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KING GEORGE COMING TO TOWN

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the false pPresident will be arriving in southern oregon on thursday august 22. there is tremendous interest ingreeting him upon his arrival in our communities. this is a call to all progressive voices in the region. we havethe opportunity to tell the false pResident what we think of him. let us organize to send him back to texaswith a strong message from southern oregon. perhaps we could have an emergency planning meetingsometime and somewhere on tuesday august 20 to plan. any ideas about a time or place? please spreadthis around to your lists/contacts lets make this big!!!

oso@o2collective.org

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This is what we know of the PRESIDENT'S SCHEDULE so far:

Thursday, August 22

11:20 am THE PRESIDENT tours areas damaged by Squires Fire Ruch, Oregon POOL COVERAGE

12:45 am THE PRESIDENT makes remarks on Conservation and Forest Health Central Point, Oregon OPEN PRESS

6:00 pm THE PRESIDENT attends a Gordon Smith for Senate Reception Portland, Oregon POOL COVERAGE

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BUSH TO INVADE Southwest Oregon Thursday, August 22

President will tour Squire fire site, stump for Smith

Medford Mail Tribune, Wire and staff reports

President Bush will view areas devastated by the Squire fire in Ruch during a visit to Oregon that also willinclude a fund-raising dinner for Republican Sen. Gordon Smith, the White House announced Friday.

Bush, who is taking a "working vacation" at his ranch in Waco, Texas, also plans stops in California,according to a schedule released by the president's office.

The Squire fire burned nearly 3,000 acres in the Applegate Valley after it was sparked by a lightning stormJuly 13. Although it burned in an area of urban interface mixed with public lands, the fire did not destroy anydwellings, thanks to what many believe was the result of thinning projects before the fire coupled withaggressive firefighting during the blaze.

The president will deliver a speech on the importance of thinning forests to curb future wildfires, and hasinvited governors from Western states to join him during the visit, said a congressional source who spoke oncondition he would not be further identified. Smith and Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., will join Bush during his stop near Medford. Both lawmakers havebeen strong advocates of managing forests. Many environmentalists have challenged Republican calls forthinning forests as efforts to undermine restrictions on logging.

From Medford, Bush will travel to Portland for a round-table discussion with community leaders from aroundthe state and a $1,000-per-person reception for Smith, the congressional source said.

Bush made another visit to Portland in early January that was seen as an effort to bolster the re-election bidof Smith, who faces a challenge from Democratic Secretary of State Bill Bradbury. The president has notplanned any further visits to Oregon, said the source.

Smith has raised $5.1 million in campaign funds for the November election and has no debt, according to

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You can find this story online at: http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2002/0817/local/stories/01local.htm

Joseph Vaile Campaign Coordinator Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center POB 102 Ashland OR 97520 p: 541-488-5789 f: 541-482-7282

The Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center (KS Wild) defends the outstanding biological diversity of theKlamath-Siskiyou province of northern California and southern Oregon. Visit us on-line at http://www.kswild.org

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SUPPORT THE PEAK TREE SIT, now underway near Crater Lake!

Tree sitters, ground support, food, water, climbing and camping equipment NEEDED!

Peak tree sit: http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=14818&group=webcast

For more information: www.geocities.com/stoppeak/stoppeak.html

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ACTION ALERT!

ALLYN FORD WANTS A ROGUE RIVER NATIONAL SACRIFICE ZONE

PROTEST OLD GROWTH LOGGING ON PUBLIC LANDS!

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PROTEST OLD GROWTH LOGGING ON PUBLIC LANDS!

Allyn Ford is the sole owner of Roseburg Forest Products/Scott Timber. RFP/Scott wants to log some of thelast remaining fragments of our native forests. Mr. Ford has failed to listen to the overwhelmeing sentiment ofthe public that wants to see permanent protection for these native forests. RFP/Scott is one of the largestpurchasers of public lands old growth timber sales in the Pacific Northwest.

The archaic practices of logging mature and old growth native forests must be stopped! The Peak timber saleoutside of Prospect, Oregon would log 3.9 million board feet of timber from the upper Rogue River watershed.

The Silver/Sturgis timber sale would log 7.9 million board feet of timber from the upper Applegate Riverwatershed.

These sales are a part of the Replacement Volume Program, a Forest Service scam that trades plantationtrees from the Coast Range for mature and old growth forests in our backyards! RFP/Scott holds contracts tothese and many other controversial timber sales throughout the northwest.

