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BAN MIND CONTROL/ DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS TORTURE AND ABUSE

2009-08-19T20:56:41Z

I know this sounds like science fiction or a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It is a complete reality and a huge danger to humanity. Please check out the following petition and sign it. As crazy as this may sound but mind control energy weapons is a reality. Millions of people are suffering from the mental abuse and torture of these weapons that are not openely talked about or known, or "declassified." The abuse is largely sexist and racist and targets people who are of certain ethnicities... primarily who are not white. The abuse is deliberate, cruel, and is done by directing energy beams, via satellite or other means, onto the body/person/ brain of the individuals targeting certain centers of the brain to elicit responses or actions. The companies, military, governments who are doing this also use sound weapons to direct sounds, subtle or not, vibrations and energy in the mind or environment of the victims to harrass, abuse, and control the actions of these individuals. Whether they are able to do control the person or not, they definitely abuse and severely mentally and psychologically hurt the victims.

BAN MIND CONTROL/DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS TORTURE AND ABUSE

To: the President of the United States, Members of the U.S. Senate and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, see more...your Governor, Members of your State Senate, Members of your State House, the President of the United States, Members of the U.S. Senate and Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Started by: Soleilmavis L

WE CONCERN ABOUT THE ABUSE AND TORTURE OF THE FOLLOWINGS :- DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS; NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS; MIND CONTROL WEAPONS; BODY AND BRAIN MANIPULATION WEAPONS; PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS; SPACE WEAPONS; NON-LETHAL WEAPONS; COINTELPRO; ANDany other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations or the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations.Please help to ban abuses and tortures of above-mentioned weapons.
Yours Sincerely,
Soleilmavis
peacepink.ning.com

"Mailtem" members of THE WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST the (secret) Abuse and Torture That Uses Mind Control, Directed Energy Weapons and Manipulation Weapons on Every Living Being.
peacepink.ning.com/forum/to...m-members

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This petition ends on Dec 31.

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Dreaming the NEW American Dream

2009-04-04T17:05:11Z

California poets Ava Bird & Rex Butters, and....

Santa Cruz artist Russell Brutsche - Karen Kwiatkowski of Virginia

Protests to stop immigration raids ... and more.
____________________

http://www.newamericandream.net

The New American Dream

What's New?

* Karen Kwiatkowski column
* Ava Bird poetry
* Rex Butters poetry
* Gary Mennie poetry

Columns:
Sherwood Ross — why not shut down a few prisons in the United States as well?
Mickey Z — Americans are cowards, too comfortable, will never-ever-not-in-one-million-years revolt-or-even-bother-to-stand-up — no matter what the rich folks do to them.
Lydia Sems — It's The American Dream that is the problem.

and more from Jack Saunders ...

Resistance:
* Planned civil disobedience in Minnesota to stop raids against immigrants
* Protests at Creech AFB against U.S. drone terroristic activity
*100 days of protest against Guantanamo to culminate

All this, Northern Exposure, The Big Lebowski, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights ... a certificate for free toast ... and more.

Join us.

The New American Dream
Dude.
... because ... Sister Mary Anne told us, "There are no wrong questions, if you don't know the answers."

... from the Dream Team

http://www.newamericandream.net

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One way to make today's electric cars perfectly viable

2009-02-02T11:55:36Z

Check out the idea in this article, what do you think?

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1342599/a_manhattan_project_for_alternative.html

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Time 4 Hemp celebrates the Holidays with an All-Star line-up 4...

2008-12-20T20:32:14Z

...you to party with, and it's free to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.TV

You and your friends are invited to big the holiday party at 'Time 4 Hemp' and smoke out with the remarkable guests who dropped by to share in the fun!

Joining in for this event are (in order of arrival):

Neal Smith - Vice-Chairman of Indiana NORML

Jack Herer - Author of 'The Emperor Wears No Clothes' considered by some to be the Bible of the Hemp Movement

Steve Hager - Creative Director of 'High Times' magazine

Chris Conrad - Publisher of 'The Leaf' newspaper and founder of the Business Alliance of Commence in Hemp

Mikki Norris - Editor of 'The Leaf' newspaper and founder of the Cannabis Consumers organization

Josh Schimberg - President of Texas NORML

Ethan Nadelmann - Founder of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA)

Alison Myrden - one of the first 20 people in Canada to be granted permission by her government to use Medical Marijuana

Steve Bloom - Publisher of the on-line magazine, 'CelebStoner'

Lynnette Shaw - Co-author of California Proposition 215

Keith Stroup - Founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)

Eddy Lepp - Marijuana Farmer and Hero of the Marijuana Movement

Paul Krassner - Author of 'Pot Stories For The Soul' and one of the comic geniuses of the 20Th century

Ed Rosenthal - Author of several marijuana grow books and featured writer for 'SKUNK' magazine

Gatewood Galbraith - One of the Founding Fathers of the Hemp Movement

Tokin' Tam - A Founder of the Global Marijuana Music Awards (GMMA)

Peter Christ - A Founder of the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition organization (LEAP)

Holly G. - Colorado activists and medical marijuana user

Marc Emery - Publisher of 'Cannabis Culture' magazine

Jodie Emery - Editor of 'Cannabis Culture' magazine

Featured Musical Artist (in order of FIRST appearance):

Emerald Night - Kenny G - Shirley Bassey
The Killing Time Band - Cannabis Chorus - Afro Man
Jet Baker - Adam Sandler - Brian Setzer
Kevin Bloody Wilson - B B King - Chief Greenbud
The Tall Brothers - Rubber Band - Lana Brown - Willie Nelson

Please pass this information on to everyone who you know would enjoy the programs and have yourself a HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON AND A GREAT NEW YEAR!!

Keep Strong!
Casper

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Ecological Impacts of Big Solar Energy

2008-12-02T00:00:59Z

While I support solar energy, I support it on rooftops and in disturbed areas. If we go with the Al Gore economy, we will be giving up hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands. Big solar farms will end up scraping up many square miles of ecosystems and destroy much of the biodiversity of this planet. Most solar power will be wet cooled parabloic trough systems which require 6 acre feet of water per megawatt. This will dry up springs and destroy many dry adapted species like the desert tortoise. Don't be fooled by the "green" economy. The green economy means massive development in the southwest. If it were really green, it would not destroy so much habitat. Check out this web site I found: www.basinandrangewatch.org/Sola...html. It really talks about the ecological impacts of green energy. You can also comment to the Obama Administration at : change.gov/page/s/energyenviro. Tell them not to ruin our public lands with green energy. Keep it on roof tops and other disturbed areas. Let's not destroy the Earth to save her.

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FREE MP3 with RON PAUL, BARACK OBAMA, JOHN McCAIN & LOTS OF MUSIC!

2008-09-14T09:18:21Z

Enjoy a real Texas ho-down in celebration of the 2008 Global Marijuana Music Awards and the 3RD ANNUAL 6TH ST SMOKE-OUT hosted by Texas NORML in Austin on September 20th. One of the organizers of this event (a leader in the TX-NORML chapter and founder of the organization Out Grow Big Bro.), Hector Sanchez detailed all the excitement when he sat down and took Time 4 Hemp. It's FREE to download at http://www.Time4Hemp.TV

Not only is it Time 2 Vote for the winning songs at the GMMA - it's Time 2 Vote for a new President of the United States. That's why, in this segment you hear directly from the Democratic candidate, Sen. Barack Obama and the Republican candidate, Sen. John McCain as to where they stand on medical marijuana and the War On Drugs.

You also hear Texas Congressman and former Presidential candidate, Ron Paul discuss the Marijuana Bill that recently went before United States Congress.

If you get the chance to visit the http://www.Time4Hemp.TV Video Vault, you can download these segments as well as many others) and send them in e-mails to your friends and community leaders!

Musical Artists Featured (in order of appearance):

The Individuals
Jet Baker
Johnny Reefer Seed & Afro-man
Sean Reefer and the Resin Valley Boys
Jr. Boogie
Donovan and Afro-man
Love and Rockets

Please pass this information on to everyone who you feel would enjoy it.

Keep Strong
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.TV

Time 4 Hemp cell phone Website:
http://www.Time4Hemp.mobi/

"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know"
President Harry Truman

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The focus of the Kindred Spirits Meet -???

2008-09-11T23:23:51Z

The Kindred Spirits Meet - at 11am on Sept 27th.

We will all share in the creation of a new vision
of an Earth Restored and a World at Peace.

We are proud to welcome all others in the global community to
join us in creating the Kindred Spirits of the Emerald Forest of
Sustainable Communities, and an EcoVillage
right here in Northern California.

All are welcome to come who come in good spirit.
This is just one small branch on a very big Tree.

All friendly voices do need to be heard and there is a place for all
that is good and right to be included.

We will meet right out in front of the
Jack London Lodge restaurant area right in the middle
of the tiny town Glen Ellen and that is just about 45 miles
north of the golden gate bridge.

One topic will be the significance of the spirit of place that all
people have been wrestling with, and how we connect up into community.

Who are we in relation to our place and our community
and how to do we sustain that and leave something to future
generations.

Just a friendly gathering of Kindred Spirits working towards a
collective vision of an Earth Restored and a World at Peace in all
different ways.

It's all to be Positive and Constructive.
Collaboration and Companionship is Key.

You are all welcome to share some of
your own most elegant wishes and ideas on Community.

This is the place to make your Contributions known and I want you
all to be there with us.

This is what the real Magic is all about:

We can make it all happen by combining our own intentions to
collaborate together and to start making things happen.

More details can be found on this page:

http://peacewarriors.com/ksm.htm

Looking for an organic/friendly temp living solution?

Come to the meeting.

I have a good place for an inexpensive
community minded living situation that
I may be able to provide for maybe 6 months out of the year
up in a beautiful spot beyond the sidewalks,
where I live for only $90. a month, as a contribution
towards the land maintenance fund.

Lets collaborate. I would love to meet you.
Just thought I would put that our there,
just to see what happens.
Everything has to be Self Reliant and Amicable. - T

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Has environmentalism gone too far? Wait...what now?

2008-08-28T23:41:16Z

Seriously, there's a debate about this? Sigh... of course there is.

The debate: http://www.helium.com/debates/168344-have-we-gone-too-far-with-environmentalism
My resounding no: http://www.helium.com/items/1162237-environmentalism-global-warming-environmental-movement-sustainable-sustainability-green

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Be prepared for peak oil!

2008-08-21T06:28:12Z

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/44675/peak_oil_preparedness_and_your_family.html?cat=25

Good peak oil preparedness article :)

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essay on sustainable energy alternatives

2008-08-21T06:26:20Z

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/945827/energy_alternatives_for_a_sustainable.html?cat=47

Most of this is old hat to those of us in the green energy know, but it's a good comprehensive short essay on why oil isn't going to get us anywhere.

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Join the "No Meat Week" campaign: Help stop global warming!

2008-08-03T16:43:23Z

Did you know that if every American who eats meat daily decided to have one meat-free day a week, it would be the equivalent of taking 8 million cars off the roads?

• Animal agriculture causes about 18% of global human-induced green-house gas emissions

• Livestock produce 30-40% of total methane gas emissions

• Livestock occupy 30 percent of ice-free land on the planet, a major cause of deforestation

• Industrial meat production relies heavily on fossil fuels through fertilizer manufacturing and global transport

The emerging global warming crisis requires both personal change and industrial accountability. In addition to energy conservation, each of us can also limit our contribution to global warming by eating less meat and calling for a more sustainable livestock industry.

Join the campaign now at:

http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/no-meat-week-help-stop-global-warming

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Air as a source of energy

2008-07-27T15:13:36Z

My name is Pranab Jyoti Ghosh, I am an Indian physics graduate and myself have theoretically developed a technology on producing energy without any kind of fuel. This technology is about producing energy by extracting heat from atmosphere. This technology is a combination of processes that are well tested and now in use in different industries and research projects. I have done everything that I can do by myself. But for further advance, I need financial and technical assistance. I specifically want to make a virtual prototype by using data from different experiments that I have collected from different industries and research projects and after that get a patent and start licensing this technology. Those who are reading this message, other than the venture capitalists, are requested to guide me to persons, organizations, institutes and others, who can probably take interest in my work and will help me to make my idea a reality. I am assuring them that this project is just need to be made and improved. All the basic experiments had been already done successfully and enough data had been gathered. In short, it is a new and exciting kind of technology and as far as I know, nothing like this exists this day. Can anybody help me to make my idea a reality?
I have posted this idea on some blogsites and got responses like this. “Violating 2nd law of thermodynamics”, “impossible”, “the vapor produced will be instantly liquefied as soon as it will be released into normal pressure etc and other arguments like this. But, when I have replied them with my logic and put before them the experimental results, there will be no solid reply thereafter. Actually all the oppositions come from, in my opinion, from wrong interpretation of 2nd law of thermodynamics. In this explanation, heat embedded in atmosphere and ocean around us are part of entropy and trying to extracting the heat is trying to decrease the entropy of the universe and as per 2nd law, entropy always increases. But, this is not true, because machines that can extract atmospheric heat and capable of converting that into electricity had been invented long ago, before the birth of Christ. Long ago (nearly 500 B.C), Chinese people invented a toy that extracts heat energy from the atmosphere and turns that into motion. Though I called it a toy, because it was never used for production purpose. But according to the terminologies of physics, it is an engine, because it converts one type of energy (heat) into other type of energy (motion). In fact, it is a thermodynamic engine. You will find the description of that toy on books on popular science. So, at least there is one example that atmospheric energy can be extracted and turn into motion energy. I think it is enough to prove the basic scientific feasibility of my work. In spite of that, if somebody still complaining that my project violates second law of thermodynamics. Then I am requesting him to calculate the entropy of my project. None have tried that yet, because I am sure that if they do so, they certainly will find that at the end of the process, entropy of the universe has increased, instead of decreased as they want the result to prove that this technology violates 2nd law of thermodynamics. For your understanding, I am giving below a short zist of the technology.
This project is aimed at producing electricity by using the vast heat content of atmosphere. The scheme is basically aimed as producing electricity by extracting heat from atmosphere. In this project, this is done by using mechanical arrangement similar to heat pump. This system is used to squeeze energy from huge volumes of air and to produce temperature difference by which energy can be produced. It is to be noted that fresh water and salt are added bonus to this project, as salty brackish water can be used in this project. This is done by vaporizing water inside an enclosed container named “Evaporator” with the help of a vacuum pump. As the vacuum pump sucks air from the container, the water inside began to evaporate and in this process collects its latent heat of vaporization from water. For that reason, the water inside becomes colder and heat began to flow in from outside. Thus in effect, the latent heat of vaporization of water is collected from outside atmosphere. In the open-cycle OTEC, vapor is produced in the same manner and on experiment it was found that to have vapor flow rate of 1 kg/sec, power needed at the vacuum pump is 3 KW. Whereas, the latent heat embedded in 1 kg of vapor is 2.31 MW. After the vapor is produced, it is heated further with adiabatically compressed, hot air. After heating the vapor in the Boiler, the hot, compressed air is passed through the Evaporator to give up its residue heat to the water inside. The process is the same as that of common heat pumps sold in the market. And finally, the temp. diff. between the Boiler and the Condenser is created by suddenly releasing the compressed air at the Condenser. And thus a system of real efficiency of >50% is created.
My Whereabouts:
Name: Pranab Jyoti Ghosh
Address: 153/10/C, S.N.Roy Rd., Kolkata – 700038, West Bengal, India
Telephone: 91-33-24031885
E-Mail: pranabjyoti_calcutta@rediffmail.com

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we need to start ~ SOON!

