HCSO Hard At Work, Busting Tree Shitters

Arcata CA

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According to It's Going Down - a website that, let's be honest, is probably run by Federal informants, pretending they are anarchists: Trinidad, CA: Sheriffs Arrest One Treesitter, Others Take To The Canopy Report from Redwood Forest Defense on arrest of a treesitter during ongoing forest defense in Northern California. More updates at https://www.instagram.com/redwoodforestdefense/. Trinidad, CA – A treesitter protesting Green Diamond clearcutting operations was arrested while attempting to climb a one hundred and fifty foot tall redwood tree slated for logging. “They say that we’re tresspassing, but all settlers are tresspassing on stolen land,” said Rena after their arrest. Rena declined to give a last name. The area where Rena was arrested yesterday is slated to be clearcut under an active Green Diamond logging plan, but has been protected by treesitters for the last year and a half. “They’re destroying stolen land on the premise that its sustainable, but it’s actually contributing to a climate crisis that destabilizes all of our futures,” Rena said. Other treesitters remain aloft in the grove. The activists report that their safety is being jeapordized by Green Diamond security cutting sections off the end of climb lines, and now by sherriffs removing caution tape put in place by treesitters to signal the presence of treesits to timber fallers. I dunno, guys, gals, can't you find a better way to spend your time? Trees grow back. Fast. Really fast. You're just kids, you haven't been around long enough to see just how fast rain forests grow back. I don't even need to ask, I can see it from your actions. Trees don't stay cut. Nobody is stopping you from growing up, getting a job, buying some land with trees and letting them grow as big as you want. There might even be a business opportunity there - carbon credits - even fame, eventually. The land isn't going to be cleared, it's going to be reseeded, I suspect. Ultimately, we are all squatters on the land. The ecology will still be here long after we are all dead and gone. But all this drama isn't going to change anything. We can't all go back to Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin, or wherever, there are Indians there, too. We can't go back to Hungary or Italy or England or France or wherever because most of us are only PART Hungarian, PART Italian, PART English, etc, and you can't cut us up into little pieces and ship us back where we came from, it doesn't work that way. Besides, there are archaeological indications in the American Southeast of even earlier tribes. Who was REALLY first? None of this excuses tree shitting. Someone should set up a time lapse camera under a tree and take pictures of you guys, peeing and pooping, so you can see yourselves as the deputies see you. Food for thought.