SOL Communications .-.. --- ...- . Signal of Love

SOL Communications Inc. is a 501c3 NGO dedicated to environmental and social projects that bring together people of many ethnicities and backgrounds. SOL has successfully supported indigenous populations, homeless advancement projects, environmental preservation, and a variety of multi-media projects designed to bring awareness to human and environmental crisis.	WHO we are ----------- Contact

The World Peace Game
http://www.wix.com/bridgetime/thegame

As in all great critical periods of history, humanity is now going through the agonizing travail of a huge and beautiful paradigm shift. Great forces of destruction are afoot and seem to be dominant at the moment, but constructive and creative forces which will redeem humanity are also being released.

Play "The World Peace Game" in your community.

The idea is to "make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone"

At present the urgent problem facing humanity is to devise ways and means of eliminating competition, conflict and rivalry. By attending "World Peace Game" meetings with people in your local community. You will learn how to communicate and create together through several channels. These channels are eventually bound to bring about transformations in each city where the game is being played. The Player of the game get's a chance to communicate and create something that helps another player move forward to the next move. In order to progress in the world peace game you must help a new player find an action in an "action dance." Come dance and Play with us.

The Battle Creek Alliance
thebattlecreekalliance.org

BCA is currently deploying three lawsuits to protect the Battle Creek watershed in northern California from irreversible destruction through clearcutting. Our suits are also protecting a 125 million dollar Salmon restoration project. BCA also comments on all Timber Harvest Reviews in the region, even outside the watershed. Our suits currently have halted between 3 and 4 thousand acres, leaving them in pristine condition. BCA also participates in the production of state-wide clearcutting campaigns, including producing the web site (right), print media, internet, television and radio public service announcements (PSA's) and assisting documentaries with aerial and on-the-ground photography.We table, we hold public debates and presentations, write articles, op-ed's and travel regularly to our state's capital to lobby for the forest. BCA volunteer membership is currently about 12, with one full time paid project manager, Marily Woodhouse. Marily also heads up BCA water monitoring, the only ongoing watershed water monitoring taking place. Project Manager: Marily Woohouse (email)

Sierra Forest / Grand Sierra Forest GIS Satellite Imagery
sierraforest.org

In January and February of 2011 we created the first ever current GIS satellite composite of the entire range of the sierras, exposing many thousands of deforested clearcuts over a 264 mile area. SOL brought onboard a Licensed GIS consultant, Marissa Fierro and purchased (a Tech Soup/ARIS donation) GIS software. We have produced an industrial strength 35 foot tall version of this for educational purposes. Other sizes as well as specific areas within the composite are being produced for other NGO's seeking to protect California forests. A full and interactive version of the GIS 2010 Sierras map can be found all three of our educational web sites. Contact this link to acquire maps, portions (like a county for instance) of the map or other questions or proposals. Our GIS brochure is here, with services we offer and further contact information.

Our first prototype GIS image was displayed at the California Air Resources Board vote in December (greenhouse gas cap and trade). Although dozens of presenters were participating, ONLY our map was picked up and published by mainstream news. UPI and AP distributed the picture of our map with one of our volunteers holding it, all over the world, including the Yahoo world-news daily slide show and many foreign news services.

Stop Clearcutting California
Stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org

Stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org is an educational library of scientific data, research and boatloads of media material. Satellite imagery of California clearcutting is maintained here, along with a video production library that includeshours of video footage of scientists, professors and clearcutting operations (both on the ground and aerial photography) that assist other organizations and producers of documentaries, television and internet media (our aerial footage of clearcutting is widely used). SCCC pioneered today's Sierra forest satellite imagery by displaying satellite images of all California forest counties. Attached to this website is a graphics library with printable posters and public service advertisements. Webmaster

No Trees 4 Gas	IF	Like This?	Clearcutting Shasta

We Must End Clearcutting
signaloflove.org

This is SOL's first clearcutting website. This website also has an extensive video library.

Small World Radio smallworldradio.net SOL is co-producing the Small World Radio project, a one hour show that blends world music with activism and world events. Small World Radio is available to any station, free of cost. Contact here for more information.			Shasta Regional Seed Cooperative In 2004 Dr. Jim Collins began teaching seed-saving in the community where SOL house is. The group's goal was to create a regional seed bank of heirloom seeds to protect future generations against the threat of GMO seed and the destructive forces of Monsanto's "Terminator" technology, threatening to kill plant life in the wild. The cooperative is humbly sewn amongst farmers in the region who annually share and expand the project. Since Monsanto often sues farmers who keep their own seed, the names and locations of cooperative members are not publicized and the cooperatives original web site removed. Email Jim Collins There is a 5 hour video course of the 2004 schooling.

