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Video: Powerfull Women's Action for the TREES

by Justin and Pat (justin [at] siskiyou.org)
On March 14th 2005 a large group of women organized, they said enough is enough to the Old Growth Logging just up the road from the Green Bridge along the National Wild and Scenic Illinois River in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area in Southern Oregon.
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This Video speaks to the Truth about how fire salvage is used as a justification to log old growth and roadless areas in our national forests.

WATCH THIS POWERFUL MOMENT in History when the Women Take back their power and stop the Logging for most of the day.

Though this video was not edited by women, it was directed in many ways by the women taking part in real democracy.
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by big
"WATCH THIS POWERFUL MOMENT in History when the Women Take back their power"
You have to be kidding! This is the best you can do? No history was made this day. As for a powerful moment, what occured that day that would not of occured if one of those twenty were a male instead of a female? O.K., so you had one female ready to give birth; your right, a male couldn't do that. Hell, even Becky bailed on that day. That is not a victory, but a further defeat. Saw an offal (sic) lot of males in the background. Maybe they figure that females get treated better in the legal system than males.

"and stop the Logging for most of the day."

Ya. Not working until 11:30 a.m. really made a impact. Powerful
by pixie
this was a great moment, you asshole.How can you said that women are treated better than men in the system...since when? I´m a woman and I never got treated better than a man when I was in jail...Did you even know what you were talking about?
Women get more shit that you do..c´mon!!!
And...it was a powerlfull time ´cuz they stopped them for some hours..so..got and talk shit about someone else...

I want give all my love and thanks to all those womyn who were there...I couldn´t ..thanks so much for helping out...keep it up!!
by b
My point was that it was not any greater than any of the other many actions that has stopped operations for several hours. Its only differance was that it was only women that were arrested. And since men and women have been arrested in the past, having a few more women and a few less men this time is not of great significants. We're only talking twenty people.
by pixie
yeahh..thanks and I'm sorry..I just didn't think that it was cool to talk shit about that actions.I know thay if those 20 women were men...then maybe they wouldn't call it such a great action...but you know how it is?men don't get sexually harrassed all the time for being a male...I mean, admit,women have to suffer a lot of shit for being women and a lot of them couldn't speak up.I was a tree sitter for a while,and I tell you...I don't care about gender,I mean,if you're a good person, you're a good person,a human,right?..but I tell you that I wouldn't know how to climb a tree if those wonderful women hadn't showed me how...and I really doubt it that there was any male who could teach me how to climb without laughing at me or calling me weak..get it?Even in the Forest..
and yeahhh..you made your point,nice job.
by Rosa
Brave and courageous sisters, you are the salt of the earth! We love you with all our hearts. But sorry to say: your courageous actions are not enough to save the insanity of the New Male World Order led by the most barbarian and uncivilized of men.
It's time to do what the Swedish sisters are doing - creating a womyn's feminist political party to dismantle the Patriarchal social order. Freedom from oppression and slavery can only come when womyn take power at the State level. Males have dominated far too long and their violence has been celebrated far too long.
Our planet is crying out for womyn to help her survive. Oppression and sex slavery is now worse then ever. (The Pentagon uses tax money to employ Dyncorp. This corporation is involved in the traffick of womyn and children
for the purpose of sex. Cynthia MacKinley brought that up to Rumsfeld.He pretended not to know!!!)
It's time to move to the next stage in our activism: unite to create a radical feminist party!
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