Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap
Boycott-the-Gap Quickie: Updates and Reminders!
Posted by Mary Bull (chalicenew@earthlink.net)
Saturday, June 10, 2000
Attention All Activists!
...A BUNCH of QUICK reminders and IMPORTANT updates, including info on
national and international letter-writing campaigns that the entire net can
participate in! (DON'T FORGET: it was the nearly 1,000,000 LETTERS to
Mitsubishi that saved Laguna San Ignacio for the GRAY WHALES!!!):
-June 10, SF: BIG GAP RALLY: WE NEED YOU at Union Square at 11AM!!!
-Ongoing, Mendo: GAP TREE-SIT Update & Call for Volunteers!!!
-Ongoing, Humboldt: Earth First! Delays Hole-in-Headwaters Logging!!!
-Ongoing, Internat'l: Anti-Cameroon Pipeline/WB Letter-Writing Campaign!!!
-This Month, CA: Contact Your State Senator to vote AYE on AB 717!!!
-June 10, Sacramento: Gap Action: Return Your Clothes to the Gap!
-June 13&14, East Bay: TWO BIG LABOR RALLIES Against Lawless Corporations!
-June 13, Nat'l: Restore the Rio Grande: Public Comment Needed by June 13!
-Ongoing, Nat'l: Anti-Monsanto/GMO Letter-Writing Campaign!
-Ongoing, Internat'l: Pro-South African Workers Letter-Writing Campaign!
-June 24, SF: Screening of HAVC's TIMBER GAP at Patagonia!
-Institute for Deep Ecology's Summer Program
Jun 10, SF: BIG COALITION GAP RALLY!!!
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BAY AREA Forest Defenders, the TREES NEED YOU ...to be at Union Square
(Geary side) at 11 AM to march for the redwoods and workers rights at this
GRAND PROTEST of GAP SWEATSHOP LABOR and GAP FISHER DEFORESTATION!!!
HUNDREDS of Human Rights, Social Justice, and Labor activists will be
there--won't you be there, too, for OUR RAVAGED REDWOOD FORESTS????? (Call
me for more info: 415-731-7924). BRING A DRUM or NOISEMAKER!!!!
"Kaisen Gulch" Tree Sit Update and Call for Volunteers!!
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YES, ACTIVISTS are still IN THE TREES, trying to protect this patch of
healthy forest from the GAP FISHERS' AX! ...A special entreaty from Red
Cloud Thunder: Join us in the defense of residual old growth redwood on
Mendocino Redwood Company (Gap Fisher) lands near Kaisen Gulch along the
Albion River. For 11 years local neighbors have succeeded in defending this
patch of rare older forest from becoming a clearcut. The situation is
escalating!!! Call Bamboo at 707-937-2248 for more info. Contact MRC's Sandy
Dean and tell him to back off in Kaisen Gulch! 707-485-8731, FAX
707-485-7918 http://www.mendocinoredwoodco.com/Contact.html
Hole In Headwaters: Logging Has Been Temporarily Delayed!!!!
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From NCEF!: North Coast Earth First! Blocks Road Access To The Hole!
Due to the awesome EPIC/Sierra Club lawsuit and the threat of large scale
civil disobedience by Earth First!, Maxxam/Pacific Lumber has volunteered to
temporarily hold off logging the Hole In Headwater, THP 520. Though
unconfirmed, this moratorium could last for several weeks. The EPIC/Sierra
Club legal team will hopefully obtain a long term court ordered injunction
on logging late next week in Humboldt Superior Court.
Meanwhile, an NCEF! backwoods Affinity Group has blockaded Pacific Lumber's
only road access to THP 520 with a bi-pod, cargo net and maze of support
lines,and road ditches. Located on the logging road, about a mile up from
Elk River road, this group has stopped the company for three days from
conducting further flagging, marking of trees and helicopter landing
preparations in THP 520. The blockade was visited yesterday by Humboldt
County Sheriffs and Pacific Lumber Security. One earth-bound activist was
arrested but the complexity of the blockade and the two suspended forest
defenders where abit overwhelming for law enforcement's resources. They
took photo's and promised to return at a later date. This blockade could
use your support and involvement, call NCEF! at (707)-825-6598.
