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Direct Action on Gypsy Mountain
Lock downs and treesits on Gypsy Mountain.
Forest activists are locked down at the logging gate leading into Gypsy Mountain, where five years ago an outraged Pacific Lumber logger killed David “Gypsy” Chain by falling a redwood in his direction. Trees are being cut near two tree-sits in vacinity of the death site.
Since the death of David Chain, Pacific Lumber has continued to contract loggers who fall trees in the direction of treesitters, as well as employ new and different ways to torture and endanger non-violent activists, specifically kicking, strangling, and hanging them up-side down 160 feet above the ground.
This violence against activists is a further expression of Maxxam’s violence against the people and land in Humboldt County. While treesitters get assaulted and tortured, residents water wells and houses fill with silt from clear-cut hillsides. First amendment rights, property rights, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act continue to be violated by Maxxam’s Pacific Lumber.
If there is a remedy, we are it.
Since the death of David Chain, Pacific Lumber has continued to contract loggers who fall trees in the direction of treesitters, as well as employ new and different ways to torture and endanger non-violent activists, specifically kicking, strangling, and hanging them up-side down 160 feet above the ground.
This violence against activists is a further expression of Maxxam’s violence against the people and land in Humboldt County. While treesitters get assaulted and tortured, residents water wells and houses fill with silt from clear-cut hillsides. First amendment rights, property rights, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act continue to be violated by Maxxam’s Pacific Lumber.
If there is a remedy, we are it.
For more information:
http://www.contrast.org/treesit
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offensive to Romani-Americans!
Sat, Oct 4, 2003 12:55AM
all nazis are anti-zionists
Fri, Oct 3, 2003 3:47PM
Let it rest
Fri, Oct 3, 2003 3:01PM
I'm not sure what you mean.
Fri, Oct 3, 2003 12:55PM
offensive to minorities!
Tue, Sep 30, 2003 8:28PM
Re: "Gypsy"--Clarification necessary(?)
Tue, Sep 30, 2003 3:35PM
offensive to minorities!
Mon, Sep 29, 2003 7:31PM
I impersonate the 'concerned Zionist' antisemite wackjob
Mon, Sep 29, 2003 5:29AM
Roma Mountain
Mon, Sep 29, 2003 2:03AM
Why all these disgusting posts by the Loggers?
Sat, Sep 27, 2003 5:59AM
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