Karen Pickett – Page 6 – Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters

Actions in the Forest, plus Forests in Court

December 19, 2018November 20, 2018 by Karen Pickett

New Tree-Sit and Forest Occupation in the Mattole Shuts SPI Down Humboldt County Forest Defenders have been occupying a Sierra Pacific Industries’ (SPI) logging plan in the Mattole River watershed, effectively shutting down operations there. A tree-sitter has been perched 100 ft. up, joined in the last couple days by more activists who turned back heavy equipment and trucks on site to haul the giant logs out. The area is deep in the forest, and the activists are calling attention to corporate logging of large, fire resistant trees, damage to water quality and other destructive environmental impacts. For more than six years, protestors have …

Visit BACH’s booth at Indigenous Peoples’ Day Oct. 6!

December 19, 2018October 3, 2018 by Karen Pickett

Come Visit Our Booth ~ at Indigenous Peoples’ Day Pow Wow and Indian Market Sat. Oct. 6, 10 am – 6 pm MLK Civic Center Park, Berkeley (2 blocks w. of dwntwn BART, next to Farmers’ Market The BACH / Earth First! booth will have the latest information about the on-going campaign for the Mattole forest, awesome stickers and t-shirts, Earth First! Journals and other literature, gear from the Buffalo Field Campaign…and more! This is an amazing event in its 26th year! See IPD powwow for more info. There is scheduled exhibition and contest dancing, honor songs, and much more …

Buffalo Field Campaign Roadshow in Berkeley

September 25, 2018September 20, 2018 by Karen Pickett

WHAT: A Night for the Buffalo Marking over 20 yrs of front line action for the wild buffalo, the 2018 Buffalo Field Campaign Roadshow is coming to the Bay Area. When: Saturday, Sept. 29, 7 pm Where: the Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave. in Berkeley Buffalo Field Campaign co-founder Mike Mease will bring captivating stories and striking film footage direct from the land of the buffalo, with music by flutist Mignon Geli and songs of the buffalo by Karaj. The Buffalo Field Campaign works to end the slaughter and harassment of the last wild herds of buffalo in their native habitat in West Yellowstone, Montana. BFC uses video documentation, non-violent …

Week of Action for Mattole Forest Wraps Up with Demonstrations at Corporate Offices and Mill. Then…Log Truck Rams Through Protesters With Banner at Mill, Nearly Mowing People Down

September 25, 2018September 2, 2018 by Karen Pickett

Photos of the truck barreling through the line of people are available; video of the incident can be found at https://youtu.be/0g_qUy6EThM or photos can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1K1bismy_qxjlFZoKO0dVHIF4w6o6TEXY?usp=sharing A “Week of Action for the Mattole Forest” wrapped up with demonstrations and rallies at the Humboldt Redwood Co. (HRC) corporate offices in Scotia, CA, and then heated up with road blockades nearby at HRC’s lumber mill, as semi-trucks loaded with trees rolled into the facility. Activists held large banners reading “HRC Out of the Mattole,” and “Hack n’ Squirt = Fire Hazard and Puts Communities at Risk,” referring to the practice called hack …

Don’t commodify Mother Earth and her forests!

September 25, 2018August 23, 2018 by Karen Pickett

Calling tree-huggers, other-species defenders and all manner of biocentrists and forests activists to Rise Up together as linked affinity groups for the climate convergence and actions in the Bay Area Sept. 8 – 14! I’m sure you are aware that a great many individuals, organizations and affinity groups are rising up to say NO to a fossil fuel economy and future, NO to Jerry Brown’s climate policy based on false solutions, and YES to renewable energy, sustainable economies, community justice and sovereignty on Native lands. Much of the discussion focuses around environmental and economic justice, and just transitions for communities. WE …

Forest Defenders’ Blockade in Mattole Raided by Paramilitary-style Security

December 19, 2018July 26, 2018 by Karen Pickett

Two people have locked themselves to “Monument Gate” – five miles up the mountain from the town of Rio Dell – to prevent Humboldt Redwood Company (HRC) from gaining access to the Rainbow Ridge area of the Mattole River watershed, where HRC has two active Timber Harvest Plans to log in un-entered Douglas fir forests. On Sunday, July 22, HRC, through a paramilitary-style security contractor, Lear Asset Management, raided the tall tri-pod road blockade on Long Ridge, immediately threatened two forest defenders with tasers and called Humboldt County Sheriff’s to arrest them They also stole survival gear, and posted 24/7 security at the blockade. On Wednesday, July 25, HRC again had the security …

New tripod blockade in Mattole, new suit in Gualala forest

December 19, 2018June 25, 2018 by Karen Pickett

New Blockade Rises to Protect Old Growth in the Mattole! Logging season has returned to the north coast, and Humboldt Redwood Co. (HRC) remains adamant that they will cut in the previously unlogged forest in the Mattole River watershed. The blockaders, however are even more determined that they will not. After an effective and successful action training skill share camp in May, numbers of people monitoring, communicating, strategizing and holding the blockade line were boosted in the Mattole. Now, there is a new heavy tripod on the main logging road on Rainbow Ridge near the headwaters of the North Fork of …

Join us for Judi Bari Day May 24, 11:30 am in Oakland

December 19, 2018May 21, 2018 by Karen Pickett

May 24 is Judi Bari Day* **Please share with your networks** Please join us to COMMEMORATE the anniversary of the 1990 Oakland bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney CELEBRATE and STRENGTHEN Revolutionary resistance and movement solidarity May 24, 2018 is the 28th anniversary of the attack on Earth First! and Judi and Darryl by car bomb in Oakland in 1990 as Redwood Summer, a summer of resistance to forest liquidation logging, dawned. At 11:30 am, people will gather to mark the moment of the bombing itself (12 noon) at the actual location the bomb blew up Judi’s car, in an …

Mattole Forest Action Training May 24 – 27

December 19, 2018May 13, 2018 by Karen Pickett

Mattole Forest Defense Training Camp May 24-27 We just got this call out from the forest defenders in the Mattole: Come hang out, learn awesome skills, and get plugged in with your local forest defense campaigns! We will be gathering from the 24th until the 27th of May for an Action Training Camp in the Mattole River watershed. We recognize this land was stolen from the indigenous Mattole people. Please RSVP for directions. Workshops and discussions will include: Strategic non-violent direct action Know your rights and security culture, Plant walk! Tree climbing training and knots Ground-truthing Navigating in the Mountains …

North Coast Forest Update–Mattole, Gualala and more

August 7, 2018May 10, 2018 by Karen Pickett

Old Trees, River Habitat and Action: They Go Together No New Road for the Mattole! Forest Defenders on Alert for Logging Season Our last update to you concerning the magnificent old forests in the Mattole watershed [http://headwaterspreserve.org/2018/02/comments-needed-on-mattole-forest-road-building-offshore-oil-and-wild-smith-river/] addressed Humboldt Redwood Co. (HRC)’s new logging road proposal, which seemed to have no rational foundation for construction, except to get around forest defenders’ blockade. Thanks to strong public and organizational challenges, HRC withdrew their construction proposal. This is good news! But after a too-brief sigh of relief, Mattole area activists are shifting into vigilant alert mode, as the rains stop and logging season …