Greenpeace Activists Deploy Banner and Lock Down Knoxville Office; 7 Arrested.Including Mrs.tekisui!

[tekisui]

Today two climbers unfurled a banner at the Kimberly-Clark World Administrative Headquarters in Knoxville, Tennessee while additional activists locked down to the front entrance of the building.

This was the latest in a series of actions designed to bring the reality of Kimberly-Clark's ancient forest destruction to the company doorstep.
The international Kleercut campaign wants Kimberly-Clark to stop purchasing pulp from destructive logging operations in the North American Boreal Forest while increasing its use of recycled materials for disposable products like Kleenex, Scott and Cottonelle.

“Greenpeace demands that Kimberly-Clark stop wiping away our treasured, ancient forests to make disposable products like tissue and toilet paper,” said Lindsey Allen, Greenpeace forest campaigner. “Greenpeace will continue to directly communicate with Kimberly-Clark employees at events like this until the company stops using endangered forests such as the Boreal to make products that are used once and then thrown away.”

A recent Greenpeace report revealed that Kimberly-Clark devastated Ontario’s Kenogami Forest while promoting itself as a socially responsible environmental leader. The report, “Cut and Run: Kimberly-Clark's Legacy of Environmental Devastation,” uses government information, independent audits, public records, and satellite mapping to document Kimberly-Clark’s management and logging of the Kenogami Forest near Thunder Bay, Ontario. It details how, in just 70 years, the Kenogami Forest has been turned from a vast expanse of healthy, near-pristine forest to a severely damaged landscape rife with social and environmental problems--largely to make products that are used once and then thrown away.

Seven activists have been detained. Photos will be posted as they become available.

link: http://kleercut.net/en/node/950

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Hooray for them!!!!!!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :thumbsup:

[LanternWaste]

2. Go Greenpeace!

Go Greenpeace! Keeping our environment alive, one arrest at a time.

[tekisui]

3. UPDATE: One of these arrested was my wife!!

There is Mrs. tekisui!

All seven environmental activists arrested this morning during a protest against Kimberly-Clark at the company's administrative center on Summitt Hill Drive downtown have been identified.

Two women and a man who affixed themselves to the company's glass doors with bicycle-type locks will face criminal trespassing charges, according to Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk. He gave their names as Charis Lynn Stone-Racer, 28, of Asheville, N.C.; Emma Cassidy, 23, of Northport, N.Y.; and Kellen Dunlap, 26, of Round Hill, Va.

Four others will face charges of criminal trespassing for hanging a banner from the Summer Place Garage next door, TVA spokesman Gil Francis said. Officials had initially planned to charge them in federal court but later today opted to filed charges in state court, he said.

Francis identified those defendants as: Erica S. Madrid, 28, of Washington, D.C.; Ashley B. Lauth, 24, of Riverwood, Ill.; Scott Cardiff, 31, of Washington, D.C.; and Basil George Tsimoyianis, 22, of Burlington, Vt.

The garage is a federal building used by TVA and Kimberly-Clark employees.

Two women rappelled down the side of the garage and hung a large yellow sign that said, "Kleene," with an "X" formed by a drawing of a chainsaw cutting down a tree and the words "wiping away ancient forests." Beneath that is www.greenpeace.org.

Kleenex is a Kimberly-Clark brand.

The banner covered at least three levels of the garage. Activists said it stretched 30 feet by 20 feet.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/aug/14/activists-stage-protest-kimberly-clark-building-do/

[Binka]

7. She's A Beauty Inside & Out!

:toast:

[tekisui]

8. Yes she is, thank you.

She practices what she preaches, and keeps me in line.

:bounce: :bounce:

[madmax]

13. God Bless her!!

Balls of steel. Mrs. t you make us proud. :hug:

[malaise]

16. Bravo

Mrs. tekisui :yourock:

[Cybergata]

27. Your wife is a hero.

I admire what she did and salute her. Tell her there I'm sending her my love from New Mexico.

[tekisui]

28. Thank you, Cybergata.

:hi:

[Sheltiemama]

34. Woah, small world.

That picture is from the paper I work for!

