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Forest Activists Chain Themselves To Victoria's Secret
Victoria's Secret has not changed their ways, despite patient efforts on the part of activists for the past two years. They still continue to send out over 1 million catalogs a day on paper primarily sourced from clearcut, endangered Boreal forest.
Forest defenders in NYC showed their evergreen love yesterday when they chained themselves to the doors of the Upper West Side panty peddlers.
Forest defenders in NYC showed their evergreen love yesterday when they chained themselves to the doors of the Upper West Side panty peddlers.
October 23, 2006 | Village Voice
Victoria's Secret got nailed again today when a pair of activists chained themselves to the entrance of the lingerie chain's Upper West Side store to demand that the company stop pulping virgin timber to churn out its ubiquitous catalogs.
See the slideshow here:
http://villagevoice.com/gallery/0643,43victoriasecret,74811,30.html
Using heavy-duty bike locks, two members of the activist coalition Catalogs Without Clearcuts bolted their necks to the front doors of the Broadway and 85th Street boutique at 9:45 this morning, preventing shoppers from entering for nearly an hour.
They were backed by about two dozen other demonstrators—many of them young freegans with the Wetlands Activist Collective—who greeted the morning rush of Manhattan commuters and mothers and nannies pushing strollers with singsong chants like:
"Victoria's is stripping forests bare, just to sell you underwear!"
and:
"Victoria's Secret, don't you know it's wrong to log the forest to sell your thongs?"
Read the rest: http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/powerplays/archives/002939.php
(Photo by Sarah Ferguson)
Victoria's Secret got nailed again today when a pair of activists chained themselves to the entrance of the lingerie chain's Upper West Side store to demand that the company stop pulping virgin timber to churn out its ubiquitous catalogs.
See the slideshow here:
http://villagevoice.com/gallery/0643,43victoriasecret,74811,30.html
Using heavy-duty bike locks, two members of the activist coalition Catalogs Without Clearcuts bolted their necks to the front doors of the Broadway and 85th Street boutique at 9:45 this morning, preventing shoppers from entering for nearly an hour.
They were backed by about two dozen other demonstrators—many of them young freegans with the Wetlands Activist Collective—who greeted the morning rush of Manhattan commuters and mothers and nannies pushing strollers with singsong chants like:
"Victoria's is stripping forests bare, just to sell you underwear!"
and:
"Victoria's Secret, don't you know it's wrong to log the forest to sell your thongs?"
Read the rest: http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/powerplays/archives/002939.php
(Photo by Sarah Ferguson)
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