This is form a book called "Carnival of Chaos" published by
Autonomedia/Bloodlink.
the Carnival of Chaos is like a travels T.A.Z. (temporary autonomous zone).
We are old. We are ancient. Our beliefs and ideas now called Anarchist
Revolutionary were once common knowledge, spiritual base. We are young and
spirited but wise with our reconnection to our foremothers and fathers. We can
survive living off the waste of technoindustrial death culture - but we strive
to create. To create our own culture of collective understanding, of
collective sharing. We have goals. We will break down the walls that
patriarchy has created to keep us apart, isolated. We will heal orselves - our
minds free of restrictions, our bodies free of disease, our hearts free to
love universally. We are one! One mass movement of spirits seeking true
freedom - on different bars - but we are all one. We strive to create beauty
in a world of grinding, gnashing mechanical uncleanliness. We think in terms
of generations to come, how our grandchildren will live. We seek to reconnect
with the ancient knowledge of our people overseas - the magic, the medicine,
the respect for all living things - as stewards of our Mother Earth. We seek
to learn of great Goddess� Kali, Baba Yaga, Ariadne, Aphrodite, Gaia, and
others - their mysteries, their magic. For we need to return to our Mother,
the peacekeepers and givers of life. Patriarchy has disconnected us -
encouraged us to rise up rather than ground ourselves, preaching and acting
out a warring, egobased, terror society - where womyn are made to hate their
bodies and discredit their minds. Where men are made to believe they are
nothing if they don�t prove themselves to be egotistical, arrogant, and
aggressive - dominators of womyn and nature. We encompass Earth, Water, Fire,
Air, and Spirit. We are old. We are ancient. We are one and continue to grow.
Amy Schimph
115 E. Hillcrest
Eugene, OR 97404
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 29 05:58:57 1998
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 07:58:32 EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USA National Forests!!
Forwarded message:
PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
Dear Friend of the Forests,
David Brower has asked me to send this letter out widely.
Please help get Brower's message out to any and all leaders,
directors, and staff of U.S. local, regional, and national
conservation organizations that you may know.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Rene Voss
Vice-Chair,
National Sierra Club's Forest Campaign
****************************************
DAVID R. BROWER
SIERRA CLUB
85 Second Street
Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105-3441
May 28, 1998
Dear friends,
What if we no longer had to worry about the timber industry cutting down
our national forests? What if they were protected as John Muir
envisioned over a century ago? We now have the opportunity to make
Muir's dream a reality.
I am writing to ask for your organization's endorsement of HR 2789, the
National Forest Protection and Restoration Act ("NFPRA", a.k.a. the
"McKinney/Leach bill"), which was introduced last October by Rep.
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA, Chair of the House
Banking and Financial Services Committee). This historic bipartisan
legislation, with a growing list of co-sponsors, will end the timber
sales program on national forests, BLM lands, and national wildlife
refuges, and will redirect current logging subsidies into worker
retraining, payments to counties, ecological restoration work (with a
hiring preference for dislocated timber workers), grants for tree-free
alternatives for paper and construction materials, and deficit
reduction. Taxpayers will save over $300 million annually.
Please initiate whatever process is necessary in your organization to
endorse NFPRA, whether that be through a decision of the Executive
Director or through a scheduled discussion and ratification at your next
Board meeting. Please then write a brief letter on your group's
letterhead urging the House Congressional delegation from your
state/area to cosponsor HR 2789, the National Forest Protection and
Restoration Act (national organizations may want to address the letter
generally, i.e., "Dear Member of Congress"). So that we might
effectively keep track of the rapidly growing support for this bill, it
would be very helpful if you would send a copy of your letter to Rene
Voss, Vice-Chair of the national Sierra Club's Forest Campaign Committee
at 1025 Vermont Ave., NW, Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20005.
