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ForestEthics
ForestEthics is a grassroots environmental organization founded in 2000 in _________ by ___________. The organization protects endangered forests by transforming corporate policy and governmental laws in the United States and Canada. The ________-member organization uses public education, advocacy, protest, negotiation and non-violent direct action tactics to achieve its goals.

ForestEthics has offices in British Columbia, Canada as well as Bellingham, WA and San Francisco, CA in the United States. Todd J. Paglia is the current executive director of the non-profit.

Mission
ForestEthics' mission is to protect all endangered forests by redirecting markets toward ecologically sound alternatives.

Campaigns
ForestEthics is most known for its Victoria's Dirty Little Secret and Do Not Mail junk mail reduction campaigns of the 2000's. Campaigns of the 2010's include efforts to protect North America's boreal forest, to stop the Alberta tar sands oil development project, to change the paper industry in the United States, and to publicize the eco label by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, which ForestEthics claims is a false greenwashing initiative of the U.S. timber industry.

History
ForestEthics was born out of Friends of Clayoquot Sound —a group of residents on Vancouver Island who originally organized themselves in 1979 to block logging company Macmillan Bloedel from clearcutting a local mountain range.

The organization has affected the environmental and paper policies of corporations including Staples, Office Depot, Victoria's Secret, Dell, and Williams-Sonoma.

Controversy
In January of 2012, ForestEthics' Senior Communications Manager Andrew Frank claimed through a sworn affidavit to The Canadian Press that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) of Canada had instructed the CEO of funding organization Tides Canada Foundation to remove financial support for ForestEthics or face the "take down" of all of Tides's charitable projects. According to Frank, the PMO representatives referred to ForestEthics as an "enemy of the government of Canada" and "an enemy of the people of Canada." Andrew Frank stated that the threats of the PMO's office were a direct result of ForestEthics' role in protesting the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Andrew Frank was fired from ForestEthics shortly after the affidavit went public. According to ForestEthics Co-founder Ziporah Berman, Frank was fired for breaking confidentiality and acting unilaterally.