Environmentalists take direct action to the corporate level

ENVIRONMENTALISTS TAKE DIRECT ACTION TO THE CORPORATE LEVEL

Activists demand shareholder accountability with sit-in demonstration.

For Immediate Release
19 May 2004


Houston, TX – Local environmental group SACRED Redwood will engage in a sit-in outside of MAXXAM Corporation’s annual shareholder’s meeting to draw attention the environmental degradation wrought by the company.

Contacts: Melissa Stringfellow, SACRED Redwood- 281-620-9055

Where: The Power Center, 12401 S. Post Oak Road

When: 8:15 am

“We’re here to demand accountability of those responsible for the devastation of our nation’s remaining old-growth forests. MAXXAM’s board and shareholders hold hostage the fate of one-third this countries last ancient trees and have the responsibility to future generations to operate in a sustainable manner,” says SACRED co-director Melissa Stringfellow.

“Charles Hurwitz, the CEO of MAXXAM, and his entourage of corporate criminals must recognize that the damage they are inflicting on our environment is much bigger than their profit margins.”

SACRED (Southern Alliance of Coastal Redwood Earth Defenders) is dedicated to building the bridge between forest defenders in Houston and Humboldt County and represents all citizens in defense of the earth. SACRED presents the following four requests in regard’s to MAXXAM’s management of the forests:

1) Stop cutting old-growth trees.
2)Stop clear-cutting practices.
3)Stop logging on steep and unstable slopes.
4) Stop using herbicides.

Houston based corporation MAXXAM and its subsidiary, Pacific Lumber have been charged with environmentally devastating practices, including logging at 2-3 times the rate of re-growth, clear-cutting and dumping a myriad of toxic herbicides onto California soil. MAXXAM has in Humboldt the largest track of privately owned old-growth forests.

For more information, visit http://www.SACREDRedwood.org