11 April 2003
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THE WEEKLY WATCH NUMBER 22
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from Andy Rees, the WEEKLY WATCH editor
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Dear all
Welcome to WW22 bringing you all the latest news in brief on the GM issue.
Just as the war in Iraq is not really about freeing people, so GM is not really about feeding people - it is about commerce. See QUOTES OF THE WEEK for more on GM's complete irrelevance to the world's real needs.
And look out for ARTICLE OF THE WEEK for a fascinating analysis by an industry insider of why 'the entire healthcare industry in the United States is set for a major fall and biotech will likely lead the way'.
Hope you enjoy WW22. Please circulate it far and wide!
Andy <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
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WEEKLY WATCH number 22 - CONTENTS
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SETBACKS TO THE GM INDUSTRY
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
TOPIC OF THE WEEK - Opposition mounts to GM crops in Oz
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK - The biotech bubble machine
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
FACTS OF THE WEEK
LIES FROM THE GM LOBBY?
HEADLINES OF THE WEEK
CAMPAIGN OF THE WEEK
SUBSCRIPTIONS
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SETBACKS TO THE GM INDUSTRY
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GM COTTON GROWERS IN INDONESIA DEMAND COMPENSATION
Farmers in Indonesia who were encouraged by Monsanto's to grow its Bt cotton have lodged complaint to the legal aid foundation chapter in South Sulawesi because of a series of problems to do with yields and the supply of seed. They are demanding around Rp 200 billions (1 US$ = Rp 8,888.00) in compensation from Monsanto. source: BioTani Indonesia Foundation/PAN Indonesia
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10,000 POSTCARDS AGAINST GMOs FROM THAI CONSUMERS
Twenty Greenpeace activists rallied on Thursday in front of the Nestle factory in Pathum Thani province, delivering over 10,000 postcards signed by Thai consumers protesting against the use of GM ingredients in its products. http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/11Apr2003_news31.html
UK POSTCARDS FOR A GM-FREE BRITAIN
UK campaigners are to build a giant collage of postcards calling on City of York Council leaders to clear GM foods from their plates. The protesters want the city council to declare itself "GM-free", like Cornwall, Wales and other localities in the UK, and to prevent GM crops being grown on their land. The all-day event, on Saturday, will be part of a nationwide movement of up to 70 protests staged by the GM-Free Britain Campaign.
http://ngin.tripod.com/100403f.htm
GM JURY CHALLENGES FSA POLICY ON LABELLING:
The views of the UK Food Standards Agency's Citizens' Jury on GM food seriously challenge the Agency's own policies, said Friends of the Earth. While the jury voted 9 to 6 in favour of allowing GM food to be available in the UK, all 15 jurors called for something the FSA has consistently resisted, "effective labelling and monitoring of GM foods; for example, a GM food logo to ensure that people can make a genuine choice to eat or to avoid eating GM foods." http://ngin.tripod.com/090403b.htm
On FSA bias, see: http://ngin.tripod.com/040303f.htm
http://ngin.tripod.com/060303b.htm
http://ngin.tripod.com/fsa.htm
POLL SHOWS CONCERN OVER GM WHEAT AT US GRAIN ELEVATORS:
A recent poll of North Dakota grain elevator operators showed a substantial level of concern over the potential commercialization of GM Roundup Ready wheat, ranking loss of export markets as their greatest concern. Of the respondents, 82% said they were very concerned and 16% somewhat concerned about the proposed introduction. In addition, 78% said they supported an expanded public review of GM wheat, compared with the previous USDA process for GM crops. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403a.htm
VERMONT SENATE PASSES GM SEED LABELING & REGISTRATION:
The U.S. State of Vermont Senate passed a landmark bill requiring the labeling and registration of all GM seeds sold in the state, and another addressing farmer liability for GM-related damages. Two additional bills, calling for food labeling and a moratorium on GM crops, have been deferred to a legislative summer study committee. A total of 70 VT towns, almost 30% of the state, have passed resolutions opposing GE food and crops in the past 3 years. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403c.htm
TEXAS MAY BAN GM DRUG-PRODUCING FOOD CROPS:
This bill would make Texas the first state in the US to ban the genetic engineering of drugs, industrial chemicals, or other non-food materials into crops or livestock normally used as food or animal feed. This was spurred by the biopharming contamination incidents last year in Nebraska and Iowa. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403c.htm
GERMAN GM WHEAT TRIALS APPROVED BUT SITE SABOTAGED:
German authorities have approved an application from Syngenta to start Germany's first trials of GM wheat. But 25 Greenpeace activists sowed organic wheat seed on the test site, aimed at ruining trials, as it will be impossible to tell the difference between GM and conventional wheat. Germany forbids commercial production of GM crops, but permits research plantings. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403c.htm