2008-07-19T16:05:54Z

Al Gore says national security is at risk if fossil fuels are not abandoned within a decade; US district court upholds restrictions for GOP convention protesters; Bill Clinton eager to campaign for Obama; IPS Gaza correspondent says he was physically and mentally abused by Israelis at Gaza crossing; scientists put forward "reforestation" program to protect endangered coral reefs; human rights report finds Toyota exploits guest workers; Planned Parenthood Action Fund slams McCain with TV ads in swing states; Kiera Butler discusses the health risk of cell phone radiation; Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee chairmen and ten states attack Department of Veterans Affairs for voting registration ban; and more ... Browse our continually updating front page at http://www.truthout.org

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new water technology

2008-06-25T01:10:30Z

http://lalos.water4gas.hop.clickbank.net Visit this website it will show you a new Water technology that is growing fast

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Heartwood Forest Council in Ohio -- Burning Issues: Climate is a Forest Product

2008-05-08T01:12:35Z

Heartwood Forest Council in Ohio
http://www.heartwood.org/forestcouncil/index.html

Save the Date for the 18th Annual Heartwood Forest Council, Memorial Day Weekend, May 23-26, 2008, to be held at Boy Scout Camp Oyo in the Shawnee State Forest near Portsmouth, Ohio.

Online Registration coming by next week. Download PDF Brochure: http://www.heartwood.org/forestcouncil/brochure.pdf

We would like to invite you to the 18th annual Heartwood Forest Council, to be held Memorial Day weekend, May 23-26, 2008, at Boy Scout Camp Oyo in the Shawnee State Forest near Portsmouth, Ohio. Hosts for this years event include Heartwood, the Buckeye Forest Council, Save Our Shawnee Forest, Voices for the Forest, Meigs Citizens Action Now!, Protect Biodiversity in Public Forests, and EarthWatch Ohio. The theme of this year's Forest Council is "Burning Issues: Climate is a Forest Product."

What is the Heartwood Forest Council?

The Heartwood Forest Council is the largest annual gathering of citizens from across the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southern United States who care about the health and well-being of our nation's forests. This will be the second time this event has taken place in Ohio, the first being at Camp Oty Okwa in 1992. We will focus on threats to our region and to human and community health, in an atmosphere of collaboration designed to form stronger personal and organizational connections. While addressing the issues we face and celebrating the work that we do, the Forest Council offers participants an opportunity to identify lasting solutions and proven action steps that will move us as a community toward a shared vision of a healthy, just, and sustainable society.

The program will begin the afternoon of Friday, May 23, and continue through mid-day, Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day), and will be interspersed with ample social time, leisure, lively local music, dancing and great food. The Forest Council will be family friendly - kids of all ages are encouraged to attend.

This year's Forest Council will explore how we can nurture sustainable local and regional networks and a culture of cooperation and care. Together we will identify viable alternatives to the dominant economy and its toxic legacy of waste and prepare ourselves with the knowledge and tools to protect ourselves, our communities, and our planet. The program will consist of three days of workshops, discussions, keynote speakers, and field trips. Key program elements will include:

* Forest Issues: public lands management, roadless and other special areas, prescribed burning on state and national forests, genetically modified trees, sustainable forestry and low impact logging, land certification, and land management strategies and opportunities including the value of non-timber forest products.
* Coal, air, energy and climate issues: coal mining and processing, including mountaintop removal, room and pillar, and longwall mining, coal-fired power plants, air pollution and global climate change. We will also talk about resurgent efforts to promote nuclear power, the alternatives to fossil fuel such as wind, solar and hydropower, and the connections between forests and energy production including cellulosic ethanol and biomass.
* Sustainability issues: creating viable communities and taking responsibility for our own future; localized economies, permaculture, local and regional food production and distribution, alternative energy and transportation, traditional uses of plants and their preservation, religion and environmental protection, alternatives to the corporate control of food and seed supply; and how to sustain our minds, bodies and spirits as we seek environmental justice and transformational change.

18th Annual Heartwood Forest Council Program

Theme: Burning Issues Climate Is A Forest Product

Program Tracks:
1) Forest Issues
2) Coal, Energy and Sustainability - Positive Alternatives

Where: Camp Oyo Shawnee State Forest - Ohio

When: Friday, May 23 to Monday, May 26, 2008

Weekend Schedule:
Friday, May 23 General Goals: Introductions and Reunions

Afternoon hike - Shawnee State Forest/Park Hike
led by Kevin Bradbury - Regional Manager Shawnee and Adams Lake State Parks.

5:30-7:00 Dinner: Vegetarian Gumbo with tofu hot
dogs, brown rice, roasted asparagus, Salad
greens, vegan Cornbread, Strawberry shortcake.

7:00-9:00pm - Forest Council welcome:
Ernie Reed - Heartwood
Barb Lund - Save Our Shawnee Forest
David Maywhoor - Buckeye Forest Council

History of the Shawnee Forest:
Shawnee Nation Reflections - Dr. Cora Tula Watters
Lower Scioto Valley history Dr. Andrew Lee Feight
Flora and Fauna of Shawnee - Kevin Bradbury & Jenny Richards -

9:15 til? Campfire behind the dining hall for
planned and unplanned music, and spontaneous revelry

Saturday, May 24 General Goals: Explore the
Issues: Follow one of the tracks or do some of both:
Forest Issues - physical and economic issues
Coal, Energy and Sustainability - Positive Alternatives

6:30 - Bird Hike, Yoga Stretch or Polarity work

7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Baked Omelet with asparagus,
feta, ramps, fresh herbs with green tomato salsa,
Vegan Paw Paw cornmeal pancakes OR vegan Paw Paw
Buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup,
Tempeh/potato sausages (vegan) or sun choke latkes, Fruit

9:00-10:30 - General Introduction to the
workshops’ “burning issues” by the leaders of the workshops.

10:30-10:50 Break

11:00-12:30 Forest/Energy Issues Workshops Session 1
(The session 1 workshops will be repeated in session 2.)

Forest Issues Choices:
#1 introduction to Forest Ecology,
Prescribed Burns, Clearcuts, and certification.
#2 Introduction to Forest Economic.
#3 Specific Economic Study: Green
Fire/Heartwood Economic Impact Study in the Wayne National Forest.
#4 Prescribed Burning Issues (for those
already somewhat knowledgeable on this issue.)

Energy Issues Choices:
#1 Introduction to Local and Regional
Coal Issues & explore the whole coal cycle.
#2 Introduction to the Community Impacts of Coal.
#3 Issue of Coal Fired Power Plants, led by John Blair.
#4 Nuclear Power Issues

12:30-1:45 Lunch: Tempeh sloppy Joes, Raw Snow
Peas, Spring Potato salad with mint and peas

1:45-3:15 Forest/Energy Issues Workshops Session 2
Repeat of all Session 1 workshops.

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Forest/Energy Skill Building Workshops Session 3
#1 Tree Climbing Dale Wallace,
#2 Forest Monitoring David Maywhoor,
#3 Waste Issues Where Does It Go? Jeff Stant,
#4 Climate Issues 1Sky - Liz Butler,
#5 Working with Municipalities to Stop Coal Fired Power Plants,
#6 Market Campaigns Alliance for
Appalachia, Dogwood Alliance, ForestEthics
#7 Bio Mass Issues Mike Ewall and Denny Haldeman

5:00-6:00 Self Reflection Time or Movie Time or
Therapeutic Touch or Body Recuperation Massage Polarity Work

6:00-7:00 Dinner: Crumbs Bakery Ramp pasta with
Chris Schmiel's wild mushroom pasta sauce,
Roasted Veggies, Arugula salad w/ Raspberry
vinaigrette dressing and Italian bread, Vegan Tiramisu.

7:00-8:30 Music and Keynote Speaker
Music by Steve Free
Speaker Harvey Wasserman, Solartopia: Our Coming Green-Powered Earth

9:00-11:00 Music and Dancing: John Simon and Friends
11:00 Music and Dancing continued: Mothman

Sunday, May 25 General Goals: Sustainability & Cooperative Strategies:

6:30 Bird Hike, Yoga Stretch or Polarity work

7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Warm, fresh, homemade
granola, rice or cow’s milk, fruit, yogurt & biscuits with soy protein gravy.

9:00-9:20 Introduction to the Day’s Activities & Announcements

9:30-10:45 Sustainability Workshops Session #4
Sessions to introduce these topics:
#1 Introduction to growing Ginseng -
Chip Carroll with United Plant Savers! and Randi Pokladnik
#2 Principles of Environmental Justice Charlie Fredrick
#3 David Coyte Small Scale Hydropower,
Solar Power and Wind - Third Sun Solar and Wind,
Geoff and Michelle Greenfield plus Mark Donham
#4 Community Rights-Based Organizing and
Local Democratic Self-Governance Shireen Parsons
Session for people who want to work on (participated in) these topics:
#5 Emerging Corporate Campaigns RAN Alliance for Appalachia
#6 Permaculture Successes Rhonda Baird
#7 Successful Community Models ACE-Net,
Community Food Initiatives-CFI, Lost River
Community Coop, Pine Mountain Settlement School .

10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-12:30 Sustainability Workshops Session #5
This is a repeat of Session #4 workshops

12:30-1:45 Lunch: Black Bean Soup, Portuguese
corn bread, green salad w/shredded roots & miso
dressing or vinaigrette, pawpaw sorbet.

Also during lunch - Chris Schmiel Paw Paw Plenary

1:45-5:00 Field Trips, Hikes and workshops either at the camp or off site.

Off site field trips / hikes:
Shawnee Forest led by John Howard and Cheryl Carpenter
Permaculture Farm Field Trip led by Robert Klouman
At home composting led by Liska Kunn, her property is next to the camp.
Rock Run, part of the Arc of Appalachia Preserve System

Tree Identification - at the camp may be one or
two sessions held - times to be announced

2:00-3:30 Workshops - Sustainability Session #6
#1 Principles of Environmental Justice
#2 Ohio Student Environmental Coalition
Matt Reitmann, Sonia Marcus, Head of Ohio
University's Resource Conservation Office -
"Tackling Climate Change on a College Campus"
#3 Current Corporate Campaigns Scot
Qaranda, Dogwood Alliance & Linda Wells, ForestEthics

3:30 4:00 Break

4:00-5:30 Workshops - Sustainability Session #7
#1 Body Work Chris Keller
#2 Self Care… “Cloud Watching On A Horizontal Plane”

5:30- 7:00 Dinner: Veggie Curry with coconut
milk, vegan cole slaw, chocolate cake &
strawberry coconut milk ice cream (vegan).

7:00 7:30 Keynote speaker: Nancy Stranahan -
Arc Of Appalachia Preserve System

Sunday evening activities will be at a farm next
to the camp where alcohol is allowed.

7:30-8:30 Heartwood Benefit Auction & Keg Tapping Ritual

8:30 until? Talent Show! Danny Dolinger Master of Ceremonies

Monday, May 26 General Goals: Cooperative Strategies and Action Planning

7:30-9:00 Breakfast: Wild mushroom frittata;
parsnips & potato hash; vegan biscuits with hemp
& poppy seeds and nutritional yeast gravy; fruit.

9:00-10:30 Discussions about Future Actions and
Campaigns and key note speaker Brock Evans.

10:30 - 10:40 Break

10:40- 11:30 Presentation by Albert Bates, author
of Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times
or
10:40- 11:30 Memorials and Megan Hollingsworth grief work/ discussion

11:30 to 12:30 Closing Circle: Final thoughts, big ideas, and looking forward

12:30-1:30 Lunch: The weekend’s culinary hits revisited

1:00 Collective Action and Memorial Tree Plantings

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Administration has two weeks to list polar bear

2008-05-02T00:44:27Z

Administration Has Two Weeks to Make Polar Bear Decision

The administration was given a May 15 deadline to decide whether warming means polar bears merit endangered-species protection. (By Jonathan Hayward -- Associated Press)

Who's Blogging» Links to this article
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 30, 2008; Page A02

A federal judge in California has ordered the Bush administration to decide by May 15 whether the polar bear deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act.

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Administration Has Two Weeks to Make Polar Bear Decision
From the Archive: Inaction on Polar Bear Criticized
The decision, issued late Monday by U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken, requires the Interior Department to reach a conclusion on whether climate change is pushing polar bears toward extinction. The agency proposed adding polar bears to its list in December 2006 because higher temperatures are shrinking the sea ice they depend on for survival, but officials have delayed a final decision on the matter for months.

