Gap Campaign
In July of 1998 The Fisher Family, owners The GAP, Inc., including
The Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy, purchased ALL of
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation's timber lands in Mendocino County,
some 220,000 acres. These include the absolute LAST of the ancient
redwood trees not in State Parks. They are logging these trees
through such destructive practices as clearcutting, herbicides and
overcutting timber lands of rare fisheries and extreme steep slopes
creating unmanageable mudslides and deadly siltation in salmon
streams.
For years, Wetlands has protested Gap, Inc stores, both for their
owners' involvement in environmental destruction and for the
company's use of sweatshop labor. Along the way, we have forged
strong alliances with sweatshop campaigners at groups like the Global
Sweatshop Coalition, the Student Committee Against Labor
Exploitation, Bergen Action Network, United Students Against
Sweatshops, the Union of Needle and Industrial Textile Employees
(UNITE), and many others.
To learn more about the ongoing campaign
against Gap, Inc. forest destruction, visit http://gapsucks.org
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