SYNGENTA SAYS GM WHEAT AT LEAST FIVE YEARS AWAY:
Swiss crop giant Syngenta said it did not expect to market GM wheat for at least five years. "That is the minimum - that's how long it would take to have something that is seen to work in practice," Chairman Heinz Imhof told Reuters. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403a.htm
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OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK
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Nuffield Council to review GM report
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The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has announced that as a contribution to the UK's public debate it will re-assess the conclusions and recommendations of its 1999 report, entitled Genetically Modified Crops: Ethical and Social Issues". George Monbiot described the previous report as, "perhaps the most asinine report on biotechnology ever written. The stain it leaves on the Nuffield Council's excellent reputation will last for years." The Vice President of the Royal Society and Derek Burke were among the biotech supporters who drew up the report. http://members.tripod.com/~ngin/nuffield.htm
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UK okays Syngenta application for new GM wheat trial
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Britain has approved a new field trial of GM wheat, as hundreds of US & Canadian farm groups press for a moratorium on commercialisation of GM wheat amid trans-crop contamination worries of one of the world's most important foods. The Soil Association said GM soya, maize and oilseed rape could have cost the US economy £8 billion since 1999, in farm subsidies, lower crop prices, loss of major export orders, and product recalls. GM wheat could add billions more to the bill.
http://ngin.tripod.com/090403a.htm
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Market 'risk' factor was removed from GM crop assessment
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Memos obtained under Freedom of Information rules in Canada show the Canadian Food Inspection Agency quietly changed the terms of reference for its advisory committee on grain variety registration last year when it discovered that for more than a decade, the committee could include market impact in its deliberations. Ottawa has since resisted the call for a cost-benefit analysis as part of the registration process for GM crops, insisting that the science-based process cannot be politicized! http://www.producer.com/articles/20030410/news/20030410news01.html
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'The famine that wasn't' ???
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An article in The Christian Science Monitor raises some interesting questions in relation to some of the disgraceful game playing that was going on in southern Africa last year, with the US trying to foist GM food aid on the area with its 'Eat GM or Starve' stance. Despite predictions that 11 to 14 million people were facing potential starvation, few of the traditional signs of hunger materialized, says the article. Guy Scott, agricultural consultant and former Zambian minister of agriculture, is one critic who argues that the US-dominated World Food Programme exaggerated the number of Zambians in need by a factor of at least two, due to flawed data and under the influence of the US government. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403c.htm
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USDA biotech panel rigged, as agribusiness takes most seats
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Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman gave agribusinesses and farm industry groups most of the seats on a federal advisory committee responsible for examining the future of biotech crops, as USDA implements new restrictions on the planting of experimental pharmaceutical plants and reviews Monsanto's application for the commercialization of the first GM wheat crop. 11 seats were given to biotech companies and agribiz groups, with only 7 seats going to academic experts, consumer groups, and an international plant research center in Mexico. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403a.htm
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Call to action in Sacramento
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Leading up to the WTO ministerial in Cancun, Mexico, this September, a mini-ministerial is taking place this June 23-25 in Sacramento. The US Dept of Agriculture, USAID, and the US State Department are hosting a summit to which the Ministers of Trade, Agriculture, and Environment from 180 nations have been invited. The Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology will showcase industrial agriculture, chemicals, irradiation and biotechnology. The Coalition for Sustainable Agriculture is in the process of planning a response to both the meeting and EXPO . see: http://ngin.tripod.com/100403d.htm
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Conflict of interest in 'Corngate'?
