In Loving Memory of Jamie "Root" McGuinn

Click to Play Jamie "Root" McGuinn was active with North Coast Earth First!, in the Mattole and on Gypsy Mountain, and was also involved with the resistance to mountaintop removal and development on the East Coast, in West Virginia and North Carolina. Jamie "Root" McGuinn was killed in a motorcycle accident with a logging truck, on October 5, 2006, in North Carolina. This video is from a logging protest in Eureka, CA, when Root climbed up on a logging truck, which had been stopped by activists on Hwy 101 North, just in front of the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department and Courthouse.