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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Direct Action</title>
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		<title>Speak out! Oppose genocide against 30,000 Peaceful Peruvian indigenous peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/11/5543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
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Send a Message to the President of Peru:
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End this atrocity!



Send a Message to the President of Peru to end this atrocity!
http://amazonwatch.org/peru-action-alert.php
Update: Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been granted asylum in Nicaragua after an arrest warrant was issued in his name on charges of sedition, conspiracy and rebellion following clashes between Amazonian Indians and Peruvian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Columbia: Queen of protest speaks on activism, prison life 	and second acts after raising kids.</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/british-columbia-queen-of-protest-speaks-on-activism-prison-life-and-second-acts-after-raising-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/british-columbia-queen-of-protest-speaks-on-activism-prison-life-and-second-acts-after-raising-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top forest defenders]]></category>

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		<title>Oregon: First Ancient Forest Defending Tree Village of Cascadia 	Summer 2009</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/03/oregon-first-ancient-forest-defending-tree-village-of-cascadia-summer-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/03/oregon-first-ancient-forest-defending-tree-village-of-cascadia-summer-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public land logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivor trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Activists from all over the country will be coming to Oregon this  summer to join us in this Cascadia Summer, our season of resistance. We  have numbers, we are organized and we are bringing forest defense to a  BLM project near you. Our immediate message to the BLM is stop the WOPR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: 22 arrests as 300 rally for mother&#8217;s day defense of 	ancient forests</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/australia-22-arrests-as-300-rally-for-mothers-day-defense-of-ancient-forests/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/australia-22-arrests-as-300-rally-for-mothers-day-defense-of-ancient-forests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 06:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>
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300 people attended the rally at the start of the controversial new logging road. A diverse range of people were arrested including veteran forest campaigner Geoff Law, a local woman in her seventies from Westerway and a 17 year old male. 
 Photo: Matthew Newton http://www.matthewnewton.com.au
Speakers including Tim Morris MP, Geoff Law, and acclaimed photographer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Columbia: Movie about saving the last ancient forests</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/british-columbia-movie-about-saving-the-last-ancient-forests/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/british-columbia-movie-about-saving-the-last-ancient-forests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1: 
This is a powerful new documentary by Jeremy Williams about the campaign to protect the last old-growth forests and forestry jobs on Vancouver Island and BC&#39;s South Coast.
 
The fight for ancient forests exploded in 1993 on Vancouver Island in Clayoquot Sound, where thousands of people joined efforts to save the old-growth rainforests, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP: New York&#8217;s tree defender Hildegard &#8220;shotgun-totin&#8217; granny&#8221; von 	Waldenburg</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/rip-new-yorks-tree-defender-hildegard-shotgun-totin-granny-von-waldenburg/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/rip-new-yorks-tree-defender-hildegard-shotgun-totin-granny-von-waldenburg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 07:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military forestry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIP]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EAST NASSAU &#8211; She was a spunky woman everyone loved, even if they once stood at the business end of her shotgun. The spry German immigrant, who with her husband, Fritz, lived off the land and the many animals they keep on their small farm, quickly ascended to folk hero status. She appeared on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Recent Direct Action forest defense in Upper 	Florentine</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/australia-recent-direct-action-action-forest-defense-in-upper-florentine/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/05/australia-recent-direct-action-action-forest-defense-in-upper-florentine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ancient forests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most recent previous article about this campaign go here: http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/02/australia-forest-defender-set-on-fire-by-cops/ 
60 Police have raided camp Florentine this morning to remove road blockades so that logging of the contentious area can begin. An Exclusion Zone has been declared by Forestry Tasmania, to prevent public access to the area. A Hobart man has already been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Forest Defender set on fire by cops!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/02/australia-forest-defender-set-on-fire-by-cops/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/02/australia-forest-defender-set-on-fire-by-cops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 19:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extinc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ms Gavio said: &#34;When they were cutting just behind my head, they cut the fuel line underneath the car and the sparks from the angle grinder must have started the fire behind me. They tried to extinguish the fire but it got bigger just behind me and I saw a large flame that came over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: More on Citizen effort to save Chester forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/australia-more-on-citizen-effort-to-save-chester-forest-near-augusta/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/29/australia-more-on-citizen-effort-to-save-chester-forest-near-augusta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industry science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Forest activist Yvette Jennings, who is trying to save Chester forest near Augusta from logging, said she was saddened to see the destruction at Warren 6. Logging has begun in one of the most hotly contested sections of South-West karri forest almost eight years after Labor promised to put an end to cutting down old-growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Direct action shuts down logging of last old growth forest 	along Delegate River, E. Gippsland</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-direct-action-shuts-down-logging-of-last-old-growth-forest-along-delegate-river-e-gippsland/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-direct-action-shuts-down-logging-of-last-old-growth-forest-along-delegate-river-e-gippsland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning a group of 20 forest conservationists are preventing the
clearfelling of one of the last stands of old growth forest in the
upper Delegate River catchment in East Gippsland. Members of the group
have prevented six logging machines from working using a complicated
series of tripod structures, cables and a tree platform. “This
particular old growth forest was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: One arrest in direct action against political leaders who 	destroyed Chester forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-one-arrest-in-direct-action-against-political-leaders-who-destroyed-chester-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/australia-one-arrest-in-direct-action-against-political-leaders-who-destroyed-chester-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at 8am a protester unhappy with the Forest Products Commission&#8217;s  logging of WA&#8217;s Native forests locked on at FPC headquarters in Perth.  A 30 year old man was arrested. The activist was jumped upon by a WA  Police officer while locked on to the vehicle.

