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Indymedia Film Premiere- Biscuit Logging Documentary 
"Truth and Lies of the Biscuit Fire"- Indymedia Film Premiere- with recent action footage and speakers from the front lines.
Saturday, April 30th, 8pm. Station 40- 3030b 16th St at Mission. Upstairs....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 12:02pm PDT
Hearing in Sacramento Re. West Point Timber Sale Here's the information on Monday's hearing on the West Point Timber Sale. Stop the cutting of over 1,000 acres of back country in the Klamath National Forest. Following that are some other good options to action....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 8:33pm PDT
Victory for Forest Activists in Pepper Spray Trial Jury votes no pepper spray on non-violent protestors....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 7:11pm PDT
Victory in the Pepper Spray Lawsuit Unanimous verdict finds police used excessive force against peaceful activists protesting logging of ancient redwoods....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 6:24pm PDT
FIRED BIOTECH CRITIC PROFESSOR FILES LAWSUIT A well-respected professor at the University of California in Berkeley has been fired after publishing a scientific paper exposing the reckless contamination of irreplaceable native Mexican corn varieties by genetically engineered corn exported from the U.S....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 4:44pm PDT
Tuolumne County groups protest forest lawsuit About 100 people, most of them from Tuolumne County, yesterday went to Sacramento to protest California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's lawsuit challenging the U.S. Forest Service's Sierra Nevada management plan. Teresa Schilling, spokeswoman for the attorney general. "The Bush administration wants to cut down more trees. ... We want to make sure the forests are healthy for the future."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 8:20am PDT
Pepperspray case goes to jury After closing arguments in federal district court
today, the Pepper Spray By Q-Tip civil rights case was given to the
eight-person jury to decide the questions of 4th Amendment
Constitutional rights violations and excessive force by the Humboldt
County Sheriffs' Dept. and Eureka Police....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 11:21pm PDT
Closing arguments tomorrow in pepper spray by Q tip trial Pepper Spray By Q-Tip Trial Will Go To Jury This Week
Closing Arguments Expected Tuesday...
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 9:41am PDT
Police Harassment Follows Earth First Day! A successful day of fun, creation, and resistance was put on hold, as police harassed Susan Galvan, mother to Sammy Galvan, who was killed by the Modesto Police Department in 2004....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 1:41am PDT
Photos from Berkeley Earth Day 4/23/05 
Even though the weather was iffy, tons of people still went to Civic Center Park at Center and MLK for the annual Earth Day celebration and the weekly Saturday Farmers' Market....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 12:19am PDT
Earth Day at Avacado Lake 
Environmentally conscious individuals, who love their planet, celebrate at Avocado Lake today. Tables and chairs set around a serine ground, while music from local bands play, like Coyote five and Green Machine. Booths were set up as well like WILPF, Earth First and Fresno Community Science Workshops. Children gathered around Earth First while they painted faces and handed out freshly squeezed orange juice. Fresno Community Science Workshops gave science demos to children on how to make Flyin...
Posted: Sun, Apr 24, 2005 10:23pm PDT
Felony Charge Against Treesitter Reduced Treesit Extractors should be investigated for "sadistic torture," attorney says....
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2005 4:01pm PDT
Pepper Spray Plaintiffs rest case, except... The plaintiffs rested their case in chief Thursday, April 21, with the exception of the possible testimony of former California Attorney General Dan Lungren, who has been subpoenaed to appear as a final witness on Monday, April 25...
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2005 1:37pm PDT
Felony Charges Dropped Against Humboldt Forest Activist 
April 22, 2005, Eureka, CA: From left to right, Attorneys Omar Figueroa and Michael Acosta, defendant Ramsey Gifford and investigator Jenny Card pause for a photograph after Ramsey's preliminary hearing. Attorney Daniel Kosmal, not in picture, is also on the defense legal team....
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2005 1:20pm PDT
Honoring & defending a sacred mountain 
Honoring & defending a sacred mountain. 1 minute voideo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2005 10:09am PDT
EARTH MATTERS radio - Pepper Spray Rally (audio/mpeg 12.1MB) Earth Matters on KPFA's Flashpoints: Audio from the 4/11/05 rally in Civic Center Plaza for the trial of the Pepper Spray 8. Speakers include Andrea Prichett of Berkeley Copwatch, 4 plaintiffs, songs by Mokai and Spring Lundberg...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 4:44pm PDT
Plaintiffs Subpoena Congressman in Pepper Spray Case Attorneys for Plaintiffs Suing Humboldt Country Sheriffs' Dept. and Eureka Police have subpoenaed Republican Rep. Dan Lungren as a surprise witness to testify regarding his opinion of the Q-tip swabbing of pepper spray into the eyes of Headwaters Forest demonstrators in 1997, when he was Attorney General of California....
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 1:18pm PDT
Preliminary Hearing Begins in Ramsey Gifford Tree-Sit Extraction Case 
While the pepper spray trial continues in San Francisco, the preliminary hearing in another Earth First!-related case began today in Humboldt County, CA....
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 8:47pm PDT
Courtroom Sparring in Pepper Spray Case Court sessions continue through Thursday this week at the S.F.
Federal Building (450 Golden Gate Ave., room 10, 19th floor) before
the Hon. Susan Illston. Court schedule is 8:30 am -1:30 pm....
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 9:54am PDT
An Ocean Beach Halloween Starise In a piece of Nature Writing, the author explores the future of Environmentalism while reflecting upon a Starise at the Ocean on Halloween....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 3:28pm PDT
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