Tape 31: Gypsy's Death
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Contributor
Julia Butterfly Hill
Geraldine Goldberg
Episode Description
G: Julia Butterfly is joining us from high atop a redwood tree as her two hundred and eighty-eighth day of her tree sit, welcome to KHSU again Julia.
J: Hello Geraldine, thank you so much.
G: Thanks for joining us. Last week the community was shocked to hear of the untimely death of another EarthFirst! activist, | am wondering if you can let our listeners know how you first heard about that and what you did.
J: Well, I found out about David Gypsy Chain being killed under a tree being logged shortly after it happened, by an activist calling me in tears. And my very first response was to call my mother and ask her to pray with me. My mother is a very spiritual woman who believes, just as I do, in the power of prayer and in the understanding that it doesn’t matter what name we pray to, that it is the manifestations of our intentions that are important and we gathered together over the phone and we began to pray. And we prayed number one that the people that were there and the people that were closest to David that they would be given love and strength during this great time of sorrow, and that David’s death would not be in vain, that people would see that the violence here has got to stop that it has been escalating over time and now someone has given their life, has lost their life because of the anger that has been growing in this area and the hostility. And the third thing I prayed for was just the strength to dig down deep and continue finding the love that I need to have to share with others, to help them see that love is the most powerful thing and that we have got to stop stooping to this anger and violence.
Broadcast Date
9-22-1998
Filename
19980922
Language
English
Digital Format
MP3
File Size
4.94 MB
Duration
6:30
Collection
KHSU
Recommended Citation
"Tape 31: Gypsy's Death" (1998). Julia Butterfly Hill Interviews. 31.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/juliabutterflyhill/31