Activists say the  officer was upset [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: Sierra Pacific is destroying a public &amp; private roadless 	forest on Underwood Mountain, help us stop &#8216;em!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/california-sierra-pacific-is-destroying-a-public-private-roadless-forest-on-underwood-mountain-help-us-stop-em/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/california-sierra-pacific-is-destroying-a-public-private-roadless-forest-on-underwood-mountain-help-us-stop-em/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Notorious timber baron Red Emmerson of Sierra Pacific Industries has filed a new logging plan in the native forest of Underwood Mountain. Their new plan aims to wipe out most of the remaining square quarter mile private inholding of forest land nestled in the public Underwood Roadless area. Last year, SPI built a much contested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia: Greenpeace Direct Action on destroyer / big sinner: Sinar Mas</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/indonesia-greenpeace-does-direct-action-on-huge-destroyer-big-sinner-sinar-mas/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/indonesia-greenpeace-does-direct-action-on-huge-destroyer-big-sinner-sinar-mas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulp issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Activists said they were punched and kicked by guards and police as they tried to protest against alleged illegal land-clearing in Indonesia&#8217;s vast eastern Papua region and on Borneo island. &#8220;The excessive violence today by Sinar Mas security is testament to the way this company does business,&#8221; Greenpeace Southeast Asia Forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: 57 year-old climbs tree to stop needless destruction in Cripley 	Meadow allotments</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/17/uk-57-year-old-climbs-tree-to-stop-needless-destruction-in-cripley-meadow-allotments/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/17/uk-57-year-old-climbs-tree-to-stop-needless-destruction-in-cripley-meadow-allotments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A ONE-MAN protest temporarily halted work to cut back trees at a patch
of woodland in Oxford. Mike Hamblett, 57, scaled a willow tree at
Cripley Meadow Allotments, next to Port Meadow, at lunchtime today as
city council workers tackled about 20 trees. The allotment association
said the work was long-overdue maintenance that mainly involved
pollarding – a form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Trans&#8217; and Womyn&#8217;s Action Camp 2009</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/17/oregon-trans-and-womyns-action-camp-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/17/oregon-trans-and-womyns-action-camp-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trans&#8217; and Womyn&#8217;s Action Camp 2009 is a gathering of eco-activists,
who are also working to bring down patriarchy. Come a week early for a
6 day training and workshop event in the Cascadia bio-region from June
20th-26th, 2009.

Get full text; support writer, producer of the words: http://twac.wordpress.com
This will be a safe(r) space where transgendered, intersexed,
genderqueer, androgynous and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Big timber (Gunns Ltd.) fails in 4-year attempt to sue 	enviro protesters for millions</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-big-timber-gunns-ltd-fails-in-4-year-attempt-to-sue-enviro-protesters-for-millions/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-big-timber-gunns-ltd-fails-in-4-year-attempt-to-sue-enviro-protesters-for-millions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit settled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SLAPP suit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2004, Gunns sued the Wilderness Society and others
alleging it had suffered loss after protesters trespassed on Gunns
land and damaged forest machinery. The claim by Gunns Ltd. against the
Wilderness Society has collapsed after four years, with the timber
giant ordered to pay the society $350,000 in legal costs.

The Wilderness Society is free to continue protesting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Battle to save Longridge Woods &amp; Centre Square East from 	development continues</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/uk-battle-to-save-longridge-woods-centre-square-east-from-development-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/uk-battle-to-save-longridge-woods-centre-square-east-from-development-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Craig Hornby, a film-maker who has made short documentaries about Longridge Woods, also known as Site 44, and the lake in Centre Square East, rallied the crowd with a loudspeaker. He said: “The council is robbing its people of its green spaces. Why would an authority which achieved beacon status for tackling climate change want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: 15 activists shutdown logging coupe on Waterfall Creek 	road</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/australia-15-activists-shutdown-logging-coupe-on-waterfall-creek-road/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/australia-15-activists-shutdown-logging-coupe-on-waterfall-creek-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Police have been called to disband a forest protest in the Styx Valley
in southern Tasmania. A group of about 15 activists entered a coupe on
Waterfall Creek road early this morning, disrupting logging
operations.

