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KING GEORGE COMING TO TOWN
by oso
the false pPresident will be arriving in southern oregon on thursday august 22. there is tremendous interest in
greeting him upon his arrival in our communities. this is a call to all progressive voices in the region. we have
the opportunity to tell the false pResident what we think of him. let us organize to send him back to texas
with a strong message from southern oregon. perhaps we could have an emergency planning meeting
sometime and somewhere on tuesday august 20 to plan. any ideas about a time or place? please spread
this 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
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12:45 am THE PRESIDENT makes remarks on Conservation and Forest Health
Central Point, Oregon
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6:00 pm THE PRESIDENT attends a Gordon Smith for Senate Reception
Portland, Oregon
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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 will
include 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 storm
July 13. Although it burned in an area of urban interface mixed with public lands, the fire did not destroy any
dwellings, thanks to what many believe was the result of thinning projects before the fire coupled with
aggressive firefighting during the blaze.
The president will deliver a speech on the importance of thinning forests to curb future wildfires, and has
invited governors from Western states to join him during the visit, said a congressional source who spoke on
condition he would not be further identified.
Smith and Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., will join Bush during his stop near Medford. Both lawmakers have
been strong advocates of managing forests. Many environmentalists have challenged Republican calls for
thinning forests as efforts to undermine restrictions on logging.
From Medford, Bush will travel to Portland for a round-table discussion with community leaders from around
the 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 bid
of Smith, who faces a challenge from Democratic Secretary of State Bill Bradbury. The president has not
planned 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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From Portland, Bush was to fly to Stockton, Calif., according to the White House schedule.
You can find this story online at:
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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 the
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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
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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 the
last remaining fragments of our native forests. Mr. Ford has failed to listen to the overwhelmeing sentiment of
the public that wants to see permanent protection for these native forests. RFP/Scott is one of the largest
purchasers 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 sale
outside 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 River
watershed.
These sales are a part of the Replacement Volume Program, a Forest Service scam that trades plantation
trees from the Coast Range for mature and old growth forests in our backyards! RFP/Scott holds contracts to
these 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. In
the 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 is
the time to turn up the heat on RFP/Scott and their president Allyn Ford to cancel ALL replacement volume
sales 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 volume
timber 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:
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the Rogue Banks, major competition: credit unions
Chairman of the Board Allyn Ford, owner of Roseburg Forest Products and Scott Timber, largest purchasers
of 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
Strand Atkinson Williams & York Investment
Subsidiary of Umpqua Corp. info@strandatkinson.com
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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 roadless
areas, I feel a deep sadness and concern. I also feel fear. These emotions have several sources, but my
deepest sadness is not caused by my profound attachment to the Kalmiopsis and my grief that places I have
known and loved will not look the same in my lifetime. My worst fears are not sparked by the hate campaign
being waged in my community by the timber interests who are shamelessly exploiting these fires to cast
blame 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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the 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 these
raging wildfires of 2002 are the beginning of an extreme shift in climate that will turn much of our forest land
into brushfields. The entire continent is now in the midst of an extreme drought the like of which hasn't been
seen 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 of
global warming in these climate extremes? What role does it play in the western forest fires of 2002? When
we respond to hasty, exploitive measures from the Daschles, Wydens and Craigs, can we not invoke global
climate change? Can't we call for everyone to take a step back and look at the big picture before making
sweeping proposals to fix the problem?
Lou Gold was at the Senator Smith forum in Medford yesterday. He made the point to Smith and others that
what 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 have
two points to our proactive fire risk reduction program:
1. decoupling to get dollars to communities right now to carryout thinning in urban interface zones, and
money to agencies to do prescribed burning in wildlands.
2. convene a scientific panel to study the impact of global warming on western forests and make
recommendations 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 blame
on 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 Wild
Rivers area to prospecting and new mining claims. On May 22, 2002 the Bush Administration published a
ruling 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 public
lands," 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 most
botanically diverse coniferous forests in North America."
Secretary Babbitt started the process to protect the Siskiyou Wild Rivers in January 2001, then Secretary of
Interior Bruce Babbitt started a public process to consider what kind of protections were needed for the
pristine rivers and rare plants of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area. In order to protect the land while these
protections were being considered, Secretary Babbitt temporarily withdrew nearly 1 million acres of public
land 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 stated
that the "purpose of the proposed mineral withdrawal is to protect the nationally significant ecologic and
biologic diversity of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area while it is determined whether special management
designation of the area is warranted." But now the Bush Administration has slammed the door on this public
process to discuss the future of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers.
The study of mining economics, mineral potential and ecological values was never begun. The Bush
Administration ignored the request of Governor John Kitzhaber, Senator Ron Wyden and Representatives
Peter DeFazio, David Wu, Earl Blumenauer and Darlene Hooley to let the public process on the proposed
one million acre mineral withdrawal continue. Editorial support for an open public discussion on the future of
mining 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 individual
citizens. The Bush Administration apparently did listen to Oregon's Republican Senator Gordon Smith who

