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>From: kmurphy@ucla.edu (kirk murphy)
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>Subject: NEWS: Ewok Village saves Owl Creek at Headwaters!
>Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 02:37:48 -0700
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>     The list of rare and unusual creatures found in the Headwaters Forest
>gained a new entry on the morning of Thursday, September 19th, when forest
>activists encountered a village of arboreal dwellers - the Ewok village -
>suspended in and amongst the mighty boughs and boles of Owl Creek!
>
>     According to Gary Ball of the Mendocino Environmental Center, first
>contact between EarthFirst! activists and the Ewok village people was a
>peaceful one, with harmony arising from both groups' fierce love for the
>ancient forests and admiration for the Ewoks' remarkable life and dwellings
>above the forest floor.  EF! activists were reportedly impressed by the
>network of platforms, ropes, and shrimp nets strung among and between
>living trees, as well as by the immense effort required for the (apparently
>nomadic) Ewok to have established their dwellings amidst the threatened
>groves of Owl Creek in a single evening.
>
>     EF! activists who had entered the threatened Owl Creek area to prevent
>imminent logging quickly established common cause with the Ewok.  The
>alliance has been so effective that loggers and their employers' hired
>thugs (in public and private uniforms) who showed up later on Thusday
>departed without even attempting to dislodge the Ewok/EF! peoples, let
>alone harming the trees!   
>
>    This update is from activists' reports to the Mendicino Environmental
>Center about direct actions on Thurday, Sept. 19th.  Daily updates will be
>provided as they become available.
>
>    [Ethnological footnote: initial impressions of the Ewok village and
>people appear to offer powerful experimental evidence for the theory of
>convergant cultural evolution, which posits that near-identical cultures
>may arise among different groups which are divergant in location, time, and
>potentially even species.  At any rate, intial reports suggest the 
>arboreal Ewoks' values, culture, appearance, vocalizations, and
>communications bear a remarkable similarity to the terrestrial EarthFirst!
>peoples.  Recent observers describe the EF! peoples' ecological niche as
>one in which they frequent the forest floor...frequently in the vicinity of
>large aggregations of metallic and composite particulate matter commonly
>known as "lockdowns"...
>
>     Further evidence for the theory is also provided by the
>near-simultaneous appearance of arboreal populations of forest defenders in
>both the ancient forests of Northwestern Europe and Northwestern America. 
>Some recent theorists in the evolution of forest activists have speculated
>that these developments are a reflection of the intense selective pressure
>(torture, assault, death threats, bombings, murder attempts, etc.) which
>terrestrial forest defenders have encountered in California and the Pacific
>Northwest, as well as in the homes of indigenous peoples around the
>planet.]
>

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From: kmurphy@ucla.edu (kirk murphy)
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Subject: NEWS: Ewok Village saves Owl Creek at Headwaters!
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 02:37:48 -0700
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     The list of rare and unusual creatures found in the Headwaters Forest
gained a new entry on the morning of Thursday, September 19th, when forest
activists encountered a village of arboreal dwellers - the Ewok village -
suspended in and amongst the mighty boughs and boles of Owl Creek!

     According to Gary Ball of the Mendocino Environmental Center, first
contact between EarthFirst! activists and the Ewok village people was a
peaceful one, with harmony arising from both groups' fierce love for the
ancient forests and admiration for the Ewoks' remarkable life and dwellings
above the forest floor.  EF! activists were reportedly impressed by the
network of platforms, ropes, and shrimp nets strung among and between
living trees, as well as by the immense effort required for the (apparently
nomadic) Ewok to have established their dwellings amidst the threatened
groves of Owl Creek in a single evening.

     EF! activists who had entered the threatened Owl Creek area to prevent
imminent logging quickly established common cause with the Ewok.  The
alliance has been so effective that loggers and their employers' hired
thugs (in public and private uniforms) who showed up later on Thusday
departed without even attempting to dislodge the Ewok/EF! peoples, let
alone harming the trees!   

    This update is from activists' reports to the Mendicino Environmental
Center about direct actions on Thurday, Sept. 19th.  Daily updates will be
provided as they become available.

    [Ethnological footnote: initial impressions of the Ewok village and
people appear to offer powerful experimental evidence for the theory of
convergant cultural evolution, which posits that near-identical cultures
may arise among different groups which are divergant in location, time, and
potentially even species.  At any rate, intial reports suggest the 
arboreal Ewoks' values, culture, appearance, vocalizations, and
communications bear a remarkable similarity to the terrestrial EarthFirst!
peoples.  Recent observers describe the EF! peoples' ecological niche as
one in which they frequent the forest floor...frequently in the vicinity of
large aggregations of metallic and composite particulate matter commonly
known as "lockdowns"...

     Further evidence for the theory is also provided by the
near-simultaneous appearance of arboreal populations of forest defenders in
both the ancient forests of Northwestern Europe and Northwestern America. 
Some recent theorists in the evolution of forest activists have speculated
that these developments are a reflection of the intense selective pressure
(torture, assault, death threats, bombings, murder attempts, etc.) which
terrestrial forest defenders have encountered in California and the Pacific
Northwest, as well as in the homes of indigenous peoples around the
planet.]

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