A lot of apologies this month but still a good turn out and welcome to Fran, our newest member. Richard came back from his first action as a stormtrooper and told us his tales of visiting VW HQ. We discussed the deforestation campaign and brought everyone up to date on what was happening. We set up two teams of activists to visit the relevant stores and sticker the relevant toys and went through the legal implications. People also took away details of the phone campaign associated with this. We decided that we had enough to do with this not to do the VW campaign but I phoned all the people who were away and they are happy to take this on and as it only requires a few people to do this, both campaigns were covered. Hurrah!
A note for anyone planning on phoning Mattel, the makers of Barbie: as soon as you mention Greenpeace and stickers they direct you straight to a recorded message which tells you to leave your message there. They offer you an email response if you want one. They also direct you to a web page which says they are committed to developing a sustainable procurement policy which will address deforestation but does not mention breaking links with Asia Pulp and Paper nor does it mention any date by which they expect to develop their sustainable procurement policy so until they do that we will continue to demand that they play fair.
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