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Dolos in Eureka on the North Jetty Entrance to Humboldt Bay - Photographs of California - Drummers - Tree Sitter Protest at the Freshwater Valley Clearcut Logging by MAXXAM - If You Can't Visit in Person, Take this Virtual Tour!

Dolos in Eureka on the North Jetty - Photographs of Humboldt County, CA by gvan42
Looking at Eureka in the Distance

Dolos are Giant Concrete Objects that are used to Build Breakwaters... The ODD SHAPE prevents Ocean Waves from Washing them Away... Originally, The Jetties Were Built using Giant Rocks but... Storms Washed them Away... 
 They are about TEN Feet from End to End... 

Dolos on Eureka's North Jetty -
Pulp Mill Working in the Distance


Dolos in Eureka on the North Jetty - Photographs of Humboldt County, CA by gvan42

Dolos in Eureka on the North Jetty - Photographs of Humboldt County, CA by gvan42

Looking at the Harbor's South Jetty - also built using Dolos!

Drummers in Arcata, CA - in The Center of Town on the Plaza



Drummers in Arcata, CA - in The Center of Town on the Plaza

Drumming Bears in the Farmville Game - Designed in San Francisco - Just Like the Dancing Bears of the Grateful Dead

Drummers is Arcata, CA on Campus at Humboldt State University
Drummers is Arcata, CA on Campus at
Humboldt State University
Drummers in the Marimba Tent at California Rainbow Gathering - Modoc County
Drummers in the Marimba Tent at
California Rainbow Gathering - Modoc County


Math Art... Done instead of Doing My Homework... at HSU



Math Art... Done instead of Doing My Homework... at HSU

Pacific Lumber Boards going North on Highway 101
Lumber Truck going North on Highway 101... 
Same Location, Same Day as the Boards Going North... 

Freshwater Valley Clearcut Logging 

Welcome to Freshwater, California USA. Location of a year long tree-sit Protesting Logging of the Redwood Forest. The people living in the trees were evicted by Eric Schatz... A Sub contractor working for MAXXAM Corporation.

View from the top of Freshwater Valley near Eureka, California. Looking at the Ocean... Now that MAXXAM has cut down all the trees, it's easy to get a fine view of the valley below. http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/welcome-to-freshwater-california-usa.html

We went to a tree-sit/ecology action where 9 Earth First!ers were arrested. (full text of newspaper article I wrote below) It Happened on Greenwood Heights road. That road goes very far up into the hills of the Trinity Alps near the area called Kneeland. It's a totally different climate up there in comparison to Eureka. It's hot grassland with cattle ranches.


Freshwater, CA Ecology Protest Tree Sit Earth First! - Redwood Trees
This is a picture of the clearcut forest two years later when pampas grass has grown where redwood trees used to be.


Freshwater, CA Ecology Protest Tree Sit Earth First! - Redwood Trees
Scenes before the trees were all cut down... very dark pictures in the forest... Protesters watch the eviction of the treesitters by Eric Schatz... a contractor that specializes in removing ecology activists from PALCO trees... yep, that's a business here in Eureka...


Freshwater, CA Ecology Protest Tree Sit Earth First! - Redwood Trees
 Eco-Action Families... the forest people...

"No Compromise 
in the Defense of Mother Earth"


Freshwater, CA Ecology Protest Tree Sit Earth First! - Redwood Trees
Man moving from one treehouse to another on mountain climbing ropes. Thru the amazing power of the Internet, The man who is pictured above emailed me... He has the "Forest Name" of Rudi Bega... and is helping with the Nanning Grove treesit... Please visit his websites. Thanks!

www.wesavetrees.org

We Save Trees has some stunning photographs of the forest...

www.rudibega.org



Freshwater, CA Ecology Protest Tree Sit Earth First! - Redwood Trees
Police, sheriffs and the Highway Patrol all attended... 
why highway patrol? 
I saw no traffic related problems...

Freshwater, CA Ecology Protest Tree Sit Earth First! - Redwood Trees


RANTING OF A DERANGED LUNATIC (MOON WORSHIPPER) ABOUT REDWOOD TREES... ME !!!

Full text of an article I wrote for the Humboldt State University newspaper about an ecology protest. Update: The forest is returning to health after being clearcut. The pampas grass is thriving and that helps keep the soil on the steep mountainside and out of freshwater creek. Pacific Lumber clearcut this forest in 2003 and every six months I go and take a picture of the same location... There is a "convenient" abandoned logging road where it is easy to park and hike around. You can see the Eureka Bay quite easily now that all those trees are out of the way...

Soon MAXXAM will be just a bad memory... Like ENRON and Silverado Savings and Loan. MAXXAM has filed for bankruptcy and has closed the Fortuna and Carlotta lumber mills. Now they want to sell 6,600 acres of land that may not be logged for 42 years to pay off creditors... Very expensive... not kidding... like 5 million dollars for 160 acre plots... Just Ridiculous... No one will buy them...  just a tactic in the lawsuits... 

