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We have hauled shovels to
Jarbidge, Nevada to rebuild their road in defiance of USFS who want it
closed. We have convoyed a casket of comment letters to Missoula for
a rally and public comment meeting on the roadless initiative. We
have hauled logs to Eureka to support Jim Hurst and loggers everywhere in
their struggles with the Forest Service. We have convoyed to Darby,
Ohio to support farmers there whose lifestyle is threatened by a proposed
federal nature reserve. NOW WE WILL CONVOY WATER
TO THE KLAMATH BASIN FARMERS
A convoy will be staging in Kalispell and leaving at 9 a.m. the
morning of Saturday, August 18. Scheduled to arrive at Klamath Falls
evening of August 20. THE BIG DAY IN KLAMATH: speakers, bands,
parades, giant buckets and more The Montana Convoy will be merging along
the way with others forming in other states. THIS PROMISES TO BE A
BIGGIE ! ! We will bring water from our favorite fish or swimming
holes to pour in the irrigation canal. Donations, food, and
participants . . . all welcome!! Flags, bumper stickers, hand-outs,
vehicle decorations . . tastefully done. Details will be available as they
develop. More e-mails to follow as news is available. Listen to KGEZ
on the Edge radio station, Z-600 AM http://www.z600.com/
Most Complete Coverage during the Talk Show 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Mountain Time
CALL IN PHONE NUMBER: 406/752-2600
Show hosts love to hear from everyone, everywhere. This event
results from ALL-AMERICAN concern to be participated in by ALL-AMERICANS .
The purpose is to provide support to the Klamath farmers as
well as farmers nationwide who have become victims of the Endangered
Species Act and have now become one of the most threatened of the
endangered species..
Call for further Information:
Clarence Taber, Pres.
MFMU 406/892-8722
Joyce Hollopeter, MFMU, Staging Coordinator:
406/752-1334
Jane Strash, Montana Convoy Coordinator 406/756-7426
Montanans for Multiple Use (MFMU)
http://www.mtmultipleuse.org/mfmu_2000.htm
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Additional convoys are
being formed in other states as follows: Contact info will be
provided as available. This Information Release from Frederick
Schwarz:
Because the Bureau of Reclamation shut off irrigation water to the farmers
of the Klamath Basin and Tule Lake areas of Oregon and California, as many
as 5000 farmers, many families of whom have held water rights since WWI,
and countless support businesses, are facing bankruptcy. The water was cut
off by exercising the Endangered Species Act which "emergency
listed" a sucker fish, whose listing would not have otherwise stood
scientific scrutiny, at cost of honest and hard-working peoples' lives.
Convinced that the federal government was illegally taking vested water
rights, Klamath Basin area citizens formed an ad-hoc "Klamath Bucket
Brigade", modeled after the Elko County, Nevada, "Jarbidge
Shovel Brigade", in ... 2000. This Bucket Brigade was formally
incorporated in July, 2001.
The Jarbidge Shovel Brigade will assist the newly-incorporated Klamath
Bucket Brigade Inc. in their efforts to help Klamath Basin farmers. Three
caravans of Jarbidge Shovel Brigade volunteers and supporters will
converge on Klamath Falls on August for a monster rally and
demonstration of their resolve to continue the fight for property rights
of the beleaguered
Klamath farmers.
One caravan will proceed from Eureka, Montana, via northern Idaho and
central Washington, to Klamath Falls, Oregon. A second caravan will
proceed from Elko, Nevada, via Utah and southern Idaho along the Snake
River, to Klamath Falls. A third caravan will proceed from Elko, Nevada to
Los Angeles, then along the central valley of California, to Klamath Falls. Caravans
will take several days to make the journey and raise money and one Elko
caravan will carry the huge Jarbidge shovel, a symbol of resolve of
citizens to successfully prevent the fed from taking an Elko County
right-of-way. Both Elko caravans will carry monster buckets, fabricated in
the pattern of Comstock miners' shaft-sinking and ore-hoisting buckets.
The Eureka caravan will display the "grim reaper" reminder of
the lives and livelihoods destroyed by the fed closing productive lands to
beneficial use.
Monies raised by the caravans will be used to aid Klamath farmers to
resist the federal pressure to sell out, and will also provide
"seed" money for further efforts to assure that the water is
turned on in the spring of 2002. |
