Updated Bibliography (for The Legacy of Luna)
Circle of Life Foundation
Founded in early 1999 by Julia Butterfly Hill, Circle of Life activates people through education, inspiration and connection to live in a way that honors the diversity and interdependence of all life.
Circle of Life Foundation
P.O. Box 3764
Oakland, California 94609
Phone: (510) 601-9790
Fax: (510) 601-9788
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.circleoflifefoundation.org
Ancient Forest International
Since 1989, Ancient Forest International (AFI) has been instrumental in the protection of primary forests around the world. With the help of its international ancient forest network, AFI develops opportunities for wildlands philanthropists and communities to work together to acquire and protect strategic and invaluable forestlands. AFI has helped coordinate the purchase of nearly a million acres of ecologically critical forested land, primarily along the Pacific coast of North and South America.
Ancient Forest International
P.O. Box 1850
Redway, CA 95560
Phone/Fax: (707) 923-4475
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.ancientforests.org
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH)
As the rapid destruction of the redwood forest in Humboldt County accelerated after the Maxxam takeover of Pacific Lumber in 1985, it became apparent that greater outreach was needed for forest defense. In 1993, the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH) was formed to educate, activate, and mobilize people in the San Francisco Bay Area. BACH was established as a volunteer-driven grassroots project under the sponsorship of the Ecology Center in Berkeley. BACH works in collaboration with grassroots activists and organizations in Northern California who use diverse tactics and strategies to advocate ecologically sound solutions for the forest ecosystems of California’s north coast.
Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
2530 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone: (510) 548-3113
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.headwaterspreserve.org
Earth First! Worldwide
Earth First! was named in 1979 in response to a lethargic, compromising, and increasingly corporate environmental community. Earth First! believes in using all the tools in the tool box, ranging from grassroots organizing and involvement in the legal process to civil disobedience and monkeywrenching.
E-mail:
Web Site: http://www.earthfirst.org/
Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC)
The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) is a community-based, non-profit organization that actively works to protect and restore forests, watersheds, coastal estuaries, and native species in northwest California. EPIC first opened its doors in 1977 when local residents came together to successfully end aerial applications of herbicides by industrial logging companies in Humboldt County. EPIC has been at the forefront of environmental protection since that time, working to ensure that state and federal agencies follow their mandate to uphold environmental laws and protect endangered species. EPIC uses an integrated, science-based approach that combines public education, citizen advocacy, and strategic litigation.
Environmental Protection Information Center
P. O. Box 397
Garberville, CA 95542
Phone: (707) 923-2931
Fax: (707) 923-4210
Web site: http://www.wildcalifornia.org
Environmentally Sound Promotions (ESP)
The mission of ESP is to use media, music, and the arts to catalyze environmental activism. ESP promotes rallies and concerts, produces educational, morale-boosting environmental music recordings, documentaries, and publications, and provides public relations services. ESP's press releases are sent to more than 400 media outlets.
Environmentally Sound Promotions
P.O. Box 2254
Redway, CA 95560
Phone: (707) 923-4949
Fax: (707) 923-4368
Email:
Web site: www.jailhurwitz.com [doesn’t work as of Jan. 18, 2007]
Friends of the Eel River (FOER)
Friends of the Eel River has been acknowledged and praised for its devotion to the monitoring, defense and advocacy of the Eel River watershed. Their mission is to restore the Eel River and all her tributaries to a natural state of abundance, wild and free. Currently, their immediate goal is to remove two antiquated dams that block hundreds of miles of prime spawning grounds.
Friends of the Eel River
PO Box 2305
Redway CA 95560
Phone: (707) 923-2146
E-mail: mailto:
Web site: http://www.eelriver.org/
Institute for Sustainable Forestry (ISF)
The Institute for Sustainable Forestry (ISF) was formed in 1991 to promote sustainable forest management that contributes to the long-term ecological, economic, and social well-being of forest based communities in the Pacific Northwest. The mission of ISF is to promote the ecological and economic well-being of forest-based communities in northwestern California and beyond. Their three interconnected programs are
· Forest and Watershed Stewardship, which is aimed at addressing the needs, concerns, and goals of small non-industrial landowners;
· Community Economic Development/Wild Iris, which provides sustainable hardwood technical assistance, marketing outreach, hardwood research and development in addition to the facilities and operations of the Wild Iris hardwood mill; and
· the SmartWood Certification Program, which recognizes and rewards excellent land stewardship.
