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6/7 THURS: Boreal Forest Films @ Times Up
Jun 5, 2007
Focus: Environment
Action Request: Think About
Location: United States
Boreal Forest Film Night

Join us for films and a slide presentation on struggles by indigenous communities and grassroots environmental groups to defend the boreal, using corporate pressure campaigns and direct action
WHEN: Thursday, June 7, 2007, 8PM
WHERE: Times Up! Space, 49 East Houston St between Mott and Mulberry Streets
WHO: Sponsored by Wetlands Activism Collective and Times Up!
MORE INFO:  Call (347) 293-2217 or email activism@wetlands-preserve.org
DIRECTIONS: B, D, F, or V to Broadway-Lafayette Streets, 6 to Bleecker Street, or N or R to Prince Street.

ABOUT THE BOREAL FOREST: If you care about clean air and water, you care about the Boreal Forest. Stretching from Alaska clear across Canada to the Atlantic Ocean, the Boreal is an astonishing wilderness, one of the largest intact ecosystems in the world. It holds more freshwater than anywhere else on the planet, and plays an essential role in cleaning the air that we breathe and in fighting climate change. It is also habitat to rare species of wolves, bears, and woodland caribou, as well as half of North America's songbirds.  Currently, less than 8% of the Boreal is protected. It is being logged at a rate of two acres a minute, 24 hours a day, much of it to make things like catalogs, junk mail, magazines, newspapers and toilet paper.

Featuring:
AS LONG AS THE RIVERS FLOW
The Story of the Grassy Narrows Blockade
2,500 square miles of forests, lakes and rivers north of Kenora, Ontario have sustained the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation for thousands of years. Now Weyerhaeuser, the largest lumber company in the world, is driving a wave of destructive logging that threatens to uproot their traditional way of life. In December 2002, a small group of people from the reserve of Grassy Narrows First Nation took up the fight to protect their traditional lands from Weyerhaeuser. They began a blockade that would eventually become the longest-standing in Canadian history.
Directed by local filmmaker Dave Clement; Produced in Association with Thunder Bay Independent Media.

The Grassy Narrows campaign video
A short overview on Rainforest Action Network's campaign to support Grassy Narrows. .

Sasketchewan, the Province of Weyerhaeuser
20 minute video documentary of the human and ecological costs of logging in Saskatchewan by Weyerhaeuser. Recent documents from Canada provide clear-cut evidence that Weyerhaeuser has grossly violated the legal, social and ecological commitments that allow them to log on public lands in the province of Saskatchewan.

Victoria's Dirty Secret Campaign Video
Learn about the successful campaign to end Victoria's Secret's use of paper from endangered boreal forests for their catalogs.

Footage from Wetlands Activism Collective's protests at Victoria's Secret and J. Crew
Watch independent video and TV coverage of Street theater, in-store disruptions, and blockades demanding that these retailers  stop destroying endangered forests for catalog paper.

And more!
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