Grand Index of MEC Newsletter
Articles Arranged by Topic

Issues 12 ( Summer-Fall 1992, Wise Use Movement), 15 (Spring 1994), 18 (Winter 1995), 19 (Spring 1995)

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This index is for issues:

#12 (Summer/Fall 1992), #15 (Spring 1994), #18 (Winter 1995), #19 (Spring 1995)

Activism | Animal Rights | Capitalism/Corporations | Eco-living | Fish | Forestry | Garbage | General | Government | Headwaters | Health | Hemp | Internet | Judi Bari | Masonite | MEC business | Native Peoples | Ocean Protection | Peace and Justice | Planning | Politics | Pollution | Toxics | Watershed | Wise Use Movement |

Activism

Healing Global Wounds 1994 - Spring 1994 - #15
Jennifer Viereck, Program Coordinator

"One Water, One Air, One Earth" - April 1-3, 1994 Unity Gathering to focus on issues of environmental damage, radiation poisoning, and the sovereignty and land rights of Native Nations.

Indian Peace Caravan to Chiapas - Spring 1994 - #15

California Indian Delegation to Deliver Indian to Indian Aid to Mayan People in Chiapas

Sierra Club Inland Conservation Committee - Spring 1994 - #15
Doug Strong

Summary of the first meeting of what is hoped to be quarterly meetings of local activist and grassroots groups under the umbrella of the Sierra Club

An Interview With Jean Harmon - Spring 1995 - #19
By Doug Strong

"A great place to study government at work," is how Jean Harmon describes the setting for her activities on behalf of environmental causes during the past ten years.

Listen To Your Mother - Spring 1995 - #19
By

Request for support of the Mendocino Environmental Center, one of the centers of environmental activism in the county.

 

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Animal Rights

Mountain Lions - Spring 1995 - #19
By Susan Raphael

Concerning the four mountain lions shot this month on Navarro Ridge: The larger (global) issue is human encroachment on wildlife habitat.

 

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Capitalism/Corporations

The War Is Over! - Spring 1995 - #19
By Gary Ball

An ironic scenario of how corporations quietly and non-violently took over the world.

Welfare Pests - Spring 1995 - #19
By Patty Clary

Billions of dollars of corporate welfare is dished outthe U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. government banks that operate within the Commerce Department. One of these, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), has insured a logging venture in Russia that threatens to cause destruction of Northern California forests equal in scope to that causedU.S. logging in Russian forests.

Covering The Earth With "Green PR" - Spring 1995 - #19
By Joel Bleifuss

The public relations campaigns of corporations keeps the public fooled into thinking corporations are getting "green".

Corporate Control - Spring 1995 - #19
By Mackinze James

United States policy has been heavily influencedcorporate interests since the Industrial Revolution, when people with wealth started organizing themselves into structures called corporations and expanding their monetary horizons. But corporations are only part of the system through which the world's resources, including labor and wages, are siphoned up to the super rich.

Ron Brown's V.I.P. Junkets - Spring 1995 - #19
By Ken Silverstein

Through the Commerce Department's efforts to promote exports, American businesses landed foreign deals worth $47 billion last year. But a little cross-referencing of the companies thus helped and of campaign contribution records and internal Democratic Party fundraising memorandums shows that for both corporations and the Administration, to give is truly to receive.

Corporate Welfare Costs Taxpayers - Spring 1995 - #19

While considerable political heat is directed at poor welfare recipients receiving taxpayer money, more than three times that amount is paid in welfare to wealthy corporations, according to a new Essential Information study releasedRalph Nader.

Void the Corporate Contract on America - SIN! - Spring 1995 - #19
By Betty Ball

The Corporate Agenda in the form of the "Contract with (on) America" is rushing headlong through Congress, attacking people's rights, and the environment. Scientists are warning of serious climate changes and new global diseases. Unrest, fear, discontent and dis-ease are pervasive. So, what to do? What is the antidote to all of this? Activate and organize! SIN (Stop Injustice Now). There are many organizations to join.

