Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap
Special Event: Mac Users Against Gap!!!
Posted by Mary Bull (chalicenew@earthlink.net)
Sunday, January 6, 2002
Mac Users Against Gap: Gala Demo at MacWorld Reception!
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***A MacWorld party at Gap HQ is not OK!***
Join the gala demo for global justice and a sustainable planet at the gala MacWorld reception! January 7, 2002, 5:30 PM, 2 Folsom Street, SF (Gap Headquarters). JOIN THE NEW MAC USER GROUP: MAC USERS AGAINST GAP!!! Let Gap know that Apple computer is the tool of choice of millions of progressive, creative people world-wide who will not countenance Gap Inc’s exploitation of desperately poor garment workers or the Fisher family’s demolition of the redwood ecosystem! Ongoing leafletting throughout the convention! More info: 415-731-7924 http://www.gapsucks.org Press release follows.
PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE
Contacts:
Save the Redwoods-Boycott the Gap Campaign 415-731-7924
Mary Bull, Mark Hilovsky, Campaign Organizers 415-509-1188
Mary Pjerrou, Greenwood Watershed Associaition 707-877-3405
To: All media Date: 01/06/02
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
***A MacWorld party at Gap HQ is not OK***
**200-year-old redwood stump crashes MacWorld reception**
**New Mac user group announced: ‘Mac Users Against Gap’**
-January 7, 2002, 5:30 PM, 2 Folsom Street, SF (Gap Headquarters)-
Protestors wielding a five-foot wide, 200-year-old redwood stump, logged by the Fisher family of Gap Inc., demonstrated outside Gap headquarters at Monday’s MacWorld kick-off party.
“Apple computers are the tool of choice of millions of progressive thinkers worldwide, including artists, filmmakers, writers, students, programmers, and activists. These products should not be associated with the Fisher family’s environmental destruction and Gap Inc’s exploitation of poor garment workers in third-world countries. A MacWorld party at Gap headquarters is not okay,” said Mary Bull, tech business owner, Mac user, and Coordinator of the Save the Redwoods/Boycott the Gap Campaign.
Scott Munson, a Macintosh enthusiast and anti-Gap activist, explained, “We’re here to appeal to visionary Mac users and progressive tech workers to divest themselves of Gap stock and to boycott Gap until the Fisher family, who controls the Gap, stops logging redwoods and turns their ravaged forestland into a wildlife preserve.” Munson said that protestors are also asking Gap, Inc. to pay their garment workers a living wage. Gap clothes are sewn in 300 sweatshops in 55 countries, where workers are paid as little as 11 cents an hour.
“The Fishers’ logging company, Mendocino Redwood, continues to violate the rulings of two judges in cases brought by environmental groups, and has filed over 60 new logging plans in 2001, representing a 150% increase in the total area of logging over the previous owner, Louisiana Pacific. When are we going to get even minimal compliance with the law from this so-called ‘green label’ logging company?” asked Mary Pjerrou, writer, Mac user, and Co-chair of the Greenwood Watershed Association, a public-benefit non-profit based in Mendocino County, California. The Fisher family, who controls Gap, Inc., owns 235,000 acres of redwood forestland, mostly in Mendocino County.
Bull said, “The Gap Boycott Campaign is growing by leaps and bounds—we had over 200 protest actions worldwide last month on December 1, the International Day of Action Against the Gap. Now we have a new group: Mac Users Against the Gap.”
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