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Kimberly-Clark caught off guard as Greenpeace Student Organizers converge on hometown of Neenah, Wisconsin.

(June 28, 2006) Today outside of the Neenah, Wisconsin, Kimberly-Clark Executive Offices, Greenpeace volunteers created a forest crime scene. Our demonstration began quietly: wearing our navy Forest Crimes Unit shirts we criss-crossed yellow crime scene tape immediately in front of the entrance to the seven story office building. We stood silently and for the most part, the demonstration was undisturbed by police. At one point a few executives managed to break through our forest crime scene tape while their hired security videotaped and photographed the scene. For more event photos click here.

At dawn on April 27th, volunteers with Greenpeace set up a blockade at Kimberly-Clark’s manufacturing factory in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada. The activists stopped all shipments of materials going into and out of the factory via train and truck. Other volunteers occupied the rooftop of the factory and hung a large banner reading: “Kimberly-Clark & Kleenex: Stop destroying the Boreal Forest.” The blockade was in place for fifteen hours.

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The CEO of Kimberly-Clark, Thomas Falk, was flushed Wednesday as part of the Kleercuts Stink! Student Day of Action. 140 U.S. college campuses spoke out against the destructive forest practices of the company by calling the Dallas headquarters and calling for their schools to stop using Kimberly-Clark products.

Story by Peter Boer, St. Albert Gazette

For a protest that was nearly shut down moments after it started, a group of Bellerose Composite High School students who set up an information table outside Sobeys Thursday night hailed their demonstration as a wild success.

Grade 12 student Jesse Orge and a group of volunteers set up an information booth outside the St. Albert grocery store to raise awareness of the need to protect Canada’s boreal forest.

On November 3, 21 activists assembled in the Byward Market in Ottawa for a postering, leafleting and public education blitz. For over two hours, activists dressed in tree costumes handed out hundreds of leaflets, put up tons of posters, and talked to many people.

Madeleine filled over 4 pages of her petition. Others held up the large banner. People were extremely receptive to the message that Kimberly Clark = forest destruction. We were all very encouraged by the positive response, and are happy to report that the Ottawa group is growing exponentially! Look out Kimberly Clark!

Several activists gathered to raise awareness of Kimberly-Clark’s forestry practices on November 3rd in Regina’s downtown. The group included people from all over Canada, as delegates from a youth conference took time to participate in the event despite the cold weather.

A large banner was deployed in the busy Scarth Street pedestrian mall, while the participants handed out flyers detailing the devastation of our ancient forests to produce an inherently wasteful product.

For the Boreal Day of action Kleercut Atlantic hosted a store adoption in the heart of downtown Halifax. It was a very cold day and I want to start off by thanking all the volunteers that came to help out. I would also like to thank little Alex for being the best sewing hand ever; she's awesome!

Which brings me to what we did: After a very short, abrupt and negative meeting with the Owner/Pharmacist of the Spring Garden Shoppers Drugmart, we installed ourselves with our banner, Kleercut leaflets and Product Guides around our interpretation of Kimberly-Clark's exploitation of Canada's Ancient Forest.

Everett, Washington. On the morning of November 13, Greenpeace activists blocked the entrance of Kimberly-Clark's largest mill facility in North America using a bus outfitted as a giant tissue box. For a full nine hours, the activists refused to move. The activists urged Kimberly-Clark to meet with Greenpeace representatives and establishe a timeline to end sourcing wood fiber from logging operations in the Boreal forest.

Two activists locked their arms into the giant tissue box, with a banner between them reading Kleenex=Ancient Forest Destruction.