After Interior missed its own Jan. 9 deadline, three environmental advocacy groups -- the Center for Biological Diversity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace -- sued Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and the Fish and Wildlife Service in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

In a recent filing in the case, Kempthorne proposed making a final decision by June 30. But the judge rejected that timetable, writing: "Defendants offer no specific facts that would justify the existing delay, much less further delay. To allow Defendants more time would violate the mandated listing deadlines under the [act] and congressional intent that time is of the essence in listing threatened species."

"Today's decision is a huge victory for the polar bear," said Kassie Siegel, director of the climate program at the Center for Biological Diversity, who was the lead author of the 2005 petition that prompted Interior to consider listing the species. "By May 15th the polar bear should receive the protections it deserves under the Endangered Species Act, which is the first step toward saving the polar bear and the entire Arctic ecosystem from global warming."

Interior Department spokesman Shane Wolfe said in a statement: "We have received the court's decision and are reviewing it. We will evaluate the legal options and will decide the appropriate course of action."

The final ruling on the polar bear's status could have far-reaching implications for the nation's climate policy. Several Republicans, including President Bush and Sen. James M. Inhofe (Okla.), the ranking GOP member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, have argued that environmental groups are trying to list the polar bear as threatened or endangered in order to force a federal limit on greenhouse gas emissions.

"It's unfortunate that the debate has become more about timelines than actual science," said Inhofe spokesman Matthew Dempsey. "What has become clear . . . is that listing the polar bear as a threatened species is not about protecting the polar bear but rather advancing a particular political agenda."

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2008-05-01T00:12:37Z

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2008-03-06T14:06:47Z

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Fraud Alert regarding North Coast Earth First! Aka NCEF! Media. Completely independent from any activist group!

2008-02-18T21:17:25Z

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NCEF! Media in Humboldt County Ca.(AKA NORTH COAST EARTH FIRST!), is accused of fraud and donation embezzlement. Caution! Do not support this lone wingnut's scam! Active and legitamate groups exist in the area. Caution! Do not be fooled by NCEF! Media and his fraudulent outreach. Shunka Wakan exists completely seperate from any active affinity group.

Read about how he perpetuated a lawsuit under the guise of EF! against a legitimate environmental nonprofit:

From: northcoastjournal.com/100407/...004.html

October 4, 2007

"Money On Trees"

Big cash nearly fell into Shunka Wakan's lap. Other Earth First!ers are kinda happy it didn't.

by Heidi Walters

As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, Miller's attorney Linda Mitlyng, would come out of the courtroom to join him. But otherwise, as other people and their legal affairs swirled around him in a warm, odiferous bath of humanity, Shunka sat alone. Or, sometimes, he stood alone, straight-spined, his small, stocky body swallowed by the huge, stiff blue suit out of which his newly shorn, razor-scraped bald head poked vulnerably — as if, at any moment, the suit could gulp once more and he'd disappear completely. Always, he clutched a paper folder with a wolf's face on its cover.

The North Coast Earth First! Media guru had shaved off his woolly rust-tinged brown hair and beard the night before jury selection started, after discussing it with attorney Mitlyng. Now, it took an uncertain moment to recognize him. Then, of course: Shunka's light blue eyes in the pink-pale face, Shunka's closed-lip smile, Shunka's trademark husky murmur, "Mm-hmm, for sure," in response to a comment.

In Courtroom 3, the amiable but no-nonsense Judge Christopher Wilson's domain, the fate of a $185,000 donation dangled. Would the plaintiff, donor Kathryn Miller, prevail in her claim that the defendant, the Trees Foundation, was not in fact the intended recipient of her generous gift? That Shunka Wakan's NCEF! Media Center and the treesitters were? Or would the Trees Foundation convince the jury that, in fact, the money was intended all along for Trees, with no instructions attached for funneling it elsewhere?

Richard Idell, left, who is defending the Trees Foundation against a lawsuit filed by Kathryn Miller, confers with Doug Wallace, community support coordinator for Trees. Photo by David Lawlor.

In her opening arguments, Miller's attorney, Mitlyng, said the case came down to "fraud and broken promises." "She believed [Trees] would hold [the money] in trust, for the benefit of North Coast Earth First!" said Mitlyng. The defense's attorney, Richard Idell, countered in his opening argument that the donation was an unconditional gift and Miller never wrote letters of instruction — as Miller claims she did. "Ms. Miller ... didn't do anything. She took the check [from her mother's estate] and flipped it over and wrote on the back, 'Payable to the Trees Foundation,'" said Idell.

Miller's claim sought the return of her $185,000, plus interest.

Out in the hallway, Shunka waited to tell his side of the story. Maybe he thought about the magical donation that never materialized, and now probably never would. Maybe he thought about the other times he'd been in this courthouse — dozens of times, along with other activists, often before Judge Wilson, answering to charges of trespassing and other forms of civil disobedience in the woods. Likely, he wondered when they were finally going to call him in to testify — it was taking forever in there. He'd even sent out an e-mail prematurely to the several hundred subscribers to his NCEF! online group erroneously announcing he would be first up to testify.

By the end of Friday's court session, Miller was still on the stand. Perhaps Monday it would be Shunka's turn. Whenever it was, he would be testifying on Miller's behalf; but he wasn't a party to the lawsuit. And in the end, after hearing all of the evidence, the jury would be determining who was telling the truth about intentions and letters of instructions. Shunka was just there to provide context and evidence in a contract dispute.

But to a number of forest activists, including a half dozen or so who appeared in the audience last Friday to watch the trial unfold, that context matters more to them than the legal questions. They say this lawsuit has placed a strain on the environmental community that could do as much damage as an ill-felled redwood that takes down other giants in its descent. They disapprove of the lawsuit, and they blame Shunka for it. And, they say, it's just another example of how Shunka has commandeered the North Coast Earth First! identity and used it for purposes that nobody else in the amorphous but consensus-driven local Earth First! movement has agreed to.

"For a lot of us, when we read about the lawsuit, this is kind of like Shunka on trial," said long-time forest activist Deane Rimerman last Friday, calling from Olympia, Wash. "And, to what extent is he worthy of that money?"

Kathryn Miller wanted her money to go toward saving trees, she said on the witness stand last Thursday. The slender 59-year-old was dressed in a pink print skirt and white sweater, with her gray-streaked dark hair pulled back into a neat, thin braid tinted slightly green. (Little did the jury know that Miller had spent the night in jail, in blue jail duds, and then had been "dressed out," in court lingo, in her street clothes before being escorted into the court by the bailiff. Miller had been arrested the week before, on Sept. 17, when she arrived in civil court for the pre-trial readiness hearing; according to the misdemeanor criminal charges filed against her, Miller allegedly had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation all hours of the day and night.)

On the stand, Miller described how she became an activist. She remembered how, when she was a child in Orinda, her mother decided to stop spraying the beautiful oak trees on their property after reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "And then, when my son was 9, we were watching the news on TV about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. And my son said to me, 'I wish I'd never been born. I don't think I'll get to live a full life.'"

She protested the building of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She started a peace action group in the late 1980s in San Jose. She did nonviolent protests at the Nevada Test Site. And in 1990, she came up with some of her fellow protestors to help set up the camp for Redwood Summer, and to take part in demonstrations. She's been on and off involved in Earth First! actions in Humboldt ever since, she said, including huffing in supplies for treesitters and huffing out their garbage. She'd also, at one point, bought a condo in Arcata.

In 2004, Miller sold her condo and bought an acre of farmland, already planted with coffee, in Guatemala. She put in fruit trees to shade the coffee. That same year, her mother, who lived in Sonoma, died. "The last time I saw her was in 2003," said Miller. "She told me when she died, she was going to leave me some money. I told her I'd use it to further my work for the forest. And she was pleased, because she loved the treesitters and the forest."

Shortly after learning of her mother's death, Kathryn Miller sought out Shunka Wakan in front of the food co-op in Arcata, where he "tabled" to raise funds for the North Coast Earth First! Media office — selling T-shirts, and stickers, offering pamphlets, accepting donations. She'd known Shunka for about five years, she said.

"I said to him, I was going to inherit some money: What was the best way to get that to the North Coast Earth First!?"

In the spring of 2005, Shunka Wakan was floating above the treetops. "I was so excited," the 32-year-old said in an interview a few weeks ago, sitting inside his tiny but colorful North Coast Earth First! Media office in Arcata, walls covered in art and topo maps — including one of Buckeye Mountain, where in 2000-2001, during the "Mattole Free State" action, Shunka and others hiked 14 miles through waist-high snowdrifts to save trees.

Kathryn Miller, he recalled, had come up to him excitedly as he walked along the sidewalk outside the Arcata Co-op and said, "I just donated $185,000 to North Coast Earth First!'"

She'd talked to him the year before about making the donation — she'd said she was anticipating an inheritance from her mother's estate, and she wanted to make a big donation to his group. He'd told her to make it through the Trees Foundation, which handled the NCEF! Media office's finances through an arrangement that had been established years ago. (The Trees Foundation is an umbrella organization formed in 1991 to assist smaller environmental groups. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, it can accept large, tax-deductible donations on behalf of affiliates, and provide professional resources. And it can lead large campaigns, like the one to save the Headwaters Forest back in the '90s.)

Well, now she'd finally done it.

Miller and Shunka agreed to meet at Fiesta Café in Sunny Brae, so she could tell him how she wanted the money spent: She wanted, straight away, for someone to organize a mediated workshop for the local Earth First! activists on ageism and sexism, issues she thought were fracturing the movement. And, she wanted the bulk of the donation to help support the forest activists who blockade logging roads and hunker up in ancient redwoods to fend off loggers' saws.

Not long after, Shunka was on his way to have lunch with some folks from the Trees Foundation, where they'd talk about Miller's wishes.

"Our media outreach was going to get a big boost," Shunka said. "The donation would keep the EF! office going for many years. So I walked into the Wildflower Café feeling elated, thinking we got all this money."

Barbara Ristow and Doug Wallace of the Trees Foundation were there. "I was super excited," Shunka said, "and I said, 'This is great, this big donation. Isn't it wonderful?' We ordered food, and still I'm all excited, talking about the money, but I notice they're looking nervously at each other. [Finally], they said, 'Well, we're just shocked that you think this money was for you.' And I was like, 'I just met with the donor, and that's what she said.' And they're like, 'Well, let's go ahead and plan the workshop and deal with that later.' I remember that, because it put me at ease."

After that, Shunka said he gave Trees a list of people he thought might benefit from the mediator-run workshop. "Some were people I knew had beefs with me, but I was willing to bring 'em into the circle and talk about it."

According to some vague accounts, the workshop was a disaster. One person who was there claims that Shunka, at one point, pounded his fists on the floor, blustered, then got up and stormed out, yelling as he walked away. Shunka says that's overblown.

"The letter from Kathryn Miller to Barbara Bristow said she wanted the mediation to be a safe place, safe to be emotional," he said. "And I think people are saying 'I freaked out.' The freak-out reports are exaggerated. It's just part of this ongoing character assassination. People say I was 'red-faced.' But my face is naturally red."

In late 2005, while Shunka was in Seattle, a friend called him from Arcata to say a woman had come by asking for the office key. She had a list of equipment she wanted to take away. The friend didn't give her the key.

When Shunka got back from Seattle, he discovered his reimbursement funds from Trees had been "frozen." He also learned about a letter someone in the NCEF! movement had circulated for signatures and then sent to Mark Knipper, who handled the Trees Foundation transactions for the NCEF! Media office. It said, in essence, "We don't want Shunka running EF!"

"I called the Trees Foundation," Shunka recalled. "I was sick, it was the middle of the winter, I'm trying to table, it's raining, it's cold. And Barbara Ristow told me, 'You just need to have a meeting [with the other Earth First!ers] and come to a group consensus on what the Trees Foundation funding should be used for."

The meeting never happened — nobody could agree to meet, said Mark Knipper, also in an interview last week. Knipper is a social worker and a long-time activist who had been the contact person between Trees and NCEF! Media. "So it ate itself," Knipper said. "And although I'm former Navy, a mariner, I said I'm not going down with this ship. So I divorced myself from it ... and signed it all back to Trees."

The NCEF! Media office was dropped from the Trees Foundation altogether.

Shunka and the NCEF! Media office never did see any of the big donation. Miller didn't even know that, he said, until she phoned him up in the summer of 2006, more than a year after she made the donation, to ask about a guy named "Jungle," who had been reported as missing on the NCEF! hotline. Miller was spending much of her time in Guatemala now, where she was raising fruit trees; after she'd made her big donation, Hurricane Stan had struck — she spent the ensuing year mopping up the mess.

First, Shunka told her Jungle was still missing. Then he told her about the money.

"I said, 'Yeah, they told me it wasn't for us,'" said Shunka. "And she said, 'I meant for all of it to go to you guys.' She sounded real upset. And I was like, 'I knew it! I knew it!'"

Shunka tried to sue Trees in small claims court, but it went nowhere.

Miller filed a claim against the Trees Foundation on Oct. 5, 2006, in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeking the return of the $185,000 plus interest so she could distribute the money herself.

And if she wins? "She may just spread it out more," said Shunka. "She's got tree planting ideas. Maybe she could buy a grove. She'd maybe not give it all to Earth First! this time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Trees blew for us."

On an uncomfortably hot afternoon last week, four forest activists who'd agreed to an interview for this story — Jeff, Shaggy, Sparrow and Farmer — sat on the ground at the Arcata Marsh next to a log bench on which a teeming crew of red ants worked a splintered notch. Someone had come along here in 1999 and carved a grouping of faces — bearded, grimacing, possibly mourning faces — onto the log and signed it Daniel. The carving had been drenched in red paint, and burnished by years of sitters.

"It kind of reminds me of the memorial for Gypsy," said one of them. "With the red paint."

Gypsy was the forest name of David Nathan Chain, who in September 1998, during an Earth First! action at Grizzly Creek, was crushed to death by a tree felled by an enraged logger. Farmer, actually, was there — he was just 16, but had a year of activism already under his belt. And Shunka was there — it was Shunka's first forest action.

