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Photographed at the site of the Oak Grove Tree-Sitters

Berkeley, California

July 24, 2008

Intentionally dark and meant to be viewed on black

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Rainbow Gathering 2004 (California)

 

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Rainbow Gathering 2004 (California)

 

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Rainbow Gathering 2004 (California)

 

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Really amusing sign at parking lot in the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) - warning people that the trespassing tree-sitters might drop stuff from their perches up in the trees.

 

The tree-sitters are environmental activists who are protesting the plans to cut down a few of the trees in order to build a new building on campus. The tree-sitters installed platforms and tree houses way up in the trees, and have been living there for months in order to try to keep the trees from being chopped.

 

The signs are very funny to me, because they're so formally done -- and they would seem to suggest that the university expects the tree-sitters to be a longterm fixture. But, the fact that they seem to feel they need to warn people would indicate that they believe there's very real/significant danger of passers-by getting hurt by stuff falling, and this sort of warning sign usually only occurs when an establishment feels that they need to reduce legal liability through posting warning disclaimers.

 

Mainly, it seems amusing to me because the signs feel like a subtle criticism of the tree-huggers -- trying to emphasize and exaggerate the danger they're causing by being up in the trees.

 

Why should the university feel the need to warn people about something that they are not responsible for? If something were to fall and damage a car or person, the liability would all be on the part of the protestors, right?

 

Check out my pic of the protestors' treehouse, also.

Tree sitter above, LAPD below.

A bird lands on the hand of a forest defender in North Coast Earth First!'s Spooner tree sit outside of Scotia, CA in fall 2006.

 

Photograph by Insurgent Photo.

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"Spooner" is a thousand-year-old redwood that stands nearly 300 feet tall. A tree sit was established to protect it and the surrounding forest from being logged by Pacific Lumber.

 

This Photo featured on the cover of the Earth First Journal in the Fall of 2006.

 

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Photograph by Insurgent Photo.

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A bird lands on the hand of a forest defender in North Coast Earth First!'s Spooner tree sit outside of Scotia, CA in fall 2006.

 

Photograph by Insurgent Photo.

insurgentphoto[at]yahoo[dot]com

 

Saving Redwoods in Humboldt Co.

Occupying L.A. trees.

Harrison asks tree-sitters to abandon their redwood protest perch. Obviously, they didn't. August 21, 2008.

Altercation between Berkeley tree-sitters and tree trimmers on August 21, 2008

 

Orange, white, and grey tube shaped figure intertwined around a yellow and purple figure all set on a red and black background.

 

Inspiration: My vision of an anaconda constricting an unsuspecting tree sitter while staging a deforestation protest in the Brazilian rain forest.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

 

Tree sitters remain in redwood after UC Berkeley levels the Memorial Oak Grove in just a few days -- and crews clear the cut trees.

Altercation between Berkeley tree-sitters and tree trimmers on August 21, 2008

 

Altercation between Berkeley tree-sitters and tree trimmers on August 21, 2008

 

She was yelling at the police to stay away, all while crowds of people looked on to see what would happen.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

 

Tree sitters remain in redwood after UC Berkeley levels the Memorial Oak Grove in just a few days -- and crews clear the cut trees.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

 

Tree sitters remain in redwood after UC Berkeley levels the Memorial Oak Grove in just a few days -- and crews clear the cut trees.

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