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DAY OF ACTION – APRIL 4th

 

STOP BOISE CASCADE!!

 

NATIONAL EVENT CALLS FOR SCHOOLS TO STOP BUYING FOREST DESTRUCTION,

DON’T BUY BOISE CASCADE

 

Students from all over the nation are gearing up to take part in this

year’s Tree Free Paper Campaign Day of Action. Schools across the

country will be organizing to encourage their administrations to make

the transition to use ecologically sound paper, and cancel contracts

with Boise Cascade Office Products. Several schools, like Indiana

University, the University of North Carolina and Maine’s College of the

Atlantic, will be celebrating recently kicking companies, like Boise

Cascade Corporation, out of their schools and their switch to 100% post

consumer, chlorine-free recycled paper.

 

BOISE CASCADE: GLOBAL FOREST DESTROYER

 

Boise Cascade is not only one of the nations largest suppliers of paper

to college campuses, but also one of the worlds most destructive logging

companies. Boise is a top logger of old growth forest on our public

lands, imports ancient forest products from Brazil, Chile, Russia and

Canada, and continually seeks out new forests to exploit. Because of our

nation’s senseless waste of paper, thousand-year-old trees die every

day, while corporate behemoths, like Boise Cascade Corporation reap huge

profits. But because Boise Cascade needs your schools’ business, we

have the power and the responsibility to stop their destructive logging!

 

JOIN US!!

 

Two years ago, Rainforest Action Network, American Lands Alliance, Free

the Planet, Student Environmental Action Coalition, ReThink Paper,

National Forest Protection Alliance, and Forest Ethics joined forces to

aid students across America to drive Boise Cascade and other old growth

predators, off our nation's campuses. Many more school administrators

across the country are heeding the call, and beginning to act.

 

PLAN AN EVENT

 

Does your school have a contract with Boise Cascade? Is there a Boise

Cascade/ Boise Cascade Office Products location near you? Let us know

how we can help you organize a great event and join in solidarity with

others around the nation as we tell Boise Cascade: STOP LOGGING OLD

GROWTH FORESTS!!

 

Help spread the word by letting us know what you have accomplished and

what your future plans are. Organize an event; set up an information

table on campus and recruit help; start a petition drive; generate a

local news story; set up a meeting with your procurement officer or do

some creative direct action.

 

CONTACT

 

Martin Stephan at Rainforest Action Network, or Anne Martin of American

Lands (see contact info. below) so we can provide support for the great

work you are doing on your campus! We would be happy to send you

stickers, campaign materials and help you plan/strategize for your

event.

 

To sign up for the Tree Free Paper Campaign list serve to communicate

with other students involved in this campaign, send a message to:

treefreecampus

 

For a downloadable Tree Free Paper Campaign action packet and factsheets

on Boise Cascade, go to RAN's web site at http://www.ran.org.

 

For information on Chile go to:

www.americanlands.org/imperiled_forests.htm and Myths and Facts about

Boise Cascade go to: www.americanlands.org/boise_myths_ & _facts.htm.

 

Hard copies of the Student Action Packet are available from Free the

Planet - Contact Michelle Sprague - michelle,

(202) 547-3656.

 

For Stop Boise Cascade stickers or other campaign information contact:

Martin Stephan, Rainforest Action Network, mstephan (415)

398-4404 x335 or Anne Martin, American Lands Alliance,

annem, (775) 786-1658.

 

For a listing of high PCW copier papers and information on availability,

performance and other ecological paper-related issues, contact: Nancy

Hurwitz, ReThink Paper; rtp, 503-668-5123.