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| Activists
prepare for counter-Bohemian Grove ritual |
| BABYLON
OBSERVER COMMENTS: They're gathering again
for the "Cremation of Care" Ritual
in which they will throw what they call a
mock sacrifice in an "eternal
fire" for a giant owl idol. The so
called Christian Leaders. But Babylon Will
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Activists prepare for counter-Bohemian Grove
ritual
July 11, 2003
By JEREMY HAY
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Activists are gearing up to protest the annual
summer retreat of San Francisco's Bohemian Club,
saying what happens in secret amid the 2,700 acres
of privately owned redwoods in Monte Rio
influences policies that shape people's lives
around the world.
The first campers are expected to arrive today and
the first protests are set for Saturday.
The protests are intended to draw attention to the
"ways in which the members of the Bohemian
Grove use their power to negatively affect the
lives of people locally and globally," said
Susan Lamont, one of the organizers.
Bohemian Club members have long maintained that
the three-week encampment is a chance for men from
varied social, economic and cultural backgrounds
to simply relax and enjoy a schedule of
thought-provoking lectures, theater and musical
performances.
Activists call that a naive assessment of what
goes on in the Bohemian Grove, where club members
and summer guests have included presidents and
cabinet secretaries, senators and corporate
chieftains, as well as journalists, academics and
musicians.
Combine that roster of heavyweights with the
topics raised in the twice-daily Lakeside Talks,
and, in effect, said longtime activist Mary Moore,
the encampment is a "way to float public
policy ideas without public discussion."
Furnishing a partial list of Lakeside Talks dating
to 1980 -- speakers have included former Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger, former CIA Director
James Woolsey and U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia -- Moore notes a July 17, 1981,
speech by then-Secretary of Defense Caspar
Weinberger titled "Rearming America."
"If you look at your history," she said,
"that's exactly what happened in the
following years."
Moore is stepping aside from organizing the
protests -- "Fresh blood needs to come
in," she said -- but will speak on the
history of the anti-Bohemian Grove movement at a
community forum Saturday.
The 2 p.m. event at the Monte Rio Union Elementary
School also will include discussions on
globalization and corporate misconduct. Hours of
protest theater and a march to the grove's
entrance are set for July 19 to coincide with the
retreat's highest attendance.
Organizers also have asked people who oppose the
protests to speak, hoping to alleviate the
concerns, especially of local business owners,
that the activism disrupts the small resort town
when it is ever more dependent on visitor good
will and dollars.
"The grove supports this community
wholeheartedly, and they employ about 800 people
who then spend their money in this town,"
said Greg Haas, owner of the Pink Elephant, a
Monte Rio saloon.
"What we get recognized for is these
protests," he said. "What we should get
recognized as is 'Monte Rio, Vacation
Wonderland.'"
Haas said he will deliver that message at the
Saturday forum -- "I was very pleased, very
taken aback to be asked," he said -- and will
urge the protesters to take their fight instead to
the Bohemian Club's imposing San Francisco
headquarters.
"They could get a whole lot more attention
there for their cause, if that's what they
want," he said.
Lamont said she hopes that Haas will instead find
himself swayed by activists' arguments that
policies advanced by the Bush administration --
members of whom have attended the summer retreat
-- are, in fact, the cause of some of Sonoma
County's economic woes.
"We're trying to explain that those policies
are taking more away from the county than they
could ever get back from the grove," she
said.
You can reach Staff Writer Jeremy Hay at 521-5212
or jhay@pressemocrat.com.
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