"Ever since I can remember, my familys been coming to forests like these to go camping." "I grew up back east, went to college there, and went into the Peace Corps." "It was in Africa in the 1980 that I got a ene of how human being were destroying the entire planet." "When I came back to the U.S. I decided that I should work for the Environmental Protection Agency, but after just a couple years there," "I realized the government wans't going to solve the problem." "So I decided to come out here to Eugene, Oregon jut to live a simple lifestyle and not be a part of the problem myself." "When I got Out here and I saw the big trees and the mountain and the rivers Of Cascadia," "I fell in love with this place." "When I saw the clear cuts and the tree farms I was sickened." "They are far more prevalent than the natural forests." "Most of the natural forests that are left are on public land, is managed by the Foret Service, and what they do is mark the trees with blue paint and they sell them off." "They want to maximize timber value so the natural fires that start in the forest, they put them all out." "What that mean is the fuel load on the forest floor doesn't burn off naturally, so, when the fire comes they're much bigger and they get up into the canopy of the trees." "The foret would naturally recover from thi kind of a ituation if i left to heal, but the Foret Service doen't do that- they ell it off a low-priced alvage." "Even if an area i off-limit to logging, even if an aronit i the one who et it on fire, the Foret Service will till ell it off a low-priced alvage." "And becaue naturally recovering foret i never left to naturally heal, i one of the raret ecoytem in the Wet." "Now, I learned all this from my friend Katja and Tim, they call it" ""light it, fight it, and log it,"" "and they were the ones who convinced a bunch of us that when it happened at Warner Creek, at the end of a long mountain road on Bunch Grass Ridge, we had to be there first." "In the lower 48 states, 96% of forests have been cut." "Tax money built enough logging roads on your Nationla Forests to circle the Earth 17 times." "Damaging one of these roads risks five years in federal prison." "Warner Creek Protected area No Logging" "The next day our government "fights" the forest arson fire at Warner Creek." "[Radio:] Projected cost at about five million dollar and the cost report it five million, twenty-eight thousand as of midnight." "After two weeks, snow put out the Warner Creek fire." "[The arsonists were never caught.]" "[Four years later...]" "OK, why don't you say your name for me." "OK, you want me to speak into the lens or do you want me to speak..." "Speak to me." "OK." "Say your name for me." "My name i Dr. Timothy Ingleby," "I'm Co-Director of the Cacadia Fire Ecology Education Project." "Well, in 1991, thi whole area wa a potted owl anctuary, and then aronit et it on fire." "With the help of about 2500 fire fighter burning an additional 3000 acre, this became the second larget wildfire in the hitory of the Willamette National Foret." "And barely two weeks after the fire was out the Forest Service announced that they wanted to alvage log thi area which had been prohibited from further commercial logging." "This road itself was an environmental atrocity that never hould have been legally permitted." "It was an invasion of this wilderness area calculated to do strategic destruction and take it out of wilderne once and forever." "We've been here for four and a half years studying this area, hiking this area, caring for this area, and they don't belong here anymore- they've kind of reneged their right to manage, ravage, salvage this land." "I don't speak that well in sound bites." "Yes, you do." "I got some stuff I can use there." "Fire is an agent of chaos, it defies their whole paradigm of management and control- drawing line on map, and aying OK, we're going to devatate thi and we're going to preerve that." "Warner Creek' natural recovery ha o many leon." "We haven't even begun to ak the right quetion and the anwer are taring u in the face." "We'll be able to drop down there and ee what heli-torching from the Foret Service look like and see the area that wa going to be the firt one where they will try to come up and log." "I that the section at the top of 2408?" "Yeah, at the very end of road 2408." "I used to work for the Forest Service and I believed at that time they were doing the right thing, cutting ome of the timber." "But I alway wa concerned that they were cutting too much." "In Wisconsin there's no old-growth forest left any more and I would hate to ee that happen anywhere ele." "What the human race i doing to our environment, not just the forest but the soil and sea, and wildlife- i a ytem tha unutainable, i really not utainable." "We're loing more pecie every day than ha ever happened before, and we're not taking tep to top it." "It just made me so angry knowing that my lifestyle is part of that, and that I've been lied to so much of my life about the fact that the way I was living wa actually bringing that all about." "The message is simple:" "Fire does not destroy a forest." "Logging detroys a forest." "We didn't jut walk through foret:" "We alo walked through clear cut, we walked through tree farm, tree plantation." "Is so obvious