October 29, 2005
Keep Towing That Line
New Indy Film Release: Keep Towing That Line- an inspirational 8-minute film filled with action footage from the 2005 Biscuit forest defense campaign. This tightly edited piece features the voice of legendary activist Joan Norman in an impassioned call to action accompanied by a moving soundtrack by The Devil Makes Three. This is a brief and open ended short film that covers the amazing civil disobedience campaign that took place in the spring of 2005 in opposition to the Bush Administration?s attempts to push through the largest logging project in US Forest Service history in the wildest landscape left on the US West Coast.
Download MPEG4 Movie 39.8 Megabyte file (high quality)
Download MPEG4 Movie 10 Megabyte file (low quality)
For more information, or to get copies of the DVD release, contact laurel@o2collective.org.
October 03, 2005
o2 Members Launch New Websites
-> Founding O2 member Kerul Dyer is in Southern Louisiana doing relief work for victims of Hurricane Katrina. Updates of her activities and experiences can be found on her personal blog site: www.kerulrelief.blogspot.com.
Kerul is working closely with the Common Ground Collective, who operate a clinic and convergence/distribution center in Algiers, across the Mississippi from downtown New Orleans.
-> Due to a back-door deal with the timber industry, over 2 million acres of Oregon?s national forests - managed by the Bureau of Land Management - are at risk. In collaboration with Cascadia Wildlands Project and Umpqua Watersheds, KS Wild Outreach Coordinator and O2 member Lesley Adams just launched an important new website at www.oregonheritageforests.org. This site is full of information and resources concerning the BLM?s history of forest management in Oregon, as well as ways to get involved in their current attempts to rewrite their entire Resource Management Plan (RMP) for all of Western Oregon.
-> O2 members Becky White and Nathan Pundt have a website featuring Becky?s music and Nathan?s woodcarving and printmaking, www.makeartnow.org. The site includes galleries of their art, how to order Becky?s cds and their schedules as traveling artists.