Karen Pickett

>< UPDATE and ALERT from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters January 1, 2008 >< :: Pacific Lumber Bankruptcy Update ::Update on the Oak Grove Tree Sit in Berkeley PACIFIC LUMBER IS ONE YEAR INTO BANKRUPTCY AND A SHIFT IS FINALLY MANIFESTING The last lengthy update we sent you on the Pacific Lumber situation was covering their long-awaited reorganization plan, released publicly and submitted to the Texas bankruptcy court in late September. Our Oct. 2 update detailed their plans to sell their old growth for an exorbitant price tag to a non-existent buyer, sell another 22,000 acres for high-end luxury ...

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>< Oak Grove alert from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters December 11, 2007 >< We hope many of you got to come out for the wonderful one year birthday celebration for the OAKS TREE SIT, still going strong despite arrests, harassment, double chain link fences and barbed wire!! This important and amazing protest continues with community support! Because of the greater difficulty in resupplying the tree-sitters with food and water and warm bedding due to the UC fence blockade, Grandmothers for the Oaks has been standing up for the sitters and providing sustenance! This Sunday, December 16 at 2pm: ...

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Forest Activist EVENT NOTICE Benefit! Good Food! Dazzling Auction Items! Hoppin’ Music! We want to invite you to our CELEBRATION OF FOREST ACTIVISM AND SILENT AUCTION event on Saturday, December 1, 6 – 10 pm at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall (1924 Cedar St., Berkeley). There is something for everyone here–you can get truly unique gifts for yourself or others, and SET YOUR PRICE while sipping organic wine, sampling from a (free) vegetarian buffet, tapping your foot to live music from the Mercury Dimes Duo and Friends of Old Puppies, and hear updates about the redwoods of the north coast and …

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Oaks Grove ALERT from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters On Monday, Oct. 29, a judge ruled that UC Berkeley police can remove tree-sitters from the threatened oak grove on UC Berkeley campus, where activists have been defending the grove from the University’s development plans since last Dec. 2. There are two different actions that have been in court in recent months: Three lawsuits challenging the University’s plans to level the oak grove to build a sports training facility have been in court since late in 2006 (Those lawsuits were combined in one court action, but remain separate challenges, one …

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>< >< Forest ALERT and UPDATE from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters October 2, 2007 >< >< 1. Pacific Lumber Releases Plan for Post-Bankruptcy Management and Sale of Land (Brace yourself) 2. Oak Grove in Berkeley: Oaks on trial, Tree-sitters under injunction and trees surrounded by fence Preamble: BACH's alerts have been infrequent lately and we apologize. It has more to do with BACHsters being out of town and state than lack of issues to report. This update is full of information now that the long-awaited PL Reorganization Plan is out, and the Oak Grove is full of activity. ...

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Forest Activist ALERT and EVENT NOTICE 1 >> Come to Berkeley City Council Meeting Tuesday Sept. 4 to speak for the OAKS !! 2 >> Not One But TWO events for the WILD BUFFALO !! OAK GROVE FENCED, TREE SITTERS REMAIN TELL CITY OF BERKELEY NOT TO CAVE!! As many of you no doubt know, UC police launched a raid on the endangered memorial oak grove in Berkeley at dawn on Wednesday, Aug. 29, where tree-sitters have been defending the grove since December, 2006. Police erected a tall chain link fence around the grove, and the tree-sitters, just before a …

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>< >< Forest ALERT from the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters June 25, 2007 >< >< Please take a moment to send a letter on the new plan for Jackson State Redwood Forest. Resolution is close! After eight years of demonstrations, lawsuits and negotiation, the state has finally released a new management proposal for Jackson State Forest that is very close to what the Jackson Forest Campaign has been advocating for, with ONE FATAL EXCEPTION: The proposal sanctions CLEARCUTTING on one quarter of the forest! It is essential that the Board of Forestry hear from the public. The Jackson State ...

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This is a reminder that there are 2 events coming up in the next few days organized in support of the threatened OAK GROVE in Berkeley. >>>FRIDAY, June 22 at 8 pm >>> a very special event with Country Joe McDonald, performing his tribute to Woody Guthrie at the Unitarian Fellowship, 1924 Cedar at Bonita (accessible from North Berkeley BART) Sliding Scale, all proceeds to benefit the Campaign to Save the Oaks, special guest CAROLINE CASEY from Pacifica’s Visionary Activist Show. Info & tickets at www.saveoaks.com or 510-841-3493 also www.countryjoe.com/guthrie.htm >>>SATURDAY, June 23 from 2 pm to 8 >>> there …

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