At a recent meeting between the Forest Service, RFP/Scott, Congress, and the environmental community,the Rogue River National Forest was identified as the sacrifice zone for the replacement volume program. Inthe words of an RFP/Scott employee, the citizens of the Rogue Basin should, "Take one for the team!"

Public pressure led RFP/Scott to find ways to back out of controversial replacement volume sales. Now isthe time to turn up the heat on RFP/Scott and their president Allyn Ford to cancel ALL replacement volumesales and firmly commit to end all old growth logging!

With less than 5% of our native forests remaining, say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

TELL MR. FORD THAT OUR ANCIENT FORESTS ARE NOT FOR SALE!!

BOYCOTT stUMPQUA BANK!

HELP STOP THE LOGGING OF OREGON'S ANCIENT FORESTS!

Close all of your accounts with Umpqua Bank and tell the branch president why.

Call Rogue River Forest Supervisor Jack Williams and ask him to cancel or buy back replacement volumetimber sale! His number is 541/858-220.

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Call and write Allyn Ford and politely ask him to refuse federal old-growth timber sales in the Rogue River(541) 679-3311 / (541) 679-5502 / c/o Roseburg Forest Products, POB 1088, Roseburg, OR, 97474.

stUMPQUA BANK FACTS:

4th largest bank in Oregon, 27 branches throughout Western Oregon with the recent "merger" with Valley ofthe Rogue Banks, major competition: credit unions

Chairman of the Board Allyn Ford, owner of Roseburg Forest Products and Scott Timber, largest purchasersof federal timber sales in Pacific Northwest

Herbert of Herbert Lumber: largest shareholder

Timber interests directly own 20% or more of the stock

Umpqua Bank Company Headquarters 445 SE Main St. Roseburg, OR 97470

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BISCUIT FIRE: Kalmiopsis Wilderness Burning

Dear Colleagues,

When I think about the gigantic fire now burning in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness and surrounding roadlessareas, I feel a deep sadness and concern. I also feel fear. These emotions have several sources, but mydeepest sadness is not caused by my profound attachment to the Kalmiopsis and my grief that places I haveknown and loved will not look the same in my lifetime. My worst fears are not sparked by the hate campaignbeing waged in my community by the timber interests who are shamelessly exploiting these fires to castblame on the environmentalists for stopping their clearcuts.

My greatest concern is not for the impact on my health of breathing smoke and ash for months on end while

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My greatest concern is not for the impact on my health of breathing smoke and ash for months on end whilethe fires burn. No. These could all be temporary problems that I will live through.

What strikes terror into my heart is the premonition that they are not temporary phenomena; that theseraging wildfires of 2002 are the beginning of an extreme shift in climate that will turn much of our forest landinto brushfields. The entire continent is now in the midst of an extreme drought the like of which hasn't beenseen since the dustbowl of the 1930's.

There is bad news from other continents as well. Droughts in Asia and floods in Europe. What is the role ofglobal warming in these climate extremes? What role does it play in the western forest fires of 2002? Whenwe respond to hasty, exploitive measures from the Daschles, Wydens and Craigs, can we not invoke globalclimate change? Can't we call for everyone to take a step back and look at the big picture before makingsweeping proposals to fix the problem?

Lou Gold was at the Senator Smith forum in Medford yesterday. He made the point to Smith and others thatwhat we need right now as an emergency fix to our fire risk problems is de-coupling.

We need to de-couple fire risk reduction from timber sales. I think this is a winning strategy. We can havetwo points to our proactive fire risk reduction program:

1. decoupling to get dollars to communities right now to carryout thinning in urban interface zones, andmoney to agencies to do prescribed burning in wildlands.

2. convene a scientific panel to study the impact of global warming on western forests and makerecommendations on management for forest health in the context of global climate change.

It looks like Smith is bringing Bush to Oregon next week to tour the fires. Let's see if we can bin the blameon Bush's head-in-the-sand approach to global warming.

Kelpie Wilson Development Director, Siskiyou Project 9335 Takilma Rd. Cave Junction, OR 97523 (541)592-4459 kelpie@siskiyou.org

Check out the Siskiyou Project web pages at www.siskiyou.org and www.siskiyourivers.org

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ACTION ALERT! AUG 19 DEADLINE!

Bush Administration Decimates Proposal to Protect Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area

go to www.siskiyourivers.org and send a free instant fax

The Bush Administration has opened 800,000 acres of National Forest and BLM land in the Siskiyou WildRivers area to prospecting and new mining claims. On May 22, 2002 the Bush Administration published aruling that ended protection of the vast majority of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers from mining.

