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you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charming welcome to the big picture. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the wall street strange play at. least in
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more news today violence is once again fled up the face these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. today. to get. yes so. that's the key here that's where exactly he is right ok i have a thing. for giving a warning to the oriental bluebird that they are violating the party will sanctuary
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there if you comply with warning so we delivered a serious blow to them in order to be. walked down the street see a child being abused and do nothing you don't stand there and watch whales die and hold the 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. is a battle is a war what governments and big business have been doing is extremely destructive and it seems silly to me to think of it as not
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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 the necessity to do these things. would be 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.
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to discuss confess things have to change i'm going to take action instead of waiting passively otherwise change will happen before you reach a certain critical mass. and many of us act together we can change the world.
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you know that this is my food supply i want to go to the police corner i was up here but it's not for a few days my not one so no we won't need it. nano computer. we occupy the chiefs to profound thoughts and trial from cutting them down. they were clearing the forests or they could lay pipe to get coal plants they're building in the industrial part of town you'll see the thing so it was agreed upon chilling t.v. to sabotage the corporation and to bring protests to an urban area with a special color if you. can i didn't find a name squirrel. one
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of a kind 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 in normal e was that no one asked because people no hearings were held. over i don't need a piece of paper saying what they did was a legal bill and once it's done the paper is useless i want to stop terms of this office and.
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i've been taking direct action for about ten years. at first it was street theater then i took action against him series i'm taking billboards. well i've always been a client weren't so one day i decided to combine favorite activism which climbing i like the way it works so i carried on i combine my hobby and my political commitment. this rail line goes down and working bad spots fifteen kilometers then it's another twenty by road to the future nuclear waste disposal site there what are the reason a temporary site trains loaded with nuclear waste is wrong on this line. but actually surprise is the key to a successful action. jump over the fans. i
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don't want to go. one two three four five six. let's focus seventy five seventy six seventy seven icon some one to seven officers plus those over there and i do not know there's a crowd on the bridge but it's about trying to 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. as you look at your pie obviously don't have an on off switch to stop all nuclear
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construction overnight field although. they say i am in custody he stamped my tiny step we're making our dreams come true. to see the contacts in this is silly conta has sixteen sponsors. on a from france or one at each one gives ten twenty thirty euros a month which adds up to three hundred fifty year olds i said still has unusual talents and it was them to work it's a meeting of people who can give money because they approve of from action some of it or they can't do it themselves from just thanks to this financial support sicilia can do her thing calmly and independently of each other.
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sussan. and. little bit of small defect or indirect action you commit to face him 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 apart actions are for everybody to see and i
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do not hide. that i've 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 yeah pacifism is a felony these are the cases i have filed according to time 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 that. stage an action like that keeps us more press longer we talk to reporters about issues like exporting nuclear waste of how bad g.m.o. foods are weary each to raise our grievance like all the politicians say.
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we're 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
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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 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 farm. live.
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thank you. the first year was cut down about five years ago that's what most a green dam is land looks like is really small scrubby trees and brush. counter. sealed the tree is i think it's about seventy we don't really recognize their right to claim ownership of this land when all they're doing is exploiting it. they. both vs the movement they were part of. one of the main mottos of first is no
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compromise in the defense of mother earth. we want them to stop clear cutting we want them to stop using herbicides want them to not log on steep an unstable hillsides where they cause a lot of erosion and landslides and we want them to not get any more old growth over. history. we're here to protect the ecosystems that we rely on for survival and really that everyone on this earth relies on because these trees soak up huge amounts of carbon in the 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 lived for so long in iraq resistant that they stored just massive in massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
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we got all the supplies you asked for i brought some. farmers in clapham. he's pretty. like an inchworm. who is great to be out here. apple's. new. 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 best. to
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make it for the last few days. i'm going to make chocolate cake with chocolate. coconut you know butter top and i. hope it will be great. but it's not really about like lifestyle choices it's about taking action against the corporations that are destroying the earth. or breaking the law but they're breaking the rule of law you know by breaking my heart on the one hand conway the spirit like it's like so much more heinous and trespassing illegal camping building
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a barrier to. the survival of these ecosystems rely on people of conscience taking a stand but since bush took office. the level of involvement with earth first and with civil disobedience to defend the forest has severely declined and there used to be hundreds if not thousands of people who would come to humboldt county yearly to defend the redwoods during logging season and now we're lucky to have twenty. ok we'll see whether we. can do it if tiger. is it was. something i would have. i. think that we have to remember that it's not just
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a game because and what they call the temper 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 just off a hill and dislocated his pelvis. are you going. to go on my chemical you. call bill or no the minimum i never understand i.
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mean there's the was. 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 dabbing people's eyes with it really. you know. this was just for trespassing and refusing to leave nothing more. and ensuring its environmental activist admits his part in torching trucks and two eco terrorist tax incentives six and a half years in prison sitting through eleven days on a ledge acquittance federal building in two thousand and nine. back i've trained
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hero who was born michael store puti talked a lot about saving forests but he wouldn't admit he was among the arsonist who didn't follow in your culture a short logging trucks near us to keda and trucks at portland's ross island sand and gravel now he hands. 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
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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 animate object that is pillaging the planet in and. disrespecting the earth mother if they render that piece of equipment useless i don't consider that violent then the less i'm not advocating any one thing i just. encourage people to do something i have to send this form to 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 unable me as
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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 thirty feel that i. was resident. in the system it's just all politics it's all about money. we all eat you might hear you and your best that we can support people that are that are being targeted by the government. that it's. time to.
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not particular regard of climate change there's certainly an eco terrorist threat as we've had incidences recently and in the west coast there was some incidence of washington state i think it was where with eco terrorism which they 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 censors been eco terrorist before there was even islamic fundamentalist terrorist in this country there was
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a terrorist in the school system of 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. happened and we understand that and that's a good thing thanks that's a really good. in this country the patriot act is really messed up and obviously people doing even nonviolent activist work can be considered terrorists. you know 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
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