Archive of Gap related email to Headwaters list --
January 2-30,'99
1 chalice@wco. Sat Jan 2 7:12a 120 Re: Gap Boycott
2 auerhahn@lel Sun Jan 3 9:58p 55 Re: Gap Boycott
3 msgill Mon Jan 4 2:29a 27 Re: Gap Boycott
4 msgill Fri Jan 8 7:46p 69 Re: Gap Boycott
5 chalice@wco. Sat Jan 9 10:48a 141 Fw: URGENT: Stanford Shopping Center
6 owner-headwa Tue Jan 19 4:07p 158 Re: Mendocino Redwoods
7 owner-headwa Tue Jan 19 6:29p 97 Re: Mendocino Redwoods
8 msgill Thu Jan 21 7:33a 64 Gap schedule
9 msgill Sat Jan 23 10:37a 61 Late-ish notice: no flyering today!
10 auerhahn@lel Wed Jan 27 3:26p 62 Re: Gap leafletting
11 msgill Thu Jan 28 3:32a 51 Re: Gap leafletting
12 chalice@wco. Thu Jan 28 8:43a 135 More briefings for your meeting wit
13 chalice@wco. Thu Jan 28 1:50p 49 Addendum to 2% rule
14 owner-headwa Fri Jan 29 10:31a 87 Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap: B
15 auerhahn@lel Fri Jan 29 1:43p 43 Re: Gap leafletting
16 msgill Fri Jan 29 2:34p 50 Re: Gap leafletting
17 msgill Sat Jan 30 7:08a 29 Re: Gap leafletting - clothes
18 rmc930@lelan Sat Jan 30 10:41a 56 Re: Gap leafletting - clothes
19 msgill Sat Jan 30 5:23p 115 First Gap leafletting with RATS!
From chalice@wco.com Sat Jan 2 07:12:39 1999
To: Louise Mae Auerhahn
Cc: "Susan (BAA)" ,
"Mandeep S. Gill (Palo Alto)"
Subject: Re: Gap Boycott
Hi Louise Mae!
Happy New Year!
Thank you SO MUCH for taking up the torch for the redwoods in the South Bay!
You are joining a GREAT group of Bay Area forest defenders, and in
particular, two dedicated Palo Alto environmental activists--Susan Stansbury
(Exec. Director, Bay Area Action ) and Mandeep Gill (SLAC)! Susan and
Mandeep did a WONDERFUL leafleting action for the Mendocino redwoods at
Stanford Shopping Center on December 19!
Please get in touch with Mandeep to find out first hand everything he
learned during that action (e.g., it is probably best to inform mall
Security of the action in advance and find out any restrictions they impose.
Note, by law, they CANNOT prevent you from exercising your First Amendment
rights in the mall, but they can impose some restrictions, such as the hours
you are allowed to do it.)
We have a national newsletter that we send out as needed (e.g., three in
December) to our forest defenders across the country who want to be included
on the email/mailing list. In addition, to all our Bay Area forest defenders
we email bulletins about upcoming Bay Area actions and then we report on how
those actions went, including picket line tips and so on.
We plan to start posting the newsletter, bulletins, and reports at the web
site in early Jan, as there are many forest defenders like you who want to
know the latest news and/or who want to stage independent actions. I will
send you our latest newsletter (emailed yesterday)--it would be just great
if you and your network of friends and colleagues would help with our
escalated petition drive and the other goals mentioned in the newsletter!
The letter also talks about upcoming local and national events, for which I
will be issuing bulletins shortly.
Re upcoming actions: Once you are on our network, we'll notify you of any
actions we're planning. Note that the forest defenders on our network are a
high-spirited, independent group, who often do actions on their own. In
addition, there are many forest defenders, who are part of our network only
in spirit: Independent actions happen quite frequently to our awe and
delight! (Along with posting the newsletter, we plan to give people the
opportunity to join our forest defenders list at the site, as well!)
You can download most of our Gap Picket Packet from the site
(www.elksoft.com/gwa). But unfortunately, we cannot find a way to
satisfactorily post our leaflet master (with wonderful graphics) at the
site, and we will have to fax or snail-mail it to you (so please provide
that contact info).
Again, it is just TERRIFIC that you want to get active for the redwoods! I
have personally found it to be one of the most self-empowering, meaningful
things one can do!