"It's the latest installment in the Bush administration's program to cut, drill, dig, stomp and chomp our publiclands," Siskiyou Project Board Member Dave Willis told the news media.

"This is an attack on some of the best wild salmon and steelhead habitat in the lower 48 and one of the mostbotanically diverse coniferous forests in North America."

Secretary Babbitt started the process to protect the Siskiyou Wild Rivers in January 2001, then Secretary ofInterior Bruce Babbitt started a public process to consider what kind of protections were needed for thepristine rivers and rare plants of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area. In order to protect the land while theseprotections were being considered, Secretary Babbitt temporarily withdrew nearly 1 million acres of publicland in Southwest Oregon from operation under the 1872 Mining Law.

Gale Norton and Dale Bosworth Yanked the Process Away the January 2001 Federal Register Notice statedthat the "purpose of the proposed mineral withdrawal is to protect the nationally significant ecologic andbiologic diversity of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area while it is determined whether special managementdesignation of the area is warranted." But now the Bush Administration has slammed the door on this publicprocess to discuss the future of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers.

The study of mining economics, mineral potential and ecological values was never begun. The BushAdministration ignored the request of Governor John Kitzhaber, Senator Ron Wyden and RepresentativesPeter DeFazio, David Wu, Earl Blumenauer and Darlene Hooley to let the public process on the proposedone million acre mineral withdrawal continue. Editorial support for an open public discussion on the future ofmining in the area, in both local and major Oregon newspapers, also fell on deaf ears.

Dozens of fishing and environmental organizations supported the process along with thousands of individualcitizens. The Bush Administration apparently did listen to Oregon's Republican Senator Gordon Smith who

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citizens. The Bush Administration apparently did listen to Oregon's Republican Senator Gordon Smith whodid not support the mineral withdrawal and public process and wrote a letter to Interior Secretary Gale Nortonasking her to "review" it.

They Did Leave Us Something, But We'll Have to Fight to Keep It but even the Bush Administration had toadmit that the fishery and botanical values of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers deserved some consideration. At thesame time that they ended protection from mining for 800,000 acres, they left 113,000 acres under themineral withdrawal. Unfortunately, these 113,000 acres do not include the entire proposed Nicore mine inRough & Ready Creek or some of the most important salmon spawning streams. You can be sure though,that the mining industry will make a concerted effort to drop even the 113,000 acres from mineral withdrawal.These acres do include some of the critical salmon streams and botanical areas and are worth for.

Please Write Your Letter Today

Citizens who care about the fate of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers have until August 19 to email letters in supportof the largest mineral withdrawal possible. Please see the sample letter below. It is also important to write orcall your elected officials and ask them to begin a public process to study the outstanding biological andrecreational values of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers.

Questions & Answers about the Termination of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Mineral Withdrawal

Question: Why is it so important to withdraw the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area from mineral entry and location?

Answer: Mineral withdrawal provides 3 important ways to help protect what the Bush Administration admitsare "nationally significant ecological and biological values of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area."

1) It would prevent prospecting and exploratory mining activities in unclaimed areas.

2) It would prevent the filing of new mining claims.

3) It would significantly reduce the amount of unnecessary environmental damage from mining operationsbecause mining can only occur on "valid existing claims" in areas that are withdrawn from mineral entry.Since it's very likely that many mining claims in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area are not "valid," the area'snumerous uneconomic and marginal mining operations would eventually disappear.

Question: Doesn't the Forest Service and BLM's new 80,00033,000-acre withdrawal proposal adequatelyprotect the special values of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area?

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Answer: The new proposal includes some important, sensitive areas However, it also terminates theproposed withdrawal of important salmon and steelhead streams in the Siskiyous which are most at risk frommarginal mining operations, such as:

Briggs Creek, a tributary of the Wild section of the National Wild and Scenic Illinois River, important to thelower Rogue River's salmon and steelhead fishery.

Sucker Creek (Illinois River Basin), a Northwest Forest Plan Key Watershed and one of the most productivewild coho streams in the entire Rogue Basin.

The new proposal terminates the proposed withdrawal of botanically significant areas such as:

More than half of the Rough & Ready Creek Watershed, including two potential mine sites and the habitat ofrare and threatened plant species.

Areas with exceptionally high concentrations of rare and endemic plants along the west side of the IllinoisValley and the South Kalmiopsis Roadless Area.

Three BLM Areas of Critical Environmental Concern: The Rough & Ready ACEC, the French Flat ACEC andthe Eight Dollar Mountain ACEC.

