HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT DESTROYS THE ENVIRONMENT Structural adjustment contributes to environmental degradation through its manic emphasis on promoting exports, including especially agricultural and resource exports, as well as through its undermining of enforcement of environmental regulations. HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT WORSENS POVERTY Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing CAMBODIA | STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND LABOR Essential Action >Structural Adjustment and Labor: Cambodia. Letter of Intent and Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, September 29, 1999. Achieving savings on the wage bill for 1999 through removing redundant workers (ghosts, irregular cases, absentee workers, voluntary departures, and technical decentralization) from the civilian payroll (targeted at 3,600); and removing ghost COMPLAINT: MOLETT V COCA-COLA COMPANY The Marina Law Center, Attorney of Record 13323 Washington Bl, Suite 202 Los Angeles CA 90066-5144 Telephone (310) 305-0100 Facsimile (Provided upon Court's Request) PLASMA ARC WASTE TREATMENT ESSENTIAL ACTION PO Box 19405, Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel (+1) 202.387.8030; Fax (+1) 202.234.5176 action@essential.org www.essential.org/action/waste/ QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT INCINERATION Questions & Answers About Incineration Question: Isn ˇt incineration the solution to the solid waste crisis? Answer: No. Incineration is not the long-term solution to the solid waste crisis, because it wastes (not recovers) resources. Simply removing and recycling the glass (not to mention the aluminum, office paper, cardboard etc.) MEDICAL WASTE: SEGREGATION AND REDUCTION MEDICAL WASTE: SEGREGATION AND REDUCTION Medical waste experts recommend that any waste management strategy begin with an emphasis on

segregation and

ARTICLE: MEDICAL WASTE INCINERATION AND THE WORLD BANK BY KEVIN KNIFFEN / THE ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE. Medical Waste Incineration and the World Bank. BINGHAMTON, New York, December 29, 1997 (ENS) - Hospitals are supposed to be the places for people to have their wounds mended. COKE AND PEPSI ARE GOING TO SCHOOL By Anna White Multinational Monitor, Jan. 1999. Since last year, the two giant beverage companies have engaged in a frenzied rush to sign deals with public school districts that give them exclusive beverage selling rights in schools, plus an array of special marketing

opportunities.

HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT DESTROYS THE ENVIRONMENT Structural adjustment contributes to environmental degradation through its manic emphasis on promoting exports, including especially agricultural and resource exports, as well as through its undermining of enforcement of environmental regulations. HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT WORSENS POVERTY Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing CAMBODIA | STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND LABOR Essential Action >Structural Adjustment and Labor: Cambodia. Letter of Intent and Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, September 29, 1999. Achieving savings on the wage bill for 1999 through removing redundant workers (ghosts, irregular cases, absentee workers, voluntary departures, and technical decentralization) from the civilian payroll (targeted at 3,600); and removing ghost COMPLAINT: MOLETT V COCA-COLA COMPANY The Marina Law Center, Attorney of Record 13323 Washington Bl, Suite 202 Los Angeles CA 90066-5144 Telephone (310) 305-0100 Facsimile (Provided upon Court's Request) PLASMA ARC WASTE TREATMENT ESSENTIAL ACTION PO Box 19405, Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel (+1) 202.387.8030; Fax (+1) 202.234.5176 action@essential.org www.essential.org/action/waste/ QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT INCINERATION Questions & Answers About Incineration Question: Isn ˇt incineration the solution to the solid waste crisis? Answer: No. Incineration is not the long-term solution to the solid waste crisis, because it wastes (not recovers) resources. Simply removing and recycling the glass (not to mention the aluminum, office paper, cardboard etc.) MEDICAL WASTE: SEGREGATION AND REDUCTION MEDICAL WASTE: SEGREGATION AND REDUCTION Medical waste experts recommend that any waste management strategy begin with an emphasis on

segregation and

ARTICLE: MEDICAL WASTE INCINERATION AND THE WORLD BANK BY KEVIN KNIFFEN / THE ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE. Medical Waste Incineration and the World Bank. BINGHAMTON, New York, December 29, 1997 (ENS) - Hospitals are supposed to be the places for people to have their wounds mended. COKE AND PEPSI ARE GOING TO SCHOOL By Anna White Multinational Monitor, Jan. 1999. Since last year, the two giant beverage companies have engaged in a frenzied rush to sign deals with public school districts that give them exclusive beverage selling rights in schools, plus an array of special marketing

opportunities.