Cheers and a great new year to you, to our redwoods, and to our Earth!
Mary Bull
Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign, SF
voice/fax: 415-731-7924
-----Original Message-----
From: Louise Mae Auerhahn
To: chalice@wco.com
Cc: Louise Mae Auerhahn
Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 10:51 PM
Subject: Gap Boycott
>To Mary Ball:
>
>HI, I'm with a student environmental group at Stanford, and we're
>considering organizing pickets and campus education about the Gap-Old
>Navy-Banana Republic boycott. Is there another coordinated picket day
>scheduled like the one after Thanksgiving (which was great, BTW!), or can
>we just schedule ours any time? We'd probably picket at the Gap in
>Stanford Shopping Center. Also, is there somewhere we can get updates on
>the campaign and the forest -- the elksoft website doesn't look like it's
>been updated for a while.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Louise Auerhahn
>Stanford Environmental Reps
>
>auerhahn@stanford.edu
>(650)497-2431
>
From auerhahn@leland.Stanford.EDU Sun Jan 3 21:58:23 1999
To: msgill@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: Gap Boycott
hey mandeep,
thanks for the messages. would tomorrow night be good? i haven't had
the chance to discuss/plan this with the e-reps in detail, but we probably
won't have a full meeting 'till monday of next week. so i think it'd be
best to go ahead & start planning now and then we can finalize stuff at
the meeting.
later,
louise
> > > > Hi Louise:
>
> yes, we should indeed meet sometime, and we could do a Gap leaflet/picket
> anytime you want (i almost went with a friend yest aft, but ended up not
> having time after visiting the SF Bay NWR in Fremont). i have all the
> materials Mary writes about, and can give you copies, and i also just left
> you a phone msg., so whenever you get back from break and have some time
> to meet during the eve this week, let me know and i'll come down to
> campus, okayo?
>
> cheers,
>
> M
>
>
>
From msgill@slac.stanford.edu Mon Jan 4 02:29:37 1999
To: Louise Mae Auerhahn
Subject: Re: Gap Boycott
hey Louise:
> thanks for the messages. would tomorrow night be good?
yeah, i think Mon nite kinda late should work, like 8 or 9ish? where is
easiest for you to meet, coho or your dorm study or wherever is fine for
me. my phone is 926.4405.
catchya,
M
From msgill@slac.stanford.edu Fri Jan 8 19:46:39 1999
To: Louise Mae Auerhahn
cc: susan stansbury , mary bull
Subject: Re: Gap Boycott
hi Louise:
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Louise Mae Auerhahn wrote:
> I just picked up the form from stanford shopping center, but i don't see
> any way we can sign it. It has six pages of rules -- i haven;t had a
> chance to look thru all of them yet, but it says we can't have more than
> two poeple, can't go more than six feet from the "designated locations"
> (which are stuck in the back, nowhere near Gap,) can't have any
> signs unless they're professionally made, and as far as I can tell (it's a
> little unclear) can't identify any merchant in the shopping center by
> name, which would make things kinda difficult!
> So what do you think would be the best way to go about this? We could
> sign it and cross out the parts we disagree with . . .
sure, sounds promising, nothing to lose.
> I wonder if the ASSU lawyer could help . . .
a fine idea, i think, to follow up on the cases on that sheet i gave you.
> or we could just not notify them ahead of time, like you did.
i think this is most realistic and practicable. we don't have the
resources to fight a big legal battle, and i believe we have a right to be
there.
this would be my tack: let the PA cops know, and then go there in full
force. if the mall security calls the PA cops, there is little chance
they will take action i believe, but if so, with near certainty you will
have the option of staying or leaving.
> But these rules are ridiculous.
yep :)
let me know which way you're leaning,
paz,
M
From chalice@wco.com Sat Jan 9 10:48:19 1999
To: "Mandeep S. Gill" ,
"Susan (BAA)" ,
"Louise Auerhahn (Palo Alto)"
Subject: Fw: URGENT: Stanford Shopping Center Demo Restrictions!!!!
Anna Marie needs the following info from you, per the following email!
Cheers and thanks!
Mary B.
-----Original Message-----
From: Anna Marie Stenberg
To: Chalice
Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: URGENT: Stanford Shopping Center Demo Restrictions!!!!