What You Can Do

Siskiyou Wild Rivers needs an overwhelming outpouring of support. The miners have been congratulatingthemselves on defeating the Siskiyou Wild Rivers withdrawal and are working to stop the smaller withdrawalproposal.

Please mail or fax your letters to the agencies by August 19, 2002 (email is counted less than mail or fax).Use the sample letter below.

Tom Reilly Ron Wenker, Acting Forest Supervisor District Manager Siskiyou National Forest Medford District, BLM P.O. Box 520 3030 Biddle Road Medford, Oregon 97501 Medford, OR 97504 fax 541-858-2205 541-618-2400

Dear Mr. Reilly and Mr. Wenker,

I support the proposed Siskiyou Wild Rivers mineral withdrawal, but it is not enough to protect the special

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I support the proposed Siskiyou Wild Rivers mineral withdrawal, but it is not enough to protect the specialecological values of this globally important area. To protect this precious area from mining activities I ask thatthe new mineral withdrawal proposal be as large as possible and that at a minimum it should include thefollowing additions:

1) the entire Rough & Ready Creek Watershed and the South Kalmiopsis Roadless Area;

2) all BLM Areas of Critial Environmental Concern (ACEC's);

3) all Key Watersheds;

4) all critical salmon and steelhead habitat;

5) the watersheds of all National Wild and Scenic Rivers and streams eligible to become Wild and ScenicRivers; and

6) all rare and sensitive plant habitat including all serpentine fens. I am also concerned that the termination ofthe proposed Siskiyou National Forest mineral withdrawal has deprived the public of an important opportunityfor open debate on the future of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area and a comprehensive government study of bothits mineral values and its other, non-mineral values. I support beginning this important public process.

The Siskiyou Wild Rivers area is very important to me because:_______________________________________________

Sincerely,

Please also send copies of your letter:

Representative Peter Defazio: 800-944-9603 fax 541-465-6458

Senator Ron Wyden (503) 326-7525 Medford fax 541-858-5126 Portland fax 503-326-7528

Or go to www.siskiyourivers.org and send a free instant fax to all of the above!

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WYDEN PROPOSAL Adds to Controversy and Gridlock

Conservation groups seek a different solution to forest problems

Portland, Oregon: A broad and geographically diverse group of forest conservation organizations issued astatement of unequivocal opposition to the recent draft of the Forest Restoration and Protection Act of 2002,authored by Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Larry Craig (R-ID).

Strong objections to the proposal focused on its lack of solid protection for mature and old-growth forests inwestern Oregon and Washington; fast-track logging in eastern Oregon, eastern Washington and Idaho; andsuspension of citizen involvement and judicial review of logging plans.

"The protection of mature and old-growth forests in western Washington and Oregon must be tied towatershed restoration and community assistance," said Jasmine Minbashian, Northwest Old-GrowthCampaign coordinator. "It cannot be accomplished by side-stepping federal laws and public involvement, orby sacrificing forests east of the Cascade Mountains."

In binding completely different forest management issues together in one bill, Senator Wyden's bill willguarantee additional controversy and gridlock. Conservation groups have a long advocated for protectinghomes, lives and property from unnaturally large wildfires and restoring natural fire regimes on national forestseast of the Cascades. But they indicated that the bill's authorization for fast-tracking timber and salvagesales would be counter-productive.

Conservation groups have documented that projects termed "fuels reduction" are removing large fire-resistanttrees and leaving the smaller flammable material behind. "The Senator's approach to eastside forests isunnecessary and unproductive," said Ric Bailey of Hells Canyon Preservation Council. "We can and do workwith the agencies and others to focus scarce federal dollars on saving homes and property while restoring thelandscape. This bill does nothing to advance those efforts."

The groups chastised the bill's unbalanced approach of limited protection for western forests and massivelogging of eastside forests. Some termed the bill's approach "political rather than scientific forestry" andexpressed grave disappointment that the Senators had proposed legislation that does nothing to resolvesubstantive problems with national forest management. The groups range from nationally-based watershedprotection advocates to locally-based community forest advocacy groups in both eastern and westernOregon, Washington and Idaho. They share Senator Wyden's concern for old-growth forests and will proceedwith legislative efforts that truly protect mature and old growth forests, clean water, and a legacy for future

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with legislative efforts that truly protect mature and old growth forests, clean water, and a legacy for futuregenerations.

