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Free Grassy Narrows from Corporate Logging

Rainforest Action Network
Tough Love for Corporate America Free Grassy: Write A Letter To The Editor

This week, Grassy Narrows sent letters warning the chief executives of Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi-Consolidated to “immediately cease and desist from all logging and industrial resource extraction on our territory” or face a “fierce international campaign”.

The letter follows a decade of failed negotiations, lawsuits, environmental assessment requests, public protests, and a 3-year logging blockade. The letter asserts that decades of unsustainable logging has “poisoned our waters with mercury and other toxins, nearly eliminated our ability to practice our way of life, and robbed us of economic opportunities.”

Upon learning of Grassy Narrows' letter, newspapers in Canada, including the Canadian Associated Press and the Globe and Mail, wrote favorable stories about the Grassy Narrows issue. It's a start! But we need your help in turning the Grassy Narrows issue into the international media controversy we know it deserves to be! Now's your chance!

Please write a letter to the editor (see sample below) to the Globe and Mail at letters@globeandmail.com expressing your support for the campaign to free Grassy Narrows from unwanted corporate logging by Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi on their territory and let them manage their land as they see fit.

The Letter to the Editor section is the most popular section of the newspaper; and it gives the paper a great indication of the level of interest the public has on certain issues.

Thank you!

Your efforts can create change!
Jess, David, Brianna and Brant
RAN's Old Growth and Communications Team

P.S. Keep your eyes and ears attuned to CBC Radio and Radio Canada for any stories on Grassy Narrows. If you hear a story make sure to call the radio station and express your opinion that Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi should stop logging on Grassy Narrows' land and allow the community to manage their land as they see fit.

SAMPLE LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

I'm writing to respond to your article [please cite the article in full, including the date].

I strongly support Grassy Narrows First Nations struggle to kick logging corporations Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi off their land and regain the right to manage their land as they see fit.

The environmental and human rights violations that are taking place in Ontario on Grassy Narrows territory by multinational corporations is a tale that is being retold across Canada's vast, magical and ancient Boreal Forest, one of the largest intact forests in the world and home to about 600 indigenous communities. In fact, it's a story that's being played around the world.

Multinational corporations depend upon people like us to buy their products. It's time to support Grassy Narrows' struggle by boycotting all products that originate from endangered forests coming from their territory, including Trus Joist building products and Xerox copy paper

Enough is enough.

Signed,

Name
Affiliation (if any)
Address
Email
Phone

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posted by Annamarie at 2:24 PM