>Mary
>Someone needs to supply me with a chronological statement of facts
>concerning what has happen so far. It doesn't have to be exact in terms of
>dates, but if I remember, there were problems with SC security there, the
>police were called, and there was a problem getting the guildlines from the
>SC etc. I also will need a copy of the form faxed to me at 707-964-9109 or
>mailed to 254 Wall St Ft. Bragg Ca 95437.
>I am a member of the 1st Amendment Coalition. Once I get the info,I will
>email them and ask advice. In the mean time my suggestion is not to sign
>anything--simple say, it is their belief that what they are doing is
>protected by the first amendment and that they are contacting attorney's
>for legal advice because it does not appear that the SC guildlines are
>constitutional.
>am
>At 06:42 AM 1/9/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>>Anna Marie (First Amendment Legal Eagle!),
>>
>>Stanford Shopping Center is attempting to boondoggle activists in Palo
>>Alto!!!!
>>
>>The restrictions that forest defender Louis Auherhaun enumerates in the
>>following email have GOT to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! Could you please advise
>>us?
>>
>>Cheers and thanks!
>>
>>Mary B.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mandeep S. Gill
>>To: Louise Mae Auerhahn
>>Cc: susan stansbury ; mary bull
>>Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 7:46 PM
>>Subject: Re: Gap Boycott
>>
>>
>>
>>hi Louise:
>>
>>On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Louise Mae Auerhahn wrote:
>>
>>> I just picked up the form from stanford shopping center, but i don't see
>>> any way we can sign it. It has six pages of rules -- i haven;t had a
>>> chance to look thru all of them yet, but it says we can't have more than
>>> two poeple, can't go more than six feet from the "designated locations"
>>> (which are stuck in the back, nowhere near Gap,) can't have any
>>> signs unless they're professionally made, and as far as I can tell (it's
a
>>> little unclear) can't identify any merchant in the shopping center by
>>> name, which would make things kinda difficult!
>>
>>
>>
>>> So what do you think would be the best way to go about this? We could
>>> sign it and cross out the parts we disagree with . . .
>>
>>sure, sounds promising, nothing to lose.
>>
>>> I wonder if the ASSU lawyer could help . . .
>>
>>a fine idea, i think, to follow up on the cases on that sheet i gave you.
>>
>>> or we could just not notify them ahead of time, like you did.
>>
>>i think this is most realistic and practicable. we don't have the
>>resources to fight a big legal battle, and i believe we have a right to be
>>there.
>>
>>this would be my tack: let the PA cops know, and then go there in full
>>force. if the mall security calls the PA cops, there is little chance
>>they will take action i believe, but if so, with near certainty you will
>>have the option of staying or leaving.
>>
>>
>>> But these rules are ridiculous.
>>
>>yep :)
>>
>>
>>
>>let me know which way you're leaning,
>>
>>paz,
>>
>>M
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
From owner-headwaters@lists.Stanford.EDU Tue Jan 19 16:07:05 1999
To: headwaters@lists.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: Mendocino Redwoods
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hey everyone!
sorry, i meant to get this info out sooner, but i went skiing with my
dorm in tahoe this weekend.
first of all, nina, you rock!
i met with louise from e-reps on friday and, we set up some tentative
dates. she wants to flyer at the gap the last weekend of january, but
there are some complications: apparently the stanford shopping center
makes you sign this form in order to do any petitioning and in the
form you promise to stay within ten feet of the specified tabling
sites, both of which are nowhere near the gap. there are other minor
stipulations as well. so louise is talking to a lawyer because this is
against our rights to free assembly. mandeep, i know you flyered (is
that even a verb? oh well) earlier, how did that work?
we also wanted to table in white plaza early february, and i was
thinking if we could somehow incorporate guerilla theater to make an
ass out of Mr. Fisher, that would be all the better. yarrow, maybe i
can talk to you about this. i understand it might be too much with all
the other stuff we're trying to do; just an idea. another thing i
wanted to do if guerilla doesn't work out is to put e-reps and rats
together, split into mini-groups and go to house meetings after our
meeting some night and put on a little skit or something entertaining
(quick and funny, something that will get their attention so they'll
start thinking about the gap at least, and not completely tune us out)
for different dorms. this definitely needs some more brainstorming,
and i would welcome any ideas. e-reps are really psyched that we want
to go in with them on this issue, i think they are feeling kind of
sparse in the way of support right now and there is so much enthusiasm
in our group (which seems to keep growing) that i know this will be
awesome. please please give me any suggestions of how you think this
should work.
thanks,
becky
From owner-headwaters@lists.Stanford.EDU Tue Jan 19 18:29:52 1999
To: becky chaplin
Cc: headwaters@lists.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: Mendocino Redwoods
B:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, becky chaplin wrote:
> i met with louise from e-reps on friday and, we set up some tentative
> dates.