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Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control. Groups around the world are linking together to take on the global epidemic of tobacco-related death and disease and the corporations that profit from it. Tobacco & Trade. Essential Action & Partners' Amicus Brief in U.S. DOJ RICO Case Against Tobacco Industry. Licensed to Kill, Inc. ESSENTIAL ACTION: CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE IMF, WORLD BANK AND Essential Action P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-387-8030 Fax: 202-234-5176 BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing

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The campaign for environmental justice and corporate accountability for Shell's operations in Nigeria. Background, tools and action ideas for campaigning in your community or campus. ACCESS TO MEDICINES PROJECT by Robert Weissman Published at Taipei Times. Jeremiah Norris, the author of a recent article published in your paper, works for the Hudson Institute, which is described in his bio as a think tank (“WHO: Long on agenda, but short on the facts,” Nov. 4, page 8).This think tank is funded by pharmaceutical giants including Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer and the Pharmaceutical Research and ACCESS TO MEDICINES PROJECT Click here to download a fact sheet on Access to Medicines in Thailand: Interference by the United States.. Click here for the html version of the fact sheet on Access to Medicines in Thailand: Interference by the United States.. Click here for a January 2007 letter from 22 Members of the U.S. Congress to USTR, asking for an end to pressure on Thailand for its compulsory license. NIGER DELTA HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO NIGER DELTA HUMAN & ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO is a mass base human and environmental rights organisation in Nigeria's Niger River Delta. MEDICAL WASTE: SEGREGATION AND REDUCTION MEDICAL WASTE: SEGREGATION AND REDUCTION Medical waste experts recommend that any waste management strategy begin with an emphasis on

segregation and

COKE AND PEPSI ARE GOING TO SCHOOL By Anna White Multinational Monitor, Jan. 1999. Since last year, the two giant beverage companies have engaged in a frenzied rush to sign deals with public school districts that give them exclusive beverage selling rights in schools, plus an array of special marketing

opportunities.

ARGENTINA | STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND LABOR Essential Action >Structural Adjustment and Labor: Argentina. Argentina - Water Sector Reform (Vol.1), 1997/09/05, PIC5288, Project Information Document In 1990, convinced that the only way to improve public enterprise performance is to undertake a radical reform, the Argentine Government launched a massive and ambitious privatization program, encompassing virtually all public services and ESSENTIAL ACTION: CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE IMF, WORLD BANK AND Essential Action P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-387-8030 Fax: 202-234-5176 HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT DESTROYS THE ENVIRONMENT Structural adjustment contributes to environmental degradation through its manic emphasis on promoting exports, including especially agricultural and resource exports, as well as through its undermining of enforcement of environmental regulations. HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT WORSENS POVERTYIMF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIESSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIESSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIES DEFINITIONSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AFRICASTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS DEFINITIONSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS EXAMPLES Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing NIGER DELTA HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO NIGER DELTA HUMAN & ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO is a mass base human and environmental rights organisation in Nigeria's Niger River Delta.