[paparush]

38. Sir, with all due respect . . . DAYUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tekisui]

4. Kicking! I am proud of my lady!

[tigereye]

5. I had no idea...

all the more reason to use recycled products... :(

[SpiralHawk]

6. Greenpeace - The Legend of the Rainbow Warriors

http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%207-9.html

"The legend of the rainbow warriors and walkers is told many ways and in many different places around the world, including on Turtle Island (North America). It has been glimpsed in vision and told for hundreds of years, from dozens of perspectives.

Among the many ancient versions are the visions and stories of Padmasambhava of Tibet, Eyes of Fire of the Cree, Black Elk and Crazy Horse of the Lakota, Quetzalcoatl of the Toltec, Plenty Coups of the Crow, Ku’Kulkan of the Maya, Monteczuma of the Aztec, the Peacemaker of the Haudenusaunee (Iroquois), and Weetucks of the Wampanoag. Though they lived at different times and in different places, they shared a sense of what would unfold.

"As drawn from historical accounts, the Legend of the Rainbow Warriors relates that when the Earth becomes desperately sick, people of all colors and faiths will unite, and rise to meet the overwhelming challenges with insight, honesty, caring, sharing, and respect."

(snip)

[tekisui]

11. Thank you for that link.

"As drawn from historical accounts, the Legend of the Rainbow Warriors relates that when the Earth becomes desperately sick, people of all colors and faiths will unite, and rise to meet the overwhelming challenges with insight, honesty, caring, sharing, and respect."

I am nearly in tears.

[fed_up_mother]

9. Hanging a banner, yes; locking down entrances, no.

Sorry, but you can get in some deep trouble for stuff like that.

[roody]

10. Want to help Greenpeace?

Make them a beneficiary on one of your retirement or other accounts.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Bravo!! Bravo!! And, again, Bravo!! K&R

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[tnlefty]

14. Way to go!!!!

:applause: :thumbsup:

[Swamp Rat]

15. k&r

[MGKrebs]

17. Bravo!

As my Congressman John Lewis often says, "Sometimes you gotta get in the way."

[EFerrari]

18. Brava!

:applause:

[tekisui]

19. Kickity.

[kansasblue]

20. Greenpeace.... very cool !

Go Greenpeace.

[mike_c]

21. excellent!

Thank your missus for her good work on the Earth's behalf! :applause:

[tekisui]

22. Will do, as soon as she's out of the Tennessee slammer.

:thumbsup:

[lonestarnot]

23. Mrs. T home yet?

:applause: :patriot:

[tekisui]

24. Not yet. I haven't even heard from her.

I imagine she is still in jail. Greenpeace is good about taking care of their activists, and have great lawyers. She is due home tomorrow evening. Hopefully she'll call and check in tonight.

[lonestarnot]

25. I hope the action was viewed by many!

[tekisui]

26. She's out of jail,

the action was a great success! I just talked to her, they are all pumped and celebrating.

[lonestarnot]

35. Right on! Glad to hear it!

Celebrate for me too! :applause: :party: :smoke:

[barbtries]

29. how's your wife doing?

that takes courage i haven't found yet.

[tekisui]

32. She's well, she should be home shortly.

On the phone she was excited and about to celebrate a successful action!

[uppityperson]

30. Question

was this to encourage more usage of recyled materials or because tp/nose wipe tissue is used only once before discarding? The story is written oddly. I am up on using more recycled paper to remake into personal use paper, but still will use it only once.

So, a kick with an odd question.

[tekisui]

31. The action was to get Kimberly-Clark, who makes Kleenex

to use recycled materials, and most importantly to quit the practice of cut and run in the Boreal Forests in Canada. The Boreal's are old growth stands that are clearcut to make one time use tissues, among other things.

That is the ultimate objective, to get the largest tissue producer to halt their destructive practices.

And, the story is written poorly. None of the reporting gives the WHY of the action, unfortunately. Here is a link to Greenpeace's campaign:

http://www.kleercut.net/en/

[uppityperson]

40. I agree with all of that, thanks for posting.

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[G_j]

36. good work!

:applause:

[G_j]

37. kick!

[tekisui]

39. Mrs.t made it home safe and well.

Thanks all for the kind words of support!