HEADWATERS PROTESTERS TORTURED WITH PEPPERSPRAY BY SHERIFFS [PART C]
Robert Cherwink
HEADWATERS PROTESTERS TORTURED WITH PEPPERSPRAY BY SHERIFFS [PART C]
*** PART C ***
5. OUTRAGED OVER THE TORTURE OF PASSIVE ACTIVISTS WITH PEPPER SPRAY ?
Make your opinions heard... <<<< PEOPLE TO CONTACT
6. The Jail Hurwitz Campaign, Environmentally Sound Promotions,
The Earth First! Media Center project, and Climate Action NOW!
7. Riggs accused of circulating fake Earth First! flyers;
Snip from an article in the Sonoma County Independent
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5. OUTRAGED OVER THE TORTURE OF PASSIVE ACTIVISTS WITH PEPPER SPRAY ?
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 02:04:58 -0800
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Subject: Make your opinions heard... Pepper spraying was brutal.
H E A D W A T E R S A C T I O N A L E R T
N o v e m b e r 4 , 1 9 9 7
OUTRAGED OVER THE TORTURE OF
PASSIVE ACTIVISTS WITH PEPPER SPRAY ?
Make your opinions heard...
Walter Epp compiled the following information. It should help provide a
few critical outlets for the many people who have expressed their shock
and outrage about the use of pepper spray on nonviolent protesters in an
unprecedented show of force and unusual cruelty by Humboldt County
Sheriffs. Wrote Walter...
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"I am posting this to Usenet, and will leave it up to you to take care
of whatever email and paper alerts you want to do. I have not had time to
confirm everything below. Email addresses significantly increase the
response rate to alerts because they are so much more convenient to use
than other channels, but turned out to be time-consuming to obtain (the
email server address the clerk gave me was wrong, as were the addresses
published on some web sites, the finger server apparently doesn't work,
email is apparently only handled during business hours, and the sheriff's
email address is evidently not publicly available but I was able to
figure it out). I have tried all the Humboldt County email addresses and
they went through. The Riggs info is from his web site, and the Eureka
info from the city's web site, so these should be reliable. The Sheriff's
department phone and mailing address, the Clerk of the Board's phone, and
KST phone are confirmed. Other phone numbers I got for the Sheriff but
haven't called to check out are: 707-445-7441 and 707-445-7211."
Humboldt County Sheriff Dennis Lewis
Sheriff's department
826 4th St., Eureka, CA 95501
707-445-7251
email: dle...@mail.co.humboldt.ca.us
Humboldt County Supervisors (Bonnie Neely is the chair)
[district -- name -- voice mail -- email]
1st -- Stan Dixon -- 707-445-7691 -- sdi...@mail.co.humboldt.ca.us
2nd -- Roger Rodoni -- 707-445-7692 -- rro...@mail.co.humboldt.ca.us
3rd -- John Woolley -- 707-445-7693 -- jwoo...@mail.co.humboldt.ca.us
4th -- Bonnie Neely -- 707-445-7694 -- bne...@mail.co.humboldt.ca.us
5th -- Paul Kirk -- 707-445-7695 --(no email)
Humboldt County Supervisors mailing address:
Supervisors Chambers
Humboldt County Court House
825 Fifth Street, Eureka CA 95501-1153
fax (for all supervisors): 707-445-7299
for more info, call the Clerk of the Board: 707-445-7529
Other Humboldt County officials (use Court House address above):
Terry Farmer, District Attorney
email: tfa...@mail.co.humboldt.ca.us
Rick Haeg, County Personnel Director
email: rh...@mail.co.humboldt.ca.us
Chris Arnold, County Administrative Officer
(from www.com/hpi/cacty/of000186.html)
Humboldt County Human Rights Commission
Consists of private citizens appointed by the supervisors.
contact: Larry Miller 707-269-2032 (work)
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The FBI has launched a criminal investigation of the Humboldt County
Sheriff's department. It is unclear how serious they'll be, given that
they are already the defendant in a lawsuit over their involvement in the
bombing of Earth First! activist Judi Bari, so citizen vigilance and
pressure are needed if the investigation is to be vigorous and result in
substantive action.
