<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Interested but can't go-having a weekend with my daughter & grandson. Keep me posted!</div><div>Solidarity :)</div><div>Linda<br><br><div>"Our goal is a society that prioritizes the needs of all before the profits of the few." Passed by Occupy Boston General Assembly, 11/29/11.</div><div><br></div>Sent from my mobile.</div><div><br>On Jan 28, 2012, at 3:48 PM, rita sebastian <<a href="mailto:rita@brandeis.edu">rita@brandeis.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> I am passing along this issue. Are you interested in supporting this action?  I will announce it at the GA if no one else from the group is present.  It is important to support habitat as well as housing!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font>forwarded from: </font> </span><span style="">[Climate-a</span><span style="">ction] Fwd: [Occupy Somerville</span><span style="">]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:14px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">tour of the Silver Maple forest next</span> to the Alewife Forest if anyone is interested this Sunday at 12 pm. Meet at the bus dropoff/pick up at alewife t-station. 
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The
Silver Maple Forest, adjacent to and unofficially part of the</span><br style="">
<span style="">Alewife Reservation, is slated to be destroyed to
make way for development.</span><br style="">
<br style="">
<span style="">Although the forest has important environmental
benefits to the</span><br style="">
<span style="">surrounding communities, mainstream conservation
groups have been unable</span><br style="">
<span style="">to stop plans to raze the trees.</span><br style="">
<br style="">
<span style="">Are there any environmental-concerned
anti-authoritarians out there</span><br style="">
<span style="">willing to learn more about the issue in order to
formulate strategies</span><br style="">
<span style="">and tactics to preserve the forest?</span><br style="">
<br style="">
<span style="">The Alewife Reservation is located right across
the street from the</span><br style="">
<span style="">Alewife T station of the Red Line, making it
highly accessible to urban</span><br style="">
<span style="">residents.  Home to deer, coyote, foxes, and
other wildlife, it's used</span><br style="">
<span style="">by various people in the community, including kids
from the nearby</span><br style="">
<span style="">public housing development, and
"homeless" people who make camp there.</span><br style="">
<span style="">There's no physical boundary between the
publicly-owned reservation and</span><br style="">
<span style="">the privately-owned area known as the Silver Maple
Forest or the Belmont</span><br style="">
<span style="">Uplands.  As far as animals are concerned,
it's one whole wilderness.</span><br style="">
<span style="">O'Neill Properties wants to make a profit by
cutting down the Silver</span><br style="">
<span style="">Maple Forest on the land it owns in order to erect
houses there, even</span><br style="">
<span style="">though its on a floodplain and is unsuitable for
building.</span><br style="">
<br style="">
<span style="">Several groups have tried to work within in the
system to save the</span><br style="">
<span style="">forest, trying to get court injunctions, EPA
protection, petitioning the</span><br style="">
<span style="">state of Massachusetts and adjacent cities to buy
the land, but private</span><br style="">
<span style="">property law and the profit motive have trumped
all their efforts.</span><br style="">
<br style="">
<span style="">We need to preserve the commons and protect the
environment by defending</span><br style="">
<span style="">this urban forest.</span><br><div><br></div><div>A private developer <span style="">wants to put in a housing development w/ 300 units
and 600 parking</span><br style="">
<span style="">spaces in the middle of this beautiful 120 acre
reservation. The Belmont</span><br style="">
<span style="">Coalition and Friends of the Alewife Reservation
have been fighting it</span><br style="">
<span style="">in the courts for years and another ruling is
scheduled for this Spring</span><br style="">
<span style="">so they're reaching out to local environmental
activists to help out.</span><br style="">
<span style="">More info is below - check out their web sites for
a good synopsis of</span><br style="">
<span style="">what's gone down so far.</span></div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div><span style="">petition:  </span><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/save-cambridges-silver-maple-forest"><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/save-cambridges-silver-maple-forest">http://www.change.org/petitions/save-cambridges-silver-maple-forest</a></a></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style=""> They can contact Ben at</span><br>
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