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Petition to re-open Prop 8!

Christa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:59:06 GMT

Here's the link. Spread the word and rise up for equal rights!

http://www.petitiononline.com/seg5130/petition.html

*ONE LOVE*
xo
<3 ~Chr*sta

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EUREKA HIGH CLASS OF 93 !!!!!

Bamboo Dance — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:40:40 GMT

Woo hoo!

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Burning Man tix for sale, $210 each

anime — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:01:12 GMT

Bri (aka BassTard) has 2 Burning Man tix for sale.
It's 2 for $420.
Send him or me a msg if interested.

^-^

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Area 101

Arwenj — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:28:06 GMT

Heading North on 101 there is a sign that says
"Welcome to Area 101" It has a large UFO painted on the sign.
Anyone know why??

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Where is the MOD?

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:39:35 GMT

i truly think that the fraud alert put up by white rabbit is a prime candidate for deletion, she is smearing the rep of some guy shunka all across tribe she must have posted it to hundreds of tribes. it is obviously not fair to call someone a fraud without proof, also embezzlement is mentioned. whats up mod? you approve of this?

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Fraud Alert regarding North Coast Earth First! Aka NCEF! Media. Completely independent from any activist group!

White Rabbit — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:51:05 GMT

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NCEF! Media in Humboldt County Ca.(AKA NORTH COAST EARTH FIRST!), is accused of fraud and donation embezzlement. Caution! Do not support this lone wingnut's scam! Active and legitamate groups exist in the area. Caution! Do not be fooled by NCEF! Media and his fraudulent outreach. Shunka Wakan exists completely seperate from any active affinity group.

Read about how he perpetuated a lawsuit under the guise of EF! against a legitimate environmental nonprofit:

From: northcoastjournal.com/100407/...004.html

October 4, 2007

"Money On Trees"

Big cash nearly fell into Shunka Wakan's lap. Other Earth First!ers are kinda happy it didn't.

by Heidi Walters

As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, Miller's attorney Linda Mitlyng, would come out of the courtroom to join him. But otherwise, as other people and their legal affairs swirled around him in a warm, odiferous bath of humanity, Shunka sat alone. Or, sometimes, he stood alone, straight-spined, his small, stocky body swallowed by the huge, stiff blue suit out of which his newly shorn, razor-scraped bald head poked vulnerably — as if, at any moment, the suit could gulp once more and he'd disappear completely. Always, he clutched a paper folder with a wolf's face on its cover.

The North Coast Earth First! Media guru had shaved off his woolly rust-tinged brown hair and beard the night before jury selection started, after discussing it with attorney Mitlyng. Now, it took an uncertain moment to recognize him. Then, of course: Shunka's light blue eyes in the pink-pale face, Shunka's closed-lip smile, Shunka's trademark husky murmur, "Mm-hmm, for sure," in response to a comment.

In Courtroom 3, the amiable but no-nonsense Judge Christopher Wilson's domain, the fate of a $185,000 donation dangled. Would the plaintiff, donor Kathryn Miller, prevail in her claim that the defendant, the Trees Foundation, was not in fact the intended recipient of her generous gift? That Shunka Wakan's NCEF! Media Center and the treesitters were? Or would the Trees Foundation convince the jury that, in fact, the money was intended all along for Trees, with no instructions attached for funneling it elsewhere?

Richard Idell, left, who is defending the Trees Foundation against a lawsuit filed by Kathryn Miller, confers with Doug Wallace, community support coordinator for Trees. Photo by David Lawlor.

In her opening arguments, Miller's attorney, Mitlyng, said the case came down to "fraud and broken promises." "She believed [Trees] would hold [the money] in trust, for the benefit of North Coast Earth First!" said Mitlyng. The defense's attorney, Richard Idell, countered in his opening argument that the donation was an unconditional gift and Miller never wrote letters of instruction — as Miller claims she did. "Ms. Miller ... didn't do anything. She took the check [from her mother's estate] and flipped it over and wrote on the back, 'Payable to the Trees Foundation,'" said Idell.

Miller's claim sought the return of her $185,000, plus interest.

Out in the hallway, Shunka waited to tell his side of the story. Maybe he thought about the magical donation that never materialized, and now probably never would. Maybe he thought about the other times he'd been in this courthouse — dozens of times, along with other activists, often before Judge Wilson, answering to charges of trespassing and other forms of civil disobedience in the woods. Likely, he wondered when they were finally going to call him in to testify — it was taking forever in there. He'd even sent out an e-mail prematurely to the several hundred subscribers to his NCEF! online group erroneously announcing he would be first up to testify.

By the end of Friday's court session, Miller was still on the stand. Perhaps Monday it would be Shunka's turn. Whenever it was, he would be testifying on Miller's behalf; but he wasn't a party to the lawsuit. And in the end, after hearing all of the evidence, the jury would be determining who was telling the truth about intentions and letters of instructions. Shunka was just there to provide context and evidence in a contract dispute.

But to a number of forest activists, including a half dozen or so who appeared in the audience last Friday to watch the trial unfold, that context matters more to them than the legal questions. They say this lawsuit has placed a strain on the environmental community that could do as much damage as an ill-felled redwood that takes down other giants in its descent. They disapprove of the lawsuit, and they blame Shunka for it. And, they say, it's just another example of how Shunka has commandeered the North Coast Earth First! identity and used it for purposes that nobody else in the amorphous but consensus-driven local Earth First! movement has agreed to.

"For a lot of us, when we read about the lawsuit, this is kind of like Shunka on trial," said long-time forest activist Deane Rimerman last Friday, calling from Olympia, Wash. "And, to what extent is he worthy of that money?"

Kathryn Miller wanted her money to go toward saving trees, she said on the witness stand last Thursday. The slender 59-year-old was dressed in a pink print skirt and white sweater, with her gray-streaked dark hair pulled back into a neat, thin braid tinted slightly green. (Little did the jury know that Miller had spent the night in jail, in blue jail duds, and then had been "dressed out," in court lingo, in her street clothes before being escorted into the court by the bailiff. Miller had been arrested the week before, on Sept. 17, when she arrived in civil court for the pre-trial readiness hearing; according to the misdemeanor criminal charges filed against her, Miller allegedly had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation all hours of the day and night.)

On the stand, Miller described how she became an activist. She remembered how, when she was a child in Orinda, her mother decided to stop spraying the beautiful oak trees on their property after reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. "And then, when my son was 9, we were watching the news on TV about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown. And my son said to me, 'I wish I'd never been born. I don't think I'll get to live a full life.'"

She protested the building of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. She started a peace action group in the late 1980s in San Jose. She did nonviolent protests at the Nevada Test Site. And in 1990, she came up with some of her fellow protestors to help set up the camp for Redwood Summer, and to take part in demonstrations. She's been on and off involved in Earth First! actions in Humboldt ever since, she said, including huffing in supplies for treesitters and huffing out their garbage. She'd also, at one point, bought a condo in Arcata.

