Here it is! Premiering right now at youtube is my latest Andy Caffrey's Time Machine documentary! It's called The Spirit Lives on the Mountaintop: Earth First! and the Apache on Mount Graham aka Uprising on Mount Graham, vol 2. All of it is footage from two post-Round River Rendezvous actions after the 1993 Mount Graham Rendezous. It has an amazing cast of characters, ranging from the coolest cop in the country (at least regarding direct actions and ending the War on Drugs) Oathkeeper Sheriff Richard Mack to Earth Liberation Front Vail ski lodge arsonist Avalon (pre-ELF days).
Apparently it was my 1990 Redwood Summer Prescott College road show and video that recruited Avalon into Earth First! in 1990 and to be the first one arrested a day later fighting to protect Mount Graham (which is what he's talking about in the interview), which he came to deeply love! This might be his only interview.
Great music from Scotty Johnson, Jeremiah Wallack, Darryl Cherney and Lone Wolf Circles. Great sound and some of my best footage. Spiritually moving, rowdy, obstreperous, No Compromise! Watch it fullscreen, turn the music up and sink into your chair for 97 minutes and experience the action almost as if you were/are there. Tap into the energy! The Spirit Lives on the Mountaintop! These were sort of the last days of old guard Earth First! The following rendezvous was in Katuah/western North Carolina/east Tennessee in 1994 and a whole new thing
I hope you like the video and will appreciate any comments, impressions, etc. you may want to share about this video, especially reminiscences from those who were there or involved in the Mount Graham campaign since dozens of you are in this video! You can also check out the original 35-minute 1990 video "Uprising on Mount Graham" vol 1 via the link on this youtube page.
Here's a link to one of the "video singles," Darryl's "You Can't Clearcut Your Way to Heaven"
For those of you who don't know, I'm running for Congress from the North Coast of California (and amazingly I'm going to win as an Earth First! medical marijuana Green via the Democratic party!). I will be taking this video around to my campaign stops and any other events anybody would like to arrange. So please let me know if you would like to set up a showing or campaign event. You can reply to this email or write to
Please check out http://CaffreyForCongress.org
and my youtube channels:
http://youtu.be/AndyCaffrey (everything that I myself have shot or edited and a few long EF! documentaries by others
http://youtu.be/CaffreyForCongress (videos about me and the campaigns I'm involved in).
For a New Green America,
Andy
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