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Mattole Forests Under Assault Again!

December 31, 2019November 7, 2019 by Karen Pickett

Earlier this week, Forest Defenders reported that the Rainbow Ridge forest in the Rattlesnake Creek watershed is being cut. The forest needs you to help protect it from further destruction! On Nov. 4, log trucks headed into Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC) timberlands encountered a 30-foot tripod blocking the road with a forest defender perched at the apex. The forest defender called for HRC to stop cutting trees on Rainbow Ridge, where the forest contains some of the largest unprotected Douglas fir and hardwood stands in Northern California. There is also an outcry from residents and forest defenders alike that the …

Save the Date! Friday, Sept. 27: The Buffalo people are coming to town!

December 31, 2019September 10, 2019 by Karen Pickett

The intrepid Buffalo Field Campaign roadshow crew has hit the highway out of West Yellowstone, Montana, heading west with their multi-media story-telling, music and video show, coming to our neighborhood soon! When: Friday, Sept. 27, 7 pm (doors at 6:30) Where: The Art House Gallery and Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley This event will be on the heels of the climate strikes and actions happening on multiple days in various locations around the Bay this month, so put it in your calendar NOW, and save some energy for the wild bison! If you can help bring flyers to events, …

Update from the Mattole Forest Campaign

September 3, 2019August 21, 2019 by Karen Pickett

Update from the Mattole Forest Campaign After 60 days in the canopy, Rook has returned to the ground… Message from Rook: “After two months living in Trickster, I’m on the ground again. I’m not some arboreal creature. I can’t live 100 ft. up sitting on a net, eating clif bars indefinitely. I did what I could as long as I could, and I desperately hope it was enough. All those weeks ago, when I lost the traverse to other trees, which would have blocked the road, I had to figure out my priority. Do I try for a more strategic …

Two events of interest with short notice:

September 3, 2019July 25, 2019 by Karen Pickett

** A community night cafe benefiting BACH… ** And our friend from Seattle-singersongwriter Jim Page playing at Heyday Books: Friday July 26 and Sunday July 28 BACH’s Karen Pickett will be speaking at an event (come heckle, add your story, have beans and a beer…). It benefits BACH! MERCURY CAFÉ’S MONTHLY COMMUNITY NIGHT Who: · Karen Pickett (B.A.C.H.) and Steve Ongerth (I.W.W.) on the legacy of the late environmental and labor activist Judi Bari · Michael Eisenscher, Labor Rise for Climate, Jobs, Justice & Peace · Neha Mathew-Shah, President, Progressive Workers Union · Jason Henderson, Professor of Geography & Environment at S.F. State on Street Fights in Copenhagen Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green …

Action Camps for Mattole Forests Celebration for and in Richardson Grove

September 3, 2019July 17, 2019 by Karen Pickett

There are two action camps coming up in the Mattole River area, to support the continuing activity in the all-out effort to protect the precious forests and habitat of Rainbow Ridge. Since the chronology we sent you in our June update, there has been another tree-sit, rallies, lock-downs, strategic work and pressure from the Lost Coast League’s challenge to Humboldt Redwood Co.’s dishonest sustainable certification and other work. You can listen to an interview with tree-sitter #1, Rook, (still aloft, at this writing) on KMUD. as they mark one month in the tree: https://soundcloud.com/kmudnews/forest-defender-celebrates-month-long-tree-sit-at-rainbow-ridge We got a brief update yesterday from the folks …

Stop Humboldt Redwood Company unsustainable logging!

September 3, 2019July 1, 2019 by Karen Pickett

An action-packed and high stakes scenario continues to unfold in the remote forests near the ocean in the Lost Coast area in the Mattole River watershed that has all the elements of an action film—courageous people risking life and limb perching atop tall trees and blockade structures, masked security crawling up a tree to cut food and water supplies, respected elders trekking out to the middle of a dirt road in the pre-dawn darkness, and even cute fuzzy critters hanging on to their declining population by a thread. It would be good viewing, but we want to change the channel, save …

Pre-Dawn Arrests at Spectacular Mono-pod Blockade at Logging Gate at Rainbow Ridge, Mattole

July 1, 2019June 17, 2019 by Karen Pickett

Press Release: For immediate release Pre-Dawn Arrests at “Spectacular Mono-pod Blockade” at Logging Gate at Rainbow Ridge, Mattole June 17, 2019 See photo links below. Photo at left is the 40′ tall mono pod with a sitter in it. Petrolia, CA—In the predawn darkness this morning, a 40 ft. “mono-pod” blockade structure was erected in the road at the main access gate to controversial logging plans in the Mattole River watershed, and several people on the ground were arrested. Twenty people were on site to protest logging by Humboldt Redwood Co. (HRC) in the Rainbow Ridge area, where HRC first …

Earth First! Journal Roadshow in Berkeley June 9

May 29, 2019 by Karen Pickett

The Earth First! Journal–now on the west coast and turning 40!   Come out and welcome their roadshow to Berkeley When: Sunday, June 9 – doors at 6, program at 6:30  Where: East Bay Media Center 1939 Addison St., Berkeley   The Earth First! Journal, purveyor of news and cutting edge strategy of the radical environmental movement made their cross-country move to Oregon this year. Join other rabble-rousers and earth defenders to welcome and support this grassroots media collective in its 40th year. Join us to hear more about this multi-generational project, and why print media is important. The Journal and the …

Judi Bari Day: May 24

May 19, 2019 by Karen Pickett

Join us to commemorate the 29th anniversary of the bombing of Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney & attack on Earth First! and Redwood Summer, with a Speak-Out, Sing- Out, and Show of Solidarity. When: Friday, May 24. Gather @ 11:30 am. We’ll mark the moment of the bombing: 12 noon Where: E. 34th & Park Blvd, Oakland (nr. MacArthur at Oakland High School) :: :: Bring musical instruments, poems & your voice. A bit of history: Northern California Earth First! activists Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney were subjects of a bomb attack by an unknown assailant in Oakland on May …

Environmental Issues Prevail in Richardson Grove Redwoods vs. Caltrans in Federal Case

May 7, 2019 by Karen Pickett

Environmental Groups and individuals challenging Caltrans’ highway expansion plans through the ancient redwoods of Richardson Grove State Park got a favorable decision from a judge in federal court on May 3. You can see the decision by U.S. District Judge William Alsup here. This is the third federal case brought against Caltrans, paralleling cases in state court, bringing potentially severe impacts to the redwoods by Caltrans. Richardson Grove contains redwoods up to 3000 years old, 18′ in diameter and up to 300′ tall that grow right up to the edge of Highway 101. Caltrans first proposed “realigning” the highway in 2006, …