Christo Mills from the group Still Wild Still Threatened
says the area is home to untouched old growth forests and should be
protected.

He says it will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: Citizen&#8217;s want to Halt Green Diamond&#8217;s subdivsioning and 	clearcutting</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/13/california-citizens-want-to-halt-green-diamonds-subdivsioning-and-clearcutting/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/13/california-citizens-want-to-halt-green-diamonds-subdivsioning-and-clearcutting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subdividing the forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treesit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Clear-cutting by any name equates to a radical change in the
landscape, on a grand scale,” said Kerul Dyer of the Environmental
Protection Information Center (EPIC). “By eliminating the canopy in
the redwoods, Green Diamond impacts overall forest function. How can
they consider this antiquated logging technique sustainable?”
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://yournec.org/index.php?module=pagesetter&#38;func=viewpub&#38;tid=3&#38;pid=659

In May 2004, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia: More on Direct Action opposing Mt. Top Removal</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/13/west-virginia-more-on-direct-action-opposing-mt-top-removal/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/13/west-virginia-more-on-direct-action-opposing-mt-top-removal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We leave the old skid trail, now covered with thick brush and thorny
vines, and head up the steep slopes through the big trees. All morning
we had trudged up the hill on a confusing network of abandoned logging
roads, encountering nothing more than the tracks the animals had left
in the fresh snow, each set of tracks with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: Mendocino County Women Taking the Lead to Save Our 	Planet!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/10/california-mendocino-county-women-taking-the-lead-to-save-our-planet/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/10/california-mendocino-county-women-taking-the-lead-to-save-our-planet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;We Mendocino women know that we are a part of Gaia and we feel her strength in each other,&#8221; Burnstad said when she got to the stage. &#8220;There are many extraordinary people in our country who live and work with Mother Earth in mind every day.

I can think of no better way to honor Judi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Lawsuit to prevent financing of life &amp; culture destroying 	Copper Mesa Mining in Ecuador</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/09/canada-lawsuit-to-prevent-financing-of-life-culture-destroying-copper-mesa-mining-in-ecuador-2/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/09/canada-lawsuit-to-prevent-financing-of-life-culture-destroying-copper-mesa-mining-in-ecuador-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawsuit filed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local control of resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
&#8220;Financing being raised in Canada is travelling across borders to do harm,&#8221; said lawyer Murray Klippenstein by phone from his office in Toronto. &#8220;We want to find out if our legal system can respond to this.&#8221; Klippenstein is representing three villagers from the valley of Intag in northwestern Ecuador who are suing Copper Mesa Mining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: What makes America great is native species, native peoples &amp; 	Earth First!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/usa-whats-makes-america-great-is-native-species-native-peoples-earth-first/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/usa-whats-makes-america-great-is-native-species-native-peoples-earth-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Earth First! Roadshow will be crossing the country this spring
with the goal of renewing a grassroots ecological direct action
movement in the U.S. We are looking to network and collaborate with
groups, such as yours.

