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04/21/00
OVERVIEW
& COMMENTARY
Boise
Cascade is being forced to take responsibility for their
ecological
and social misconduct. After
devastating forests
elsewhere,
they are exerting tremendous pressure to access Chile's
marvelous
temperate rainforests, and are associated with human rights
abuses
to prevent protest to their Mexican logging.
Please take part
in a
day of protest planned for April 26th--make calls and send
letters,
and get involved in this exciting campaign.
g.b.
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ITEM #1
Title: DAY OF ACTION AGAINST BOISE CASCADE OFFICE
PRODUCTS
Source: American Lands Alliance & Rainforest
Action Network
Status: Copyright 2000, contact source for
permission to reprint
Date: April 21, 2000
Today
in Boise, Idaho activists scored a victory for endangered
rainforests
when they took over the Boise Cascade shareholder meeting.
Over
100 protesters chanted outside while seven activists inside
demanded
that Boise Cascade "get out of Chile's rainforests" and
called
for justice for jailed Mexican farmer-ecologist Rodolfo
Montiel.
THE
GOOD NEWS: today's corporate responsibility shareholder resolution
passed!
THE BAD
NEWS: Boise Cascade CEO George Harad said they do not have to
make
the changes shareholders requested, the Chile project is good and
they
never heard of Rodolfo Montiel or the farmer-ecologists in
Guerrero.
Last
week Rodolfo received the Goldman Environmental Prize for
fighting
Boise Cascade's logging of old growth forests of Guerrero,
Mexico.
Rodolfo was tortured with electric shock last May when the
Mexican
military arrested him along with a companion Teodoro Cabrera.
An
international campaign to gain their release headed by the Goldman
Foundation's
Human Rights and the Environment Campaign is shining a
spotlight
on the environmental destruction and human rights violations
that
resulted from Boise Cascade's logging in Guerrero.
In
Chile, Boise Cascade plans to build the world's largest chip mill
in the
heart of Chile's endangered temperate rainforests near Puerto
Montt.
Chile is home to one-third of the world's remaining old growth
temperate
rainforests Chile's native forests are one of the world's
natural
treasures: more than 90 % of animal and
plant life in Chile's
forests
are endemic and they contain the highest species diversity
among
the world's temperate forests.
However,
the Central Bank of Chile has found that Chile's native
forests
will be completely deforested in just twenty years if current
practices
remain unchanged. Chileans working to protect these forests
from
the Boise Cascade threat add that local tourism, farming and
salmon
industries will lose 50,000 local jobs if Boise Cascade logs
the
pristine forests they depend on for clean water and recreational
opportunities.
Despite
today's partial victory, we still have a long way to go to
stop
the massive Cascada Chile project and free Rodolfo.
WHAT
YOU CAN DO TO HELP:
1) TAKE
ACTION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26 AT A BOISE CASCADE OFFICE PRODUCTS
STORE
NEAR YOU
2) CALL
OR WRITE BOISE CASCADE OFFICE PRODUCTS CEO AT 1-800-472-6473
Boise
Cascade Corporate Headquarters
800 W.
Bryn Mawr Ave.
Itasca,
Ill 60143
1-800-47-BOISE
(26473)
3) ASK
YOUR UNIVERSITY WHERE THEY BUY THEIR PAPER AND IF IT IS BOISE
CASCADE,
CALL ON THEM TO CANCEL THE CONTRACT or PROTEST THE UNIVERSITY
PROCUREMENT
POLICY
For
more information contact:
Pat
Rasmussen
American
Lands Alliance
mailto:prasmussen@igc.apc.org
PO Box
154
Peshastin,
WA 98847
Phone:
509-548-7640
Jennifer
Krill
Rainforest
Action Network
mailto:jkrill@ran.org
http://www.ran.org
415/398-4404
x 307
Matt
McGovern-Rowen
Native
Forest Network
<mcgov@wildrockies.org>,
406-542-7343
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