No protests planned for Bohemian Grove event
By MARY CALLAHAN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
The elite and secretive gathering at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio next week, greeted in past years by protesters, will go on this year without a formal demonstration, a longtime organizer said this week.
The reason?
Competing commitments, fatigue and limited time -- the same reasons so many other things don't get done in life, Camp Meeker activist Mary Moore said.
Moore, 72, first helped organize demonstrations outside the Bohemian Grove in 1980 and has been the primary torchbearer since as part of the Bohemian Grove Action Network. She said the protesters may have achieved their chief objective of bringing public attention to the annual rite.
"The corporate and government collusion that so impacts our lives today" is so "much more obvious to the average citizen" than it once was, she said.
The protests, which have drawn up to several hundred people, have been spearheaded over the past 27 years by a coalition of social and environmental organizations.
Though nothing formal is scheduled this year, it's still possible some critics will stake out the encampment, scheduled for Thursday to July 29, Moore said.
The all-male Bohemian Club, founded in 1872 by five San Francisco men seeking to connect "gentlemen" with art, literature, music and drama, has attracted some of the nation's most powerful captains of industry and government.
Members and guests who have attended the annual two-week retreat at the Bohemian Grove include presidents -- both Bushes, Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon -- one-time cabinet members including Colin Powell, George Schultz and Henry Kissinger, and industrialists Stephen David Bechtel, Leonard Firestone and David Rockefeller.
The motto of the 2,700-acre grove -- "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" -- is intended to discourage the conduct of business or world affairs during the encampment, which features elaborate rituals, dinners, plays and drag shows, speeches, drinking and parties.
Critics fear the world's government and business leaders are shaping the future without public oversight during discussions on defense, economic and public policy topics, particularly during daily "Lakeside Talks" presented by guest speakers.
"I've been saying," Moore said, "if they would publish those lakeside talks, we would go away. I don't care if they pee on trees up there or dance around in tutus."
You can reach Staff Writer Mary Callahan at 521-5249 or mary.callahan@pressdemocrat.com.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
No Protests Planned For The Bohemian Grove
No protests planned for Bohemian Grove event
By MARY CALLAHAN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
The elite and secretive gathering at the Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio next week, greeted in past years by protesters, will go on this year without a formal demonstration, a longtime organizer said this week.
The reason?
Competing commitments, fatigue and limited time -- the same reasons so many other things don't get done in life, Camp Meeker activist Mary Moore said.
Moore, 72, first helped organize demonstrations outside the Bohemian Grove in 1980 and has been the primary torchbearer since as part of the Bohemian Grove Action Network. She said the protesters may have achieved their chief objective of bringing public attention to the annual rite.
"The corporate and government collusion that so impacts our lives today" is so "much more obvious to the average citizen" than it once was, she said.
The protests, which have drawn up to several hundred people, have been spearheaded over the past 27 years by a coalition of social and environmental organizations.
Though nothing formal is scheduled this year, it's still possible some critics will stake out the encampment, scheduled for Thursday to July 29, Moore said.
The all-male Bohemian Club, founded in 1872 by five San Francisco men seeking to connect "gentlemen" with art, literature, music and drama, has attracted some of the nation's most powerful captains of industry and government.
Members and guests who have attended the annual two-week retreat at the Bohemian Grove include presidents -- both Bushes, Ronald Reagan and Richard M. Nixon -- one-time cabinet members including Colin Powell, George Schultz and Henry Kissinger, and industrialists Stephen David Bechtel, Leonard Firestone and David Rockefeller.
The motto of the 2,700-acre grove -- "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" -- is intended to discourage the conduct of business or world affairs during the encampment, which features elaborate rituals, dinners, plays and drag shows, speeches, drinking and parties.
Critics fear the world's government and business leaders are shaping the future without public oversight during discussions on defense, economic and public policy topics, particularly during daily "Lakeside Talks" presented by guest speakers.
"I've been saying," Moore said, "if they would publish those lakeside talks, we would go away. I don't care if they pee on trees up there or dance around in tutus."
You can reach Staff Writer Mary Callahan at 521-5249 or mary.callahan@pressdemocrat.com.
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