Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap
Boycott the Gap: Upcoming Actions & Events!
Posted by Mary Bull (chalicenew@earthlink.net)
Friday, October 22, 1999
Greetings, Forest Defenders and Human Rights Activists:
Here's the line-up of events and actions for the next 3 weeks (mostly Bay
Area, but there is some useful info for the members of our net outside the
Bay Area, as well!):
--Send a fax to Janet Reno for Mumia!!!!!!!!!!!!
--Oct 21--24. Ongoing leafletting at Old Navy Grand Opening, SF
--Oct 23, 24. Ruckus Training in Berkeley for WTO Action!
--Oct 24. Zap-the-Gap Week Continues with Action in Santa Cruz!
--Oct 26. Organizing Meeting at Global Ex for WTO Action!
--Oct 30. FREE HALLOWEEN CONCERT for WTO Action!
--Nov 04. Benefit Video Screening for WTO Action!
--Nov 05. "Dump Bob Fisher from the NRDC!" Gap Action!!!
--Nov 06. Joint-Action Against Gap, Inc!
--Nov 06. Marin Benefit Concert & Potluck for WTO Action!
--Nov 10. Carnival Against Genetic Engineering + Fax Action!
--Nov 13. Sonoma County Earth First! GAP Action!!!
Activists around the world are mobilizing for the Action of the Millenium:
Shutting Down the World Trade Organization's "Millenium Round" in Seattle,
starting November 30 at Clinton's key-note address! There's a whole lot of
prep going down for this momentous start of a new century and a new
millenium, in which We, the People Will Reclaim Our Power from the
Corporations!!! Contact Corporate Watch: www.corpwatch.org or People For
Fair Trade: www.peopleforfairtrade.org or Peoples Global Action (PGA):
www.agp.org or Public Citizens Global Trade Watch: www.tradewatch.org (among
dozens of other organizations around the world!) for what's happening in
your neck of the woods!!! End Corporate Exploitation of the Environment and
People!!! BE PART OF IT!!!
FOR MUMIA!!!
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Mumia is scheduled to die December 2!!! There are so many reasons to protest
this outrage...!!! Spend 20 seconds of your time to send a free fax to Janet
Reno expressing your outrage over Mumia's scheduled execution:
http://www.bckweb.com/mumia/
Oct 21--24. Ongoing leafletting at Old Navy Grand Opening!
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Contact me (415-731-7924 chalicenew@earthlink.net ) or Leila Salazar (415-558-9486 ex
355 leila@globalexchange.org ) if you want to help leaflet at this
obnoxious corporate/consumer circus! GET THIS: Amy reports that on Sunday,
Oct 24, the hosts from Kratts' Creatures are going to be there--Kratts'
Creatures is a PBS NATURE show for kids... I'd like to get at least one
other person to leaflet for a couple of hours with me then!
OCT 23, 24: RUCKUS TRAINING FOR WTO ACTION
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Ruckus is offering a training this weekend: Sat 9--7 (dinner + party); Sun
9--5. At the Faculty Glen, North East corner of UC Berkeley campus. Call
415-558-9485 to register and/or arrange for a ruckus trainer to speak to
your affinity group!!!
Oct 24: Zap the Gap in Santa Cruz!!!
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Sunday Oct. 24, 12 noon. Outside the Gap at Santa Cruz Mall on Pacific St.
From Redwood Mary: Join other passionate forest defenders and animal
rights, human rights, and labor activists in taking a stand for the
protection of all life! Bring drums, signs! Help send a message to the
Fisher Family that it is not cool to destroy redwood forests in Mendocino
and Sonoma Counties! Let's let them know that those who sew their clothes in
Saipan need a decent living wage and better working conditions! We will
distribute informational flyers to the public.
Oct 26: Organizing Meeting at Global Ex for WTO Action!
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Activists meet every other Tuesday at 7 PM at Global Exchange (2017 Mission
at 16th, SF) to plan for the Action of the Millenium. These are great,
super-charged meetings that result in progress toward a GREAT series of
ACTIONS in Seattle this November! BE PART OF IT!!!
Oct 30: FREE HALLOWEEN CONCERT for WTO Action!
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Oct 30, 2--6 PM, MLK Park, Berkeley (one blk west of Berkeley BART). This is
going to be a TERRIFIC EVENT with mask-making, face-painting, &
banner-making by Art & Revolution. Music by Mobius, Diane Patterson, Company
of Prophets, and Lynda Williams. Tabling and speakers that inspire and
mobilize us to take action to END CORPORATE RULE, starting with the WTO
Action in Seattle this November 30! So, Join the Bay Area Progressive
Community and TURN OUT FOR THIS EVENT!!! Come in Costume!
