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Another update. Last night the Earth First Traveling Roadshow (their name not mine) spoke on campus. They showed about an hours worth of video about how to use lockboxes (metal shields over chains) to chain yourself to gates, desks, vehicles, etc and organizing tree sits. Then their spokesperson spoke for about an hour on how to disrupt logging and other "commercial explotations" of the environment. One of her main points was the importance of overthrowing the government and abolishing capitalism. While she didn't directly incourage people to destroy property, she did suggest that if you felt it was necessary, then it was ok.

They were sponsered by another campus group called Taking Responsibility for the Earth and Environment or TREE. In my opinion, they attempted to keep opposition away because very little advertising was done, most of it word of mouth between like minded people. Fortunately I found out because I know a member of TREE. I alerted a forestry professor, and we were able to get the word out to the forestry department, and about half the people that attended were forestry students, faculty, and professionals.

After the videos and speaker, they had a "folk singer" named David Rovics that performed songs like "Bush is a Moron".