Krissa suggested to me last week that i just make up a flyering schedule
and solicit volunteers at the meeting tom. to fill in slots, but it sounds
like you guys have already been on the ball with this.
i was thinking of starting right away, like next wknd.
my current opinion on their asinine and stifling rules is this: i am
going to offer flyers to people peacefully outside the Stanford Gap about
Gap's complicity in the destruction of Mendo. county forests, with the
Stanford mall security milling about if they wish, honestly earning their
paycheck, and if and they call the PA police, who show up and demand that
i leave or they will arrest me (which is rather unlikely to happen,
actually), i will then think about whether or no i wish to leave.
for those who haven't been following this, i'll forward a brief history of
what happened when i flyered there once with Susan S. (from BAA) over
Christmas break.
> we also wanted to table in white plaza early february,
this sounds most excellent.
> and i was thinking if we could somehow incorporate guerilla theater to
> make an ass out of Mr. Fisher, that would be all the better.
indeed :>
> put e-reps and rats together, split into mini-groups and go to house
> meetings after our meeting some night and put on a little skit or
> something entertaining
cool!
> ideas. e-reps are really psyched that we want to go in with them on this
great!!
paz
M
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From msgill@slac.stanford.edu Thu Jan 21 07:33:59 1999
To: bchaplin@leland.stanford.edu
cc: nina robertson ,
Kristen Lebacqz , cfriedel@leland.stanford.edu,
Emily Barrett Leslie
Subject: Gap schedule
hey Becky and others:
this is the (very) tentative schedule thus far (i'm sure we can get lots
more people for 2 hour shifts be calling on Fri or Sat nite):
Jan 23/24 (GROW wknd; day not decided, Sun better?)
----------------------
10am. yarrow , mandeep
12. brian g.
2pm. benji
4pm. yarrow, chris f
Jan 29 = fri -- w/e-reps?
-------------------------
10. becky , dan , mike m
12. matty-phatty , rob
2. nina , nectar , carolyn , laura
6. jesse , donna
--------------------------
however, this entire thing is a bit dependent on info that Nina and i are
trying to elicit from Mary Bull et al as soon as we can, about exact
Gap-MRC connections, Gap control over Bob Fisher etc.
i think if we get a clear enough response to this by the end of this week,
we will be ready to go forward with leafletting right away this wknd, and
then we can decide with the e-reps if we would like to do the entire
tabling and everything next wknd.
one Q: could you or Nina possibly take responsibility for copying off
about 500 of the handouts on Fri if we do do this (though if we are going
to do it on Sun, then this could be done Sat, too). if you don't have
time, i can do it. Chris will certainly be able to reimburse you for this
kind of copying, i believe (? :)
grazie
M
From msgill@slac.stanford.edu Sat Jan 23 10:37:14 1999
To: Brian Kenneth Gilbart
cc: headwaters@lists.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Late-ish notice: no flyering today!
Hey guys:
the subject is the upshot, for a few more details if you'd like, see
below,
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Brian Kenneth Gilbart wrote:
> Gap flyering the next 4 weekends- sign up for a two hour shift. This
> is pretty key and its fun. Contact mandeep to set up a time.
> msgill@slac.stanford.edu
as you notice, we didn't get it together to flyer today, this is for a
couple of reasons.
1. it's raining -- much less fun.
2. more importantly: i talked with Nina after the meeting about info on
this issue that we still need, not so much about what MRC is doing in the
forest up there (which is well documented on the website:
http://www.elksoft.com/gwa/
but about the very precise financial connections of Gap and MRC, which we
would like to know before asking people to flyer. we'd like you guys to
have fully accurate info on this, so we're still trying to track down the
info from the sources up north.