Louis J. Freeh, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W
Washington DC 20535-0001
phone: 202-324-3000
email: ljf...@fbi.gov or dire...@fbi.gov
Attorney General Janet Reno
Department of Justice
10th Street & Constitution Ave, NW
Washington DC 20530
phone: 202-633-2001
email: J...@justice.gov
[note from rc:
PLEASE NOTE: some of these listed email addresses don't seem to work:
<ljf...@fbi.gov> and <J...@justice.gov> BOUNCE! SORRY!!
dire...@fbi.gov SEEMS TO BE OK SO FAR -
so email your other gov't reps, too, I guess...]
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One of the incidents happened at the Eureka office of Congressman
Frank Riggs, who fully supports what the officers did, describing it as
appropriate to "protect our way of life," describing the protesters as
"terrorists," and claiming the real victims were his office employees.
Representative Frank Riggs
U.S. House of Representatives - California 1st District
1714 Longworth House Office Building
Washington DC 20515
phone: 202-225-3311
fax: 202-225-3403
email: Repr...@hr.house.gov
Representative Frank Riggs
710 E Street
Eureka CA 95501
phone: 800-481-9724
phone: 707-441-8701
fax: 707-441-8708
For Napa, Fairfield, and Crescent City local offices, see
www.house.gov/riggs/contact.htm
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One of the incidents happened at the offices of Pacific Lumber in
Scotia.
Pacific Lumber Company
P.O. Box 565
Scotia CA 95565
phone: 707-764-8888
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The Eureka police say they were present at the incident at Riggs'
office but did not do it, only Humboldt County officers applied the pepper
spray, but if you believe they should answer for their failure to
intervene, you may want to contact some of the following.
Arnold L. Millsap, Eureka Chief of Police
Capt. Bill Honsal, in charge of field operations Eureka Police Department
phone: 707-442-4545
email: eure...@northcoast.com
http://redwood.northcoast.com/~eurekapd/
The Mayor of the City of Eureka is Nancy Flemming
phone: 707-441-4200
Harvey M. Rose, City Manager of Eureka
531 K Street
Eureka CA 95501
voice: 707-441-4144
fax: 707-441-4138
(from http://208.25.166.83/cityhall/citilink/city_manager.htm)
The City Council members are: Ward 1: Maxine Hunter Meeks, 707-441-4169
Ward 2: Jim Gupton, 707-441-4168 Ward 3: Jack McKellar, 707-441-4170 Ward
4: Frank Jager, 707-441-4167 Ward 5: Lance Madsen, 707-441-4171 A message
can be left for the mayor or council with their office assistant,
Kathleen Devita, 707-441-4172 address mail to: City Council, 531 K Street
Eureka CA 95501 (from http://208.25.166.83/cityhall/citilink/mayor.htm)
Eureka City Personnel Board "...hears appeals submitted by any person
relative to conditions of employment, disciplinary action, dismissal,
demotion, suspension or alleged violations of Personnel Rules and
Regulations for the City of Eureka. They may recommend policies regarding
the administration of personnel to the Council or City Staff." contact:
Susan Christie, 707-441-4127 (from
http://208.25.166.83/cityhall/citilink/brd_comm_2.htm)
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Miscellaneous media...
Eureka Times-Standard
Attn: Letters To The Editor
930 Sixth Street
Eureka CA 95501-1112
phone: 707-441-0500
fax: 707-441-0501
no email
(from www.friendcalib.org/humboldt-friends/ may97)
Alan Stock talk show, 6 to 9 AM on KST/KSTE Radio 650 AM in the
Sacramento area email: al...@netdex.com listener dialog website:
http://netdex.com/wwwboard.1/ Host Alan Stock is filled with venom for
Earth First!, calling them terrorists, nazis, fascists, and jackasses,
claiming they have spiked trees within the last six months, they advocate
cutting the hydraulic lines of trucks so the drivers will be killed, they
support Unabomber Kaczinsky, etc., etc.
Programming Director Ken Kohl
KST Radio 650 AM
10910 Olson Dr.
Rancho Cordova CA 95670
phone: 916-858-1578
fax: 916-858-1588
no web, no email
The Michael Reagan radio talk show (www.reagan.com), carried on KSFO AM
560 (www.ksfo560.com) in the San Francisco area and other stations, also
brands Headwaters activists as eco-terrorists etc.