Nov 04. Benefit Video Screening for WTO Action in Seattle!
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This is a benefit for the Independent Media Center (IMC) which will cover
the WTO protests. They have a great line-up of action videos planned!
Thur, Nov 4, 8:00 PM. Artists' Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia (@ 21st
St. ), San Francisco. ADMISSION: $ 5.00 - $10.00 donation requested. No one
turned away for lack of funds. CONTACT: A. Mark Liiv, Whispered Media:
(415) 789-8484; http://www.videoactivism.org
Nov 05: "Dump Bob Fisher from the NRDC!" GAP Action!!!
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All of Our Favorite Fishers Are On the Natural Resources Defense Council
(NRDC) Benefit Committee: Don, Doris, Bob, and John--and Bob Fisher is still
on the NRDC Board of Trustees.
Fri, Nov 5, 6:30 PM, 888 Brannan St, SF. The NRDC annual fundraiser. The
theme is Save Wild California, and ticket prices come in 7 categories named
after endangered species: from $100 (Abalone) to $5000 (Gray Whale).
***Note that Coho Salmon, Marbled Murrelets, and Northern Spotted
Owls--endangered species on that little piece of Wild California that the
Fisher Family is destroying in Mendocino and Sonoma Counties are not
mentioned.*** However, we will be there to point this out...
JOIN US TO BUST these hypocritical BILLIONAIRES and the OVERSIZED
NON-PROFITS THAT SERVE THEM!!!!
Nov 06: Joint-Action Against Gap, Inc!
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Mark your calendars and stand-by for info on this joint action by Global
Exchange and Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign. We'll be having a
planning meeting soon. It's NOT going to be your standard First Saturday
Action....
Nov 06: Marin Benefit Concert & Potluck for WTO Caravan!
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Nov 6. 4--10 PM. Sleepy Hollow Clubhouse. 1317 Butterfield Road, San
Anselmo. A benefit for activists going to the WTO, co-sponsored by
Reclaiming, Marin Headwaters Action Group, a task force of the Social
Justice Center of Marin. $10--20 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack
of funds. Music, Prayer Flag Making, Food, and Fun. Call Dian for more info:
415-454-6669.
Nov 10. Carnival Against Genetic Engineering + Fax Action!
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8 PM. ATA. (21st and Valencia). Come for videos and guerilla theater
supporting the movement against genetic engineering!!!
From genetiX action:
The NERAGE FAX ATTACK PAGE http://www.bckweb.com/nerage/fax.html
Fax Newman's Own Organics, Westbrae Natural Foods, Eden Foods, Annie's
Enterprise (makers of all natural mac & cheese), Nasoya Foods, Vitasoy USA
and Boca Burger. Tell them to not use genetically modified ingredients. It's
FREE and it'll only take you a minute or two to fax all these companies
telling them not to use GMOs in their products. So why not get off you butt
and do it now! ;)
Nov 13: Sonoma County Earth First! GAP Action!!!
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Sat. Nov. 13. 12 Noon. Meet at Courthouse Square and march to downtown Gap,
Santa Rosa. Info: 707-874-2996. ***To Stop the Fisher Family from Cutting
Ancient Trees, Clearcutting, Spraying Toxic Chemicals and Killing Endangered Fish and Wildlife.***
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This is it, folks--the best time ever to GET ACTIVE!!! Plunge in--the
water's JUST GREAT!!!
Mary Bull
Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign, SF
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Other Contacts/Information Sources:
www.elksoft.com/gwa
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Mary Pjerrou, Redwood Coast Watersheds Alliance
707-877-3405 pirohuck@mcn.org
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Norman de Vall, Greenwood Watershed Association
707-877-3551 ndevall@mcn.org www.gapsucks.org
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Redwood Mary
Plight of the Redwoods Tour redwoodm@mcn.org
http://sites.netscape.net/redwoodmary/redwoodmary
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Mary Bull,
Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign
415-731-7924 chalicenew@earthlink.net
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Gap Labor Exploitation URLs:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/01/14
/MN19190.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/01/20
/MN49132.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/01/22
/MN49806.DTL
http://www.house.gov/resources/105cong/democrat/cnmifin.html#contractlabor
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