3. Louise A. (head of the e-reps), Becky, and i will be contacting you
guys soon about when and where the first action will happen, which may be
next wknd (or maybe after our trip up to Mendo).
it's gonna be good, so get psyched!
M
(technically: for the moment what we do know is that John Fisher is one of
the two sons of Don Fisher, who owns the Gap, and at least part of the
money that the Sansome Group, which has a controlling interest in the MRC,
and is owned by the Fisher family, came from Gap profits. i'd like to
have #'s a little more precise than this, though).
From auerhahn@leland.Stanford.EDU Wed Jan 27 15:26:35 1999
To: msgill@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Cc: ninar@leland.Stanford.EDU, auerhahn@leland.Stanford.EDU,
bchaplin@leland.Stanford.EDU, krissa@leland.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: Gap leafletting
I copied the flyers but haven't cut them up yet -- they're sitting on top
of the file cabinets of the SEAS office, if anyone wants to spend a few
minutes cutting some while you're there. There are still some of the old
ones there too, but those don't have our websites added at the bottom.
I asked the E-Reps about Friday, but haven't gotten too much of a response
yet. So if y'all want to switch to Sat., I think it's be fine -- let me
now so I can start calling folks!
oh yeah, do we want to have some sort of big sign? if so, when do you
want to make it?
--louise
>
> anyway, in this case, should we plan for the big tabling kickoff to happen
> Sat instead of Fri? i think we'll get more people to go, and there will
> be more people at the mall, too.
>
> Louise: have you had a chance to copy those flyers and talk with the
> e-reps, are they cool for this wknd?
>
> once i know which day we're tabling/leafletting, i will call the palo alto
> police watch commander, it's good to let them know (they're the only ones
> who have real authority, the mall security doesn't).
>
From msgill@slac.stanford.edu Thu Jan 28 03:32:28 1999
To: pond cypress
cc: ninar@leland.Stanford.EDU, bchaplin@leland.Stanford.EDU,
krissa@leland.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: Gap leafletting
hi Louise:
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, pond cypress wrote:
> I copied the flyers
cool, thanks!
> but haven't cut them up yet -- they're sitting on top
> of the file cabinets of the SEAS office, if anyone wants to spend a few
> minutes cutting some while you're there.
do they have a big paper-cutter? i won't be on campus until Fri
morn, could do it then, unless someone might have some time later
today? (Thurs)
> I asked the E-Reps about Friday, but haven't gotten too much of a response
> yet. So if y'all want to switch to Sat., I think it's be fine -- let me
> now so I can start calling folks!
yeah, i think that's the plan. 12-4 on Sat. do you have a card table or
something we can use?
Rat folk: do we have any guerrilla theatre costumes we can use?
> oh yeah, do we want to have some sort of big sign? if so, when do you
> want to make it?
that would be good -- Fri nite late?
thankya!!
M
From chalice@wco.com Thu Jan 28 08:43:06 1999
To: "Nina Robertson (Stanford)" ,
"Mandeep S. Gill (Stanford)"
Subject: More briefings for your meeting with Sandy Dean!
Hi Nina and Mandeep!
Here is some of the info you requested (the relationship between Gap, Inc.
and MRC) and another prepping for a Sandy Dean canned remark (...2% of
inventory...). Be sure to let us know when you plan to visit Mendo
(especially if it is NOT going to be this weekend!). I'll get more info to
you soon!
Cheers and thanks!
Mary B.
The connection between Gap Inc. and MRC:
The Fisher family owns a controlling interest in both Gap, Inc., and in the
Mendocino Redwood Company. Donald Fisher (the father) is the founder and
Chair of the Board of Gap, Inc. His son Bob is Exec. V-P and C.O.O. of
Gap, Inc. Another Fisher--William Fisher (don't know his relationship) is
head of Gap international. As we understand it, the Pisces Group is the
Fisher family investment group. Sansome Partners is some sort of
subsidiary of the Pisces Group. It has three partners (according to Sandy
Dean), two that we know of--John Fisher (Bob's brother) and Sandy Dean--and
one (or more?) whose name remains a mystery.