Contact:

Jasmine Minbashian, Northwest Old-Growth Campaign, (360) 319-3111 Ric Bailey, Hells CanyonPreservation Council, (541) 963-3950 Patti Goldman, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, (206) 343-7340 BobFriemark, The Wilderness Society, (206) 624-6430 Andy Kerr, The Larch Company, (541) 201-0053 PaulShively, Oregon Chapter Sierra Club, (503) 243-6656 Sybil Ackerman, Audubon Society of Portland, (503)292-6855, ex. 110 Deanna Spooner, Pacific Rivers Council, (510) 345-0119 Karen Coulter, Blue MountainBiodiversity Project, (541) 385-9167 Stephanie Parent, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, (503) 768-6736 John McCarthy, Idaho Conservation League, (208) 345-6933 Chuck Pezeshki, Clearwater BiodiversityProject (509) 335-7662 Ron Mitchell, Idaho Sporting Congress, (208) 336-7222 Mike Petersen, The LandsCouncil, (509) 838-4912 Tim Coleman, Kettle Range Conservation Group, (509) 755-2667 Sam Mace,National Trout Unlimited, (360) 608-4814 Roger Singer, Northern Rockies Chapter Sierra Club, (208) 384-1023Kaz Thea, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (208) 726-5293 The Northwest Old-growth Campaign is a coalition ofconservation groups that includes American Land Alliance, Bark, Biodiversity Northwest, Black Hills AudubonSociety, Cascadia Wildlands Project, Forest Ethics, Gifford Pinchot Task Force, Klamath-SiskiyouWildlands Center, Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, Oregon Natural Resources Council, Oregon Sierra Club,Siskiyou Project, and Umpqua Watersheds. See www.nwoldgrowth.org for member group contact informationand on details.

Steve Holmer, American Lands Alliance wafcdc@americanlands.org

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NATIONAL FOREST PROTECTION ALLIANCE FORTH ANNUAL CONVENTION, Sisters, Oregon, October10 - 13

Join grassroots activists from across the nation as we build upon our vision for the permanent protection ofour National Forests! Once a year the network of the National Forest Protection Alliance (NFPA) gathers toreview and revise our strategies to end the commercial logging program on public lands.

The Convention will be held at Suttle Lake Retreat Center, near Sisters, Oregon, which is located in thebeautiful Cascade mountains. Contact mailto: nfpa@forestadvocate.org, or 406-542-7565 for moreinformation.

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Register on-line at http://www.forestadvocate.org.

RangeNet 2002 Conference, Boise ID, October 10 & 11

Bovines or Biodiversity: The National Campaign to End Abusive Public Lands Ranching. Registration is nowbeing accepted online for the RangeNet 2002 Conference.

Those who register by September 30, 2002 will be eligible to receive one of five autographed, hardcovercopies of "Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West" that will be awarded bydrawing at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 10, 2002 (must be present to win). See link towww.rangenet.org.

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FIELD GUIDE TO TIMBER THEFT

The long awaited Field Guide to Timber Theft: Understanding Timber Sales, the Contract & the Law isavailable to forest activists. The guide was developed specifically for forest activists by several membersformer members of the Forest Service's Timber Theft Investigative Branch. The Guide is useful inunderstanding timber sales on public and private lands and includes tips for using confidential informationreceived by whistleblowers or informants.

Download the 32 page report as an Adobe Acrobat file at http://www.whistleblower.org.

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CULTURE JAMMERS Network < jammers@lists.adbusters.org>

Adbusters TV, a new activist network on the world wide web is up, running, and ready for your ideas andcontributions.

The next time you and your friends organize a street party, liberate a billboard, shoot an indy documentary,or throw a pie into the ugly face of authority, we want people worldwide to catch it the next day at <

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or throw a pie into the ugly face of authority, we want people worldwide to catch it the next day at < http://www.adbusters.org/home>.

To get things cooking, we're also launching our first ABTV Contest. We're looking for video, audio, andanimation in three categories: Direct Action (jams, spoofs, pranks, protests); Epiphanies (personal works);and Mini-Documentaries. We have $3,000 to divvy up to the winning entries, and the deadline couldn't beeasier: December 31, 2002. Guidelines?

Check < http://www.adbusters.org/abtv/contest>.

One more thing: our upcoming issue is "Food Politics." We need your tips, images, stories, photographs,alerts, and campaigns.

Email editor@adbusters.org.

Meanwhile...tune in, turn on, rise up!

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FSTV September 11th special Date:

DEMOCRACY NOW is currently in production mode of what promises to be a truly remarkable specialprogram on September 11th 2002.

It will be aired from 7-11am EST on FreeSpeech TV and rebroadcast later in the day (time TBA, but mostlikely 6-10pm).

