To highlight the destruction of Indonesian rainforests for pulp paper used in cardboard packaging by the world’s largest toy maker, today Greenpeace protestors unfurled a banner at Mattel’s El Segundo, California, headquarters with a very sad Ken-doll announcing, “Barbie, it’s over. I don’t date girls that are into deforestation.” It’s all part a campaign, complete with animated video, to raise public awareness about the swaths of rainforests leveled by Asia Pulp and Paper, a supplier to Mattel’s Chinese packaging printers.
According to the Los Angeles Times, “El Segundo police arrested eight protesters, including a woman dressed as Barbie in pink and blue Spandex, who was driving a bright pink bulldozer half a block from the scene.”
--Reed McManus
Image: Greenpeace
