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
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library 6501 Telegraph Avenue near Alcatraz Avenue
Oakland, CAUnited States
Film & Discussion, featuring:
"Starting from the very reasonable but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature." Date:
Sunday, April 18, 2010 - 10:30 - 12:30
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