Protester Arrested at Victoria’s Secret

Protester Arrested at Victoria’s Secret

April 14th, 2006


Photo supplied by Bay Area Forest Sustainability Coalition

On March 15th, an activist from the Bay Area Forest Sustainability Coalition chained herself to a Victoria's Secret store in downtown San Francsico. She was protesting Victoria's Secret's wasteful paper use practices, and she said she would wait, chained to the pillar in front of the store, until Victoria's Secret switched to recycled paper.

The protester's stay was cut short when she was arrested. She did not resist arrest. "Executives at Victoria's Secret are the real criminals here," the anonymous activist proclaimed as she was escorted off the scene and into a police car. "It is not worth destroying Endangered Forests to print 395 million catalogs a year!"

The Bay Area Forest Sustainability Coalition, which organized the rally, is a group of concerned citizens dedicated to the protection of forests and the implementation of a sustainable logging industry. They learned about the Victoria's Dirty Secret campaign and decided to take action since they saw that there had been no move on Victoria's Secret's part to make changes to their policies.

"Not one acre of Andangered Forests should be destroyed for these catalogs," said the protester. "Victoria's Secret knows that it can switch to recycled paper but refuses. I'm here to show Victoria's Secret that people do care about the hidden environmental cost of the massive catalog industry."