HEADLINE: 8 arrested March 18th in Freshwater tree-sit.

One tree chainsawed to death.

This morning I drove to Beautiful Freshwater (near Eureka, California) to visit the Tree Sitters. There were 10 sherrifs cars and 5 highway patrol cars. I saw 3 people handcuffed and then put in a sherrifs van. One person down the road was handcuffed and in the custody of a different sherrif. This lady was wearing "press" dogtags and was complaining that all she was doing was taking photographs. There were about 40 people standing around, talking on cell phones and playing drums. I could hear the sound of chainsawing. Then a large tree fell over. It makes a tearing sound then a big thump and a wail arose from the people. When four highway patrol cars stopped in the middle of the crowd and turned on their spinning lights, I left.(I was afraid of the police...protect and serve...corporations) As I was walking to my truck I noticed another highway patrolman writing tickets. I asked a citizen what that was all about and he said "don't woory about getting a parking ticket, none of these people will pay them anyway". I am concerned about the highway patrol being there. THERE CLEARLY WERE NO HIGHWAY RELATED PROBLEMS THERE. What's up with parking tickets? We were in the middle of the forest. 

...this part written later that night... 
We went to a protest to defend redwood trees today. There are 8 people that are camping at the top of redwood trees to prevent loggers from chainsawing the trees. The owners of the forest (Palco/MAXXAM) hired a guy (eric schatz)to climb up the trees and forcibly evict the trespassers. Then the Humboldt county sherrifs arrest the tree-sitters and send them to jail. Yesterday, there were 7 tree sitters and the police arrested 3 people. Then, during the night, 4 people went up. The grand total of people INCREASED. The loggers started chainsawing at the bottom of a tree that had people camping in it. This action enraged the crowd. We feel that if a logger cuts down a tree with a person in it that it is dangerous to that person. The loggers cut away a 2 foot circle of bark all the way around the tree. Someone said that was called "girthing" and the purpose was to kill the tree. My wife decided that some medicine was needed for the tree, so we went to the hardware store and bought a bucket of "tree wound" compound. It is used to seal the bare wood after pruning. We drove back to the ecology protest and she (with help from others) spread the healing compound on the bare wood. I got to spend a lot of time talking to a knowlegable fellow named "Atilla". He said that the MAXXAM corporation has to cut down redwood trees in order to pay the interest on a giant "junk bond" debt. MAXXAM, a texas corporation, purchased the Pacific Lumber Company about 10 years ago in a hostile takeover financed by "junk bonds" that they got from Mike Milken. (remember, Ivan Boesky and Mike went to jail for wall street fraud) I saw on the News tonight that our governor, Gray Davis, has ordered the highway patrol to work 12 hour shifts to help defend the state of California from "terrorist" attacks. GEE, WHY WERE ALL THOSE CHPs OUT IN THE FOREST TODAY ? WHAT TERRORIST ATTACKS WERE THEY DEFENDING US FROM ? Atilla also told me why there were large trucks that look like they carry sand. They are used to haul gravel to build logging roads. After I left the protest in the morning, I drove way back into the woods and noticed large orange trucks with PALCO on the doors. The reason Palco hired a subcontractor (eric schatz)to do "tree service" is to protect themselves from lawsuits in case anyone gets hurt. 

How to get there: From highway 101 traveling North, Take the Myrtle ave exit in Eureka and drive to Freshwater road. Take a right and then an IMMEDIATE left onto Greenwood Heights road. Drive 2 miles. When you see all the sherrif cars, you are there. From Arcata, travel south on 101 to Indianola cutoff. Take a left and drive to Myrtle ave. Take a right on Myrtle. Left on Freshwater road.  


of course, the ecology action happened four years ago and now you may visit and see how the forest is healing itself...

Two members of the Ecology Group Earth First! were bombed by the FBI in Oakland. There was a Trial and the FBI agreed to award the Survivor a large cash settlement but denied doing anything wrong. Judi Beri died and  Darryl Cherney Survived. He has retired from Activism but still performs as the leader of a musical group. They sing satire protest songs...

Interesting Movie: Who Bombed Judi Bari? 
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi742497305?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.

—Anonymous
 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754621/

Who Bombed Judi Bari? is an American historical documentary about an assassination attempt on the life of Judi Bari, an American environmental and labor activist, which occurred on May 24, 1990.[1]
While driving through Oakland, California on their way to a benefit concert for the Redwood Summer campaign to save California's coast redwood trees, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured when a pipe bomb detonated under the driver's seat of their car.[2] Bari, who was driving, was critically injured. Oakland police and the FBI approached the explosion as a terrorist incident, arrested Bari and Cherney, and tried to prove that they were transporting their own explosive device which accidentally detonated. The two were never charged with a crime. In 2002 they won a lawsuit and were awarded $4.4 million for civil rights violations by the FBI and Oakland Police Department.[3] The authorities allegedly did not investigate any other suspects.[1] Discovery during the lawsuit revealed crime scene photos that clearly showed the bomb was located under Bari's seat, not in the back seat as investigators had alleged.[1]
In 2012, a federal judge ordered the FBI not to destroy another pipe bomb that had only partially detonated at a lumber mill about a week before the car bombing, which investigators agreed had been built by the same bomber. Attorney for Darryl Cherney, Ben Rosenfeld, had requested that an outside lab perform DNA testing on the Cloverdale bomb, which the FBI claimed it had never performed, a request which the judge upheld.[4]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Bombed_Judi_Bari

Madaket Ferry Boat in Humboldt Bay
and Old Navy Ships...  



