Comments on: From their home to yours http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/ The Understory is the official blog of Rainforest Action Network. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:17:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bruce Herbert http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-382086 Bruce Herbert Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:38:24 +0000 http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/#comment-382086 . The year Weyerhaeuser would not allow questions from shareholders (in the annual shareholder's meeting), one of the things they were trying to avoid talking about was the predatory clear-cutting of the Haida ancestral homelands in the Queen Charlotte Islands. A Haida elder attended the meeting, wearing a beautifully embroidered and adorned full-length ceremonial robe. Following the meeting (from which I had been physically ejected for raising a point of order -- which, incidentally, according to Robert's Rules of Order cannot be ruled out of order) this Haida elder approached me. His Haida name was Skillaaw (Thomas Abel, in English). He extended his hand to shake mine and, holding my hand, spoke in that stately, measured way that many First Nations people do: "It is not often that I get to shake the hand, of someone who has been removed from the room ... before me." That one moment made the entire undertaking worthwhile! Bruce Herbert Chief Executive Newground Social Investment http://www.newground.net . .
The year Weyerhaeuser would not allow questions from shareholders (in the annual shareholder’s meeting), one of the things they were trying to avoid talking about was the predatory clear-cutting of the Haida ancestral homelands in the Queen Charlotte Islands.

A Haida elder attended the meeting, wearing a beautifully embroidered and adorned full-length ceremonial robe.

Following the meeting (from which I had been physically ejected for raising a point of order — which, incidentally, according to Robert’s Rules of Order cannot be ruled out of order) this Haida elder approached me. His Haida name was Skillaaw (Thomas Abel, in English).

He extended his hand to shake mine and, holding my hand, spoke in that stately, measured way that many First Nations people do: “It is not often that I get to shake the hand, of someone who has been removed from the room … before me.”

That one moment made the entire undertaking worthwhile!

Bruce Herbert
Chief Executive
Newground Social Investment
http://www.newground.net
.

]]> By: Patricia North http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-2097 Patricia North Wed, 10 May 2006 23:24:21 +0000 http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/#comment-2097 Keep up the great work!! Keep up the great work!!

]]> By: manyhues http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-701 manyhues Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:06:32 +0000 http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/#comment-701 Great blog! This is the best blog on the RAN site so far. And great activism! Congratulations on the momentum from the shareholders meeting organizing this week! Great blog! This is the best blog on the RAN site so far. And great activism! Congratulations on the momentum from the shareholders meeting organizing this week!

]]> By: Susan Lubuk http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Susan Lubuk Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:59:57 +0000 http://understory.ran.org/2006/04/19/from-their-home-to-yours/#comment-699 It inspires me to see the first nations fighting for what was taken from them. We all need to learn or relearn to connect to our Mother Earth as she nourishes our needs. Keep up the fight!!!!! It inspires me to see the first nations fighting for what was taken from them. We all need to learn or relearn to connect to our Mother Earth as she nourishes our needs. Keep up the fight!!!!!

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