Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap
Boycott the Gap: M - O - B - I - L - I - Z - E ! ! !
Posted by Mary Bull (chalicenew@earthlink.net)
Saturday, July 1, 2000
Greetings, Forest Defenders and Social Justice Activists Around the World!
*******END CORPORATE CONTROL OVER PUBLIC POLICY!!!********
************BE IN PHILLY & L.A. TO PROTEST****************
**********THE REPUBLOCRAT NAT'L CONVENTIONS!!!************
Pressure on the Gap Fishers is Mounting, and we have some surprises up our
sleeve guaranteed to push it OVER THE TOP in the coming weeks!!! Meanwhile,
organizing the next MASS PROTESTS Against the CORPORATE $$$ MACHINE
and the POLITICAL PARTIES that serve it is happening NOW: MOBILIZE to
protest the RNC in Philadelphia and the DNC in L.A.!!! In this newsletter
and call to GLORIOUS ACTION:
***Gap Fishers Ignore Court Ruling & Striking Cambodians!!!***
-July 6, SF. Local 250 Strikes! March from Ferry Building to Market!
-July 8, Oak: Rally Against Gap and Prison Sweatshops!
-July 12, Ukiah: Board of Forestry Hearing/Demo: DEFEND JACKSON FOREST!
-July 13, SF: Protest Unbridled Development and Gentrification!
-July 20, Sac: Citizens Board of Forestry: ON TRIAL!
-July 20--24, Berk: Redwood-Sequoia Congress!
-MOBILIZE: Protest the Republican National Convention July 31-Aug 3!!!
-MOBILIZE: Protest the Democratic National Convention Aug 14-17!!!
----JOIN the Bay Area D2K Organizing Group!
----JOIN the SRBG AFFINITY GROUP Going to L.A.!!!
----July 12, SF: "Power to the People!" Roadshow KICK-OFF & TEACH-IN!!!
----July 20, SF: Why Thousands Will Be Protesting in L.A.: TEACH-IN!
----July 22 & 23, Oak: SHOWDOWN IN L.A: YOUTH TRAININGS!!!
----July 26, SF. MOBILIZE for the DNC: SWEATSHOP TEACH-IN!
----Aug 1, SF: MOBILIZE for the DNC: FOREST TEACH-IN!!!
----Aug 5, SF: Teach-In with Activists from the 1968 Democratic Convention!
----Other D2K Trainings in July:
-------July 8, East Bay. Non-violent Direct Action/Affinity Group Formation
-------July 11, East Bay. Facilitating Group Decisions
-------July 13--19, L.A: Ruckus/JustAct DEMOCRACY Action Camp
-------July 16, East Bay. Non-violent Direct Action/Affinity Group Formation
-------July 22-23, SF. Weekend Workshop
-Aug 31, Sac. WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD!!!
Gap Fishers Ignore Court Ruling & Striking Cambodians!!!
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Watershed groups (Redwood Coast Watersheds Alliance, Greenwood Watershed Association, Guardians of Elk Creek Old Growth) WON two lawsuits against the Gap Fishers' logging company, Mendocino Redwood, and the State Agency--the CA Dept of Forestry--that serves them (and all the Corporate Timber Interests that have lined Gray Davis's campaign coffers). In an obvious POWER PLAY, just 17 days after the judgement was signed, Mendocino Redwood turned around and re-filed one of the timber harvest plans that the Court ruled against. Further, they filed a new logging plan even closer to the endangered coho fishery than yet another plan the Court had shot down.
THEY WANT TO SHOW US WHO'S BOSS: Not the LAW, Not the COURT, Not the PEOPLE,
But the MONEY--and the CORRUPT POLITICIANS who serve it. ***This is why we
will be in L.A. at the DNC: TO END CORPORATE CONTROL OVER PUBLIC POLICY!***
Meanwhile, between 20,000 and 35,000 COURAGEOUS CAMBODIAN workers in 27
sweatshops went on strike for higher pay (from $40 to $70/mo!) and decent
working conditions. All these sweatshops supply mostly upscale retailers,
like Gap, Inc. TRUE TO FORM, Gap initially denied doing any business with
the sweatshops in question--but the facts soon came to light: Gap does
business with at least two of them--June Textile & Trinungal Komura. For
more info contact leila@globalexchange.org . Be at the Lakeshore Gap in
Oakland on July 8 for a GREAT RALLY (see below)!