Small World Radio
smallworldradio.net

SOL is co-producing the Small World Radio project, a one hour show that blends world music with activism and world events. Small World Radio is available to any station, free of cost. Contact here for more information.

Shasta Regional Seed Cooperative

In 2004 Dr. Jim Collins began teaching seed-saving in the community where SOL house is. The group's goal was to create a regional seed bank of heirloom seeds to protect future generations against the threat of GMO seed and the destructive forces of Monsanto's "Terminator" technology, threatening to kill plant life in the wild. The cooperative is humbly sewn amongst farmers in the region who annually share and expand the project. Since Monsanto often sues farmers who keep their own seed, the names and locations of cooperative members are not publicized and the cooperatives original web site removed. Email Jim Collins There is a 5 hour video course of the 2004 schooling.

	GeoEngineering Watch! geoengineeringwatch.org Scientists and many NATO governments are calling for the artificial modification of Earth's climate systems because of global warming. This means weather modification on a world-wide scale that scientists say could leave over 2 billion people without food due to draughts and other severe climate patterns being created to support 1st world nation food production. The chief proposal is SRM, basically a nano-metal spray in the atmosphere (which of course falls to Earth) to reflect sunlight, thereby cooling the planet. Citizens all over the world are concerned that these weather modification are ALREADY engaged in secret experimentation. This project tracts and publishes all news relating to both ongoing weather modification programs as well as reports from scientists and government bodies designing geoengineering programs. Webmaster SOL is the umbrealla for this website and related public relations activities.

GeoEngineering Watch!
geoengineeringwatch.org

Scientists and many NATO governments are calling for the artificial modification of Earth's climate systems because of global warming. This means weather modification on a world-wide scale that scientists say could leave over 2 billion people without food due to draughts and other severe climate patterns being created to support 1st world nation food production. The chief proposal is SRM, basically a nano-metal spray in the atmosphere (which of course falls to Earth) to reflect sunlight, thereby cooling the planet. Citizens all over the world are concerned that these weather modification are ALREADY engaged in secret experimentation. This project tracts and publishes all news relating to both ongoing weather modification programs as well as reports from scientists and government bodies designing geoengineering programs. Webmaster SOL is the umbrealla for this website and related public relations activities.

The U'wa Defense Project Terence Freitas was working on the Big Mountain project when he was introduced to U'wa (Colombia) leader Roberto Cobaria. A peaceful indigenous community of some 5,000 people, the U'wa live in the remote Andean cloud forests of northeastern Colombia, along the border with Venezuela. The U'wa hold that the Earth is their Mother and oil her blood. In 1998, Occidental Petroleum (OXY) was preparing to drill on pristine U'wa rainforest and the small tribe of about 5,000 were threatening to commit mass suicide (they had committed mass suicide when the spanish tried to enslave them) if OXY's drill bit cut into their Mother Earth. Terry, without a second thought, created the U'wa's Defense Project and began fighting with everything he had to bring the world's attention to this insane scenario. Terry's very first donation came thru SOL, from Vanguard, and led to his expedition to Colombia with Indigenous leadersLahe'ene Gay, and Ingrid Washinawatok to form a school system that would allow the U'was more communication with the outside world (to help navigate their survival). ALL THREE activist leaders were murdered by the FARC after being kidnapped and dragged around the jungle for over a week. Attorney General Ashcroft indicted six FARC guerrillas for the murders. The Freitas family issued a statement in opposition to more military aid to Colombia. Our deepest sorrow and gratitude shall forever live in the absence of their monumental lives.	U'wa leader Robert Cobaria and founder of the U'wa Defense Project the late Terence Freitas protest Oxy oil development in Los Angeles. October 1997 (Photo by Dang Ngo courtesy Footage Peace Initiative)

The U'wa Defense Project

Terence Freitas was working on the Big Mountain project when he was introduced to U'wa (Colombia) leader Roberto Cobaria. A peaceful indigenous community of some 5,000 people, the U'wa live in the remote Andean cloud forests of northeastern Colombia, along the border with Venezuela. The U'wa hold that the Earth is their Mother and oil her blood. In 1998, Occidental Petroleum (OXY) was preparing to drill on pristine U'wa rainforest and the small tribe of about 5,000 were threatening to commit mass suicide (they had committed mass suicide when the spanish tried to enslave them) if OXY's drill bit cut into their Mother Earth. Terry, without a second thought, created the U'wa's Defense Project and began fighting with everything he had to bring the world's attention to this insane scenario. Terry's very first donation came thru SOL, from Vanguard, and led to his expedition to Colombia with Indigenous leadersLahe'ene Gay, and Ingrid Washinawatok to form a school system that would allow the U'was more communication with the outside world (to help navigate their survival). ALL THREE activist leaders were murdered by the FARC after being kidnapped and dragged around the jungle for over a week.