The show will include coverage of some of the stories the mainstream media will most likely steer clear of,such as a peace march from Albany to New York City which will end with a large delgation of peace activistsarriving at Ground Zero, and a 24 hour Peace Vigil in Washington Square park organized by families of thevictims of the attacks.

In addition you will hear speeches from people like Daniel Berrigan, and interviews with people from all overthe world who have been affected by the attacks, from Afghanistan to Palestine to New York City to Iraq. Inthe "live town hall" tradition, there will be a live studio audience, and live music, in the studio. It will beamazing. A press release will come out in about a week or so.

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We want to know if your station will be interested and able to broadcast the program in it's entirety, either liveor tape-delayed. We also want to know if you would be able to place an ad in your local free weekly about theprogram. We will be placing an ad in The Nation and promoting the show for the week or so preceding it.

Mark Read < dnoutreach@yahoo.com>

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13. Newsbrief: Seattle Marijuana Enforcement Initiative Signatures Submitted: http://www.drcnet.org/wol/248.html#seattleinitiative

Members of the Sensible Seattle Coalition have filed some 19,600 signatures with King County electionofficials for an initiative that would direct Seattle police to make marijuana possession arrests their lowestpriority. The proposed measure calls for no changes in the law, only in police practices.

The petition drive needed 17,200 valid signatures. The King County Elections Office is now screening thesignatures to ensure that they are from registered voters. If the Elections Office finds there are sufficient validsignatures, the initiative would then have to win approval from the City Council before appearing on theNovember ballot.

According to the Seattle Times, there is support for the initiative on the council. At least two councilmembers are in favor of the proposal, the Times reported.

If enacted into law, Initiative 75, as the measure is known, may have effects more symbolic than practical ifrecent arrest figures are any guide. According to the Seattle City Attorney's Office, fewer than one percent ofits misdemeanor criminal cases (150 out of 17,000) were for marijuana possession. A similar measurepassed by the Oakland, CA, City Council in 1996 had "virtually no effect on law enforcement," Oakland policetold the Times.

Still, Seattle City Council member Nick Licata told the Times the measure would reinforce the idea thatmarijuana possession should be a low priority. "I think it's better to have our limited funds for public safety

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marijuana possession should be a low priority. "I think it's better to have our limited funds for public safetybeing directed toward car prowlers and home burglaries, rather than arresting adults for marijuana."

(Visit http://www.hemp.net to learn more about what's going on in Washington state activism and to readabout Robert Lunday, an activists' activist who died too young.)

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14. Web Scan: CriminalDefense.com, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Harry Levine, Ethan Nadelmann,UK's School Daily http://www.drcnet.org/wol/248.html#webscan

Issue XVIII, Volume I of Criminal Defense magazine (July 29-August 14) focuses on the drug war nationallyand on New York state's Rockefeller drug laws, including articles on issues, law, prisoners, editorials byadvocates on both sides—go to http://www.criminaldefense.com and click on the graphic or visit: http:// editor@criminaldefense.com/magazine/1.18/cover.html?clgid=0ad4438b5ab6a18c Read about the impressive new organization Law Enforcement Against Prohibition:

http://www.leap.cc

Sociologist Harry Levine writes on international drug policy developments and the global prohibition regime inthree recently published articles:

Blame Canada http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13686

Global Drug Policy: A Retreat from War (review of three books) http://www.hereinstead.com/sys-tmpl/b3bookreviewnew/

The Secret of World-Wide Drug Prohibition http://www.hereinstead.com/sys-tmpl/worldwide/

Drug Policy Alliance director Ethan Nadelmann editorializes on drug policy under the Bush administration inCounselor: The Magazine for Addiction Professionals, August 2002, Vol. 3, No. 4.

"No Longer Hope for Progress" is available online at: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/DailyNews/07_23_02Nadelmann_Counselor.html

Britain's "The School Daily" reports on the Professional Association of Teachers' recommendation to teachUK youth how to take drugs safely rather than simply told "just say no":

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15. Legislative Alerts: Rave Bill, Medical Marijuana, Higher Education Act Drug Provision http://www.drcnet.org/wol/248.html#actionalerts

Support States' Rights to Medical Marijuana: To write to Congress today, visit: http://www.stopthedrugwar.org/medicalmarijuana/

Visit http://www.RaiseYourVoice.com to tell Congress to repeal the Higher Education Act's drug provisionin full and let tens of thousands of young people with drug convictions go back to college. ================ 16. The Reformer's Calendar (Please submit listings of events concerning drug policy and related topics to

calendar@drcnet.org.) http://www.drcnet.org/wol/248.html#eventcalendar

August 21st, Portland, OR, "Media Awareness Forum," featuring KOIN TV-6 anchor Reed Coleman andconservative radio talk show host Lars Larson discussing how drug reform advocates about increasing thequality and quantity of local news coverage. Visit http://www.jeffandtracy.com or call (503) 605-5182 forinfo.