when you're up there, a tree plantation is not a forest." "Fire doen't detroy a foret, logging detroy a foret." "I'm going to have to ask you to leave." "No, I just aked these officer..." "You're subject to arrest..." "OK, well, I jut wanted to ak if there wa any chance we could invite one of the Foret Service people, the Ditrict Ranger, to join u on our podium..." "Most Americans, I believe, think the way you do, they believe national foret are protected." "And they're hocked to find out they're not." "And they're angered to find out that Smokey the Bear i the one tha cutting them down." "Within a democracy in our country we're not the cutomer of the Foret Service, we're the owners." "We're the owners of national forests." "We don't have to ak permiion to ave them- they have to ak our permiion to cut them down." "I my undertanding that nobody wihe to addre the group." "I'll check with that and if tha different, then I'll let you know, OK?" "The tree and the gra and the water and all of thee living being i being detroyed by an out of control government." "An out of control ytem that every tax payer i paying for." "[hug a tree]" "We're all paying for our own detruction." "[judge orders more logging]" "[Warner Creek: protesters keep the road blocked]" "So your hand i in cement down there, how i it being retrained down there?" "Feel like a handcuff and i dark, i very dark." "So, wha your point?" "They're not coming in here." "So how long you going to tay here?" "I'm tuck, I'm not going to be out of here until omebody get me out." "Too many people depending on what they can get away with, what i legal, what i illegal, intead of what i right, what i wrong." "And the two don't line up all too often, epecially now and here." "Unle you really have thrown up your hand and aid that i uele," "I give up, we have lot, then we've got to be doing omething." "When I came out and did the walk and after eeing all the life and the tree and all the animals and I realized the scam the government i pulling on us," "I couldn't leave." "I've been here ince then and I don't think I'm leaving until they take me away." "[stop corporate greed]" "I walked up on beyond the gate up there at Warner Creek today, and what I aw wa jut totally inpiring." "Firt of all, I aw a whole bunch of people doing hard-core work on the ground, and thee were people I had never seen before- thi i a whole new generation of eco-activit." "I'm happy that I'm to that point where I can, I can give myelf and be here and participate- you know that my head i clear enough to be here, you know." "A I learn more about power and more about government and more about big corporation, I tarted to realize that unle people like myelf tood up and actually took action, that probably very little of thi would be left." "We at one time, a a ociety, didn't believe women had the ame kind of right a men, children had the ame right a adult, people of color didn't have the ame kind of right a white people," "and lowly we've changed our value." "I think we're going to have to change our value, to accept right of foret and right of river, right of mountain." "One grader followed by one dudley, over." "Are you monitoring?" "There' more vehicle on the way, over." "I coming, everybody up." "Hutle up!" "We got freddy!" "The Foret Service ha road into thee area o they can protect it, and do what they can, but they can't do that if thi road i closed." "And unle you move you can be cited for blocking, diorderly conduct, blocking a public highway i a crime in Oregon, and you can be phyically arreted." "Are you willing to go?" "The kind of moral weight of the detruction of the lat remaining ancient forest of thi country demanded a repone with imilar moral weight." "What that mean for me now, i to jut it here and for a period of day, week," "I don't know-maybe more than a month- stop eating." "I pent a lot of time up at Warner Creek jut letting that place pa it power along to me and I'm jut going to keep remembering what Warner Creek i like, and when people ak me what they can do I'm going to tell them" "why don't they go up and take a look and bring back a memory for me." "Yeah, the weather i really beautiful." "All that wa here wa the Foret Service gate, which we've modified a bit." "Thoe ign ay Cacadia Free State now and their foundation have been reinforced a bit." "We don't know how long we're going to need to be here, and whether or not i now or rain or jut cold-we need to be comfortable here, becaue thi i definitely where we're living, we've been here for everal week now." "Oh, thi i a really big ditch." "Baically the area ha been taken over a Cacadia Free State to top logging truck from coming in and ome folk have baically put ditche in the road to top the logging truck from coming in." "I pretty impoible for vehicle to drive around the cable without bumping them or dilodging them which would probably bring me to my death." "We hope that the Foret Service care a little more about human life than they do about animal life or tree life or plant life." "We got a couple more hovel and one more pickaxe." "From the Midwest, you don't really... you're not here and you don't know all the detail." "Lat night we had a meeting and I learned a lot of thing and it wa a little bit overwhelming." "Well, the Foret