Keep givin Gray Davis and Dianne Feinstein an earful, but we're also asking
folks to cal Pacific Lumber directly at (707)-764-2222. Ask to speak with
PL President John Campbell, and politely remind him (or the receptionist)
that hundreds of citizens are prepared to use non-violent direct action to
prevent the company from logging THP 520, the Hole In Headwaters. We cannot
let Maxxam/Pacific Lumber forget that this area is Headwaters Forest and
until they give up the entire watershed and add it to the Headwaters
Preserve there will be no peace in the forest. For The
Coho-!
Anti-Cameroon Pipeline/World Bank Letter-Writing Campaign!!!
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From Rosalyn Fay, Fair Trade Network: Despite enormous international
opposition to this project, the World Bank overwhelmingly approved the
African oil pipeline that will cut through hundreds of miles of rainforest-
further endangering threatened species, displace up to thousands of
indigenous people and line the pockets of Exxon, Chevron and the corrupt
governments of Chad and Cameroon. The World Bank needs to hear from us!!
Letters can be mailed to:
>The World Bank
>President James Wolfenson
>1818 H Street N.W.
>Washington D.C. 20433
ASK FOR A REPLY!
Ask Your State Legislator to Vote Aye on AB 717 (Keeley)!
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If you live in California, please contact your state Senator and gently
ask her or him to vote Aye on a very important forestry reform bill: AB 717
authored by Assemblymember Keeley. It will be up for a vote in very soon.
Check out http://www.senate.ca.gov to find out who your reps are and how to
email, phone, or snail-mail them. Check http://www.forestsforever.org for
more info on this bill--or take my word for it: It will help save our
overlogged forests!!!
June 10, Sacramento: Gap Action: Return Your Clothes to the Gap!
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From Paulette in Sacto: There will be a 'TAKE THAT CRAP BACK TO GAP' demo in
Sacramento - this Saturday, June 10, 2000 - outside the downtown plaza on
7th St, starting at 12 noon. If you have items purchased from GAP, please
return them on Saturday. Otherwise, you may want to go shopping at the GAP -
and then have a change of heart - and decide to return your purchases.... GO
SACTO GAPTIVISTS!!!
TWO BIG LABOR RALLIES Against Lawless Corporate Employers!
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-TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2000 AT 4:30 PM Berkeley Marina Radisson Hotel Berkeley
Marina in Berkeley, CA. Workers, primarily immigrants and women, for the
last nine months have fought and decided to join HERE Local 2850. They have
braved harassment, threats, and intimidation. The Radisson will be facing
federal charges in court on August 1st that they have run an illegal
anti-union campaign. We will also have updates on the Janitors Strike,
Homecare Workers, and other major organizing announcements.
-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2000 AT 12:00 NOON Laidlaw Paratransit, Corner of
Clawiter and Depot in Hayward, CA. Workers, 80-85% immigrant, overwhelmingly
voted almost 5 to 1 for the Teamsters Local 78 to represent them at Laidlaw
in an NLRB election upheld by the Federal NLRB. The company refuses to
recognize the election and the union. We will also have updates on the Basic
Vegetable Boycott and other major organizing announcements.
Bring banners from your organizations for these major Bay-area labor and
community mobilizations! Elected officials will be in attendance. To confirm
your organizations participation or for information or directions, call
Robert Dhondrup, Central Labor Council of Alameda County AFL-CIO, at (510)
632-4242 or alamedaclc@aol.com.
Restore the Rio Grande: Public Comment Needed by June 13!
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The proposed El Paso-Las Cruces Regional Water Project is a $350 million
project to provide El Paso, Las Cruces, and other communities with a
year-round supply of drinking water from the Rio Grande. This project will
have detrimental effects on the Rio Grande. (For more information about the
project and the Rio Grande, listed as one of the Most Endangered Rivers of
2000, visit http://www.amrivers.org/00endangered.html .) The public has one
last opportunity to turn this project around. The International Boundary and
Water Commission has released a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS).
PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE DEIS ARE DUE BY JUNE 13, 2000. Please help by urging
members of the International Boundary and Water Commission to select a water
plan that is sustainable for people and the legendary Rio Grande:
Doug Echlin, Environmental Protection Specialist
U.S. Section—International Boundary and Water Commission
4171 North Mesa Street, C-310, El Paso, TX 79902
Anti-Monsanto/GMO Letter-Writing Campaign!
