tv [untitled] August 17, 2011 4:30pm-5:00pm EDT
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lauren let's start and i'll see you right i care for more news and analysis if i can. to twenty years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event of the planet is time we don't. spring going on for months please please and since there's been a terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country when the nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who are accused of property sabotage and label them as terrorists someone you destroy property. with absolutely zero intention of harming a single human being. in my mind it's not
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for giving a warning to the oriental blooper that they were violating the antarctic whale sanctuary very few to comply with warning so we delivered a serious blow to them in order to pay for. their walk down the street see a child being abused and do nothing you don't stand there and watch whales die and hold a banner and do nothing. our oceans are dying we've already removed ninety percent of the fish from the oceans and we're continuing to exploit them i don't believe in protest to me protesting is submissive it's like please please please don't do that and they do it anyway you know it's a grovelling you know we shouldn't be protesting we should be intervening.
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is a battle is a war and what governments and big business have been doing is extremely destructive and it seems silly to me to think of it as not a war and something that we should fight back against i don't like setting things on fire i don't like sneaking around at night wearing a ski mask crawling underneath cars i don't like it i don't like sitting in a tree two hundred feet up in the air risking my life but i feel a necessity to do these things.
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but being an eco warrior means to me is. doing all you can to defend the earth. it can be hard because a lot of people think you should never break the law or at least not for political purposes. is it better. to just confess things have to change i want to take action instead of waiting passively otherwise change will happen if we reach a certain critical mass. and many of us act together we can change the world.
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clearing the forests or they could lay pipe to the coal plant they're building in the industrial part of town you'll see the thing so it was agreed to pretend she just some bit off the corporation and to bring protests to an urban area with us that one called an idea. it could i didn't find the name squirrel. but. i'm. one of i've never dismantled a platform usually the cops do it when the effect is from the trees. to three months for the courts to issue an injunction stopping work due to a normal lease in the permit granting process so enormously was that no one asked the people no hearings were held for the moment i don't need
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a piece of paper saying what they did was illegal once it's done the paper is useless i want to stop this officer process. from the act i've been taking direct action for about ten years that we told you to look at first it was street theater and then i took action against consumerism taking billboards. well i've always been a client weren't so one day i decided to combine activism with climbing i like the way it works so i carried on i combine my hobby and my political commitment. this rail line goes to dawn and it's about ten
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kilometer you know mad then it's another twenty by road to the future nuclear waste disposal site there the reason a temporary site trains loaded with nuclear waste is wrong on this line on their. own actually surprise is the key to a successful action. jump over the fence. i don't want to go. one two three four five six. let us on this seventy five seventy six seventy seven icon some of the seven
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officers plus those over there you know there's a crowd on the bridge that's about twenty five per person that's what they need to drive the nuclear train for even as you probably already know i remain passive and never cut anything or destroy anything. i obviously don't have an on off switch to stop all nuclear construction overnight from although. they say i'm going custody be stamped by tiny step we're making our dreams come true. to see the contacts so tied to this is silly congo has sixteen sponsors. take us on of the oil when asked each one gives ten twenty thirty euros
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a month which adds up to three hundred fifty euros i says or one says still has unusual talents and it was them to work when it's a meeting of people who can give money because they approve of her actions some of it or they can't do it themselves is for just thanks to this financial support sil can do her thing call me and independently of each other and. sussan. and me.
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for it whatsoever interact action you commit to face in the legal consequences so when i think over the rails for a few hours and they bring me to. trial for trespassing or whatever i can't say no that wasn't me i don't want to be seen a lot of about what actions are for everybody to see and i do not hide. i'm never done jail time but i've been fined a lot of under french and german law they are minor infractions they don't go on my criminal record. pass a prison one is a felony these are the cases i have family filed according to type the trial is part of the action at the courthouse a lot of other things are going on there are demonstrations and there is a hung and people climb on the roof of the courthouse while i'm often down thoughts and stage an action like that gives us more press. we talk to reporters about
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were surrounded by the forest up here. the green diamond resource company is the largest redwood landowner the largest single redwood landowner and they have about four hundred thirty thousand acres which is far bigger than any of the parks. their target age their age they want to clear cut this forty five years old and now that's just pretty much tree farming these trees can grow to be thousands of years old so when you're just continually stunting it to a maximum of forty five or fifty years it's not a forest at all it's just a tree for.
