Well, its natural innit!!

Emma F

P.S. When they say "they're getting publicity" are we talking the woods or 
the boobs?!!

>From: Jim Tantillo <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Fwd: 'Striptease for the trees' - USATODAY.com Discussion
>Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:03:38 -0500
>
>I'd be curious to hear if anyone has any thoughts on the environmental
>ethics of THIS one.
>
>:-)
>
>Jim T.
>
>ps. I don't have the USA TODAY link but the AP release can be found at:
>
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001112/us/breast_protest_1.html
>
>
>'Striptease for the trees'
>
>WESTPORT, Calif. (AP) — It's midday in California redwood country and the
>cool, misty calm is unbroken save for a whisper of wind and the gravelly
>rumble of an approaching logging truck.
>Suddenly, a woman carrying a battered red megaphone steps onto the muddy
>road. She whips off her black stretch top and advances, forcing the big
>blue truck to stop.
>
>The driver has just encountered La Tigresa, otherwise known as Dona Nieto,
>poet, performer, conservation crusader and the new, nude thing on the
>eco-protest scene.
>
>Paul Bunyan never had to deal with this.
>
>''They don't know what hit them,'' says Nieto.
>
>If a tree falls in a forest and no one calls the media, as the
>environmental activist saying goes, nothing happened. If a bra falls in the
>forest, Nieto has discovered, the media will call you.
>
>''The traditional means were getting us nowhere fast,'' says Nieto. ''We
>have to move rapidly and we have to move efficiently. I think that what
>I've been doing is both rapid and efficient.''
>
>Rapid, indeed. Since she started her protests in mid-October, Nieto has
>been written up by several newspapers, seen on German TV, and talked about
>by conservative broadcasters Dr. Laura and Rush Limbaugh.
>
>Nieto goes bare-breasted to represent Nature and put a human face on what
>is happening to the Earth.
>
>She sometimes demonstrates alone, sometime with a few other women, on her
>campaigns against clear-cutting, the practice of removing every tree from a
>logging tract rather than selecting only some trees.
>
>''We're not saying never cut another tree again; we're saying leave
>something,'' she says.
>
>She is sometimes compared to another tree-minded woman, Julia ''Butterfly''
>Hill, whose two years of sitting in a redwood named Luna captured attention
>amid the court filings, Internet alerts and telephone campaigns that are
>the backbone of the environmental activist movement.
>
>Paul Mason of the Environmental Information Center, a watchdog of North
>Coast logging, sighs when he considers how hard it is to get people
>interested in conservation.
>
>But like the loggers she interrupts, he's intrigued by Nieto's approach.
>
>''I think that they are trying to focus on bringing attention to these
>serious issues in sort of a new and different and surprisingly effective
>manner,'' he says of Nieto and her supporters.
>
>Sherry Glaser, an actress who is working with Nieto on protecting
>Montgomery Woods, a grove of ancient redwoods they fear is threatened by
>planned logging nearby, puts it more succinctly: ''Breasts get attention.''
>With her broad smile and wicked chuckle, Nieto can be very funny. She calls
>her actions the ''Striptease for the trees.'' A documentary-in-the-making
>goes by the name the ''Bare Witch Project.''
>
>But she's serious about her campaign.
>
>Among other things, she's focused on cases where, she says, newcomers have
>bought timberland with the promise they won't log and then used a legal
>provision intended for clearing home sites to clear-cut plots as much as
>three acres each.
>
>Nieto also has protested the logging practices of the Mendocino Redwood Co.
>Activists say the company has refused to halt clear-cutting, use of
>herbicides and logging of scattered pockets of old-growth timber. Calls to
>the company by The Associated Press were not returned, although company
>officials have said in the past they are committed to conserving the land.
>
>Nieto has her critics.
>
>''Yes, they're getting publicity, but I'm not sure it's the kind of
>publicity that they really ultimately want to generate,'' says Art Harwood,
>president of Harwood Products, a family owned sawmill in Mendocino County.
>
>But Earth First! veteran Darryl Cherney sees Nieto's Earth Mother approach
>as ''putting the feminine back in the divine'' - and starting some
>interesting conversations. ''My feeling is, the destruction of the planet
>is so severe that we'd be fools not to attempt bold new tactics.''
>
>Nieto, born Donna Sue Scissors in St. Louis - she gives her age as
>''younger than a redwood tree'' — has performed her poetry and plays for
>years. She made a CD called ''Naked Sacred Spoken Word.''
>
>In her half-dozen or so appearances at logging sites around Mendocino
>County, Nieto has seen loggers stop work, seen one man leap into his pickup
>and tune his radio — loudly — to a Christian music station, and disarmed
>non-English speaking groups by delivering her keynote poem, ''I am the
>Goddess,'' in Spanish.
>
>''First they stop because - 'Oh what the heck is this!' - but then when
>they listen to what I'm saying, their heads start nodding,'' Nieto says.
>
>On a recent encounter, Nieto stopped a logging truck bound for a clear-cut
>site and recited reciting poetry to the smiling driver. ''I am the Earth, I
>am your Mother,'' went one of the lines.
>The logger listened, pulled out a disposable camera to take a few shots of
>Nieto, and then drove on, still smiling.
>
>''Loggers have a hard time getting angry with her,'' says James Ficklin,
>one of two documentary filmmakers who accompanies Nieto on her protests.

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