Attorney General Ashcroft indicted six FARC guerrillas for the murders. The Freitas family issued a statement in opposition to more military aid to Colombia. Our deepest sorrow and gratitude shall forever live in the absence of their monumental lives.

Terry Freitas

U'wa leader Robert Cobaria and founder of the U'wa Defense Project the late Terence Freitas protest Oxy oil development in Los Angeles. October 1997 (Photo by Dang Ngo courtesy Footage Peace Initiative)

The BIG MOUNTAIN Project

For six years SOL Communications led an international effort to supply traditional native Dine' (Navajo) and Hopi families that were (and many still are) resisting relocation from ancestral grounds to contaminated and other unwanted regions. The location primarily was over coal. During those years (1994, prior to becoming a 501[97], until 2000) SOL made over 70 caravan "runs" from Los Angeles to the four corners region (AR, NM, CO, UT) to deliver hundreds of thousands of pounds of humanitarian supplies to the resisting families as well as Hopi elders in need. SOL also documented and filmed evidence and testimony of human rights and environmental abuse, culminating in the documentary Vanishing Prayer (Partially funded by actress Lindsay Wagner). Many local churches, ARIA and other non-profits donated food and other supplies to our caravans.

SOL's documentation led to what became known as the UN SUMMIT, when human rights officials from Geneva flew into the resisting territory and heard testimony. This event was organized and executed by SOL Communications in February 1998, during a brutal snow storm. Over 200 Dine' and Hopi attended, an overwhelming moment for the UN and support teams.

SOL also teamed up with Action Resource Center (ARC) to bring officials from Southern California Edison to the Native American miners and families to witness first hand the terrible conditions the strip mining has caused upon the people. The mine had literally swallowed and encompassed homesite's. The meeting was temporarily halted to allow Edison officials time to regather their emotions after visiting homes where children were suffering terrible respitory illness resembling black lung. In a major statement for eyes that could see, the edison officials led the power company to immediately cease ALL coal sources for Los Angles power. We are currently unaware if that circumstance still exists. The power company also sold the primary destroyer of Hopi and Navajo aquifer water, the Mojave Generating Station, in Laughlin Nevada. A 240 mile coal slurry line had decimated the aquifer. BOTH those actions can be directly attributed to our work.

SOL also spent considerable time locating uranium contamination in and around both Navajo and Hopi reservations. We also assisted in the security for Elder travel as well as arranged travel, housing and events for Elders in the LA area. These events included humanitarian award ceremonies (The House of Blues in West Hollywood), protests at Southern California Edison, Spiritual ceremonies and many occasions where events allowed the selling of Native craft such as the beautiful Dine' / Navajo rugs, which were often entrusted in our care. For enhanced security, SOL worked hand in hand with the American Indian Movement, LA chapter and the Native American security force known as the Harmony Keepers.

It is impossible to list the accomplishments of SOL during this time. Many, private and highly secure operations took place in which Native Elders entrusted SOL with specific tasks. SOL moved hundreds of vehicles and personnel during those caravans and never lost a vehicle or had a person injured.

The Flamingo Occupation In 1994 during the El Nino State of Emergency in California, SOL supported activists who had taken over an abandoned Santa Monica Flamingo Motel in a 7 day occupation to house homeless in distress, with food, equipment and media support. In the early morning SWAT Team raid, Santa Monica Chief of Police, and attorney's from RAND and Playa Vista were on site to supervise the removal of the activists while SOL documented.

The Flamingo Occupation

In 1994 during the El Nino State of Emergency in California, SOL supported activists who had taken over an abandoned Santa Monica Flamingo Motel in a 7 day occupation to house homeless in distress, with food, equipment and media support.

In the early morning SWAT Team raid, Santa Monica Chief of Police, and attorney's from RAND and Playa Vista were on site to supervise the removal of the activists while SOL documented.

Notable Benefits and Fund Raisers Produced by SOL

PETA Benefit with Iron Butterfly at the ROXY (1997)

Earth Water Air LA the first annual Earth Day march for preserving native San Gabrieleno lands. SOL produced the benefit concert at the Ash Grove in Santa Monica (1997).

Benefit for Paul Sky Horse, Native American activist and well known member of the American Indian Movement, after he was arrested on charges stemming from the transportation of the Native American Church sacrament known as peyote. Charges were dropped after NAC Elders verified the authenticity of Sky Horse's church documentation. SOL also worked closely with KPFK in Los Angeles in getting Sky Horse's (in custody) statements on the station's newscast.

Prayer Ceremony for Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson and Actor Martin Sheen, who had been arrested in Norway. We partnered with Paul Watson's second wife, playmate Lisa DiStefano and held the ceremony at Earth Trust (now known as EarthWays) in Malibu, California (1995)