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The NZ National Party is crying foul that David Cunliffe, the senior Labour MP and deputy chair of the Select Committee undertaking the 'Corngate' inquiry, didn't disclose that his wife acted for a biotech company involved in the GM maize contamination case. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403f.htm
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Patenting pieces of people
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A recent editorial in the journal Nature Biotechnology, as well as providing a useful legal history of the patenting issue, shows how critical patents are to the biotech industry (99% of companies rely on patents - rather than products - as their sole source of value). The editorial includes the interesting observation, "moral standards are clearly an unsatisfactory benchmark for establishing patentability... better definitions are needed". The stakes are high, US$3 billion of business are riding on the patent in Canada alone (the second largest after the US), according to the article. Clearly, it would be unwise to bring morality into such an equation! http://ngin.tripod.com/100403f.htm
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Meat, milk of clones coming soon
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A Japanese health ministry report claims the meat and milk of cows cloned from the somatic cells of adult animals are safe for humans to consume, ministry sources said Friday. The report strengthens the likelihood that retailing of beef and milk from cloned cows could begin sometime in this fiscal year, which ends March 31, 2004, according to the sources. Source: Kyodo News, Tokyo, April 11, 2003
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EU takes 12 member states to court over GMO law
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12 of the European Union's 15 countries face court action for failing to implement new regulations on testing and monitoring GM foods, the European Commission said on Thursday. The Commission, the EU's executive arm, said France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria and Finland had missed an October 2002 deadline to put the new EU rules, which they agreed in 2001, into their own laws. Source - Reuters Securities News, April 10, 20o3
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TOPIC OF THE WEEK - Opposition in Australia to GM crops
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AUSTRALIA BENDING OVER FOR OVERSEAS INTERESTS AS USUAL: As seen with its involvement in the war on Iraq, the Federal Government is again putting overseas interests before Australia's. The biotech industry mouthpiece, the Commonwealth Gene Technology Regulator is placing Australian non-GM canola farmers' livelihoods at serious risk through licensing foreign multinationals to grow GM canola here. Dr Sue Meek has given approval for a licence (subject to eight weeks of public consultation) to Bayer Crop Science to commercially release GM Canola throughout Australia. Canola can contaminate non-GM crops within an 11 km radius. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403d.htm
BUT NSW GOVT STICKS TO 3 YEAR BAN ON GM CANOLA CROPS:
The New South Wales Government said its policy to place a three-year ban on GM crops in the State had not changed, despite the all clear been given to Bayer. Elsewhere in Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia are considering declaring their entire State GM-free, and the South Australian government made an election commitment similar to NSW to introduce GM free zones across the State. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403d.htm
AND ONLY 2 STATES WILL GROW GM CANOLA THIS YEAR IF GO AHEAD GIVEN:
Victoria and Queensland will be the only Australian states growing GM canola this season, if they get the final go-ahead from the Gene Technology Regulator in time. Moratoriums in Tasmania, Western Australia and NSW on commercialisation of GM crops and a temporary ban in South Australia will mean no GM canola in those states this year. A state can legally enforce a moratorium or GM-free status through its own legislation, usually by prohibiting GM farm produce under quarantine laws. But whether a permanent ban is possible would depend on what a federal court would decide on any legal challenge to those laws. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403d.htm
AND VICTORIA'S FARMERS ARE WORRIED ABOUT GM CANOLA:
Almost three quarters of Victoria's farmers dispute a finding by the nation's gene technology watchdog that GM canola does not pose a threat or environmental risk. 71% of those surveyed had concerns about the commercial release of GM canola, 67% were worried about their ability to market the grain, while 80% said they had fears about GM and non-GM canola co-existing. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403d.htm
AUSTRALIAN FARMERS AND FOOD COMPANIES URGE CAUTION:
The Network of Concerned Farmers estimates that the cost to farmers of segregating grain, under coexistence between GM and conventional canola, at a minimum of 10% of the product value. Most of the major food and grain marketing companies in Australia did not want GM canola because of consumer resistance to GM products. "Why grow it just because America is growing it or Monsanto wants us to grow it?" A farmer who produces wheat, cattle and oilseeds on 900 hectares near Molong in Western australia asks. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403d.htm
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ARTICLE OF THE WEEK - The biotechnology bubble machine
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Biotech is constantly promoted as the basis of future wealth creation and as the source of a series of near-miraculous products.
This article from the journal Nature Biotechnology provides a series of brilliant insights into the medical biotechnology industry from an industry insider - the author worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 20 years. It demonstrates that plant biotech is not the only one headed for disaster.
Here are some telling excerpts from the article which concludes: "How long this self-referential, pyramid structure of the pharmaceutical/biotech industries will remain standing is anyone's guess":
*...the entire healthcare industry in the United States is set for a major fall and biotechnology will likely lead the way.
*...the depressing regularity of biotechnology failures has led to the realization that, "Far from delivering on its early promise of effective cures for exotic diseases, biotechnology has instead proved to be a complex endeavor, with high costs and long lead times requiring the financial stamina only big corporations can usually deliver"
*...in spite of its colossal size, favorable publicity in the popular media, and two decades of effort, biotechnology's real contributions to human health and economic growth are pitifully few.