Farmer, Shag, Sparrow and Jeff first made it clear that they spoke for themselves alone, although they participate in various forest defense affinity groups: Farmer works for the Mattole Wildlands Defense Group now, watchdogging the California Department of Forestry for new timber harvest plans, and keeping an eye on a Pacific Lumber Co. watershed analysis. Shag, who saw his first redwood about five years ago, helps keep the Fern Gully treesit village in Freshwater functioning. Jeff, who grew up in the high desert, and fell in love with the woods, works with the Nanning Creek treesit just outside of Scotia, as well as other groups. Sparrow, who was drawn to forest action because the cultural landscape was "like a folktale" he couldn't resist, is with the Fern Gully affinity group. These groups are all part of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association, a collective with a website but no formal structure.

The HFDA sprang into being six years ago — about the time the entity called North Coast Earth First! had essentially dissolved. It would take a book to describe that drawn-out dissolution — a book of lost causes, won causes, waning media interest, Judi Bari's death, Gypsy's death, ego-spurred squabbles, interpersonal catastrophes, a war overseas, hurricanes. And while the HFDA activists might still cherish the Earth First! name — the movement — in their hearts, it's now been further complicated by what you might call the Shunka effect.

"I still feel in many ways solidarity with the greater Earth First! movement abroad," said Farmer. "But in this county, in this climate, if you say you're with the North Coast Earth First!, many people associate you with North Coast Earth First! Media."

Shunka revived the North Coast Earth First! office around 2002. And he did what previous office managers had done — tabled, put out news releases, wrote articles for other publications. But it wasn't like the old days, in the '90s, when hundreds of people were getting arrested in forest actions and the jail support phone and legal resources were in constant use.

Shunka first worked in an office in Eureka, then later moved to Arcata. He called his outfit the NCEF! Media Center. For a time, he and other "affinity groups" tried to work together. But he alienated some people. He took over the North Coast Earth First! website. He controlled the North Coast Earth First! email list of 300 or more subscribers to the news alerts. He sent out press releases on his own.

"I felt the North Coast Earth First! Media Center was a unilateral effort on Shunka's part," said Farmer. Whereas, in the old days, "spokespeople were decided on by the group. And if you wrote an article it was passed by everyone. I feel Shunka appointed himself spokesperson at some point."

Many also claim they've been subject to a lashing anger from Shunka.

"I won't work with him because I pledge nonviolence in my actions," said Shag. "I don't believe he pledges the same thing. He has exhibited violent behavior towards me and towards other activists in my presence."

"He's a bear," said Jeff, making claw-fists with his hands.

But the sad thing is, all of this infighting probably has done nothing to help the actual trees. And the mediation workshop Kathryn Miller wanted didn't fix matters. Now, there was her lawsuit.

"When I heard about this lawsuit, I thought, the Trees Foundation does not deserve to be attacked in that way," said Farmer. "There's much bigger issues that need to be dealt with — with Maxxam and old-growth logging. ...If you look at Fern Gully and Nanning Creek (the Bonanza timber harvest plan), there's hundreds of old growth acres still standing whose fate is unclear."

Shag put it more bluntly: "If [Miller] knew Shunka and wanted to get the money to North Coast Earth First! Media, she should've given it to Shunka. But if she was trying to get it to treesits and forest defense, then the money went to the right place.

"My problem is this whole representation thing. There's people in the trees — how do you know who to get the money to, to help them?"

Shunka knows that a lot of fellow activists aren't happy with his role in the donation dispute. He also knows how some people talk about him and say he's hard to get along with. "I'm just standing up for the truth," he said. "And people don't like it. To me, it feels like a small clique of people who don't like me. I feel a lot of love and support in this community."

He certainly doesn't come off right away as someone who's angry, or who lashes out, or who locks the office and doesn't let people in. Why, recently, he helped a young woman hook up with the treesitters so she could learn the ropes. (Shaggy said that's proof Shunka doesn't have direct connections with the people doing direct action; but you can't deny it's a connection.)

It's probably a bad idea to ask Darryl Cherney, one of the founders of the local Earth First! movement, what he thinks of Shunka Wakan, whose real name is Jason Wilson. (Shunka tells a story of how he was named by a Lakota medicine man on the banks of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in 1995. "Shunka Wakan," meaning "great dog," is only part of it. There's a secret part after that — altogether, his name means "the humble man called horse.")

"Shunka's a wingnut," Cherney said over the phone last Friday, sounding cheerfully vitriolic. "I have a 10-verse song about Shunka."

Here are the last few verses:

Who's at the co-op spanging a donation
Shunka, Shunka
Who's got a lawsuit 'gainst the Trees Foundation
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka
Who's gonna keep on fighting the fight
Shunka, Shunka
With four of his friends at swimmers delight
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka (Shunka voice: It's the last of the revolution)

There's no other word for it but "mean." But Cherney and Shunka have history — not all of it sour. Cherney said Shunka laughed when he heard the song, at least the first time.

"I met Shunka in 1998," Cherney said. "And I know he knew Julia ["Butterfly" Hill, whom Shunka had come west to find]. That was a good thing, helping Julia. That was good Shunka."

Cherney had even pushed for Shunka to go to Houston to talk with Charles Hurwitz, whose Maxxam Corp. bought out the old Pacific Lumber company back in 1985 and quickly became the forest activists' number one villain. Shunka went.

But now? "The current status of Shunka and me," Cherney said, "is that Shunka has sent me five or eight or nine e-mails threatening to sue me. Shunka is a joke."

Cherney can talk for hours about the problems he's had with Shunka over the years. His main point, though, is what has Shunka done for the trees lately?

"My question is, where's your topo maps?" he asked. "Where's your wilderness preservation proposal? Where's your lobbyist team in Sacramento?"

It has to be that, on some level, even the people in the movement who don't like Shunka understand somewhat where he's coming from. So he's emotional. Passionate. Perhaps he's caught up so completely in the cause he can't let go. Or, who knows — maybe he's a phony, like he accused Knipper of being back in 2005.

But being a forest activist comes with perils beyond the obvious physical ones.

"I'm really trying to have compassion for Shunka, even though he's kind of attacked us," said Susy Barsotti by phone from Laytonville a couple of weeks ago. Barsotti is president of the Trees Foundation board, and she says the lawsuit has held Trees hostage, unable to function fully. "I've been mystified and dismayed that he's participated like this in the suit. But Shunka witnessed Gypsy's death. And I think he may have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I don't think he's recovered from it. And that can affect your behavior."

A number of people mentioned this, actually, about Shunka. And he often refers to Gypsy's death himself. In an article titled "What Luna has taught me," posted on the website of Julia "Butterfly" Hill's organization, Circle of Life, Shunka writes: "I decided to commit to doing ground support after witnessing the death of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain on September 17, 1998 ... I remember looking across the valley as we hiked up that day, seeing the rolling hills of forests and clear-cuts, and thinking out loud, "That's why we're here!" Seeing Gypsy's life taken from him, and then seeing the corruption and lies of the Humboldt County Sheriffs ... really opened my eyes to the situation our old-growth forests face."

Later, he did ground support for Hill in her second year in Luna. And in the same article on her website, something else Shunka writes indicates how ready he was to devote himself to a cause: "Being on the support team was the top priority in my life, and I was happy knowing that everything else revolved around when I'd be needed for the next supply run. I never felt lost because I knew what I was doing. That was a feeling I had not felt in years, between feeling dissatisfaction with life in college, and then more dissatisfaction with life as a minimum-wage worker after college. Before joining Julia's ground support team I was unhappy, even to the point of tears, wondering if my entire life was going to be a minimum-wage nightmare ...."

Pure devotion, without benefit of a little hypocrisy, could drive anyone batty. Deane Rimerman, the activist from Olympia who said it is Shunka who is on trial, said it's not uncommon for intense, stressful movements like Earth First! to produce an army of walking wounded. And he's been around, in forest actions up and down the coast, for long enough to know; he was the one, in fact, who "got the maps and led the first hikers up to the hill" to the Gypsy Mountain campaign and Luna treesit.

"In the forest activist movement, there's very little that's rewarding," Rimerman said. "There's a lot of post traumatic stress syndrome. All of us get it. Once you've been through the court process, and the jail process, and seen 1,000-year-old trees get cut down that you really cared about and thought you could save — it's devastating."

That alone, setting aside the troubles with Shunka, could explain the many rifts that have occurred within the local EF! ranks over the years. Josh Brown, who moved to Humboldt in 1995 right before the peak of the Headwaters campaign, said one of the unique qualities of Earth First! is that it "is primarily a youth movement."

"A lot of people that come through are young, are passionate — and it's a wonderful thing," he said. They get thrown into leadership positions quickly — and then they get burned out. Many move quickly on to other things. Brown stayed in longer than most. "When I left [in 2001], I was 30 years old. And I'd been a full-time activist since I was 18."

Paradoxically, said Brown, the youthful draw and the departure of seasoned activists leaves the movement with "no elders to kind of sit around and coach the [new kids]."

The movement also draws strong personalities, he said. Tenacious ones, too, like Shunka's.

"Shunka, I think he really does have a big heart," said Brown. "And I think he does care for the forest."

Last Friday, following the morning session of Miller v. Trees, a group of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association activists stood on the courthouse steps talking. The door opened, and Shunka walked out and down the steps toward the group. They didn't greet him. After a time, he tried to talk to one of them, Jeff. Jeff walked away. Shunka followed him, then stopped and talked to another guy. Then he stood alone again.

From: northcoastjournal.com/101107/...011.html

"Trees Foundation Wins"

October 11th, 2007

The jury in the civil case Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation decided in favor of Trees, after deliberating all day Tuesday. (See "Money on Trees," Oct. 4).

Miller is the long-time forest activist who inherited a bundle from her mother and then signed $185,000 over to the Trees Foundation. In her lawsuit, she claimed she had intended the money to be passed through Trees to one of its affiliates, North Coast Earth First! Media, run by Shunka Wakan. She claimed she had made her intentions clear, verbally and in writing, and that Trees had agreed to the conditions, then broken its promise and kept the money. Trees denied making such promises, and said it had never seen any letters or heard of instructions to give the money to NCEF! Media. (Also, somewhat relatedly, in criminal court on Tuesday Miller pleaded no contest to charges that she had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation.)

So, that's that. Now, there are only the pieces to pick up.

For Shunka Wakan — featured in last week's Journal as a central figure in a messy nest of infighting that has fractured the current ranks of local Earth First!ians — it could be a long, lonely patching together of lost friends and broken alliances. Not only did he and Miller lose their attempt to retrieve her donation, but now he's been banned from the North Coast Co-op.

Yes, that happened last week. It was Thursday, around 4:15 in the evening, and two activists with the Humboldt Forest Defense Association were tabling — hawking brochures and such — outside the Co-op. It's an activity Shunka himself has spent many a day doing in that very same spot, raising cash to pay for his NCEF!Media outreach work and other causes. And, well, these two fellows, Jeff and Farmer, were on Shunka's shit list, now. They'd spoken gently, but unfavorably, about Shunka's doings in the North Coast Earth First! arena — said he lashed out at people, said he commandeered NCEF! resources, and so forth. Here's a snippet of Jeff's account of what happened, which he sent to the NCJ in an e-mail on Friday:

"Shunka was removed from the Arcata Co-op yesterday after a scuffle with myself and another activist around 5 p.m. Well, he wasn't exactly removed, but APD was called. He was asked to leave after threatening to flip over the HFD donation table while stating he was 'like Jesus in the marketplace ...'"

Sue Coulter, manager of the Arcata Co-op, recounted on Friday how an employee walking by heard the argument and went inside to get her. "So I went out to talk to [Shunka], because it's not the first time we've had problems," she said. "Most of the time, he's fine. Most of the time, I stick up for him." One time, she said, she even called the police to protect Shunka after someone had threatened him. "But he gets into arguments. I tried to talk to him. I told him to leave. ... He was causing a scene, right by the door, and I can't have it. He refused to leave. ... I said, fine. I went into the store. He followed me into the store, and he was still yelling at me, 'Oh, now you're going to call the police on me.'" Coulter called the police, but Shunka left before they arrived.

Shunka, waiting in the courthouse for the jury verdict Tuesday, said Coulter did indeed ask him to leave and he did, indeed, refuse to. As for the HFD tablers, he said he merely asked them why they had Trees Foundation literature on their table. "I said, 'Why do you want to represent these people?'" And then, he said, "Jeff accused me of embezzling — he said this in public. He said, 'You've embezzled thousands of dollars from the Earth First! movement through the years.' And I complained to one of the employees who was walking by. Because that's serious, accusing someone of embezzling."

But Shunka said the whole thing's yet another attack on him. "I don't consider I was yelling. We were talking. I'm an emotional person, I concede to that. I speak from my heart. I don't scream at people. I would love to — but I don't."

In his email, Jeff with HFD predicted Shunka would leave town within weeks, if not sooner. But at the courthouse, even before the verdict, Shunka said he wasn't going anywhere.

"I'm just going to continue to run the Earth First! office and continue to call Humboldt County home," he said. He's also going to write a letter to the Co-op, complaining about how he gets scapegoated and booted out of there even when other people, he says, are the culprits. And, as for the Miller v. Trees case, he said, he and Miller may now take their complaint to another venue.

-- Heidi Walters

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The best solution to the nuclear waste problem

2008-02-17T19:51:13Z

In medieval times, alchemists dreamed of "transmuting" lead into gold. They never achieved that dream, but it may someday be possible to change the high-level nuclear waste produced by nuclear power plants into much more manageable wastes. Under the U.S. Accelerator Transmutation of Waste Program, Los Alamos and other Department of Energy laboratories are studying and developing accelerator-driven technologies that can transmute such waste into more benign, stable waste forms.

About 95 percent of reactor waste is uranium that by itself does not require long-term, permanent storage. The rest is plutonium and other transuranics (minor actinides) and highly radioactive fission products. The transuranics and fission products are far more hazardous than uranium.

Los Alamos has been studying ATW technology options for a decade. While many potential designs for an ATW system have been examined, the main technical components remain the same: a high-power proton linear accelerator, pyrochemical spent fuel treatment/waste cleanup system and subcritical waste burner that's based largely on existing nuclear technology.