citizens. The Bush Administration apparently did listen to Oregon's Republican Senator Gordon Smith who
did not support the mineral withdrawal and public process and wrote a letter to Interior Secretary Gale Norton
asking her to "review" it.
They Did Leave Us Something, But We'll Have to Fight to Keep It but even the Bush Administration had to
admit that the fishery and botanical values of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers deserved some consideration. At the
same time that they ended protection from mining for 800,000 acres, they left 113,000 acres under the
mineral withdrawal. Unfortunately, these 113,000 acres do not include the entire proposed Nicore mine in
Rough & 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 support
of the largest mineral withdrawal possible. Please see the sample letter below. It is also important to write or
call your elected officials and ask them to begin a public process to study the outstanding biological and
recreational 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 admits
are "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 operations
because 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's
numerous uneconomic and marginal mining operations would eventually disappear.
Question: Doesn't the Forest Service and BLM's new 80,00033,000-acre withdrawal proposal adequately
protect the special values of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area?

Answer: The new proposal includes some important, sensitive areas However, it also terminates the
proposed withdrawal of important salmon and steelhead streams in the Siskiyous which are most at risk from
marginal mining operations, such as:
Briggs Creek, a tributary of the Wild section of the National Wild and Scenic Illinois River, important to the
lower Rogue River's salmon and steelhead fishery.
Sucker Creek (Illinois River Basin), a Northwest Forest Plan Key Watershed and one of the most productive
wild 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 of
rare and threatened plant species.
Areas with exceptionally high concentrations of rare and endemic plants along the west side of the Illinois
Valley and the South Kalmiopsis Roadless Area.
Three BLM Areas of Critical Environmental Concern: The Rough & Ready ACEC, the French Flat ACEC and
the Eight Dollar Mountain ACEC.
What You Can Do
Siskiyou Wild Rivers needs an overwhelming outpouring of support. The miners have been congratulating
themselves on defeating the Siskiyou Wild Rivers withdrawal and are working to stop the smaller withdrawal
proposal.
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

I support the proposed Siskiyou Wild Rivers mineral withdrawal, but it is not enough to protect the special
ecological values of this globally important area. To protect this precious area from mining activities I ask that
the new mineral withdrawal proposal be as large as possible and that at a minimum it should include the
following 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 Scenic
Rivers; and
6) all rare and sensitive plant habitat including all serpentine fens. I am also concerned that the termination of
the proposed Siskiyou National Forest mineral withdrawal has deprived the public of an important opportunity
for open debate on the future of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area and a comprehensive government study of both
its 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 a
statement 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 in
western Oregon and Washington; fast-track logging in eastern Oregon, eastern Washington and Idaho; and
suspension 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 to
watershed restoration and community assistance," said Jasmine Minbashian, Northwest Old-Growth
Campaign coordinator. "It cannot be accomplished by side-stepping federal laws and public involvement, or
by sacrificing forests east of the Cascade Mountains."
In binding completely different forest management issues together in one bill, Senator Wyden's bill will
guarantee additional controversy and gridlock. Conservation groups have a long advocated for protecting
homes, lives and property from unnaturally large wildfires and restoring natural fire regimes on national forests
east of the Cascades. But they indicated that the bill's authorization for fast-tracking timber and salvage
sales would be counter-productive.
Conservation groups have documented that projects termed "fuels reduction" are removing large fire-resistant
trees and leaving the smaller flammable material behind. "The Senator's approach to eastside forests is
unnecessary and unproductive," said Ric Bailey of Hells Canyon Preservation Council. "We can and do work
with the agencies and others to focus scarce federal dollars on saving homes and property while restoring the
landscape. This bill does nothing to advance those efforts."
The groups chastised the bill's unbalanced approach of limited protection for western forests and massive
logging of eastside forests. Some termed the bill's approach "political rather than scientific forestry" and
expressed grave disappointment that the Senators had proposed legislation that does nothing to resolve
substantive problems with national forest management. The groups range from nationally-based watershed
protection advocates to locally-based community forest advocacy groups in both eastern and western
Oregon, Washington and Idaho. They share Senator Wyden's concern for old-growth forests and will proceed
with legislative efforts that truly protect mature and old growth forests, clean water, and a legacy for future

