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BACH meeting at rockridge library

by boicot Palco @ point of comsumption
2-nite at the rockridge library in oakland (5366 College Ave., 5 blocks south of rockridge BART) Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters and anyone concerned about deforestation, Maxxam/Pacific Lumber's corporate deceit and other forest issues please attend & b open 4 suggestions and dialogue..
How do people stop deforestation by corporate timber?

Is there an alternative to short term profits and clearcutting, unstable slope logging ((Columbia Helicopter, same corporation that sprays herbicide over the Putomayo rainforest in Columbia in the CIA funded war on Mama Coca and cocaleros)), herbicide spraying, old growth overharvesting, etc., currently practiced by MAXXAM/PL, International Paper, Weyerhauser, Boise-Cascade, Sierra-Pacific, Louisana-Pacific, etc..?

How can ecologists and other concerned scientists communicate to a deaf Bush administration that the above mentioned practices are reducing the quality of forest health for the future generations. We are literally robbing from our grandchildren's oxygen bank to support the billionaire bank acounts of CEOs like Charles Hurwitz and their politician supporters like Bush/Cheney. Workers are out of jobs because rapid harvest clearcut logging replaced potentially sustainable selective logging. The short term gain focus of corporate logging is responsible, yet environmentalists and spotted owls are often blamed as the culprits for unemployment..

Judi Bari realized that the workers of Pacific Lumber were being given a rotten deal after the Maxxam takeover and spoke out for them also. After the steelworkers (lost pension after Maxxam's hostile takeover of Kaiser Steel) came out to visit the treesitters, both workers and environmentalists recognized that the corporate elite under WTO Free Trade agreements now had more power than ever. Today in the face of the hungry jaws of NAFTA, CAFTA, PPP, PNWRTA, and other free trade agreements, local sovereignty is the doormat of corporate profit..

Please help stop corporate timber from continuing deforestation and destruction of the forests..

c u there,

luna moth

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by canopykids@yahoo.com
We already know how to stop deforestation it is called tree sitting it works really well if the trees are not left empty, it is not very convinent, comfortable or warm, but it is very effective if not abandoned, you got to treat the trees like your kids and not leave, if you depart the trees will be cut as is often the case, if people's hearts and bodies are not really in it and fear takes over instead of love, the people will most likely depart, you gotta really love the trees and know how to live in a tree to make it work, a real connection that generates energy and is sustainable is requireed, if you just want to go back to being a townie the trees dont force you to stay no one boss makes people stay if forest activists choose not to change their lifestyle in defense of mother earth the planet will be clear cut, the wood for all the environmentalists homes has to come from somewhere, unfortunately by a 10-1 ratio a segement of our population perfers wooden boxes to dwell in instead of nature, so goes the forest on the back of log trucks, we already know how to save the forest if we don't do it this our choice, forest activist have other priorites, sexual, social, material, personal too bad for the trees the materialistic/selfish conditioning of the passive part of the population is so complete, lots of talk no action equals stumpfields and thinking in a box, domestication is division from nature and yields deforestation, get LIT live in tree- rasjahmon
by big
We already know how to stop deforestation it is called tree sitting it works really well if the trees are not left empty, it is not very convinent, comfortable or warm, but it is very effective if not abandoned,<IT S NOT EFFECTIVE, AND RARELY WORKS.> you got to treat the trees like your kids and not leave, if you depart the trees will be cut as is often the case, if people's hearts and bodies are not really in it <YOU CALLING REMEDY A POSER?>and fear takes over instead of love, the people will most likely depart, you gotta really love the trees and know how to live in a tree to make it work,<AND WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE TREE YOU SAVED?> a real connection that generates energy and is sustainable is requireed, if you just want to go back to being a townie the trees dont force you to stay no one boss makes people stay if forest activists choose not to change their lifestyle in defense of mother earth the planet will be clear cut, the wood for all the environmentalists homes has to come from somewhere,<LIKE PLACES WITH NO FOREST PRACTICE RULES >unfortunately by a 10-1 ratio a segement of our population perfers wooden boxes to dwell in instead of nature,<THE PROPER RATIO IS ABOUT A MILLIOPN TO ONE> so goes the forest on the back of log trucks, we already know how to save the forest if we don't do it this our choice, forest activist have other priorites, sexual, social, material, personal too bad for the trees the materialistic/selfish <OK I GIVE UP, HE'S GOT ME>conditioning of the passive part of the population is so complete, lots of talk no action equals stumpfields and thinking in a box, domestication is division from nature and yields deforestation, get LIT live in tree- rasjahmon< ITS PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT KEEP THE MOVEMENT RATIONAL- KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK>

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aradia
by murrelett Sunday, Feb. 13, 2005 at 5:13 PM

yes aradia should have been saved but the sitters let their guards down. too selfish and distracted now we and the forest live with consequence.<ALLWAYS SAID THE WERE JUST A BUNCH OF PEOPLE LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO PARTY. RIGHT SHUNKA?>

by tree lover

yer attitude of moral superiority over the "townies" who support tree sits and do other important work (yes theres lots of importent work to be done) is a poison in the movement. get over yerself. it mite be helpful to think yer the only 1 doing important work to support your superior attitude, but it doesnt help the forest.
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