Sauder Tree sit Press Release

1738 Angus Drive, Vancouver: Early this morning, two activists, Grizzly and Salmon climbed into two trees at the home of InterFor’s Chairman of the Board, William Sauder. They are suspended in hammocks 35 feet up in the trees with a banner hanging between them reading “Stop Raping the Earth" and a sign reading "William Sauder: U$ Corporate Criminal, Transforming Canada's Rainforests and Jobs into U$ Money" is placed amongst an urban clearcut in his driveway. The FAN Action Van is out in front of William Sauder’s home distributing information to his neighbors about the corporate criminal that lives in their neighborhood.

"The forests that William Sauder and Interfor are killing are some of the most ancient rainforests on Earth and are severely endangered, along with many of their inhabitants. In the forest, Interfor has repeatedly used violence to silence the truth. So we have brought it here, to William Sauder's home, speaking for all whose home and spirit lies in the disappearing, northern rainforests," says Salmon, one of the tree-sitters.

InterFor is currently clearcutting unceded Native land in the Elaho Valley and the Great Bear Rainforest, and is threatening to log the fragile ecosystem around Clayoquot Sound. InterFor has a history of using violence to silence public dissent to their logging practices. 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 holds 99.6% of the voting shares for the Board of InterFor, he is also the Chairman of the Board and until this year was the CEO of InterFor. He is also the president of Sauder Industries which is a US company that mills most of InterFor’s wood south of the border, because labor costs are cheaper. Sauder is also the chancellor of UBC, which is the largest forestry school in the nation.

"William Sauder is a US corporate criminal that is destroying the rainforests of BC and exporting the wood and jobs to the US, Europe and Japan. He is liquidating some of the last old growth in the world in order to maximize InterFor's corporate profits," says Grizzly, the second tree-sitter.

FAN’s and Friends of the Elaho's demands to William Sauder, InterFor and the BC Government are:
-Immediate End to all of InterFor’s logging operations, especially in old growth temperate rainforests
-Return all tenured land to First Nations according to the Royal Proclamation of 1763
-Help to implement community ecoforestry initiatives by compensating natives and communities
for previous destruction done by InterFor
-William Sauder should step down from his chancellor position at UBC due to conflict of interest
-William Sauder and InterFor should submit to an international tribunal to judge InterFor on human
rights and environmental infractions of provincial, national and international laws

For an onsite interview with the tree sitters and for more info call (604)760-6028


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		FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 27, 2000 Two Activists Sit in Trees at the Home of InterFor’s Chairman, William Sauder new web page www.fanweb.org/actionvan2000/sauder.html 1738 Angus Drive, Vancouver: Early this morning, two activists, Grizzly and Salmon climbed into two trees at the home of InterFor’s Chairman of the Board, William Sauder. They are suspended in hammocks 35 feet up in the trees with a banner hanging between them reading “Stop Raping the Earth" and a sign reading "William Sauder: U$ Corporate Criminal, Transforming Canada's Rainforests and Jobs into U$ Money" is placed amongst an urban clearcut in his driveway. The FAN Action Van is out in front of William Sauder’s home distributing information to his neighbors about the corporate criminal that lives in their neighborhood. "The forests that William Sauder and Interfor are killing are some of the most ancient rainforests on Earth and are severely endangered, along with many of their inhabitants. In the forest, Interfor has repeatedly used violence to silence the truth. So we have brought it here, to William Sauder's home, speaking for all whose home and spirit lies in the disappearing, northern rainforests," says Salmon, one of the tree-sitters. InterFor is currently clearcutting unceded Native land in the Elaho Valley and the Great Bear Rainforest, and is threatening to log the fragile ecosystem around Clayoquot Sound. InterFor has a history of using violence to silence public dissent to their logging practices. 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 holds 99.6% of the voting shares for the Board of InterFor, he is also the Chairman of the Board and until this year was the CEO of InterFor. He is also the president of Sauder Industries which is a US company that mills most of InterFor’s wood south of the border, because labor costs are cheaper. Sauder is also the chancellor of UBC, which is the largest forestry school in the nation. "William Sauder is a US corporate criminal that is destroying the rainforests of BC and exporting the wood and jobs to the US, Europe and Japan. He is liquidating some of the last old growth in the world in order to maximize InterFor's corporate profits," says Grizzly, the second tree-sitter. FAN’s and Friends of the Elaho's demands to William Sauder, InterFor and the BC Government are: -Immediate End to all of InterFor’s logging operations, especially in old growth temperate rainforests -Return all tenured land to First Nations according to the Royal Proclamation of 1763 -Help to implement community ecoforestry initiatives by compensating natives and communities for previous destruction done by InterFor -William Sauder should step down from his chancellor position at UBC due to conflict of interest -William Sauder and InterFor should submit to an international tribunal to judge InterFor on human rights and environmental infractions of provincial, national and international laws For an onsite interview with the tree sitters and for more info call (604)760-6028