The U.S. nuclear power industry will generate approximately 70,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste by 2015, including about 550 tons of plutonium. ATW potentially can reduce the amount of waste requiring permanent storage to less than 3,000 tons, including less than 1 ton of plutonium. In addition, these wastes would require a few centuries of isolation instead of 10,000 years.

ATW begins with a spent fuel treatment center, where the uranium and short-lived fission products that do not need to be transmuted are separated from the rest of the waste. These short-lived fission products are prepared for disposal, while the uranium can be recycled for reuse or prepared for disposal. The remaining transuranics (plutonium, neptunium, americium and curium) are transferred to the waste burner, where they are fissioned into materials that pose mostly short-lived hazards. Because these transuranics have some undesirable fuel characteristics, the fission process is controlled using neutrons produced by the accelerator's proton beam as it strikes a spallation target. The long-lived fission products capture neutrons and are converted into stable, nonhazardous materials. A linear accelerator based upon the one at Los Alamos - the most powerful of its kind in the world -- conceivably could drive several subcritical burners at once.

Because plutonium releases energy as it is destroyed by fission in the waste burner, the process can power itself. Only a fraction of the energy is needed to supply the ATW system; the rest can be sold to power companies, offsetting ATW development and construction costs. Perhaps most important, destroying the weapons-grade plutonium enhances nonproliferation efforts.

Los Alamos, in collaboration with eight other DOE laboratories, recently developed a five-year "road map" (reference number DOE/RW-0519) for ATW research and development, which includes examining all available technology development options; developing a prototype test facility; and demonstrating key aspects of the technologies. Los Alamos plans to conduct some of those demonstrations. Researchers are working on designs that would lower the cost of such a system, which is one of the major hurdles that must be overcome. While an ATW facility may be years away, its potential for solving a worldwide environmental dilemma is undeniable.

CONTACT: Ternel N. Martinez at tmart@lanl.gov or (505) 665-7778. For more "Science for the 21st Century," go to http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/science21 on the World Wide Web.

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We need GREEN solar energy!!!

2008-02-08T16:14:08Z

I am getting very worried about the Democrats big plans for green energy. Traditionally, even "liberals" have always ignored the desert beauty. I can't tell you how many so called environmentalists I have heard who seem to have no problem plastering the public lands in the desert southwest with miles and miles of solar developments and wind turbines. While we should be using this energy, it should be going on rooftops and other previously disturbed areas. I am rather shocked how few environmentalists are not talking about the threats "green" energy have on the biodiversity of the desert. Both Hillary and Obama, not to mention McCain are planning to ruin our deserts with these kneejerk political reactions to global warming. Global warming is real. Alternative energy is a great thing to be persuing, but we should not jump the gun and agree to these vast proposals to alter our deserts with destructive green energy projects. Why are there no environmentalists posting opinions on the threats of green energy? Let's not play dangerous politics with our desert. If we stop all carbon emissions tomorrow, we still will not stop the shift we have caused on the climate. So let's slow down and start talking about green energy that will not trash our deserts. I live in the Mojave Desert in the Southwest US. There are permits to cover most of the public lands around my home for this. Many of these projects will go nowhere because most of the locals will protest the applications for water rights. Not because we are for coal and nuclear. We will protest those because we love our home. All of these giant corporate solar and wind farms are designed to make a few power companies rich. Plus, none of them are designed to REPLACE coal and nuclear power.
There are alternatives to plastering the desert with these eyesores.

Thanks

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Marc Emery, Prince of Pot, takes Time 4 Hemp!

2008-01-30T05:38:13Z

Marc Emery is called the 'Prince of Pot' and claims to have sold more marijuana seeds than anyone in the world. To date, no one has disputed that claim. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, he is the founder of Cannabis Culture magazien, and considered by the U.S. government to be the biggest drug kingpin in history.

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Pelosi and Reid Nix Renewable Energy? WTF??!

2007-11-13T01:44:55Z

They seem to have deleted provisions for solar, wind and other renewables -- including their all important investment tax credits -- from the energy bill.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toby-barlow/news-alert-if-you-love-r_b_71888.html

If this is true, it is one more reason to actively campaign against Pelosi in the primaries.

I am sick of Democrats who knuckle under to Bush and the oil and coal industries.

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NCEF! Media sabotaged! Hijacked by lone wingnut! Accused of fraud and embezzlement!

2007-11-07T04:23:17Z

NCEF! Media in Humboldt County, Ca. is accused of fraud and donation embezzlement. Caution! Do not support this lone wingnut's scam! Other legitamate groups exist in the area. Caution! Do not be fooled by NCEF! Media and his fraudulent outreach. Shunka Wakan exists completely seperate from any active affinity group. Read about how he perpetuated a lawsuit under the guise of EF! against a legitamate environmental nonprofit:

Dog Days
From: http://northcoastjournal.com/100407/cover1004.html
October 4, 2007
Money On Trees

Big cash nearly fell into Shunka Wakan's lap. Other Earth First!ers are kinda happy it didn't.

by Heidi Walters

As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, Miller's attorney Linda Mitlyng, would come out of the courtroom to join him. But otherwise, as other people and their legal affairs swirled around him in a warm, odiferous bath of humanity, Shunka sat alone. Or, sometimes, he stood alone, straight-spined, his small, stocky body swallowed by the huge, stiff blue suit out of which his newly shorn, razor-scraped bald head poked vulnerably — as if, at any moment, the suit could gulp once more and he'd disappear completely. Always, he clutched a paper folder with a wolf's face on its cover.

The North Coast Earth First! Media guru had shaved off his woolly rust-tinged brown hair and beard the night before jury selection started, after discussing it with attorney Mitlyng. Now, it took an uncertain moment to recognize him. Then, of course: Shunka's light blue eyes in the pink-pale face, Shunka's closed-lip smile, Shunka's trademark husky murmur, "Mm-hmm, for sure," in response to a comment.

In Courtroom 3, the amiable but no-nonsense Judge Christopher Wilson's domain, the fate of a $185,000 donation dangled. Would the plaintiff, donor Kathryn Miller, prevail in her claim that the defendant, the Trees Foundation, was not in fact the intended recipient of her generous gift? That Shunka Wakan's NCEF! Media Center and the treesitters were? Or would the Trees Foundation convince the jury that, in fact, the money was intended all along for Trees, with no instructions attached for funneling it elsewhere?

Richard Idell, left, who is defending the Trees Foundation against a lawsuit filed by Kathryn Miller, confers with Doug Wallace, community support coordinator for Trees. Photo by David Lawlor.

In her opening arguments, Miller's attorney, Mitlyng, said the case came down to "fraud and broken promises." "She believed [Trees] would hold [the money] in trust, for the benefit of North Coast Earth First!" said Mitlyng. The defense's attorney, Richard Idell, countered in his opening argument that the donation was an unconditional gift and Miller never wrote letters of instruction — as Miller claims she did. "Ms. Miller ... didn't do anything. She took the check [from her mother's estate] and flipped it over and wrote on the back, 'Payable to the Trees Foundation,'" said Idell.

Miller's claim sought the return of her $185,000, plus interest.

Out in the hallway, Shunka waited to tell his side of the story. Maybe he thought about the magical donation that never materialized, and now probably never would. Maybe he thought about the other times he'd been in this courthouse — dozens of times, along with other activists, often before Judge Wilson, answering to charges of trespassing and other forms of civil disobedience in the woods. Likely, he wondered when they were finally going to call him in to testify — it was taking forever in there. He'd even sent out an e-mail prematurely to the several hundred subscribers to his NCEF! online group erroneously announcing he would be first up to testify.

By the end of Friday's court session, Miller was still on the stand. Perhaps Monday it would be Shunka's turn. Whenever it was, he would be testifying on Miller's behalf; but he wasn't a party to the lawsuit. And in the end, after hearing all of the evidence, the jury would be determining who was telling the truth about intentions and letters of instructions. Shunka was just there to provide context and evidence in a contract dispute.

But to a number of forest activists, including a half dozen or so who appeared in the audience last Friday to watch the trial unfold, that context matters more to them than the legal questions. They say this lawsuit has placed a strain on the environmental community that could do as much damage as an ill-felled redwood that takes down other giants in its descent. They disapprove of the lawsuit, and they blame Shunka for it. And, they say, it's just another example of how Shunka has commandeered the North Coast Earth First! identity and used it for purposes that nobody else in the amorphous but consensus-driven local Earth First! movement has agreed to.

"For a lot of us, when we read about the lawsuit, this is kind of like Shunka on trial," said long-time forest activist Deane Rimerman last Friday, calling from Olympia, Wash. "And, to what extent is he worthy of that money?"

Kathryn Miller wanted her money to go toward saving trees, she said on the witness stand last Thursday. The slender 59-year-old was dressed in a pink print skirt and white sweater, with her gray-streaked dark hair pulled back into a neat, thin braid tinted slightly green. (Little did the jury know that Miller had spent the night in jail, in blue jail duds, and then had been "dressed out," in court lingo, in her street clothes before being escorted into the court by the bailiff. Miller had been arrested the week before, on Sept. 17, when she arrived in civil court for the pre-trial readiness hearing; according to the misdemeanor criminal charges filed against her, Miller allegedly had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation all hours of the day and night.)

On the stand, Miller described how she became an activist. She remembered how, when she was a child in Orinda, her mother decided to stop spraying the beautiful oak trees on their property after reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "And then, when my son was 9, we were watching the news on TV about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. And my son said to me, 'I wish I'd never been born. I don't think I'll get to live a full life.'"

She protested the building of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She started a peace action group in the late 1980s in San Jose. She did nonviolent protests at the Nevada Test Site. And in 1990, she came up with some of her fellow protestors to help set up the camp for Redwood Summer, and to take part in demonstrations. She's been on and off involved in Earth First! actions in Humboldt ever since, she said, including huffing in supplies for treesitters and huffing out their garbage. She'd also, at one point, bought a condo in Arcata.

In 2004, Miller sold her condo and bought an acre of farmland, already planted with coffee, in Guatemala. She put in fruit trees to shade the coffee. That same year, her mother, who lived in Sonoma, died. "The last time I saw her was in 2003," said Miller. "She told me when she died, she was going to leave me some money. I told her I'd use it to further my work for the forest. And she was pleased, because she loved the treesitters and the forest."

Shortly after learning of her mother's death, Kathryn Miller sought out Shunka Wakan in front of the food co-op in Arcata, where he "tabled" to raise funds for the North Coast Earth First! Media office — selling T-shirts, and stickers, offering pamphlets, accepting donations. She'd known Shunka for about five years, she said.

"I said to him, I was going to inherit some money: What was the best way to get that to the North Coast Earth First!?"

In the spring of 2005, Shunka Wakan was floating above the treetops. "I was so excited," the 32-year-old said in an interview a few weeks ago, sitting inside his tiny but colorful North Coast Earth First! Media office in Arcata, walls covered in art and topo maps — including one of Buckeye Mountain, where in 2000-2001, during the "Mattole Free State" action, Shunka and others hiked 14 miles through waist-high snowdrifts to save trees.

Kathryn Miller, he recalled, had come up to him excitedly as he walked along the sidewalk outside the Arcata Co-op and said, "I just donated $185,000 to North Coast Earth First!'"

She'd talked to him the year before about making the donation — she'd said she was anticipating an inheritance from her mother's estate, and she wanted to make a big donation to his group. He'd told her to make it through the Trees Foundation, which handled the NCEF! Media office's finances through an arrangement that had been established years ago. (The Trees Foundation is an umbrella organization formed in 1991 to assist smaller environmental groups. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, it can accept large, tax-deductible donations on behalf of affiliates, and provide professional resources. And it can lead large campaigns, like the one to save the Headwaters Forest back in the '90s.)

Well, now she'd finally done it.

Miller and Shunka agreed to meet at Fiesta Café in Sunny Brae, so she could tell him how she wanted the money spent: She wanted, straight away, for someone to organize a mediated workshop for the local Earth First! activists on ageism and sexism, issues she thought were fracturing the movement. And, she wanted the bulk of the donation to help support the forest activists who blockade logging roads and hunker up in ancient redwoods to fend off loggers' saws.

Not long after, Shunka was on his way to have lunch with some folks from the Trees Foundation, where they'd talk about Miller's wishes.

"Our media outreach was going to get a big boost," Shunka said. "The donation would keep the EF! office going for many years. So I walked into the Wildflower Café feeling elated, thinking we got all this money."

Barbara Ristow and Doug Wallace of the Trees Foundation were there. "I was super excited," Shunka said, "and I said, 'This is great, this big donation. Isn't it wonderful?' We ordered food, and still I'm all excited, talking about the money, but I notice they're looking nervously at each other. [Finally], they said, 'Well, we're just shocked that you think this money was for you.' And I was like, 'I just met with the donor, and that's what she said.' And they're like, 'Well, let's go ahead and plan the workshop and deal with that later.' I remember that, because it put me at ease."

After that, Shunka said he gave Trees a list of people he thought might benefit from the mediator-run workshop. "Some were people I knew had beefs with me, but I was willing to bring 'em into the circle and talk about it."

According to some vague accounts, the workshop was a disaster. One person who was there claims that Shunka, at one point, pounded his fists on the floor, blustered, then got up and stormed out, yelling as he walked away. Shunka says that's overblown.

"The letter from Kathryn Miller to Barbara Bristow said she wanted the mediation to be a safe place, safe to be emotional," he said. "And I think people are saying 'I freaked out.' The freak-out reports are exaggerated. It's just part of this ongoing character assassination. People say I was 'red-faced.' But my face is naturally red."

In late 2005, while Shunka was in Seattle, a friend called him from Arcata to say a woman had come by asking for the office key. She had a list of equipment she wanted to take away. The friend didn't give her the key.

When Shunka got back from Seattle, he discovered his reimbursement funds from Trees had been "frozen." He also learned about a letter someone in the NCEF! movement had circulated for signatures and then sent to Mark Knipper, who handled the Trees Foundation transactions for the NCEF! Media office. It said, in essence, "We don't want Shunka running EF!"

"I called the Trees Foundation," Shunka recalled. "I was sick, it was the middle of the winter, I'm trying to table, it's raining, it's cold. And Barbara Ristow told me, 'You just need to have a meeting [with the other Earth First!ers] and come to a group consensus on what the Trees Foundation funding should be used for."