Pressure on the Gap Fishers is MOUNTING: With BBC internat'l coverage June 5
and 8, the ARRESTS of 18 forest defenders and human rights activists at the
SF Gap flagship June 10, and the ARRESTS of 2 activists for hanging a banner
protesting Fisher deforestation and Gap sweatshops in Cambodia at a Banana
Republic store in NYC June 26! ***THREE CHEERS for these COURAGEOUS
ACTIVISTS!!!*** When will this family bend to the Will of the People and put their ravaged forestlands into a conservation land trust and pay their workers a living wage!? Soon, we hope! We will keep the pressure escalating until they do!
BOYCOTT GAP, BANANA REPUBLIC, & OLD NAVY!!!
July 6, SF. Local 250 Strikes! March from Ferry Building to Market!
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July 6th, 1 pm Rally, 3 pm March. Ferry Building. Local 250 is going on
strike (ten Bay Area hospitals) for more participation in patient care. Huge
rally and march from the Ferry Building to Market and Montgomery! Support
the workers! For more info, call Sandra Weese at 510-869-2207.
July 8, Oak: Rally Against Gap & Prison Sweatshops!!!
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12 NOON. 3229 Lakeshore Ave. (corner of Trestle Glen) in Oakland, near Lake
Merrit BART station. The rally will feature Company of Prophets, Rebecca
Kaplan, Oakland Living Wage Coalition, Third Eye Movement (510 and 415),
AIWA (Asian Immigrant Woman Advocates) and many others! Contact Charlie at
Global Exchange for more info: 1.800.497.1994 ext. 355 eatoncharlie@aol.com
WE'D LIKE TO HAVE A FOREST PRESENCE AT THIS DEMO, TOO! Please contact
chalicenew@earthlink.net 415-731-7924 if you want to help with a banner and
leafleting!
July 12, Ukiah: Protest the Logging of JACKSON STATE FOREST!
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12 NOON. Ukiah Valley Conference Center. 200 South School Street, Ukiah.
(Standby, there could be a time/place change). The Board of Forestry is
meeting in Ukiah to oversee their demolition plans for Jackson State Forest
in Mendocino County. This forest constitutes some of the very last viable
redwood forest habitat in the entire County. Up until two years ago, the
State (CA Dept of Forestry) logged it to SUBSIDIZE the multi-billion dollar
timber industry's permit processing! (HOW'S THAT FOR CORPORATE CONTROL OF
PUBLIC POLICY?!). This subsidy is now coming from the state's general fund.
The State also recently sold a piece of Jackson State Forest to the GAP
FISHERS, who, TRUE TO FORM, are taking out EVERY BIG TREE in sight--the
CHAINSAWS are buzzing in Hare Creek right now. Further, the State just filed
and approved its own plan to aggressively log 18,000 acres of this mature
second-growth and scattered old growth forest. JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO MAKE
JACKSON STATE FOREST A PARK http://www.jacksonforest.com/ ...out of reach
of the mindless, heartless political lackeys at CDF.
July 13, SF: Protest Unbridled Development and Gentrification!
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July 13, 1 PM, City Hall. Rally to stop the gentrification and unbridled
development that is pushing low income people and small businesses out of
the City! The Bryant Square atrocity is drawing huge numbers of community
people from the Mission. Rally at City Hall to challenge the planning
commission! Support the Latino, African-American, working class, youth, SRO,
non-profit, activist, and artist community!
....On July 10 (mon) and July 12 (wed) 6 pm, Art and Revolution will be
helping to organize some puppet building/art making evenings to support the
Mission community efforts against gentrification. Call to confirm time (415)
339-7801, at the historic Labor Temple - Red Stone Building (16th/Capp),
which is also endangered.
July 20, Sac: Citizens Board of Forestry: ON TRIAL!!!
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8:30 AM. Sacramento Superior Court, 720 9th Street. Sac. YES! The NINE
ACTIVISTS who were arrested on March 14 for speaking the truth for more than
3 minutes at a Board of Forestry hearing are going on trial! The DA has got
to show us that the WILL of the PEOPLE does not mean jack compared to the
MONEY of the CORPORATIONS--that the GRAY DAVIS ADMINISTRATION will not be
MOCKED for PEDDLING ITS INFLUENCE (the DA waved the Chronicle photo of Gray
in Bed with Big Timber under our attorney's nose)!
