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kfloritto@kermode.net wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:53:01 -0800, catherine yronwode
> <cat@luckymojo.com> wrote:
> 
> >Headwaters Action Video Collective has just released a half-hour
> >documentary/organizing feature about the ancient forests of Northern
> >California. "Headwaters '97 -- Call to Action" details the 1996 direct
> >action campaign to save Headwaters, from the massive rally on September
> >15th, featurng Judi Bari's stirring speech and the arrests of 1033
> >children, women, and men, to aerial footage of amazing beauty and
> >incredible destruction. This report bears grim witness to MAXXAM's
> >clearcutting of the magnificent Headwaters old-growth redwood ecosystem,
> >which has provoked unprecedted resistance among a growing multitude of
> >dedicated forest conservationists.
> >
> >Designed as a tool for organizers, this video contains important
> >information about the coming rally to save Headwaters Forest that will
> >be held on Sunday, September 14th, 1997, in Carlotta, California. It is
> >suitable to use for ecological fund-raising, educational outreach, and
> >showing on public access television.
> >
> >Copies can be obtained from the Mendocino Environmental Center, 106 W.
> >Standley St., Ukiah, CA 95482 (707) 468-1660.
> >
> 
>         Perhaps you, or someone else reading this, can fill in a few
> blanks for me.
> 
>         Years ago, I lived in the tiny No. California community of
> Fortuna - about 30 miles south of Eureka.  At that time, the Sierra
> Club had published a book entitled "The Last of the Redwoods",
> a copy of which is still in my library.
> 
>         With all the conservation and preservation activity that
> was so very prevalent in those days - early '70s - I'd have thought
> the ancient redwoods were well and truly saved.
> 
>         From some of the horror stories I've heard over the past
> couple of years, it seems my assumption was quite wrong.
> 
>         What went wrong?

Very good question--  with so many activists engrossed in making 
video documentaries of their Empowering self-Expressions and what-
not, often the glaringly bothersome facts underlying the cause get
left out, alienating mainstream types just wanting to quickly get a 
notion of what the hell is going on.

No time to go on about this now, so here's some URL's-- (everyone post
what good ones you know & let's all check em out!)

http://www.ran.org/ran_campaigns/redwood/save.html
http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/headwaters/