Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap
Boycott-the-Gap Quick Update: ESCALATE!
Posted by Mary Bull (chalicenew@earthlink.net)
Thursday, June 8, 2000
Greetings, Forest Defenders and Social Justice Activists Across the Land!
In this newsbrief and call-to-action:
--June 3 Gap Demo, SF: A MAJOR ESCALATION of the Campaign: Report!
--June 4 Gap Demo, Boston: "We'd Rather Wear Nothing...!": Report
--June 7--10 Gap Demos: Be There to...PUMP UP THE VOLUME!
--June 7--ALERT: U'WA Defense Strategy Meeting TONIGHT!
--June 7--ALERT: HOLE IN HEADWATERS TO BE LOGGED!
--June 7 Redwood Sequoia Congress 2000 - Planning Meeting TONIGHT!
****To see the BBC's WONDERFUL International news spot focussing on the
deforestation issue and our June 3 SF action, which was aired Monday, click
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/775000/video/_777998_david_willis6am_vi.ram
June 3 Gap Demo: Report Back!
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Last Saturday's demo in San Francisco was nothing short of a JOYFUL,
POWERFUL ROMP -- Yes, SRBG & Friends ROMPED with our OLD-GROWTH
STUMP (courtesy of the Gap Fishers), 12 Dancing Redwood Trees, the SRBG
Marching Band, and more, from the Gap flagship to Old Navy; then right up
the middle of GRANT STREET to Banana Republic--and the BBC, KRON, BAY TV,
KPFA, Pirate Radio, et al, ROMPED with us!!! We performed our OUTRAGEOUS
MUSICAL SKIT, "A Fisher Family Picnic," at every stop! Check out
http://home.pacbell.net/zilber/gap.htm for great stills of this action (and
more will be posted soon at our web site: www.gapsucks.org).
****The BBC coverage of the issues and this event (see URL above) will
surely escalate the pressure on the Gap Fishers by an order of
magnitude!!!****
THREE CHEERS FOR THE SRBG CORE GROUP!!!
THREE CHEERS FOR FORESTS FOREVER!!!!
THREE CHEERS FOR BAY AREA ACTION SCHOOLS GROUP!!!!!
...And--guess what?!--we're doing it all over again THIS SATURDAY as part of
the COALITION ACTIONS AGAINST GAP with Global Exchange, et al (see below).
Call me to be part of it (415-731-7924)!
June 4 Gap Demo, Boston: "We'd Rather Wear Nothing...!"
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A New Gaptivist High Schools Group Is Forming in the Boston Area!!! Contact
Dan Denvir, Campus Action Network (781) 891 0468 or unity11@hotmail.com. On
Sunday, June 4, this group did a "We'd Rather Wear Nothing Than Wear Gap!"
Action! From their press release:
"High school students, alongside labor, environmental and human rights
activists will take to the streets to target the GAP clothing store on
Brattle Street in Harvard Square, Cambridge on June 4th, at 1 P.M. Students
will strip off sweatshop-made GAP clothing to denounce GAP’s use of
sweatshop labor. “I’d rather go naked than wear GAP clothes made in
sweatshops,” says Erika Snyder, a local high school student. The
demonstration is part of a nation-wide day of action to call attention to
the company’s horrendous record on labor rights and the environment. Music,
street theatre, drumming and speakers will be part of the impromptu strip
show, expected to draw 200 demonstrators."
****THREE CHEERS FOR BOSTON GAPTIVISTS!!!!*****
June 7--10 Gap Demos: PUMP UP THE VOLUME!
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Starting today at 10 AM at the Gap flagship, corner of Market & Powell, San
Francisco! WED, THURS, & FRI people will be demoing at this time and place.
ON SATURDAY, we'll meet at the Gap flagship at 12 NOON and MARCH to Old Navy
& Banana Republic, where Save the Redwoods - Boycott the Gap and Friends
will put on some unforgettable STREET THEATER! Please join us for FUN and
SURPRISES. We want this series of actions to further escalate the pressure
on the Fishers of Gap, Inc. to do the RIGHT THING by the environment and
their workers!!!!