Birth of the Corporation - Spring 1995 - #19
By Paul Hawken

An historical look at the origin of corporations in America, excerpted from Paul Hawken's The Ecology of Commerce.

Puppets & Puppeteers: - Spring 1995 - #19
By Michael Colby

Democratic and Republican elected officials are increasingly no more than mere puppets in what amounts to a legislative folly. Congresspeople, senators, the president, all are beholden to an expensive electoral process that is bankrolledmoney from large corporations.

Attacking Corporate Personhood: - Spring 1995 - #19
By Richard Grossman

With few exceptions, people come out of law school without having questioned pro-corporate doctrines on property. They accept today's giant corporations as inevitable. They don't seem to wonder how it came to pass that corporations became legal persons with free speech and other constitutional rights, while workers on company turf have no Bill of Rights protections.

Common Citizens and Corporate Charters - Spring 1995 - #19
By Gary Ball

We could ask: "Are we going further into a world based on corporate control of everything, or are we going to so something about it?" If we choose to do something about it, then just what is there to do? One answer is found in a booklet writtenRichard Grossman and Frank Adams titled Taking Care of Business: Citizenship and the Charter of Incorporation.

 

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Eco-living

Alternatives To Wood - Spring 1994 - #15
Vicki Oldham

A look at alternatives to cutting forests to supply wood for building materials and paper products.

 

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Fish

Speak For The Fish! - Spring 1994 - #15

An Urgent Message from the National Marine Committee of the Sierra Club, concerning the renewal of the 1976 Magnuson Act, whose original purpose was to conserve and manage fisheries. The call is to push for amendments which would prohibit commercial overfishing.

Government Delays Threaten Coho Salmon - Winter 1995 - #18
By Oregon Natural Resources Council

Marine Fisheries Service misses Endangered Species Act deadline.

Groups Sue to Protect Coho Salmon Coastwide - Spring 1995 - #19
By Tryg Sletteland & Mike Sherwood

A coalition of 24 fishing and conservation groups, including the Mendocino Environmental Center, filed suit on June 1, 1995 against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) for its failure to act in response to a petitionmany of the groups to protect coho salmon under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA).

 

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Forestry

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Old Growth Go Down - Spring 1994 - #15
Roanne Withers

History of the Option 9 Northwest Economic Development Plan.

California Forestry Association Petitions to Remove Spotted Owl - Spring 1994 - #15
Steve Volker, Attorney, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund

CFA, representing the timber corporations, petitions the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the northern spotted owl from the endangered species list.

Headwaters Forest Act Moves Forward - Spring 1994 - #15
John Kaufman and Kathleen Kempter, Forests Forever

Progress of the Headwaters Forest Act, co-authored by Dan Hamburg and Pete Stark.

SCLDF Submits Forest Plan Comments - Spring 1994 - #15
Steve Volker, Attorney for Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund

Sierra Clug Legal Defense Fund, the MEC, WEC, and other environmental organizations filed comments on several National Forest plans.

WAFC Views The Option 9 SEIS - Spring 1994 - #15
Jim Owens, Western Ancient Forest Campaign

Information on the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Option 9 plan.

Sierra Club Inland Conservation Committee - Spring 1994 - #15
Doug Strong

Summary of the first meeting of what is hoped to be quarterly meetings of local activist and grassroots groups under the umbrella of the Sierra Club

Checklist THP - Winter 1995 - #18
By Jesse Noel

New rules package forest service which allows timber industry to avoid cumulative impact analysis.

Enchanted Meadow: They're Back! - Winter 1995 - #18
By Linda Perkins

Local citizens file a lawsuit to prevent Louisiana Pacific and CDF from trying to side step the public comment process on a THP.

The Endangered Endangered Species Act - Winter 1995 - #18
By Betty Ball

Compiled from the Newsletter of the Endangered Species Coalition. A look at how the "Contract With America" is a Contract ON the Endangered Species Act (ESA), as well as nearly all environmental, public welfare, public health and safety laws.