Mendocino Redwood Company and its associated companies (creations of
Sansome Partners) states at its web site that the Fisher family are the
"primary investors." All news releases and articles have described it as
"a Fisher family investment." Bob Fisher (of the Gap) describes it as "our
investment" in a letter to local activists (available at our web site:
http://www.elksoft.com/gwa ), and has also acknowledged his investment in
press interviews.
Since the Pisces Group and Sansome Partners are private investment groups,
and MRC is privately financed, we can't know for sure who is invested in
it, what their percentages are, or who all the partners are. But the
Fishers themselves, MRC, and the Gap all state that it's "a Fisher family
investment." (I believe that Sandy Dean has told someone that his
investment is small by comparison.)
They don't say "John's investment," or "the brothers' investment" (John and
Bob). They say a "Fisher family investment."
The Fishers purchased the lands, operations and mills (and outstanding
Timber Harvest Plans) for a reported $250 million (approx. 235,000 acres of
cutover forest). The Fishers have a fortune from Gap stores reported to be
over eleven billion dollars. (We don't know what all this includes - could
be the value of the whole Gap enterprise, or merely Donald Fisher's
personal fortune - don't know.) A portion of the purchase price (for L-P)
was a loan (as I recall, a quarter or a third). We've heard tell (from
Sandy Dean but third-hand) that a good portion of the cash came from Gap
stock.
The Fishers have had numerous opportunities to deny the involvement of
various family members, but have not done so. The only things they've said
are these: Gap, Inc., put out a statement that John Fisher is the only
family member with an "operational" connection to the logging company--one
of the stranger statements we've heard from them in all this. They also
said recently that Donald Fisher has no "role in the company" [as in title,
such as Treasurer, janitor, etc.] (to the SF Examiner). Both statements
appear to have been an effort to confuse their customers.
We didn't expect that Donald Fisher or Bob Fisher tells MRC where to
clearcut, but they surely tell MRC how much profit they want. This is what
is driving decisions at the logging company--the Fishers' profit
expectations. That makes them the parties with the most responsibility for
what happens. It's their money--and if this dreadful enterprise of
clearcutting redwoods and taking the last old growth trees from these
forests--ever makes a profit, it will be their profit.
(Note: We've heard a couple of other rumors (third hand, again - besides
the Gap stock rumor): that there are 7 Fishers invested in the logging,
and that the Fishers are paying Sandy Dean's salary directly (not MRC).)
"We only log 2% of our inventory--and most foresters agree that that's
sustainable logging."
The "2% of inventory" rule-of-thumb that some foresters recommended many
years ago included many caveats about where and how that 2% is logged, and
should NOT be cited out of context. For example, if you take that entire
2% from a single watershed, you will most likely severely damage or destroy
that watershed, depending on the state it is in. In the case of MRC, most
MRC lands are so depleted that any high-impact logging at this point
seriously threatens the Coho and viable wildlife habitat that remains.
Further, MRC has stated that it will be taking 25% (10 million boardfeet)
of their annual cut (40 million boardfeet) from 6% of their holdings (the
Albion River forests), because this area contains the largest concentration
of the few remaining big trees (>24 inches in diameter).
According to L-P's own data, less than 3% of the trees on MRC's 200,000+
acres are greater than 24 inches in diameter--the size that provides
adequate wildlife habitat!
The other problem with the "2% of inventory" rule-of-thumb: it's very easy
for timber companies to hide their true inventory, and in fact cut over 2%.
From chalice@wco.com Thu Jan 28 13:50:08 1999
To: "Nina Robertson (Stanford)" ,
"Mandeep S. Gill (Stanford)"
Subject: Addendum to 2% rule
Hi Crusaders,
Mary Pjerrou added this addendum to the *2% of inventory rule* briefing I
gave you earlier...
A note for the Stanford R.A.T.s: Hans Burkhardt, who devised the 2% of
inventory rule for Mendocino timber corporations back in the early 1990s
has REVISED his recommendation for L-P lands today. He says, given their
depletion logging over the last 5 years or so, cutting has to be reduced to
1% of inventory for the forests to recover.
From owner-headwaters@lists.Stanford.EDU Fri Jan 29 10:31:09 1999
To: headwaters@lists.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap: BULLETIN!!!
Look rats, we're on the bulletin...
Greetings, Bay Area Forest Defenders!
So MUCH has been going on--particularly on the political front! A newsletter
is in the works! Meantime, here is some info of immediate importance!