If you would like to do more to advance this campaign, you could write a
guest editorial supporting the bill and submit it to local, regional, or
even national newspapers. You could also start a monthly or bimonthly
letter-to-the-editor writing group, organize events or press
conferences, visit newspaper editorial boards and ask them to write an
editorial endorsing the bill, etc. If possible, initiate an ongoing
campaign to end logging on national forests, whether through public
education, direct in-district organizing, or other means.
The following materials have been included in this mailing for your
reference: a one-page bill synopsis; a one-page fact sheet; a current
list of organizations now endorsing HR 2789, the National Forest
Protection and Restoration Act; and a sample editorial.
We are not so poor that we must log our national forests, nor so
rich that we can afford to. Thank you so much for your help and
support.
Sincerely,
/s/ David R. Brower
David R. Brower
Director, Sierra Club
Former Sierra Club Executive Director (1952-1969)
Chairman, Earth Island Institute
attachments
Attachment 1:
THE NATIONAL FOREST PROTECTION AND0
RESTORATION ACT (H.R. 2789)
Introduced on 10/31/97
BY REP. CYNTHIA MCKINNEY (D-GA)
AND REP. JIM LEACH (R-IA)
Co-sponsors, to date, include:
Jim McDermott (D-WA), George Brown (D-CA), Julian Dixon (D-CA),
Bob Filner (D-CA), Luis Gutierrez, (D-IL), John Lewis (D-GA),
Pete Stark (D-CA), Henry Waxman (D-CA), Michael Forbes (R-NY),
Sydney Yates (D-IL), Harold Ford (D-TN), Robert Andrews (D-NJ),
Bob Franks (R-NJ), Barney Frank (D-MA), Gary Ackerman (D-NY),
Lynn Rivers (D-MI), David Bonier (D-MI), Dennis Kucinich (D-OH),
Matthew Martinez (D-CA), Tom Lantos (D-CA), Joe Kennedy (D-MA),
Bill Luther (D-MN), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), William Clay (D-MO),
Bobby Rush (D-IL), Henry Gonzalez (D-TX), James McGovern (D-MA),
Ed Markey (D-MA)
The National Forest Protection and Restoration Act (NFPRA):
Preserves America's national forest heritage, protecting and restoring
the ecological values of our federal public forests by ending the
federal government's timber sale program on National Forests, National
Wildlife Refuges, and BLM Lands.
Immediately protects all roadless areas by canceling existing timber
sales in those areas.
Immediately prohibits all new timber sales, cancels Salvage Rider sales,
and phases out all existing timber sales within 2 years.
Saves taxpayers over $300 million annually.
Redirects logging subsidies to provide funds for worker retraining; and
gives preference to displaced timber workers for jobs in the woods doing
ecological restoration.
Begins a scientifically-based ecological restoration program for federal
public forests.
Redirects logging subsidies, providing funding to replace 25% revenue
sharing payments to States for Counties and local governments.
Redirects logging subsidies to provide funding for environmentally
sensitive non-wood alternative paper and construction materials.
Attachment 2:
ENDING TIMBER SALES ON NATIONAL FORESTS: THE FACTS
-- REPORT SUMMARY --
This report analyzes the issues surrounding an end to the timber sales
program on national forests. Among the findings are the following:
The national forest timber sales program operated at a net loss to
taxpayers of at least $791 million in fiscal year 1996, and returned $0
(no receipts) to taxpayers.
If we ended the timber sales program on national forests and redirected
the logging subsidy, we could provide over $25,000 for each public lands
timber worker for retraining or ecological restoration work--and still
have over $200 million left over to reduce the federal deficit in the
first year alone.
We don't need to log national forests for our timber supply, given the
fact that the timber cut annually from national forests nationwide now
comprises only 3.9% of this nation's total annual wood consumption, and
less than 5% of the sawtimber used for construction.
The Forest Service's own nationwide poll found that most Americans
oppose commodity production, including timber sales, on national
forests.
Logging on national forests INCREASES the risk of forest fires more than
any other human activity.
