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Corporate Watch Newsletter 8

CW News | 10.05.2002 12:41

Summaries of articles and links to the new Corporate Watch newsletter - genetic engineering, corporate-led development and more!

Corporate Watch Newsletter April-May 2002 also available as pdf download on website, or subscribe to the paper version (with pictures!) for just £5/year from 16b Cherwell Street, Oxford OX4 1BG Resistance is Fertile! Eyewitness report and comment from the recent COP 6 summit on the Convention on Biodiversity in the Hague, where activists highlighted the corporate hijacking of the UN process and the dangers of genetic engineering and ‘biopiracy’. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue8/resistance_is_fertile.html Vision 20/20 Blinded by Development Jyoti Fernandes exposes how the British government, through the Department for International Development, is giving £65 million to the government of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh for a program called Vision 20/20 that will destroy the livelihood of 20 million farmers. PLUS Corporate Watch looks at management consultants McKinsey and Co - the company that wrote the plans. http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/vision_20_20.htm Genetix RoundUp ™ Du Pont elope with Monsanto…FDA in bed with Monsanto (again!)…Bayer swallows Aventis… http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/genetix_update_may.htm Milking It Lord Ahmed exposed as Nestlé stooge after job offer follows expense-paid trip to Pakistan http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/milking_it.htm News in brief Arctic National Wildlife Refuge…Bog off Scotts!…Russians reject McDollars… http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue8/news.htm Babylonian Times The Corporate Watch tabloid section http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/newsletter/issue8/babylonian_times.htm Send us your campaigns stories and dirt on corporations in your area news@corporatewatch.org.

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