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Trees Spiked In Solidarity With Bainbridge Island Tree Sit

Posted on the 27 August 2014 by Earth First! Newswire @efjournal

from Puget Sound Anarchists

Bainbridge Island, WA

Bainbridge Island, WA

For a couple days now a woman has been sitting in a tree on Bainbridge Island to block the construction of a mini-mall and to protect the trees the would be clear cut and the ecosystem that would be devastated. We noticed that despite the media spectacle and the police presence there was really no one watching the woods. Dawning black from head to toe in the bright light of day we spiked about 1/8th of the trees with ceramic rods.

Now some of you may say that tree spiking is dangerous, but only one worker has ever been hurt by a tree spike and he admitted that it was due to the poor safety conditions at the mill he worked at. Metal, rocks, and the like get caught on trees all the time. The most common of these is barbed wire which has mutilated many-a-worker, but something no one seems to complain about. This is probably because people care more about property than another lifeforms well-being.

Anyway, solidarity with all those wonderful rebels out there.

-some anarchists

MSM coverage of the woman in the tree.


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