with legislative efforts that truly protect mature and old growth forests, clean water, and a legacy for future
generations.
Contact:
Jasmine Minbashian, Northwest Old-Growth Campaign, (360) 319-3111 Ric Bailey, Hells Canyon
Preservation Council, (541) 963-3950 Patti Goldman, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, (206) 343-7340 Bob
Friemark, The Wilderness Society, (206) 624-6430 Andy Kerr, The Larch Company, (541) 201-0053 Paul
Shively, 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 Mountain
Biodiversity Project, (541) 385-9167 Stephanie Parent, Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, (503) 768-
6736 John McCarthy, Idaho Conservation League, (208) 345-6933 Chuck Pezeshki, Clearwater Biodiversity
Project (509) 335-7662 Ron Mitchell, Idaho Sporting Congress, (208) 336-7222 Mike Petersen, The Lands
Council, (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) 384-1023
Kaz Thea, Alliance for the Wild Rockies, (208) 726-5293 The Northwest Old-growth Campaign is a coalition of
conservation groups that includes American Land Alliance, Bark, Biodiversity Northwest, Black Hills Audubon
Society, Cascadia Wildlands Project, Forest Ethics, Gifford Pinchot Task Force, Klamath-Siskiyou
Wildlands Center, Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, Oregon Natural Resources Council, Oregon Sierra Club,
Siskiyou Project, and Umpqua Watersheds. See www.nwoldgrowth.org for member group contact information
and on details.
Steve Holmer, American Lands Alliance wafcdc@americanlands.org
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NATIONAL FOREST PROTECTION ALLIANCE FORTH ANNUAL CONVENTION, Sisters, Oregon, October
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Join grassroots activists from across the nation as we build upon our vision for the permanent protection of
our National Forests! Once a year the network of the National Forest Protection Alliance (NFPA) gathers to
review 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 the
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FIELD GUIDE TO TIMBER THEFT
The long awaited Field Guide to Timber Theft: Understanding Timber Sales, the Contract & the Law is
available to forest activists. The guide was developed specifically for forest activists by several members
former members of the Forest Service's Timber Theft Investigative Branch. The Guide is useful in
understanding timber sales on public and private lands and includes tips for using confidential information
received by whistleblowers or informants.
Download the 32 page report as an Adobe Acrobat file at http://www.whistleblower.org.
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FSTV September 11th special Date:
DEMOCRACY NOW is currently in production mode of what promises to be a truly remarkable special
program on September 11th 2002.
It will be aired from 7-11am EST on FreeSpeech TV and rebroadcast later in the day (time TBA, but most
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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 activists
arriving at Ground Zero, and a 24 hour Peace Vigil in Washington Square park organized by families of the
victims of the attacks.
In addition you will hear speeches from people like Daniel Berrigan, and interviews with people from all over
the world who have been affected by the attacks, from Afghanistan to Palestine to New York City to Iraq. In
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amazing. A press release will come out in about a week or so.

We want to know if your station will be interested and able to broadcast the program in it's entirety, either live
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program. We will be placing an ad in The Nation and promoting the show for the week or so preceding it.
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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 election
officials for an initiative that would direct Seattle police to make marijuana possession arrests their lowest
priority. 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 the
signatures to ensure that they are from registered voters. If the Elections Office finds there are sufficient valid
signatures, the initiative would then have to win approval from the City Council before appearing on the
November ballot.
According to the Seattle Times, there is support for the initiative on the council. At least two council
members 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 if
recent arrest figures are any guide. According to the Seattle City Attorney's Office, fewer than one percent of
its misdemeanor criminal cases (150 out of 17,000) were for marijuana possession. A similar measure
passed by the Oakland, CA, City Council in 1996 had "virtually no effect on law enforcement," Oakland police
told the Times.
Still, Seattle City Council member Nick Licata told the Times the measure would reinforce the idea that
marijuana possession should be a low priority. "I think it's better to have our limited funds for public safety

marijuana possession should be a low priority. "I think it's better to have our limited funds for public safety
being 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 read
about 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 nationally
and on New York state's Rockefeller drug laws, including articles on issues, law, prisoners, editorials by
advocates 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 in
three 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 in
Counselor: 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 teach
UK youth how to take drugs safely rather than simply told "just say no":

http://www.theschooldaily.com/articleView.asp?articlePK=14707
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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 provision
in full and let tens of thousands of young people with drug convictions go back to college.
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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 and
conservative radio talk show host Lars Larson discussing how drug reform advocates about increasing the
quality and quantity of local news coverage. Visit http://www.jeffandtracy.com or call (503) 605-5182 for
info.
August 24-29, Lagos, Nigeria, "Tenth International Conference on Penal Abolition." Contact Prisoners
Rehabilitation 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, Scott
Crichton of the Montana ACLU, Ron Mann director of the movie "Grass," Missoula attorney John Smith and
others. For further info, contact info@montanadrugpolicy.org.
September 8-11, Chicago, IL, "Racial Justice Leadership Institute," seminar sponsored by the Applied
Research 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 for
when details become available.

