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What If We Moved "The Office" to Abandoned Stores In the Shopping Mall? That Would Be a Much Shorter Commute to Work. Because Malls are Located Near People's Homes.

I Know People that Commute from the Central Valley of California to the Bay Area. That's Insane but That's Where the Jobs Are and That's Where Affordable Homes Are. Let's End the Madness!

Write to Governor Newsom: 

https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/ 

Simply STOP COLLECTING Gas Taxes in California. The State has a Budget Surplus so we don't Need Gas Taxes... We ALREADY Have Enough Money. Continuing to Collect Gas Taxes is Compulsive Hoarding of Money Syndrome... a Mental Health Obsession! STOP COLLECTING! 

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Let's Cut Driving in Half... It's the Burning of Fossil Fuel That is Causing Climate Change. Cars, Trucks, Vans, Buses and Jet Airplanes.  Ask Yourself: Is It Absolutely Required that I Drive?

Can You Find Happiness Without Destroying Life on Earth? 

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/08/09/earth-edge-climate-crisis-must-be-treated-outbreak-world-war

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On a different Subject!

SE Said: People who aren't affected by the spring time change must be the kind of people who can fall asleep at the drop of a hat, any time, anywhere. Just close their eyes and drop off to sleep. But those of us who are strongly affected by the time change are usually people who can't sleep unless we're actually TIRED. I've always wished I was one of those people who can just shut my eyes and go to sleep any time, anywhere. It must be nice to be able to sleep so easily. But for me, getting enough sleep is a constant struggle. It's not that I don't like extra daylight at the end of the day, but it comes at the expense of precious sleep. It's already 6:15, but it's so LIGHT outside. I should be thinking about dinner, and after that I've got to think about winding down and getting to bed at around 10. But with all this extra daylight, I won't feel tired until probably 11 or 12. Then 6am becomes 5am, and tomorrow is the day it's really going to hit me. I wish we could do this in April like we used to until 2007. I've never understood why they moved it to March. It's too early for this.

I Replied: I didn't notice it at all this year... I generally wake up about 3 AM after going to sleep at 8 PM... But all those numbers are approximate... Random! I do watch Jeopardy! from 7 to 7:30 and My Care Giver makes me a snack after that... anyway... This morning I woke up and Read the time on my Computer... and just accepted that it was accurate... and went out to the Dining Room Table at 4 AM because they won't serve me coffee before then... The care givers like to sleep at night and they won't get out of bed before 4... That Day Shift Lady was late because the time change caught her unaware... she was flustered... and my housemate didn't show up for breakfast until an hour late because he wears a watch... and the watch was an hour off today... I don't own a watch... When I retired I was NO LONGER a Slave to Time. No Alarm Clock Either. 

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GRATEFUL DEAD: The motif of a cycle of folk tales which begin with the hero coming upon a group of people ill-treating or refusing to bury the corpse of a man who had died without paying his debts. He gives his last penny, either to pay the man’s debts or to give him a decent burial. Within a few hours he meets with a travelling companion who aids him in some impossible task, gets him a fortune or saves his life. The story ends with the companion disclosing himself as the man whose corpse the hero had befriended.(the Funk and Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary, Britannica World Language Edition.).

https://www.dead.net/features/blog/literary-underground-grateful-dead-dictionary-dead

Jerry Garcia in a Sixties Era Tie Dye T-Shirt
Jerry Garcia in a Sixties Era Tie Dye T-Shirt

Jerry Garcia in a Tie Dyed T-Shirt

In the photo below Janis Joplin is wearing a Classic Sixties RIT Tie Dye. We Used Rubber Bands to Gather the Fabric into a cone shape and then Boiled the entire garment WITH SALT in a Pot on the Stove... Then we rinsed the garment WHILE STILL TIED in the sink with running water to get rid of excess dye... We Bought the RIT at the Grocery Store... That Entire Rainbow Spiral Look Came Much Later...

