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WORLDWIDE FOREST/BIODIVERSITY CAMPAIGN NEWS

RAN--Mitsubishi Boycott Builds with Haiku Project

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Forest Networking a Project of Ecological Enterprises

2/5/96

OVERVIEW & SOURCE

Following is Rainforest Action Network's February, 1996 action

alert. They appeal for continued support of a boycott against the

Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan, whom they call "the greatest

destroyers of forest on Earth". Specifically, RAN appeals for

haiku poems to be sent to Mitsubishi corporation asking that their

wanton forest destruction discontinue. RAN exhorts concerned

international citizenry to "look deep inside yourself and find the

message that will change Mitsubishi Corporation's philosophy."

The item is from RAN's excellent WWW server at:

http://www.ran.org/ran/

g.b.

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Action Alert 117 - February, 1996

Mitsubishi Boycott Builds With Haiku Project

Mitsubishi please

You are killing plants and trees

Let them live in peace.

--Jason Heilig, Age 10

Spring is on its way. In the activist's calendar, that means one

thing: It's time to send a haiku to Mitsubishi Corporation (MC),

the greatest destroyers of forest on Earth. The RAN-sponsored

Mitsubishi boycott is gaining momentum, so it is now more

important than ever to keep intense pressure on the company.

In late November 1995, MC representatives came to RAN's offices in

San Francisco in hopes of negotiating an end to the boycott. The

setting must have struck the executives as a bit ominous. Tucked

in among the skyscrapers visible through the conference room

windows is the 23-story Bank of California tower, which two RAN

activists had climbed the month before, and unfurled from the top

a giant, 1,200 square foot banner that proclaimed "Stop

Mitsubishi's Rape of Mother Earth: Boycott Mitsubishi's

Bank of California!"

Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America and Mitsu