--The inspirational Redwood Action Team out of Stanford University are
planning a leafleting action at the Gap at Stanford Shopping Center
tomorrow, Saturday, Jan 30 from 12--4....and WE'RE ALL INVITED!!! Contact
Mandeep (msgill@SLAC.Stanford.EDU, 650.926.4405) for details!
--I am continuously surprised by how many environmental activists have not
yet heard this GREAT NEWS, so I want to include it here: Several TERRIFIC
organizations--including three from the Bay Area--filed a CLASS ACTION SUIT
against GAP, INC. and other garment industry giants (Gap is the biggest
producer/offender) on behalf of exploited needleworkers in Saipan!!! This
made the front page of the SF Chron 3 times over the past two weeks. The
URLs follow at the end of this email--the second article is the hardest
hitting, I think!!!
THREE MIGHTY CHEERS FOR THESE WONDERFUL ORGS:
UNITE....GLOBAL EXCHANGE...SWEATSHOP WATCH....ASIAN LAW CAUCUS!!!!!!!
THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!
--Finally, we are finalizing a petition to Stop Sweetheart Deals Between the
City of San Francisco and the Fisher Family. We will be asking you to sign
this petition electronically, to circulate it, and to attend the Port
Commission meeting at which I intend to present it (Feb 9). More on this
soon!
KEEP UP!!! (URLs of Chron articles on the lawsuit follow)
Mary Bull
Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign, SF
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/01/14
/MN19190.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/01/22
/MN49806.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/01/20
/MN49132.DTL
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From auerhahn@leland.Stanford.EDU Fri Jan 29 13:43:00 1999
To: msgill@SLAC.Stanford.EDU
Cc: auerhahn@leland.Stanford.EDU, ninar@leland.Stanford.EDU,
bchaplin@leland.Stanford.EDU, krissa@leland.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: Gap leafletting
okay, do folks want to meet tonight? haas would probably be a good place
-- what time? also do we want to meet somewhere tomorrow before going to
the shopping center?
& does anyone know where we can get a table?
-louise
From msgill@slac.stanford.edu Fri Jan 29 14:34:07 1999
To: pond cypress
cc: nina robertson ,
becky chaplin ,
Kristen Lebacqz ,
dana g , chiles@leland.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: Gap leafletting
hey Louise:
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, pond cypress wrote:
> okay, do folks want to meet tonight?
i probably won't be down to campus till late, but i think we don't
need to meet that much, we can all just plan to show up at the Gap at
11.45 tom. morn, and talk a bit before we start the flyering.
meeting on campus and going together in the morn might be good though,
like 11.30 at Col lounge?
> & does anyone know where we can get a table?
um. no.
a light cardtable would be nice, maybe Leila Salazar.. (because she
brought one to the Doug Thron slideshow). anyone else have ideas..?
if flyers aren't cut by now, let me know, i can try to get down to
Haas and do that late tonite, too.
if anyone needs to call me tonite, i may be at 926.4405 (slac). if not,
lv. a msg there.
see you all in the morn then?
we gonna rock!
M
From msgill@slac.stanford.edu Sat Jan 30 07:08:44 1999
To: pond cypress
cc: nina robertson ,
becky chaplin ,
dana g ,
Robert Magneson Chiles
Subject: Re: Gap leafletting - clothes
hey all:
please try to wear pretty nice clothes if you can for today. thanx.
bring a jacket, too!
see you all at Col around 11.30 then, or at the Gap around 11.45.
M
From rmc930@leland.Stanford.EDU Sat Jan 30 10:41:03 1999
To: "Mandeep S. Gill"
Subject: Re: Gap leafletting - clothes
I'm there. I can drive some heads over to the gap if need be as well.
see ya soon
Rob
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Mandeep S. Gill wrote:
>
> hey all:
>
> please try to wear pretty nice clothes if you can for today. thanx.
>
> bring a jacket, too!
>
> see you all at Col around 11.30 then, or at the Gap around 11.45.