Service i being directed by the Congre, the problem i the Congre." "They have no intention of repreenting people like me." "No intention of repreenting other living creature out there, no repect for that." "They repreent indutry and multinational corporation and urbanite, I gue- not even urbanite, jut money." "Money." "There are a lot of women involved in the environmental movement." "Maybe part of it i balancing out wha been happening in our ociety for o long, with a patriarchal ociety ruling our planet, and I think the women are coming back now and tanding up for the earth." "I don't think i olely women, i women and men, but i good to ee that there are a lot of women out here getting active and taking part." "I love the foret, I love the foret, I love the earth." "I'm one of the people, like everyone ele right now, who live in a time of crii." "Thi war againt the earth ha been going on for hundred of year and we're getting to a point where, maybe i alway been thi point, where people have to ay no, enough, enough." "You know, i ad that people have to do thi." "Tha the bottom line, I think." "So we turned back the bulldozer, Warner Creek wa being protected." "The ongoing blockade wa ucceful and people tarted to realize, though, that there were a lot of other foret that were being cut while we were up there at Warner Creek." "So we decided that if we could jut get ettled in enough at Warner Creek and protect that place trong enough, we could tart to branch out to other place." "But for me, I jut needed to keep itting down at the Federal Building on my juice-only fat and continue to tell the tory form there." "I day 15 for me and I feel really trong." "I don't intend to kill myelf and I hope I don't do myelf any permanent phyical damage, but I want to go right up to the edge of what that would be." "I'll liten really carefully to what my body ha to ay." "I want to send a message to Congress and Congress doesn't listen very easily, o that could take me a long time." "So I'm jut going to be here a long a it take for Congre to hear, and try to keep myelf around o that I can keep working on thi iue with a trong body and mind after thi hunger trike i over." "I've pent a lot of time up there directly and I've alo pent a lot of time carrying upplie and people back and forth." "People are prepared to go to jail, people are riking their peronal afety to ome extent and I think they're prepared to take it further than i been taken up to thi point." "Violence i omething that really wouldn't erve anybody, it would be very counterproductive unle people realize that we can't tand up to the kind of aault that we'd bring down on ourelve if anyone i thinking about uing violent method up there." "The conervative, the Republican and the indutry are frutrated and angry- they can't believe that nothing' been done to move u." "It tarted with the indutry pokepeople, Wie Ue, and ome of their cohort in Congre have taken u up." "And they're trying to pin thi dometic terrorit label on u and a lot of people will hear that and be confued- and damage to the road i certainly not terrorim." "Not like being beat up or having your pet killed, or having your houe or your car blown up." "Thee thing happen to environmentalit quite often, there' a lot of documentation on that." "Society i jut falling apart in o many way and i o evident to o many people, and I think when people will come to Warner Creek they feel empowered with the way to repond to that in a poitive way, and I think people will come in," "and when they do cro over they can intantly be a part of omething." "Their importance i meaured on how much gumption they are willing to put into something, not some hierarchical structure where they jut get buried at the bottom of ome ma organization." "Going up against a government with truth, man, is just a truth issue, there i no way around it- they can't confront u on anything 'caue there i no truth on their ide." "They are out there being the frontmen for the greed machine." "They are not going to be able to jut bruh thi one under the rug:" "They are going to have to tand up and accept the fact that they've sold out the people and they are going to have to anwer to that." "It tarted down below u, came up over thi ridge, and proceeded down on the other ide of the ridge, 9,000 acre total including about 3,000 the government burned." "[demonstrators on roadway]" "Thi little inconequential-looking bit of stuff here thas growing on the side of the tree i a pecie of lichen that ha a critical role in providing nitrogen for the foret." "Thee guy don't tart to develop until the foret get to be about 100 year old, and then they actually take nitrogen out of the atmophere and fix it into a form that plant can ue." "If we continue to tree-farm we loe habitat for thee lichen, thee nitrogen-fixing lichen that are adding nutrient to the oil." "What you ee here i a ma of fine feeder root that are covered with thi little white cotton material in here, and tha what oil cientit call mycorrhizal fungi- i a mutually beneficial aociation between oil fungi and the root" "of the plant that increase the ability of the plant to take up water and nutrient, and in return, the giant foret tree feed ugar down to thee fungi." "When you remove the above-ground vegetation and clear cut, you