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Mattole old growth forest face the axe
Mattole old growth forests face the axe, forest defendeds hold the front lines for the past few months........
Posted: Tue, Jan 23, 2001 8:22pm PST
Audio: Voices of the Mattole Forest Defenders (audio/mpeg 19.1MB)
Total time 20:45. Hear the voices of the Mattole Forest Defenders, as they introduce themselves and describe the struggle to defend some of the last of the ancient Douglas Fir forests from plunder by Maxxam/ Pacific Lumber Company. The activists describe the area, confrontations with police and logging crews, pepper spray and arrests, and the complex blockades they have built twelve miles into PL company land to keep the trees standing, with contact information at the end. Community and Mi...
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2001 9:35pm PST
Mattole Forest Defenders Brace for New Round of Attacks (Picture)
During a gate action beforer Christmas, Forest Defenders and local residents blocked the monument gate entrance to Rainbow Ridge, 14 miles distant. New rounds of attacks on Old Growth Douglas Fir, and activists defending them, are expected by Maxxam/Pacific Lumber loggers and Humboldt County Law Enforcement....
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2000 2:28pm PST
A Day of Voice and vision - stop the invasion!
March - 11 am at Santa Rosa Junior College 1501 Mendocino Ave.
1:30 pm - Rally Courthouse SQ. - 4th and Mendocino...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 10, 2002 12:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:26am PST
Forest Defenders Blockade Road to Rainbow Ridge (photo)
Forest defender in position to lock down at junked car blockade along logging road to Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole watershed. See associated print article for details....
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2000 5:16pm PST
Mountainriver.org - building a collective
Only put up a week ago, Mountainriver.org is hoping to become a resource for activists nationwide...
Posted: Thu, Dec 7, 2000 9:29pm PST
5 Arrested in Mattole
Pacific Lumber Security know as the Humboldt Sheriffs Department Arrested 5 forest defenders today in the Mattole....
Posted: Tue, Nov 28, 2000 10:29pm PST
Mattole Update - 11/21 Picture
A image from the Monday(11/20) early morning blockade organized by the residents of the Mattole River Valley....
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2000 9:27pm PST
Mattole Update - 11/21 article
Maxxam/Pacific Lumber (PL) is trying to begin clearcutting the second largest intact stand of lowland old-growth Douglas Fir in California - Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole River watershed of the Lost Coast....
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2000 9:23pm PST
Maxxam logging in the Mattole Update - 11-17-2000
Last Friday, we heard the news we've been anticipating for weeks. A truckload of Columbia Helicopter loggers showed up to clearcut one of the seven timber harvest plans (THP) on Rainbow Ridge,1-99-475....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2000 9:41am PST
Letter to Maxxam/Pacific Lumber
To follow up on our October 27, 2000 letter we are reiterating that Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Company must surely be aware that operating on such controversial plans as THP 1-99-475 is more than likely to result in public protest including non-violent direct action on site....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2000 3:45pm PST
Statement from the Mattole Forest Defenders within the boundaries of THP 99-475
We as friends and residents of the Mattole River Watershed, calling ourselves the Mattole Forest Defenders, set out today to try to non-violently stop the logging of the controversial Timber Harvest Plan 99-475 (THP 475)....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2000 3:37pm PST
MATTOLE LOGGING BEGINS!!!
This morning we heard the news we've been anticipating for weeks. A truckload of loggers showed up to one of the seven timber harvest plans (THP) on Rainbow Ridge, 99-475....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2000 3:29pm PST
Ruling on Rainbow Ridge THP 475 - Logging could begin...
Judge Cissna ruled today against issuing a Preliminary Injunction to halt logging on THP 475 - (the 53-acre timber harvest plan on Rainbow Ridge to clearcut ancient forests on steep slopes above Allwardt Creek)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2000 10:12pm PDT
"TREE-SIT: The Art of Resistance" film screening!
Long Haul, Berkeley 3124 Shattuck Ave...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 14, 2002 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:26am PST
Oppose Emergency Health Powers Act
Capitol Building, Sacramento, front steps...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2002 10:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:26am PST
JUSTICE FOR IMMIGRANT AIRPORT WORKERS, SAFETY FOR PASSENGERS!
SIMULTANEOUS RALLIES & PRESS CONFERENCES:
SAN FRANCISCO AIRPORT, 12-2 PM, Old International (Central) Terminal,
Domestic Departure Area
OAKLAND AIRPORT, 12-2 PM, Terminal 1 & 2
SAN JOSE AIRPORT, 12-2 PM, Terminal A & C...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 19, 2002 12:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:26am PST
Women's Action & Speakout at CNN against war & war-propaganda
No Life is collateral damage! Invest in Caring Not Killing!
50 California (near Market)
San Francisco
All Welcome!!...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 10, 2002 12:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:26am PST
Women's Action & Speakout Against War & War Propaganda outside CNN
Outside CNN (Censored News Network)
50 California (near Market)
San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 13, 2001 12:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:26am PST
South Asian Women's Film Festival
Califonia College of Arts and Crafts...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 17, 2001 12:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 3, 2004 10:26am PST