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From Jen Barkin (jennifer@coopamerica.org (202)872-5312): The Shareholder
Action Network would like to invite you to our web site to get involved in
the controversial debate over genetically modified foods. Monsanto, a global
purveyor of GE technologies, is having its annual shareholders' meeting on
June 23rd, so act quickly for bigger impact! We've created action tools that
are quick and easy. Just visit the site at www.shareholderaction.org, and
send a shareholder letter to Robert Shapiro, Monsanto's CEO. Or send a
Citizen Action letter. Better yet, forward these to friends and colleagues
to triple Shapiro's mail pile! And don't forget to read the fact sheets,
resolution and web resources on GMOs.
Pro-South African Workers Union Letter-Writing Campaign!
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From Lucien van der Walt <029walt@cosmos.wits.ac.za>: On February 25, 2000,
the Council of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South
Africa, decided to retrench more than 620 workers - a quarter of the entire
workforce - and outsource their jobs to private contractors. The
retrenchments will be completed by 30 June 2000. The decision was based on a
highly controversial review by management consultants, which opponents
charge was shoddy and biases against labour. The University of the
Witwatersrand decision is one in a series of attacks on workers jobs and
unions in post-apartheid South Africa, the victims being mainly thousands of
black workers and their independent unions. Tertiary Education and public
sector workers are the most hardest hit.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), the main
campus union, appeals to its brothers and sisters in the international
labour and progressive movement to come to its aid in the fight against the
spectre of job loss. Please send faxes and e-mail to Colin Bundy, the Vice
Chancellor of the University, denouncing the retrenchments
>>Phone: +27+11 716-3200/2955
>>Fax: +27+11 339 8215
>>Email: 160CJB@atlas.wits.ac.sa
Don't forget to send us a copy of your message: kgaugelo@nehawu.org.sa,
tebogo@nehawu.org.sa, resist@africamail.com
June 24, SF: Screening of HAVC's TIMBER GAP at Patagonia!
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Saturday, JUNE 24, 7 pm to 9 pm. The PATAGONIA Store, 770 North Point, San
Francisco. Sliding scale donation at the door: $5.00 - $15.00. Benefit for
HEADWATERS ACTION VIDEO COLLECTIVE. Light refreshments. More INFO:
Patagonia: (415) 771-2050
At this show, Headwaters Action Video Collective (producers of the
award-winning LUNA video which documented Julia Butterfly Hill’s historic
tree-sit) will screen their documentary “Timber GAP.” This 18-minute video
explores both the unsustainable logging practices of the Mendocino Redwood
Company (financed with profits from The GAP clothing company) and the
sweatshop labor exploitation which has defined GAP’s profit margin.
Institute for Deep Ecology's Summer Program
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Native American storyteller Darryl Babe Wilson, teacher Mutombo Mpanya,
corporate critic David Korten, tree-sitter Julia Butterfly Hill, Global
Exchange's Medea Benjamin and Kevin Danaher, deep ecologist Joanna Macy, and
Cathrine Sneed of the Garden Project... These inspiring leaders are joined
by still others for summer programs of the Institute for Deep Ecology which
includes evening conversations, workshops, a field trip, and a conference -
all in the Bay Area - from June through August. Joining IDE as co-sponsors
of the program are California Institute of Integral Studies, Cultural
Conservancy, Global Exchange, New College of California, and Youth for
Environmental Sanity.
Julia Butterfly Hill and Joanna Macy will appear together in an evening
conversation at Fort Mason Center on June 29 at 7 p.m. The celebrated Luna
tree-sitter joins the renowned Buddhist deep ecologist in sharing stories
about our awakening as Earth.
A three-day conference, July 14-16 (also at Fort Mason Center), is the
centerpiece of the summer program; the themes for the three days are: Earth
Wisdom and Globalization, Justice and Globalization, and Local and
Bioregional Alternatives. Each day of the conference will feature a
council-dialogue that includes a Native American, a young person, and
speakers who bring knowledge of globalization and deep ecology, with ample
opportunity for audience interaction built in. Afternoons will offer
in-depth three-hour workshops on the topic of the day. Daily ceremony will
be led by Native Americans indigenous to the Bay Area.
For more information about Globalization or Earth Wisdom? Creating Just and
Sustainable Communities, call the Institute for Deep Ecology at 707-874-2347
or visit http://www.deep-ecology.org.
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Lot's Happening--Please be part of it!
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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