Infoshop Opens in Santa Barbara

A grand opening celebration took place this Dr. Martin Luther King Day for the new Santa Barbara Infoshop. A large crowd of activists, supporters, and community members enjoyed music and food throughout the afternoon. Santa Barbara Infoshop is a community space built around alternative ideas and do-it-yourself culture to provide fellow members of our community with free resources and support for discussions and organization towards positive social change. The site is also the new home of the Santa Barbara Independent Media Center. SB Infosop is at 421 N. Alisos St. A, Santa Barbara, and is open Monday-Thursday from Noon to 6pm, and Saturday, Noon to 8pm. More info at http://www.sbinfoshop.org/ and http://sbindymedia.org/

John Edwards for President

I decided to switch my support from Dennis Kucinich to John Edwards, because I like the way Edwards is speaking out about corporate greed and promising to fight corporate power to protect the environment.

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Me and Jesus Protest the Iraq War in SF

On my way to Santa Barbara I stopped in San Francisco to participate in the October 27 antiwar protest. I rode into SF on what's known as the Magic Bus.

LA Times covers Berkeley Tree-sit

I am currently in Santa Barbara and saw this article on the cover of the Los Angeles Times.

Shunka on Cover of North Coast Journal

Forest defender Shunka Wakan is on the cover of this week's North Coast Journal. The article focuses on the Kathryn Miller vs. Trees Foundation trial in Eureka. It talks about the internal conflicts and problems in the Humboldt forest defense movement. I often worry that these problems, that have been going on for many years, will discourage people from getting involved, resulting in the loss of forest to corporate greed. If there is a community of people in Northern California who care about saving what is left of the ancient forests, maybe they will see that they need to get involved and work to make sure that there is a strong, united and well organized forest defense effort.
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PALCO Files for Extension on Fern Gully THP

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I just learned today that Pacific Lumber has filed for another one year extension on THP 01-446 where forest defenders have been sitting in the Fern Gully Tree Village for several years. Sitters had hoped to come down next week on October 8, when last year's extension expired. An activist that goes by the name of "Song" said "We'll still be there, because it's a critical area, the front line of the woods, right above people's houses. It's on a 30-80% grade." Activists are working on finding gear, clothes, tarps and supplies to get them through another winter.

PALCO Submits Plan to Sell/Subdivide Timberlands

--- The Pacific Lumber Company has submitted a plan to the Federal Bankruptcy Court that calls for selling a large part of their holdings and subdividing 22,000 acres into 160 acre parcels. The new development will be called "Redwood Ranch". The plan was on the front pages of today's SF Chronicle and Eureka Reporter. A discussion of the project can be found on the Humboldt Herald blog. The Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment has posted the entire plan at their site.


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Lumberjack reports on tree-sitting

It's nice to see that The Lumberjack at HSU has started a series of articles on tree-sitting inTimes-Standard seem determined to ignore tree-sitting. The Lumberjack article can be found at http://www.thejackonline.org Humboldt. I have noticed that there has been very little newspaper coverage of tree-sitting over the years, even though people all over the world are interested in it. The North Coast Journal has done some articles, but most of the mainstream media like the /

More Evidence on "Marin Dan"

Someone suggested to me that I did not provide as much evidence as I should have. Here is some more, and if anyone has any doubt then let me know and I will post more. Click on photos to enlarge. I see that my blog is getting hits from the Pacific Lumber ISP address in Scotia very early this morning.

PL cyber-spy urges activists to go after SPI

In recent comments on forest defense blog posts, a "Marin Dan" has suggested that forest defenders should leave Pacific Lumber alone and protest against Sierra Pacific instead. He says he doesn't work for PL, but all of the evidence says he does. He claims to be a retired teacher living in Marin County, but his posts demonstrate an intimate knowledge of PL timber plans in Humboldt County. His post times coincide with hits from a PL ISP in Scotia. There are no doubt some good reasons to protest against SPI, but his suggestion that SPI would be tougher on trespassers sounds crazy to me. His comments can be found on this blog, Save Ancient Forests, and Humboldt Forest Defense Association.