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Points you might consider making...
Under the American system of government, those who flaunt such brazen
contempt for the highest law of the land, which specifically outlaws
cruel and unusual punishment, will be expelled and brought to justice.
Under a regime like that of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, cooking up crack-pot
schemes of chemical torture would be welcomed and rewarded. Which system
is Humboldt County going to demonstrate it operates under by its actions
in dealing with its officers' abuse of pepper spray? What the Humboldt
County officers did was infinitely more vicious, violent, and criminal
than anything the protestors did. One of the protesters had asthma. When
the officers were warned that pepper spray could result in her death,
they jeeringly disregarded it. In other words they threatened to commit
murder. It is Charles Hurwitz who forced his way into Humboldt County
with a hostile takeover, proceeded to ransack and trash the place, and
has refused to leave when asked repeatedly by thousands of people.
Anyone, from Humboldt County to the U.S. President, who coddles this
man's operation and showers him with offers of millions of taxpayer
dollars, renounces any claim to working in the public interest. Under
the proposed federal Headwaters deal, more trees would fall than under
existing law. Anyone who claims that this deal would save the Headwaters
Forest ecosystem is perpetrating a fraud.
For details on the three incidents where Humboldt County (CA) sheriff's
officers forced concentrated liquid pepper spray into the eyes of
nonviolent protesters, see "http://www.humguide.com/pepper.html" which
has links to online newspaper articles.
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6. The Jail Hurwitz Campaign, Environmentally Sound Promotions,
The Earth First! Media Center project, and Climate Action NOW!
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The reward for info leading to the arrest, conviction and imprisonment of
Hurwitz on criminal charges has now been raised to $50,000! No, I'm not
kidding. That means cash in your hot little altruistic hands if you can
find the dirt that breaks the Hurwitz's back and puts him behind bars.
The Earth First! Media Center project will be expanding.
PS If you have a moment, why don't you dip a few Q-tips in Tabasco sauce,
then in pepper, and send them off to
Clinton/Gore/Reno/Feinstein/Wilson/Humboldt Sheriffs etc.? Is this the
radical new escalation of violence against protest in America?
Torture?!?!!! Will we turn our backs and tolerate this heinous behavior?
Or will we stop it before these police-state tactics become standard
practice across the land?
And while you're at it, please let Clinton & Gore know immediately, and
in the strongest terms, that you don't want a policy of "accommodation"
to climate change, but rather, that you *insist* on a policy of
"preventing" climate change, no matter what the cost is to the
corporations, and especially to the auto/oil/mining conglomerates! Please
send me a copy of your letter. I have a sample letter I'd be happy to
send to you if you want to see it first.
If not now, when? If not us, who then?
Andy Caffrey, Jail Hurwitz! campaign
Environmentally Sound Promotions
P.O. Box 2254, Redway, CA 95569
707/923-4949 ens...@asis.com http://www.jailhurwitz.com
Climate Action NOW!: http://www.imaja.com/change/can/can.html
"If things get any worse than this, we'll have to do something"
"They say the world is run by those who show up"
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7. Riggs accused of circulating fake Earth First! flyers;
Snip from an article in the Sonoma County Independent
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>From the Sonoma County Independent's "Usual Suspects" column (issue of Nov.
6 -12):
Darryl Cherney, spokesman for Earth First!, is outraged. He accuses Rep.
Frank Riggs, R-Windsor, of dirty tricks after Riggs this week circulated
flyers, attributed to Earth First!, that claim the environmentalists'
agenda includes supporting the Unabomber, vandalizing private property,
and confiscating private land. A furious Cherney says the fake flier has
been in circulation for a month and contains "completely erroneous
information." Cherney claims Riggs is "sending out phony press releases
to incite violence against Earth First! [Riggs] is clearly engaged in
slander," steams Cherney. "There's a real possiblility we'll file a
lawsuit. Neither Riggs nor his aides returned phone calls for
clarification after they faxed the so-called fake flyer to the
Independent on Tuesday... ..[snip]..
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FYI: Congressman Riggs' office telephone number is:
707-441-8701
The telephone number of the Humboldt County Sheriff Department is
707-445-7251
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