In 2004, Miller sold her condo and bought an acre of farmland, already planted with coffee, in Guatemala. She put in fruit trees to shade the coffee. That same year, her mother, who lived in Sonoma, died. "The last time I saw her was in 2003," said Miller. "She told me when she died, she was going to leave me some money. I told her I'd use it to further my work for the forest. And she was pleased, because she loved the treesitters and the forest."

Shortly after learning of her mother's death, Kathryn Miller sought out Shunka Wakan in front of the food co-op in Arcata, where he "tabled" to raise funds for the North Coast Earth First! Media office — selling T-shirts, and stickers, offering pamphlets, accepting donations. She'd known Shunka for about five years, she said.

"I said to him, I was going to inherit some money: What was the best way to get that to the North Coast Earth First!?"

In the spring of 2005, Shunka Wakan was floating above the treetops. "I was so excited," the 32-year-old said in an interview a few weeks ago, sitting inside his tiny but colorful North Coast Earth First! Media office in Arcata, walls covered in art and topo maps — including one of Buckeye Mountain, where in 2000-2001, during the "Mattole Free State" action, Shunka and others hiked 14 miles through waist-high snowdrifts to save trees.

Kathryn Miller, he recalled, had come up to him excitedly as he walked along the sidewalk outside the Arcata Co-op and said, "I just donated $185,000 to North Coast Earth First!'"

She'd talked to him the year before about making the donation — she'd said she was anticipating an inheritance from her mother's estate, and she wanted to make a big donation to his group. He'd told her to make it through the Trees Foundation, which handled the NCEF! Media office's finances through an arrangement that had been established years ago. (The Trees Foundation is an umbrella organization formed in 1991 to assist smaller environmental groups. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit, it can accept large, tax-deductible donations on behalf of affiliates, and provide professional resources. And it can lead large campaigns, like the one to save the Headwaters Forest back in the '90s.)

Well, now she'd finally done it.

Miller and Shunka agreed to meet at Fiesta Café in Sunny Brae, so she could tell him how she wanted the money spent: She wanted, straight away, for someone to organize a mediated workshop for the local Earth First! activists on ageism and sexism, issues she thought were fracturing the movement. And, she wanted the bulk of the donation to help support the forest activists who blockade logging roads and hunker up in ancient redwoods to fend off loggers' saws.

Not long after, Shunka was on his way to have lunch with some folks from the Trees Foundation, where they'd talk about Miller's wishes.

"Our media outreach was going to get a big boost," Shunka said. "The donation would keep the EF! office going for many years. So I walked into the Wildflower Café feeling elated, thinking we got all this money."

Barbara Ristow and Doug Wallace of the Trees Foundation were there. "I was super excited," Shunka said, "and I said, 'This is great, this big donation. Isn't it wonderful?' We ordered food, and still I'm all excited, talking about the money, but I notice they're looking nervously at each other. [Finally], they said, 'Well, we're just shocked that you think this money was for you.' And I was like, 'I just met with the donor, and that's what she said.' And they're like, 'Well, let's go ahead and plan the workshop and deal with that later.' I remember that, because it put me at ease."

After that, Shunka said he gave Trees a list of people he thought might benefit from the mediator-run workshop. "Some were people I knew had beefs with me, but I was willing to bring 'em into the circle and talk about it."

According to some vague accounts, the workshop was a disaster. One person who was there claims that Shunka, at one point, pounded his fists on the floor, blustered, then got up and stormed out, yelling as he walked away. Shunka says that's overblown.

"The letter from Kathryn Miller to Barbara Bristow said she wanted the mediation to be a safe place, safe to be emotional," he said. "And I think people are saying 'I freaked out.' The freak-out reports are exaggerated. It's just part of this ongoing character assassination. People say I was 'red-faced.' But my face is naturally red."

In late 2005, while Shunka was in Seattle, a friend called him from Arcata to say a woman had come by asking for the office key. She had a list of equipment she wanted to take away. The friend didn't give her the key.

When Shunka got back from Seattle, he discovered his reimbursement funds from Trees had been "frozen." He also learned about a letter someone in the NCEF! movement had circulated for signatures and then sent to Mark Knipper, who handled the Trees Foundation transactions for the NCEF! Media office. It said, in essence, "We don't want Shunka running EF!"

"I called the Trees Foundation," Shunka recalled. "I was sick, it was the middle of the winter, I'm trying to table, it's raining, it's cold. And Barbara Ristow told me, 'You just need to have a meeting [with the other Earth First!ers] and come to a group consensus on what the Trees Foundation funding should be used for."

The meeting never happened — nobody could agree to meet, said Mark Knipper, also in an interview last week. Knipper is a social worker and a long-time activist who had been the contact person between Trees and NCEF! Media. "So it ate itself," Knipper said. "And although I'm former Navy, a mariner, I said I'm not going down with this ship. So I divorced myself from it ... and signed it all back to Trees."

The NCEF! Media office was dropped from the Trees Foundation altogether.

Shunka and the NCEF! Media office never did see any of the big donation. Miller didn't even know that, he said, until she phoned him up in the summer of 2006, more than a year after she made the donation, to ask about a guy named "Jungle," who had been reported as missing on the NCEF! hotline. Miller was spending much of her time in Guatemala now, where she was raising fruit trees; after she'd made her big donation, Hurricane Stan had struck — she spent the ensuing year mopping up the mess.

First, Shunka told her Jungle was still missing. Then he told her about the money.

"I said, 'Yeah, they told me it wasn't for us,'" said Shunka. "And she said, 'I meant for all of it to go to you guys.' She sounded real upset. And I was like, 'I knew it! I knew it!'"

Shunka tried to sue Trees in small claims court, but it went nowhere.

Miller filed a claim against the Trees Foundation on Oct. 5, 2006, in Humboldt County Superior Court, seeking the return of the $185,000 plus interest so she could distribute the money herself.

And if she wins? "She may just spread it out more," said Shunka. "She's got tree planting ideas. Maybe she could buy a grove. She'd maybe not give it all to Earth First! this time. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that Trees blew for us."

On an uncomfortably hot afternoon last week, four forest activists who'd agreed to an interview for this story — Jeff, Shaggy, Sparrow and Farmer — sat on the ground at the Arcata Marsh next to a log bench on which a teeming crew of red ants worked a splintered notch. Someone had come along here in 1999 and carved a grouping of faces — bearded, grimacing, possibly mourning faces — onto the log and signed it Daniel. The carving had been drenched in red paint, and burnished by years of sitters.

"It kind of reminds me of the memorial for Gypsy," said one of them. "With the red paint."

Gypsy was the forest name of David Nathan Chain, who in September 1998, during an Earth First! action at Grizzly Creek, was crushed to death by a tree felled by an enraged logger. Farmer, actually, was there — he was just 16, but had a year of activism already under his belt. And Shunka was there — it was Shunka's first forest action.

Farmer, Shag, Sparrow and Jeff first made it clear that they spoke for themselves alone, although they participate in various forest defense affinity groups: Farmer works for the Mattole Wildlands Defense Group now, watchdogging the California Department of Forestry for new timber harvest plans, and keeping an eye on a Pacific Lumber Co. watershed analysis. Shag, who saw his first redwood about five years ago, helps keep the Fern Gully treesit village in Freshwater functioning. Jeff, who grew up in the high desert, and fell in love with the woods, works with the Nanning Creek treesit just outside of Scotia, as well as other groups. Sparrow, who was drawn to forest action because the cultural landscape was "like a folktale" he couldn't resist, is with the Fern Gully affinity group. These groups are all part of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association, a collective with a website but no formal structure.