ESSENTIAL ACTION

The campaign for environmental justice and corporate accountability for Shell's operations in Nigeria. Background, tools and action ideas for campaigning in your community or campus. COMPLAINT: MOLETT V COCA-COLA COMPANY The Marina Law Center, Attorney of Record 13323 Washington Bl, Suite 202 Los Angeles CA 90066-5144 Telephone (310) 305-0100 Facsimile (Provided upon Court's Request) RACE DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST COCA-COLA COMPANY Abdallah, et al. v. The Coca-Cola Company. Filed on: April 22, 1999 . Text of Complaint. Exhibit A Proportion of African-Americans and Whites in Each Performance Rating, 1995 PLASMA ARC WASTE TREATMENT ESSENTIAL ACTION PO Box 19405, Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel (+1) 202.387.8030; Fax (+1) 202.234.5176 action@essential.org www.essential.org/action/waste/ MALAWI | STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND LABOR Essential Action >Structural Adjustment and Labor: Malawi. Malawi - Privatization and Utility Reform Project (Vol.1), 2000/06/02, PID7404, Project Information Document The project will consist of four components. PPI policy component. ESSENTIAL ACTION: CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE IMF, WORLD BANK AND Essential Action P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-387-8030 Fax: 202-234-5176 HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT DESTROYS THE ENVIRONMENT Structural adjustment contributes to environmental degradation through its manic emphasis on promoting exports, including especially agricultural and resource exports, as well as through its undermining of enforcement of environmental regulations. HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT WORSENS POVERTYIMF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIESSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIESSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIES DEFINITIONSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AFRICASTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS DEFINITIONSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS EXAMPLES Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing NIGER DELTA HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO NIGER DELTA HUMAN & ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO is a mass base human and environmental rights organisation in Nigeria's Niger River Delta.

ESSENTIAL ACTION

The campaign for environmental justice and corporate accountability for Shell's operations in Nigeria. Background, tools and action ideas for campaigning in your community or campus. COMPLAINT: MOLETT V COCA-COLA COMPANY The Marina Law Center, Attorney of Record 13323 Washington Bl, Suite 202 Los Angeles CA 90066-5144 Telephone (310) 305-0100 Facsimile (Provided upon Court's Request) RACE DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST COCA-COLA COMPANY Abdallah, et al. v. The Coca-Cola Company. Filed on: April 22, 1999 . Text of Complaint. Exhibit A Proportion of African-Americans and Whites in Each Performance Rating, 1995 PLASMA ARC WASTE TREATMENT ESSENTIAL ACTION PO Box 19405, Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel (+1) 202.387.8030; Fax (+1) 202.234.5176 action@essential.org www.essential.org/action/waste/ MALAWI | STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND LABOR Essential Action >Structural Adjustment and Labor: Malawi. Malawi - Privatization and Utility Reform Project (Vol.1), 2000/06/02, PID7404, Project Information Document The project will consist of four components. PPI policy component.

ESSENTIAL ACTION

Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control. Groups around the world are linking together to take on the global epidemic of tobacco-related death and disease and the corporations that profit from it. Tobacco & Trade. Essential Action & Partners' Amicus Brief in U.S. DOJ RICO Case Against Tobacco Industry. Licensed to Kill, Inc. ESSENTIAL ACTION: CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE IMF, WORLD BANK AND Essential Action P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-387-8030 Fax: 202-234-5176 BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing

