Forest Conference 2004
Headwaters, 15.01.2004 20:52
Now in its thirteenth year, the conference is a vital gathering for people (like you) who care about and are interested in protecting forests, rivers, and wildlife habitat.
Derrick Jensen photo by Karen Tweedy-Holmes.
Gloria Flora
Norma Fraser
Mobilizing the Grassroots in 2004
Mark Your Calendar! The Annual Forest Conference will be held January 29th through February 1st at the Ashland Springs Hotel in downtown Ashland. Now in its thirteenth year, the conference is a vital gathering for people (like you) who care about and are interested in protecting forests, rivers, and wildlife habitat. With elections looming in 2004, this is a critical time to come together as a community and educate ourselves and others about the impacts of the forest policies that are currently in place.
Gloria Flora, well-known for her leadership in public lands management, will offer the keynote address on Friday evening. Activists will remember that Gloria resigned from the forest Service to bring national attention to persistent anti-federalist activities in Nevada, which included harassment of public land managers and their families and wanton ecological destruction of aquatic and range habitats.
Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older than Words, Listening to the Land, The Culture of Make Believe, Railroads & Clearcuts, and most recently, Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests, will offer the plenary keynote on Saturday morning.
A special feature for students is a 3 hour workshop entitled "Campus Political Revival: Breathing Life Into Student Activism" presented by the Oregon Bus Project.
Saturday night's benefit dance features the Norma Fraser Band, one of the most popular reggae bands on the West Coast! Norma Fraser has recorded at Studio One in Jamaica with Bob Marley and the Wailers, Ken Booth, the Skatalites, Delroy Wilson, and other legendary reggae performers. She is a Resident Vocalist at Club 35 in Montego Bay, Jamaica - the West Indies most prestigious club. All ages are welcome at the dance.
Come learn about issues including forest ecology, grassroots lobbying, legislation affecting our natural resources, local public land issues, how to be a more effective citizen, web-organizing, and much more.
No matter whether you are a policy wonk, student, veteran protester, mother, father, community organizer, tree-sitter or even a curious bystander, you have gifts to share that will help protect places of beauty for future generations. We welcome you to the 2004 Forest Conference to discover how much fun caring about the earth can be.
Forest Conference 2004
http://www.headwaters.org/forestconference/
Sign Up OnLine for the 2004 Conference
http://www.headwaters.org/forestconference/signup.php
Conference Schedule at a Glance
http://www.headwaters.org/forestconference/schedule.php
Detailed Conference Schedule
http://www.headwaters.org/forestconference/detail.php
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Tonya Graham
Headwaters
Executive Director
Phone: 541-482-4459
Fax: 541-482-7282
www.headwaters.org
Headwaters Mission: To protect, conserve, and restore forest ecosystems, clean water and biological diversity in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion.
Homepage:: http://www.headwaters.org
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is this a gathering of elitist enviros only? 16.01.2004 - 08:31 Mobilizing the grassroots? No matter if you are a policy wonk, veteran protester, mom, tree-sitter, dad, etc, etc? It does matter. Headwaters will not allow those who cannot pay the high fees to attend. Many dedicated forest activists in our community and our region will be EXCLUDED from this event, simply because of economics. And they say the theme is "mobilizing the grassroots." I hate to engage in mud-slinging against what should be allies, but this issues needs to be aired in our community. And my suggestion to those who are interested, but cannot afford the fees. Go anyways. Make a statement. Let Headwaters know that they cannot exclude people who are poor yet dedicate their lives to the protection of our region's native forest habitat. sapsucker> Deadwaters "direct action" 16.01.2004 - 12:40 The cost of the conference is really the least elitist thing about headwaters. Theoretically one could do work trade or apply for a scholarship. By why would you want to? Headwaters is infamous for drafting off the work of the grassroots to support a bloated budget in which only one staff member even claims to do "conservation" work. Not sure what the rest of their budget goes to, maybe their art gallery. The real elitism is the content of the conference. After completely rolling input from Ecos (actual student activists) on content last year, now Headwaters has simply dropped the student involvement altogether and replaced it with a foundation-driven agenda to "empower" the very "grassroots" that they routinely ignore. I don't think its that Headwaters consciously wants to be elitist, instead I hope its just that they get caught up in trying to be all things to all people. When they shmooze the press they want to be seen as "collaborators" when they shmooze the foundations they want to be seen as "in touch with the grass roots" and when they advertise their conference in the EF Journal they tout that the conference will end with a "direct action." Yeah right, I'm sure the "direct action" is going to kick some serious ass. If they'd just come out and say that they have no forest program, they never have been to a timber sale on the ground, and that their strength is in giving guilty liberals a way to write checks that might be used in some form of collaborative watershed projects; at least people would know what they're about. I''m off to embezle some grass roots dough and take credit for their work. Hasta, Corporate Clown Grassroots> |