The HFDA sprang into being six years ago — about the time the entity called North Coast Earth First! had essentially dissolved. It would take a book to describe that drawn-out dissolution — a book of lost causes, won causes, waning media interest, Judi Bari's death, Gypsy's death, ego-spurred squabbles, interpersonal catastrophes, a war overseas, hurricanes. And while the HFDA activists might still cherish the Earth First! name — the movement — in their hearts, it's now been further complicated by what you might call the Shunka effect.

"I still feel in many ways solidarity with the greater Earth First! movement abroad," said Farmer. "But in this county, in this climate, if you say you're with the North Coast Earth First!, many people associate you with North Coast Earth First! Media."

Shunka revived the North Coast Earth First! office around 2002. And he did what previous office managers had done — tabled, put out news releases, wrote articles for other publications. But it wasn't like the old days, in the '90s, when hundreds of people were getting arrested in forest actions and the jail support phone and legal resources were in constant use.

Shunka first worked in an office in Eureka, then later moved to Arcata. He called his outfit the NCEF! Media Center. For a time, he and other "affinity groups" tried to work together. But he alienated some people. He took over the North Coast Earth First! website. He controlled the North Coast Earth First! email list of 300 or more subscribers to the news alerts. He sent out press releases on his own.

"I felt the North Coast Earth First! Media Center was a unilateral effort on Shunka's part," said Farmer. Whereas, in the old days, "spokespeople were decided on by the group. And if you wrote an article it was passed by everyone. I feel Shunka appointed himself spokesperson at some point."

Many also claim they've been subject to a lashing anger from Shunka.

"I won't work with him because I pledge nonviolence in my actions," said Shag. "I don't believe he pledges the same thing. He has exhibited violent behavior towards me and towards other activists in my presence."

"He's a bear," said Jeff, making claw-fists with his hands.

But the sad thing is, all of this infighting probably has done nothing to help the actual trees. And the mediation workshop Kathryn Miller wanted didn't fix matters. Now, there was her lawsuit.

"When I heard about this lawsuit, I thought, the Trees Foundation does not deserve to be attacked in that way," said Farmer. "There's much bigger issues that need to be dealt with — with Maxxam and old-growth logging. ...If you look at Fern Gully and Nanning Creek (the Bonanza timber harvest plan), there's hundreds of old growth acres still standing whose fate is unclear."

Shag put it more bluntly: "If [Miller] knew Shunka and wanted to get the money to North Coast Earth First! Media, she should've given it to Shunka. But if she was trying to get it to treesits and forest defense, then the money went to the right place.

"My problem is this whole representation thing. There's people in the trees — how do you know who to get the money to, to help them?"

Shunka knows that a lot of fellow activists aren't happy with his role in the donation dispute. He also knows how some people talk about him and say he's hard to get along with. "I'm just standing up for the truth," he said. "And people don't like it. To me, it feels like a small clique of people who don't like me. I feel a lot of love and support in this community."

He certainly doesn't come off right away as someone who's angry, or who lashes out, or who locks the office and doesn't let people in. Why, recently, he helped a young woman hook up with the treesitters so she could learn the ropes. (Shaggy said that's proof Shunka doesn't have direct connections with the people doing direct action; but you can't deny it's a connection.)

It's probably a bad idea to ask Darryl Cherney, one of the founders of the local Earth First! movement, what he thinks of Shunka Wakan, whose real name is Jason Wilson. (Shunka tells a story of how he was named by a Lakota medicine man on the banks of the Cheyenne River in South Dakota in 1995. "Shunka Wakan," meaning "great dog," is only part of it. There's a secret part after that — altogether, his name means "the humble man called horse.")

"Shunka's a wingnut," Cherney said over the phone last Friday, sounding cheerfully vitriolic. "I have a 10-verse song about Shunka."

Here are the last few verses:

Who's at the co-op spanging a donation
Shunka, Shunka
Who's got a lawsuit 'gainst the Trees Foundation
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka
Who's gonna keep on fighting the fight
Shunka, Shunka
With four of his friends at swimmers delight
Shunka, Shunka
Shunka, Shunka (Shunka voice: It's the last of the revolution)

There's no other word for it but "mean." But Cherney and Shunka have history — not all of it sour. Cherney said Shunka laughed when he heard the song, at least the first time.

"I met Shunka in 1998," Cherney said. "And I know he knew Julia ["Butterfly" Hill, whom Shunka had come west to find]. That was a good thing, helping Julia. That was good Shunka."

Cherney had even pushed for Shunka to go to Houston to talk with Charles Hurwitz, whose Maxxam Corp. bought out the old Pacific Lumber company back in 1985 and quickly became the forest activists' number one villain. Shunka went.

But now? "The current status of Shunka and me," Cherney said, "is that Shunka has sent me five or eight or nine e-mails threatening to sue me. Shunka is a joke."

Cherney can talk for hours about the problems he's had with Shunka over the years. His main point, though, is what has Shunka done for the trees lately?

"My question is, where's your topo maps?" he asked. "Where's your wilderness preservation proposal? Where's your lobbyist team in Sacramento?"

It has to be that, on some level, even the people in the movement who don't like Shunka understand somewhat where he's coming from. So he's emotional. Passionate. Perhaps he's caught up so completely in the cause he can't let go. Or, who knows — maybe he's a phony, like he accused Knipper of being back in 2005.

But being a forest activist comes with perils beyond the obvious physical ones.

"I'm really trying to have compassion for Shunka, even though he's kind of attacked us," said Susy Barsotti by phone from Laytonville a couple of weeks ago. Barsotti is president of the Trees Foundation board, and she says the lawsuit has held Trees hostage, unable to function fully. "I've been mystified and dismayed that he's participated like this in the suit. But Shunka witnessed Gypsy's death. And I think he may have post-traumatic stress syndrome. I don't think he's recovered from it. And that can affect your behavior."

A number of people mentioned this, actually, about Shunka. And he often refers to Gypsy's death himself. In an article titled "What Luna has taught me," posted on the website of Julia "Butterfly" Hill's organization, Circle of Life, Shunka writes: "I decided to commit to doing ground support after witnessing the death of David Nathan "Gypsy" Chain on September 17, 1998 ... I remember looking across the valley as we hiked up that day, seeing the rolling hills of forests and clear-cuts, and thinking out loud, "That's why we're here!" Seeing Gypsy's life taken from him, and then seeing the corruption and lies of the Humboldt County Sheriffs ... really opened my eyes to the situation our old-growth forests face."

Later, he did ground support for Hill in her second year in Luna. And in the same article on her website, something else Shunka writes indicates how ready he was to devote himself to a cause: "Being on the support team was the top priority in my life, and I was happy knowing that everything else revolved around when I'd be needed for the next supply run. I never felt lost because I knew what I was doing. That was a feeling I had not felt in years, between feeling dissatisfaction with life in college, and then more dissatisfaction with life as a minimum-wage worker after college. Before joining Julia's ground support team I was unhappy, even to the point of tears, wondering if my entire life was going to be a minimum-wage nightmare ...."