August 24-29, Lagos, Nigeria, "Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition." Contact PrisonersRehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) at 234-(0)1-4971356-8 or prawa@linkserve.com.ng,Rittenhouse: A New Vision of Transformative Justice at (416) 972- 9992 or ritten@interlog.com, or visit http://www.interlog.com/~ritten/ for further information.

September 4-6, Missoula, MT, First Annual Montana Drug Policy Summit. At the University of Montana,speakers to include Dr. Ethan Russo of the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics, Cliff Thornton of Efficacy, ScottCrichton of the Montana ACLU, Ron Mann director of the movie "Grass," Missoula attorney John Smith andothers. For further info, contact info@montanadrugpolicy.org.

September 8-11, Chicago, IL, "Racial Justice Leadership Institute," seminar sponsored by the AppliedResearch Center. Limited to 30 participants, application deadline August 5, visit link to www.arc.org.

September 26-28, Los Angeles, CA, "Breaking the Chains: People of Color and the War on Drugs."Conference by the Drug Policy Alliance, e-mail conference@drugpolicy.org to be placed on mailing list forwhen details become available.

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when details become available.

September 30-October 1, Washington, DC, "National Symposium on Felony Disenfranchisement,"conference sponsored by The Sentencing Project. Admission free, advance registration required, visit http://www.sentencingproject.org or call (202) 628-0871 for further information.

October 7-9, San Diego, CA, "Inside-Out: Fostering Healthy Outcomes for the Incarcerated and TheirFamilies." Contact Stacey Shank of Centerforce at (559) 241-6162 for information.

October 19, Portland, OR, "PottyMouth Comedy Competition: Flushing Away the DEA," $5,000 first prize.Visit http://www.jeffandtracy.com or call (503) 605-5182 for info.

November 6-8, 2002, St. Louis, MO, "2nd North American Conference on Fathers Behind Bars and on theStreet." Call (434) 589-3036, e-mail fcn@fcnetwork.org or visit http:/www.fcnetwork.org for information.

November 8-10, Anaheim, CA, combined national conference of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and theMarijuana Policy Project. Early bird registration $150, $45 for students with financial need, visit http://www.mpp.org/conference/ for further information.

November 9, Anaheim, CA, Bill Maher benefit show for Students for Sensible Drug Policy and the MarijuanaPolicy Project. Admission $50, or $1,000 VIP package including front-row seat and private reception with BillMaher. Visit http://www.mpp.org/conference/ for further information.

December 1-4, Seattle, WA, "Taking Drug Users Seriously," Fourth National Harm Reduction Conference.Sponsored by the Harm Reduction Coalition, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former USSurgeon General. For information, e-mail conference@harmreduction.org, visit http://www.harmreduction.org or call (212) 213-6376.

April 6-10, 2003, Chiangmai, Thailand, "Strengthening Partnerships for a Safer Future," 14th InternationalConference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, sponsored by the International Harm Reduction Coalitionin partnership with the Asian Harm Reduction Network. For further information, visit http://www.ihrc2003.netor contact conference@ihrc2003.net or (6653) 223624, 894112 x102.

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BOOK REVIEW by Gerry Cavanaugh:

Exterminate All the Brutes , One Man's Journey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of EuropeanGenocide. (By Sven Lindqvist, The New Press,1992/1996.)

Without criticical self-awareness, without serious contemplation of our being and behavior, we simply becomewhat we were and continue to do what we always did. A repetition compulsion with predictably horribleresults. That is but one of the lessons to be drawn from this succinct and devastating re-telling of the story ofEurpean racism and imperialism.

The "brutes" of the title are all of those non-European and darker-skinned peoples that fell victim to Europeanimperialists. The imperialist conquerors were driven by greed and lust for power, base motives cloaked thenas they are now by "civilizing" and "commercial improvements" rhetoric.

All those dark skinned brutes, all those "lesser breeds without the Law" whom the invaders encountered intheir various raids, rapes, conquests, and colonizing forays from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuriessuffered unimaginable pain as they and their entire social and cultural existences were trampled into the dustof history.