diconnect thee from their ource of energy and therefore the complex web of interrelationhip that happen below our feet in the oil collape." "So we can tell that thi tree urvived a life-threatening fire when it wa young, but then a it get larger and larger, the bark become thicker and thicker and become more immune to fire, so the subsequent fire that wept" "through thi area probably didn't even car the tree." "We're killing mother earth, i me tha doing it, i you tha doing it." "We're doing it becaue of our conumptive lifetyle, becaue we've been taught that the appropriate way to live i to define your peronality and who you are by the acquiition of thing that you have, o you have a real hard time knowing any other way to live" "than acquiring thing and defining yourelf by more, more, more." "So tha the firt thing we need to do, we need to admit it, with each action you take, you ak yourelf," ""What are the conequence of what I'm doing and i what I'm doing, utainable?" "If everybody on the planet had the opportunitie that I have a an American and they all exercied thoe opportunitie the way that I'm exerciing them, could we utain them on into future generation?"" "If the anwer i no, then you're in a tough place becaue what you have to do i you have to grieve a you're going through the action of your day." "The current raging iue i the Sugar Loaf timber ale which i jut one of everal of thee horrible timber ale that will generate four to five thouand truckload of log." "Second thing we have to do i non-participation, and I'm talking about a maive non-participation in thi conumer ociety." "I a complete redefinition of culture, what we wear, what we eat, where we live, how we tranport ourelve." "We need a complete redefinition of thi culture." "Don't feel like you can come to a rally, cat the right vote and i going to change." "I going to change when we all change." "Thi i inane, i o ad to me that people have to come and get arrested to take care of the forest thas in our backyard." "I just ridiculous." "But now we're faced with pecie extinction." "Extinction is not death, extinction is the end of birth." "It doesn't come back ever." "I becaue of that that we're purred onto an additional thing that we have to do, and that i where we find unjut, unrighteou law, we have to break them." "So the third thing I'm getting at here i civil diobedience." "I ask you to hold off the timber beast as long as you possibly can, and cot them a much money a you poibly can, till they arret you." "We're the future, but the way things are going, future America is going to be desolation," "These are the brothers and sisters, thee are the comrade that are going to help ave thee place." "We need to get to know each other and let this fast be part of what bind our community together, becaue i going to take a lot of trength and you're going to need to feel that trength down in your gut a you tand up for what you believe in," "a your tanding up for thi life other that human life, and a you're tanding up for the future generation." "Thank you very much." "[Sugarloaf was cut.]" "[Hunger strike, day 45]" "Direct action does more than actually stop the falling." "We didn't top the falling that day, but we created an incredible public event and when we create thee public event and we how a American, a human being, we are willing to take a tand and ay, enough i enough," "and we practice thi meage that enough i enough, no more raping of thi land, in a nonviolent way, we put preure on the politician of America." "Thi i a true people' movement we're organizing and we are going to go down there and we're going to try and top thee ale from happening." "You guy need help with omething?" "[Umpqua Timbe Sale]" "Well, what do we got?" "Hugger, huh?" "Hey, all right." "Get their licene number." "1994 at the Winchester Dam they counted one fish, and now they figure that there' le than one hundred wild almon left in the Umpqua where there ued to be ten of thouand." "The BLM and the Foret Service are detroying the tand that feed thee tream, and what they're going to feed thee tream i lit which i going to kill off the last cutthroat trout and the last steelhead." "You wouldn't cut with u down here, would you?" "Yeah, I would." "Hey, pleae don't cut that tree with u down here." "Hey, I'll tell you guy omething- I'm colorblind and I can't ee very well, o if I happen to get one of thee on you, it wouldn't be my fault." "Don't cut that tree down, there are tree in here that are very old and you don't have a right to cut them down." "If two hundred and fifty million people knew thi wa going on, this would be topped in a week." "Can you jut tell me why you're chained up here today?" "I'm chained here today becaue I've done it all." "I've done petition, I've collected potcard, I've met with public official," "I've lobbied, I've talked to people on the treet." "Nothing upon nothing i working." "Thi i the lat tand, and I'm taking it." "[car blocade]" "Are thee vehicle going to be moved with people pinned under them?" "If we have to, if thas the only way we can move them, then we have to." "So these vehicles are going to be moved with people pinned under them?" "They will be moved." "I think we need to alvage old-growth tuff." "All of it?" "Well, I think a lot of it can be gone through." "And