[Street] interested in this action? Tour of a local forest threatened by development - Sunday at noon

Linda Jenkins lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 29 00:14:49 EST 2012


Interested but can't go-having a weekend with my daughter & grandson. Keep me posted!
Solidarity :)
Linda

"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.

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On Jan 28, 2012, at 3:48 PM, rita sebastian <rita at brandeis.edu> wrote:

>  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!
> 
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> 
> forwarded from:  [Climate-action] Fwd: [Occupy Somerville]
> 
> 
> tour of the Silver Maple forest next 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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> 
> The Silver Maple Forest, adjacent to and unofficially part of the
> Alewife Reservation, is slated to be destroyed to make way for development.
> 
> Although the forest has important environmental benefits to the
> surrounding communities, mainstream conservation groups have been unable
> to stop plans to raze the trees.
> 
> Are there any environmental-concerned anti-authoritarians out there
> willing to learn more about the issue in order to formulate strategies
> and tactics to preserve the forest?
> 
> The Alewife Reservation is located right across the street from the
> Alewife T station of the Red Line, making it highly accessible to urban
> residents.  Home to deer, coyote, foxes, and other wildlife, it's used
> by various people in the community, including kids from the nearby
> public housing development, and "homeless" people who make camp there.
> There's no physical boundary between the publicly-owned reservation and
> the privately-owned area known as the Silver Maple Forest or the Belmont
> Uplands.  As far as animals are concerned, it's one whole wilderness.
> O'Neill Properties wants to make a profit by cutting down the Silver
> Maple Forest on the land it owns in order to erect houses there, even
> though its on a floodplain and is unsuitable for building.
> 
> Several groups have tried to work within in the system to save the
> forest, trying to get court injunctions, EPA protection, petitioning the
> state of Massachusetts and adjacent cities to buy the land, but private
> property law and the profit motive have trumped all their efforts.
> 
> We need to preserve the commons and protect the environment by defending
> this urban forest.
> 
> A private developer wants to put in a housing development w/ 300 units and 600 parking
> spaces in the middle of this beautiful 120 acre reservation. The Belmont
> Coalition and Friends of the Alewife Reservation have been fighting it
> in the courts for years and another ruling is scheduled for this Spring
> so they're reaching out to local environmental activists to help out.
> More info is below - check out their web sites for a good synopsis of
> what's gone down so far.
> 
> petition:  http://www.change.org/petitions/save-cambridges-silver-maple-forest
> 
>  They can contact Ben at
>             617-894-2115       or send an email to this listserv or spoon987654321 at yahoo.com.
> 
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> 
> -- 
> Rita Monestersky- Sebastian
> Brandeis, MA SID' 2009
> 
> Martin Luther King wrote that “In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience.”
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