Craig Stehr coming to EF! Journal office soon...

To the EF Journal Collective

My warmest spiritual greetings to all, As you know, in conversation with Rabbit and other journalistas at the EF! rondy in Vermont, I was invited to be at the house in Florida, and explore with you a relationship insofar as to what I might offer as a participant.

     Since then, I've been in Maine, and am presently staying as a houseguest with Ron Huber (EF! icon and saltwater specialist, and director of Friends of Penobscot Bay).  I wish to fly to where you are, and come to the house soon.  First off, where are you in Gainesville?  Secondly, my friends in Berkeley, CA own a hostel in Gainesville, where I could be if this develops into a longer term situation; and, I have sufficient money to maintain myself.

     I've asked Ron to telephone you to discuss possible articles of analysis re: Maine's Penobscot Bay and river.               

I will get a travel agent to obtain for me an inexpensive airplane ticket and ask my friends in Berkeley what the name of their hostel in Gainesville is called.

     For now, I ask you to respond to this, and I will show up at some point, relatively soon.  Be well, Craig

Craig Louis Stehr

Post Earth First! RRR Message

Warmest spiritual greetings, Please know that the Earth First! Round River Rondezvous held in Vermont's Green Mountains (on Romance Mountain, next to a blueberry management area), was an intense eight days from July 1-8.  

Arriving in the rain with my neo-pagan friends the Novack family farmers from Massachusetts, we set up tents in the woods above the main fire circle and tarped workshop areas.  I volunteered with the Seeds of Peace/Eastern Kitchen and bottom-lined the pots 'n pans/dishes washing pit, when not chopping vegetables for the three daily meals serving a peak of 300 Earth First!ers, assorted generic anarchists, and the general public who attended.  

The week was characterized by intense soul searching in regard to racial issues, native American colonization issues, transexual/gay lifestyles, and to what extent Earth First! has succeeded or failed in realizing a necessary diverse movement identity over the past four decades.  [Regardless of the heated debates, the February 2016 Earth First! Organizers Conference will NOT be held in Oakland!]  

The week was educational for all, mostly intelligent and respectful, not fully satisfying for everyone, and yet the EF! Green Mountain Vermont host group was gracious, in spite of receiving a disproportionate amount of the criticism for the gathering's not appearing more like a world social forum.

     The after rondy direct action took place at three locations, and to see the photos, please go to the Earth First! newswire  on the internet.

     Nota bene: I was presented with the "hero of action camp" award, a wooden handled vintage monkey wrench, given to me by the Seeds of Peace radical catering collective, for having gone beyond the third dimension to ensure that there were no cases of illness food related.

     Subsequent to the post rondy direct actions, I was driven to Bucksport, Maine for three days of rebalancing.  The EF! icon and saltwater specialist Ron Huber is picking me up tomorrow morning to visit with him in Rockland, Maine where he is director of Penobscot Bay Watch.  

I am  advocating the possible development of a saltwater issues insert for the Earth First! Journal, which may contain a CD or two; and it will not affect the price of the publication.  If you have any suggestions for this, please email Penobscot Bay Watch at coastwatch@gmail.com.

     I love all of you eco-warriors madly, Craig Louis Stehr

Craig Louis Stehr
July 9, 2015
Bucksport, Maine

To reinvent my social life in postmodern America

Hey everyone, In my zeal to reinvent my social life in postmodern America, I have discovered the Temple of Bliss in San Francisco http://www.templeofbliss.com.  As you know, I published "Not Confusing the Political with the Personal" on the NYC IMC recently, and I am really really really asking everyone to fully grok how we have to be intelligent in regard to the fact that we are NOT direct action machines for anybody or anything! We all need to be fully there for one another, which means that the entire individual is respected, not only the aspect which is politically active.  


Yo, I'm glad that the public appreciates my 40 years of radical activism in all of its manifestations, but I'd like the public to stop shopping for two minutes, and appreciate that if it weren't for the radical environmental and peace & justice frontline participants, the general public wouldn't have a future worth a shit on earth.

Thanks for listening, contact me anytime, let's give and receive more love for ourselves, 
Craig Louis Stehr

Craig Louis Stehr, 593 62nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609-1246
Email: craigstehr@hushmail.com
Blog created and maintained by Maine Earth First! participants:
http://craiglstehr.blogspot.com 

Monday, 05 March 2012
Governor Bob McDonnell's Virginia
On March 3, 2012, a group of peaceful protesters opposed to the
Republican Party's War on Women were surrounded by riot police and
dragged away under the guns of a SWAT team.
Video coverage  Click here .and here and Here

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Worshipping the Goddess
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Tuesday, 06 March 2012
by Craig Louis Stehr
This reflects the entire psychosis of patriarchy! As I have been
saying since my spiritual journey to India in 1994, the vedic-
upanishadic teaching is that the creation is from a Divine
blueprint, which is founded on a matriarchal social system for the
humanity. In the larger Indian cities, the insane chaos exists side by side with harmonious households which function beautifully because three generations of women manage them. The men are
socially equal, and active in society.


However, it is a matriarchal social system...hence "Mother India". When this is not
followed, disaster happens. This is philosophically what the natureof the problem is.


N.B. Since I left the D.C. Occupy camps in late January and
returned to California, this has been discussed seriously. I don't
know if anybody here is going to be back for the March 30th Phase
Two--Spring Offensive; we cannot decide if it is worth it. Besides,
at 62, I need a wife, and am causing everybody fits here in my
social networking attempts...how can I ignore this, and still be
realistic in frontlining the denoument of the plutocracy? You tell
me!

Craig Louis Stehr, 593 62nd Street, Oakland, CA 94609-1246
Email:craigstehr@hushmail.com

EF! musicians Jim Page & Mokai at Berkeley Subterranean Arthouse 3/12/12

A very special evening Thursday March 8th at 7:30PM at Berkeley's Subterranean Arthouse (Bancroft & Fulton), featuring Earth First! musicians Jim Page and Mokai.   
( $10, please) 
 

For it is written:

"All critical Decisions in regard to the biosphere, loss of species, wilderness defense,and the emerging face of global revolutionary environmentalism will be made." And.....

I WANT YOU TO CONTACT ME TO CO-CREATE A GREEN & BLACK PARTY AFTER.