Pure devotion, without benefit of a little hypocrisy, could drive anyone batty. Deane Rimerman, the activist from Olympia who said it is Shunka who is on trial, said it's not uncommon for intense, stressful movements like Earth First! to produce an army of walking wounded. And he's been around, in forest actions up and down the coast, for long enough to know; he was the one, in fact, who "got the maps and led the first hikers up to the hill" to the Gypsy Mountain campaign and Luna treesit.

"In the forest activist movement, there's very little that's rewarding," Rimerman said. "There's a lot of post traumatic stress syndrome. All of us get it. Once you've been through the court process, and the jail process, and seen 1,000-year-old trees get cut down that you really cared about and thought you could save — it's devastating."

That alone, setting aside the troubles with Shunka, could explain the many rifts that have occurred within the local EF! ranks over the years. Josh Brown, who moved to Humboldt in 1995 right before the peak of the Headwaters campaign, said one of the unique qualities of Earth First! is that it "is primarily a youth movement."

"A lot of people that come through are young, are passionate — and it's a wonderful thing," he said. They get thrown into leadership positions quickly — and then they get burned out. Many move quickly on to other things. Brown stayed in longer than most. "When I left [in 2001], I was 30 years old. And I'd been a full-time activist since I was 18."

Paradoxically, said Brown, the youthful draw and the departure of seasoned activists leaves the movement with "no elders to kind of sit around and coach the [new kids]."

The movement also draws strong personalities, he said. Tenacious ones, too, like Shunka's.

"Shunka, I think he really does have a big heart," said Brown. "And I think he does care for the forest."

Last Friday, following the morning session of Miller v. Trees, a group of the Humboldt Forest Defense Association activists stood on the courthouse steps talking. The door opened, and Shunka walked out and down the steps toward the group. They didn't greet him. After a time, he tried to talk to one of them, Jeff. Jeff walked away. Shunka followed him, then stopped and talked to another guy. Then he stood alone again.

From: northcoastjournal.com/101107/...011.html

"Trees Foundation Wins"

October 11th, 2007

The jury in the civil case Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation decided in favor of Trees, after deliberating all day Tuesday. (See "Money on Trees," Oct. 4).

Miller is the long-time forest activist who inherited a bundle from her mother and then signed $185,000 over to the Trees Foundation. In her lawsuit, she claimed she had intended the money to be passed through Trees to one of its affiliates, North Coast Earth First! Media, run by Shunka Wakan. She claimed she had made her intentions clear, verbally and in writing, and that Trees had agreed to the conditions, then broken its promise and kept the money. Trees denied making such promises, and said it had never seen any letters or heard of instructions to give the money to NCEF! Media. (Also, somewhat relatedly, in criminal court on Tuesday Miller pleaded no contest to charges that she had made annoying phonecalls to Barbara Ristow of the Trees Foundation.)

So, that's that. Now, there are only the pieces to pick up.

For Shunka Wakan — featured in last week's Journal as a central figure in a messy nest of infighting that has fractured the current ranks of local Earth First!ians — it could be a long, lonely patching together of lost friends and broken alliances. Not only did he and Miller lose their attempt to retrieve her donation, but now he's been banned from the North Coast Co-op.

Yes, that happened last week. It was Thursday, around 4:15 in the evening, and two activists with the Humboldt Forest Defense Association were tabling — hawking brochures and such — outside the Co-op. It's an activity Shunka himself has spent many a day doing in that very same spot, raising cash to pay for his NCEF!Media outreach work and other causes. And, well, these two fellows, Jeff and Farmer, were on Shunka's shit list, now. They'd spoken gently, but unfavorably, about Shunka's doings in the North Coast Earth First! arena — said he lashed out at people, said he commandeered NCEF! resources, and so forth. Here's a snippet of Jeff's account of what happened, which he sent to the NCJ in an e-mail on Friday:

"Shunka was removed from the Arcata Co-op yesterday after a scuffle with myself and another activist around 5 p.m. Well, he wasn't exactly removed, but APD was called. He was asked to leave after threatening to flip over the HFD donation table while stating he was 'like Jesus in the marketplace ...'"

Sue Coulter, manager of the Arcata Co-op, recounted on Friday how an employee walking by heard the argument and went inside to get her. "So I went out to talk to [Shunka], because it's not the first time we've had problems," she said. "Most of the time, he's fine. Most of the time, I stick up for him." One time, she said, she even called the police to protect Shunka after someone had threatened him. "But he gets into arguments. I tried to talk to him. I told him to leave. ... He was causing a scene, right by the door, and I can't have it. He refused to leave. ... I said, fine. I went into the store. He followed me into the store, and he was still yelling at me, 'Oh, now you're going to call the police on me.'" Coulter called the police, but Shunka left before they arrived.

Shunka, waiting in the courthouse for the jury verdict Tuesday, said Coulter did indeed ask him to leave and he did, indeed, refuse to. As for the HFD tablers, he said he merely asked them why they had Trees Foundation literature on their table. "I said, 'Why do you want to represent these people?'" And then, he said, "Jeff accused me of embezzling — he said this in public. He said, 'You've embezzled thousands of dollars from the Earth First! movement through the years.' And I complained to one of the employees who was walking by. Because that's serious, accusing someone of embezzling."

But Shunka said the whole thing's yet another attack on him. "I don't consider I was yelling. We were talking. I'm an emotional person, I concede to that. I speak from my heart. I don't scream at people. I would love to — but I don't."

In his email, Jeff with HFD predicted Shunka would leave town within weeks, if not sooner. But at the courthouse, even before the verdict, Shunka said he wasn't going anywhere.

"I'm just going to continue to run the Earth First! office and continue to call Humboldt County home," he said. He's also going to write a letter to the Co-op, complaining about how he gets scapegoated and booted out of there even when other people, he says, are the culprits. And, as for the Miller v. Trees case, he said, he and Miller may now take their complaint to another venue.

-- Heidi Walters

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coming cali/humboldt for 1st time...

bodhishanti — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:38:16 GMT

looking to connect with some fellow galactic wanderers.....

1heart
1luv
1dna

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Free Cell Phone

MaureenMurphy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:14:55 GMT

I just moved from the Humboldt area and my US Cellular phone does not work well here in Auburn. Unfortunately for me I am under contract until May 2008.
However if anyone wishes to take over the contract here is what you get:
A free lightly used Samsung cell phone and free activation fee.
You can even change the number and pick out a service plan that suits your needs.
I can mail you the phone and all you have to do is go into the US cellular office in town and have it turned on in your name.
Mo
707-834-6435

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Join ALBINO! Afrobeat this Saturday in Arcata!!

N-Dive — Wed, 09 May 2007 00:12:47 GMT

Its been two years since ALBINO! last threw down the "Heavy Heavy Afrobeat" in Arcata.
Get ready!

