Redwood Action Team at Stanford
Mission Statement:
Through direct action, legislative pressure, campus activism and
education, we strive to
protect California's redwood ecosystem, especially Headwaters Forest, from
destructive logging, with the underlying goal of promoting the global
importance of conservation.
RATS Constitution
Meetings
Tues evenings, 9 pm, Columbae Lounge, email abbyhall@stanford.edu
for directions or with other questions.
Links and Information sources for Forest
Activists An always expanding listing of groups we work with at
Stanford, in the Bay Area, in California, and beyond.
archived stuff from the old (ie
pre-summer 2002) main page, including more links (some of which may
be outdated), many photos, and letters and papers ratties have
written in the past.
Read a synopsis of the many
events and campaigns RATS has been involved with since our founding
in the fall of 1998. Last Updated September 2002
Upcoming in Academic Year 2002-2003:
RATS is always open to new campaigns and organizing tactics.
We follow the interest of our members new and old, and we are always
open to new ideas, or to working on new issues as they emerge. Some
of us remember the day in the fall of 1999 when our coordinator
showed up one day with a clipping about an organization called the
WTO. "Guys - this WTO thing seems really big - and they're planning
a big protest about it up in Seattle at the end of November - I think
we should get involved." Another campaign began when a freshman
showed up the second week of school one year and told us that he
wanted to get the University to build more environmentally friendly buildings.
After a year of working with us, the campaign got so big that he
started a separate organization - Students for a Sustainable Stanford.
Campaigns we expect to be involved in during fall 2002 include
continued work on
National Forest Roadless Areas, The California Wilderness Bill,
Bush's plan to combat forest fires by clearcutting old-growth trees,
and Pacific Lumber logging in the Mattole and elsewhere. We also
hope to continue working on campus sustainability issues, in
solidarity with our friends Students for a Sustainable Stanford and
the Stanford Community Farm by pushing for more responsibility in
wood and paper procurement. Finally, we hope to complete work to
memorialize our friend Minna, may she rest in fiery peace!
Email
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"headwaters-owner@lists.stanford.edu" to ask questions.
For more info: ( abbyhall@stanford.edu )
