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The Jerry Treesit, 2004
Update on the Jerry treesit.
The treesit in a 1,200 year-old redwood named Jerry began in March of 2002, as the timber-friendly California Department of Forestry prepared to approve Timber Harvest Plan 01-451, which called for clear-cutting 128 acres of old growth and second growth redwood forest. I climbed Jerry on March 21 of that year, and didn’t touch the ground again for 361 days, when mercenaries hired by Maxxam’s Pacific Lumber forcibly removed me. While I sat in jail, treesitters reoccupied Jerry and the struggle continued. Day after day, treesitters were forced down from surrounding treesits.
Treesitters in Jerry were assaulted and removed twice more, and Jerry was limbed and topped by the shameful Eric Schatz – prompted by the $70,000 his company made during the first week of extractions.
The Jerry treesit continues today as the threat to this ancient redwood remains. A kind young man named Willow has taken up residence in Jerry, having last touched the ground on November 11, 2003. Willow has witnessed the second stage of a Timber Harvest Plan, where stump-speckled hillsides are burned to dispose of the “waste,” or limbs of trees already carted off to the mills. The so-called “controlled burn” jumped Greenwood Heights Drive, requiring the assistance of both CDF and prison crews to put it out. The fire came very close to Jerry, burning the bases of smaller trees 30-feet away.
Willow can be reached at his pager – (707) 476-6381 or PO Box 1003 Arcata, CA 95518
Treesitters in Jerry were assaulted and removed twice more, and Jerry was limbed and topped by the shameful Eric Schatz – prompted by the $70,000 his company made during the first week of extractions.
The Jerry treesit continues today as the threat to this ancient redwood remains. A kind young man named Willow has taken up residence in Jerry, having last touched the ground on November 11, 2003. Willow has witnessed the second stage of a Timber Harvest Plan, where stump-speckled hillsides are burned to dispose of the “waste,” or limbs of trees already carted off to the mills. The so-called “controlled burn” jumped Greenwood Heights Drive, requiring the assistance of both CDF and prison crews to put it out. The fire came very close to Jerry, burning the bases of smaller trees 30-feet away.
Willow can be reached at his pager – (707) 476-6381 or PO Box 1003 Arcata, CA 95518
For more information:
http://www.contrast.org/treesit
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The article seems to say that Jerry has already been partially cut. Has it been partially cut? If so, will Jerry survive?
Your efforts tree-sitting are commendable. I tried to sit in on a city council meeting in Alabama and was beaten, arrested, and had to pay a large sum.
America is not what it used to be, as everything we were taught is a lie. If suicide bombers and kidnappers take out those who abuse us and our native lands, let us look to them as martyrs.
Our government definitely is not our martyr. I would rather have been dead as a child than to have to watch my children come into this falling nation.
Free Art Music Comedy True Horrors and Science are at the link below. Some of it is repetitive but the links show atrocities galore.
Will we ever gain our nation, or are we slaves to our abusive enemies until the end. If so, let us hasten its arrival.
The pic below was sent to me. I do not know who they are, but I would like to have one of them in the forest when those corrupt government types start to harm the innocent again, whether in a city or in a forest tree. The one with the gun with the big bullet makes Clint Eastwood look like a hollywood cockroach.
Free Art Music News True Horror Comedy Science.
Some pages repititive. Skim for links and proof of atrocities by the criminal government factions ruling over us.
The criminals in the banking arm of the government will try to kill, as they tried with me. If the forest people or their agents start killing, know their procedures and methods. They slither up like a snake. Always be aware. Our government and their mafia alliances are behaving like the enemy to the common man of the world and their specialty is war.
Know they look for weaknesses and will thwart all laws to control us. Los Angeles is Hell.
Your efforts tree-sitting are commendable. I tried to sit in on a city council meeting in Alabama and was beaten, arrested, and had to pay a large sum.
America is not what it used to be, as everything we were taught is a lie. If suicide bombers and kidnappers take out those who abuse us and our native lands, let us look to them as martyrs.
Our government definitely is not our martyr. I would rather have been dead as a child than to have to watch my children come into this falling nation.
Free Art Music Comedy True Horrors and Science are at the link below. Some of it is repetitive but the links show atrocities galore.
Will we ever gain our nation, or are we slaves to our abusive enemies until the end. If so, let us hasten its arrival.
The pic below was sent to me. I do not know who they are, but I would like to have one of them in the forest when those corrupt government types start to harm the innocent again, whether in a city or in a forest tree. The one with the gun with the big bullet makes Clint Eastwood look like a hollywood cockroach.
Free Art Music News True Horror Comedy Science.
Some pages repititive. Skim for links and proof of atrocities by the criminal government factions ruling over us.
The criminals in the banking arm of the government will try to kill, as they tried with me. If the forest people or their agents start killing, know their procedures and methods. They slither up like a snake. Always be aware. Our government and their mafia alliances are behaving like the enemy to the common man of the world and their specialty is war.