Stiff As A Board - Winter 1995 - #18
By Gary Ball

The story of Mendocino County's Forest Practice Rules hearing before the Board of Forestry.

Jackson State Forest: A Model of Destruction - Winter 1995 - #18
By Els Cooperider

It was January, Friday the 13th, 1995, that I had my first glimpse of what the California Department of Forestry (CDF) has been doing in Jackson Demonstration State Forest and I was shocked.

Welfare Pests - Spring 1995 - #19
By Patty Clary

Billions of dollars of corporate welfare is dished outthe U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. government banks that operate within the Commerce Department. One of these, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), has insured a logging venture in Russia that threatens to cause destruction of Northern California forests equal in scope to that causedU.S. logging in Russian forests.

Headwaters Forest Still Stands! - Spring 1995 - #19
By Judi Bari

Mass protest averts logging threat (for now).

Legal Update - Headwaters Still Threatened! - Spring 1995 - #19
By Cecelia Lanman and Trach Katelman

Challenges to Pacific Lumber's plans to harvest "dead, dying and diseased" trees on more than 185,000 acres are headed to the State Court of Appeals in San Francisco after the Thursday, May 18th, 1995 ruling in Humboldt County Superior Court.

Press Blackout - Spring 1995 - #19
By Judi Bari

Press blackout and hostile journalism...the Santa Rosa Press Democrat about Judy Bari and the Pacific Lumber issue.

Greenwood: Exemption and THPs - Spring 1995 - #19
By Mary Pjerrou

In 1993, L-P filed an exemption paper to do 1,380 acres of salvage logging, using mostly helicopter methods, close to town, east of Greenwood Commons. We've seen great abuse of salvage logging exemptions in California.

The Economic Aspects of Ecoforestry - Spring 1995 - #19
By Hans Burkhardt

A Prescription That Makes Environmental Protection And Monetary Profits Compatible

Conference on Coast Redwood Forest Ecology and Management - Spring 1995 - #19
By

Conference on Coast Redwood Forest Ecology and Management...Announcement and First Call for Papers

Forestry Activist Work In Mendo County - Spring 1995 - #19
By Linda Perkins

Update on the activities from a Mead Foundation grant to fund meetings and workshops and monitoring of Timber Harvest Plans.

The Lorax & L-P - Spring 1995 - #19
By Mary Norbert Korte

A poemMary Norbert Korte adapted from the Dr. Suess original

 

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Garbage

The Solid Waste Franchise and the Environment - Spring 1994 - #15
Jonathan Shepard

There is a howl arising from the deserts of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and Southern California in opposition to plans being unveiled by the corporate haulers for mega-landfill pyramids of garbage on a 24 hour a day, 365 days schedule that stretches well into the next century.

Compost Hits The Fan - Winter 1995 - #18
By Vicki Oldham

Proposed new compost facility in Potter Valley causes environmental protest.

Quote of the Month - Spring 1995 - #19

 

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General

Alternatives To Wood - Spring 1994 - #15
Vicki Oldham

A look at alternatives to cutting forests to supply wood for building materials and paper products.

Famed Anti-Nuclear Environmentalist Helen Caldicott - Spring 1994 - #15

Nuclear activist Helen Caldicott to speak at the first annual Mendocino Enviro-fest on April 2, 1994.

Allen Cooperrider Wins Prestigious Award - Spring 1995 - #19
By Betty & Gary Ball

Recently, Comptche resident Dr. Allen Cooperrider, a wildlife biologist and noted expert on biodiversity, and Dr. Reed Noss have been chosen to receive the prestigious Natural Resources Council of America's (NRCA) conservation community award for outstanding achievement in the field of publication for their book Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity.

Expedition to the Channel Islands - Spring 1995 - #19
By Pelagikos

This July, August and September the Marine Research organization Pelagikos will be conducting studies of the blue whales that have begun to congregate around the Channel Islands off the Southern California Coast.

