Not only does HarperCollins have a Global Book Paper Procurement Policy that promises protections for the kinds of forests that Resolute Forest Products is destroying, but this same logging company is also attacking free speech, a fundamental value on which HarperCollins relies.
Learn more about Resolutes destructive logging operations here.
Learn more about Resolute’s attacks on free speech here.
Greenpeace and other environmental nonprofit organizations have reached out to HarperCollins for over two years in an effort to raise this issue and help foster a new focus on solutions. However our inquiries have been ignored or dismissed. They even refused to speak with us when we were physically in the HarperCollins’ offices in New York in June 2017.
More than 500,000 people from around the world are asking for HarperCollins to do everything possible to get Resolute Forest Products to stop its destructive ways and end its attacks on free speech. And more than 200 authors have signed a pledge to support free speech and stand up for forests. And yet, still nothing but silence from HarperCollins’ leadership on this issue.
However we believe that the people inside HarperCollins are good people who want to live up to their promises, who are fundamentally opposed to environmental destruction and who truly want to stand up for free speech. So we are asking HarperCollins employees to share this story with colleagues. Ask Erin Crum why she refuses to meet with us. Ask Mark Cirillo what he is doing to ensure HarperCollins lives up to the promises you made in your procurement policy. Ask Brian Murray what it will take for him to denounced attacks on free speech made by a supplier. And if any HarperCollins employee has any questions or wants to learn more, please reach out to Dr. Amy Moas at Greenpeace and we will be happy to speak with you.