>
> M
>
>
>
From msgill@slac.stanford.edu Sat Jan 30 17:23:00 1999
To: hw list at SU
cc: mary bull , susan stansbury
bcc: Jamie Pehling ,
paul anderson ,
tanya ciszewski , dpierce@bnl.gov,
"Lilian P. Carswell"
Subject: First Gap leafletting with RATS!
yo all:
it was a good day. i think everyone would agree: Louise, Becky, Dan,
Nina, Dana and Rob. (if i get any of this mistaken, feel free to add in
more details or your own versions, guys!)
brief report: i finished writing the Gap-MRC connection page on our
website this morn and we gathered at Columbae at about 11.45 am, and drove
over to the S.Mall in Rob's car. Louise had copied off and cut about 600
flyers (yay Louise! thanks!!), and though we didn't have a table, we set
up petitions and such on a bench in front of the Gap when we got there.
Nina and Dana came directly to the Gap and we began leafletting at about
12.15, with Becky in front of the Baby Gap, Nina at the Kids Gap, me at
Gap entrance #1, Dan at entrance #2, Louise (wo)manning the bench, and
Dana at Banana Republic entrance #1.
the Fuzz sequence: i had again left a message with the Palo Alto police
watch commander in the morn saying what we were doing. they were cool.
one mall security guy walked up to me around 12.30, checked the flyer
and walked off. i thought hey, maybe that's it. but then he came
back, asked if i had permission from the management and i said no,
their restrictions are far too limiting, and we had a 1st amendment
right from several court cases to be out there, and i showed him our
case sheet (given to me by the fur protesters in Dec). so he says he's gonna call it in, and i
politely reply that's fine.
in the meanwhile, Dana comes up and says that the BanRep woman came out
and strongly told her she has to leave. at this point, i walk around the
corner and see about *4* security guards ganged up on Dan, beating him
senseless so i jump in and start pulling them of him...
no, not really. (did you believe that for a sec? i think getting them to
pepper spray us right there in the Mall wouldn't go over too well for
them probably).
actually i just walk up to them, start talking with the one i've spoken
with before in Dec. (Security Officer Patti, who never removes his
sunglasses at night) and he goes: i've told you before nicely and that's
it, i'm calling the police and i say ok, that's good. he pulls out his
walkie-talkie and before even dialing, one of the guards says hey, there's
a cop right over there. so Patti goes over to talk to this real Palo Alto
cop and i continue handing out some flyers, but i hear some good things
from his direction so i head over, and lo and frickin behold -- the Big
Man talks to the Little Man: Officer Scheff of the PA cops *LECTURES PATTI
ABOUT HOW OUR BEING THERE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY IS ALLOWED AND IS AN
EXTENSION OF OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS BASED ON THE PRUNEYARD DECISION OF
1979* (which is in fact on our case sheet).
i can hardly frickin believe my ears -- this is a *cop*, lecturing another
one on how we have a right to be there?? now i've been arrested by cops
with their knees in my back, searched for drugs by dogs, marched next to
cops with batons drawn etc. -- but i have never *NEVER* had this
experience before. it was all i could do from jumping straight up and
howling right there -- oooooowww, indeed. (Patti is diligently taking
notes about everything Off. Scheff is telling him, in the meanwhile).
after this, the Mall Stormtroopers left us completely alone, and we calmly
passed out the rest of our flyers happily until about 2.30, with several
good conversations happening that i heard about after (Becky, Dana and
others, who can tell their own tales).
i also went in and had nice talks with several BanRep and Gap employees,
who want to really find out the truth instead of the drivel that the Gap
feeds them about how Gap isn't really responsible etc. (please see the
first link on the Rats webpage to get the skinny on this before going out
and leafletting next time).
(Jessica of the Stanford Daily also interviewed us, so we may get some
coverage on Monday.)
SO, at this point, i know we're completely cleared to calmly leaflet, and
it would be very cool if people could take 2 hr shifts for the next few
wknds to keep the pressure on the Gap. i believe we are having a strong
effect that sometimes is not so obvious on the surface. i believe we are
sowing good seeds.
i'd say about seven people is a nice minimum number: you can cover almost
every door and you have the power of a group.
i am not certain our legality extends to a big banner protest and such --
but it may, and we can plan to tentatively do this in a big way when we
come back from our Mendo trip the wknd after next.
it was a rockin day. good feelings, real actions, and getting the word
out there.
deep thanks to each of you who came, and everyone for reading,
en Paz y el Poder del Pueblo--
ROCK ON
M