This Saturday:

SF's "Best World Music" Band,
ALBINO! Afrobeat-
The 12-piece Afrobeat bohemoth complete with 4-piece horn section, dancers, costumes, and full band choreography will be playing Arcata at an all night benefit.
Dont miss it!
full details @
www.inferknow.org

For free ALBINO! music , pics, and video go to:
www.albinoband.com

*************************
The Bay Area-based SF Weekly Music Award-winning ALBINO! is a 12-piece
Afrobeat ensemble that honors the fiery legacy of Nigerian musical icon
and political outlaw
Fela Kuti. ALBINO’s high-energy grooves and explosive stage show thick
with hypnotic percussion, heavy horns, African dance, outrageous
costumes and infectious group choreography have firmly established the
band as the West Coast’s premier Afrobeat act.

According to the SF Weekly, “ALBINO’s ass-inspiriting percussive engine
comes from a rhythm section of local all-stars; together, they form
rhythms based in the West African tradition which holds at its heart the
inseparable union of drumming and dance. Atop the band's rhythmic
maelstrom ride tightly figured five-part horn lines. The section's ‘heavy
heavy’ bottom end features a snarling dual baritone-sax yawp. This is
world music that lives up to the name.”

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Moving Back to Humbolt

Jamie — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:26:36 GMT

just wanted to say Hi all I will be moving back to Humbolt this summer

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Thrift Shops in Santa Rosa

patrickhbporter — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:43:34 GMT

Hi--- still looking for favorite thrift shops in Santa Rosa. I'll be coming down from Humboldt in a couple of weeks for a day: anybody have any favorite Salvation Army or Goodwill stores or others to browse around in? is there a district with these places? Any suggestions would be great---

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Oh how I miss...

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:28:39 GMT

...my Humboldt home...so many good times, seems so long ago now...hanging out with my family of party kids, listening to all my favorite locals DJs tearing up the tables, feeling all the love in my wide-spread circle of peeps...Tuesday night dinners, E-parties, Sunday afternoons at Moonstone Beach, biking to Mad River, nights at TJ's...if I knew you then, I hope to find you again now!

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Artist Challenge showtimes

anime — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:42:46 GMT

:) :) :) ;)

http://california.tribe.net/event/Artist-Challengeits-showtime-/california-us/00ce78f8-8938-4797-92d6-f1009050afed

^-^

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New to the area

robenglish — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:50:49 GMT

I'm going to be moving from Santa Barbara to Arcata around the 25th of June, give or take a few days. It would be really nice to connect with some new people and possibly get plugged into some already pre-existing communities so as to make new friends. Check out my profile and if you think we're compatible hit me up. If you want to know more about me I also have a myspace profile page, just search for me by my email address englishorama@gmail.com. My myspace profile name is pinko. Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you all have a wonderful day.
-Rob

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www.savebayhill.org -Northbay Burner Art Project-Corporate vs. Locals

Bender — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:12:38 GMT

The 550 acre Calvi Ranch @1001 Bay Hill Rd. (Bodega Bay, Sonoma County,CA), home to burner bredren, susainable farming, and endangered species, protected steelhead trout, and in the coastal zone is being threatened by the might of corporate giant the Dutra Goup of San Rafael. Dutra is ignoring pleas from local citizens and enviro/conservation groups,
planning to attempt to alter the Local Coastal Plan, under which "Mining and mining-related activities such as goetechnical investigations are not allowed." Visit www.savebayhill.org for info and how you can participate.(Dates will be posted on website soon)Camp now
Peace, Bender from B-Bay

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2006 Artist's Challenge.....PLEASE spread the word!

anime — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:33:13 GMT

This is a fun fundraiser, :)
with the Ink People Center for the arts.
http://www.inkpeople.org/
Each artist creates 15 pieces in 30 days.

Here are the guidelines:
http://www.inkpeople.org/news/2006ACInstruc…nsandform.pdf

Please spread the word to all artists you know!
^-^

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why did we leave humboldt county?

snottbubble1975 — Sat, 06 Mar 2004 23:12:32 GMT

there wasn't a fuckin' thing to do...

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tons of video game stuff for sale!

verinon — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:33:28 GMT

I'm selling all my Xbox and Gamecube stuff! Remember
that you can buy one thing, many things, or
everything. If you want the whole package, it comes at
a discount price: $450. All games, systems, and
accesories are in good condition and work perfectly
(unless otherwise stated). TELL YOUR FREINDS! Here is
the big list:

Xbox Stuff ~

1. $120 - Microsoft Xbox video game system (cords
included)
2. $10 each - Five Xbox controllers (the slim type,
not the big huge one). One of them is kind of glitchy
and scratched up, but the others work and look
perfect.
3. $10 - Xbox DVD remote control
4. $10 - Official Halo 2 Strategy Guidebook
5. $10 - Official Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Guidebook (for PC and Xbox)

Xbox Games (all games have their manuals, unless
otherwise stated)~

1. $15 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (this is the
version that was released before the whole Hot Coffee
controversy got big, so if you had the right cheat
device, you could access the sex minigame if you
wanted to)
2. $15 - Halo 2
3. $15 - Forza Motorsport (comes with Xbox Live Arcade
Disc). I have two copies of this game, by the way.
4. $15 - The Sims 2
5. $15 - Star Wars Battlefront 2
6. $15 - Jade Empire
7. $5 - Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack (includes 9 new
multiplayer maps that weren't in the original game,
plus some DVD-like extras)
8. $15 - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
9. $15 - Halo: Combat Evolved
10. $5 - Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1$2 (I got this
used, so it has no manual and the disc quality isn't
that great. Not only that, but you NEED an Xbox Live
account to even start playing it.)
11. $10 - Burnout Revenge (I got this used, so there
is no case or manual, but the disc quality is fine)

Gamecube Stuff (all Gamecube accesories and games are
in mint condition unless otherwise stated)~

1. $70 - Nintendo Gamecube video game system (platinum
colored; cords included)
2. $10 - Gamecube memory card (it holds about 50
blocks of data, which is barley enough to hold two or
three game saves)
3. $10 - One Gamecube controller (platinum colored)
4. $15 - One Gamecube Wavebird wireless controller
(it's a little scratched up, but it works perfect)

Gamecube Games (all games come with their manuals)~

1. $15 - Super Smash Bros. Melee
2. $15 - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

To contact me:

Home Phone: 707-826-9222

Email: verinon1@yahoo.com

Myspace: www.myspace.com/verinon

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Sharon Knight performance in Humboldt

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:06:25 GMT

Hi folks

A very special event in Humboldt County!

Sharon Knight will be performing at Beginnings in Briceland on Saturday June 17.

Sharon will lead a singing workshop in the afternoon from 3-5pm. Dinner will be served from 6pm. The concert will start at 8.

The San Francisco-based songstress has long been inspired by the fierce and passionate spirit of the Celts, and this is reflected powerfully in her music with her collection of original and traditional songs.

