Oregon Governor Brown’s To-Do List
Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown was sworn in as Oregon’s 38th Governor Wednesday, Feb.18. We don’t have the superfluous (as Florida, Massachusetts and Nebraska recently found out) position of...
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Garden Variety Environmentalism
“The environmental movement needs shaming at this point.” – Denise Boggs It was 60+ degrees and sunny – had been for weeks – in western Oregon, as I arrived in Eugene for the annual Public Interest...
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The TPP, the Biomassacre and the End Game for the Great Forests of the Northwest
New York’s Third Senator Ron Wyden, (D-Ecocide) had a banner week. First, the media and social memes were ubiquitous on the hours-long Faux Resistance mounted against the secret Trans-Pacific...
View ArticleFund-Raising as the World Burns: Shell Drills the Arctic, Takes a Timeout and...
“Activism is the antidote to despair.” –Joan Baez “Claiming false “victories” crushes activism and leads to more despair. Claiming false “victories” in order to fund raise is shameless and stupid.” –...
View ArticleThinking Like a Human: John Trudell’s Dream
Graffiti Man’s Got Something to Say “We have to really think like human beings. And, just accept the reality of now. And, the reality of now is that the system is unfair, and it’s not gonna be fair....
View ArticleJohn Trudell: Human Being
“I don’t want to tell people how to remember me. I want people to remember me as they remember me.” —John Trudell “He got a fast horse. Comanche warriors made sure he got their best. Hoofbeats...
View ArticleFLOP21: It’s Survival Time Now
“With the climate talks in Paris now over, the world has set itself a serious goal: limit temperature rise to 1.5C. Or failing that, 2C. Hitting those targets is absolutely necessary: even the...
View ArticleThe Cowliphate and Poisoned Kids: Twin Assaults on The Commons
When I opened up my Facebook feed today, 90 percent on the items on my feed were equally divided between the Bundy Cowliphate here in Oregon and the poisoning of the water supply in Flint, my hometown....
View ArticleWhere to Invade Next: Michael Moore’s Latest Examination of American...
The creator of the top two Documentaries of all time – Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11 – is back. Michael Moore and his merry band of co-conspirators have a new documentary out in an...
View Article“A Legacy Worth Leaving”– The 2016 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
I had a new strategy for the 34th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at the University of Oregon Law School. – the grandaddy of all environmental law conferences. This year, I...
View ArticleBuilding the Opal Creek Trail: Saving an Oregon Treasure
Back in 1987, up at the mining camp at Jawbone Flats, we were discussing the Forest Service plan to build 11 miles of roads and clear-cut 1700-acres of Ancient Forest in Opal Creek. Jawbone is at the...
View ArticleGaian Hero Twilly Cannon and the Origins of the Ruckus Society
Back in 1995, things were looking bleak for the Northwest Forests. The pro-logging, exempt from all environmental laws, Salvage Rider was signed by Bill Clinton and tens of thousands of acres of...
View ArticleHow the Naked Hiker Saved the Forest
I recently wrote about the building of the Opal Creek trail and its crucial part in the successful effort to save the area and Ancient Forests, in general. That effort followed an earlier one that...
View ArticleStill Wavy After All These Years: Flower Geezer Turns 80
Wavy Gravy – Counterculture Saint Back in 1976, my pal Stacy seriously injured her back. She was at the Bay Area osteopath’s office waiting room for a pre-operation exam when an odd, rumpled guy also...
View ArticleGaian Champion Calvin Hecocta Walks On
(Calvi Hecocta 12/7/1941 – 8/17/2016) My dad always told me, “The hardest thing about growing old is your friends dying.” Dad was correct (as he was on a lot of things). This has been a hard year for...
View ArticleBody Shaming Trump: Statue of Limitations
Dammit. I never thought I’d have to defend Trump or Clinton on anything. I have to weigh in on the Naked Trump statues. Have to, because I have now been told to “Fuck off;” been called “vapid;” been...
View ArticleJackson Browne, Quiltman and Allies: Counterculture Heroes Still Here/Still...
Last August, I was at the Monkey Clan’s annual Scott Lake wilderness campout in the Cascades. I awoke at night with a distinct feeling of dread. It was fire season and I thought it may be that the...
View ArticleBarred From the Court: US Indian Law = Imperial Relic
On Sept. 24, 2018, the Yakama Nation joined in a case before the US Supreme Court and submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the Court) brief in the case of Washington State Department of Licensing v...
View ArticleThe Covington Altar Boys, Institutional Racism and the Doctrine of Discovery
The smirking Covington Altar Boys episode brings back memories of when I was attending a 99% white, elite, all boys Catholic High School. It was in 1963/65, the peak of Catholic culture in the US, with...
View ArticleConsuming the “Planet of the Humans:” The Most Important Documentary of the...
Back in 2007, the environmental organization 350.org was founded by author/academic Bill McKibben. The name refers to the theory that 350 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere is the highest...
View ArticleThe Meltdown of the Careerist Greens
“It’s all got to change. If we come out of this crisis with all the rickety, fly-blown, worm-eaten old structures still intact, the same vain and indolent public schoolboys in charge, the same hedge...
View ArticleGeorge Atiyeh, Opal Creek Champion
“George Atiyeh is the Hayduke of the Ancient Forests. If he went up with the forest he defended all his life, it’s the way he would have chosen to go, like Harry Truman at Mt. St. Helens. But I have...
View ArticleA Short Summary of the Election Fraud Grift
Operation Condition Red Trump and right-wing media claim 2.7 million votes for Trump were changed to votes for Biden. It was pulled off using a secret server in a fortified, secret CIA computer outpost...
View ArticleHow Big Green Lost Its Way
“For too long, we failed to use the most important word when it comes to meeting the climate crisis: jobs, jobs, jobs.” – Joe Biden to Congress 4/28/2021 I had just begun reading Bright Green Lies when...
View Article“Love is Love:” a Review of Jackson Browne’s Latest Album
“The rich are getting richer – I should know While we’re going up, you’re going down And no one gives a shit but Jackson Browne” ~ Randy Newman Many superb poets became some of the top...
View ArticleLook Up, Down and Everywhere
So I finally got some time to watch “Don’t Look Up.” Most of the reviews I’ve seen that come from the Business As Usual/American Way of Life/Endless Growth advocates dismiss it due to obvious conflicts...
View ArticleMichael Moore Still Batting 1.000
(Pundits and Pollsters are toeing the Mendoza Line.) “We were lied to for months by the pundits and pollsters and the media. Voters had not “moved on” from the Supreme Court’s decision to debase and...
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Another Election Year: Another Democrat Candidate Promises to Save the...
Logging operations on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington Cascades. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Here we go again. On Tuesday, candidate Joe Biden announced that he will save the remnants of...
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“Won’t You Care for John Sinclair?”
John Sinclair at Hempstalk. “Won’t you care for John Sinclair?” – John Lennon “Our culture is a revolutionary culture, a revolutionary force on the planet, the seed of the new order that will come to...
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A Long, Strange Trip Through the CounterCulture
Ken Babbs and Ken Kesey, from the cover of Cronies. We are fast losing the proto-counterculture folks who came on the scene between the Beats and the Hippies. Many cultural changes happened between the...
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