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 Their
Families." 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 the
Street." 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 the
Marijuana 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 Marijuana
Policy Project. Admission $50, or $1,000 VIP package including front-row seat and private reception with Bill
Maher. 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 US
Surgeon 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 International
Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, sponsored by the International Harm Reduction Coalition
in partnership with the Asian Harm Reduction Network. For further information, visit http://www.ihrc2003.net
or 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 European
Genocide. (By Sven Lindqvist, The New Press,1992/1996.)
Without criticical self-awareness, without serious contemplation of our being and behavior, we simply become
what we were and continue to do what we always did. A repetition compulsion with predictably horrible
results. That is but one of the lessons to be drawn from this succinct and devastating re-telling of the story of
Eurpean racism and imperialism.
The "brutes" of the title are all of those non-European and darker-skinned peoples that fell victim to European
imperialists. The imperialist conquerors were driven by greed and lust for power, base motives cloaked then
as 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 in
their various raids, rapes, conquests, and colonizing forays from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries
suffered unimaginable pain as they and their entire social and cultural existences were trampled into the dust
of history.
The aboriginal people of the Canary Islands (wiped out by the Spanish in the 15th century); North and South

The aboriginal people of the Canary Islands (wiped out by the Spanish in the 15th century); North and South
American "Indians;" aborigines in New Zealand and Australia; native peoples of India, Indonesia, Southeast
Asia in general; the Sudanese and all Blacks in Africa---these are the "brutes" that the European imperialists
deemed, first, that it was acceptable to enslave and to slaughter and, then, necessary and justifiable to
exterminate.
As Lindqvist demonstrates, the shift from "acceptable" to "necessary and justifiable" slavery and slaughter
reflects the emergence in the nineteenth century of (1) Social Darwinism with its corrupt and pitiless
misapplication of the notions of "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest:" (2) the triumph of the utterly
false notion that evolution implies "progress" toward "higher forms of life" (which technologically advanced
white Europeans found a comforting and pleasing justification for exterminating those "inferior beings" who
were obviously destined to die out anyway); and (3) "scientific racism" which provided fertile grounds for such
meretricious and poisonous notions as the "Ubermenschen."
This last, "superman" concept was also a comfort to those Europeans (including, of course, Americans) who
were armed with what one historian (quoted by Lindqvist) calls, "the tools of imperialism:" ships' guns that
can fire miles inland; railroads that ease the plundering of a continent; river steamers that carried Europeans
and their weapons into the heart of every continent; repeating rifles and shotguns, machine guns, long range
rifles and artillery. At the battle of Omdurman (1898), in which the British slaughtered 10,000 Sudanese, not
one of the "brutes" got closer than 300 yards to the British lines. It was very much like the American
massacre in 1991 of the Iraqis---those similarly dark skinned brutes--- but in that latter case at a much higher
level of technology, and from much greater distances.
The fact that the Europeans everywhere introduced new diseases for which the natives had no natural
immunity and thus died epidemically, without a shot being fired; and that the destruction of an entire culture
also produces morbidity and mortality among oppressed peoples, this realtiy was used to justify the
conclusion 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 own
or in the service of trading companies, or, lastly, as military men, entered into cultures quite different from
their 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, cut
off from the usual or normal inhibiting forces of society, many, most, all of them succumbed to the
temptations 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 native
races by the uncontrolled violence of individuals, if not of colonial authorities, followed by tardy attempts on

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 universal
condemnation of European imperialism, as an accurate and searing portrait of the base motivations behind it
all, and as a judgment against the inevitable result: a doctrine that justified, as Kurtz screamed it out, the
order 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 of
implementing the most central point in the party program. For those less faithful, and there were many, many
more of such willing participants, it was a practical way of reducing the consumption of food and making
room for the future German settlement. German bureaucracy spoke of "de-Jewishing (Entjudung) as a way of
clearing out "superfluous eaters"(uberzahligen Essern ) and in that way establishing a "balance between
population and food supply."
Hitler himself was driven throughout his political career by a fanatical anti-Semitism which had roots in a
thousand year tradition, a tradition that had often justified the killing and mass murder of Jews. "But the step
from mass murder to genocide was not taken until the anti-Semitic tradition met the tradition of genocide
arising 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 largely
what was going on in their colonies—just as Americans knew what was going on in Vietnam--- and: "Just as
educated 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 our
image of the world and force us to question ourselves---everywhere there, The Heart of Darkness is being
enacted. You already know that. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to
understand what we know and draw conclusions.
We need more self-analysis, more self-knowledge, more contemplation of our "humaneness" and the
consequences of our unthinking behavior, if we are ever to cease exterminating our fellow sentient beings.
Gerry Cavanaugh
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