Call 923 4139 for more information. * See www.sharonknight.net

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ANYONE live in the CR DORMS in 1995-96!

mysticmama — Thu, 04 May 2006 03:59:28 GMT

Remember those days? a little hazy? anyway It would be great to reconnect with yall
LMK

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Speak Out - Local Rape, Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence

cerulean_moon — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 04:25:04 GMT

Hopefully you have heard a lot about sexual violence during the past couple of weeks. For most, this was probably due to the recently publicized rape at HSU or Take Back the Night activities. Other friends of mine have recently been accosted by individuals spewing sexual slander or had those close to them experience the most common types of rape – those by perpetrators who are known by their victims. Unlike allusion of the comments made by the Vice President of Student Affairs in response to the recent knife-wielding stranger rape, one category of rape is not better or worse than another – rape is rape.

Rape is also not a once in a great while occurrence in Humboldt County. It is the silence about these frequently occurring rapes that allows women to continue to feel both victimized and alone. Women who are raped by people they know often deal with victimization not only of their person, but also in their extended emotional and relational interactions. They are also more likely to feel like it was their fault, or that they could’ve done something to prevent it.

If you have a story to share, anonymously or otherwise, about yourself or someone close to you who has experienced sexual violence, I urge you to do so here or in another public arena where you feel comfortable. Hearing the stories of other women and seeing the common threads that run through them helped me to deal with emotions associated with rape and to see that my victimization was not rare and was not my fault. Men, please feel free to post your stories as well. Thanks for sharing: Silence perpetuates violence and victimization.

700,000 women are raped and/or sexually assaulted in the US each year – that is over 50 million during the lifespan of the average American. Unless you live in a bubble, you know many female victims of sexual violence.

Local Stats:
2,096 – Number of first-time callers to the North Coast Rape Crisis Team last year
1 in 12 – Men claim to have raped a woman
5% (or less) – Rape survivors who report the rape
84% - of rape victims know their attackers
1 in 4 – the number of women who will be raped in her lifetime
3,000 – number of call made last year to Humboldt Domestic Violence Services from abuse victims

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Rape at HSU THIS WEEK! Shit!

tattooshaman — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:00:54 GMT

Tuedsay evening around 7:30, there was a rape in the Library parking lot on the HSU campus. The victim is 19 years old. The asshole wore a ski mask and gloves. ANYone on campus or in the area at the time who saw ANYthing is urged to contact UPD.

Asshole. This shit does NOT have to happen!

news.humboldt.edu/Article1090.phtml

Ladies, PLEASE be aware of your surroundings. Take Back the Night is organized at HSU. Rally at noon in the quad today.

Peace

T

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goddamn i miss humboldt.

tati — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:46:24 GMT

i guess that's all i really wanted to say.

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Sometimes...

Serena — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:51:44 GMT

I miss my old friends who I worked with at Wildberries in Arcata. I used to live in Arcata on Granite Ave. between 1999 and 2000, but alas, I broke up with my fiance and decided that I had to leave, I moved to the Bay Area and now have a fantastic life. But still, Josephine? Matt? Zepher? Jimmy? I miss you all if you are still out there to listen. Maybe someday I will go back and look you all up. I miss you guys!
_Serena

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basket weaving class 2/26 not 2/19

blessedbe — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:47:40 GMT

Hi All!

Visiting Maine artisan Sarah Pavia will be teaching a decorative basket weaving class on Sunday February 26, 2006 at Star Garden Theatre Art Center from 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Join us in creating beautiful handcrafted baskets using a variety of natural grasses and recycled materials. The class costs $30 and includes all materials. This will be an awesome class! Call Star Garden at 822-1209 or Sarah at 826-1530 for more info! 1251 9th St, Arcata. Thanks for your support!

peace, love, & imagination!
danielle

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Land needed for May Goa Gill Party.

sarah_maire — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 19:28:43 GMT

Im not really the one to set this up but there has been a thread going in the NW Gill Party tribe trying to find land in Northern California. If anyone has any land or knows someone who does let me know or go into my profile and find the NW gill party tribe and post it in their thread. Gill is great and May is right around the corner! -Sarah

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Save a horse TODAY!!!

edgeofdusk — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:30:25 GMT

When I was quite small I would watch my grandfather work with his horses - my love for horses started young and has continued to be a powerful and rewarding experience throughout my life. While I write this, a group of amazing people are slogging through the knee high mud and manure mix of a feed lot in Benton City, Washington. They are working overtime on the lot and online to save a group of horses from being shipped to slaughter in Canada. The "meat" truck is coming THIS VERY AFTERNOON. Horses as meat. Consider this. Consider that $10.00, $25.00, even $5.00 can quickly become part of a miracle process resulting in SAVING a horse, freeing it from misery and terror, opening the door to placement in fostercare or adoption. Last night I pledged $25.00 for Andre (pictured here), a young draft-TB cross gelding. It was going to take $625.00 to save his life. This morning he was posted as having his "bail paid" and has been adopted. Did you dream of hoof beats as a child? Does your heart rise joyously when you take in the sweet beauty of a horse? A simple donation via pay pal will make a difference. Visit Columbia Basin Equine Rescue. Hurry. The meat truck is on the way.

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ride to SF from Arcata

infiknight — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:25:03 GMT

If anyone is going to SF tomorrow, the 3rd, and you could give one person a lift, let me know.

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Humboldt to Portland Carpool?

greenhodel — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:25:39 GMT

Anybody heading from hum to Portland before christmas? I need a ride, BAD!!

Please
Thanks yall

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what about that band called "Hunk O' Funk"?

MaloChango — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:45:41 GMT

is that what they were called? Back in the 90's. They were fun. I miss Arcata!

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Trinidad-represent!

lemonhead — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 23:05:27 GMT

Grew up in a little tourist trap fishing town called Trinidad, went to grade school there. Been back to humboldt a few times since then. Anyone familiar with the area?

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humboldt youth?

verinon — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:39:19 GMT

i made a tribe called "humboldt youth", surprised there wasn't one already. you guys can join if you want.

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love it so much I'm moving back! friends anyone?

pinkpolarbrr — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:01:03 GMT

I made a very big, bad and expensive mistake! I moved out of the Eureka area....I should be publically flogged, but I'd enjoy it too much, lol. It's been less than 3 months in Stockton, and my daughter and I are coming back to our home...feels like home to us. We lived there for about 13 years I guess. Really the only place she remembers living. (I thought I wanted to be closer to my family after the divorce...but being in Eureka means more to me. I still haven't seen my family since I've been here, sigh.)

Would like to make some new friends....

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Fire Dancers for Arcata house party

AquaticBrazillianCentipede — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:00:42 GMT

Fire dancers cordially invited to perform yr speil this weekend at an Arcata house party.

Live music, DJs, the whole bit.

Message me if you are interested,
it will be a kick.

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HSU Orientation and Shelter

Michael — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:39:35 GMT

To the Tribe –

I’ll be going to HSU for their orientation from Friday 7/8 until Sunday 7/10. They have a masters program in social work that I’ve been checking out (I’m graduating Cal this summer) and it feels like the best fit. The faculty returns emails THE SAME DAY, which is unheard of at other schools. Plus, two weeks ago was my first visit to Arcata and I LOVED IT. The nature, the mellowness, the more intimate community… Never before have I met so many friendly folk that strike up conversations on the street.

