Vote Green! Piera-Avila for Council (tags)
For 3 decades, LINDA PIERA-AVILA has been a passionate environmental, social justice, electoral reform and peace activist. Now she is putting herself on the line and running for Santa Monica City Council to put the public back into public service!
PalCo Bankruptcy Plan; Maxxam Sells Redwoods to Developers (tags)
At Pacific Lumber's Chapter 11 bankruptcy hearings, parent corporation Maxxam (Houston, TX headquarters) submits plan in Corpus Christi court to sell land for development to pay off their debt to creditors and continue logging with even less restrictions on their remaining land. CA residents are excluded from any decision making process in the bankruptcy proceedings.
biscuit activists block logging truck (tags)
On May 16th 2005, more than 75 people gathered on Eight Dollar Mountain road to demonstrate against logging Old Growth reserves at the FIddler timber sale and elsewhere as part of the Biscuit timber sale. Roadless areas are also on the chopping block for the SIskiyou WIld Rivers area, one of the most botanically diverse national forests in the country.
Comments Needed: Help Protect Oregon Old Growth (tags)
The Forest Service is trying to move forward with several contentious old growth sales in Oregon that have been the site of mass protests and civil disobedience. Tomorrow (Wed March 18th) is the last day to submit public comments.
$10 a month plan to help support North Coast Earth First! (tags)
The $10 a month plan was designed for people who want to help save the last of the Old Growth Redwood and Douglas Fir forests, in Humboldt Co., CA, yet cannot be here physically to help do so. If just 100 or more people from LA could committ to participating, we would be fully rocking the revolution!
Check out our NCEF! group site and listserv, and then join the group to receive updates, announcements, and to find out how you can help to save some of the last remaining Old Growth forests left on the planet!
Ecocide in Humboldt County (tags)
Activists occupy old growth while Pacific Lumber liqudates Northern California's coastal temperate rainforest.
Hunger striker and Gubernatorial Candidate to hold Press Con on Gov. Davis' Timber Record (tags)
Susan Moloney, Executive Director of the Campaign for Old Growth, will be joined by Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Peter Camejo for a press conference on October 29 at 12:00 noon at the North Steps of the State Capitol in Sacramento.
Harmful House Deal on Fire Logging Needs to be Stopped (tags)
An agreement has been reached between Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Rep. Scott McInnis (R-CO) that can best be described as a chainsaw massacre.
NCEF! CALL TO ACTION! GYPSY MOUNTAIN!!!! (tags)
Maxxam Corporation is planning to log the last of the Old Growth Redwoods left on the planet, and plans to desecrate the mountain on which our brother, David "Gypsy" Chain, was murdered by a Maxxam employee, on September 17th, 1998. Come one, come all!!!!
Earth First! Radio news for Wednesday, 23 Jan. 2002 (tags)
This show is about an Action Alert - Old Growth ready to fall and a judge rules against the CA Dept of Forestry. EF! Radio News is a five minute newscast produced for non-profit community radio stations. There are five shows produced each week intended to be broadcast at the same time every day. We feature stories about the non-violent, direct action environmental defense movement and the wild places, animals, and plants we are defending. Also found on www.radio4all.net (when their disk isn't full). (5:00)
Action Camp Announcement! (tags)
Come on up to the action camp, and have a great time defending the trees:) The time has come for revolution!
Environmentalists and Rock Stars Arrested To Protect Old Growth Forests (tags)
Chicago -More than 20 national environmental and social justice leaders joined with music legends Bonnie Raitt and John Densmore and environmental hero Julia Butterfly Hill to protest Boise Cascade's crusade to silence critics of its old growth logging practices
Headwaters and Cascadia Forests Still Struggling Against Clear Cut Logging (tags)
Mountainriver.org continues to supply the latest information in the struggle to preserve the last remaining old growth redwoods in California as well as the fight to save old growth douglas fir in Oregon