Kleercut.Net The Archive of the Greenpeace Kleercut Campaign 2004-2009

Our event in Edmonton was really well attended by the media. We started out at noon in Churchill Square, constructing a mock-clearcut, with actual salvaged tree stumps (not very easy to move around in retrospect). Some of us were dressed up as Boreal creatures. And we had price tags attached to the stumps with messaging along the lines of "cut for catalogues... price: global climate change."

We had written a bunch of boreal songs, so we panhandled the square, as boreal animals displaced by habitat destruction. We handed out information to people visiting the square, and then took our banner and the songbooks, and paraded through the adjacent mall, handing out more information about the Boreal. All in all it was a great event. Thanks to everyone who participated in this day of action!

Nearly 200 different actions, events and demonstrations against Kimberly-Clark took place across Canada and the USA and around the world as part of the International Day of Action to Save the Boreal Forest on November 3rd.

Protests and events were held in cities as diverse as Birmingham, Alabama.; Edmonton, Alberta; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Las Vegas, Nevada; Seattle, Washington; Toronto, Ontario; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Wichita, Kansas to name just a few. The actions are part of a growing groundswell of support for the protection of the Boreal forest.

As part of the Boreal Forest Day of Action events in the San Francisco, USA area, commuters stuck in morning rush hour were treated to Greenpeace pirate radio at 95.3FM.

Grenpeace techies broadcast a repeating news segment about Kleenex's use of ancient boreal forest fiber from the roaming 'Kleercut truck'.

To listen what they were broadcasting click here (2meg MP3)

SPUD (Small Potatoes Urban Delivery) is an organic food store on East Hastings St in Vancouver, BC that sells and delivers organic goods to thousands of residents of Vancouver each week.

On Sat Oct 8th, SPUD agreed to allow Greenpeace to place Kleercut information leaflets in packages in over 3000 food boxes. These boxes were delivered later in the week to thousands of Vancouver residents. Seven Kleercut volunteers spent about two and a half hours stuffing the packages. This simple task was an excellent way to inform a considerable amount of people about Kimberly-Clark's destructive practices while socializing and having a good time.

October 19th, in the dark of night, six Ottawa Greenpeace activists plastered downtown Ottawa Thursday with posters to prepare the city for the Boreal Forest Day.

Posters from the kleercut web-page entitled Wanted: Kleenex’ were printed and photocopied by each member. Ottawa has a population of over 275,000 people; many of whom work and walk around downtown everyday of the week.

On Sept 26th a group of local Toronto activists adopted the Loblaws grocery store on St. Clair and Bathurst. This was not an ordinary store adoption; we arrived with the plan to release a 4-foot by 4-foot banner inside the grocery store. Out of the 11 activists that helped out with the store adoption 3 groups were formed. One group held a large banner outside the store and leafleted passersby and spoke to customers, a second group was in charge of taking video footage and photos and finally the last group had the role of speaking to the manager of the store and releasing the floating banner. A floating banner you ask???