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all they're doing is exploiting it. first is the movement never part of. one of the main mottos of the first is no compromise in the defense of mother earth. run time to stop clear cutting we want them to stop using herbicides want them to not log on stephen unstable hillsides where they cause a lot of erosion and landslides and we want them to not cut anymore or growth ever . we're here to protect the ecosystems that we rely on for survival and really that everyone on this earth
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relies on because these trees soak up huge amounts of carbon atmosphere and if this forest was allowed to grow to its full potential it would greatly reduce the impacts of climate change because these trees get so huge and live for so long in iraq resistant that they store just massive in massive amounts of carbon dioxide. we got all the supplies you asked for i brought some hot. farmer has been climbing. and he's pretty. like an inch more than ninety feet. who is great to be. apples.
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thank you. in one campaign in the one nine hundred ninety s. there was a tree sitter who. was unable to get food or water for three days because there were security guards posted under his tree and he had to drink his own. to make it for the last few days. i'm going to make chocolate cake. chocolate. and coke and you know butter top you know i. hope it will be great. but.
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it's not really about like lifestyle choices it's about taking action against. the corporations that are destroying the earth. robertie long they're breaking the rules you know like they're breaking my heart on the one hand and like the spirit like it's like so much more heinous criminal trespassing and illegal camping building and. the survival of these ecosystems rely on people of conscience taking a stand but since bush took office. the level of involvement with the earth first and with civil disobedience to defend the forests has severely declined and they used to be hundreds if not thousands of people who would come to humboldt
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county yearly to defend the redwoods during logging season and now we're lucky to have twenty. if you want to see others. do it it just i. was. i just. i. think we have to remember that it's not just a game it's because from what they call the chembur wars appear people have been seriously injured and killed and friends of mine have been chased through the woods and been chased off of steep hills and one of them had to be airlifted out of a remote area because he was chased off the hill and just located his pelvis.
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are you going to. sit on my family's. fulfilling to learn all the fun of my never understand i. was. doing there's a. was shortly after i was involved. the police in humble county started pepper spraying helpless people who were locked to each other and then dipping q-tips into it and jabbing people's eyes with it really . want to. know. this was just for trespassing refusing to leave nothing more.
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and tory its environmental activist admits his part in torching trucks until eco terrorist attacks his sentence six and a half years in prison sitting through eleven days on a ledge of portland spittle building in two thousand and nine. train hero who was poor michael score pity talked a lot about saving forests but he wouldn't admit he was among the arsonist who the following year portrays logging trucks near us to keda and trucks at portland's ross island sand and gravel now he hands.
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i was incarcerated for almost six years including a halfway house and home confinement time. i had done everything that i knew i could to help save those trees that you go creek and they still were trying to kill those trees i done everything that i knew i could buy what i didn't purchase by what i did with my own body and my actions by road blockades in tree sits and they still were pushing forward with that sale and so i thought a bit of desperation well i don't consider arson violent personally if someone renders an enum an object that is pillaging the planet and and in. disrespecting our earth mother if we render that piece of equipment useless i don't consider that violent unless i'm not advocating any one thing i just. encourage people to do something i have to send this form to
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my probation officer every month to let him know what i've been doing for the month and that i'm not causing any problems. starting this past december so it's set for to go on for two and half more years i have been targeted by the f.b.i. and the u.s. government because of my political ideology and as a consequence the government is labeled me as a terrorist. arson is a serious crime but although it is certainly a far cry from nonviolent civil disobedience it is not terrorism it's property crime it's sabotage or it's arson but it is not terrorism. i know but if you ok. so it was written.
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not particular regard of climate change they're certainly an eco terrorist threat as we've had incidences recently and in the west coast there was some incidents in washington state i think it was where it would eco terrorism which really knocked down some radio towers or they set fire to some buildings is not new i mean it's been going on for about twenty twenty five years and sense has been terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country there was a terrorist and this goes through this country so it's been going on for a while now is it you know obviously i think kill people like al qaeda has not ok they have it and we understand that and that's a good thing ok that's a really good thing. in this country the patriot act is really messed up and obviously people doing even nonviolent activist work can be considered terrorists. and.
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i don't want to be on the terrorist watch list just for speaking my my opinions it is a battle it is a war what governments and big business have been doing is extremely destructive it's a fucking war like they are going to protect their interests their power and profits at all costs just need to work on ways where. they don't get caught or something in hell.
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