Know they look for weaknesses and will thwart all laws to control us. Los Angeles is Hell.
For more information:
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/democracyor...
This is how Jerry looks today. The tree is very much alive, sprouting new greenery from every nook and branch stump.
For more information:
http://www.contrast.org/treesit
This is an awesome photo! Very inspiring!!!
Understanding FBI Posts on IndyMedia
Inexperienced readers of IndyMedia can easily mistake what looks like honest criticism, posted in the form of comments, as legitimate feedback. Experience in filtering through the FBI’s online psychological warfare project directed against dissidents, however, has led me to the following analysis of comments made on Boston IndyMedia in response to the ongoing actions against the DNC. What follows is a breakdown of some of the comments and what they indicate, from a motivational standpoint with respect to psyops.
First, keep in mind that the FBI posts not to inform or discuss, but to provoke a cognitive state that they believe will prompt activists to behave in a manner that is compatible with the goals of the FBI. The contents of an FBI post are not relevant. It is the effect of the post that counts. This is typical in psychological warfare. For example, if someone where to torture another by repeatedly playing the “Barney Theme Song,” it is not the message “I love you, you love me, …” that they wish to convey, it is the annoyance associated with subjection to the song repeatedly and against one’s will that is the goal.
Over the last few days, the FBI has been posting messages on Boston IndyMedia. The messages imply that:
1) Few people are protesting.
2) Decentralized actions are ineffective because they fail to get press coverage.
3) Protesters that get attention, such as the woman thrown out of the convention, are an irritation and unliked in their home area.
None of the above is true. Thus, the content of the message is not relevant. What is relevant are the underlying assumptions that the FBI wishes you to swallow subconsciously and the effect of the messages.
Both implications (1) and (2) imply that decentralized action is ineffective. Any of us that have engaged in or witnessed decentralized action know that the opposite is true. A handful of individuals can have as much effect (if not more) on the people who see their action as a large demonstration can. I must stress that the media must be removed from the equation in understanding the previous sentence. The American corporate media DOES NOT present protests as they actually are. They present large protests as they wish them to be portrayed. Protesters have little or no control over the message that the media will deliver when the media covers a protest. Therefore, whatever message is portrayed by the media can be assumed, a priori, to be ineffective with regard to the goals of the protesters. With a decentralized action, since the media is often assumed to be irrelevant, the protesters control completely their message as they deliver it directly to the witnesses of the action.
Large centralized protests depend upon large organizations to plan and deploy. Decentralized actions often do not depend upon any organization to deploy. The idea of conducting a decentralized action is spread by doing a decentralized action. Decentralized actions are usually designed to be fun exactly because the desire to have fun will increase the probability that someone will copy it, improve upon it, or be inspired to design an action even more fun or effective. This is how memes spread. Decentralized actions should be viewed as viruses released into the population in that they are complexes of ideas which can be copied and spread by those coming in contact with them. It is the “viral” nature of the decentralized action that makes it a good investment with regard to effort and effect. Since decentralized actions are small and easily copied, the designer of the decentralized action does not need to provide the resources for the next group of individuals copying it. The individuals choosing to copy, modify or evolve it invest their own resources.
The FBI is attempting to discourage decentralized resistance because they cannot effectively infiltrate or monitor it. The very fact that the media is not aware of it is proof that it is difficult to monitor. If the FBI wanted us to engage in decentralized resistance rather than organized resistance, their trolls would be encouraging decentralized resistance while dumping on organized resistance. If you read their posts, they almost sound as if they long for the good old days of ANSWER rather than decentralized resistance.
As for point (3) above, this is obviously an attempt to isolate successful dissenters and to divide the movement. This is exactly the goal of COINTELPRO. We cannot stop the FBI from posting on IndyMedia, but we should immunize ourselves against the effects of their PsyOps by understanding exactly what it is that they are doing.
Inexperienced readers of IndyMedia can easily mistake what looks like honest criticism, posted in the form of comments, as legitimate feedback. Experience in filtering through the FBI’s online psychological warfare project directed against dissidents, however, has led me to the following analysis of comments made on Boston IndyMedia in response to the ongoing actions against the DNC. What follows is a breakdown of some of the comments and what they indicate, from a motivational standpoint with respect to psyops.
First, keep in mind that the FBI posts not to inform or discuss, but to provoke a cognitive state that they believe will prompt activists to behave in a manner that is compatible with the goals of the FBI. The contents of an FBI post are not relevant. It is the effect of the post that counts. This is typical in psychological warfare. For example, if someone where to torture another by repeatedly playing the “Barney Theme Song,” it is not the message “I love you, you love me, …” that they wish to convey, it is the annoyance associated with subjection to the song repeatedly and against one’s will that is the goal.
Over the last few days, the FBI has been posting messages on Boston IndyMedia. The messages imply that:
1) Few people are protesting.
2) Decentralized actions are ineffective because they fail to get press coverage.
