Jason Wilson — aka Shunka Wakan — is hanging up his monkey wrench and hammer. Or, his website, anyway. Said the long-time, heart-on-his-sleeve, softspoken Earth First! activist in his e-mailed newsletter this week: This will be the final e-mail from North Coast Earth First! Media. After 13 years of activism, under the banner of “North […]
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McK’ville Gets Their Goats
Oh, yes, the town “where horses have the right of way” has a fond and willing eye for the goats, as well. That is, there do not yet appear to be any of those n-o-o-o-o-o-ot-t-t-t-t—h-e-r-e!!! bleatings issuing from the grassy flats of McKinleyville’s Dow’s Prairie, where local-cheese-company-gone-global Cypress Grove Chevre has announced it will put […]
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How to Own an Email Scammer
An email scam artist recently made a serious mistake: He mistook North Coast Journal cartoonist Joel Mielke for a fool. The scamming scumbag had somehow managed to hack into the email account of a man named Thom, who happens to have Mielke among his contacts. Pretending to be Thom, the scammer sent the following message: Hello, How’s everything […]
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Citizen Egger
Tonight at 6 p.m. Fortuna resident Janelle Egger will once again go before the Fortuna City Council to ask them, once again, what the heck they’re doing spending money on a new water reservoir at Stewart Street when they’ve got a perfectly good, underused one on Vancil. She says. She’s gently, forcefully, legally and otherwise […]
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R.I.P. Humboldt’s Public 4/20
“It didn’t even smell like weed.” So reports Journal freelancer Zach St. George, who this afternoon trekked up to Arcata’s Redwood Park expecting to find a swaying herd of glassy-eyed stoners and instead found bored APD cops. What happened? This is supposed to be, like, the stoner’s choicest locale on the stoner’s unofficial holiday, right? […]
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Caltrans HQ Protest, Round Two
Opponents of the California Department of Transportation’s Richardson Grove Improvement Project staged a second rally Monday at Caltrans’ District 1 office on Wabash in Eureka. Colorful signs, chants of “One demand: Cancel the plan!,” and personal, impassioned, megaphone-aided pleas from protesters directed at local law enforcement and office occupants were plentiful. The rally (similar in […]
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Protesters Target B of A for Dodging Taxes
Charles Edwards of Eureka’s Stroop Effects Studios sent us the link to this short video he produced for Democracy Unlimited, highlighting last Friday’s protest of Bank of America. Another protest, organized through MoveOn.org, will take place today at 4:30 at the B of A in Henderson Center in Eureka.
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Union Supporters Rally in Eureka
Guest post by Somes Bar resident Malcolm Terence: For Harriet Lawlor the connection was clear. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was standing up for striking sanitation workers in Memphis — workers whose union was AFSCME, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. So yesterday afternoon, Lawlor was at the Humboldt County […]
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Grove battle continues
Protestors opposed to the widening/straightening of Hwy 101 at Richardson’s Grove shifted into direct action today, unfurling a banner across the highway at the entrance to the state park and creating what was deemed by authorities, a “traffic hazard.” Here’s the incident report from the California Highway Patrol: Location: US101 AT RICHARDSON GROVE […]
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SoHum Teens Speak Out
Two high school seniors from Southern Humboldt spoke at a rally in Eureka Saturday to protest the U.S. Navy’s plans to create a target practice range off the Humboldt County coast. “The animals don’t have voices so we have to speak for them,” 17-year-old Kali Persall of Shelter Cove told the 50 activists who gathered […]
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Queer Kissing Flashmob
It started with a Facebook invite, “Queer Kissing Flashmob,” sent out by some HSU students: “Come meet us on the HSU quad to kiss your partner(s) at noon on Valentine’s Day! Please wait until the clock starts to strike noon to start kissing your partner(s), kiss for between 5 to 10 minutes and then go […]
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Egypt – Rise to Freedom Mix1.5
In the wake of the events in Egypt, Natacha Atlas, who brought her band to the Arcata Theatre Lounge late last year, worked with her producer/arranger Samy Bishai to create a new remix and a video in solidarity with the Egyptian people. (Her heritage is part Egyptian.) “Egypt – Rise to Freedom Mix1.5” is a […]