The meeting never happened — nobody could agree to meet, said Mark Knipper, also in an interview last week. Knipper is a social worker and a long-time activist who had been the contact person between Trees and NCEF! Media. "So it ate itself," Knipper said. "And although I'm former Navy, a mariner, I said I'm not going down with this ship. So I divorced myself from it ... and signed it all back to Trees."

The NCEF! Media office was dropped from the Trees Foundation altogether.

Shunka and the NCEF! Media office never did see any of the big donation. Miller didn't even know that, he said, until she phoned him up in the summer of 2006, more than a year after she made the donation, to ask about a guy named "Jungle," who had been reported as missing on the NCEF! hotline. Miller was spending much of her time in Guatemala now, where she was raising fruit trees; after she'd made her big donation, Hurricane Stan had struck — she spent the ensuing year mopping up the mess.

First, Shunka told her Jungle was still missing. Then he told her about the money.

"I said, 'Yeah, they told me it wasn't for us,'" said Shunka. "And she said, 'I meant for all of it to go to you guys.' She sounded real upset. And I was like, 'I knew it! I knew it!'"

Shunka tried to sue Trees in small claims court, but it went nowhere.

Miller filed a claim against the Trees Foundation on Oct. 5, 2006, in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeking the return of the $185,000 plus interest so she could distribute the money herself.

And if she wins? "She may just spread it out more," said Shunka. "She's got tree planting ideas. Maybe she could buy a grove. She'd maybe not give it all to Earth First! this time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Trees blew for us."

On an uncomfortably hot afternoon last week, four forest activists who'd agreed to an interview for this story — Jeff, Shaggy, Sparrow and Farmer — sat on the ground at the Arcata Marsh next to a log bench on which a teeming crew of red ants worked a splintered notch. Someone had come along here in 1999 and carved a grouping of faces — bearded, grimacing, possibly mourning faces — onto the log and signed it Daniel. The carving had been drenched in red paint, and burnished by years of sitters.

"It kind of reminds me of the memorial for Gypsy," said one of them. "With the red paint."

Gypsy was the forest name of David Nathan Chain, who in September 1998, during an Earth First! action at Grizzly Creek, was crushed to death by a tree felled by an enraged logger. Farmer, actually, was there — he was just 16, but had a year of activism already under his belt. And Shunka was there — it was Shunka's first forest action.

Farmer, Shag, Sparrow and Jeff first made it clear that they spoke for themselves alone, although they participate in various forest defense affinity groups: Farmer works for the Mattole Wildlands Defense Group now, watchdogging the California Department of Forestry for new timber harvest plans, and keeping an eye on a Pacific Lumber Co. watershed analysis. Shag, who saw his first redwood about five years ago, helps keep the Fern Gully treesit village in Freshwater functioning. Jeff, who grew up in the high desert, and fell in love with the woods, works with the Nanning Creek treesit just outside of Scotia, as well as other groups. Sparrow, who was drawn to forest action because the cultural landscape was "like a folktale" he couldn't resist, is with the Fern Gully affinity group. These groups are all part of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association, a collective with a website but no formal structure.

The HFDA sprang into being six years ago — about the time the entity called North Coast Earth First! had essentially dissolved. It would take a book to describe that drawn-out dissolution — a book of lost causes, won causes, waning media interest, Judi Bari's death, Gypsy's death, ego-spurred squabbles, interpersonal catastrophes, a war overseas, hurricanes. And while the HFDA activists might still cherish the Earth First! name — the movement — in their hearts, it's now been further complicated by what you might call the Shunka effect.

"I still feel in many ways solidarity with the greater Earth First! movement abroad," said Farmer. "But in this county, in this climate, if you say you're with the North Coast Earth First!, many people associate you with North Coast Earth First! Media."

Shunka revived the North Coast Earth First! office around 2002. And he did what previous office managers had done — tabled, put out news releases, wrote articles for other publications. But it wasn't like the old days, in the '90s, when hundreds of people were getting arrested in forest actions and the jail support phone and legal resources were in constant use.

Shunka first worked in an office in Eureka, then later moved to Arcata. He called his outfit the NCEF! Media Center. For a time, he and other "affinity groups" tried to work together. But he alienated some people. He took over the North Coast Earth First! website. He controlled the North Coast Earth First! email list of 300 or more subscribers to the news alerts. He sent out press releases on his own.

"I felt the North Coast Earth First! Media Center was a unilateral effort on Shunka's part," said Farmer. Whereas, in the old days, "spokespeople were decided on by the group. And if you wrote an article it was passed by everyone. I feel Shunka appointed himself spokesperson at some point."

Many also claim they've been subject to a lashing anger from Shunka.

"I won't work with him because I pledge nonviolence in my actions," said Shag. "I don't believe he pledges the same thing. He has exhibited violent behavior towards me and towards other activists in my presence."

"He's a bear," said Jeff, making claw-fists with his hands.

But the sad thing is, all of this infighting probably has done nothing to help the actual trees. And the mediation workshop Kathryn Miller wanted didn't fix matters. Now, there was her lawsuit.

"When I heard about this lawsuit, I thought, the Trees Foundation does not deserve to be attacked in that way," said Farmer. "There's much bigger issues that need to be dealt with — with Maxxam and old-growth logging. ...If you look at Fern Gully and Nanning Creek (the Bonanza timber harvest plan), there's hundreds of old growth acres still standing whose fate is unclear."

Shag put it more bluntly: "If [Miller] knew Shunka and wanted to get the money to North Coast Earth First! Media, she should've given it to Shunka. But if she was trying to get it to treesits and forest defense, then the money went to the right place.

"My problem is this whole representation thing. There's people in the trees — how do you know who to get the money to, to help them?"

Shunka knows that a lot of fellow activists aren't happy with his role in the donation dispute. He also knows how some people talk about him and say he's hard to get along with. "I'm just standing up for the truth," he said. "And people don't like it. To me, it feels like a small clique of people who don't like me. I feel a lot of love and support in this community."

He certainly doesn't come off right away as someone who's angry, or who lashes out, or who locks the office and doesn't let people in. Why, recently, he helped a young woman hook up with the treesitters so she could learn the ropes. (Shaggy said that's proof Shunka doesn't have direct connections with the people doing direct action; but you can't deny it's a connection.)

It's probably a bad idea to ask Darryl Cherney, one of the founders of the local Earth First! movement, what he thinks of Shunka Wakan, whose real name is Jason Wilson. (Shunka tells a story of how he was named by a Lakota medicine man on the banks of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in 1995. "Shunka Wakan," meaning "great dog," is only part of it. There's a secret part after that — altogether, his name means "the humble man called horse.")

"Shunka's a wingnut," Cherney said over the phone last Friday, sounding cheerfully vitriolic. "I have a 10-verse song about Shunka."

Here are the last few verses:

Who's at the co-op spanging a donation
Shunka, Shunka
Who's got a lawsuit 'gainst the Trees Foundation
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka
Who's gonna keep on fighting the fight
Shunka, Shunka
With four of his friends at swimmers delight
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka (Shunka voice: It's the last of the revolution)

There's no other word for it but "mean." But Cherney and Shunka have history — not all of it sour. Cherney said Shunka laughed when he heard the song, at least the first time.

"I met Shunka in 1998," Cherney said. "And I know he knew Julia ["Butterfly" Hill, whom Shunka had come west to find]. That was a good thing, helping Julia. That was good Shunka."

Cherney had even pushed for Shunka to go to Houston to talk with Charles Hurwitz, whose Maxxam Corp. bought out the old Pacific Lumber company back in 1985 and quickly became the forest activists' number one villain. Shunka went.

But now? "The current status of Shunka and me," Cherney said, "is that Shunka has sent me five or eight or nine e-mails threatening to sue me. Shunka is a joke."

Cherney can talk for hours about the problems he's had with Shunka over the years. His main point, though, is what has Shunka done for the trees lately?

"My question is, where's your topo maps?" he asked. "Where's your wilderness preservation proposal? Where's your lobbyist team in Sacramento?"

It has to be that, on some level, even the people in the movement who don't like Shunka understand somewhat where he's coming from. So he's emotional. Passionate. Perhaps he's caught up so completely in the cause he can't let go. Or, who knows — maybe he's a phony, like he accused Knipper of being back in 2005.

But being a forest activist comes with perils beyond the obvious physical ones.

"I'm really trying to have compassion for Shunka, even though he's kind of attacked us," said Susy Barsotti by phone from Laytonville a couple of weeks ago. Barsotti is president of the Trees Foundation board, and she says the lawsuit has held Trees hostage, unable to function fully. "I've been mystified and dismayed that he's participated like this in the suit. But Shunka witnessed Gypsy's death. And I think he may have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I don't think he's recovered from it. And that can affect your behavior."

A number of people mentioned this, actually, about Shunka. And he often refers to Gypsy's death himself. In an article titled "What Luna has taught me," posted on the website of Julia "Butterfly" Hill's organization, Circle of Life, Shunka writes: "I decided to commit to doing ground support after witnessing the death of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain on September 17, 1998 ... I remember looking across the valley as we hiked up that day, seeing the rolling hills of forests and clear-cuts, and thinking out loud, "That's why we're here!" Seeing Gypsy's life taken from him, and then seeing the corruption and lies of the Humboldt County Sheriffs ... really opened my eyes to the situation our old-growth forests face."

Later, he did ground support for Hill in her second year in Luna. And in the same article on her website, something else Shunka writes indicates how ready he was to devote himself to a cause: "Being on the support team was the top priority in my life, and I was happy knowing that everything else revolved around when I'd be needed for the next supply run. I never felt lost because I knew what I was doing. That was a feeling I had not felt in years, between feeling dissatisfaction with life in college, and then more dissatisfaction with life as a minimum-wage worker after college. Before joining Julia's ground support team I was unhappy, even to the point of tears, wondering if my entire life was going to be a minimum-wage nightmare ...."

Pure devotion, without benefit of a little hypocrisy, could drive anyone batty. Deane Rimerman, the activist from Olympia who said it is Shunka who is on trial, said it's not uncommon for intense, stressful movements like Earth First! to produce an army of walking wounded. And he's been around, in forest actions up and down the coast, for long enough to know; he was the one, in fact, who "got the maps and led the first hikers up to the hill" to the Gypsy Mountain campaign and Luna treesit.

"In the forest activist movement, there's very little that's rewarding," Rimerman said. "There's a lot of post traumatic stress syndrome. All of us get it. Once you've been through the court process, and the jail process, and seen 1,000-year-old trees get cut down that you really cared about and thought you could save — it's devastating."

That alone, setting aside the troubles with Shunka, could explain the many rifts that have occurred within the local EF! ranks over the years. Josh Brown, who moved to Humboldt in 1995 right before the peak of the Headwaters campaign, said one of the unique qualities of Earth First! is that it "is primarily a youth movement."

"A lot of people that come through are young, are passionate — and it's a wonderful thing," he said. They get thrown into leadership positions quickly — and then they get burned out. Many move quickly on to other things. Brown stayed in longer than most. "When I left [in 2001], I was 30 years old. And I'd been a full-time activist since I was 18."

Paradoxically, said Brown, the youthful draw and the departure of seasoned activists leaves the movement with "no elders to kind of sit around and coach the [new kids]."

The movement also draws strong personalities, he said. Tenacious ones, too, like Shunka's.

"Shunka, I think he really does have a big heart," said Brown. "And I think he does care for the forest."

Last Friday, following the morning session of Miller v. Trees, a group of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association activists stood on the courthouse steps talking. The door opened, and Shunka walked out and down the steps toward the group. They didn't greet him. After a time, he tried to talk to one of them, Jeff. Jeff walked away. Shunka followed him, then stopped and talked to another guy. Then he stood alone again.

From: http://northcoastjournal.com/101107/news1011.html

Trees Foundation Wins

October 11th, 2007

The jury in the civil case Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation decided in favor of Trees, after deliberating all day Tuesday. (See "Money on Trees," Oct. 4).

Miller is the long-time forest activist who inherited a bundle from her mother and then signed $185,000 over to the Trees Foundation. In her lawsuit, she claimed she had intended the money to be passed through Trees to one of its affiliates, North Coast Earth First! Media, run by Shunka Wakan. She claimed she had made her intentions clear, verbally and in writing, and that Trees had agreed to the conditions, then broken its promise and kept the money. Trees denied making such promises, and said it had never seen any letters or heard of instructions to give the money to NCEF! Media. (Also, somewhat relatedly, in criminal court on Tuesday Miller pleaded no contest to charges that she had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation.)

So, that's that. Now, there are only the pieces to pick up.

For Shunka Wakan — featured in last week's Journal as a central figure in a messy nest of infighting that has fractured the current ranks of local Earth First!ians — it could be a long, lonely patching together of lost friends and broken alliances. Not only did he and Miller lose their attempt to retrieve her donation, but now he's been banned from the North Coast Co-op.

Yes, that happened last week. It was Thursday, around 4:15 in the evening, and two activists with the Humboldt Forest Defense Association were tabling — hawking brochures and such — outside the Co-op. It's an activity Shunka himself has spent many a day doing in that very same spot, raising cash to pay for his NCEF!Media outreach work and other causes. And, well, these two fellows, Jeff and Farmer, were on Shunka's shit list, now. They'd spoken gently, but unfavorably, about Shunka's doings in the North Coast Earth First! arena — said he lashed out at people, said he commandeered NCEF! resources, and so forth. Here's a snippet of Jeff's account of what happened, which he sent to the NCJ in an e-mail on Friday:

"Shunka was removed from the Arcata Co-op yesterday after a scuffle with myself and another activist around 5 p.m. Well, he wasn't exactly removed, but APD was called. He was asked to leave after threatening to flip over the HFD donation table while stating he was 'like Jesus in the marketplace ...'"