The above findings were reviewed and verified by the Congressional
Research Service (CRS). In a report dated August 22, 1997, CRS
concluded that, "...as the commentary demonstrates in figure 4,
essentially NO timber sales receipts were deposited in the General
Treasury in FY1996 to offset timber program expenditures. Thus,
one can conclude that $791 million is a "reasonable estimate" of
the cost of the Forest Service's FY1996 timber program to taxpayers.
(emphasis in original)
In summary, the national forest timber sales program, in addition
to being horribly destructive ecologically, loses hundreds of
millions of taxpayer dollars each year, increases forest fires,
is unnecessary for our timber supply, and should be ended.
This Report is available upon request from the John Muir Project
of Earth Island Institute at 30 North Raymond Ave., Suite 514,
Pasadena, CA 91103.
Attachment 3:
Organizations Supporting the McKinney-Leach National Forest
Protection and Restoration Act (H.R. 2789)
Environmental Organizations
1. Allegheny Defense Project (PA)
2. Alternatives in Action! (GA)
3. Appalachian Voices (NC)
4. Big Wild Advocates (MT)
5. Biodiversity Legal Foundation (CO)
6. Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (OR)
7. Broadened Horizons River Keeper (TN)
8. Buckeye Forest Council (OH)
9. Cascadia Forest Alliance (OR)
10. Cascadia Forest Defenders (OR)
11. Central Appalachian Biodiversity Project (WV)
12. Central Oregon Forest Issues Committee (OR)
13. Citizen Public Lands (MI)
14. Cold Mountain Cold Rivers (MT)
15. Concerned Citizens of Rutherford County (NC)
16. Constitutional Law Foundation (OR)
17. Cove-Mallard Coalition (ID)
18. Defenders of the Great Lakes
19. Dogwood Alliance (TN)
20. EarthCulture (NC)
21. Earth First! (USA)
22. Earth Island Institute (CA)
23. Eco-Home Network (CA)
24. Environmental Action Community (ID)
25. Forest Conservation Council (NM)
26. Forest Guardians (NM)
27. Forest Inholders Guarding Habitat Together (AR)
28. Foundation for Deep Ecology (CA)=20
29. Friends of the Breitenbush Cascades (OR)
30. Friends of the Clearwater (ID)
31. Friends of Georgia (GA)
32. Friends of Nitassinan (MA)
33. Gila Watch (NM)
34. Green Highlands Project (NC)
35. Green Mountain Forest Watch (VT)
36. HAWK (KY)=20
37. Heartwood (IN)
38. Idaho Sporting Congress (ID)
39. Indiana Forest Alliance (IN)
40. John Muir Project (CA)
41. Kentucky Heartwood (KY)
42. Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Project (OR)
43. The Lands Council (WA)
44. Leavenworth Audubon Adopt-a-Forest (WA)
45. Maine Greens (MA)
46. Media Rights (TN)
47. Memphis Audubon Society (TN)
48. Missouri Heartwood (MO)
49. National Endangered Species Network (CA)
50. Native Forest Council (OR)
51. Native Forest Network (MT)
52. New Alliance for the Forests (OR)
53. Northern Rockies Preservation Project (ID)
54. Northwest Ecosystem Alliance (WA)
55. North Woods Wilderness Recovery (MI)
56. One Northwest, Inc. (WA)
57. Oregon Natural Resources Council (OR)
58. Oregon Natural Desert Association (OR)
59. Oregon Watersheds (OR)
60. Ozark Watch League (MO)
61. Pacific Crest Biodiversity Project (WA)
62. Pilchuck Audubon (WA)
63. Preserve Appalachian Wilderness (VA)
64. Protect Biodiversity in Public Forests - Network (OH)
65. Protect Our Public Lands (OR)
66. Protect our Woods (IN)
67. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (DC)
68. Public Forestry Foundation (OR)
69. Rabun County Coalition to Save the Forests (GA)
70. Rainforest Action Network (CA)
71. Regional Assn. of Concerned Environmentalists (IL)
72. Resource Conservation Alliance (DC)
73. ReThink Paper (CA)
74. Ruckus Society (MT)
75. S. Oregon University Campus Greens (OR)
76. Salem Audubon Society (OR)
77. Santiam Watershed Guardians (OR)
78. Sequatchie Valley Institute (TN)
