| Grassy Narrows & Shareholders Battle Weyerhaeuser | 25 April 06 |
 Bonnie Swain of Grassy Narrows First Nation took a message from her people to Weyerhaeuser at their annual shareholders meeting April 20, 2006. She spoke for three minutes and read a powerful and eloquent letter that her sister and fellow mother Chrissy Swain wrote. Grassy Narrows First Nation, members have been blockading an Ontario logging road for three years. They have been joined by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to ramp their campaign to force Weyerhaeuser to stop buying wood from the company that logs the Grassy Narrows traditional lands. At the Weyerhaeuser shareholder meeting, RAN members nominated Swain to the board. Grassy Narrows sent a letter to Weyerhaeuser February 2006 demanding the company "Terminate all logging, buying, selling, investing, financing, and profiting from the desecration of our homeland by Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi corporations and their subsidiaries. No development will occur on our territory without the full, free, prior, and informed consent of our community." As part of the campaign, RAN recently released the report American Dream, Native Nightmare: The Truth About Weyerhaeuser's "Green" Products and Homes to educate Weyerhaeuser customers and shareholders about the company's destructive practices. Visit the Rainforest Action Network and Take Action for Grassy Narrows First Nation Visit Free Grassy Narrows web site View the April 19, 2006 News Tribune article View the RAN report: American Dream, Native Nightmare: The Truth About Weyerhaeuser's "Green" Products and Homes (PDF) Sources: Rainforest Action Network, FreeGrassy.org, News Tribune |
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