From clint.freund at gmail.com Wed Jun 14 07:41:21 2006 From: clint.freund at gmail.com (Clint Freund) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:41:21 -0500 Subject: [WAC-list] IMPORTANT: Great Ways to participate!!! Message-ID: <7a8dd2ab0606140541x41ab47a1rb98b1128b8d4944e@mail.gmail.com> So, I hope everyone is doing great and is enjoying the summer! Please carefully take a took at the 3 activities below. They're all great activities to get involved in and hold valuable opportunities no matter where you're living for the summer. Please pretty please help out and if you do anything or want to do get involved hook up witht the contacts. ttyl 1) Victoria's Dirty Secret Update Contact: Clint Freund clint.freund at gmail.com, Charlie Fredrick < charlie_fredrick83 at yahoo.com> School's out and or maybe you're just taking a summer break - but the devastating clear-cutting of the Boreal Forest to make catalogs for Victoria's Secret is not taking any such time off! Victoria's Secret catalogs are still being printed on our last remaining endangered forests and then tossed (at a rate of close to 96%) straight into the trash - this is simply not acceptable. Thanks to all the pressure you have helped create around this important issue, Victoria's Secret is considering a more environmentally friendly paper as its current paper contract is about to run out. That Being Said, the company needs to feel the heat this summer and with your involvement be pushed further down the path to actualization of that greener paper policy. Summer Fun Actions that will make a big splash!; 1) Small actions;(weekly, biweekly, and or monthly- if you've got the time, might as well spend it protecting our forests right :) ) A) organize a group of friends and family to make a short (1-3 minute) phone call to their local store. You can get the number from their store locater B) bring a letter to the store manager C) spend an hour or two collected petition signatures around town and fax them to the Limited Brands D) Organize a rally in front of the mall - get 2 or more friends together with signs and chants (out shout those cheerleaders trying to get ppl to come to their car wash). E) have a group of friends and family over for a pot-luck or BBQ, talk to them about Victoria's Dirty Secret (we can send you a 6 min film) and then have everyone wright a short letter to the company and fax / mail them in. F) do you or does a friend or family member belong to a group or organization? Ask them to sign the "statement of support for the protection of endangered forests" document and fax /mail it to the company. As always - please let us know when you do something. You do so in two ways 1) blog about your experience and send the story into catalogs at forestethics.org 2) email Charlie at charlie at forestethics.org and let me know what you did and how it went. 2) Greenpeace Kleercut campaign A good friend from a conference contacted me trying to find area folks here. If you're interested contact either her or I. Contacts: Carrie Wisinski , Clint Freund I am in Washington, DC right now working on a campaign with Greenpeace which involves a trip to WI. The campaign I am working on is the Kleercut campaign and I am trying to find out if there are any activist students available at any campuses this summer, or if anyone might be able to help us in our pursuit of Kimberly-Clark. I apologize if this isn't clear. Hopefully you get this soon, otherwise I will try to call you. Thanks! ~Carrie 3) Earth Justice Gathering At the Grassy Narrows Blockade July 10-16, 2006 If you are in Minnesota or Wisconsin, contact Bob Poeschl 920-312-0529 or carpepax at riseup.net Check out www.freegrassy.org http://www.freegrassy.org/ for more information. On December 2nd 2002, the indigenous youth of Grassy Narrows lay down in the path of industrial logging trucks ? blocking access to their traditional lands and sparking what is now the longest standing indigenous blockade in Canada This summer the Rainforest Action Network and ForestEthics invite you to a week of workshops, trainings, stories, campfires, feasting, music and action at the Grassy Narrows blockade. Let's join together to support this visionary action, deepen our understanding of the issues, and build the bonds between indigenous land struggles and the environmental movement. Although the blockade still stands strong, logging companies Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi are still destroying parts of Grassy Narrows? traditional lands, and the McGuinty government refuses to address the growing crisis of unresolved native land rights conflicts and habitat destruction in the great northern Boreal forest. We are working closely with community leaders from Grassy Narrows who have invited supporters of social, economic, and ecological justice to support their blockade and to bring the action into the stores where this wood is sold, the legislatures where the laws are passed, the board rooms where the decisions are made, and to broad public attention in the media. Let's answer their call. Transportation is being arranged from key regions to Grassy Narrows (near Kenora Ontario, Canada). Gas subsidies will be provided to people who bring a full vehicle. Please Contact: Wisconsin and Minnesota: Bob Poeschl - carpepax at riseup.net 920-312-0529 Northern First Nations: Jocelyn Cheechoo Toronto and Southern Ontario: Kim Fry ? kimf at forestethics.org Thunder Bay and Northern Ontario: Damien Lee - connectwithdamien at gmail.com Winnipeg and Manitoba: Shelagh ? cuban_cigarra at hotmail.com Unions, Student Unions, activist groups, etc. are encouraged to sponsor a vehicle or contribute to the cost of a bus. Contact Kim Fry at kimf at forestethics.org Expected Workshops: Nonviolent Direct Action Decolonization Native Land Rights Activist Legal Defense Traditional Stories Boreal Ecology Tree Climbing Media Activism Creative Resistance Radical Cheerleading Forest Defense Tactics and Strategies Accommodations will be vehicle access tenting. Some meals will be communal, however people are encouraged to be self-sufficient. More details to come. For more information, logistical details and updates check out www.freegrassy.org -- peace, Clint Freund http://www.uwosh.edu/freethinkers http://www.uwosh.edu/SEAC 920-382-1988 "The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge." -Bertrand Russell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.uwosh.edu/archives/wac-list/mh/attachments/20060614/c4aed49b/attachment.htm From smithm11 at uwosh.edu Fri Jun 23 13:31:45 2006 From: smithm11 at uwosh.edu (Molly Smith) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:31:45 -0500 Subject: [WAC-list] New WC Director Message-ID: Hey Everyone! I hope that you are all having a wonderful summer!! I am pleased to announce that a new Women's Center Director has been hired! Her name is Dr. Jennifer Castillo. She was one of the candidates that I was able to meet during the interviews. I believe she will be a terrific asset to our campus and to our organization. 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