*[one of the market leading biotech companies] has spent massive amounts of money on clinical studies in an effort to demonstrate the superiority of [its biotech product] tPA over its competition and to justify its high cost. Because Tpa works no better than streptokinase, a bacterial enzyme used for the same purpose that costs ten times less[8], Genentech has spent millions of dollars marketing tPA aggressively.
*Because biotechnology had so little to show after two decades and billions of dollars spent, it used to puzzle me that most people working or investing in biotechnology companies never seemed to lose money. The reason for this, I came to realize, was the sector's incestuous nature. The way money is made is for certain biotechnology companies to merge with or acquire other biotech companies. Some bioscience companies are acquired by large pharmaceutical companies eager to obtain the special capabilities of the smaller fish. With each merger and acquisition, money and stock change hands.
*In order to forestall the eventual implosion, a new breed of biotechnology company has chosen to abandon the painstaking and often spotty laboratory approach to research in favor of using higher mathematics to exploit a genetic map of the human genome to 'better target' that research. The recent surge in bioinformatics companies may set a record for swiftness of disillusionment. Bioinformatics is gambling that the secrets to health and disease are waiting to be deciphered from the labyrinth of the human genome and proteome. The bioinformatics fad is based on the same misguided belief used partly to justify funding of the genome project: that complex human diseases, such as cancer and arthritis, are caused by 'bad' genes. Gene therapy - replacing bad genes with good - would be the logical solution to such diseases. But, the naive belief in gene therapy for complex diseases is inexplicable given that it has not even been attempted in a real, well-recognized gene disease, such as hemophilia. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403f.htm
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QUOTES OF THE WEEK
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These quotes are taken from Colin Tudge, visiting research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics, from an exchange of views with Profs Tony Trewavas and Chris Leaver in New Scientist. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403e.htm
Colin Tudge: "While even the perpetrators of GMOs acknowledge theoretical dangers - that GM crops could be toxic to consumers and wildlife - the risks, we are told, are small. But the risks are not known to be small: they are not known at all, and in principle they are unknowable. The consequences of dropping exotic genes into genomes, and exotic transformed plants into ecosystems, can hardly begin to be anticipated.
"Some moderates urge the precautionary principle: let's make sure we really do have a handle on the dangers before proceeding. But we should invoke a stricter criterion, like the US Food and Drug Administration's principle that new drugs should not be introduced unless they can be shown to have distinct advantages. Do GMOs pass such a test? Blair thinks so. In his speech in London to the Royal Society last May, he implied that the world's growing population cannot be fed without GMOs. Yet this belief, so common in high places, has nothing to do with the facts.
"One statistic makes the point. Today, people ultimately derive half their calories from just three cereals: wheat, rice and maize. All other crops, and livestock too, are marginal by comparison. Blair spoke as if GM were already a world-saver. In fact GMOs have contributed nothing of unequivocal value to the three big crops, and neither are they likely to. That's because the necessary genes - to increase resistance to drought or flood, for example - can be obtained more easily from related grasses, by standard cross-breeding. GM operates almost entirely on the nutritional margins, on peripheral qualities of cereals, and on crops grown for commerce: soya, rapeseed, tomatoes.
"In short, GM is not about feeding people. It is about commerce. Its advocates do not occupy the moral high ground. They believe they do, but only because they have not looked carefully at the evidence.
"The point that genetic engineering merely extends conventional breeding is often mooted but it will not do. GM and other biotechnologies, notably cloning, take us into the age of the "designer" organism. Both were solemnly declared to be "biologically impossible" until about 10 years before they became reality. Nowadays, nothing that does not break the laws of physics can be considered biologically impossible. Only the laws we make ourselves, and our own morality, can hold us back. If people in high places cannot see that this is a qualitative shift, requiring a new mandate, then they should not be in charge of political strategy."
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FACTS OF THE WEEK
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Overall, publicly held US biotech companies showed a loss of more than $5.3 billion in 2001. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403f.htm
The Soil Association has said GM soya, maize and oilseed rape could have cost the US economy GBP8 billion since 1999, in farm subsidies, lower crop prices, loss of major export orders and product recalls. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403a.htm
The Network of Concerned Farmers estimates that the cost to Australian farmers of segregating grain under a system of coexistence between GM and conventional canola at a minimum of 10% of the product value. http://ngin.tripod.com/090403d.htm
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LIES FROM THE GM LOBBY?
