Outrage!

• OUTRAGEOUS, HIDEOUS HUMBOLDT SHERIFF'S DEPT. RECOMMENDATION: "CHARGE ACTIVISTS WITH MANSLAUGHTER!" The Humboldt County Sheriff's official recommendation had been to charge the Earth First! activists who witnessed David Chain's death with the involuntary manslaughter of David Chain! They recommended that no charges be brought against the Killer Logger A.E. Ammons. David Chain's mother Cindy Allsbrooks describes here her meeting with Detective Juan Freeman. (October 22, 1998)

• Click HERE to read all about the outrageous circumstances surrounding David "Gypsy" Chain's death. (September 17, 1998)

• Susan Moloney, Headwaters Forest organizer and support guide for Julia Butterfly's ground crew, became a victim of unrestrained anti-enviro hate crimes, overtly-supported by Humboldt County officials, when a crazed mob demolished her car with their clubs and crowbars in two separate smashing frenzies. The enraged mob then, with a truck, pushed her car over an embankment, crushing its roof; all as she sat defenseless, watching the headlight-illuminated scene, from up in a 160-foot tall tree with another anti-Maxxam treesitter and his sister who had travelled to California to be with him up in the tree for the Christmas holiday. The sitter himself, local land owner Nate Madsen, has been sitting alone in the tree for three months. The violence-ridden Humboldt County sheriffs want this case to be considered a mere incidence of vandalism and are investigating it as such. But this is a HATE CRIME and should be investigated bt the state and federal governments as part of a Hate Crimes investigation of Humboldt County. Please call Humboldt County D.A. Terry Farmer and the California and U.S. Attorney Generals offices and demand such an investigation NOW, before someone else is murdered! Check our address book for contact info. (December 27, 1998)

• Judge's ruling tells out-of-control Humboldt County law enforcement that it's OK to torture immobile, nonviolent protesters. Judge tosses out Earth First!'s Anti-Pepper Spray lawsuit! (October 26, 1998)

• Non-violent Pepper Spray Victims Homepage

• New Petition to initiate Mendocino County investigations into the 1990 car bombing murder attempt on Judi Bari. Please print out, sign and circulate this petition today! (June 16, 1999)

• "FBI Stalling in Bari Case Must Stop, Judge Says"
  "SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal magistrate said today he will order the FBI to provide further evidence to lawyers for the late Judi Bari and fellow Earth First! activist Darryl Cherney. The FBI had claimed that an appeal by codefendant Oakland Police Department of an earlier ruling in the 7-1/2 yr. lawsuit shielded it from the requirement to provide additional evidence. Using a delaying tactic seen several times before in this case, the Oakland city attorney last winter filed an appeal of an October, 1997, district court decision denying the Oakland police officers "qualified immunity" from suit. The appeal, now pending before the 9th Circuit Court, has already delayed for over a year the setting of a trial date, and the FBI's refusal to cooperate has compounded the effects of that delay." (December 16, 1998)

• The official Judi Bari web site. Visit this site to read all about the Oakland car bombing and later death from cancer of Headwaters Forest organizer Judi Bari.

• The State of California conspires with MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber Co. to evade state and federal forest-protection laws. The California Department of Fish and Game refuses to charge Pacific Lumber when it violates the law. (December 8, 1998)

• MAXXAM-criminalized Pacific Lumber Co. was so relentless and operating on such a massive scale of criminality that the state pulled PALCO's 1998 timber operator's permit after hundreds of violations every year since Maxxam took over Pacific Lumber in 1985. EPIC President Paul Mason explains the decision by the California Department of Forestry to make this unprecedented move. (November 10, 1998)

• So MAXXAM/PALCO then laid-off its crew of 180 company loggers, the men who handle half of the company's logging operations. The company will now continue its onslaught of Liquidation Logging by merely hiring more non-union contract-logging operators who have their own, independant, timber operator's permits. When Julia Butterfly's mom wrote to Andy Caffrey asking if PALCO's license revocation would kill the Headwaters "Deal," this is what he came up with off the top of his head, with a couple of revisions and additions. We welcome any corrections or omissions on our part. Thanks. (November 10, 1998)

• Concurrently, since September 30, MAXXAM is battling over 3,100 striking members of the United Steel Workers of America union at all five U.S. Kaiser Aluminum factories, owned by Charles Hurwitz's investment group, MAXXAM of Houston, Texas. Hurwitz is trying to break the union by hiring more nonunion replacements for currently unionized positions. Even though the Kaiser workers accepted pay and benefit cuts for years to support the company, Hurwitz now encourages the laid-off Pacific Lumber loggers with opportunities to become scab workers at these union-struck Kaiser factories. (September 30-present)

• The Earth First! Media Center began organizing with the striking USAW locals to support the strikers and turn up the heat on MAXXAM! One pioneer Earth First! activist went undercover for weeks to get information for the USAW, working as an informant-scab for the stiking workers. With incredible organizing from Olympia Earth First! and Olympia International Workers of the World (I.W.W.), the Earth First! Media Center organized the first ever Earth First!-Union/worker direct action in the United States, with a Puget Sound flotilla blockade of MAXXAM/Kaiser's aluminum ore ship from Australia. (December 7, 1998)

• This EF! Media Center action was also unique because it was largely organized over the Internet by people in different states who've never seen each other. Here is the original organizing press release. There is still much you can do! This campaign is not over! It's only just begun! (November 18, 1998-present)

  Please support the striking U.S.W.A. Kaiser Aluminum workers! Check out the United Steel Workers of America web site for the latest on how you can support this crucial, break-through union strike.

• Now that California has its first Democratic governor since before MAXXAM's 1985 hostile-takeover of Pacific Lumber Co., will Gray Davis reverse the state's policy of supporting criminal logging practices? I don't know. Why don't you ask his first political appointee, the head of his transition team, MAXXAM's very-own Barry Munitz?! (November 9, 1998)

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The notorious Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), the Headwaters Deal, and the conspiracy to subvert the Endangered Species Act and ALL of our federal wilderness and wildlife protection laws

• Former California Governor Pete Wilson and other state offficials, California's Senator Dianne Feinstein and the Clinton Administration have been trying to orchestrate a half-billion dollar looting of state and federal coffers in the guise of a deal to "save" Headwaters Forest by joint acquisition of some of the fragmented old growth groves from Hurwitz. What the deal actually does is open up everything not acquired to fifty years of rapacious, illegal, ecologically-insane logging by PALCO. And thrift-looting Charley Hurwitz gets a cool 480 million dollars of our money stuffed into his pockets by the politicians. More than market value for trees Hurwitz couldn't otherwise log at all if the Clinton and Davis administrations were to, as they have sworn to do, actually enforce the Endangered Species Act to the letter of the law. (RIGHT NOW! TODAY! Hurry! Please come HELP!)