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A Call To...

FAST FOR HEADWATERS FOREST
To Begin Wednesday, July 12, 1995

Contact: Wendy (707) 943-3788

(Note: Do not reply to sender of this post, but please repost as 
appropriate!)

Ultimately, your demands, your location, your approach is up to you.

In Ft. Bragg CA, a fast is being planned for the California Dep't. of 
Forestry (CDF) offices. Most of the fasters are older people who will 
fast for a day and pass on the honor of fasting to the next, like a 
relay. They are hoping to continue for at least a week and maybe it will 
grow. They are looking for at least one local person there to fast 
consistently rather than for just a day, and of course indefinitely. 
Rather than adopting our five demands, their message will be PROTECT THE 
OLD GROWTHS, TOTAL PROTECTION. Also, HIRE LOGGERS AND OTHERS TO RESTORE 
THE LAND.

Following are the five basic demands. You are free to get involved and 
develop your fast/vigil/demands however you want. We will be coordinators 
of any actions that want our assistance. We can help with press releases 
and will also put out a basic press release that explains the entire 
picture with each fast adequately mentioned. We hope to be in constant 
communication with all group fasts.

PEACE, SHALOM, THANKS!

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DEMANDS:

(A) PENSION FOR LOGGERS/PACIFIC LUMBER EMPLOYEES-- Charles Hurwitz, owner 
of Maxxam, pay back the pension funds to loggers. He must drop his appeal 
to the lawsuit which he lost and restore the pension fund to its previous 
status.

(B) SAVINGS AND LOAN-- Charlie Hurwitz must pay back taxpayers' money 
($1.6 billion) he stole from them through his savings and loan scam. The 
FDIC must recommend to the Justice Department that they press charges on 
Hurwitz and in turn recover money to the public through civil litigation.

(C) ESA (Endangered Species Act)-- U.S. Fish and Wildlife must stop 
"signing off" on plans that destroy endangered species, which makes public 
input difficult. They must cite Hurwitz for conspiracy to violate the 
ESA, and end logging in endangered species habitat altogether. 

(D) DEBT FOR NATURE-- Hurwitz must stop logging immediately and return 
Headwaters to its inhabitants and the American people who ultimately paid 
for it with their tax dollars when they bailed out Hurwitz' S&L, which 
had its money looted and laundered to finance his takeover of Pacific 
Lumber (PL). Debt for Nature...

(E) RESTORATION JOBS-- The Federal and/or California state government 
must pass a bill which creates restoration jobs in the woods and offers 
the option for forest workers to stay in the forest. Judi Bari's 
Headwaters Forest Restoration Jobs Proposal would be the foundation of 
this demand.


Public visibility by Fasters as well as press conferences are encouraged 
and will be coordinated. Ultimately, each group of fasters has the leeway 
to join in fasting with whatever style, demands, guidelines they choose.


SITE/DEMANDS COORDINATION POSSIBILITIES:

San Francisco: F.D.I.C., Debt For Nature/Savings and Loan

Santa Rosa: C.D.F., Stop approving PL harvest plans without 
sustainability plan (this is not on our primary list, but it could be 
incorporated).

Sacramento: Fish and Wildlife, ESA/Capitol, RESTORATION BILL

Los Angeles: F.D.I.C. or Fish and Wildlife

Scotia: P.L. Headquarters, Hurwitz payback taxpayers and loggers 

Eureka: Riggs' Office, RESTORATION BILL

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