Occupy The Trees… at OEV Thursday for the Rally & March from Park Blocks to at 4:30 to OEV.! With Dub Perry & MC Jasun Plaedo Wellman AND MORE! It’s reggae nite. Medium Troy & Swag Sensi & The Tip 7-10! Come for the march, stay for the music! BRING POTLUCK!
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Media Release 24 April 2012 – Call for ban on forest burns, climate and health hazard, Flare Protest and online action in Tasmania
Huon Valley Environment Centre has today launched a campaign with a protest flare on Hobart’s Parliament lawns. Members of the community let off twenty flares on the lawns of the state parliament.
“The community has demonstrated today to call for a ban on the environmentally disastrous logging burns. The so called “regeneration burns” turn the world’s cleanest air into a health hazard. The entire state of Tasmania has to suffer air pollution and climate impacts, because Forestry Tasmania and the logging industry continue to pursue the archaic, ecologically unsound practice of logging and burning in the forests,” Jenny Weber said.
Huon Valley Environment Centre today launched an online action that will provide citizens the avenue to write to the State and Federal Ministers for Health and the Environment and the respective Attorneys General, calling on them to introduce legislation to ban the practice of “regeneration burns” in Tasmania.
“Tasmania needs a breath of fresh air and the Huon Valley Environment Centre is calling for a ban on the forestry industry’s “regeneration burns,” Huon Valley Environment Centre’s Jenny Weber said.
“We oppose the wasteful practice of polluting the clean air, threatening our health and environment and damaging the clean green brand of Tasmania,” Jenny Weber said
“Forestry Tasmania’s clearfall and burn method is destroying the natural forest ecology to turn it into a loggers wonderland, at the same time that it is dumping massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and polluting people’s lungs with particulates that are injurious to health,” Jenny Weber said.
Link to the cyber action http://banforestryburns.good.do
Link to background briefing www.huon.org/bantheburns
News article of flare action, with video
We are occupying the Golden Goose in advance of the scheduled auction on Tuesday April 24th to draw attention to the Forest Service’s lack of transparency and reckless commitment to timber quotas. In response to a large community outcry, we are calling for the immediate withdrawal of the proposed sale and a moratorium on all logging operations on public forest in the McKenzie Bridge.
“We cannot continue letting the Forest Service exploit our watershed for the profit of the timber barons,” says Daniel Bowman of Cascadia Forest Defenders.
The Goose Project is a management area that would subject the forest to commercial logging on over 2,000 acres of public land, generating 38 million board feet for the timber barons. While the forest service claims that this project is for restoration, the intrusion of industrial logging practices on mature forest would suggest that Goose is more about making timber quotas than creating habitat.
For the week of Occupy the Trees, April 22nd-28th, Echo Glynn of Elmira, Oregon is committed to occupying a 150 year old (approx.) Douglas-Fir tree in the “Golden” Goose unit 320.
Glynn recalls visiting Mckenzie Bridge as a little girl. “Everything’s been cut around Elmira-those were some of the biggest trees I’d ever seen,” she says. “Our forests are priceless, and I want them to still be here for future generations.”
Cascadia Forest Defenders invite everyone concerned for the true health of their public forests to come out to protest the “Golden” timber auction on Tuesday. We invite the public to join us on Saturday, April 28th for a picnic with the tree sitter and a hike of the “Golden” timber sale. Event details listed below.
Timber Auction Protest:
Meet at the Grower’s Market at 9:30am on Tuesday April 24th for carpool or head directly to the US Forest Service Supervisor’s Office (3106 Pierce Parkway Suite D, Springfield, OR) by 10am Saturday
Picnic in the Forest
To attend the picnic, meet at Harbicks (on Hwy 126, 6 miles past Blue River) at noon.
OCCUPY THE TREES
Occupy Eugene and Cascadia Forest Defenders have put a call-out toactivists around the world to “Occupy the Trees” in protest of thedestruction of our Earth for the week of April 22-27. Occupy the Trees is a worldwide environmental protest against corporate and personal greed.
Our call to action includes 3 main points:
1. Immediate attention and reversa
l to global climate change which
threatens all life on Earth.
2. Disruption of the Earth-destroying profit machines led by the richest
1% of the world and their government lackeys.
3. Ending commercial extraction from publicly held conservation lands in
all nations.
Here in Eugene,on Sunday April 22 (formerly known as “Earth Day”), there
will be an “Earth Defense Day”celebration at the downtown park blocks
(8th and Oak), with speakers, music, teach-ins, and food.
Earth defense activities are pla ned in Eugene throughout the week:
Monday is “Cascadia Day,”Tuesday is “Animal Rights Day,”Wednesday is
“Kids Day,”Thursday is “Eco-feminism Day,” and “Friday is “Global
Climate Change Awareness Day.”There will be speakers, musical
performances, marches and rallies throughout the week. A tree occupation
is planned as well.
Oregon’s public lands are a big focus of the week. “DeFazio, Wyden and
Kitzhaber say that we must dramatically increase logging levels on our
BLM, state forest, and national forest lands to increase funding for
Oregon schools and counties, yet Oregon’s timber industry elite (the top 1%) have dodged paying hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes since 1977 and even more millions of dollars in taxes since 1999 with the passage of Oregon House Bill 3575,” says Shannon Wilson of the Cascadia Forest Defenders. “In 2007 the Oregon Department of Revenue estimated that Oregon loses approximately $70 million in tax revenues per year since the passage of HB3575.”
Holding Corporations Accountable For Destroying The Environment, And Reclaiming Our Planet For All Creatures Large And Small.
Occupy The Trees!
Occupy Eugene, in Solidarity with Occupy Wallstreet, calls for activists
around the world to protest the destruction of our Earth. For the week of
April 22nd, 2012 —which we rename Earth Defense Week: Occupy The Trees.
We face the prospect of irreversible climate change and the destruction of
our homes and wild places. Overwhelmingly, the one percent profits at the
expense of ecosystems and communities. Economic progress can only go so
far when our right to clean air and water is violated; there are no jobs
on a dead planet.
Our Call to Action includes 3 main points:
1. Immediate attention and reversal to Global Climate Change which threatens all life on Earth.
2.Disruption of the Earth-destroying profit machines led by the richest 1% of the world and their government lackies.
3.Ending all Commercial Extraction from Public Lands in all nations of the Earth.
So…take to the trees. Set up week-long tree sits that call attention to
the destruction committed by the 1% on our rivers, oceans, fields, and
forests. Find trees in front of corporations that clear-cut and pollute
the earth, trees in front of banks that support those corporations, and
trees in front of government offices that ignore or enable the
destruction. Find trees that will soon be lost in the process of logging
or mining. Focus on the offenders who most threaten your home—particular
those who desecrate public lands for corporate profit—and chose trees
accordingly. Climb them!
We ask that those sitting for Occupy the Trees learn safety protocol for
properly ascending and descending. Please contact us if your affinity
group needs more information about the tactic of tree sitting. There may
be a climb trainer near you.