So next weekend I have the option of staying in the student dorms for $62/night. They provide meals and linens and all the amenities which I don’t need and can’t afford. I'd much rather camp out on the quad.

Does anyone know of a student cooperative house in the area that would let me stay in exchange for work/cooking/cleaning and a fair donation? I’ve been living in the University Students Cooperative Association for the past 4 years and my last home was Lothlorien (the vegetarian naked one).

Also, somebody on the Greyhound mentioned The Endeavor to shower, eat, and do laundry. Are there any other places for travelers/vagabonds/prospective HSU students on a budget?

I’m grateful for the help.

Michael

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Sunday Social!! Mad River Boat Launch Today!

BassTard — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 17:48:30 GMT

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, would ya be my, could ya be my, won't ya be....at the Mad River Boat Launch?

A day like this deserves to be celebrated, so Joe's hauling his system down to the beach, and once I get enough coffee in my bruised and battered body, I'll toss the genny in the truck, and go power it up!

Y'all know the drill! Bring your coolers, BBQ's, record crates, frisbee's, hacky sacks, lawn chairs, canoe's, kayaks, and whatever else seems fun, and come on and dance!!!

Mad River Boat Launch, the first parking lot on the right, right before you hit Mad River Beach...music start's at around 1 pm, and will go till sunset.

Cya there!!!!!

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I need a ride to sf and back jun 24-27ish

Solenne — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 21:21:30 GMT

Hi i''m in Arcata and i'm looking for a ride to SF Pride- which is jun 25th and 26th. I'm off work thurs at 1pm and i need to be back in arcata by mon at noon. A ride either direction would be great help. Thanks!

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Jason Webley in ARCATA

shi — Wed, 18 May 2005 06:05:32 GMT

Jason Webley in ARCATA
If you don't know it -you will love it
I have caught him in Blackrock and SF but maybe he wants to slum it with us this time.
May 18 - Arcata, CA
The Metro
858 G Street
(707)822-9015
7 pm - Just $5
http://www.jasonwebley.com/

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Benevento/Russo Duo

laurel — Tue, 17 May 2005 20:55:50 GMT

Benevento/Russo Duo with special guests RANA
May 21, 2005, 8:00 PM
Description: Two guys, four hands, kaleidoscopically exploding wall of sound. 15 years of history, 200 shows per annum, famous to the underground - they are Marco Benevento and Joe Russo. Well positioned to explode this year with their ropeadope debut – best reason to buy the sun. After winning "new groove of the year" at the Jammys, and collaborating with Mike Gordon on a run of shows, the duo is grooving audiences across the country. Don't miss the opportunity to see Benevento and Russo lay down jazz and rock influenced improvisation on a hammond organ and drums. Who knew such a big sound could come out of just two guys!

Location: Six Rivers Brewery, McKinleyville , , Cost: $12
Website: organanddrums.com

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Mobile DVJ Available - Final months!

DJ_Bat — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:31:45 GMT

DJ Bat here - After 2 years of DJing in Humboldt for various weddings, parties & clubs, we're packing up and moving on -

I'm leaving Humboldt end of June and am currently having a special on parties/weddings/etc for anyone looking for a mobile DJ. I bring the sound, lights, fx and a variety of tunes from trance to 80's, industrial / electro dance to dark ambient/techno and yes, even a hip-hop wedding (whoa - that was crazy).

If you have a video projector/TV, I can run music vids in the mix/your custom digital movie, etc.

Knocking off $100 - see site for details -

http://www.djpartyproductions.com/
(707) 444-7392

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Pepper Spray 8 have their day in Court in SF now thru April 21

4cc — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:41:03 GMT

HI everyone,
I am helping out the "pepper spray 8" and I hope you will come down and show your support for them, plus hear some great music:

STOP PEPPER SPRAY Q-TIP TORTURE ON PEACEFUL PROTESTERS!
CHECK OUT: http://www.NOPEPPERSPRAY.ORG

You're ALL invited to the Pepper Spray Trial!
Come witness the trial that will decide the fate of protest and chemical weapons in these times!
We need a presence in the courtroom to show support!

(****laptop owners needed on TUES. April 12. Please call 415-522-6644 if you can help with a very special task using your laptop for justice.)

Trial starts April 12th, 2005 until the end of April!
San Francisco Federal Building, Judge Susan Ilston's Courtroom 450 Golden Gate Ave. at Polk (Civic Center BART stop) 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM M-Th starting April 12
**Must bring photo ID to get in**
Call 510-835-6303 for more info

*********************
Support rally
April 18 1:30 - 3 PM
Civic Center
Speakers will include the plaintiffs and attorneys in the case, and music by Joanne Rand, Mokai, and one of the plaintiffs, Spring Lundberg. Humboldt tree-sitter Remedy will speak and Casey and Lila will join other musicians to be confirmed for this showing of support for the "Pepper Spray 8" and for an end to the torture.
*********************

plus, 2 BENEFIT CONCERTS:

SUN, APRIL 17
Musical Benefit, San Francisco CA
Sunday, April 17, 2005, 7 pm, 12 Galaxies Nightclub

David Nelson with the Flying Other Brothers featuring

Pete Sears (played with Rod Stewart, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship)
Barry Sless (Phil And Friends) and
Jimmy Sanchez (recorded with Santana)

Melvin Seals - Keyboardist and special guest

Tony Serra - Attorney for the Pepperspray Eight

Spring Lundberg - folk singer & guitarist, Pepper Spray Eight plaintiff

Noel Hewitt Tendick - poet and Pepper Spray Eight plaintiff

Mokai - folk guitarist and forest activist

Very Special Guests TBA

Chet Helms and Wavy Gravy - Masters of Ceremony

Randy Merton - Lights

12 Galaxies Nightclub
2565 Mission (Between 21st And 22nd), San Francisco CA
Venue Info: 415-970-9777

Doors open at 6 PM, Show at 7 PM

TICKETS: www.virtuous.com or at the door night of show
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Monday, April 18
Sunset Promotions Presents:
CC's Acoustic Underground Showcase (CAUSE)
www.CAUSE-music.com
Elbo Room
647 Valencia, SF, CA
Show: 8:00PM til 12:30 AM
$5-20 Sliding Scale
This month is a benefit for the "Pepper Spray 8" ancient forest defenders. Also performing: Joanne Rand, essence and Spring Lundberg (one of the plaintiffs in the pepper spray trial).
www.mokaiMusic.com
www.joannerand.com
www.essencemusic.com
www.soulsalaam.com

peace,
cc

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BELLYGROOVE*MayDay Celebration of Music and Dance

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:41:43 GMT

Tribalesque Bellydance Fusion Presents
*BELLYGROOVE* a MayDay Celebration benefitting the Business Council for Peace and Women for Afghan Women
featuring performances by
Shoshanna and the Ya habibi Dance Company
Real Hip Bellydance
Andalee
and your hosts Tribalesque Bellydance Fusion
with local DJ's
Jsun of deep Groove society
Ras Benji of One Wise Sound
5$ at the door
doors open 9pm performances start at 10pm and go all night
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BELLYDANCERS!