Sue Coulter, manager of the Arcata Co-op, recounted on Friday how an employee walking by heard the argument and went inside to get her. "So I went out to talk to [Shunka], because it's not the first time we've had problems," she said. "Most of the time, he's fine. Most of the time, I stick up for him." One time, she said, she even called the police to protect Shunka after someone had threatened him. "But he gets into arguments. I tried to talk to him. I told him to leave. ... He was causing a scene, right by the door, and I can't have it. He refused to leave. ... I said, fine. I went into the store. He followed me into the store, and he was still yelling at me, 'Oh, now you're going to call the police on me.'" Coulter called the police, but Shunka left before they arrived.

Shunka, waiting in the courthouse for the jury verdict Tuesday, said Coulter did indeed ask him to leave and he did, indeed, refuse to. As for the HFD tablers, he said he merely asked them why they had Trees Foundation literature on their table. "I said, 'Why do you want to represent these people?'" And then, he said, "Jeff accused me of embezzling — he said this in public. He said, 'You've embezzled thousands of dollars from the Earth First! movement through the years.' And I complained to one of the employees who was walking by. Because that's serious, accusing someone of embezzling."

But Shunka said the whole thing's yet another attack on him. "I don't consider I was yelling. We were talking. I'm an emotional person, I concede to that. I speak from my heart. I don't scream at people. I would love to — but I don't."

In his email, Jeff with HFD predicted Shunka would leave town within weeks, if not sooner. But at the courthouse, even before the verdict, Shunka said he wasn't going anywhere.

"I'm just going to continue to run the Earth First! office and continue to call Humboldt County home," he said. He's also going to write a letter to the Co-op, complaining about how he gets scapegoated and booted out of there even when other people, he says, are the culprits. And, as for the Miller v. Trees case, he said, he and Miller may now take their complaint to another venue.

-- Heidi Walters

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TRUTH IS FREE; so is my RETREAT --Vermont

2007-11-05T18:19:09Z

I'm looking to network with folks, to extend an invitation to visit Bald Mountain Retreat (www.baldmountainretreat.com) as my guest. Like-minded people who appreciate rustic accommodations are welcome to come up at no charge. (Those who require a private room can inquire about those accommodations as well.)
Basically, I'm offering people the opportunity to come stay with a retired naturopathic doctor in a truly amazing natural setting, secluded, idyllic, peaceful...
Also, if you might like to lead a retreat, please contact me.
Thank you and you are welcome,
Dr David

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Free MP3 with Keith Stroup - Founder of NORML

2007-10-21T05:40:01Z

Eight hundred thousand people were arrested in 2006 on marijuana related charges. Today, every 41 seconds someone in America is arrested on a marijuana related charge.

On September 15, 2007 - Keith Stroup (founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws - NORML) was one of those arrested.

This was the second time for Keith to be arrested on a marijuana charge. He recalled getting busted with a joint on him while crossing into Canada during the 1970s in an exclusive interview with Casper Leitch when he sat down and took 'Time 4 Hemp'. Download it for free at http://www.Time4Hemp.com

Also - If you get time, you might want to get your fee downloads of the following 'Time 4 Hemp - TODAY PotCast' interviews:

Allen St. Pierre (Dir. of NORML)
Steve Hager (Editor of High Times Magazine)
Steve Bloom (Former Editor of High Times)
Jack Cole (Founder of LEAP)
Gatewood Galbraith (Author)

EACH SEGMENT HAS LOTS OF GREAT MUSIC INCLUDED!!

Interviews SOON to be released:
Ed Rosenthal
and Marc Emery

Don't miss the free downloads on the 'Time 4 Hemp - MUSIC PotCast':

This week, we turned over the controls to the hard working activists at MarijuanaRadio.com because we think everyone should discover their great work! (It just so happens that our host was a guest on this segment!) Tune in and tell your friends about: http://www.MarijuanaRadio.com

And, if you get time, you might want to get your free downloads of the following 'Time 4 Hemp - MUSIC PotCast' interviews:

The Individuals (7-Time winners of the Global Marijuana Music Awards)
Muck Sticky (Check out his new CD ''Bob-O-Link Cove')
Lynnette Shaw (Hemp Activists and song wirter).

Many of interviews from the television series have been released through the PotCast series, 'Time 4 Hemp - CLASSICS' and feature:

Willie Nelson (Super Star)
Dr. Tim Leary (Author)
Jack Herer (Author)
Kevin Zeese (co-founder of the Drug Policy Foundation)

I’ve worked hard to put together some great podcasts designed to feed brains the truth about Marijuana being used for paper, fiber, fuel, and medications. What’s more - the thing that makes these shows so great are the guests!

Please be kind enough to share the http://www.Time4Hemp.com URL with everyone who you know would enjoy hearing what they have to say.

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

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Hi Guys,

2007-09-11T18:20:16Z

Hi Guys,

I have added an Energy Efficiency section to my website- Comments/Suggestions would be great.

Link: http://www.worldofrenewables.com/EnergyEfficiency/index.html

Grant Rowe

World of Renewables
grantrowe@worldofrenewables.com

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hey all

2007-08-29T17:34:20Z

Hey all,
Started a tribe to promote and discuss all renewable energy sources.

Its called Renewable future

Please join if interested

Grant Rowe
www.worldofrenewables.com

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An X Prize for nuclear fusion

2007-08-08T20:35:03Z

If I had the necessary billions of dollars, I'd establish what you might call an X Prize for nuclear fusion. That is, I would award anyone who can perfect truly-working nuclear fusion technology $1 billion. Of course if nobody pulls it off, then I get to keep my billion.

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Giving up on nuclear fusion?

2007-07-20T15:25:11Z

I saw Maryland Representative Roscoe Barlett on C-SPAN the other day, and he seemed to have made a statement that strongly implied that nuclear fusion may never be perfected. And he's not the only one. I've heard this pessimism about nuclear fusion a lot lately. And that upsets me to no end. It also confirms my belief that we live in an age of spectacular mediocrity. What happened to the days when an inventor would decide to invent something, and the invention actually comes into being? If Thomas Edison had the same attitude that most folks today have, he probably wouldn't have invented anything. Or if Thomas Edison were alive today he might decide to go into nuclear fusion reserach and actually succeed at making it work. But the reality is that in today's modern dystopia, spectacular mediacrity is preferable to problem-solving activities. Welcome to the new Dark Age.

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How many are interested??

2007-02-02T18:34:34Z

Hello,

I am in the process of learning how to convert used vehicles from gas guzzlers to bio deisel.
I am interested to know how many people would consider this viable, and would they consider this for their own vehicle.

What ideas do you have?

Tamara

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Internal Combustion

2006-12-21T16:51:35Z

According to Edwin Black, author of the new book Internal Combustion, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison attempted to bring back the electric car in the 1920s or thereabouts but failed due to sabotage. If they had succeeded, electric cars could've been the norm for the past 80 years. Here are more details:
www.internalcombustionbook.com

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A Time 4 Hemp yahoo group site has been deleated...

2006-10-28T03:07:04Z

...by Yahoo! it seems...I loged on a day or so ago and it had been deleated. I contacted Yahoo's office and was informed that - yes, Yahoo closed the group - and if they ever answer my e-mail...maybe someday, I will find out why? Was it censorship???? I have started a new Yahoo Group - have posted some video clips, photos and after I post this message to a few group sites, will start to add messages to my message board.

I had important news item dating all the way back to the year I founded the ATime4Hemp Yahoo groop...the year 2000. Neary 1,200 messages had been archived on the site for people to wade through should they need to find information on Hemp Studies - or locate links....whatever.

I'm mad. Mad enough to start a new group and ask that the Hemp Movement join it and help to make it bigger and better than the one that was deleated.

Please go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Time4Hemp
and become a member - and post some informative messages and then share the site with your friends....

Keep Strong!

Casper Leitch
Host/Author: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

Time 4 Hemp Cell Phone Website:
http://www.Time4Hemp.com/cell/index.htm

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Video Channel:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Time4Hemp

Great products can be located in the
Time 4 Hemp Gift Shop at:
http://www.cafepress.com/time4hemp

You can join A Time 4 Hemp Yahoo! Community Group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Time4Hemp

You can join the Time 4 Hemp YouTube Community Group at:
http://youtube.com/group/Time4Hemp

Group sites are also found at:
My Space and listed as: Time 4 Hemp Group
TribeNet and listed as: Time_4_Hemp Group

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." - John Galbraith.

"The only thing new in the world is
the history you do not know"
President Harry Truman

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New Marijuana Channel on YouTube!

2006-10-15T01:21:25Z

There is now a Time 4 Hemp Channel on YouTube you can surf!

When you get time, please visit the site, and if you
like what you see - become a SUBSCRIBER to the
channel.

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Channel:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Time4Hemp

Upon arrival, you'll notice a lisiting of Videos I've
posted from the Time 4 Hemp Series, along with other
contributions, sorted into playlists and located under
Favorites.

If you are not a member of the YouTube Community, it
is free, quick and easy to join.

A Time 4 Hemp YouTube group has also been established.
Please visit the site.

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Group Site:
http://youtube.com/group/Time4Hemp

I would be very greatful if you were to check out the
new sites and tell all your friends about them. With
any luck, a lot of people will benefit from the
educational value of they offer.

Keep Strong!

Casper Leitch
Host/Author: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

Time 4 Hemp Cell Phone Website:
http://www.Time4Hemp.com/cell/index.htm

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Video Channel:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Time4Hemp

Great products can be located in the
Time 4 Hemp Gift Shop at:
http://www.cafepress.com/time4hemp

You can join A Time 4 Hemp Yahoo! Community Group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atime4hemp/

You can join the Time 4 Hemp YouTube Community Group at:
http://youtube.com/group/Time4Hemp

Group sites are also found at:
My Space and listed as: Time 4 Hemp Group
TribeNet and listed as: Time_4_Hemp Group

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." - John Galbraith.

"The only thing new in the world is
the history you do not know"
President Harry Truman

All information and transactions
non-negotiable and private
between the parties.
Copyright 2006

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Radio

2006-08-02T19:21:42Z

http://www.upstartradio.com/Internet%20Radio%20Broadcast.html

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Consumer Demand increases Clean Energy

2006-05-31T15:02:55Z

We all want more clean energy generation, but the majority of the population is unwilling to pay for it. Well, now there is a program that everyone can join, free, to increase the demand for clean renewable energy. Hundreds of America's leading retailers contribute cash to generate clean energy everytime a member shops. http://www.ourenergy.us

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Come visit www.baldmountainretreat.com Vermont

2006-05-09T20:03:42Z

Come visit www.baldmountainretreat.com Vermont

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FOSSIL FOOLS DAY

2006-03-10T18:37:29Z

IT'S COMING!!!

April 1st is the Third Annual Fossil Fools Day.

Register at:
http://jumpstartford.com/action/fossil_fools_day/

Admitting you have a problem is always the first step in breaking an addiction. Luckily, Mr. Bush has taken that first step by admitting that America is addicted to oil. Unfortunately, Bush, Harper and scores of other politicians and corporate CEOs have stopped right there and are exhibiting the classic signs of an addict: denial, aggression, avoidance, and shifting the blame.

In fact, the very next day after Bush's State of the Union Address, in which he admitted our oil addiction, his energy secretary explained that when Mr. Bush pledged to reduce [oil] imports from the Middle East, "he didn't mean it literally."

It's time to STOP THE ADDICTION and on Saturday April 1st we hope you will join with thousands of activists around the world in the 3rd Annual Fossil Fools Day to do just that. Register at: http://jumpstartford.com/action/fossil_fools_day/

Fossil Fools Day is a day where citizens unite to say no to the oil pushers and demand a break from our addiction to - an addiction that threatens our environment, our economy, our health, our sports, our workforce, and leads us into war and conflict around the world.

Global Exchange, Energy Action, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Rainforest Action Network, the Ruckus Society and others are jumpstarting North America's to take action to push to real solutions that will kick our dirty habit and put us on a path to a clean energy future. And, concerned peaceful citizens are going to lead that charge!

Sign up today at http://jumpstartford.com/action/fossil_fools_day/

Help us break our oil addiction on April 1st by making this year¹s Fossil Fools Day the largest and most successful international day of action against dirty energy so far. There are dozens of creative, fun, educational, and attention-getting ways you can get involved. See the list below and our website for ideas:

Contact Mike at 415 558 9490 or mike@globalexchange.org for more info.

What You Can Do:
Adopt a Ford Dealer Near You!
1 in 7 barrels of oil is consumed on America's highways alone. Oil consumption in the United States and Canada equals almost 3 gallons per day per capita--6 times the global average--and Ford Motor Company has the worst fuel economy in the auto industry. By enlisting local Ford dealers as allies, we can convince corporate decision makers that there is a demand for fuel-efficient and zero-emission vehicles putting a HUGE dent in our addiction to fossil fuels.
http://www.jumpstartford.com

Host an Intervention for a Fossil Fool/Oil Addict
Have a mock intervention for a regional, national or international Fossil Fool, or have an intervention for a local Fossil Fool--could be a person or an institution that needs to kick their fossil fuel addiction. Be creative & have fun! Find out if your representatives are receiving oil money and then confront them to break the addiction! Register your event, download an intervention guide & read about other creative events:
http://www.energyaction.net

Fight for Efficiency & Renewables on Your Campus or in Your Community!
You can launch a campaign in your community to green the vehicle fleets of your college, university, city or state. Pass a resolution and get your government –at any level- to replace those gas-guzzlers with cleaner, more efficient vehicles. You can also get your campus or community to place soft orders for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Plugging our cars into a grid powered by dirty energies like coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear is not a solution to our addiction, so we've got to clean up the grid, too. Push for efficiency and clean, renewable energy on your campus or in your community today! Find resources & register your action:
http://www.energyaction.net

Pass a Green Fleet Resolution On Your Campus or Community!
You can launch a campaign in your community to green the vehicle fleets of your university, city or state. Pass a resolution and get your government –at any level- to replace those gas-guzzlers with hybrid, electric, and bio-diesel vehicles. You can also get your campus or community to place soft orders for PHEV's which, is one of the best ways to show your commitment to fighting oil addiction. Download a Green Fleets action kit at http://jumpstartford.com/action/greenfleets_resolution/

Tell Ford to Stop Biggering
This year instead of building a fleet of PHEV's, or increasing its commitment to hybrids beyond 4%, Ford decided to increase the size of two of its already GARGANTUAN SUV's. The Expedition alone is increasing to a MONSTOROUS 19 ½ feet in length. Ford's willingness to BIGGER its' vehicles reminded us of the very telling story of the Onceler in Dr. Suess' "The Lorax". This Fossil Fools Day why not remind Ford what being addicted to "Thneads" - products we don't need like SUV's - means by holding a screening of the Lorax movie at your local dealer. If you don't have a projector stage a story time reading or dress up as your favorite character and deliver a copy to your local dealer. Remember "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lots, nothings going to change its just not." g

We need to stand up and show that we will be safer, healthier and wealthier with energy innovation! It's time to end our addiction to oil and push for a fossil fool free future.

