Fire and Forests Roadshow

This April, a merry band of performers, activists and trainers known as the Oxygen Collective will climb aboard their forty-foot biodiesel bus and travel the West Coast for the 2004 Fire and Forests Roadshow. The trip will include 15 stops from San Francisco, CA to Bellingham, WA. Expect live music and laughter, action, video and information.

Fire has become the latest government excuse to log our precious public lands. "Thin 'em before they burn, salvage 'em after they burn," says the Forest Service. We are told that wildfire is unnatural and an imminent threat; that a burned forest is dead forever.

The issue has gone critical in Southern Oregon with the Bush proposal for the largest timber sale in modern history! From the heart of the world's most diverse conifer forest, there is a plan that would fill a line of loaded log trucks bumper to bumper from Mexico to Canada. The big lie known as the Biscuit Fire Recovery Plan is the greatest threat the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area has ever known.

In the face of these poisonous lies, the O2 Collective appears on the scene bringing evidence, science and spirit to the issue of fire in the forest. In their wake they will leave a trail of people informed, inspired and empowered to protect the land we all love.

But this Roadshow is more than just two hours of entertainment and information. In most locations they will spend a second day giving free public trainings and classroom presentations on a dozen different topics, from ecology to economics, on media and activism. See the calendar below.

Tour Posters

Here are two downloadable flyers for the 2004 Roadshow (click to download). The first is a black and white flyer with room for organizers to enter specific time and place of events scheduled. The second is a color flyer that lists all of our scheduled dates.
Check back for updated schedules and more...

Tour Schedule

April
1 Takilma: Presentation Dome School 7pm
2 Chico: Presentation Cal State 7pm
3 Chico: Community trainings Farmer's Market
4 Oakland: Presentation Mills College Student Union7pm
5 Santa Rosa: Presentation New College theatre 7pm
6 Santa Rosa: Community trainings New College
7 Davis: on the quad 11-1 p.m. UCD Lecture 5pm Presentation UCD (Wellman 106) 7pm
8 Davis: Community trainings and classroom presentations UCD
9 San Francisco: Presentation Cell Space 8pm
10 Palo Alto: Presentation Stanford University (History Corner 2)7pm
12 Arcata: Presentation HSU Founders Hall 118 7pm (campus map)
13 Arcata: Workshops at Redwood Peace & Justice Center 12-4 p.m.
14 Portland: Presentation PSU Smith Center 327 7pm (campus map)
15 Portland: Presentation Reed College Student Union 7pm (campus map)
16 Bellingham: Presentation WWU (Fraiser Hall #3) 7pm (campus map)
17 Bellingham: Community trainings and classroom presentations WWU
18 Olympia: Presentation Evergreen State College Lect. Hall 1 6pm (campus map)
19 Olympia: Community trainings and classroom visits at Evergreen
20 Eugene: Presentation UO Willamette 100 7pm (campus map)
21 Eugene: UO Amphitheatre 1:30, workshops and classroom visits UO
22 Corvallis: Earth Day outreach at OSU Stilt walkers and letterwriting!
23 Corvallis: Presentation at Intaba's (1115 South Third Street, Hwy 99W) 9pm (map)
24 Bend: Presentation at Central Oregon Community College (Hitchcock Auditorium in upper level of Pioneer Hall)

May
1 Ashland: Act For The Earth Conference SOU 7pm

On The Bus

Peg Millett, musician and long-time Earth First!er
Tim Ream, earth activist and co-director of pickAxe
Kim Marks, Forest Ethics
Rolf Skar, Siskiyou Project
Lesley Adams, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center
Laurel Sutherlin, O2 Collective Founder
Kerul Dyer, O2 Collective Founder
Forrest English, Rogue Valley Independent Media Center
Becky White, of the Sisters of the Revolution
Nathan Pundt, artist at-large
Liza Tran, Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Stu O'Neill, Peace House