Institute for Sustainable Forestry
P.O. Box 1580
Redway, CA 95560
Phone: (707) 923-7004
Email:
Web site: www.newforestry.org
Leonard Peltier
The Case of Leonard Peltier, Native American Political Prisoner
Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement, was convicted in 1977 and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murders of two FBI Agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out between Native Americans and federal agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota in 1975, an incident in which both sides suffered fatalities. The trial judge refused to allow the defense to introduce evidence of serious FBI misconduct relating to the intimidation of witnesses. Some supporters of Peltier, including Amnesty International, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Congress of American Indians, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Rev. Jesse Jackson, consider him to be a political prisoner. Leonard Peltier is still in prison and all legal appeals have been exhausted. Amnesty International has called for a special executive review of the case in view of continuing concern about the fairness of the legal process.
The following contact information is taken from the Web site, which apparently has not been updated since 2003:
International Headquarters of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC)
PO Box 583
Lawrence, KS 66044-0583
Phone (toll free): 1-888-316-8437
Phone (local): 1-785-842-5774
Fax: 1-785-842-5796
E-mail:
Web site: www.freepeltier.org
MAXXAM, Inc.
MAXXAM, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in forest products, real estate investment and development, and racing operations. Its forest products operations, which account for not quite half the company’s sales, include growing and harvesting redwood and Douglas-fir timber, and milling of logs into lumber. Charles Hurwitz, the Chairman and CEO of MAXXAM, acquired its timber subsidiary Pacific Lumber in 1986 through a leveraged buyout financed by junk bonds floated by Michael Milken. Pacific Lumber owns and manages approximately 217,000 acres of contiguous old-growth redwood and Douglas fir timberlands in Humboldt County along the northern California coast and has been criticized by environmentalists for overcutting old-growth timber; unable to follow through on planned harvests because of regulatory hold-ups involving conservation concerns, Pacific Lumber filed for Chapter 11 in early 2007. In 2002, Maxxam subsidiary Kaiser Aluminum declared bankruptcy, from which it still has not emerged.
MAXXAM, Inc.
1330 Post Oak Boulevard
Suite 2000
Houston, TX 77056
Phone: (713) 975-7600
Fax: (713) 267-3701
Web site: http://www.maxxaminc.com/
Mendocino Environmental Center (MEC)
The MEC works through educational outreach, nonviolent direct action, and the legal system to uphold and promote environmental and social justice in Mendocino County and beyond. The MEC is a resource center that offers support to grass roots community groups and empowers individuals to work for positive change. The MEC networks with a politically and socially diverse community, encouraging integrity, tolerance, non-violence, and a sustainable future. Cloud Forest Institute is the fiscal sponsor of the Mendocino Environmental Center Environmental Education Fund and the MEC.
Mendocino Environmental Center
106 W. Standley
Ukiah, CA 95482
Phone: (707) 468-1660
Fax: (707) 462-2370
Web site: http://www.mecgrassroots.org
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Freedom Journal
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal (ICFFMAJ)
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a renowned journalist from Philadelphia who has been in prison since 1981 and on death row since 1983 for allegedly shooting Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. He is known as the “Voice of the Voiceless” for his award- winning reporting on police brutality and other social and racial epidemics that plague communities of color in Philadelphia and throughout the world. Mumia has received international support over the years in his efforts to overturn his unjust conviction. Mumia’s case has been a unifying point for many social struggles because it concentrates issues vitally important to our future, such as the rise in prison populations, police brutality, the death penalty, persecution of political dissent, and the continuation of white supremacy and racism in the U.S. From death row, Mumia has continued to speak out for all who are oppressed through his journalism. He has published four books, and his weekly columns are published throughout the world.
ICFFMAJ
4601 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA
Phone: (215) 476-8812
Web site: http://www.mumia.org/freedom.now/
Native American Coalition for Headwaters (NACH)
NACH works for the preservation of Headwaters Forest and other ancient forests that provide critical habitat for endangered species and Native cultural resource usage. In addition, NACH works to empower and represent the needs of Native peoples through surveys, networking, and creating forums whereby tribes may have a voice. NACH works with tribes within the federally defined Evolutionary Significant Units of Coho salmon (from the Rogue River in Oregon to the Mattole River in California) to document and protect traditional and modern Native usage of natural resources.
NACH has been instrumental in re-establishing the Native American Advisory Council to the California Department of Forestry. Working with the Native American Heritage Commission, they consulted with tribes to educate legislators regarding pertinent Native issues such as archaeological and cultural resources.
Native American Coalition for Headwaters
1091A Hallen Dr.
Arcata, CA 95521
Phone: (707) 822-4233
Fax: (707) 822-4233
Email:
Web site: http://www.mecgrassroots.org/
North Coast Earth First! (NCEF!)