if thi in't greed, I don't know what i." "I protest." "Boom or but, the tree will go and the job will follow." "No compromie, earth firt." "[save salmon]" "[Some Umpqua timber sale were stopped.]" "We're looking for the bottom of the creek here, i omewhere down there." "[Hunger Strike Ends, Day 75]" "I feel o much protected by people een and uneen, you know I ee o many of you that are among thoe people and I jut want to ay thank you." "Eating is a sacrament." "There i no life without death and i not wrong to kill to live, i wrong to ignore it, i wrong to run away from it." "Thank you, Creator, for having thi opportunity." "And let me eat now o that I can do your work." "Tha what I would like to do right now, and thank o much." "There' ome beautiful people doing beautiful thing up here." "Welcome home, Tim." "Oh, i o nice to be here." "I'm glad to ee 70mph wind couldn't blow it down." "Hey, wha up, Tim?" "Hey, I'm way up, I think I want to get up there maybe." "Everybody that come up here i baically a friend," "I mean even if you don't know them." "They're jut totally..." "becaue everybody i doing it for the caue, do you know what I mean?" "They are all friend, you know." "Saving thee tree." "I great." "Tree are the wonderful thing of life, man." "Wha going on here i jut rippling out in a lot of different way." "Thi i where the power to ave the foret come from, i all coming from thi place up here." "And I want you guy to jut keep letting that power come through you, to let it keep working through you." "It flow from the foret and right out into everybody ele." "It i jut by giving it all up that you can have it all." "I o great that you guy are leading that, jut giving thank." "I feel o welcomed up here and it wa the knowing thi up here wa here." "I'd like to bow before I leave." "I jut want to bow to you all." "I'll ee you oon." "[forest robbery salvage is a hoax]" "We were talking about what can we do o that they can't drive around the door becaue the lock down in the ditch really uck." "In the eye of the Foret Service thi i detruction of government property, a federal offene, and ome critic are even calling thee proteter dometic terrorit." "You don't like being video-taped?" "Are you a little camera-hy?" "There are people that come up here and fire weapon into the air and hout thing at u." "There were federal agent that were up here that detroyed one of our tructure." "I that interection of the erioune- the deadly erioune- of what we're engaged in and of the repercuion of what we're doing individually and yet the repercuion of what it would mean to detroy thi place." "And jut living on that edge." "Jut leeping with handcuff around our writ, waking up with every little ound tha on thi road and wondering wha out there." "No, dude, dude, they probably want to kick omebody' a." "Hey, wha happening, dude!" "Hey, kid, how' it going?" "You got a problem, motherfucker, you got a problem?" "No I don't have a problem." "Take the walk back, baby, take the walk back." "Why don't you tuff that camera right up your a?" "Come on, come on, walk back." "OK, we don't want to ee any type of vandalim, gentlemen." "Vandalim?" "What the fuck i thi vandalim?" "Look at thi tree you jut killed, thi tree right here." "All right, would you like to have a dicuion?" "You jut killed thi... hit, look at thi- thi i green pole right there." "Tha a good point, tha an excellent point." "Nobody wa into it, no new food wa coming up, people weren't bringing up food, they were getting here with barely their live intact." "And o morale wa inking like a tone and everything like that." "But we jut at tight up here, we're jut rock, you know." "They ent up thee partie of people who were like," ""We're pulling out, any time you want to leave jut give u a ignal and we'll get you out of there and everything."" "But we jut at really tight and we were like," ""No way, we're tylin', we're tyling up here." "Come up and ee it."" "Thoe were amazing people who were willing to nowhoe five mile up a hill to pend a couple of week in a nowbound camp in the middle of a foret on a logging road." "But people tayed throughout the whole wintertime and people were tarting to realize that Warner Creek wa getting a lot bigger." "And the iue wan't jut about one foret anymore, and for u in the Warner Creek campaign, it wan't jut about foret anymore- we were tarting to look at the way our whole ociety wa organized" "and the way we a individual related to the land and the way we related to each other." "And in that time at the Warner Creek campaign, a lot of the women were looking at the way men and women are raied differently in thi ociety and the way men are afforded a privilege, many privilege," "that women aren't afforded." "We live in a patriarchal ociety, and we're all conditioned to act that way." "It wa true in the foret campaign." "Men were the one cutting down the foret, men were the one profiting from it." "It wa a man in the White Houe and motly men in Congre that were making thee law and when we broke thoe law, it wa motly men that took u away to jail." "But it wan't jut true in the maintream ociety." "Within our own campaign, the poition of men and women were quite often different, and women didn't like it and had to fight againt it." "Men were motly the one holding the video