Two primary needs for us:
&#8211;Participation from your membership
&#8211;Funds to keep the Roadshow rolling. Will you help?
For more info on the roadshow: 330-423-1823
earthfirstroadshow@gmail.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon: Mosaics of radical enviros by Jeffrey St. Clair</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/oregon-mosaics-of-a-radical-environmentalists-by-jeffery-st-clair/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/oregon-mosaics-of-a-radical-environmentalists-by-jeffery-st-clair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oregon was where it was at in the 1980s,&#8221; St. Clair said. &#8220;The new conservation movement: This is where it was born and really erupted. It was a grass-roots movement that took on one of the largest industries in the country &#8212; timber &#8212; on its own turf and nearly brought it to its knees.
Get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Weld Valley defenders set up new camp to stop planned 	logging road</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/australia-weld-valley-defenders-set-up-new-camp-to-stop-planned-logging-road/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/australia-weld-valley-defenders-set-up-new-camp-to-stop-planned-logging-road/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forest activists have opened a camp in the Weld Valley in southern Tasmania, vowing to take whatever action is necessary to protect the area from a planned logging road. The Huon Valley Environment Centre says it&#8217;s built a tree sit at the camp to monitor the progress of a Forestry Tasmania road that may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kentucky: Citizen&#8217;s against Mountain top removal get kicked out of 	former Boy Scout Camp Blanton</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/07/kentucky-citizens-against-mountain-top-removal-get-kicked-out-of-former-boy-scout-camp-blanton/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/07/kentucky-citizens-against-mountain-top-removal-get-kicked-out-of-former-boy-scout-camp-blanton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kentucky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boy Scouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charcoal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two groups that oppose mountaintop removal coal mining have been told they are not welcome to hold meetings at a former Boy Scout camp in Harlan County. Jim Scheff of Kentucky Heartwood said his group called in May to reserve Camp Blanton for a gathering, called the Heartwood Forest Council, this Memorial Day weekend. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maine: Judge punishes community servants by forcing them to do community 	service</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/06/maine-judge-punishes-community-servants-by-forcing-them-do-community-service/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/06/maine-judge-punishes-community-servants-by-forcing-them-do-community-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community involvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the case of the three women in Maine, the judge went so far as to
stipulate that the community service work must be “for a nonprofit
agency that does not advocate civil disobedience as one of their
goals.” Huh? So the judge thinks that these activists — who locked
themselves together inside the Land Use Regulation Office building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: 10 years after we saved world&#8217;s largest unprotected 	ancient Redwood forest</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/california-10-years-after-we-saved-worlds-largest-unprotected-ancient-redwood-forest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/california-10-years-after-we-saved-worlds-largest-unprotected-ancient-redwood-forest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Restoration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, on March 1, 1999, the federal government and the state of California agreed to pay Charles Hurwitz of Maxxam Corp. $380 million for an imperfect and yet miraculous 7,472 acres of Pacific Lumber Co. land east of Humboldt Bay between Fortuna and Eureka. The acquisition of that nearly 7,500 acres &#8212; 3,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Still Wild Still Threatened activists arrested shutting 	down Tasmanian logging</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-still-wild-still-threatened-activists-arrested-shutting-down-tasmanian-logging/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-still-wild-still-threatened-activists-arrested-shutting-down-tasmanian-logging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Tasmanian police have been called to another forest protest in the
state&#8217;s south. The group, Still Wild Still Threatened, says it has
halted logging in a 54 hectare coupe. The group claims it is adjacent
to informal reserves connected to the World Heritage Area. Christo
Mills from Still Wild Still Threatened says 20 activists have walked
in the coupe to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: John Seed on Direct Action and Deep Ecology</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/australia-john-seed-on-direct-action-and-deep-ecology/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/australia-john-seed-on-direct-action-and-deep-ecology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deep ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protection culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I was living on Bodhi Farm at The Channon and thought I was going to
spend the rest of my life organising meditation retreats and growing
organic food when somehow I found myself involved in the direct action
at Terania Creek,” he said.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://www.echonews.com/index.php?page=News%20Article&#38;article=25413&#38;issue=391

His passion for rainforests can be traced back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Direct Action group &#8220;Plane Stupid&#8221; takes on Donald Trump&#8217;s 	Aberdeen airport expansion</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/uk-direct-action-group-plane-stupid-takes-on-donald-trumps-aberdeen-airport-expansion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine anti-aviation activists with the group Plane Stupid Scotland shut
down an Aberdeen airport in protest of its plans for expansion. Twelve
flights were canceled due to the protest and all nine activists were
eventually arrested early this morning. Activists willingly left the
runway when police told them that a sick baby needed be flown to a
hospital.
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		<title>British Columbia: Ancient forest river island logging ruins 	politician&#8217;s campaign launch</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/british-columbia-ancient-forest-river-island-logging-ruins-politicians-campaign-launch/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/british-columbia-ancient-forest-river-island-logging-ruins-politicians-campaign-launch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This logging issue was previously reported on here: http://bit.ly/7j5FO 
&#8220;The community was ready to express themselves. It wasn&#8217;t just a bunch
of tree-huggers.&#8221; The timing of the rally outside of Cantelon&#8217;s office
was &#8220;very significant,&#8221; said Tanner. The grand opening of Minister of
Agriculture and Lands Ron Cantelon&#8217;s Qualicum Beach campaign office
was overshadowed by the presence of dozens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwan: Despite treesit by green party leader, the last giant 	Songshan Camphor is cut</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/02/taiwan-despite-treesit-by-green-party-leader-the-last-giant-songshan-camphor-is-cut/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/02/taiwan-despite-treesit-by-green-party-leader-the-last-giant-songshan-camphor-is-cut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police once again clashed with protesters and failed to protect the tree whose legal status still lies before the courts undecided. Police allowed the removal of the tree to go ahead and failed to arrest those who removed the tree. Once again the Taiwan Police have shown total disregard for the legal process when it [...]]]></description>
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