PLEASE CALL ME (415-731-7924) or G-EX (415-558-9486) TO BE PART of the
THEATER!!!
June 7--ALERT: U'WA Defense Strategy Meeting!
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TONIGHT at 7 PM!!! Bay Area Meeting for the U'wa People at the Rainforest
Action Network Office, 221 Pine Street, Suite 500 (between Sansome and
Battery), Financial District, Downtown SF, Montgomery BART.
From RAN: "Please gather with local groups (Global Exchange, GreenAction,
Project Underground, Rainforest Action Network) to talk about what we can do
in the Bay area to support the U'wa people. On May 15th an injunction which
had suspended Occidental Petroleum's project on U'wa ancestral territory was
overturned, giving Oxy the green light to once again move forward with their
project. Solidarity actions are being planned at locations around the
country... We too need to demonstrate our support for the U'wa struggle...
...Come join us to share ideas, creativity and energy to help the U'wa as we
continue to gear up for the summer of action..." More info: Patrick or
Lauren at RAN, 415 398-4404, organize@ran.org or lsullivan@ran.org
ALERT: HOLE IN HEADWATERS to Be Logged!
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The Hole in Headwaters is the huge (656 football fields) plan (#520) in the
middle of the Headwaters Preserve that environmentalists have been fighting
since the DEAL was signed! LOGGING may have started already...
PLEASE HELP DEFEND THIS FOREST!!! Contact
North Coast Earth First!, POB 28, Arcata, CA 95518
(707)-825-6598 -p (707)-825-7996 -f
ncef@humboldt1.com www.humboldt1.com/~ncef
And/or write, email, or call our worthless politicians:
Gray Davis, 916/445-2841 voice, 916/445-4633 fax graydavis@governor.ca.gov
or governor@governor.ca.gov
Senator Dianne Feinstein, 202/224-3841 voice, 202/228-3954 fax
senator@feinstein.senate.gov
Bare Bones Sample Message:
Governor Davis,
Please stop MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber's plans to log THP 520, the "Hole in The
Headwaters". This extreme logging plan, which lies entirely within the
Preserve's boundaries, will clearcut a forested area the size of 656
football fields!
Redwood - Sequoia Congress 2000 - Planning Meeting TONIGHT!
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The REDWOOD-SEQUOIA CONGRESS, SUMMER 2000 scheduled for Thursday—Saturday,
July 20-22 at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Cedar and
Bonita! This wonderful event is designed to educate and mobilize people of
all ages, colors, and walks of life around the crisis in our Coast Redwood
and Giant Sequoia forests!
If you want to help, attend, or participate in the Congress, be at the planning meeting tonight, Wednesday, June 7, at 7:30pm, in the office of the R.E. Building (1606 Bonita, Berkeley, behind the Fellowship Hall) or contact Richard Challacombe P. O. Box 2336, Berkeley, CA 94702; 510-233-3175; clairbooks@aol.com; www.tolivenow.com.
From Richard Challacombe: "We will meet to plan and work out details of the
Redwood-Sequoia Congress. Please come and tell us how you would like to
participate. In the past weeks we have been on the phone many hours lining
up interesting panels, speakers, and workshops." THE LINE UP IS
TERRIFIC!
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It IS One Minute to Midnight--Time to get ACTIVE!!!
Mary Bull
Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign
252 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
chalicenew@earthlink.net 415-731-7924 www.gapsucks.org
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Other Contacts/Information Sources:
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Mary Pjerrou, Redwood Coast Watersheds Alliance
707-877-3405 pirohuck@mcn.org www.elksoft.com/gwa
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Mark Hilovsky, Builders Action Network
415-550-6850 mhilo@aol.com
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Gap Labor Exploitation URLs:
http://sweatshops@globalexchange.org
http://www.globalexchange.org
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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