***GOOD LUCK, MR. D.A: We will fight you, the Corporate Timber Interests,
and the State that does their bidding for $$$ over the Good of the Planet
and the Will of the People until we win!!!*** Stand by for what you can do
to support these Intrepid Forest Crusaders! ...AND BE IN L.A. AUGUST
14--17!!!!
July 20--24, Berk: Redwood-Sequoia Congress!!!
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1924 Cedar Street, Berkeley. Sponsored by the Social Action Committee of the
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists. Learn about the sham of
state and federal forest protections, the myth of the Headwaters Deal, the
devastation that is actually happening in California's forests and how you
can mobilize to stop it! JOIN TERRIFIC ENVIRONMENTALISTS and ACTIVISTS, such
as Karen Pickett and Dan Hamburg, for workshops and discussion panels!
Thurs: Youth; Friday: Adults and Seniors; Saturday: Activists & Strategies.
Call 510-841-4824 for more info!
MOBILIZE: Protest the Republican Nat'l Convention July 31-Aug 3!!!
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For information about plugging into mass protests at the Republican National
Convention in Philadelphia, July 30--Aug 3, check out
http://www.thepartysover.org/ (I love it!) www.unity2000.com
http://www.freemumia.com/ http://www.kwru.org
-Unity 2000, 315 N. 12th St., #308, Philadelphia, PA 19107,
1-215-627-5007-tel, 1-215-627-5009-fax unity2000@pcan.org
philly2000-subscribe@listbot.com
-Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, c/o Kensington Welfare Rights
Union PO Box 50678, Philadelphia, PA 19132 (215)203-1945 * fax
(215)203-1950 kwru@libertynet.org
MOBILIZE: Protest the Democratic National Convention Aug 14-17!!!
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For information on plugging into mass protests at the Democratic National
Convention in L.A. Aug 14--17, check out http://www.d2kla.org and get on
the listserve: D2k@d2kla.org (Bay Area residents, see below!)
JOIN the Bay Area D2K Organizing Group!!!
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Bay Area activists: Build on the grassroots movement that shut down the WTO
and exposed the IMF and the World Bank. Help us plan for the mass
mobilization against the Democratic National Convention in L.A. this August.
Join the D2K Bay Area Organizing Group! Our next meeting is on July 12 at 6
PM at Cell Space, 2050 Bryant between 18th and 19th, SF. (See below for more
info on this GRAND rally/potluck/organizing/kickoff EVENT!!!)
Contact D2KLABayAreaOrganizing-owner@egroups.com to join the list serve.
Email D2KLABayAreaOrganizing@egroups.com to write to the entire group.
JOIN the SRBG AFFINITY GROUP!!!
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If you are not already part of an affinity group (AG) going to the DNC
Protests in L.A., this is an invitation to you to join the Save the
Redwoods - Boycott the Gap (SRBG) AG! If you are not familiar with our
kick-ass campaign, please visit www.gapsucks.org . We are all volunteer and
completely unfunded--and therefore free to be as RADICAL, POLITICALLY
INCORRECT, and CREATIVE as we please, and as a result we have garnered
significant international media attention on the environmental and social
justice issues for which we are crusading.
Though our primary focus is to pressure the Fishers of Gap, Inc. to put the
230,000 acres of redwood forestland they are destroying into a conservation
land trust (we're getting there!), we are also dedicated to stopping
corporate exploitation of planet and people worldwide, including sweatshops
(Gap sweatshops naturally figure highly in all our outreach efforts),
institutionalized racism and cruelty (we are currently filing state and
federal lawsuits against the Sacramento County Jail for gross violations of
human rights), free trade (mass direct action--we were in Seattle and DC,
check out www.gapsucks.org, letter-writing campaigns, political lobbying),
and so on.
If being part of this AG appeals to you or if your AG would like to cluster
with ours in L.A. for further adventures in democracy, please contact
chalicenew@earthlink.net 415-731-7924 for more info.
July 12, SF: Power to the People! Roadshow KICK-OFF/TEACH-IN!