Store windows in Old Town Eureka.


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The Little Stevie Munchkin - Kamala Harris Mystery. Why Did She Drop All Charges on the Treasury Secretary? AKA "The Foreclosure King"

Headline: KAMALA HARRIS FAILS TO EXPLAIN WHY SHE DIDN’T PROSECUTE STEVEN MNUCHIN’S BANK... 

FORMER CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY General Kamala Harris on Wednesday vaguely acknowledged The Intercept’s report about her declining to prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s OneWest Bank for foreclosure violations in 2013, but offered no explanation.

“It’s a decision my office made,” she said, in response to questions from The Hill shortly after being sworn in as California’s newest U.S. senator.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/05/kamala-harris-fails-to-explain-why-she-didnt-prosecute-steven-mnuchins-bank/

Mnuchin is Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Treasury Department, and served as CEO of OneWest from 2009 to 2015. In an internal memo published on Tuesday by The Intercept, prosecutors at the California attorney general’s office said they had found over a thousand violations of foreclosure laws by his bank during that time, and predicted that further investigation would uncover many thousands more.

But the investigation into what the memo called “widespread misconduct” was closed after Harris’s office declined to file a civil enforcement action against the bank.

Harris’s statement on Tuesday doesn’t explain...

https://thinkprogress.org/mnuchin-onewest-foreclosure-memo-f4c065409e4d/

Many of the loans were Option Adjustable Rate Mortgages, which allowed borrowers to make minimum payments that didn’t cover the interest accrued each month. That extra interest would get added to the principal balance, eventually ballooning monthly payment amounts to a sum the borrower couldn’t afford. That landed them in the foreclosure process.


Between 2009 and 2013, OneWest foreclosed on approximately 36,000 homes while initiating about 45,000 more foreclosures.


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HEADLINE: Kamala Harris Has To Answer For Not Prosecuting Steve Mnuchin. 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-has-to-answer-for-not-prosecuting-steve_b_5980d18ee4b09d231a518205

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HEADLINE: The Story Behind the “Story” of Kamala Harris and Steve Mnuchin. (Author States: Nothing To The Story as Many News Outlets Quote the Same Intercept Article... As If That Mattered... Classic Attack the Messenger Not The Message Trick!)
https://medium.com/@kimbocoffin/the-story-behind-the-story-of-kamala-harris-and-steve-mnuchin-f58f64a5ec7f 


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"Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics" 
Two-Tone Coffee Mug FOR SALE!

You May Change the Words if you want to. There are two layers. a white layer with slightly larger type and a black layer on top... to form a "drop shadow" effect... anyway... write your own "Manifesto" or just buy the cup with the slogan: Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics... 

Let Doctors and Patients Decide What is the Best Treatment For Themselves.

KEEP ABORTION LEGAL- We need a Million People in the Streets of Washington DC. DAYS OF RAGE

If you can't go to DC, walk in to any government office anywhere and let your voice be heard. Or Just Take to the Streets Anywhere that is Highly Visible... Freeway Footbridges with a BIG SIGN, In Front of City Hall... OCCUPY!

KEEP ABORTION LEGAL - Nationwide Protest March on Tuesday - Join Us. 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-the-bans-abortion-protests_n_5cdf8acce4b09e05780422da?guccounter=1

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/444368-aclu-womens-march-and-other-womens-groups-to-hold-nationwide-protests-over


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/17/nationwide-protests-and-state-boycotts-planned-amid-wave-gop-attacks-abortion-rights


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American History: Seattle WTO Protest 1999 - This is What Democracy Looks Like - Documentary Movie - Protest Against the World Trade Organization WAS SUCCESSFUL... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Seattle_WTO_protests

American History: Chicago 1968 - "The Whole World is Watching" chanted the Yippies as "The Pigs" started a Police Riot at the Democratic Convention... President Lyndon Johnson decided to NOT RUN for reelection... and then he went back to Texas and Drank Himself to Death... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention_protest_activity
a secret sign that's impossible for a computer to read... a message for humans only

Calling Car Pollution Standards ‘Too High,’ E.P.A. Sets Up Fight With California... Extreme Pollution Agency Says: Breathing is Not Important, Profit Rules.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/climate/trump-auto-emissions-rules.html 
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday took steps to challenge California’s decades-old right to set its own air pollution rules, setting up a showdown between the federal government and a state that has emerged as a bulwark against the Trump administration’s policies.

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