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Groups to Honor Activist Killed by Tree
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file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/26/MN39257.DTL Groups to Honor Activist Killed by Tree Saturday, September 26, 1998 Printable Version Email This Article BERKELEY -- A candlelight prayer and memorial circle will be held tomorrow in remembrance of an environmental activist who died while protesting logging. Activists and environmental leaders from Earth First will honor David ``Gypsy'' Chain with words and music at 8 p.m. in the fellowship hall at All Souls Episcopal Church, located at Cedar and Spruce streets in Berkeley. Light refreshments will follow. Chain, 24, was killed September 17 when a tree crushed him during a protest on Pacific Lumber Co. property. The death was the first in more than a decade of protests against logging in the Headwaters forest area. Earth First members contend that Chain was killed by a logger who knowingly cut the tree to fall in the protesters' direction. Since Chain's death, members of the group said they have maintained a roadblock on the route to the area where the activist was killed. Last week, the group released a videotape that shows a logger threatening the activists shortly before Chain's death. The group said the logger is the same one who felled the deadly tree. But Pacific Lumber, which has questioned the tape's authenticity, said that Chain's death was an accident and that its logging crew was unaware that activists were in the area. The memorial circle is being co-sponsored by Earth First, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, the Rose Foundation and the Ecumenical Peace Initiative. For more information, call the BACH office at (510) 835- 6303. Memorial donations may be made to North Coast Earth First at P.O. Box 28, Arcata, Calif., 95518. |
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Groups to Honor Activist Killed by Tree
Chris Foster wrote:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/26/MN39257.DTL Earth First members contend that Chain was killed by a logger who knowingly cut the tree to fall in the protesters' direction. Since Chain's death, members of the group said they have maintained a roadblock on the route to the area where the activist was killed. Chain saws are loud. This group of morons had to know they were standing within the falling radius of a tree while it was being cut. Why didn't they stand clear? But Pacific Lumber, which has questioned the tape's authenticity, said that Chain's death was an accident and that its logging crew was unaware that activists were in the area. That's as silly as the protesters' claims. You get ready to fell a tree, look around to see what's in range of the fall, and are totally unaware that a group of idiots are standing there yelling stuff at you? |
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Groups to Honor Activist Killed by Tree
"Mitch Haley" wrote in message ... Chris Foster wrote: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/26/MN39257.DTL Earth First members contend that Chain was killed by a logger who knowingly cut the tree to fall in the protesters' direction. Since Chain's death, members of the group said they have maintained a roadblock on the route to the area where the activist was killed. Chain saws are loud. This group of morons had to know they were standing within the falling radius of a tree while it was being cut. Why didn't they stand clear? But Pacific Lumber, which has questioned the tape's authenticity, said that Chain's death was an accident and that its logging crew was unaware that activists were in the area. That's as silly as the protesters' claims. You get ready to fell a tree, look around to see what's in range of the fall, and are totally unaware that a group of idiots are standing there yelling stuff at you? Wasn't there an environmentalist activist in Florida that was killed by hundreds of Frogs bumping her? |
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Groups to Honor Activist Killed by Tree
Thank you, Darwin!
"Chris Foster" wrote in message news:1123166524.14a07e25bcf84e09c59d9c562c973bf4@t eranews... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/chronicle/archive/1998/09/26/MN39257.DTL Groups to Honor Activist Killed by Tree Saturday, September 26, 1998 Printable Version Email This Article BERKELEY -- A candlelight prayer and memorial circle will be held tomorrow in remembrance of an environmental activist who died while protesting logging. Activists and environmental leaders from Earth First will honor David ``Gypsy'' Chain with words and music at 8 p.m. in the fellowship hall at All Souls Episcopal Church, located at Cedar and Spruce streets in Berkeley. Light refreshments will follow. Chain, 24, was killed September 17 when a tree crushed him during a protest on Pacific Lumber Co. property. The death was the first in more than a decade of protests against logging in the Headwaters forest area. Earth First members contend that Chain was killed by a logger who knowingly cut the tree to fall in the protesters' direction. Since Chain's death, members of the group said they have maintained a roadblock on the route to the area where the activist was killed. Last week, the group released a videotape that shows a logger threatening the activists shortly before Chain's death. The group said the logger is the same one who felled the deadly tree. But Pacific Lumber, which has questioned the tape's authenticity, said that Chain's death was an accident and that its logging crew was unaware that activists were in the area. The memorial circle is being co-sponsored by Earth First, Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, the Rose Foundation and the Ecumenical Peace Initiative. For more information, call the BACH office at (510) 835- 6303. Memorial donations may be made to North Coast Earth First at P.O. Box 28, Arcata, Calif., 95518. |
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