camera and men were motly the one that tood in front of them and talked." "And every ingle meeting that we had, every ingle action that we planned and carried out, there were alway iue of male dominance that had to be looked at." "And a much a they were trying to make u look at it, a lot of men had a hard time focuing on that iue." "There wa a lot of pain in our camp, there wa alway the excue on the men' ide that the foret were falling and that we could look at our deep-eated pattern later but we needed to get out into the foret and addre that iue now." "[Ollala Timber Sale]" "We don't mean any bad toward you guy, we're jut trying to watch out for our brother the tree." "Get that camera up here!" "Get him on film right now, man!" "He' not turning it off, he know omeone' locked under." "There' an old woman, he' eighty year old, locked to the back of your truck." "Don't move your truck." "Shut your truck off, man." "There' an eighty-year-old woman locked to the rear of your car." "Get thoe flare et up." "Let him know, Dot i here." "Somebody tell him." "Will you go talk to the driver?" "I want to be ure that he i getting the right meage:" "That thi i an act of love and it ha nothing to do with him." "I caring for the tree and people, and all being." "I know that there are a lot of hot feeling in town, and I want to be quite honet about it - thi i a very controverial rally, i a very controverial ituation." "And, intead of the occaional death threat and thing that we've had," "I invite thoe people who diagree with u to be honet enough to come and talk to u." "The Foret Service has an order here, signed 192, closing it." "And so, anybody that does violate it will be arrested for tresspasing." "And we undertand what we're doing here." "We're going to have the opportunity now to have one more ong to help u build our trength from Quiltman." "During thi ong I want you to feel inide yourelf how far you're willing to go today, ak yourelf the quetion:" ""If there were a 100 people walking acro the line today, would I be one of them?"" "And then after Quiltman get done, le put up our hand and ee who would be willing to be one among a hundred who cro the line today." "For my mother, my elder, and my on." "say it aint so, smokey." "They can't arret all of u." "Le all go for it, the Albany jail i a tiny little place." "Thi land i your land, thi land i my land, from California to the New York iland, from the redwood foret, to the Gulftream water, thi land wa made for you and me." "You are trepaing." "If you cro the line, you will go to jail." "Your attention, pleae." "Thi i the police." "The area directly in front of you i cloed by Foret Special Order #192 of the Willamette National Foret." "If you proceed any further you will be under arret." "There' more of u than them." "Help, he' haraing the pre!" "We have a right to be here, and until all America want to tand up and try to ave thi place, then they're jut going to keep on cutting." "What do you think about what all thee kid are doing?" "I think they're getting a good tate of hitory, jut a they did 30 year ago in Miiippi when I wa watching." "Same iue, i a fight againt evil." "I evil to lynch black people, and i evil to cut thee tree." "ollala was cut." "hoxie was cut." "red 90 was cut." "Coming to you from high up in the tree, from a platform above the main blockade." "We got water up here, we got a battery, a charger, unglae, cable, carabiner, leeping bag, blanket, rope, food tah." "We got a zip line, notice thi, goe all the way down into the foret, where we can zip video caette to runner." "We're living in a very important time right now, we knew thi a long time ago, in ceremony, they told u thi wa going to come." "We have to learn to reconnect with nature and nature' true law." "Natural element that are here:" "The earth, the wind, the fire, and the water." "Thee are the gift that the Creator ha given u, and without any one of them we couldn't urvive." "I important that you're here." "And what you are doing here." "We hope that you will tay trong." "No matter what they try to do to you phyically, you tay trong piritually and they can't harm you." "Any change that we're going to create i going to come from that way, and we need to undertand that." "What started a just an initial, one-lockdown scenario on a road up at the gate to halt the Foret Service, ha now turned into an almot year-Iong roadblock, which ha grown from one lockdown to over 15 lockdown ituation," "and at leat, I'd ay, 500 people to 1,000 have come up here and camped." "And we've had all thee big-hot media people, we've had newpaper." "We've had chool kid, prep chool from Vermont come here to do all-night watch hift for u with their teacher." "I really been an inpirational place for activit all over the country." "that summer, free states erupted on roads in southern Oregon and Idaho." "[road use restricted]" "the road ends here - usfs straighten up your act" "keep it wild sacred ground" "Only way they can get me out is to break my hand off." "on july 1, 1996 the Clinton administration bowed to pressure and withdrew hundreds of "salvage" timber sales but not the blocaded sale at Warner Creek." "So we went to town to find out why." "I was trying to come in and interview somebody, I'm with the press." "No." "No?" "He ay