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Lord May, President of the Royal Society, expects us to believe that the fact that it is a Royal Society journal that will be publishing the conclusions from the UK's GM Farm Scale Evaluations is nothing to worry about - the journal is completely independent, he tells us in an article in the Guardian. http://ngin.tripod.com/100403b.htm
Curious then that the Minister of the Environment in answering a Parliamentary Question (below) should tell us it was not the journal's editor but Lord May's deputy, the Vice President of the Royal Society, who replied on behalf of the journal to government enquiries about publication. The Vice Presient of the Royal Society, Sir Brian Heap, has consistently been at the heart of the Royal Society's dubious activities in this area - see: Strange Bedfellows http://ngin.tripod.com/190303d.htm
Parliamentary Question
Joan Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when she and her officials have (a) telephoned and (b) written to the Royal Society during 2003 concerning publication of "The Farm Scale Evaluations with GM Crops"; and what was discussed. [107237]
Mr. Meacher [holding answer 7 April 2003]: ...On 27 February 2003 the Vice President of the Royal Society wrote to the Secretary of State acknowledging that the farm-scale evaluation papers had been received from the research consortium and giving an indication of the likely timing of publication should the papers be accepted. The Secretary of State responded on 4 March 2003 thanking him for this information.
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HEADLINES OF THE WEEK: from the NGIN archive
http://ngin.tripod.com/apr03.htm
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10 April 2003
German GM wheat trials approved but site sabotaged
Lord May in the Guardian - Moment of truth?
Vermont Senate passes GMO seed labeling and registration
Call to action/Oz: GM fears growing among farmers
9 April 2003
UK OKs Syngenta application for new GM wheattrial
Agribiz takes most seats on USDA biotech panel
GM jury challenges FSA panel on labelling
The famine that wasn't
Oz Bending Over for Overseas Interests
Tudge vs TT and Leaver
4 April 2003
Disarm IRRI/Trade war looms over Iraq aid/Fax Brazil
GM Aid and War/Iraq”šs bread basket stands to be ruined by war
GMWATCH number 8
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CAMPAIGN OF THE WEEK
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PROTEST THE WAR - PROTEST THE CORRUPTION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS
"...if the Bush regime were to fall, there would be dancing on the streets the world over." - Arundhati Roy http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,927712,00.html
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
HELP GET A MILLION SIGNATUTRES FOR THE PLEDGE
Operation Liberate Yourself From Brand America has begun. Boycott brand America: http://adbusters.org/campaigns/boycott_america/
PROTEST THE WAR - PROTEST THE CORRUPTION OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS
from Schnews: The Labour Party have a Freepost address, which means they have to pay the postage on anything you send them. Please don't send bricks or heavy phone directories to: The Labour Party, FREEPOST LON 10417, London, SW1P 4UT. All the local party offices also have freepost addresses that can be found on election leaflets
Leave Labour - why it's time to quit the Party if you're a member - Labour takes no notice of members until they stop paying their contributions! http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,921188,00.html
THE PARTY IS IN THE POCKETS OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL
'Mark Seddon, a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, claimed such donations [as those of Lord Sainsbury] were causing Labour to lose members amid criticism from the grassroots that the party was now "in the pockets of the powerful and the rich".
He told the Today programme: "In any other country I think a government minister donating such vast amounts of money and effectively buying a political party would be seen for what it is, a form of corruption of the political process." ' http://ngin.tripod.com/030403c.htm
THE MAGNITUDE OF THEIR CRIME...
"Tam Dalyell, 41 years a member of the Commons, has said the Prime Minister is a war criminal who should be sent to The Hague. This is not gratuitous; on the prima facie evidence, Blair is a war criminal, and all those who have been, in one form or another, accessories should be reported to the International Criminal Court. Not only did they promote a charade of pretexts few now take seriously, they brought terrorism and death to Iraq. A growing body of legal opinion around the world agrees that the new court has a duty, as Eric Herring of Bristol University wrote, to investigate "not only the regime, but also the UN bombing and sanctions which violated the human rights of Iraqis on a vast scale". Add the present piratical war, whose spectre is the uniting of Arab nationalism with militant Islam. The whirlwind sown by Blair and Bush is just beginning. Such is the magnitude of their crime." - John Pilger http://pilger.carlton.com/print
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