Catalog Cutdown Reports
May 5th was the Sears annual shareholders meeting. ForestEthics was there inside the meeting to release a new report that implicates Sears in the destruction of caribou habitiat. We also help a protest at their flagship store in Chicago. Here's a clip from the action.
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J. Crew is evicting us from our forest homes!
On April 21, 2007, members of the Wetlands Activism Collective demonstrated
in front of the corporate office of J. Crew, at 770 Broadway (at 9th St.) in
Manhattan. Adorned in owl, bear, and caribou costumes, three of us cried in
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Catalog industry evictions in Atlanta
We had skits, several people showed up... it was a successful action in Atlanta... We definitely got the manger's attention. We put ‘Attention J Crew and Eddie Bauer’ fliers all over the store. Eddie was a little bit harder.
The manag...
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Evicting Sears from Endangered Forests
Members of the Boston Coalition for Sustainable Logging went to the Sears at the Cambridge Galleria in Cambridge, MA on Saturday. Six of our members dressed as lawyers, and approached a manager with an "eviction notice" written up on a ...
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Actions in San Francisco
ForestEthics and San Francisco activists delivered “eviction notices” to the stores of many big catalog companies this weekend. On Saturday morning at the Stonestown mall, 3 activists delivered mock eviction notices and talked to managers at J. Crew, ...
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Evict J. Crew from the Boreal
On behalf of the millions of animals who call the Boreal Forest home, at 1:30 PM on April 21 st, 2007, activists from Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania attempted to carry out an eviction of J. Crew at their location on Walnut Street in S...
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Catalogs Are Heating Up Our Planet
I'm pleased to report that my little event in Santa Monica on the Third Street Promenade went quite well. Lots of foot traffic on this crisp but sunny Saturday helped a lot; and I just think that people in general are becoming more sensitiz...
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Educating with Impunity
Chicagoans for Environmental Responsibility (CER) gathered outside of the Sears flagship store at State and Madison. Ten of us marched into the shop with banners, posters, flyers, education and dramatics. Costumes included suits and trees. It wasn't to...
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Action in Gainesville
I hadn't been in a mall for a long time, but it turns out that forest-destroyers tend to hang out together. I was in Gainesville, FL for the day, so I got to stop by and visit a JC Penny, Macy's, Sears, and Talbots there. I had friendly yet stern convers...
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LL Bean gets evicted
We targeted an L.L. Bean in Columbia, MD. We delivered the manager an
"Eviction Notice," and proceeded to walk around the store with signs, passing out brochures and talking to the customers. Within a couple minutes, we were asked to leave, so we moved ou...
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Speech bubbles
On Saturday April 21st a group of fifteen students from the University of Miami's environmental activist organization GreenpeaceUM went to their local mall to send a message to JC Penney. We delivered an eviction notice to a JC Penney manager on one of their "b...
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Happy Valentine's Day from Michigan
I had made the giant valentines with the paper policies on them and the separate cards for the managers. Me and a few people hit up JC Penny and J Crew. We planned
on going to Eddie Bauer, but it just so happens that the Eddie Bauer near us...
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Have a Heart, Stop Destroying Forests!
Yesterday, Wetlands activists Christian, Wendy, Blue (thanks folks!)
and I braved snow and frozen rain to tell J. Crew that we will stop
at nothing to protect our planet's forests from corporate forest destroyers.
Despite the harsh weat...
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Sears, Please <3 Endangered Forests
Activists in San Diego visited a Sears store to spread the Valentine’s Day love on Tuesday February 13th. We came with gifts for the on duty manager, including a very pretty valentines day card for the manager and a giant valentine with a ...
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Valentine's gifts in Ohio
Eight activists from Denison University and Ohio State gave Valentine's Day proposals to J-Crew, Sears and JC Penny at the Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus.
We delivered giant cards and mini teddy bears to the managers of each store in hopes for th...
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Update from San Jose
I sent both JCPenney and Sears' managers a letter and a card. I didnt get to see the store manager of JCPenney but I did get to see the store operator at Sears *manager wasn't in*. The operator was pretty nice *though after i mentioned where I am from, hi...
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Valentine delivery
The first store we went to was J. Crew in Shadyside. The manager there was being somewhat aggressive and overreacted about us being there. Jon was the one who went to talk to her and was being polite but he couldn't really get a word in because she was ushe...
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Operation Catalog Cutdown Awareness
About 10 members of the Akron Atmosphere Brigade converged on Sears at Chapel Hill Mall today. We tried to speak to the management of the store, who clearly wanted nothing to do with us. Upon being told to leave the store we did. Several me...
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Sears: Extreme Forest Makeover
Friends from Central Ohio (Ohio PIRG, Animal Liberation League, Power/Wittenberg, Free the Planet OSU, Denison, Kenyon, and Oberlin congregated last Sunday morning to protest Sears' failure to implement a policy of responsible cataloging.
We he...
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Cancelled Catalogue Delivery
Today I phoned Sears and told them to stop sending me catalogues. They said the catalogues are sent out in lots twice a year. So I will be removed before the next lot of catalogues is delivered. Although she said I may still receive some before th...
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