the building i cloed a long a there are proteter here, although he i not ure how you define a proteter." "I it omething other than a citizen?" "Wait a minute, wait a minute... whatever." "If you are coming in here a a ingle individual who ha a big wad of money in hi back pocket, and want to take ome of your tax money from ubidized timber, the welcome mat i out." "If you're coming here a jut a regular citizen, a a large group of people, who repreent what mot American want, they don't have any time for you." "I don't think DeFazio i in town, but he ha taff, they can call him." "Right." "He ha clout, i not a bad idea at all." "Hello, in certain place our federal government ha been neglecting u." "We went over to the Foret Service, and they locked the door on u." "They never!" "They did." "Well, I'm Libby, who are you?" "I'm Jan, and thee are jut concerned people." "Come on in, can y'all fit?" "So folk, thi i Jeff Steer, he i Legilative Director for Peter DeFazio, he' in Wahington D.C. Right now talking to u." "Warner Creek ha gotten the attention of the Preiden Chief of Staff, Leon Penneta." "What, baically, people are eeing today i that we can tart getting ready, in our mind, to leave the blockade." "We jut want to make ure that there i enough attention around thi now, that ome lower-level people with a lot of machimo want to go up there and tart trying to develop arret o that they can feel better about thi whole thing" "when the political deciion i to protect thi place." "OK, all right, thank a lot, Jeff, bye-bye." "Folk, thi i great new, thi i the firt time any of u have ever heard that there wa actually a proce in place to top the logging, within the adminitration, at the Warner North ale." "So, to hear from a legilative aitant that thi i now probably what the adminitration i going to do i the mot eriou indication we've heard yet that we're going to ave thi place and they're not going to get one black tick." "Warner Creek i going to make our mae really grow, 'caue people like to be in on a winning thing." "I a little bit cary hanging out in the wood, a little bit cary facing down the freddie, but when you've got a victory and people can ee that it i actually going to make a difference..." "But we houldn't take down any of the fortification, or any of the..." ""Sign of human habitation" i the word we're uing right now." "The wall acro the road and the lower blockade are the big quetion." "[deal may end long standoff]" "Welcome to 300 day of active reitance in Cacadia." "When I was a kid, I'd watch protester on TV, and be like..." "I'd alway be on their ide it would eem." "And then, jut being here doing it i jut great." "[not one black stick - save warner creek]" "Give yourelf to love, if love i what you're after, open up your heart to the tear and laughter, give yourelf to love, give yourelf to love." "I o tight." "Well, you don't want the freddie to yank you apart." "Lockdown in progre." "And from thi day forward, I will commit myelf to repect and defend all thing wild and free." "I'm a miniter and I gue I have to make it official" "Keley, congratulation, your parent are now married." "I'd like to make an announcement." "We all jut committed to thi place and to Warner, and, um, people are deperately needed at bae camp." "And, you know, I think until we ee paper on thi place, aying that it i aved, we need to keep that place up." "And there i one peron there right now." "There i about to be two more if anyone want to come with u." "I the reponibility of the entire community here, and, I'm kind of bummed that nobody thought about u." "[On August 16, 1996 Thomas Creek Lumber had not signed papers to [ release the Warner Creek timber sale.]" "[footage by U.S. Forest Service]" "Thi i a lockdown." "Yeah, tha the door." "You got your arm down in the ground?" "Ye." "OK." "Are you deciding to come in here and cut?" "Nope." "We're jut going to get our road cleaned up." "I thi place going to get cut?" "Nope." "They cancelled it." "The paper wa-you may not believe me- but the paper wa igned yeterday, and that i the honet-to-god truth." "Yeah, we were hiking in, trying to ee if there wa anything we could do to help, and we aw a bird come flying in, landed about fifty feet away, and Io and behold, it wa a potted owl." "And it would look over at the blockade and look over at u." "We were totally honored by that animal' preence and that animal honored u by coming o cloe." "It wa almot a if it had ought u out in the wood." "We didn't jut happen upon it, it ought u out." "OK, a a federal law enforcement officer, it i my duty to inform you that you are in violation of special closure number 208, Warner Creek." "You are now given five minute to leave the cloure area." "If you do not leave you will be arreted for criminal trepa." "You have five minute to get out of here and you have actually le than five minute." "OK, well, I'm not concerned about that 'caue I'm not leaving." "All you need to know i that thi whole thing i cloed, the roaï cloed, we could arret you right now." "Why not, if you are o concerned about thi, and the ale ha been cancelled, bring u the proof..." "Becaue we could not get, we couldn't get it in writing." "We're not going to be able to get it writing, u, on the ground, peronally, for a few day." "Thi i the government." "How