However, as early as 1985, timber workers and environmentalists began to fight together against unsustainable corporate timber practices in the “Redwood Empire” of northwestern California. When long time labor activist Judi Bari joined Earth First! and brought the IWW back to timber country in 1988, real grassroots opposition began to grow in timber country. This book chronicles the early years of these struggles and how a divided community began to overlook their differences and fight against the real outside agitators: multinational corporations. The struggle is no less relevant today as multinational corporations continue to receive massive bailouts, working people struggle more and more just to make ends meet, and global warming threatens not only old growth forests, but civilization as we know it. |
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Even now, the corporate media and the employing class promote the myth that timber workers and environmentalists have nothing in common.
Location
The Vera Project art space Corner of Warren & Republican Ave N Next to the Key Arena in Seattle Center
Seattle, WAUnited States
Steve will be staffing a literature table / speaking at the 2010 Seattle Anarchist Bookfair, Saturday, August 21 and Sunday, August 22. Details are as follows:
Steve Ongerth will be speaking at 4 PM on Sunday afternoon. Details TBA. Date:
Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 10:00 - Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 17:00
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Author and editor, Steve Ongerth, will be taking a road trip to Seattle, beginning August 16, culminating at a speaking and tabling event at the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday, August 21, 2010 and Sunday, August 22, 2010, and then a return trip to Alameda by Wednesday, August 25, 2010. His tentative schedule and route is as follows:
Steve will mainly be making contact with various independent bookstores and organizers as preliminary groundwork for future full-fledged tours. |
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