Janis Joplin in a Tie Dyed Dress

a Shirt Gathered together using Rubber Bands
a Shirt Gathered together using Rubber Bands 

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and then a Fellow Wrote About Los Gatos, CA.
Where we grew Up in the 1950s & 1960s

Tme warp…
In the 50’s and 60’s, Los Gatos was the quintessential little town, framed by mountains, bigger towns and cities and dotted with orchards and little industries, a model town that, except for location could have been almost any town in the nation at the time. People living their post war lives and doing what needed to be done, raising families, working and giving thanks for the peaceful times.
Television was replacing the radio, so for the first time we could see what life was like outside our little town… Big city life was now in our living room with Lucy and Ethel, Ralph Kramden and Alice, (Alice who did not get there herself, but did have many opportunities to go to the moon) Life was good. America by and large was great. I must have won life’s lottery, getting to grow up in Los Gatos at a time when it was small, personal and well, Just wonderful.
Small towns… every time I get to a small town I am drawn back to those days of my youth and taken to some location that except in time could have been my little town. Recently having the occasion to wander into Sonora Lumber (in Sonora CA)… .parking out back and entering an old wooden building with a tin roof in which were rows of wooden shelves lined with hardware, tools, nails and all the things needed to mend, bend and build something. Immediately I was transported to Sterling Lumber Company (University Ave across from the university Ave school aka old town)… almost tripping on the knots in the wood floor that raised because they were harder than the surrounding softer wood, that had been worn off by the shuffle of work boots that moved over the floor for decades. Looking further the “better” lumber and moldings are in racks either standing up or pushed into long deep bins that keep the material straight and out of the sun, there is a walkway for the second tier and a rolling ladder to access some of the uppermost bins. The task of loading these bins is time consuming and virtually a lost art with the cost of labor and short supply of help these days. The help nowadays wear jeans and tee shirts missing was the lumber aprons the men would wear that protected them and their clothing the aprons were long and had pouches that held tape measures and lumber crayons (keel) and the blue work shirt with two snap down pockets. The current patrons mostly have trucks that while old, function with make shift lumber racks and such to haul away their days working materials, unlike Sterling lumber/Templeman’s hardware…
Trucks were somewhat scarce in the 50s , a truck was a work truck and not a weekend cruiser/camper/ toy hauler like we know now. Nope, if you had a truck you were working, or hauling*. If you didn’t have a truck or could borrow one you would take a long piece off sisal twine** and lash that plywood to the top of the old Chrysler and head out. Probably all the old guys worked together on some project or two as they all seemed to know each other… Walt Pearce and Jack Vodden worked at Sterling and I recall my dad working with Tom Sims, Walt (?) Lochner, Pete Buchner, and the Wallace’s who had a cabinet shop up by Saint Clairs retreat, and had a sideline making cabinets and props for magicians. To many names to remember.
Unlike the current building supply big box stores, I ordered my 6 bags of sand, and the clerk wrote it out on a tag and the yard guy loaded it for me and said thanks before heading off to the next person waiting for something… Small Town, big people, big hearts and occasionally if we open our senses we can slip back into our youth and get that sense of what we had.
* Sisal twine….This stuff was pretty strong, and you would triple or quadruple the strands to form a rope like. The oily smell is unique, and the sisal would give you a splinter if you slide it through your hands. It was always interesting (scary too) to go up Highway 17 and see a long bunch of wood wrapped to the top of a car. The plastic stuff that replaced is just not as good.
** Uncle Chuck (Adams), had some kind of old pickup and once a week or so on the way home (just below Call of the Wild) he would load the back full with $100 worth of groceries, today that $100 bucks of food wouldn’t fill the passenger seat. Or it might be full of firewood, or something to burn in the big old fireplaces in the log cabin.

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and I wrote:

I grew bean sprouts in High School. Buy Mung Beans at the health food store... put 'em in a mason jar... cover the opening in the jar with a nylon stocking... hold the nylon in place with a rubber band... swish water on them every day... The beans sprout and when they get long enough, put 'em on a sandwich... There was a health food store on Main Street, Los Gatos Right across from the Town Hall/Library... a Classmates parents owned it... In the Summit Bicycles Currently location... https://goo.gl/maps/6a5MSSowLknxKU3MA

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This is an Excellent Photo... I always wondered if the Fourth Guy from the Left in the Back Row was Photoshopped in... He Doesn't Look Like all the Other People... Maybe he had a Friend who worked at The Photo Laboratory in the White House and they were Playing a Joke... Note that the Light on His Face is Much Brighter Than The Other Five Standing Men or the Lady... 
Unsolved Mystery!
Obama, Joe and Hillary witnessing a Murder they Hired.
Obama, Joe and Hillary witnessing
a Murder they Hired.

