Wetlands Works November 2001
Leafletting Criticizes Oil Pipeline Construction in the Ecuadorian Amazon
On October 24th, Wetlands activists leafleted at the corporate office of WestLB,a German Bank plans to invest a billion dollars in an ecologically destructive oil pipeline project.
The leafleting was part of an international day of action, with events also taking place in Sydney, Canberra, Los Angeles, London, Quito, Munster, Dusseldorf, Munich, Zurich, Milan and Warsaw to stop the OCP oil pipeline from being built from the Ecuadorean Amazon over the Andes and to the coast. If it is completed, the pipeline will DOUBLE the amount of oil that can be removed from the Amazon headwaters and this will impact on numerous national parks, nature reserves and indigenous communities. You can learn more about this issue here.
Wetlands Attends Non-Profit Career Fair On October 25 and 26th the Activism Center at Wetlands Preserve participated in the Nonprofit Career Fair sponsored by Action Without Borders at Baruch College. Wetlands activists Ian Duerk and Adam collected dozens of resumes and signed up hundreds of potential interns and volunteers. To welcome these potential recruits, The Activism Center at Wetlands Preserve held a new volunteer orientation on December 10th. According to Wetlands activist Cindy Rosin, "It's important that people recognize that despite the closing of the Wetlands nightclub, our activist group is alive and well--and that volunteers are still desperately needed."
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