The aboriginal people of the Canary Islands (wiped out by the Spanish in the 15th century); North and South

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The aboriginal people of the Canary Islands (wiped out by the Spanish in the 15th century); North and SouthAmerican "Indians;" aborigines in New Zealand and Australia; native peoples of India, Indonesia, SoutheastAsia in general; the Sudanese and all Blacks in Africa---these are the "brutes" that the European imperialistsdeemed, first, that it was acceptable to enslave and to slaughter and, then, necessary and justifiable toexterminate.

As Lindqvist demonstrates, the shift from "acceptable" to "necessary and justifiable" slavery and slaughterreflects the emergence in the nineteenth century of (1) Social Darwinism with its corrupt and pitilessmisapplication of the notions of "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest:" (2) the triumph of the utterlyfalse notion that evolution implies "progress" toward "higher forms of life" (which technologically advancedwhite Europeans found a comforting and pleasing justification for exterminating those "inferior beings" whowere obviously destined to die out anyway); and (3) "scientific racism" which provided fertile grounds for suchmeretricious and poisonous notions as the "Ubermenschen."

This last, "superman" concept was also a comfort to those Europeans (including, of course, Americans) whowere armed with what one historian (quoted by Lindqvist) calls, "the tools of imperialism:" ships' guns thatcan fire miles inland; railroads that ease the plundering of a continent; river steamers that carried Europeansand their weapons into the heart of every continent; repeating rifles and shotguns, machine guns, long rangerifles and artillery. At the battle of Omdurman (1898), in which the British slaughtered 10,000 Sudanese, notone of the "brutes" got closer than 300 yards to the British lines. It was very much like the Americanmassacre in 1991 of the Iraqis---those similarly dark skinned brutes--- but in that latter case at a much higherlevel of technology, and from much greater distances.

The fact that the Europeans everywhere introduced new diseases for which the natives had no naturalimmunity and thus died epidemically, without a shot being fired; and that the destruction of an entire culturealso produces morbidity and mortality among oppressed peoples, this realtiy was used to justify theconclusion that such "brutes" were "inferior" and "doomed" in any event to die off.

One other factor: much European imperialism was significantly a work of individuals who either on their ownor in the service of trading companies, or, lastly, as military men, entered into cultures quite different fromtheir own. They brought with them the baggage of superiority, ignorance, contempt, and base motivations,whatever "civilizing" pretenses the people at home were led to believe in. Once into the heart of darkness, cutoff from the usual or normal inhibiting forces of society, many, most, all of them succumbed to thetemptations of overwhelming power and insatiable greed.

Already in 1838, one English scholar wrote that, "The history of European settlements in America, Africa,and Australia, presents every where the same general features--- a wide and sweeping destruction of nativeraces by the uncontrolled violence of individuals, if not of colonial authorities, followed by tardy attempts on

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the part of governments to repair the acknowledged crime." But, of course, there was much worse to come.Two points:

(1) Lindqvist argues persuasively that Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is best read as a universalcondemnation of European imperialism, as an accurate and searing portrait of the base motivations behind itall, and as a judgment against the inevitable result: a doctrine that justified, as Kurtz screamed it out, theorder to "exterminate all the brutes."

(2) As for the "Holocaust," here is Lindqvist's thesis: "To faithful Nazis, the killing of the Jews was a way ofimplementing the most central point in the party program. For those less faithful, and there were many, manymore of such willing participants, it was a practical way of reducing the consumption of food and makingroom for the future German settlement. German bureaucracy spoke of "de-Jewishing (Entjudung) as a way ofclearing out "superfluous eaters"(uberzahligen Essern ) and in that way establishing a "balance betweenpopulation and food supply."

Hitler himself was driven throughout his political career by a fanatical anti-Semitism which had roots in athousand year tradition, a tradition that had often justified the killing and mass murder of Jews. "But the stepfrom mass murder to genocide was not taken until the anti-Semitic tradition met the tradition of genocidearising during Europe's expansion in America, Australia, Africa, and Asia."

Finally, Lindqvist closes by correctly noting that the educated classes in every imperialist nation knew largelywhat was going on in their colonies—just as Americans knew what was going on in Vietnam--- and: "Just aseducated Europeans today know how children die when the whip of debt whistles over poor countries . . .

Everywhere in the world where knowledge is being suppressed that, if it were made known, would shatter ourimage of the world and force us to question ourselves---everywhere there, The Heart of Darkness is beingenacted. You already know that. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage tounderstand what we know and draw conclusions.

We need more self-analysis, more self-knowledge, more contemplation of our "humaneness" and theconsequences of our unthinking behavior, if we are ever to cease exterminating our fellow sentient beings.

Gerry Cavanaugh gjcav@jeffnet.org

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