For twenty years, people have engaged in direct action in order to protect the Mattole forest in northern California from being logged. In this episode of Radical People, Eamon talks with Sweet Pea who has spent a significant amount of time as part of the fight to defend the Mattole.
This is a link to the campaign’s Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Save-the-Mattoles-Ancient-Forest-572103586221093/
This is an article from the Earth First! journal about a blockade in the Mattole from 2017:
https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2017/06/06/blockade-in-the-matole-forest/
This is an article from the Earth First! journal about the current blockade in the Mattole:
https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2018/06/24/new-blockade-in-californias-mattole-forest-protects-old-growth-from-timber-harvest-plans/
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