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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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    NOTE: There was just an article in Earth Island Journal looking back on the Headwaters Forest Campaign, and in particular the women involved, who were campaign leaders, on the 20th anniversary of the protection of the 7500-acre  Headwaters Forest Reserve. You can read it here.    Reminder–this Sunday! Join us! Music Benefit for Climate Justice and Direct Action in Oakland–early show– The show will feature great music and lots of activist fun! including…     – Casey Neill & the Norway Rats – Loretta Lynch – Wayfairy WHERE: Elbo Room, Jack London Square, 311 Broadway, Oakland CA [venue …

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You can have a voice in protecting the forests at the headwaters of the North forks of the wild Mattole River in Humboldt County. We want to alert you to a new timber harvest plan (THP) that threatens the Rattlesnake Creek tributary of the Mattole. The public comment period on this THP–Humboldt Redwood Company’s newest logging proposal on Rainbow Ridge— (photo at right) will close at the end of the day on April 19 (this Friday!).     Comment guidelines: While public comment alone may not stop the destruction, it opens the door to environmental lawsuits on issues that would …

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So-called salvage logging has been around for decades—promoted by the timber industry and vehemently opposed by forest advocates—after insect infestations, die-off due to drought, and most often after forest fires. But really, it’s generally about satisfying the market. Given the history of large fires in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, salvage logging proposals are on the table in a big way again, in California, right now.   >>Send a message today to lawmakers urging them to prioritize public (tax) money going into  Fire safety efforts, Toward controlled burning and “home-hardening” efforts in wildfire zones, not logging trees. Any thinning and/or brush …

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