I Posted on FaceBorg:
The murder of Osama bin Laden was especially Strange. NO BODY. NO PHOTOS OF BODY. Did the Carlyle Group simply arrange for him to Vanish? "You get to Live but You Must Shut UP and Never be seen again." Perhaps a Nice Indonesian Island? Just You and Your Harem?

and then JB Replied:
I doubt the entire Navy Seal team 6 would go along with that, esp under Obama, they immediately acknowledged it would probably lead to his re-election, the majority of them were against an Obama 2nd term.

and I Replied: 
Plausible Deniability. I believe Osama is Dead. They just made a Mistake is Having No Photos, No Body... they were so focused on Actually Killing Him that No One Thought of the Blowback... No one Ever thinks of the Blowback... It's just Like the "No Photographs of an Airplane at the Pentagon on 9/11/2001" - They Could have easily released a film... the FBI Confiscated SO MANY Films but... OOPS...

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Back to The Main Story... 

Sure... People Say That Climate Change will only Kill Off Four Billion Humans and Then The World Will Heal BUT... Why Not Take Action Now and Prevent Disaster?

I Personally DO NOT Own a Car... I Travel by LYFT about Twice a Year... As a Retired Person, I walk around the Neighborhood Every Day BUT... All That Mad Rushing Around Traveling All Over the Place FOR AMUSEMENT is in My Past... Yes... I Used to Drive All Over the USA in order to Dance at Grateful Dead Concerts... WELL... We Can't Do That Anymore... 

My Little White Truck with a Red, White and Blue Heart painting - gvan42
My Little White Truck with a
Red, White and Blue Heart painting.

"Round TUIT" Keychain for sale... 
"Someday I'm Going to get Around To It. 
OH! Today's The Day..."

All My Royalties from my Zazzle Store are Donated to A Worthy Charity. Helping a Retired Lady Living on Social Security Make Ends Meet. The Rent on Her Trailer Space Just Increased... For No Reason... Greedy Landlords... https://www.gofundme.com/f/cxfg3f-1000

Wildfires in Northern California - 8/10/2021
Wildfires in Northern California - 8/10/2021 
Hey Governor Newsom: Let's Buy 100 Helicopters to Dump Water on Wildfires. An Endless Parade of Helicopters Dipping Buckets in Lake Almanor Would Put the Dixie Fire Out. 
https://disasterresponse.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2ff1677111ae4018ac705fcce7c3312f

It's the End of the Internal Combustion Engine Era. gvan42

Ecology - a Concept not grasped by Monster Truck Guy
Ecology - a Concept not grasped by Monster Truck Guy 

People Say That... They Have to Drive to Work Every Day... However, SOME Jobs can be done at home... SOME Businesses Could Relocate the Office to an Abandoned Shopping Mall Near Homes... SOME People Could Ride the BUS to Work... It's Possible... 

People get Laid Off from Work Quite Often These Days and... at that time... It would be excellent to select a new job with a Drastically Shorter Commute... If You Drive an Hour To Get to Work 5 Days a Week a HUGE PORTION of Your Precious LIFE is Wasted... Never to be Lived Again... I Rode the Bus in Eureka, CA and Slept during the Morning Commute... and Chatted With Women on the Way Home... THAT'S Living!

Climate Change Turtle Word Art by gvan42

rake vs gas powered leaf blower MEME by gvan42
rake vs gas powered leaf blower MEME by gvan42

Climate Change World Word Art by gvan42




Flip the EPA Mission - Enable Polluters Agency

Solar Powered Street Lights Would Save a LOT of Electricity Currently Being Generated in Coal, Natural Gas and Atomic Power Plants (Polluting the World) and Distributed Using WIRES. That's WASTEFUL and DANGEROUS... POWER LINES CAUSE FOREST FIRES. 

