[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: The truth about swine flu
And this Smithfield farm is having disastrous effects in Eastern Europe now, where it started up because in the US they were thinking about imposing some kind of regulatory rules on the company.see this shocking report in the New York Times yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/world/europe/06iht-smithfield.html?_r=1scp=1sq=smithfieldst=cse Luisa. From: Maya maya.sssmgu2...@gmail.com To: greenyouth greenyouth@googlegroups.com Cc: grey-youth-movement grey-youth-movem...@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 11:04:10 Subject: [GreenYouth] Fwd: The truth about swine flu -- Forwarded message -- From: Alice Jay - Avaaz.org av...@avaaz.org Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:27 AM Subject: The truth about swine flu To: maya.sssmgu2...@gmail.com maya.sssmgu2...@gmail.com Dear friends, Evidence is emerging that traces swine flu to giant factory pig farms that are dirty, dangerous, and inhumane. Sign the petition to the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization to investigate and regulate these threats to our health: No-one yet knows whether swine flu will become a global pandemic, but it is becoming clear where it came from – most likely a giant pig factory farm run by an American multinational corporation in Veracruz, Mexico.(1) These factory farms are disgusting and dangerous, and they're rapidly multiplying. Thousands of pigs are brutally crammed into dirty warehouses and sprayed with a cocktail of drugs -- posing a health risk to more than just our food -- they and their manure lagoons create the perfect conditions to breed dangerous new viruses like swine flu. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) must investigate and develop regulations for these farms to protect global health. Big agrobusiness will try to obstruct and scuttle any attempts at reform, so we need a massive outcry that health authorities can't ignore. Sign the petition below for investigation and regulation of factory farms and tell your friends and family and we will deliver it to the UN agencies. If we reach 200,000 signatures we will deliver it to the WHO in Geneva with a herd of cardboard pigs. For every 1000 petition signatures we will add a pig to the herd: http://cdn.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic Last week the flu was all that we talked about -- Mexico has been nearly paralysed and across the world leaders halted air travel, banned pork imports and initiated drastic controls to mitigate the spreading virus. As the threat shows signs of subsiding the question becomes where it came from and how we stop another outbreak. Smithfield Corporation, the largest pig producer in the world whose farm is being fingered as the source of the H1N1 outbreak, denies any connection between their pigs and the flu and big agrobusiness worldwide pays huge sums of money for research to argue that biosafety is ensured in industrial hog production. But the WHO has been saying for years that 'a new pandemic is inevitable'(2) and experts from the European Commission and the FAO have cautioned that the rapid move from small holdings to industrial pig production is in fact increasing the risk of development and transmission of disease epidemics. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that scientists still do not know the extent that infectious compounds produced in factory farms affect human health.(3) Studies abound of the horrific conditions endured by pigs in concentrated large-scale operations, and the devastating economic impact on small farmer communities of bloated large-scale operations.(4) Smithfield itself has already been fined $12.6m and is currently under another federal investigation in the US for toxic environmental damage from pig excrement lakes.(5) But even with all of this damaging evidence, a combination of increased global meat consumption and a powerful industry motivated by profit at the cost of human health, means that instead of being shut down - these sickening factory farm operations are propagating around the world and we are subsidising them (6). In the wake of this swine flu threat, let's hold industrial pig producers to account. Sign the petition for investigation and regulation: http://cdn.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic If we resolve this global health crisis boldly by reassessing our food consumption and production, and urgently calling for an inquiry into the impact of factory farms on human health, we could put in place tough farm practice rules that will save the global population from future animal borne lethal pandemics. http://cdn.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic in hope, Alice, Pascal, Graziela, Paul, Brett, Ben, Ricken, Iain, Paula, Luis, Raj, Veronique, Milena, Margaret, Taren and the whole Avaaz team (1) Biosurveillance report tracing the disease to the Smithfields farm:
[GreenYouth] How shameful..1st school for girls in India now a shopping mall
It was in Pune that the country's first school for girls was started by Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and his wife Savitri. The historical structure was taken over by a builder, demolished and replaced with a commercial complex, but the government has now realised its mistake and wants this piece of history back. It's our national heritage which has been turned into a commercial complex due to mistakes committed by Pune Municipal Corporation, said Babasaheb Bhosale, an activist. Check out NDTV news at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrTGPcn1SoQ http://drambedkarbooks.wordpress.com Know Buddha, Know Life No Buddha, No Life..! -- Now surf faster and smarter ! Check out the new Firefox 3 - Yahoo! Edition * Click here!http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_firefox_1/*http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/firefox/ -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Fwd: bob marley cultural fest
-- Forwarded message -- From: jaison cooper jaison_coo...@yahoo.com Date: Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:12 PM http://socialistplatform.blogspot.com/2009/05/bob-marley-commemoration-and-cultural.html 28 years may have passed since the voice of Bob Marley, the singer of the downtrodden, died down. But the resonances it created are still strong enough to rekindle memories; memories that struggle against forgetfulness. On account of Marley's death anniversary and in the backdrop of the oppressed class opening up new battle front everywhere in the world, Bob Marley Cultural Collective, on 10th and 11th this month organises a Bob Marley Commemoration and Cultural Fest at Fort Kochi. Suresh Badal, programme convenor of the fest told Socialist Platform that its the general political developments in the contemporary world that make the memories of Marley all the more relevant. At a time when Dalits as well as all other oppressed classes get up and stand up to put up stiff resistance against all kinds of oppressions and discriminations, we believe that it is quite relevant to remember Marley and his legacy. Rastafari, which explored the black people's identity gain importance now as the jaggernautof globalisation is still on the roll trampling down all kinds of native cultural symbols besides making lives of people more and more miserable. However searching identity doesn't mean a return journey, rather its a fresh energy of resistance as it is obvious that the liberation of the oppressed can be made only through class struggle. Suresh said. Given Below is from the programme notice of the fest BOB MARLEY COMMEMORATION AND CULTURAL FEST May 10 11 at Comrade Abu Square (near the beach) Programme Details: May 10th Cultural meet at 10 a.m. talks on Duties and challeges in the cultural sphere. Interventions by: K.P.Sethunath, Dr.T.P.Sajeevan, Dr.P.Geetha, Adv.Tushar Nirmal Sarathy, Raghavan Atholy,C.P.Rasheed, Sathychandran Poyilkavu and N.P.Soman from 3.p.m onwards cultural programmes including plays by Ranga Chethana, Thrissur and Thudipech, a combination of folk and revolutionary songs by Njatuvela. from 7.p.m screening of documentaries on Marley May 11th: at 10 a.m.Bob Marley live RED SOLO-MORTUARY VIBRATIONS by Shaji Kallai from 7.a.m. screening of marley's albums And now here is Marley's famous song 'War' Until the philosophy which hold one race superior And another Inferior Is finally And permanently Discredited And abandoned - Everywhere is war - Me say war. That until there no longer First class and second class citizens of any nation Until the colour of a man's skin Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - Me say war. That until the basic human rights Are equally guaranteed to all, Without regard to race - Dis a war. That until that day The dream of lasting peace, World citizenship Rule of international morality Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, But never attained - Now everywhere is war - war. And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, In Mozambique, South Africa Sub-human bondage Have been toppled, Utterly destroyed - Well, everywhere is war - Me say war. War in the east, War in the west, War up north, War down south - War - war - Rumours of war. And until that day, The African continent Will not know peace, We Africans will fight - we find it necessary - And we know we shall win As we are confident In the victory Of good over evil - Good over evil, yeah! Good over evil - Good over evil, yeah! Good over evil - Good over evil, yeah! /fadeout/ and watch buffalo soldier in the youtube -- The resources of the world are for us all to share. Let us affirm our faith in that common cause - Dr. Ilina Sen --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Fwd: Fw: [feministsindia] Kenyan Women on a Sex Strike: Why They Did It
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