[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: CACADIA FOREST ACTIVISM

[Jason Reep]

thumbs up.  I'll post it!


Have fun at the folk fest.  wish I were going.

-jason


At 10:04 PM 7/18/2002 -0700, jonathan lawson wrote:
>Approve.
>
>It's kinda on the long side... I started to edit it down some but what the 
>heck. Thumbs up to the below slightly changed version (jettisoned the glib 
>"temporarily known as Washington State" phrase)
>
>
>Image source:
>http://madison.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/berrypatch071202vucuns.jpg
>
>Subtitle: CASCADIA FOREST ACTIVISM
>Title: Activists Block Pipeline Drilling, Defend Forests
>
>During the first week of July, hundreds of forest activists from around 
>North America attended the annual <a
>href="http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/rendezvous2002_1.html">Earth 
>First! rendezvous</a>.
>This year's rendezvous was held in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in 
>southwest Washington.  Immediately after the event's end, early on Monday, 
>July 8, direct actions rippled across the Northwest of the United States.
>
><p>Just south of Olympia, Washington, 60 activists staged a protest and 
>lockdown over the drilling of a controversial pipeline. A natural gas 
>pipeline is being built across Thurston County leading to the Satsop 
>Nuclear Plant, which is being redesigned for an electrical power plant. 
>The proposed pipeline will drill the entire east/west length of Thurston 
>County going under the Black, Nisqually Rivers, numerous fragile wetlands 
>and the Black Hills Wildlife Refuge as well as other public lands. The 
>pipeline project has been approved over the objections of local government
>and local residents. Several activists locked themselves down to the 
>pipeline drilling equipment,
>stopping all work on the project for most of the day. Three IMC reporters 
>were arrested while covering the event, as were several protesters. <a
>href="http://www.seattle.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=15998">Full 
>story</a> | <a 
>href="http://www.seattle.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=16026">Video</a>
>
>
><p>In Portland, <a
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=14106">activists 
>descended</a> on the headquarters of the Umpqua Holding Company on the 
>19th floor of a downtown skyscraper and shut it down. Eugene activists 
>gathered outside <a
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=14127">"stUmpqua" 
>Bank</a> to educate customers about the tree-slaying ways of Umpqua's 
>president, Allyn Ford. Mysteriously, a load of wood chips was dropped 
>inside the door of the bank and a big stump blocked the driveway 
>entrance.  In the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana, two Wild Rockies 
>Earth First! activists <a 
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=14110">occupied 
>trees</a> in a proposed helicopter landing site.<br>
>
><p>On Wednesday, July 10, the <a 
>href="http://www.cascadiaforestalliance.org/>Cascadia Forest Alliance</a> 
>announced that <a 
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=14258">a 
>tree-sit had gone up</a> in
>the Solo timber sale in Mt. Hood National Forest, bringing up to five the 
>number of <a
>href="http://www.tree-sit.org">active tree-sit locations</a> in Oregon. 
>That afternoon,
>people protested outside the Federal Courthouse in Portland, where a Grand 
>Jury has <a
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=14259">subpoenaed 
>local forest
>activists</a>. Due to the secretive nature of grand juries, the <a
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=14277">subject 
>of
>investigation</a> [ <a
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=14293">1</a> 
>] is not known. Activists in Medford, Oregon, <a 
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=14366">protested</a> 
>at Senator Ron
>Wyden's office and Umpqua Bank against replacement volume timber sales and 
>old growth logging.<br>
>
><p>Meanwhile, at a <a href="http://www.efn.org/~cforestd/">Cascadia Forest 
>Defenders</a> tree-sit at the Berrypatch timber sale in the Willamette 
>National Forest near Eugene, <a
>href="http://portland.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=14329">one 
>activist was
>arrested</a> and logging continues within 20 feet of the tree-sit despite 
>confirmed sightings of the endangered spotted owl in the area.<br>
>
><p><a href="http://portland.indymedia.org/forestactivism">Portland IMC 
>Forest Activism Coverage</a> | <a 
>href="http://sf.indymedia.org/features/forest/">San Francisco Bay IMC 
>Forest Coverage</a> | <a 
>href="http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/">Earth First! Journal</a>
>
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