Catalog Cutdown Reports
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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ForestEthics Summit in Chicago
November 2nd, 3rd and 4th was an exciting weekend for me and ForestEthics! The Paper Campaign had a training and an action event at the Sears flagship store at 200 State Street in Chicago. This is the first time I was involved with a grassroots ...
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Perrysburg High School Activists to Join the Movement
On November 1st, OSU's Free the Planet members, Charlie Fredrick and Andrea Jaeger, visited the Environmental Club of Perrysburg High School, in Perrysburg, Ohio, to talk about ForestEthics and the Sears Campaign. The grou...
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Activists Visit Northlake Mall, GA
Today, students from Agnes Scott College and Georgia State University went to Northlake Mall and delivered a letter to the manager of the Sears store there. We protested in front of the store entrance with colorful signs and banners that ale...
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Chalking Results in Near Arrest at Boston Sears
Hey Everyone,
Last week our Boston group decided to get together for our debut appearance at the Sears store in town. We met up in the evening, but the person with the flyers was unable to make it at the last second. That's no...
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Chef Shea Recruits for the Forests
What better way to get people to attend a presentation about an environmental campaign than by first luring them in with a dinner party? Well, my plan worked, and not only did we enjoy a lovely evening of good food and good company, but the ...
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Bay Area Sears Hears from Protesters
This weekend, a group of environmental activists from the SF Bay Area organized a demonstration at Sears in Oakland, CA. About a dozen protesters gathered in front of the Sears on Broadway, displaying a large banner. Two activists went i...
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NYU Students Get the Skinny
On Tuesday, October 9, I spoke to approximately 20 New York University
undergraduate students in their Law & Community Activism class
regarding the paper campaign and the use of civil disobedience in
forest protection work and other social justice ...
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Sears Evicted from Milwaukee
The newly-formed Milwaukee Paper Campaign group completed its first public action against Sears at Bayshore Mall in Milwaukee, WI, on Saturday, October 13th, kicking things off with an eviction-themed action.
The action went swimmingly, agreed eve...
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Activists visit Sears headquarters
Hoffman Estates is this insane business park/suburb/corporate wasteland of a place 40 miles northwest of Chicago. As far as we could tell there are other corporate offices located in the direct vicinity as the Sears Headquarters, but Sears m...
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Stop One: Greenwich, CT. Our first stop was to the ESL investments office, where Edward Lampert and William Crowley work. We were let right in to the outer office by a very friendly gentlemen. We told him our business there, and asked if we could give our ad and packages to...
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On the first day of the campaign, I went to the Sears in Coralville with the Free The Planet! group at Grinnell College. Two of us made the trip to Iowa City to complete the letter delivery, and I feel it was very worthwhile. We met briefly with the manager at Coralville and t...
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We had 5 adults and two adorable striking reindeer kids who took their letter to the manager.
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On the international day of action against Sears, the Environmental Affairs board at University of California, Santa Barbara wrote letters that urged Sears to use recycled paper for their catalogs. As Sears customers, we wanted to express our concern with their harmful method...
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Our group, comprised mostly of Free the Planet! members, protested Sears in conjunction with a national campaign organized by ForestEthics, a San Francisco-based environmental group where I worked this summer. Sears greatly contributes to forest destruction by sending out an e...
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