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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 --- 59 days ago http://www.milforddailynews.com/homepage/x875595549/Greenpeace-activists-protest
 Disguised as movers, four Greenpeace activists broke into the newly opened Kimberly-Clark office building with boxes of recycled toilet paper and a document demanding the company "stop destroying one of North America's wildest forests" to produce disposable products, according to Greenpeace "forest campaigner" Lindsey Allen. The activists, Stephanie D. Finneran, 22, Chelsea M. Ritter-Soronen, 21, Rachel L. Humphreys, 24, and Travis J. Peters, 22, rang the bell and were admitted into the facility at 124 Grove St., then chained themselves together in the hallway and refused to the leave, said Franklin Deputy Police Chief Steve Semerjian. Police found the key to their padlock on one of them and arrested Finneran, of 54 Kent St., Brookline, Ritter-Soronen, of 3905 Mountview Road, Columbus, Ohio, Humphreys, of 117 Adams St., Washington, D.C., and Peters, of 6 South St. Andrews, Los Angeles, Calif., on charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct, Semerjian said. "I'm not sure what ruse they used, but ... it's not like they were assaulting anyone. They come along when it's time to go, they're not rookies," said Semerjian. "They believe in what they're doing - what are you going to do? They're not violent people, at least not this group," Semerjian said. The environmental activists were protesting the Kleenex-makers' limited use of recycled fiber in its products, Allen said. Kimberly-Clark is one of the largest tissue product companies i ... |
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