Mendocino Land Trust - Spring 1995 - #19

Goals and Purposes of the Mendocino Land Trust.

World Scientists' Warning To Humanity - Spring 1995 - #19
By Union of Concerned Scientists

The Union of Concerned Scientists issued the Scientists' Warning To Humanity at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, November 18, 1992. The Warning is just as true today as it was then, and it is even more urgent now.

 

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Government

Headwaters Forest Act Moves Forward - Spring 1994 - #15
John Kaufman and Kathleen Kempter, Forests Forever

Progress of the Headwaters Forest Act, co-authored by Dan Hamburg and Pete Stark.

SCLDF Submits Forest Plan Comments - Spring 1994 - #15
Steve Volker, Attorney for Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund

Sierra Clug Legal Defense Fund, the MEC, WEC, and other environmental organizations filed comments on several National Forest plans.

WAFC Views The Option 9 SEIS - Spring 1994 - #15
Jim Owens, Western Ancient Forest Campaign

Information on the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Option 9 plan.

The Solid Waste Franchise and the Environment - Spring 1994 - #15
Jonathan Shepard

There is a howl arising from the deserts of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and Southern California in opposition to plans being unveiled by the corporate haulers for mega-landfill pyramids of garbage on a 24 hour a day, 365 days schedule that stretches well into the next century.

Speak For The Fish! - Spring 1994 - #15

An Urgent Message from the National Marine Committee of the Sierra Club, concerning the renewal of the 1976 Magnuson Act, whose original purpose was to conserve and manage fisheries. The call is to push for amendments which would prohibit commercial overfishing.

The Endangered Endangered Species Act - Winter 1995 - #18
By Betty Ball

Compiled from the Newsletter of the Endangered Species Coalition. A look at how the "Contract With America" is a Contract ON the Endangered Species Act (ESA), as well as nearly all environmental, public welfare, public health and safety laws.

Greens Outgunned - Spring 1995 - #19
By Mark Dowie

A look at what the 104th Congress is doing to environmental laws and regulations.....Lobbying Washington for a better environment has become an almost futile endeavor. If the 103rd Congress (1992-94) did not prove the point to the environmental movement's leadership, the 104th surely will.

Ron Brown's V.I.P. Junkets - Spring 1995 - #19
By Ken Silverstein

Through the Commerce Department's efforts to promote exports, American businesses landed foreign deals worth $47 billion last year. But a little cross-referencing of the companies thus helped and of campaign contribution records and internal Democratic Party fundraising memorandums shows that for both corporations and the Administration, to give is truly to receive.

Void the Corporate Contract on America - SIN! - Spring 1995 - #19
By Betty Ball

The Corporate Agenda in the form of the "Contract with (on) America" is rushing headlong through Congress, attacking people's rights, and the environment. Scientists are warning of serious climate changes and new global diseases. Unrest, fear, discontent and dis-ease are pervasive. So, what to do? What is the antidote to all of this? Activate and organize! SIN (Stop Injustice Now). There are many organizations to join.

Thanks for the Bombs, Boys! - Spring 1995 - #19
By Jeff DeBonis

Are the extreme, anti-government rhetoric of the new Congress might be partly responsible for encouraging actions like the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The rhetoric of the right-wing, anti-regulation extremists in Congress is being matched in actions and wordsthe anti-regulation, anti-government wackos in the "wise-use" and county supremacy movements.

Puppets & Puppeteers: - Spring 1995 - #19
By Michael Colby

Democratic and Republican elected officials are increasingly no more than mere puppets in what amounts to a legislative folly. Congresspeople, senators, the president, all are beholden to an expensive electoral process that is bankrolledmoney from large corporations.

 

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Headwaters

Headwaters Forest Act Moves Forward - Spring 1994 - #15
John Kaufman and Kathleen Kempter, Forests Forever

Progress of the Headwaters Forest Act, co-authored by Dan Hamburg and Pete Stark.

