Z, who is also known as Ellen, is an Indymedia reporter from Oregon. She reports that this past weekend, she went to Southern Oregon to interview women from the Sisiyou. These women conducted an action on Monday, March 16th in which they took over the only bridge that can be used by log trucks to get to the forest to cut the old growth at the Biscuit. (Indybay coverage of the Biscuit protests: 3/10 | 3/8 | 3/2 | 2/19

She said, "... women all over the world collaborating to take back the earth...Wow! I went to Southern Oregon this weekend and interviewed the women warriors of the Siskiyou...I taught the women how to post their media release of this morning's action to Portland Indymedia and did a mini-workshop on being the media and the Indymedia worldwide network. I told them that I talked to women from Europe and North America and we are with them in their actions to stop bush's war on the world.

"I interviewed a 72 year-old woman who was arrested last week because she blocked the bridge. She came back from jail and taught other local and regional women how to do direct action. The interview is below. There are pictures. There is power. There are women warriors needing our support. Bush wants to take ANWAR and the 850 year-old California Sequoias. He is destroying what is most sacred." Read the interview

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