Nothing NEW Needs to Be Invented... We Ought to Simply Replace the Millions of Old Style Street Lights... With Solar Cells and LED Lamps... The Concept of Generating Power in One Central Location and Distributing it to the User is Quite Wasteful... Some Electricity JUST VANISHES over the Long Distance... and DANGEROUS because the Wires Start Forest Fires... PG&E Power Company Just Burned the Entire Town Of Paradise, CA... and It Caused the Company to Go Bankrupt. Distributing Power From a Central Generator is an Obsolete Idea. What if Every House had Solar Panels on the Roof That Provided Enough Electricity to UNPLUG FROM THE GRID...

Please Let Your Elected Officials Know That WE Have Had Enough of the Madness!


I Loved Riding the Bus and Light Rail in San Jose and EUREKA, California. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/i-loved-riding-bus-and-light-rail-in.html

I remember when I could not afford a Car I was able to get to work on the Bus  ...and... Drinking and Driving is Not Only Illegal But Actually Dangerous While Drinking and Riding the Bus is FUN... 


Magic Bus in Eureka California gvan42

On Halloween, I Brought My Guitar and Sang for the Party Goers on the San Jose Light Rail... 

More Importantly, I Rode from Almaden to the Public Library and Used the Free Computers there to Build a Website in the Late 1990s. Tripod and Yahoo Geocities... I didn't know what I was doing but the Other Patrons were Happy to Help. My Content is Still Online 23 Years Later! http://www.oocities.org/gregvan/




My Favorite Photograph... Taken Just Before I put the Camera in my Pocket, Joined Hands With the People and Chanted OM... Remember: It's More Important to LIVE LIFE than Document Life...
Rainbow Gathering California July 4th Chanting OM
Rainbow Gathering California July 4th Chanting OM

CONVERT HUMAN FAT INTO ELECTRICITY With an Exercise Bicycle Power Generator. ZERO POLLUTION. Simply Use the Bicycle to Drive an Automobile Alternator with a Belt... Store Electricity in a Car Battery...


Hundreds of Thousands of exercise Bicycles
ALREADY EXIST and they Create ZERO Electricity...
Let's All Email PELOTON and ask them to
Build USEFUL Power Generator Bicycles!
Bicycle power generator. HSU CCAT
detail of Bicycle Power Generator showing the Belt Driven Alternator... and MY SHADOW

What if we installed electric power generators on every exercise bicycle nationwide... We could replace coal burning power plants and help reverse global warming/climate change. These bicycles let a person spin an automobile alternator using pedal power. Built by CCAT at Humboldt State University

you are an answered prayer


On Faceborg I Read:
I must admit I was seriously blown away with our community roll out of the vaccine programme, being from the older generation it reminded me of what community spirit can do collectively when we honour ourselves and each other without prejudices, I see the same human spirit from many different countries standing up to Putin and his fellow gangsters, I hope to live long enough to see a statue of President Zelenskyy in Parliament Square one day hopefully next to Winston Churchill who he quoted during his address to Parliament, the first foreign leader to Address the house of commons to a rapturous applause👏, law of attraction at its finest hour ! ☮💙💛 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌎
LINKS TO MORE BLOG POSTS!

The Headwaters Forest Coloring Book... Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney. (C) 1999 Environmentally Sound Promotions.

CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE THEM BIGGER AND DOWNLOAD, PRINT...

The Headwaters Forest is a Park of Old Growth Redwoods near Eureka, CA...
Purchased by the State of California in response to public protest of logging by
Maxxam Corporation owned by Charles Hurwitz,,,
Now the company has gone bankrupt and Hurwitz went back to Texas.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.



Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.

Headwaters Forest Coloring Book - Earth First!  Illustration by Mykol Blackwell. Text by Darryl Cherney.