3) Protesters that get attention, such as the woman thrown out of the convention, are an irritation and unliked in their home area.
None of the above is true. Thus, the content of the message is not relevant. What is relevant are the underlying assumptions that the FBI wishes you to swallow subconsciously and the effect of the messages.
Both implications (1) and (2) imply that decentralized action is ineffective. Any of us that have engaged in or witnessed decentralized action know that the opposite is true. A handful of individuals can have as much effect (if not more) on the people who see their action as a large demonstration can. I must stress that the media must be removed from the equation in understanding the previous sentence. The American corporate media DOES NOT present protests as they actually are. They present large protests as they wish them to be portrayed. Protesters have little or no control over the message that the media will deliver when the media covers a protest. Therefore, whatever message is portrayed by the media can be assumed, a priori, to be ineffective with regard to the goals of the protesters. With a decentralized action, since the media is often assumed to be irrelevant, the protesters control completely their message as they deliver it directly to the witnesses of the action.
Large centralized protests depend upon large organizations to plan and deploy. Decentralized actions often do not depend upon any organization to deploy. The idea of conducting a decentralized action is spread by doing a decentralized action. Decentralized actions are usually designed to be fun exactly because the desire to have fun will increase the probability that someone will copy it, improve upon it, or be inspired to design an action even more fun or effective. This is how memes spread. Decentralized actions should be viewed as viruses released into the population in that they are complexes of ideas which can be copied and spread by those coming in contact with them. It is the “viral” nature of the decentralized action that makes it a good investment with regard to effort and effect. Since decentralized actions are small and easily copied, the designer of the decentralized action does not need to provide the resources for the next group of individuals copying it. The individuals choosing to copy, modify or evolve it invest their own resources.
The FBI is attempting to discourage decentralized resistance because they cannot effectively infiltrate or monitor it. The very fact that the media is not aware of it is proof that it is difficult to monitor. If the FBI wanted us to engage in decentralized resistance rather than organized resistance, their trolls would be encouraging decentralized resistance while dumping on organized resistance. If you read their posts, they almost sound as if they long for the good old days of ANSWER rather than decentralized resistance.
As for point (3) above, this is obviously an attempt to isolate successful dissenters and to divide the movement. This is exactly the goal of COINTELPRO. We cannot stop the FBI from posting on IndyMedia, but we should immunize ourselves against the effects of their PsyOps by understanding exactly what it is that they are doing.
For more information:
http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/displ...
Hey, I think that treesiting was a one time great thing, If you are effective enough to do daily media, than the cost involved are warrented. However, I only heard about Willow just now, and I am wondering if this fine man would consider taking action to a higher level, If you are going to treesit, let's hear about it every day, I'm sure there are other post, besides this one. Hey write down your thoughts, and get one of your ground support people to enter it on-line. I may be wrong, and it may take all of your time just to hang on up there, but personally, I want more for my donation than you are returning
you want...more...for your donation...
man, too bad.
I spent some time sitting with Willow last year. With some luck, I'll spend some time this year too. He's doing great work and he's plenty busy without sending some poor peon, who knows who, to type his thoughts into the Internet every day. The supply system simply does not work that way. When you're treesitting you're lucky to get what support you have, and good luck convincing the kind-hearted hippies who feed you and clothe you and occasionally bury your shitbucket for you to go waste time on the internet. They are outdoor people and the internet is not their thing. That is not going to change.
I am sorry that you want more entertainment for your buck. I think you are being unreasonable, though. If you truly think Jerry needs an internet presence, I think you should take the responsibility to create it. Willow took the responsibility to freeze his butt off in a deeply inhospitable environment (you wouldn't believe how cold it gets, how wet it gets, or how bad the rats are); you can take the responsibility to do the typing. There is no internet connection in the tree, there is no way to charge batteries for a laptop in the tree, there are very few free internet outlets in Arcata, and without some serious effort the wireless redwood is not going to happen. It is not as easy as you seem to think that it should be.
man, too bad.
I spent some time sitting with Willow last year. With some luck, I'll spend some time this year too. He's doing great work and he's plenty busy without sending some poor peon, who knows who, to type his thoughts into the Internet every day. The supply system simply does not work that way. When you're treesitting you're lucky to get what support you have, and good luck convincing the kind-hearted hippies who feed you and clothe you and occasionally bury your shitbucket for you to go waste time on the internet. They are outdoor people and the internet is not their thing. That is not going to change.
I am sorry that you want more entertainment for your buck. I think you are being unreasonable, though. If you truly think Jerry needs an internet presence, I think you should take the responsibility to create it. Willow took the responsibility to freeze his butt off in a deeply inhospitable environment (you wouldn't believe how cold it gets, how wet it gets, or how bad the rats are); you can take the responsibility to do the typing. There is no internet connection in the tree, there is no way to charge batteries for a laptop in the tree, there are very few free internet outlets in Arcata, and without some serious effort the wireless redwood is not going to happen. It is not as easy as you seem to think that it should be.
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