One of my greatest strengths as a candidate is that I am the only one of them who has lived in and extensively worked in the entire district for over two decades. I’ve fought for our communities, coast, and forests, for sustainable jobs and security for our families. I know and have lived with the people and places of all six counties of the 2nd District.
All but one of my opponents live south of Santa Rosa in the San Francisco Bay Area. Voting for one of them is no better than voting for a San Franciscan to represent the North Coast!
Here are some of the campaigns I’ve worked on since the 1980s:
Sinkyone Intertribal Park
Headwaters Forest
Cahto wilderness
Anti-Chipboard at Masonite
Anti-Log Exports
Invented EF! campaign videography
Got us on 60 Minutes and every northern California TV network’s news, including the Bay Area and Sacramento
Darryl Cherney’s & Judi Bari’s’s road show videographer
Recorded and produced first compilation of EF! music, Battle Cries from the North Rim
Assisted on two Darryl Cherney albums, They Sure Don’t Make Hippies Like They Used To, and White Tribal Music
Now promoting Gaiabilly, a genre name I coined for Earth First! music
Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney car bombing
Bari & Cherney lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland PD
Made the official Redwood Summer campaign video, Redwood Summer: Where The 90s Begin
10,000-mile Redwood Summer road show. I was the only person going around the country refuting the lie that Judi and Darryl bombed themselves.
Forests Forever initiative
Lobbying video for Congressman Dan Hamburg’s 1994 Headwaters Forest protection bill, Headwaters Forest: Debt for Nature in California
Fighting rabid anti-environmentalist Wise Use movement
Judi Bari spoken word CD, Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Put on Judi Bari and Headwaters Forest events in Bay Area
Jail Hurwitz web master
Set up Earth First! Media Center and first Earth First! listserve, Earth First! Alert
Julia Butterfly’s tree sit
Andy’s EF!MC web site broke Julia’s story nationally and got her father hooked up with her
EF!MC got the murder of David Gypsy Chain out around the world
Country Joe & The Fish memorial concert for David Gypsy Chain at Mateel Community Center
Weekly Friday Garberville clock demos against Mike Thompson-against both wars, pushing for impeachment of Bush administration
Measure T
Liquified Natural Gas
Navy sonar damage to whales
Keep Redway post office hours
Humboldt County code enforcement
Save the Quail bus service for seniors and disabled people
Bringing daily buses down to southern Humboldt
Mateel Community Lunch
KMUD
Redway homeless shelters. Saved at least three people’s lives including two U.S. veterans.
Homeless radio show on KMUD, The Least Among Us
Taught homeless people how to use KMUD to find jobs, housing, vehicles, etc.
Brought Australian Tropical Rainforest movement founder John Seed to Beginnings
Brought political singer David Rovics to Beginnings
Extensive promotion for Jim Page concert
Brought Mike Roselle and later, the Climate Ground Zero Mountaintop Removal coal mining road shows to southern Humboldt
The Virtual Candidate project to train activists to become elected politicians
Humboldt County and California Green Party
Current projects:
Richardson Grove
Chernobyl Day rally at Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant
Emerald City, incorporation of a SoHum city
Garberville Porta-Potty
Darryl Cherney’s new Judi Bari documentary
California GMO labeling initiative & Garberville town square video series
California Repeal Cannabis Prohibition Act of 2012
Toxic algae in the Eel River
First guest on the KMUD Atheists Hour
Humboldt Grassroots newspaper
Anti-WalMart in Eureka