On May 4 & 5, 2000, the Friends of the Lubicon are scheduled back in court. Daishowa is trying to overturn the Ontario court decision that ruled people in Ontario have the right to organize a consumer boycott of Daishowa products.

In May 1998, Daishowa filed for appeal of an Ontario Court ruling rejecting Daishowa’s application for a permanent injunction against a consumer boycott which the company said had cost it over $14 million dollars in lost revenue. The consumer boycott had been organized by supporters of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation whose unceded traditional territory in northern Alberta Daishowa had threatened to clear-cut at a rate of up to 11,000 trees per day.

When in June 1998, Daishowa finally agreed not to cut or buy wood cut on unceded Lubicon Nation territories until a land rights settlement was reached between the Lubicons and both levels of government, the Lubicon Nation and Friends of the Lubicon called off the successful boycott of Daishowa products.

However Daishowa did not abandon its appeal of the ruling which allowed people in Ontario to organize a consumer boycott of Daishowa products.

In March 2000, Daishowa verbally proposed to drop the appeal - an outcome which FoL would welcome. FoL will inform supporters if indeed Daishowa's appeal court action gets called off.

In the meantime, Lubicon supporters are encouraged to write to Daishowa demanding they withdraw their court action against FoL.


The address to write to is:
President, Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co. Ltd.,
Asahi-Tokai Building,
2-6-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100, Japan

Please forward responses received to
Friends of the Lubicon
485 Ridelle Ave
Toronto, ON
M6B 1K6
F: 416-535-7810
fol@tao.ca
www.tao.ca/~fol/

Planning to attend court as a show of support? Please call the FoL Hotline to listen for any late-breaking changes in the time or date of the court proceedings.
T: 416-763-7500.

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