Aradia Tree Village Raided!

Climbers hired by the Pacific Lumber company have once again destroyed the living structures built by tree-sitters in the Aradia tree-village near highway 36. The tree known as Aradia was initially occupied a couple of weeks before the death of activist David Gypsy Chain on Sept. 17, 1998 about a quarter mile away. He was killed when an irate logger fell a tree in the direction of a group of activists who were trying to stop him through dialogue.
They climbers cut down the new platforms and threw all of the sitters food, water, gear, and feces to the ground. Anything of value to the sitters was either taken or destroyed.
It is absurd for PL to claim that they do this sort of thing for peoples safety. Before the initial raid a couple months ago, the tree-village up there had some of the safest platforms around. After that raid the sitters where sleeping in tiny webs that they wove out of rope and cords. A while later some new platforms went up and it was much safer. Now PL has done it again the sitters are back to square one. Why can't they just let it be and try to come to a reasonable agreement for all sides instead of repeatedly endangering peoples lives?
When I visited the site today the first thing I noticed was the intense smell of piss and poop wafting through the air. The ground was strewn with trash and platform pieces. Some areas had broken glass and feces making the health risk very high.
Of course PL isn't going to clean up this mess so it's up to us. We have already begun the removing trash from the mountain but it's going to be a big cleanup job. PL often says that activists are a threat to the environment because they leave trash in the woods. The biggest, nastiest piles of trash I've seen were created by PL and the sheriffs (not to mentioned the thousands of acres of forest ravaged by destructive logging).
They also chain-sawed wooden structures that people had built to prevent erosion at the base of Aradia including a log catwalk and and deck.
If PL put half the energy that they spend on their war against activists into switching over to be more sustainable they might actually ensure thier future as a buisness. But thats not what Charles Hurwitz wants, and thats not why he hired Robert "Hatchet Man" Manne to be president of PL. Maxxam is booming and PL is going to bust.