Occupy Forum: How Earth First! Organized To Save the Redwoods, & Its Lessons for Today

The Longest Urban Tree-sit in US history was a great combination of Earth First people and the Indigenous community in what seems to be the first time they (Earth First) had worked with my community as respect for our elders was lacking. Just like when the Women's movement was taking off in the 60s and 70s strong women were considered too much. Strong Native leadership was too intimidating which is the result of historical Patronizing of Indigenous peoples which we have always amazing heroic struggles from Grandmothers at Big Mountain (Peabody Coal) to Ward Valley (only Nuclear victory) to all out fire fights in Oka with the Mohawks. In the Tree-sit one individual got it after of failed attempts to get food an water into the Grove tree-sitters behind barb wired fence he came to me ask me to help with the ancestors to get in and later that was accomplished which probably one of the most daring feats in activism as we got a line in over 200 feet away. The Media was saying that this was straight out of Batman (see clip http://www.facecrack.spruz.com). At the end of the day or 648 days we had destroyed the BP/UC 500 million dollar deal to cut down the Amazon Rain Forest and the return of the 13,000 ancestors during to the University that the Free Speech movement never did. After this amazing ride instead of getting the respect I was left with 30 dollars and and what you pilgrims call homeless which I will never be homeless in my Home land. One thing that bugs me more the simple jealously was to be expected by our White Saviors was a allegation that I was abusive to women by an Earth First elder (not really) which did not understand nor chose to and that why she is not an elder. First off the person in question was wrong and stole Salmon and my Mayoral campaign material and took off to LA to party with her rich (Nuclear physicist) Aunt and she has been banished (answer for the prison Industrial complex) from this community by the Elders and she is welcome back but she needs to clean up her mess. I'm not an enable for continuing bad (Amerikkklan) behavior I am an Indigenous elder and will act like one and when you are around me please do not flex your ignorance at me because I do not take it.