[UC] Re: [UC] Fwd: Nestlé draining watershed

[Glenn moyer]

Rick,

Thanks for courageously speaking up as a citizen!  Underlying all the problems destroying humanity and the planet is the training we Americans have silently accepted.

Doing one's duty as a citizen is relentlessly attacked and marginalized.  We are trained to talk publicly about our favorite brands and sports stars, but never to speak about democratic processes, scientific method, or truth.  It's cool to attack truth tellers and real journalism, but totally uncool to speak of anything labeled "political."  Truth tellers are stinky whiners and sex perverts like Bradley Manning, Glenn Moyer, and Julian Assange, whom should be executed.

And then, people wonder why the corporate noose continues tightening and new wars begin.  They think George Bush caused the vast and ongoing war crimes instead of looking in the mirror at their sealed lips and cravenness!     

On this list, neighbors were relentlessly attacked as "processaholics" during the gentrification, until UCneighbors and censorship put the final chill on citizenship and free speech locally.  Most of our neighbors are terrified to speak up about anything important, and there are many serious real problems we face!!!

The Bolivian revolution finally occurred because of corporate ownership of water.  Common people were forced to pay half their income or lose access to drinking water.

Thanks and keep speaking out. There are still some fellow citizens among the sea of happy consumers!

Glenn, a citizen    

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Conrad
Sent: May 29, 2013 10:29 PM
To: univcity@list.purple.com, pf...@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Subject: [UC] Fwd: Nestlé draining watershed

Saw a film about recently alerting viewers to the dangers of allowing Monsanto's continuing attack on human nature, human rights, and human health standards by replacing long revered and stable standard methods of food production with their products - despite them being dismissive of peoples needs and cares and ignoring the validity of scientific research, refusing to show more real honesty than profit devotion, untrue to their own stated intentions, unconcerned with legal fairness, faking but not regarding needed common benevolence, and harming our chances for world democracy.  NOW it seems we are again back to NESTLE!!!: 

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From: "Angus Wong, SumOfUs.org" <u...@sumofus.org>

Date: May 29, 2013 6:49:06 PM EDT

To: "Richard D. Conrad" <rdcon...@verizon.net>

Subject: Nestlé draining watershed

Reply-To: u...@sumofus.org

Nestlé is sucking water from a watershed during drought conditions in order to bottle and sell it. From patenting flowers to claiming water is not a public right, Nestlé is trying to commodify everything. Tell Nestlé to stop bottling from a Canadian aquifer in drought conditions.

Richard,

Nestlé's Chairman and former CEO once infamously declared that "access to water should not be a public right." And now his company is putting into practice its belief that every resource should be commodied and sold off. Nestlé is sucking up water from a Canadian watershed during drought conditions -- to bottle and sell it off. 

Nestlé has won a permit to drain an Ontario aquifer whenever it likes. Meanwhile, the surrounding communities which rely on the aquifer have by-laws to restrict their access to their own water during dry conditions in the summer. This just isn’t right, and groups are fighting back against Nestlé and the Ontario government office that handed out its permit in an environmental tribunal. It shouldn’t take a legal proceeding to force Nestlé to do the right thing. Let’s tell Nestlé that a community’s access to its own water supply is more important than any company's profits.

Tell Nestlé: Stop bottling Ontario’s water source during drought conditions.

Currently, Nestlé has a permit through 2017 to take about 1.1 million litres of water per day from Hillsburgh, Ontario for its bottling operations in nearby Aberfoyle -- even during drought conditions while there are by-laws on water use for households. SumOfUs.org is joining a number of groups that are fighting back against Nestlé. 

Nestlé has been in the news a lot lately for attempting to profit from our natural resources. Last month, over 220,000 SumOfUs.org supporters signed our petition against Nestlé's greedy effort to patent the fennel flower, a cure-all medicinal remedy for millions of people in impoverished communities across the Middle East and Asia. Several days after we sent out our petition, a video emerged showing Nestlé’s Chairman claiming that the idea that water is a human right comes from “extremist” NGOs and that water should have a market value. Nestlé has dealt with NGOs and lost before -- the years-long boycott over Nestlé's dirty tactics to get mothers to stop breastfeeding and use baby formula -- which resulted in thousands of infant deaths from water-born illnesses -- was a historic success in corporate campaigning.

Nestlé’s appetite to commodify water and natural remedies is a recurring strategy by a corporation with a pattern of seeking to privatize and profit from traditional knowledge and our natural resources. By speaking out against the draining of our watersheds, you will be taking a stand against Nestlé’s strategy to profit off everything in nature.

Demand that Nestlé stop commodifying everything in nature. Stop draining Ontario's watershed to bottle water.

Thanks for all you do

Angus, Martin & the team from SumOfUs.org

  

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More information:

Council of Canadians raises climate change and drought concerns in Nestlé case. Council of Canadians, Apr. 23rd, 2013.
The Privatization of Water: Nestlé Denies that Water is a Fundamental Human Right. Global Research. Apr. 20th, 2013.

 

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