William Sauder holds 99.6% of the Class B shares of InterFor which allows him to vote for 11 out of 12 board member positions. Sauder holds the 12th position, Chairman of the Board. So, essentially, William Sauder calls the shots. He decides who is CEO, a position that he held since InterFor started until this year when he stepped down and appointed Duncan Davies to that position. Sauder doesn't hold as many Class A shares, but that doesn't matter since they don't really have any voting power.

William Sauder is originally from the United States and still controls Sauder Industries in the United States. Sauder Industries owns several mills in Northern Washington and provides cheap labor to process wood from BC.

Sauder is the Chancellor of UBC which makes him the figure head that students have to bow to in order to receive their diploma. He holds a position of prestige at a school that is know for its forestry program. Of course, the Chancellor wouldn't want forestry practices that conflict with InterFor's corporate vision to be taught at the school.

InterFor is known throughout the world as the top destroyers of temperate rainforests and as a company that continually uses violence in order to maintain their rule throughout BC. Amnesty International recently selected "Hoods in the Woods: Battle for the Stoltmann," a film about InterFor's attack in the Elaho, to be shown in the Amnesty International Film Festival next month. InterFor has a history of violence in the woods of BC. In the Elaho Valley, on September 15, 1999, over 70 InterFor loggers, management and executives attacked 8 people sending three to the hospital and destroying $30,000 worth of equipment. On August 30th of this year, two people from Bella Coola were attacked by InterFor workers while video taping the InterFor's ongoing destruction of the Great Bear Rainforest. William Sauder has never apologized for his employees actions, instead he's encouraged it.

Its time to put the real criminals in jail....

Jail Sauder!