June 24, 2005
Visit the Biscuit Forest With the O2 and Back To The WALL
Join the Oxygen Collective and Back To The WALL (Witness Against Lawless Logging) for an historic convergence of forest lovers from across the state in the Biscuit Fire Area of Southern Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains!
Swim in the amazing Illinois River! Witness the Biscuit forest hours after the Forest Service Lockout ends! Use the power of community creativity to tell the Bush bureaucrats what you think!
This FRIDAY, JULY 1ST, caravans of folk from Northern, Central and Southern Oregon will gather to bear witness and demonstrate against the ongoing destruction of native forests on public lands as part of the Bush Administration's all-out assault on our last wild places and the laws that protect them.
GET ON THE BUS!
PDX:
The WALL bus COOL will be leaving Portland Thursday evening, June 30th and will spend the night camping near the Rogue River, returning north Friday night. Contact: Joe Keating (503)234-2613 or keats@aracnet.com
Eugene:
Carpools are being arranged by Cascadia Wildlands Project, contact Josh Laughlin (541) 434-1463.
Ashland:
The Oxygen Collective bus will be leaving Evo's Cafe at 9:30 am Friday, returning in the evening. See www.o2collective.org, contact Laurel laurel@o2collective.org or (541)301-8963.
Join the Oxygen Collective and Back To The WALL (Witness Against Lawless Logging) for an historic convergence of forest lovers from across the state in the Biscuit Fire Area of Southern Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains!
Swim in the amazing Illinois River! Witness the Biscuit forest hours after the Forest Service Lockout ends! Use the power of community creativity to tell the Bush bureaucrats what you think!
This FRIDAY, JULY 1ST, caravans of folk from Northern, Central and Southern Oregon will gather to bear witness and demonstrate against the ongoing destruction of native forests on public lands as part of the Bush Administration's all-out assault on our last wild places and the laws that protect them.
We will start the day with a brief rally at Forest Supervisor Scott Conroy's office in Medford, where we will present him with the nefarious distinction of the Golden Stump Award. We will then head out to the Green Bridge over the picturesque, Wild and Scenic Illinois River.
The Green Bridge is the symbolic epicenter of the civil disobedience campaign opposing the massive Biscuit logging project, and has been closed off from the public by a Federal Closure Order since mid-March.
The closure order expires June 30th. Many of the arrestees will return to the Bridge this Friday for the first time since their arrest. This action is being organized to educate, inspire and energize the movement and will not involve a risk of arrest for those who do not wish it.
The Green Bridge is also the only access route to the Mike's Gulch timber sale, one of the first Roadless Area forests in the nation to face the imminent threat of industrial logging since the Bush administration repealed the popular Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
We will take folks on a tour of the newly accessible units of the recently logged Fiddler old growth reserve timber sale, and coordinate a creative, participative project with everyone present to send a clear message to the Forest Service and the media that we are not going away and this kind of reckless forest destruction will not be tolerated.
Come visit the amazingly beautiful Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area and take part in this precedent-setting campaign! We are making national headlines as the frontline of grassroots struggle against the industrial plunder of our precious natural heritage!
Visit www.o2collective.org for background and updates.
GET ON THE BUS!
PDX:
The WALL bus COOL will be leaving Portland Thursday evening, June 30th and will spend the night camping near the Rogue River, returning north Friday night. Contact: Joe Keating (503)234-2613 or keats@aracnet.com
Eugene:
Carpools are being arranged by Cascadia Wildlands Project, contact Josh Laughlin (541) 434-1463.
Ashland:
The Oxygen Collective bus will be leaving Evo's Cafe at 9:30 am Friday, returning in the evening. See www.o2collective.org, contact Laurel laurel@o2collective.org or (541)301-8963.