Written by Japhet
Topics: Agribusiness
A couple of activists up in Seattle along with our old growth team sent a strong message to Weyerhaeuser and their doting subsidiary Quadrant Homes: stop logging land and forests that belong to first nation’s communities, like Grassy Narrows. Checkout the footage at Seattle’s King 5 website:
http://www.king5.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=136719
Nicely done folks. More info on this coming soon.
Posted on 18 April 2007
Tags: agribusiness, Grassy Narrows, Quadrant-Homes, Seattle, Weyerhaeuser
After a lifetime on the East Coast and getting stuck in the Midwestern suburbs of Chicago and northern Michigan I'm finally on the West Coast in the always cool and never hot city of San Francisco. Japhet worked for various outdoor organizations before becoming a member of Howard Dean's webteam (a lowly online organizer) in Burlington, Vermont. Afterwards, he continued his election work with America Coming Together in Madison, Wisconsin where he helped increase voter turnout to the highest in state history. Now, coming back to this environmental and corporate ethics roots, Japhet is excited to put his skills to use for Rainforest Action Network.
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Nice job RAN! Brings new meaning to the term “Truth in Advertising”
Thanks for the kudos. Please also note that while Weyerhaeuser is the primary user of wood from the area, it doesn’t hold the logging license in Grassy Narrows (though they want a part in it), Abitibi does.