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Musicians/bands wanted

Josh_A — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:43:48 GMT

Heartwood graduation is coming up soon. We're having festival style music afterward and are interested in different kinds of bands/musicians.

So far we're having west african drumming and a tribal/d&b DJ... we may get another group of DJs, too. This means it would be great to have a dance band or other live music to round things out. Hey, other DJs welcome, too :-)

The setting is 200 acres of mountain hills, woods, breathtaking views. The gathering is a fairly intimate size, less than 100... AMAZING people, most of whom live together full time while at school... plus some family and friends.

In return for helping us celebrate, you would receive:
- Awesome meals from our organic whole foods kitchen (graduation dinner & dessert rocks)
- Use of the facilities (sauna, trails, etc)
- Bodywork! Lots of choices, including Shiatsu, Swedish, Deep Tissue, Polarity, and Cranio-Sacral

This will be an experience for all involved! Please message for more details.

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free ticket to variety show in exchange for help

Solenne — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 19:22:03 GMT

Please come and help out with the Circo Magnifico Variey Hour this fri sat and sun eve. You can do security- on any or all 3 nights and get a ticket in exchange for your work. We'd need you to come at least an hour before the show starts. So fri sat at 7 or sun at 5 at the Green and Gold Room of Founders Hall at HSU. You can also help cuild the set- which will be going on fri? Please come to thr grren and gold room at about 7'oclock if you can help fri or sat, 5'0clock if you can help sun.

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Going to Eugene?

emilyharbaugh — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 05:48:04 GMT

I'm lookin' fer a ride to Eugene this weekend, the 8-10th. I got treats for any driving buddies #)

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Perform in Variety Show

Solenne — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:41:57 GMT

So the Humboldt Circus was going to put on a big show april 15, 16, and 17th but due to a lack of funds and lack of commitment form people we are moving the show till fall and in its place we are having a variety show. If you would like to perform for 3-10 min we'd love it if you'd join the fun. Please contact me asap if you would like to be in it. You can also come to cirucs mon and wed from 5-7 in gist 102 at HSU. You can do music, dance, theater, you name it. Its an all ages show.

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Fire aRt and Performances fri

Solenne — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:49:04 GMT

There will be awesome fire sculptures and music and fire and non performances friday on the HSU art quad. Everything starts at 6pm and goes till about midnight. Please come and join the fun.

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Best places to eat in Eureka & Arcata??

Peter — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 07:27:27 GMT

I coming up for a visit with a friend and we will need to eat. I am Open to anything except (Indian & Chinese)

Any suggestion would be apprieciated...

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Ride to Victoria, BC Canada

Solenne — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 03:29:38 GMT

Hey i'm trying to get to juggling festival this weekend in Victoria canada- then i thought it would be fun to go to seattle, then portland. i founf places to stay in seattle and portland only now my ride can't find his birth certificate so he isn't sure if he can go. If you're up for adventure and have a car i'll pay for your gas- and get you free places to stay. Hey how offen do you get an offer like that? It would be me and a friend- i believe- but feel free to bring another friend.

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I'm Moving to Arcata and Looking for Friends

Sun, 09 Jan 2005 02:55:56 GMT

Thanks for reading! I'm 22, male, and prospective student to HSU. I'm looking for others (male,female,other) in the area or nearby who can offer advice, suggestions about Arcata and possibly living accomadations.
For more info please send me a message. I'd be happy to exchange words.

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Mushroom gathering

tattooshaman — Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:09:29 GMT

Hey there. Is anyone here in Humboldt ((I'm in Arcata) an avid fungus hunter? How about for entheogenics (you know, those mushies that bruise blue?)?

Lemme know if you're interested in going gathering. I've seen mushies popping up all over the place. Need someone to go gathering the "right" ones with.

PM me please?

Thanks,

Tom

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anyone need a ride to Arcata? I need Gas Money

Jducks — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:16:36 GMT

I need to be in Arcata/Mckinnleyville this friday evening no later than 6pm. Which means I leave Oakland @ noon friday at the latest, or anytime before. If you have the cash to pay the fuel,
you are welcome, I return Saturday or Sunday at the Latest. One direction or both your call. If it matters I'm male, 40's

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New to the area

Larry — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 04:03:30 GMT

Hello all....
I am new to the area ... living up in Eureka CA
for the time being....
Any locals make sure to say Hi or
drop me a message here...
Larry

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lookin for a ride to La!!!

Crescent M. Gaultier — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:26:53 GMT

Tryin to get down to L.A. to be with family i havent seen in awhile will pay gas!!!! sooner the better thx.

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Do I know you?

(((CoDy))) — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:43:57 GMT

sometimes you think you knew everybody in the arcata, trinidad, eureka triangle, but maybe not. I miss the 707 all the time. Ive had my same cell phone for over two years with the 707, I wont give it up. I used to work at the airport up there, so if you flew out often, you'd probably know me. Just wanted to say what up to all the people 707 refugees.

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Salons?

Josh_A — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:31:53 GMT

Anyone have any recommendations for salons in Humboldt, particularly near Garberville or Arcata?

Are there any Aveda salons in the area?

Anyone offering Elumen or Magma hair coloring?

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Reggae on the River

bishwa — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 04:12:39 GMT

Who's going to Reggae on the River This Weekend???

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Haunted House on the Plaza

Miss Tris — Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:53:13 GMT

Anyone remember the Haunted House that would be put on in the Plaza (a couple of times in the Creamery building)? Does that still happen?

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Arcata bound- 6/29

tattooshaman — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 05:50:51 GMT

Howdy. I'll be settling in Arcata finally at the end of June.

I've already rented a house in town.

Anyone know the best places for mellow hiking trails? I've got two fucked up knees and a spine injury. Walking is the best therapy I've found for the back, but with the knees, I am NOT up to climbing Mt. Shasta. Are there any mellow trails near Arcata?

What about sensory deprivation tanks? Anyone know?

Peace.

Tattoo Shaman

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lookin for a house!!!!! foreclosures?????acres?

Crescent M. Gaultier — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:45:04 GMT

hey my name is cinder im in arcata and lookin for a house with land i would prefer a forecloser buy in! thx

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Looking for Larry and Ian

ame_chan — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:28:58 GMT

Hey y'all,

I moved away from Humboldt about 10 years ago, but I was born/raised there. Lately I've been trying to track down a couple of friends who lived there, but they seem to have up and vanished from the face of the earth. Father, Larry and son, Ian, last name Ward. Lived in Eureka, then Trinidad, then who knows where...

anybody know them? anybody seen 'em? anybody know how to get in touch with them?

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some 707 news...

Hossannah — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:21:27 GMT

ARCATA -- A fight in the back of a taxi prompted an Arcata police officer to respond to the 2500 block of Alliance Road, where one woman then punched him and another had to be physically removed from his back.

http://times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127%257E2896%257E1986131,00.html?search=filter

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pictures

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:38:09 GMT

hey y'all..............if anybody out there has any pictures of our beloved humboldt, feel free to post them! any thing will do.........the outdoors, buildings, locals, events, neighborhoods, paintings/drawings, old photos, new photos............etc

:-)

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