Maxxam Corporation, based in Houston, Texas, bought out Pacific Lumber Company (PL), in Humboldt County, California, in 1985. Since then, Maxxam/PL has been aggressively clear cutting the old growth redwood and Douglas fir groves on their more than 210,000 acres of land, liquidating their assets, and have now begun to sell off their acreage to other entrepreneurs. North Coast Earth First! sprang up right around the time of the takeover and began doing acts of civil disobedience to bring attention to the increased logging rates of PL under Maxxam’s rule.
NCEF! Media
920 Samoa Blvd., Ste. #221
Arcata, CA 95521
NCEF! Media Office & Fax: (707) 822-1513 (please call before faxing)
Emergency response number: (707) 269-9731 (pager)
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.northcoastearthfirst.org
Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO)
Pacific Lumber Company, or PALCO, is a logging company from northwestern California. It is currently owned by Maxxam Inc. The company, which started in 1863, is headquartered in the company town of Scotia, California and currently employs over 350 people. In January 2007, PALCO filed for bankruptcy. PALCO has a record that includes falsifying evidence to a federal court, dozens of criminal citations, and hundreds of violations of the Forest Practice Rules. Because of these violations, PALCO became in 1998 the first logging company to lose its license to log in California. In 1999, PALCO agreed to Julia Butterfly Hill’s requests to create a 3 acre buffer zone around a 600 year old growth redwood named Luna in exchange she leave the tree, which she was living in.
PALCO Main Office
P.O. Box 37
Scotia, CA 95565
Phone: (707) 764-2222
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.palco.com/
Pepper Spray Plaintiffs (PSP)
The PSP are activists who were assaulted with pepper spray by Humboldt county law enforcement while peacefully protesting logging in Headwaters Forest. These activists have filed a lawsuit, “Pepper Spray by Q-Tip,” in order to obtain justice for themselves and to formally ban “punishment by pepper spray” on non-violent protesters.
Pepper Spray Plaintiffs
c/o Trees Foundation
P.O. Box 2202
Redway, CA 95560
Phone: (707) 923-4377
E-mail:
Web site: www.nopepperspray.org
Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works to protect the earth’s rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. RAN accomplishes its mission through dynamic, hard-hitting campaigns that work to bring corporate and governmental policies into alignment with popular support for rainforest conservation. RAN works in alliance with environmental and human rights groups around the world, including indigenous forest communities and non-governmental organizations in rainforest countries.
Rainforest Action Network
221 Pine Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 398-4404
Fax: (415) 398-2732
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.ran.org/
Ruckus Society
The Ruckus Society provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals. The Ruckus Society was formed in 1995, sparked by the intersection of the passage of a federal anti-environmental law, Greenpeace budget cuts, and two infamous nonviolence practitioners. The Timber Salvage Rider, an anti-environment, pro-logging bill, was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in the spring of 1995; the passage of this bill catalyzed a large, vocal, and well-organized response from activists. Leading environmental organizations called for an all-out effort to stop timber sales and shut down the agencies that permitted them, and forest defenders took to the woods for blockades on the ground and in the air.
The Ruckus Society
369 15th Street
Oakland, CA 94612-3303
Phone: (510) 763-7078
Fax: (510) 763-7068
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.ruckus.org
Sanctuary Forest
Since 1987, Sanctuary Forest has met the challenges involved in protecting and conserving over 10,000 acres of forests and streams. Sanctuary Forest is a community-based land trust, actively working with landowners to protect, conserve, and restore land in the Mattole River watershed. Sanctuary Forest holds conservation easements on private lands and also offers many programs and services to assist landowners and our community in stewarding and protecting our natural resources for future generations.
Sanctuary Forest
P.O. Box 166
Whitethorn, CA 95589
Phone: (707) 986-1087
Fax: (707) 986-1607
E-mail:
Web site: http://www.sanctuaryforest.org
Trees Foundation
In the summer of 1991, business owners in the heart of the redwoods region came together to discuss how to best support the environmental groups that were working to protect the precious natural resources of their home. The answer was to establish the Trees Foundation, with the mission of “Working for the conservation and restoration of the ecological integrity of forest ecosystems by assisting, supporting, and promoting Partner organizations in North Coastal California.” Trees Foundation accomplishes this by providing skilled professional support to conservationists at no charge. They raise the funds, provide access to expensive equipment, and employ a skilled and experienced staff to meet the needs of North Coast conservationists. Their mission is to increase the effectiveness of their non-profit partner groups by providing—free of charge—technical, financial, administrative, and outreach support. Services and technical assistance provided by Trees Foundation leverage limited grassroots resources and help to build a more complimentary network striving to restore the ecological integrity of the biologically-rich North Coast region.