126-150

“Roy stood rooted in the center of the road. He had an important decision to make and quickly. From one direction came the police car; running in the other direction were his two best friends.”

This quote is relevant to the book and to real life situations. Roy couldn’t decide whether to flag down the police officer to get them to the hospital faster or whether to run after what were closest to his friends. He decided to run after his friends and stick with them.

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Could you imagine walking down the street in your new mink coat and having someone come up behind you and spray paint it? This act of eco sabotage used to be done on a regular basis in the 1990s. Eco sabotage is every crime or act done to emphasize the importance of the environment or certain animals. As shown by (author) in Hoot, eco-sabotage, the destruction of property by vandals, is ethically justified in certain situation and can also be effective in solving some environmental issues.

week 3 # 1

“I’m going this way”
“see ya”
the cklickadee clack of someone’s shoes
wooooow
squeak of breaks on a car
door bounces then settles closed
sand squishes underneath shoes
the bang bang of the ropes on the flag pole
beats like a drum
boom boom bang boom
click of the camera
vroom vroom

I read an article about eco sabotage that took place Portland Oregon. It was about the animal liberation front and it talked about how they did any act of eco sabotage. They spray painted the car and garage of a employ that worked at Wachovia. “This is a warning to Wachovia,” the statement said. “Sell your shares in GSK or the ALF will continue to target the homes and property of your employees.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070314-1337-wst-animalrightsradicals.html

Another article has a list of eco sabotage actions. One of the examples was talking about how First Earth raided a vaccine facility and rescued 150 minks. Another story that was listed was about how they again saved minks. This time they saved 5,000 minks and 4,500 other animals.
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2001/freedom/ecoterrorism.htm

The last story talks about yet another act of eco sabotage. This one talks about how a company is building pipelines. The article does not state where this is happening it just says that they are going to build pipelines for gas. In efforts to try to stop this people from first earth are sitting on the machinery so that they can’t work. http://earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/node/2500

week 2 # 2

I walk into the common room
And the T.V. blurts out we did it.
As I look to see what show was playing
It was the real world
The show is put on hold to show some ads
The microwave begins to beep
That means that someone’s food is done
I look over and Edith has cooked Easy Mac
Sang with her red rimmed glasses
Sprawled out on the cough
The show comes back on
After about 5 minutes of ads
Kyle comes into the common room
“It’s 10:30 in room time”
Sang turns off the TV
We then go to our rooms.

brainstorm

For my paper topic I was thinking that I could combine paper topic number one with tree because they are similar and trying to display the same message. I feel that there are certain times where eoc-sabotage could be a very affective approach to solving some environmental problems. There are times when someone is doing something to the environment that is just not right and it may be that the only way to deal with the issue is to use eco-sabotage. One example of this is in the book hoot. The construction manager, Curly, knows that there are owl burrows on the property that he plans to build on. He is more concerned about getting the pancake house built then whether the owls survive. Because of the mans attitude if one tried to convince him to not build on that construction sight, just through a simple conversation it wouldn’t go over so well. This would be an instance where the only way to get him from building on top of the owls would be to use eco-sabotage. I also feel that there is nothing wrong with environmental protests as long as it is not hurting anyone or thing. A protest like spiking trees is perfectly fine because the tree is not affected in a bad way by the spikes and it is also not hurting anyone else. The only thing it does is makes it so that you can’t cut down the trees because it would ruin your blade.

Walking around town. There is an old yellow building. The sign on the side says library hours. Entering the building I hear people talking. Downstairs there are two separate rooms. One room is meant for children and the other is meant for young adults. A off white table has a stack of books on it. The top story is the tree little pigs. Now in a different part of town. The sand squeaks under my shoes as I walk. Down the street there is a dunkin’ donunts. Upon entering the dunkin’ donuts I hear “ sorry we are all out of that” the old man with gray hair thought of something else to get instead and ordered that. The little kid is deciding what he wants. He points with excitement, “ I want that one” although he cannot pronounce the name of the donut he begins to spell the letters on the name card. C-h-o- c- o- l- a- t- e…” the little boy got just what he asked for. As I was trying to cross the street I noticed that there was a build – upon sand where the grain was. The sand was not as pretty as the sand that u find at the beach. This sand was a dirty gray color with some brown dirt mixed in it. After standing there for what seemed like forever someone finally let me cross the street. When i got back to the van everyone was waiting there except of r Tom Morgan. The clock changed from 2:26 to 2:27. We still had three minutes until we had to be back at the van.