The End of Santa Cruz Earth First!?

If any of you want to see Santa Cruz Earth First! continue, then you have to let the group know it.

You MUST come to the meeting on Wednesday, 23 June at 7 pm at 224 Walnut Ave (The HUB) Suite E (Upstairs over the Bike Church) or You MUST send a donation to Santa Cruz Earth First!, POB 344, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 that arrives before the meeting on June 23rd.

Don't send a reply email saying how much you want SCEF! to continue - SHOW UP OR SEND A DONATION!

If you want SCEF! to continue and are willing to participate, support it and be active, and show it, then SCEF! will live on.

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The End of Santa Cruz EF!?

To everyone,

Uncle Dennis here with some sad news for you all.

As of Wednesday, 23 June, 2004, at 7 pm. Santa Cruz Earth First! will be gone - Unless you do something about it!

Here's the story...

For the last 6 months, the number of activists who have come to a meeting of Santa Cruz EF! can be counted on one hand. We had to move our office because we couldn't afford the rent anymore. No one has volunteered to table at the Farmer's market. I attended Earth Day on the UCSC campus and at San Lorenzo park and only one other person showed up to help, but didn't stay very long. We also made zero money those two days because every cent that was donated went to PAY for the booth space in San Lorenzo Park. The last two issues of the EF! Journal have been lost somewhere and I can't seem to locate the bundles. This means no EF! Journals for Bookshop Santa Cruz or the Sacred Grove. (or the money we normally get from those sales.)

There are some bright notes. We have an office (very small) for very reasonable rent thanks to a long time activist who squeezed us into a space he had available. We have gotten some donations that could keep us going for a few more months. We have a place to meet. We have a post office box. We have a voicemail service. We have a webpage (2 years out of date).We have a bank account with some money in it, but not much. We have a dedicated activist who has been there with SCEF! for the last 22 years and is willing to do it 25 more years, if we can, but he can't do it alone and he can't fund it all by himself.

So here's the deal...

If any of you want to see Santa Cruz Earth First! continue, then you have to let the group know it.

You MUST come to the meeting on Wednesday, 23 June at 7 pm at 224 Walnut Ave (The HUB) Suite E (Upstairs over the Bike Church) or You MUST send a donation to Santa Cruz Earth First!, POB 344, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 that arrives before the meeting on June 23rd.

Don't send a reply email saying how much you want SCEF! to continue - SHOW UP OR SEND A DONATION!

If you want SCEF! to continue and are willing to participate, support it and be active, and show it, then SCEF! will live on.

If not, then here is what I will do.

I will stop having meetings.

I will stop the voicemail.

I will close the post office box.

I will give up the office space and put the files into storage.

I will shut down the webpage and the email.

I will return the donations recently made.

I will close the bank account and send the money to the Direct Action Fund.

I will sift through all the rest and donate the useful stuff to active campaigns aound the country who need it.

I will erase the email list.

I will tell the EF! Journal collective to take Santa Cruz Earth First! off the Contact List and stop sending Journals.

I will think back on all the wonderful and powerful activists who were part of this group and miss them a lot.

I will keep working for Mother Earth and all her species in every way that I can.

In Love and Solidarity,
Uncle Dennis