Headwaters Forest Still Stands! - Spring 1995 - #19
By Judi Bari

Mass protest averts logging threat (for now).

 

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Health

Stopping Dioxin Exposure While Rebuilding Democracy - Winter 1995 - #18
By Lois M. Gibbs

Cross-section of community give public comment at nine regional hearings on the EPA's reassessment of the health effects of dioxin.

Environmental Estrogens Conference Planned - Winter 1995 - #18
By Brenda Adelman

Environmental estrogens, believed to imitate the role of natural estrogens, have motivated new theories about possible causes of human and wildlife reproductive cancers, lowered sperm counts, abnormal pregnancies, malformed reproductive systems, impaired immune systems, etc.

 

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Hemp

Hemp - Winter 1995 - #18
By Vicki Oldham

Pulling the U.S. out of it's economic & environmental woes

 

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Internet

The MEC is on the Internet - Spring 1995 - #19
By Dale Glaser

Overview of the Mendocino Ecology Web, an information and contact resource for environmental information in Mendocino County.

 

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Judi Bari

FBI Files Reveal New Civil Rights Abuses in Earth First! Bombing Case - Spring 1994 - #15
Judi Bari

Center for Constitutional Rights Joins Legal Defense, after documents released by FBI show how they used the car bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney as an excuse to conduct a sweeping campaign of surveillance of environmentalists.

Headwaters Forest Still Stands! - Spring 1995 - #19
By Judi Bari

Mass protest averts logging threat (for now).

Press Blackout - Spring 1995 - #19
By Judi Bari

Press blackout and hostile journalism...the Santa Rosa Press Democrat about Judy Bari and the Pacific Lumber issue.

 

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Masonite

State Actions Against Masonite Corporation - Spring 1994 - #15
Garry A. Flint and Julie Cook

Masonite stonewalls its requirement to abide by the Toxics Hot Spots Act and make public its sources of toxic emissions and toxic pollutants.

Real Goods Censored! - Spring 1994 - #15
Betty Ball

Real Goods gets a phone call from Masonite lawyers when its owner prints the name of one of the toxic chemicals used by Masonite in a letter to the editor of the Ukiah Daily Journal.

Masonite Public Hearing Date Set - Winter 1995 - #18
By Julie Cook

EPA tips hand in air quality controversy.

 

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MEC business

MEC Election Results - Spring 1994 - #15
Gary Ball

Election results.

 

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Native Peoples

Indian Peace Caravan to Chiapas - Spring 1994 - #15

California Indian Delegation to Deliver Indian to Indi an Aid to Mayan People in Chiapas

Round Valley Reservation Triple Slayings - Spring 1995 - #19
By Nicholas Wilson

A series of three fatal shootings in one day left two Native American men and a deputy sheriff dead, resulting in an intensive police manhunt for the alleged cop killer, while residents of the Round Valley Indian Reservation raised charges of a police cover-up and civil rights violations.

 

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Ocean Protection

Ocean Sanctuary Action Alert - Spring 1995 - #19
By Sierra Club Coastal Conservation Committee

What you can do to protect our coast from oil drilling.

 

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Peace and Justice

FBI Files Reveal New Civil Rights Abuses in Earth First! Bombing Case - Spring 1994 - #15
Judi Bari

Center for Constitutional Rights Joins Legal Defense, after documents released by FBI show how they used the car bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney as an excuse to conduct a sweeping campaign of surveillance of environmentalists.

Round Valley Reservation Triple Slayings - Spring 1995 - #19
By Nicholas Wilson

A series of three fatal shootings in one day left two Native American men and a deputy sheriff dead, resulting in an intensive police manhunt for the alleged cop killer, while residents of the Round Valley Indian Reservation raised charges of a police cover-up and civil rights violations.

La Alianza Para Derechos Humanos - Spring 1995 - #19

About the Alliance for Human Rights, an organization to defend everybody's human rights, especially the Latino people.