79. Shenandoah Ecosystems Defense Group (VA)
80. Sierra Club (USA)
81. Siskiyou Regional Education Project (OR)
82. South East Center for Ecological Awareness (TN)
83. Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project (NC)
84. Spirit of the Sage Council (CA)
85. Students for Environmental Awareness (GA)
86. Superior Wilderness Action Network (MN)
87. T.A.G.E.R. (TN)
88. Trout Unlimited - Mountaineer Chapter (WV)
89. The Ecology Center (MT)
90. The Last Great Wilderness Project (NC)
91. The Wildlands Project (USA)
92. U. of Oregon Survival Center (OR)
93. US PIRG (USA)
94. Umpqua Watersheds, Inc. (OR)
95. Virginians for Wilderness (VA)
96. Western Endangered Species Alliance (WA)
97. Wetlands Action Network (CA)
98. Wild Alabama (AL)
99. WildLaw (AL)
100. Wood Use Reduction Clearinghouse (DC)
101. Worchester Environmental Trust (MD)
Newspapers (via editorials)
102. Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
103. Des Moines Register-Guard (IA)
104. Bloomington Herald-Times (IN)
Religious Organizations (incomplete)
105. Christians Caring for Creation (CA)
106. Christians for Environmental Stewardship (WA)
107. Soma Christian Training Center (CA)
108. Environmental Ministries (CA)
Other Organizations
109. Pacific Party (OR)
Businesses
110. Meadowsweet Herbs (MT)
111. Green Pursuits - Atlanta (GA)
Businesses (Ohio)
112. The Artist's Roost - Worthington
113. Lenka Tailor Shop - Worthington
114. No Anchovies/ KEP, Inc - Cincinnati
115. Ethos Interactive, Inc - Cincinnati
116. Cincinnati Smoke Ltd - Cincinnati
117. Ludlow News and Video - Cincinnati
118. ABC Rentals - Athens
119. Seven Sauces - Athens
120. Second Hand Rose - Athens
121. The Story Shop - Athens
122. Image Optical - Columbus
123. Weavings Unlimited - Delaware
124. Magic Video - Athens
125. Cafe Bella - Columbus
126. Earth Smart - Columbus
127. Beechwood Natural Foods - Columbus
128. The Shadow Realm - Columbus
129. Union Street Caf=E9 - Athens
130. Earth Encounters Studio - Athens
131. Swindlefish Saloon - Athens
132. Cycle Path - Athens
133. Bagel Street Deli - Athens
134. Low Key Clothing & Gifts - Athens
135. Late Night Pizza - Athens
Attachment 4:
Sample Op-Ed
Pasadena Star-News Opinion - Sunday, August 24, 1997
STOP NATIONAL FOREST TIMBER RIPOFF
by Chad Hanson
One hundred years ago this year Congress did a terrible thing. Under
industry pressure, an appropriations "rider" was attached to the
Interior Department spending bill, opening this nation's national forest
to logging for the first time. Prior to that, national forests were
completely protected from all forms of commercial exploitation.
A century later, the legacy of that early Logging Rider is marred
hillsides, fouled water, floods and mudslides--the loss of our natural
heritage.
I have witnessed this destruction with my own eyes, having hiked
the 2,700 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada
several years ago. I remember standing on a ridge top in a national
forest, looking 360 degrees around me and seeing nothing but stumps as
far as I could see--on public lands. Not a single tree remained
standing.
Like many Americans, I thought my national forests were protected. In
my state of shock and horror, as I hiked northward through clearcut
after clearcut, stump field after stump field, one word kept repeating
over and over in my mind: "Why?"
What I have since found has confirmed what I knew intuitively on the
trail: that there are no good reasons to allow logging on our public
lands. Only 3.9 percent of the wood consumed in the United States comes
from national forests. We can more than make up this amount simply by
being less wasteful. For example, 48 percent of the hardwood lumber
produced in this country is used to make shipping pallets--54 percent of
which are used once and sent to landfills.
