Winnipeg Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement is calling for a complete boycott of logging gian Weyerhaeuser's forest products to support the Grassy Narrows blockade.

Boycott Weyerhaeuser – Stop logging in Grassy Narrows FN

Sunday, December 18, 2011, at Mondragon, 91 Albert Street, Winnipeg, 3pm.

w-ipsm, the Boreal Forest Network and Boreal Action call for a complete boycott of Weyerhaeuser (Weyco) products

Special presentation by community member, Judy DaSilva, of Grassy Narrows FN. 

free open to the media 

"Take notice that until such time as you cease all logging and sourcing in these contested territories, or as long as there is community opposition to your operation in Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinaabek traditional territory (Grassy Narrows First Nation) we will be calling for a complete boycott of all Weyerhaueser products",  the company is notified.

To sign your organization on in support of this boycott call contact borealaction@gmail.com

According to the Whiskey Jack Forest Management Plan, 324,000 cubic meters of poplar and birch is allocated from the Whiskey Jack Forest Management Unit each year to supply the Weyerhaeuser Timberstrand/Trus Joist Kenora mill. This is 42 percent of the total allocated timber harvest from the Whiskey Jack and a full 50 percent of the wood supply for the mill.

Weyco withdrawal from this territory will be a significant step in preserving what remains of the intact forest which is crucial to the Anishinaabe way of life, estimated to be only 30 percent of what it was before mismanagement by logging companies.

We maintain that it is not only unsupportable, but unethical for Weyerhaeuser to resume sourcing from the Whiskey Jack, for the Kenora, Ontario, mill, that makes Weyerhaeuser iLevel Trus Joist Timberstrand Laminated Strand Lumber (LSL), or any other forest products.

Forest products companies; Boise, Abitibowater, Domtar and Ainsworth have already agreed not to source conflict wood from Grassy Narrows territory.

Please also get your associates and supporters to endorse, support, and implement this boycott. Corporations have to listen to the people they sell to, if to no one else. Governments don't often stand up to them, and the recent court decision is being appealed. We stand with the community of Grassy Narrows.

'WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO EXPLAIN OURSELVES TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THE COURT.

THE ANISHINABEK OF ASUBPEESCHOSEEWAGONG HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD.  THE CREATOR PLACED US HERE TO LIVE IN FREEDOM AND HARMONY WITH THE LAND, WITHOUT BOUNDARIES AND INTERFERENCE.  WE CAN'T MAKE A BOUNDRY AROUND OURSELVES AND LIMIT OUT WAY OF LIFE.

THE PADDLES OF OUR ANCESTORS HAVE TOUCHED THE WATERS OF EVERY LAKE AND RIVER ACROSS THIS LAND.  THE FEET OF OUR RELATIVES HAVE TOUCHED THE SOILS OF THE EARTH FROM HERE TO THE HORIZON.  OUR ANCESTORS HAVE PLACED THEIR HANDS ON THE ROCK FACE OF EVERY CLIFF ALONG THESE LAKES AND RIVERS. THE RED HAND PRINTS LEFT ON THIS EARTH FOREVER ARE THE SIGNATURES OF OUR GRANDFATHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS.  THIS PART OF THE WORLD BELONGS TO US.
WHAT THE CREATOR GIVES OUR PEOPLE, WE DO NOT CHANGE OR QUESTION.  
lOOK AT THE FOREST AND YOU SEE THE TREES, THE WATER, THE ANIMALS AND US.  
IN THE SILENCE OF YOUR MINDS YOU RECOGNIZE AND ACCEPT WHAT IS TRUE AND WHAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN.
WE ARE PART OF THIS LAND AND THAT IS THE TRUTH.'

WRITTEN BY:
ROBERT 
INNIWICH