do we trut thee people?" "You've got to." "'Caue we need proof that you will be allowed to get out, and into town." "Are they gonna walk him down or do you want me to walk him down?" "Y'all don't want the media to know about thi, i that wha going on?" "That probably ha a little bit to do with it." "[The reporter and the photograph from the register guard hiked here to get their story, and this is their fate." "they are handcuffed, and all their gear is being searched and seized.]" "You're hurting me-that hurt!" "That hurt!" "Get away from me!" "[wildfires destroy green forests]" "Right behind you i, you know, the wall, um, what did that repreent to a lot of people in the Foret Service?" "I, I don't know." "What did it repreent to you, did it repreent more than jut a blockade, or do you know what people were trying to do when they put up that wall?" "I never really thought about what it repreent to me." "Really?" "Didn't give it much thought." "OK." "For over 11.5 month, all people, all being were able to come freely to hike and enjoy the plendor of that magnificent foret." "My brother and iter could tand with me, growing, wild and free, in the high Cacade." "Four courageou, trong, paionate women locked down to concrete barrel on that road to defend me and all my relation." "Right now, we've got the inide word, live direct from Tim Ream, and then we are going to take the treet and march to the jail where our people are being arraigned- Tim..." "I jut got done an hour with the chief of the Willamette National Foret, and I can tell you, without a doubt, that Warner Creek i not yet aved." "Not aved!" "The thing that we have done mot effectively, more than anything ele, i make Warner Creek into a national iue." "The only thing we can put faith in i continuing our own direct action, in town, up on the hill, we've got to keep that up, we've got to keep the preure on." "We've got four iter now that have not eaten, they've been locked up in olitary confinement, they're on their fourth day." "A long a thee iter are willing to tay inide, we hould be on the outide upporting them, all right?" "So, on our way over there, we might want to jut give them a little bit of upport, their name are:" "Lupen, Raven, Hemlock, Madrone!" "Lupen, Raven, Hemlock, Madrone!" "Lupen, Raven, Hemlock, Madrone!" "Free the Warner Women, right now!" "Free the Warner Women, right now!" "Out of all thee people, you're jut going to let one peron in?" "One peron." "OK, with what voice I have left." "Thi gentleman right here i Lt. Sahae, he tell me that he i in charge right now." "He ay that at the 1:30 arraignment that i going to go on right now, one of you are allowed inide." "How many of you think that you are that one?" "So, le ee what Lt. Sahae ha to ay." "So, which one of u can come?" "I'm not going to make that choice, you have to make that choice." "There i no way... thi i a divere group of people who repreent all ort of different interet, people are here to ee different people that are inide there, people are here for different purpoe, there are member of the media..." "I the contitution, they have a right to public trial." "We're tired of ecrecy." "Thee people were arreted in ecrecy, the pre wa arreted, their notebook were conficated, their film wa conficated." "They were arreted in ecrecy, they hould be tried in public." "I have a directive from the judge that no one of the proteter i now allowed into the courtroom." "We're not proteter, we're here to witne." "Family!" "Friend!" "Tha the information I have." "Wha a proteter?" "I a violation of our contitutional right." "Thi i uppoed to be a public trial." "Thi i a notice, you are, ehhh, you are in a poition of imminent arret." "No jutice, no peace!" "No jutice, no peace!" "Come on, everybody!" "Everybody in!" "Come on." "No buine a uual." "No buine a uual." "Cacadia, riing!" "Cacadia Free State!" "Cacadia Free State!" "Non-violence!" "Non-violence!" "Non-violence!" "Non-violence!" "No violence!" "No violence!" "No violence!" "Thi i no violence, right here?" "Arret them, don't beat them up!" "Arret them, don't beat them up!" "Arret them, don't beat them up!" "Arret them, don't beat them up!" "You ee it?" "Keep getting thi hit, man." "[five days later, with activists still jailed, news came from washington.] So, wha going on at the jail right now?" "Sis ha entered the jail at thi time, he' going to convey the pre releae that wa jut handed down from a gentleman from the Register Guard, came out at 2:30 pm." "Slow down." "Uh-huh, about what?" "Augut 23rd." "Wha going on?" "That Thoma Creek agreed with the Department of Agriculture to release the sale for a cost of around $475,000." "[we won]" "[warner creek was not cut.]" "[boundary clearcut] [we will never let warner creek be cut.]" "wild ecosystems are being destroyed around the world right now." "Stop them!" "For updates, action opportunities and further information..." "I it omething other than a citizen?" "How many of you think that you are the one?" "This is the last stand, and I'm taking it." "special thanks" "We cannot begin to list all of the couragous and kindhearted people who first saved Warner Creek and then made this film possible." "gratitude abounds." "[copyright 2000 all rights reserved pickaxe productions because we dont trust the fuckers]"