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TO INTERNET USERS: Please register your support for the global boycott
announced below, if you agree, to Senator.Thompson@sen.ca.gov,sananda@northcoast.com
[Then, forward the below news release to your local, regional and
statewide media, and to your friends and associates on the World Wide
Web. Thanks much in advance...]
November 30, 1996
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
(Contact: Ruben Botello @ Pager No. 707-269-8275 or sananda@northcoast.com)
HEADWATERS HOMELESS PROTEST GROWING
ON THE INTERNET
EUREKA (CA)---The global tourist boycott of Eureka (CA) is gaining ground,
as environmental and homeless activists join forces across the World Wide
Web.
Since the American Homeless Society announced the economic boycott
on the Internet in September, to protest mistreatment of the homeless in
the old-growth Headwaters Forest, and on the South Spit peninsula of
Humboldt Bay, thousands of Internet users have pledged their support
around the world.*
"Our three primary concerns are the 60 thousand-acre Headwaters
Forest, the South Spit homeless community, and the police abuse unleashed
by local officials against homeless and other protesters exercising their
constitutional rights in opposition to destruction of the ancient forest
and community," declared Ruben Botello, founder of the Society. "Our
global call to boycott Eureka is accelerating and expanding, rapidly, as
sophisticated Internet users forward our plea to virtually every nation
and city on earth."
"Eureka has an ex-cop (Congressman Frank Riggs), a carpetbagger
(State Sen. Mike Thompson), a shoplifter (county supervisor Stan Dixon
busted for shoplifting this year) and a drunk (county welfare John Frank
busted on a DUI charge this year) trying to drive thousands of homeless
and other protesters out of Humboldt County on behalf of the local logging
and tourist industries," stated Botello. "These corrupt officials even
went so low as to declare the homeless an "environmental hazard" in
Thompson's Senate Bill 39, while ignoring the horrendous pollution of the
local air, land, sea, rivers and streams by these two major industries."
"Thousands of homeless live in and around the Humboldt County seat
(Eureka)," Botello said. "They are being increasingly rousted, arrested,
harassed and abused by local law enforcement agencies and vigilantes who
hope the homeless and other protesters will leave the county in fear of
returning."
"The global boycott will end when Eureka starts acting socially
responsible toward its homeless and environment," explained the advocate.
"By next summer, we should have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of
Internet users and other concerned citizens of the world supporting the
boycott."
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*E-MAIL SAMPLES DISPATCHED TO SEN. MIKE THOMPSON IN SUPPORT OF BOYCOTT:
X-POP3-Rcpt: sananda@redwood.northcoast.com
From: aaronr@alice.uoregon.edu (Aaron Rappaport)
Subject: no subject (file transmission)
To: sananda@northcoast.com
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 15:43:07 -0800 (PST)
Dear Senator Thompson,
Speaking as chair of the Many Rivers Group of the Sierra Club, with
2900 members in Lane, Douglas, and Coos counties in Oregon, I support
the boycott against the tourism industry in Eureka. Displacing
homeless environmental activists who are basically struggling to
preserve the very aspects of Eureka that make it an attractive place
for tourists to visit is morally wrong and counter-productive to
the goal of enhancing tourism.
I and our other 2900 members will be heeding this boycott and taking
our tourism business elsewhere until the mis-directed police aggression
described below is stopped.
Sincerely,
Aaron Rappaport
aaronr@alice.uoregon.edu (email)
541-302-1991 (home phone)
Aaron Rappaport
Chair of the Many Rivers Group of the Sierra Club
1909 W. 17'th Ave
Eugene, OR 97402
DE>GLOBAL CALL
DE> PROTEST HEADWATERS POLICE BRUTALITY:
DE> BOYCOTT EUREKA!
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X-POP3-Rcpt: sananda@redwood.northcoast.com
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:08:33 -0500
From: Andrew Gilson
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I cannot believe our basic right to protest was violated in today's times. It is a crying shame that America is being reduced to tactics back from the 1960's, when the supposedly damaging and threatening "hippies" held such protests. I safely rest knowing that my class as well as myself is going into social work so that protesters, people in general, and our basic rights listed in the Constitution can be saved and advocated for. Sincerely, Peter J. Mazzei
Greetings from Humboldt County.... I currently live in Arcata, a beautiful, green freindly, liberal town about 10 miles north of Eureka. I have been actively involved in many of these protests and ask those of you who support this boycott to make position known in this area. Money is crucial to Humboldt Co. because there isn't too much of it around. The justifacation for the police and timber industries actions are that these "hippies" are trying to take away their livelihood and strip them of the ability to support their familys. Please make it known to the officials and citizens of Humboldt Co. that if these actions don't cease their livelihood will be threatened. Not by Earth first but by their own actions. I thank you for your suuport and beg you to make your position known in Humboldt Co. ` Thank You
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