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July 12, 2000. 6—10 PM. Cell Space, 2050 Bryant, SF. Mobilize For the
Democratic National Convention Protests! Rally! Potluck! Teach-in! Art and
Revolution “Power to the People” Roadshow Kick-off! Food! Great Speakers!
Organizing! GET CHARGED for the DNC Protests August 14—17, Los Angeles: The
Next Mass Protest Against the Corporate Machine and the Political Parties
that serve it!!!
July 20, SF: Why Thousands Will Be Protesting in L.A.: TEACH-IN!!!
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7 PM, Centro Del Pueblo. 474 Valencia, SF. How Corporations dictate Public
Policies pertaining to Immigration, Race, and Labor issues. Dorsey Nunn,
Kevin Danaher, Fernando Bejar are confirmed speakers! GET CHARGED!!! BE
THERE!!!
July 22 & 23, Oak. SHOWDOWN IN L.A: YOUTH TRAININGS!
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1515 Webster St., Oakland. "Real Democracy or Corporate Power? Human Voices
or Lobbyist Dollars?" Attention BAY AREA YOUTHS! Get Empowered! Join JustAct
and SOUL to learn everything you need to know about Direct Action and how to
effectively use it in L.A.! Contact Edget for more info: 415-431-4204
edget@justact.org
July 26, SF. MOBILIZE for the DNC: SWEATSHOP TEACH-IN!
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Time/place TBA. Bay Area USAS will sponsor a teach-in on sweatshops -- in
the fields (farm workers), behind bars (in prisons) and in the factory
(garment industry) -- and their connection to the Democrats. Contact Rebecca
at SF State for more info bito2@juno.com
Aug 1, SF: Stop Corporations From Logging the Planet Into Oblivion!
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Aug 1, TBA, SF. American Lands' FOREST ROADSHOW is coming to San Francisco to MOBILIZE Bay Area environmentalists to PROTEST the Democratic Party's sell-out of the environment at the DNC IN L.A.!
Join Antonia Juhasz of Amercan Lands, Victor Menotti of the International
Forum on Globalization, Mary Pjerrou of the Redwood Coast Watersheds
Alliance, Brian Vincent of Yuba Nation, Jennifer Krill of Rainforest Action
Network and others to find out about domestic and global corporate
destruction of our forestlands, the life-threatening consequences of this
planetary destruction--and HOW WE CAN STOP IT!!!
Contact chalicenew@earthlink.net 415-731-7924 for more info.
Aug 5, SF: Teach-In: Activists from the 1968 Democratic Convention!
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Probably at the Women's Building at 7PM. The International Socialist
Organization is sponsoring this fun teach-in, which will offer some
historical perspective from a very politicized time in our country's
history! Contact Todd for more info chretientodd@aol.com .
Other D2K Trainings!
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-July 8, East Bay. Non-violent Direct Action/Affinity Group Formation.
Contact Phoebe 510-845-5830
-July 11, East Bay. Facilitating Group Decisions.
Contact Brook: brook@innosys.com or 510-845-5830
-July 13--19, L.A: Ruckus/JustAct DEMOCRACY Action Camp.
Apply at the ruckus web site www.ruckus.org or call (510) 848-9565
-July 16, East Bay. Non-violent Direct Action/Affinity Group Formation
Contact Jen h.510-843-3474; w.510-549-7433 jenc@lmi.net
-July 22-23, SF. Weekend Workshop.
Contact Hillary 510-834-8129 hil@u.washington.edu
Saturday:
9 - 10 LA logistics
10-2 non-violent direct action
10-12 technical blockades
2-4 jail/legal prep
4-6 medic prep
4-6 advanced techniques for actions (taught by witches)
Sunday
9-10 LA logistics
10-2 anti-oppression training
2-6 prep for preppers/training for trainers
2-4 facilitating consensus
-Aug 31, Sac. WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD!!!!
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Since Sacramento is dead in July, we are postponing this fun, powerful
action till after the DNC, to the last week in August, when Sacto will be a
flurry of political activity! Munchkins, have your GREEN BODY PAINT at the
ready!
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Exciting Times!!!
It's Going to Take ALL of US!!!
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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Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
510-835-6303 Listserve listproc@envirolink.org
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Info on Gap Sweatshops:
http://www.globalexchange.org
leila@globalexchange.org
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