Register at: http://jumpstartford.com/action/fossil_fools_day/

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LIve WebCast of Time 4 Hemp - once a week at high noon!

2006-03-08T02:46:34Z

The series, Time 4 Hemp, rolls back into production with a 1-hour weekly LIVE WebCast!

This allows for you to IM or call in and speak directly to our guest. Those who have already agreed to be a on the re-launching of the series are:

Allen F. St. Pierre, (Ex. Dir. of NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5972

Steven Hagar, (Ex. Editor of High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com

Steve Bloom, (Senior Editor at High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/home/

Eric Sterling, (founder of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation);
http://www.cjpf.org

Jack Herer, (Author of 'The Emporer Wears No Clothes');
http://www.jackherer.com/

Ed Rosenthal, (founder of Quick Trading Books);
http://quicktrading.com

Lynette Shaw, (now running for Lt. Gov. of CA. and the writer and singer of the theme song 'Time 4 Hemp');
http://www.revshawrecords.com

Steve Dillion, (Chair - Natl. NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4489

John Birrenbach, (founder of the International Institute For Hemp);
http://www.birrenbach.com/

Keith Stroup, (founder of NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4503

Gatewood Galbraith, (Reform Party Candidate for Governor of Kentucky);
http://www.gatewood.com

Steve Kubby and his wife Michele (hemp activists fighting for their lives in the US Legal System);
http://www.kubby.com/

Dale Gieringer, Ph.D (Vice Chair of NORML and EX. Dir. of CA NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4490

Rob Robinson, (Ex. Dir. of NY NORML);
http://www.nynorml.org/

Lynn Wilson, (a/k/a - The Happy Hemptress);
http://www.hemprock.com/

Jack Cole, (Founding member and Exc. Dir. of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)
http://www.leap.cc/who/jackbio.htm

Bruce Mirken, (Director of Communications for the Marijuana Policy Project);
http://www.mpp.org

David Borden, (founder and Ex. Dir. of StoptheDrugWar.org and the Drug Reform Coordination Network);
http://stopthedrugwar.org/aboutdrc/index.shtml

Peter Gorman, (Feature Writer for High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/home/

Many more great activists fighting for our freedoms on the front lines in the War On Drugs (as well as a few well-known public figures) have also agreed to be part of this production.

'Time 4 Hemp' is the name of the television series I created in the early 1990's. You can locate the web site at:
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

There you will find the list of guests who appeared on the series when it was first produced includes: Willie Nelson, Tim Leary, Kevin Zeese, and all the founders of the American Hemp Movement.

I am one of 17 people who, in 1991, wrote the California Hemp Initiative (CHI) allowing people who need the use of hemp (slang termed: marijuana) for medical reasons to grow 6 plants or less in their own homes with out fear of prosecution.

The 17 of us who wrote this initiative then recruited an army of volunteers to gather enough signatures to get the CHI onto the voting ballot in 1992. California voters overwhelmingly supported CHI and it became state law shortly there after. I created 'Time 4 Hemp' as a way to bring attention to the CHI.

A copy of the CHI can be reviewed on the web site as can free short video downloads from each interview. You can also freely download the complete audio of each interview should you like. You can also download 4 video clips from my involvement in the Smoked Marijuana Study at UCLA funded by the US government if you have time for a quick chuckle. I am the only person in the world ever to be filmed in a study of that nature.

The 'Time 4 Hemp' weekly WebCast will broadcast LIVE, at High Noon once a week through the internet. Each program will then be edited and archived so anyone wanting to listen to it - at anytime - can do so.

We intend to rock the world (as always) with the message of:
"Hemp for Paper, Fiber, Fuel and Medication".

With that said, I'd like to invite you to listen in and be an ACTIVE AUDIENCE. The whole idea of broadcasting live is to give people around the world the chance to ask questions of each guest. Either through telephone (we'll have an 800 number) or IM.

I'll be posting up-dates about the series through my Time_4_Hemp tribe site.

If you'd like to be notified by e-mail of the first live broadcast, let me know.

You can send me a message through my Time4Hemp.com web sit at: Casper@Time4Hemp.com with the subject line:
I Want 2 Take Time 4 Hemp - NOW!

Please tell your friends about this series. Copy and paste this message anywhere you feel someone might benefit from something one of our remarkable guests has to say.

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

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Free Marijuana Audio and Video downloads found at...

2006-02-22T21:46:59Z

... http://www.Time4Hemp.com There you can locate complete interviews with Willie Nelson (speaking on Bio-fuel and Bio-farming), Tim Leary, Jack Herer, Gatewood Galibrath, Steve Bloom, Keith Stroup, Kevin Zeese and all the founders of the hemp movement including Mae Nutt (who spoke before the US Supreme Court on behalf of her son needing medical hemp for his cancer); George McMahonn (a legal medical hemp user); Dr. Todd Mikuriya; and Dr. John Morgan. Also free to download is a 25-minute video on Medical Hemp, a shor video on the auto Hemry Ford developed to run on fuel developed from hemp seed and a 7-part audio download on the History of Marijuana. There's even a cell phone web site at http://www.Time4Hemp.com/cell/index.htm . Check the site out and tell your friends!

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp

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Kinda Krazee Exxon movie

2006-02-16T22:37:05Z

http://www.savethearctic.org/exxposeexxon/campus.html

I feel it thought for sure dont get me wrong.

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FINAL PUSH for Oil Free Coast: Petition, Rally, Write

2005-12-03T01:36:14Z

FINAL PUSH BEFORE THE FEDERAL ELECTION:
KEEP BC'S COAST OIL-FREE!

PLEASE sign the online petition at: http://www.bcoilslick.org/

Maintain the Moratorium - Please WRITE, RALLY, and COLLECT SIGNATURES!

Let's keep destructive, dirty fossil fuel exploration, drilling, and
transportation permanently away from BC's wild coast! It is the one year
anniversary of the federal public input process (the Priddle Process)
results, where 75% of the citizens opposed lifting the moratorium on oil
and gas development off BC's Pacific Coast.

Considering that a federal election is coming up, the WCWC believes that
the government should be obligated to adhere to the results of its own
public input process and publicly declare that they'll maintain the
moratorium - or better yet, simply ban offshore oil and gas development
in Canada's Pacific once and for all.

You can do 3 things:

1. GET SIGNATURES ON THE OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PETITION!

We need 10 000 signatures by Dec.13 in time for our rally in Vancouver
(see below). Go to www.bcoilslick.org to sign the online petition, and
most importantly, to download hardcopies to circulate. You can drop them
off or mail them to our office (see address at bottom) no later than
Dec.12. So far, we have 7500 signatures (1400 online, 6100 hardcopies).
Petitions can be circulated at your workplace, in your classes, or taken
door to door.

2. RALLY on Tuesday, Dec.13 with the WCWC outside federal Minister of
Industry David Emerson's office (2148 Kingsway) in Vancouver at 12:30 pm

We'll be presenting the federal Minister of Industry David Emerson with
a Christmas gift: 10 000 signatures of people who want the government to
ban offshore oil and gas development in BC. The petitions will be placed
in a giant gift-wrapped box under our little Christmas tree, where there
will be a giant stocking which will be stuffed with our "Christmas wish"
(Maintain the Moratorium). We'll also have several speakers, including
Ken Wu and Jen Harrison of the WCWC. Will Minister Emerson be like Santa
or like Scrooge (or the Grinch)??

If possible please contact Jen Harrison, WCWC campaign intern at
jen@wildernesscommitteevictoria.org to confirm that you can come so we
can get a sense of the numbers coming.

3. WRITE to the FEDERAL LIBERAL GOVERNMENT.

Now is the time we really need to flood the government with letters. Be
sure to include your home mailing address so they know you're real.

Let them know whether or not you believe they should:

- Ban offshore oil and gas development off BC's Pacific Coast. Offshore
oil and gas developments would risk major oil spills that would hit the
ecologically sensitive shores of the Queen Charlotte Islands, Great Bear
Rainforest, and Vancouver Island; harm and kill fish, invertebrates and
whales through seismic testing (oil exploration using sonic underwater
blasts); contaminate the ocean with daily chronic pollution (toxic
drilling fluids and waste waters, chronic oil leakages, and small
spills); and contravene Canada's Kyoto commitment through major
greenhouse gas emissions.
- Adhere to the results of their own public input process where 75% of
3700 respondents opposed lifting the moratorium.
- Instead, foster clean and renewable wind power and tidal power
projects off BC's coast.

WRITE TO:

David Emerson, Minister of Industry:
Emerson.D@parl.gc.ca

Prime Minister Paul Martin:
pm@pm.gc.ca

Stephen Owen, Minister of Western Economic Diversification:
Owen.S@parl.gc.ca

Stephane Dion, Minister of Environment:
Dion.S@parl.gc.ca

John McCallum, Minister of Natural Resources:
McCallum.J@parl.gc.ca

As importantly, write to your local federal Member of Parliament (MP)
who you can find at: http://www.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html

NOTE!: If you have David Anderson as your MP or a federal NDP MP, you
may want to THANK them for already being champions of maintaining the
moratorium.

See recent media articles and information at: www.bcoilslick.org
www.wildernesscommitteevictoria.org
www.oilfreecoast.org

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Bio-Disel refueling stations

2005-09-30T05:05:03Z

This link:

http://www.biodiesel.org/buyingbiodiesel/retailfuelingsites/default.shtm

Goes to a website where you can easily locate public pumps near you that distribute bio-disel. For those of you who don't know: Bio-disel is commonly made from soy bean oil, peanut oil, or hemp seed oil and can be run in any disel engine without modification. (You might need a new fuel filter) If you own a disel engine or are thinking about getting one please look in to this renewable readily-available reasource.

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UN World Environment Day in SF

2005-06-01T20:39:46Z

Hi folks,

I just heard about this week's world environment day events happening in San Francisco.. Is anyone going to any of these things and which are recommended.

More importantly, does someone from the east bay want to go to something with me?

cheers.

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Fossil Fools Day - April 1st!!!

2005-03-22T04:35:57Z

On Friday, April 1, thousands of people across the U.S., Canada and the U.K. will come together as part of the Second Annual Fossil Fools Day. Last year, some 130 actions were organized to demand clean and renewable energy. This year, we hope you can help us reach the goal of 360 events by organizing a Fossil Fools Day event on your campus.
Together we can jumpstart the clean energy revolution!

Register your action!
http://www.energyaction.net/main/index.php

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solar...the oil is running out!

2005-01-05T10:14:19Z

www.beforetheflood.co.uk/jan05/oil.html

here's a great article by the founder of solar century uk about how the oil is running out!

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Fast Facts on Global Warming W/ Pics.

2004-12-17T04:41:40Z

Here are some quick facts and pictures on Global Warming from Natl. Geographic with Pictures. These could sway some of your consrvative friends
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1206_041206_global_warming.html

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'Climate Witnesses' Testify About Warming

2004-12-11T01:11:32Z

This from the action down in BUENOS AIRES, Argentina...

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Bush Dubs Energy Pick a 'Problem Solver'

2004-12-11T01:03:16Z

After unveiling an outline of a broad energy strategy 3 1/2 years ago, Bush has yet to see Congress agree on comprehensive energy legislation despite soaring oil prices, a massive 2003 power blackout and concern about natural gas prices and possible future shortages.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_CABINET?SITE=COAST&SECTION=HOME

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Global Marming Map

2004-12-09T20:34:10Z

"An increasing body of observations gives
a collective picture of a warming world
and other changes in the climate system."

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2001
http://www.climatehotmap.org/index.html

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Climate Talks Bring Bush's Policy to Fore

2004-12-08T20:22:38Z

As a candidate in 2000, Bush flirted with the idea of limiting carbon dioxide emissions, but he dismissed that option during his first year in office,
Allthough reaserch shows otherwise Bush shows no interest in Climate Change and says things like:
"given the limits of our knowledge," the nation was better off focusing on voluntary emissions reductions...
Check out the Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20041205/pl_washpost/a35915_2004dec4

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Countdown to Kyoto!!

2004-12-08T20:14:42Z

So We are within 70 days or so of the Kyoto going into effect. In Buenos Aires, Argentina they are having a meeting untill Dec.17 to disscuss it. Here are some links to give you a little taste of whats happinin! There are some amazing things going on in the World! Things like this can give us a little bit of hope! (and more proof Bush is a fucking idiot!!)
This is a comprehensive website on the Treaty
UNFCCC Wesbite on Kyoto :
http://unfccc.int/2860.php

Kyoto Kickoff Article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=3&u=/nm/20041206/sc_nm/environment_dc

Australia to Meet Kyoto Target but Refuses to Sign:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041206/sc_nm/environment_australia_kyoto_dc_1

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Countdown to Kyoto!!

2004-12-08T20:13:15Z

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Major corporations, WRI announce third round of renewable energy purchases

2004-12-08T18:18:24Z

Major corporations, announce third round of renewable energy purchases! This is excelent news Check out the news at this link:
http://climate.wri.org/newsrelease_text.cfm?NewsReleaseID=313

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"The Death of Environmentalism"

2004-12-07T21:59:21Z

"The Death of Environmentalism" is an article that is a must read for all Energy activists!!
Check it out: www.breakthroughinstitute.org/ima...Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf

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West Coast Governors Climate Change Intiative

2004-12-07T21:48:43Z

This is some of the best news ever!!
www.energy.ca.gov/global_cl...e_change/westcoastgov/index.html

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