Below are some that stick out in our minds...
About a year back we worked on a campaign against the Mitsubishi company.
Basically what Mitsubishi was doing was buying huge areas of rainforest letting smaller companies cut down the wood and sell it.
Mitsubishi was one of the biggest importers of tropical wood to Asia.
Through protesting and fliering we helped force Mitsubishi along with a network of other rainforest groups to stop doing this and sign a resolution where they agreed not to contribute to such a degree.
This shows that through unity we can accomplish anything.
Mitsubishi is one of the largest companies in the world.
Though Shell is still causing alot of havok through out the world, there has been some progress in stoping them.
About a year ago our group heard 'Ken Saro Wiwa' speak at an Earth Day festival at Clark University.
He spoke of the evils Shell was doing in his small village in Nigeria.
The village he lived on has lots of oil reserves beneath it which Shell wants.
Shell Company in drilling for the oil made the land that his people lived on practically uninhabitable. The water supply was totally desroyed and undrinkable. Farming was almost imposible and it wasn't surprizing that the people who lived there rised up and tried to get Shell off there land.
The people who lived there used very peaceful methods, such has protesting, to get Shell off.
They cried out to the international community for help. The international community, when finding out about this, responed with great disgust against Shell.
In responce to this Shell destroyed and killed many of the people in the village.
They put 9 activists on trial for murder, which never happened, and all of them were found quilty,
For there punishment they were sent to death.
In responce to this all Defenders of the RainForest decided to hold protests outside of some local Shell Stations (pics to come!)
Protests can be very succesful because they can reach a large audience. By holding ours on a very busy street and allowing a large amount of people to see us we got across to alot of people.
In the end though it wasn't our protest which stopped Shell, it was coutless other peoples protests along with ours which unified our voice and got the word out.