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October 20, 2004 To Honorable Governor of Alaska, Frank Murkowski: Reluctance of Ketchikan’s Authorities to respond to the proposal of creation of a culturally and commercially developed complex (with permanently moored cruiser there), integrating the Ketchikan International Airport (KIA) on both sides of the Tongass Narrows into one, reassures my conviction that the Gravina Access Project (GAP) of spanning the Revillagigedo Island with the Gravina Island by multimillion expensive, high rising bridge(s), will not serve interest of the community of Ketchikan, but an interest of inventors of the GAP (please find the proposal, below). Imposition on the community 15,000 strong...

From Pool Guy to the Halls of Power Terry Tamminen, actor, author and tree-hugger, has held many jobs. His next: Cabinet secretary. Thirteen years ago, Terry Tamminen was a Malibu pool cleaner and part-time actor with a gift for charming influential people and a resume that chronicled more rambling than a Jack Kerouac novel. Tamminen had sold condos in Florida, managed a sheep ranch in the Midwest, helped start a bottle recycling program in Nigeria, dabbled in Shakespearean acting and measured chlorine levels for such celebrities as Madonna and Johnny Carson. His peripatetic career had taken him from California to...

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- A Canadian immigration panel began hearings yesterday to decide whether a radical environmentalist's ties to a group the FBI considers a terrorist organization will prevent him from applying for refugee status in Canada. Tre Arrow is wanted for his alleged role in the 2001 firebombing of logging and cement trucks in Oregon. The FBI claims he is associated with the Earth Liberation Front, its top domestic terrorist priority. The group has claimed responsibility for dozens of acts of destruction over the past few years and was tied to an arson fire at the University of Washington's Center...

This doll sports the clothing and accessories that a canopy researcher would wear and use when carrying out canopy research in the field. We had a tailor design clothes for a standard Barbie. We are currently trying to market this to Mattel, Inc. and other doll companies. This will present young girls and boys with a model that includes being adventurous, science- and nature-oriented, and active.

Greenpeace Demonstrators Block ExxonMobil HQ Gate POSTED: 9:46 a.m. CDT May 27, 2003 UPDATED: 11:03 a.m. CDT May 27, 2003 DALLAS -- Greenpeace demonstrators were arrested after protesting global warming Tuesday morning, attempting to block ExxonMobil's compound in Irving, its international headquarters. A statement from the environmental group Greenpeace said 45 demonstrators tried to block access to the complex, saying ExxonMobil isn't doing enough to help solve global warming. Some demonstrators were positioned across the entrance while others reportedly entered the building to serve a list of charges against the company. The move comes as ExxonMobil's board of directors and...

<p>LOS ANGELES; Hours after a judge issued an eviction order for tree-sitting protester John Quigley, authorities broke a device chaining him to a 400-year-old oak tree and peacefully escorted him to the ground.</p> <p>Quigley was removed from the tree shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday by Los Angeles County’s sheriff’s deputies who reached him in a fire department ladder that extended to his platform on the tree.</p>

LA Sheriff Deputies and LA County Fire Department are moving in with equipment to remove Tree Sitter John Quiqley. They have brought in ladder trucks and are positioning them extract the wacko from the perch he has occupied since November. Quigley has been trying to halt the removal of a 400 year old oak tree dubbed "Old Glory". The tree was slated to be removed as part of a construction project. The builder has offerred to move the oak, but activists say the oak will not survive.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU SEPT 26, 2002 14:09:27 ET XXXXX STREISAND MEMO TO GEPHARDT: 'TAKE THE OFFENSE!' Barbra Streisand has reminded Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt in a blistering memo: "Sadam Hussein did not bomb the World Trade Center." The Streisand memo, released by adviser Margery Tabankin, warns Democrats to "get off the defensive and go on the offensive." The singeractressdirectorproducer took time out from rehearsals for a performance she's giving on Sunday for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to remind Gephardt [spelled "Gebhardt" in a faxed memo obtained by DRUDGE] not to "ignore the obvious influence on the Bush...

The Green Anarchy Tour is an attempt to bridge the gap between the punk movement, the revolutionary anarchist movement, the ecological movement, and the prisoners of war that have been incarcerated for their involvement in the struggles listed above. The majority of the content encompased on this tour is from Eugene, an outpost of civilization in one of the most wild bioregions in "north america." Eugene experienced the spirit of wild chaos during a couple years of insurrection. In the aftermath, several comrades were imprisoned, several collectives endured, and what remains today is one of the most sophisticated propaganda mills...

‘This isn’t just her story, it’s our story’ Three days after timber sale is canceled, forest activist takes fatal fall from tree BY BEN JACKLET The Tribune Some of Portland’s fiercest forest warriors gathered beneath a huge Douglas fir tree in Mount Tabor Park last Sunday to pay tribute to a fallen comrade. Beth O’Brien died at age 22 on Friday, April 12, after dropping 150 feet from a tree platform in the Mount Hood National Forest. At the candlelight vigil, O’Brien’s comrades remembered her as Horehound, a Dumpster-diving, freight train-hopping, tree-sitting anarchist who died a heroic death in defiance...