OF YOU that can , go and sing, shout and pray your support for these brave women and the souls of their ancient trees!! Let us hope that this is PL's last desperate stand and that they will soon be stopped FOREVER!!

I hope that all are Safe! Now is the time to find out exactly what power the Sheriff has to keep people from witnessing and protesting this dangerous eviction. Can anyone go there? What about the press? Let's organise against this act of rural terrorism!

The road is reopened, as of 4pm, so all you indy journalists get back up there and tell it like it is; CNN sure gives it the watered down view, but I know that you guys will be up front. I am a forest defender's mom, back east in NC, and look to you for the truth!! Tell it all, I wish I was there!

Remedy has been taken out of Jerry; (lockbox cut) Wren is being removed from Eversteen; 50+ supporters are on the road; the trees have not been cut ...yet.

They're out of the tree! Hooray!

Would it be possible for all the supporters to scatter and come through the woods from different directions so that there will be some witnesses to the PL/law action? Journalists have always been acknowledged as an essential part of a democratic government (which we are still working toward, not having achieved it yet); now we must depend on a truly FREE press and not one bought and sold by the corporations.

"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important than they all. It is not a figure of speech, or a witty saying; it is a literal fact, .... Printing, which comes necessarily out of Writing, I say often, is equivalent to Democracy: invent Writing, Democracy is inevitable. ..... Whoever can speak, speaking now to the whole nation, becomes a power, a branch of government, with inalienable weight in law-making, in all acts of authority. It matters not what rank he has, what revenues or garnitures: the requisite thing is that he have a tongue which others will listen to; this and nothing more is requisite."
Carlyle (1905) pp.349-350

"However, from the perspective of those researchers who see the media as situated within the model of a pluralist liberal democracy, the mass media are often seen as fulfilling the vitally important rôle of fourth estate, the guardians of democracy, defenders of the public interest."
Mick Underwood, "The Mass Media as Fourth Estate"

I don't understand why everyone feels that they have the same rights on private property that they do in the streets?

Can you explain it?

Forest Mom,

Why don't you get your ass to California and check out what is happening for yourself. If you don't see it for yourself you'll never see the correct side of the story.
Why don't you check out other companies other than PL. The damage done to the Redwoods is done by other lumber companies such as Simpson Timber and Sierra Pacific.

I, too, am a forest mom - living in the midwest. Nervous, of course. Lack of communication is hard.

I can only begin to imagine how the mother of a service child must be feeling now.

tartntangy,

I spent a week in Humboldt Cty, just last week. I saw very clearly, all sides of this issue. I am certain that PL is not the ONLY lumber co. damaging ecosystems in for a living, but it happens to be the one I observed at the present time. Accountability, and sustainable timber management, by all of them would be wonderful. Hopefully, with enough actions, more eyes will be opened and citizens will finally demand accountability and sustainability in all avenues of life on this planet.

Thank you so much remedy and wren. Thank you for your selflessness and for the sacrifices you have made for mother earth and her beautiful redwoods. I am a high school teacher and have been following your story with my students. They have been thoroughly inspired by your actions and are as saddened as myself to hear that you have been ripped from the trees. Bless you and the rest the forest defenders. A HO!