POP 799 Weekend 14-15 January 2012
Today's POP is Greenpeace occupying Hanover Square on Friday – home to us, Vogue and the nasty Brookfield Asset Management!
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A Greenpeace leaflet handed out on Hanover Square says:
THE EARTH IS ROUND AND BROOKFIELD IS DESTROYING IT
Brookfield Asset Management are a global real estate corporation.
They are worth over $110 billion.
Their subsidiary Island Timberlands is about to start clearfelling virgin forest on Cortes Island, BC, Canada.
The forest is at the centre of the island's water supply and is home to numerous endangered species.
The island community have offered to buy the forest but the company has refused all reasonable offers.
Brookfield management earns millions. They are the 1% controlling resources that should belong to the community, acting in their own interests. The time for making huge profits from liquidating the world's forests is over.
We call on them to:
Retail all remnants of old growth forest; and ban use of clearcut logging methods.
Respect all the principles and goals of the BC Sensitive Ecosystem Inventory;
Work with the community on a modern ecological forest management plan
People are visiting Brookfield offices in 5 cities on 3 continents today,
We are a global 99% who no longer wish to see corporations and government divide up the world for their private gain.
We call for a new economic paradigm. A world where communities have a say in the fate of the resources that support them. Where exces profits are used to restore damaged eco systems and care for those in need. Where our environment has more rights than corporations. Where the 99% make the decisions.
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