2020 marks thirty years since Redwood Summer, a series of direct actions to protect the Redwood trees of Northern California, the creatures that lived in the habitat, and and the people that make their living on the north coast and in the Sierra Nevadas.
I participated in a few of the actions and I still cry when I remember moments of those scary and hurtful times. For those youngers who think we weren’t trying to the save the planet 30 and 40 years ago, activists have been screeching into the wind for generations.
Lauren, one of the protagonists of my novel, Falling From The Moon, is a fictional character participating in Redwood Summer. If you are not familiar with Redwood Summer, watch the official Redwood Summer recruitment video which Andy Caffrey collaborated on with Mary Liz Thomson and Tim Modok Pearson, two Video Guys Mike Roselle introduced to him. I never saw the video back then, somehow the energy just pulled me towards the trees that I love.