Happy New Year! Taking a short walk down memory lane to look at what the K-C campaign’s been up to this past year, I’m going to list here (in no particular order) some of 2006’s most awesome achievements.  

* a letter of concern to K-C from American University that highlights the university’s decision to avoid using K-C paper products
* the removal of K-C products from Rice University’s Housing and Dining
* a letter of concern from Skidmore College to K-C
*  the launch of a campaign by Guilford College students to eliminate K-C products as part of an ethical purchasing policy
* a presentation of The Lorax by University of Chicago students outside of the office of K-C Board Member Linda Johnson Rice in downtown Chicago
* a letter from the Green Restaurant Association to K-C stating that they will not endorse K-C products
* a terrific student summer training program for 125 students—Change It!—that has inspired many students to become involved with the K-C campaign on their own campuses
* a successful US blockade of a K-C factory
* a successful Canadian blockade of a K-C factory
* a successful Italian blockade of K-C’s Italian administrative offices
* pledges from 700-plus Forest Friendly businesses not to use K-C products
* almost 150 Kleercuts Stink Day of Action at campuses across the US and Canada, including a Flush Falk dunk tank at University of Georgia- Athens
* two Greenpeace Organizing Term (GOT) summer trips to Neenah, WI (where K-C has paper mills) and Madison, WI that helped to spread word of the K-C campaign to people in Neenah and Madison (and let K-C know that we’re serious about the campaign). While in Wisconsin, private detectives followed around the GOT students

One word for ya: WOW!