Perhaps most appalling is the economics of the federal logging program.
In fiscal year 1996, for instance, the program spent over $800 million
of taxpayer money and another $530 million in off-budget accounts, and
failed to return a single dime to taxpayer's pockets. In fact, the
federal timber program now loses so much money that if we stopped
logging in national forests and redirected this corporate subsidy, we
would have over $25,000 for each public-lands timber worker for job
retraining or ecological restoration work--and still have over
$200 million left over to reduce the federal deficit. We could
literally create more jobs by eliminating this wasteful corporate
welfare program and reduce federal spending in the process.
What's more, the Forest Service's own figures show that recreation in
national forests contributes over 38 times more income to the nation's
economy, and creates over 31 times more jobs, than logging in national
forests.
Yet logging destroys the very basis of the recreation economy:
wildlands.
So, why does this insanity continue? Why doesn't Congress eliminate the
timber sale program in national forests? It would be good for the
forests, the economy, and our children and grandchildren.
The reason is both grim and simple: big money talks. The timber barons
get fabulously wealthy felling ancient forests on public lands at the
expense of the people. Taxpayers pay for logging road construction,
clean-up costs, replanting and administrative expenses.
To show their appreciation, logging corporations shower millions of
dollars upon members of Congress in the form of campaign contributions.
Millions more are spent on slick advertising to mislead the public.
Despite the fact that the Forest Service's own polls show that most
Americans oppose logging in national forests, the ecological destruction
and fiscal irresponsibility continues.
As Sierra Club founder John Muir said of national forests long ago,
"Since Christ's time and long before that, God has cared for these
trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand
straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from
fools--only the American people can do that." How true.
As citizens of this country, we are faced with a choice: we can, through
our silence, allow the timber industry to continue picking our pockets
and felling our forests; or we can hold our elected officials
accountable and demand that they end the logging program in national
forests.
The outcome will dictate what kind of national forests our children's
children see in another 100 years. Will they see healthy forests
recovering from the abuses of the 20th century? Or will they see only
stumps and lifeless tree farms--victims of the harsh reality that
forests cannot speak for themselves and we as a society failed to speak
for them?
One hundred years is enough. It's time to stop logging our national
forests.
-- Chad Hanson is the director of the Pasadena-based John Muir Project,
which is dedicated to ending the timber sales program in America's
national forests.
Thanks again,
Rene Voss
1025 Vermont Ave. NW #300
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202)879-3183
Fax: (202)879-4282
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"The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the
forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and
wrong ... So we must count on watching and striving for
these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so
surely good and noble to strive for." - John Muir, Nov. 23, 1895
John A. Keslick Jr.---Tree Anatomist & Tree Biologist.-
End Commercial Logging on Federal Lands
http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/nfpra/index.html
Organic Tree Treatment Web Site:
http://www.chesco.com/~treeman
Please forward/Thanks!
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 29 08:32:36 1998
From: "Joe E. Dees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 09:32:36 +0000
Subject: An untranslated book by Simone deBeauvoir
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know why such a substantial work as "Existentialisme et
la Sagasse de Nationes" has never been translated into English? It
would be of immense benefit to us monolingual Engloids, and a mark of
distinction to the translator who did so (I would think).
Joe E. Dees
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jun 29 13:07:46 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 15:07:27 -0400
From: Glynis Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: An untranslated book by Simone deBeauvoir
Does anyone know whether a translation into English exists for the first
French definition of ecofeminism, in 1974 by --- whoops i forget her
name?
Joe E. Dees wrote:
> Does anyone know why such a substantial work as "Existentialisme et
> la Sagasse de Nationes" has never been translated into English? It
> would be of immense benefit to us monolingual Engloids, and a mark of
> distinction to the translator who did so (I would think).
> Joe E. Dees
--
Glynis Carr
Associate Professor of English
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
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http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gcarr