 

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Planning

Russian River Public Access Study - Spring 1994 - #15
Doug Strong

A comprehensive study of the Russian River watershed in Sonoma and Mendocino counties authorized by the Boards of Supervisors of the two counties.

Russian River in Peril - Spring 1994 - #15

A Conference hosted by Friends of the Russian River (FORR) focusing on fisheries, stream restoration, planning and management and gravel mining intervention.

 

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Politics

A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Old Growth Go Down - Spring 1994 - #15
Roanne Withers

History of the Option 9 Northwest Economic Development Plan.

Dan Hamburg - Winter 1995 - #18
By Doug Strong

Reflections on the last election and current politics.

A Wise Use Decoder's Guide - Spring 1995 - #19
By Ralph Maughan

Wise Use Movement...A humorous look at the language usedthe wise use movement and what it really means.

 

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Pollution

State Actions Against Masonite Corporation - Spring 1994 - #15
Garry A. Flint and Julie Cook

Masonite stonewalls its requirement to abide by the Toxics Hot Spots Act and make public its sources of toxic emissions and toxic pollutants.

Real Goods Censored! - Spring 1994 - #15
Betty Ball

Real Goods gets a phone call from Masonite lawyers when its owner prints the name of one of the toxic chemicals used by Masonite in a letter to the editor of the Ukiah Daily Journal.

 

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Toxics

State Actions Against Masonite Corporation - Spring 1994 - #15
Garry A. Flint and Julie Cook

Masonite stonewalls its requirement to abide by the Toxics Hot Spots Act and make public its sources of toxic emissions and toxic pollutants.

Real Goods Censored! - Spring 1994 - #15
Betty Ball

Real Goods gets a phone call from Masonite lawyers when its owner prints the name of one of the toxic chemicals used by Masonite in a letter to the editor of the Ukiah Daily Journal.

Stopping Dioxin Exposure While Rebuilding Democracy - Winter 1995 - #18
By Lois M. Gibbs

Cross-section of community give public comment at nine regional hearings on the EPA's reassessment of the health effects of dioxin.

 

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Watershed

Riparian Habitat Protection Ordinance - Spring 1994 - #15
Doug Strong

Friends of Navarro Watershed have attempted to develop an amendment to the County General Plan and a zoning ordinance to protect environmentally sensitive riparian zones.

Russian River Public Access Study - Spring 1994 - #15
Doug Strong

A comprehensive study of the Russian River watershed in Sonoma and Mendocino counties authorized by the Boards of Supervisors of the two counties.

Russian River in Peril - Spring 1994 - #15

A Conference hosted by Friends of the Russian River (FORR) focusing on fisheries, stream restoration, planning and management and gravel mining intervention.

The Potter Valley Project - Spring 1995 - #19
By Roger Dixon

An overview of the Eel River/P.G.&E. diversion issue...There has been much written about the recent controversy on the Eel River; some of it accurate and informative, and some not. In this series of articles Roger Dixon presents some background facts on the issue. This is the first of a multi-part series.

 

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Wise Use Movement

Meet the Wise Use Movement - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
Gary Ball

Introduction to an indepth look at a movement to establish absolute corporate control of the world.

Wise Use Nuts & Bolts - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

This long article has been broken up into a number of parts. This is the introduction to the parts listed below.

The Wise Use Agenda - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

WUM Groups at a Glance - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

WUM Supporters - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

WUM Lawyers and Legal Strategies - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

WUM Public Relations and Lobbying Groups - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

WUM Shock Troops And Spy Rings - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

WUM Weirdos - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

WIERDOS 2 - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

WUM Politicos - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

Parting Shots - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

Wise Use Movement Lists - Summer/Fall 1992 - #12
By Gary Ball

A Wise Use Decoder's Guide - Spring 1995 - #19
By Ralph Maughan

Wise Use Movement...A humorous look at the language usedthe wise use movement and what it really means.

 

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