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Oxygen Collective Is On The Road

by o2
The Oxygen Collective is on the road! The Forest and Fire Roadshow is now in full swing. We all miss the beauty and love of the Siskiyou mountains and valleys, but it has been an inspiring four days on the road for the forest.

We have already given three presentations in Oregon and California, performed hours and hours of outreach on stilts and travelled hundreds of miles on board the biodiesel bus. And we are just getting started.

Picture nine people living on a bus. Four cell phones, five wireless laptops, two video and four still cameras, four pairs of stilts and one fifteen foot metal tripod. It is a sunrise to midnight odyssey.

Our energy remains high and our trip bird list is already over 60 so we could hardly imagine a better project to be part of. Continue on here for updates from each stop and check back every couple days for more updates.
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Taklima, OR: Our first performance was an offering to a Siskiyou community that has fought for their forests for decades. It was with a great deal of trepidation that we stood before the crowd of 85, but our worries were for naught. The folk of the Illinois Valley were amazingly generous with their applause and their donations. We were still figuring our way before a crowd and the IV input has been invaluable.

Chico, CA: We had two days in Chico and used every minute. Our push was for letters to Senators Boxer and Feinstein and we didn't leave town until we had 100 handwritten, many from our stiltwalking and tabling at Saturday Market. We also spent an afternoon in a downtown park giving four trainings to dozens of people. It was in the park that we refueled with 40 gallons of biodiesel made by local activists from reclaimed veggie oil. Our Chico stop also included four radio interviews, network television interviews and a newspaper story.


Mills College, Oakland: By our third presentation, we were finally tightening up. We also got a 100% response from our request to the audience to write letters. But our great success at this women's college has been a commitment from five women to come to the Siskiyou this Summer to work to defend the forest. Oh yeah, and we identified an Allen's Hummingbird. Cool.
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