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Gary, Stephen Kenda has been commended by the Lubicon for his work.  As
you know, they are under court order not to talk about the any of the
facts.  Stephen is putting out information that they are unable to and
helping in any way he can.


Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:49:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen Kenda <ch243@freenet.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Lubicon Boycott of Daishowa moves to the USA
To: serena stuart <sds@digisys.net>

Hello Serena,

My name is Stephen Kenda. I am with the Friends of the Lubicon in Toronto.

The article below appeared in the Fall 1996 issue of 'On Indian Land'
and is reproduced with permission of its publisher (Marsha Shaiman in Seattle
at 206-525-5086 phone and fax) and author.

Marsha gave me your net address. She suggested that you would be able
to post the article onto the net.

Noteworthy in the article is

1. the concrete action people are encouraged to take in opposition to
Daishowa's plans to level unceded Lubicon territory under a cloak of
judicial silence.

2. contact info for a person in the States working on the issue.

Contact information in the article below has been updated from the original
article.

Three words are left out of the article below which rendered the
original inaccurate in two places and potentially confusing in a third.
They are 'Inc.' and 'Inc.' in the first paragraph and 'Club' in the fifth.
I include this just in case you had the original and were wondering if
those omissions here were a mistake.

I think it's safe to say that the more people know about the spread of the
Daishowa Boycott to the USA, the more likely this sort of legal "swording"
of citizens using the pen won't be attempted by corporations like
Daishowa.

In Solidarity..........Stephen Kenda

Friends of the Lubicon (Toronto)
485 Ridelle Ave Toronto, ON M6B 1K6
T: (416)763-7500 F:(416)603-2715
email: k.thomas@utoronto.ca
SISIS web site : http://kafka.uvic.ca/~vipirg/SISIS/Lubicon/main.html

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Support the Lubicon Cree Indian Nation - Stop Daishowa


If you have been reading On Indian Land for at least the last year, you
should be acquainted with the intense struggle of the Lubicon Lake Cree
Nation of northern Alberta, Canada and the boycott against Daishowa.

Although the Lubicon Cree have no treaty with the Canadian government
and have never ceded their land, the Alberta provincial government has
sold logging rights to their unceded territory to Daishowa.

The paper products company was asked to wait for a land claim
settlement agreement to be completed between the Lubicon and the
Canadian government before logging. Daishowa began logging anyway, but
halted their operation shortly after the initiation of the boycott in 1991.

While a number of people across Canada and around the world responded to
the Lubicon call for a boycott of Daishowa paper products, the main
organized effort was undertaken by a Toronto, Ontario-based Lubicon
support group, Toronto Friends of the Lubicon. Because Daishowa doesn't
market its paper products directly to the public, but rather to other
corporations, the Toronto Friends of the Lubicon targeted companies using
Daishowa products.

Primarily as a result of their efforts 47 companies representing over
4300 retail outlets have joined the boycott in Canada and Daishowa
reports a $5 million loss due to the boycott. So far pressure generated by
the boycott has kept Daishowa at bay and no further logging of Lubicon
land has taken place..yet.

Instead of making a clear, public and unequivocal commitment not to cut
or buy wood cut on Lubicon land until the land rights dispute is resolved,
Daishowa challenged the boycott in the provincial courts of Ontario and
eventually won an injunction against the boycott. According to Friends
attorney Karen Wristen of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, "The court has
said essentially that the intention to cause economic harm made this
boycott illegal." Daishowa is engaging in a multi-million dollar lawsuit
against the Friends of the Lubicon for their losses.


Daishowa Boycott Picks Up In Washington

With the Friends of the Lubicon's hands tied and democratic consumer
rights squashed by the (courts of the Ontario) provincial government,
Daishowa is free to take Lubicon trees without objection from their
Canadian critics. Instead of containing the boycott within Canadian
borders, this decision has forced the boycott into the international
consumer market.

Since consumer pressure in the form of a boycott is the only tactic that
has kept Daishowa out of Lubicon territory, escalating the boycott is the
only way to save Lubicon trees. As a consumer public, we need to educate
ourselves about the products we use and understand that our conveniences
are often at the expense of indigenous exploitation.

Daishowa has a mill at Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula of
Washington State, and a corporate office in Seattle, Washington. Products
of the Port Angeles mill include pulp and groundwood specialty papers.
The Washington Post is printed on Daishowa paper, the New York Post was
cited as being printed on Daishowa paper and probably continues to be.
Gannett Publishing was also cited as a Daishowa buyer and is most likely
still a Daishowa customer. They publish 83 newspapers including U.S.A.
Today.

Most recently, GTE and U.S. West telephone directories have confirmed as
being printed on Daishowa paper. These directories claim to be at least
25% to 40% recycled paper. The Port Angeles Daishowa mill in Washington
recycles old directories and sells back the paper to GTE and U.S. West. This
might not seem so bad, but the fact remains that this is still Daishowa, a
forest industry conglomerate. There are plenty of alternatives for 100%
recycled paper and non-wood paper. (sic)


Pressure on these companies and help identifying other Daishowa
customers is greatly needed. Write to these companies and voice your
objection to their use of Daishowa paper:

Jamie Loa, GTE Directories, 1115 S. Boyal Ave., Los Angeles CA 90023.
Phone: (213) 265-6809.

Jim Pierce, Director of Printing, distribution, Recycling, U.S. West direct,
198 Inverness Dr. W., Inglewood, CO 80112. Phone: (303) 784-2584.


Write Daishowa and let them know you are supporting the international
boycott of Daishowa.

Daishowa America, 7200 Columbia Center, 701 5th Ave., Seattle WA
98104 Phone: (206) 623-1772 or (800) 331-6314, Fax: (206)452-6576.

Shogo Nakano, President, Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co. Ltd. Tokyo
Head Office, 6-1 Asahi Tokai Building, Otemachi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, Japan

Tom Hamaoka, Executive V. Pres., Daishowa-Marubeni International, Suite
3500, Park Place, 666 Burrard St., Vancouver, B.C., V6C 2X8 Canada.
Phone:(604) 681-6659

Always send copies of correspondence that you send and receive to the
Lubicon Lake Indian Nation, P.O. Box 6731 Peace River, AB, T8S 1S5
Canada.


For more information, a Daishowa boycott packet, or to help with the
Daishowa boycott, contact Dan Clarke, 5317-46th Ave S., Seattle WA
98118. Phone: (206) 723-4703. Fax (206) 525-5086

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