American History: The Humboldt County Timber Wars... A Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber Company and The Extreme Logging of Old Growth Redwoods in Northern California. MAXXAM SUXX

In 1985 Charles Hurwitz borrowed money (Junk Bonds) from Michael Milken and bought the company Pacific Lumber, located near Eureka, California. Then Hurwitz increased the rate of logging in the Redwood Forest and cut down all the highly profitable trees. Then he split his corporation MAXXAM into two divisions. One division was used to do actual logging and sawing of boards and the other division was used to hide the profits. When the bill came due on the Junk Bonds, Hurwitz declared bankruptcy and took the money back to Texas. Including the pension funds that paid retirement benefits for employees...


Photo of a Car in front of a Giant Pile Of Redwood Logs at A Lumber mill in Eureka CA - EARTH FIRST!
Photo of a Car in front of a Giant Pile Of Redwood Logs at A Lumber mill in Eureka CA - EARTH FIRST

Then the Pacific Lumber Company was purchased at a foreclosure sale by The Fisher Family. They had made a fortune selling clothes at a chain of stores called "The Gap". They reintroduced the business plan called "sustainable logging" where the Lumberjacks would only cut down as many trees as grew during the year. This plan was invented by the original owner of Pacific Lumber, Simon J. Murphy... The concept was to cut 1% of the forest every year and plant new trees so that in a hundred years the new trees would have grown big enough to harvest.

Earth First!

During this time there were many ecology protests in Humboldt County. Including "Tree Sits" where forest protectors would build a treehouse in the upper branches of a giant Redwood in order to prevent Lumberjacks from Chainsawing the tree down. It would be possibly fatal for a tree sitter to be in a tree that was falling and the corporations were not willing to risk actual Human Life for profit. (Bad Publicity)... At the Tree Sit I attended MAXXAM Hired a Local man to "Evict" the Tree Sitters by climbing the tree and wrestling with the people... eventually carrying them to the ground where the Police arrested them.

Others committed "Tree Spiking" where large metal nails were driven into the wood of a tree and then the heads of the nails were clipped off. That way, if a tree was at the sawmill and the blade hit the metal, the blade would explode killing millworkers. Once again the corporation was not willing to risk people's lives and so trees that were spiked, were not cut down. The Forest Protectors spray painted the spiked trees so that the Lumberjacks would be aware of the danger.

Still others went to the Offices of Political Leaders and staged "Sit-Ins" where they would handcuff themselves to each other and chant/sing songs while being filmed by TV Cameras... At one of these events the local police used pepper spray on the protestors who were young women. The young women screamed loudly... and it was filmed by TV Stations. When this was broadcast on the TV News it outrages the citizens of California... There is a biological reaction to young women being harmed... This Media Event lead to a massive protest Statewide and the California Legislature Bought a Large Tract of Land and created the Headwaters Forest Park... The park protecting a stand of Old Growth Redwoods near Fortuna, California. It is a pretty park with a paved trail that is popular with people that have wheeled vehicles like bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards and baby buggies. The hike from the parking lot to the Giant Redwood Trees is about five miles and simply too far for most people to walk but it's easy for people on wheels.

Another technique used to stop the logging was Scientific Ecology Studies that concluded that the Spotted Owl was losing it's habitat and it was in danger of going extinct. See Illustration below...

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




Full Text of a Newspaper Article I wrote for The Humboldt State University Lumberjack Newspaper about a Tree Sit in Freshwater, California
http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/freshwater-tree-sit-near-eureka-ca-2003.html

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mill-creek-trip-with-save-redwoods.html
Photographs and Description of events at the Dedication Ceremony of the Mill Creek Park with the Save the Redwoods League.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/two-pinecones-in-humid-weather-and.html
Photographs of a Hike in the Headwaters Forest.

http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/04/photographs-of-clearcut-logging-in.html
Photographs of Clearcut Logging in Arcata, California on Fickle Hill Road up in the mountains behind town...

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

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

https://www.amazon.com/Trouble-Forest-Californias-Redwood-Timber/dp/0816653259


Photo of a Clearcut a couple of years later. Once You Cut Down the Redwood Trees, It's Sunny and the Pampas Grass Thrives... Greenwood Heights, CA Near Arcata
Photo of a Clearcut a couple of years later. Once You Cut Down the Redwood Trees, It's Sunny and the Pampas Grass Thrives... Greenwood Heights, CA Near Arcata

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