ESSENTIAL ACTION

The campaign for environmental justice and corporate accountability for Shell's operations in Nigeria. Background, tools and action ideas for campaigning in your community or campus. ACCESS TO MEDICINES PROJECT by Robert Weissman Published at Taipei Times. Jeremiah Norris, the author of a recent article published in your paper, works for the Hudson Institute, which is described in his bio as a think tank (“WHO: Long on agenda, but short on the facts,” Nov. 4, page 8).This think tank is funded by pharmaceutical giants including Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer and the Pharmaceutical Research and ACCESS TO MEDICINES PROJECT Click here to download a fact sheet on Access to Medicines in Thailand: Interference by the United States.. Click here for the html version of the fact sheet on Access to Medicines in Thailand: Interference by the United States.. Click here for a January 2007 letter from 22 Members of the U.S. Congress to USTR, asking for an end to pressure on Thailand for its compulsory license. A MARLBORO GIRL SPEAKS OUT October 2001 . A Marlboro Girl Speaks Out. In countries around the world - Africa to Asia to Eastern Europe - Philip Morris employs young women to don short skirts, color-coordinated with the company's cigarette brands, and distribute free cigarettes. ARTICLE: MEDICAL WASTE INCINERATION AND THE WORLD BANK BY KEVIN KNIFFEN / THE ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE. Medical Waste Incineration and the World Bank. BINGHAMTON, New York, December 29, 1997 (ENS) - Hospitals are supposed to be the places for people to have their wounds mended. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT INCINERATION Questions & Answers About Incineration Question: Isn ˇt incineration the solution to the solid waste crisis? Answer: No. Incineration is not the long-term solution to the solid waste crisis, because it wastes (not recovers) resources. Simply removing and recycling the glass (not to mention the aluminum, office paper, cardboard etc.) SOME HUMOROUS CROSS-CULTURAL ADVERTISING GAFFES Some Humorous Cross-Cultural Advertising Gaffes! When a passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your ESSENTIAL ACTION: CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE IMF, WORLD BANK AND Essential Action P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-387-8030 Fax: 202-234-5176 HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT DESTROYS THE ENVIRONMENT Structural adjustment contributes to environmental degradation through its manic emphasis on promoting exports, including especially agricultural and resource exports, as well as through its undermining of enforcement of environmental regulations. HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT WORSENS POVERTYIMF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIESSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIESSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIES DEFINITIONSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AFRICASTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS DEFINITIONSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS EXAMPLES Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing NIGER DELTA HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO NIGER DELTA HUMAN & ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO is a mass base human and environmental rights organisation in Nigeria's Niger River Delta.

ESSENTIAL ACTION

The campaign for environmental justice and corporate accountability for Shell's operations in Nigeria. Background, tools and action ideas for campaigning in your community or campus. COMPLAINT: MOLETT V COCA-COLA COMPANY The Marina Law Center, Attorney of Record 13323 Washington Bl, Suite 202 Los Angeles CA 90066-5144 Telephone (310) 305-0100 Facsimile (Provided upon Court's Request) RACE DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST COCA-COLA COMPANY Abdallah, et al. v. The Coca-Cola Company. Filed on: April 22, 1999 . Text of Complaint. Exhibit A Proportion of African-Americans and Whites in Each Performance Rating, 1995 PLASMA ARC WASTE TREATMENT ESSENTIAL ACTION PO Box 19405, Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel (+1) 202.387.8030; Fax (+1) 202.234.5176 action@essential.org www.essential.org/action/waste/ MALAWI | STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND LABOR Essential Action >Structural Adjustment and Labor: Malawi. Malawi - Privatization and Utility Reform Project (Vol.1), 2000/06/02, PID7404, Project Information Document The project will consist of four components. PPI policy component. ESSENTIAL ACTION: CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE IMF, WORLD BANK AND Essential Action P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-387-8030 Fax: 202-234-5176 HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT DESTROYS THE ENVIRONMENT Structural adjustment contributes to environmental degradation through its manic emphasis on promoting exports, including especially agricultural and resource exports, as well as through its undermining of enforcement of environmental regulations. HOW STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT WORSENS POVERTYIMF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIESSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIESSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT POLICIES DEFINITIONSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS AFRICASTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS DEFINITIONSTRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMS EXAMPLES Structural adjustment -- the standard IMF/World Bank policy package which calls for slashing government spending, privatization, and opening up countries to exploitative foreign investment, among other measures -- has deepened poverty around the world. BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing NIGER DELTA HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO NIGER DELTA HUMAN & ENVIRONMENTAL RESCUE ORGANISATION ND-HERO is a mass base human and environmental rights organisation in Nigeria's Niger River Delta.

ESSENTIAL ACTION

The campaign for environmental justice and corporate accountability for Shell's operations in Nigeria. Background, tools and action ideas for campaigning in your community or campus. COMPLAINT: MOLETT V COCA-COLA COMPANY The Marina Law Center, Attorney of Record 13323 Washington Bl, Suite 202 Los Angeles CA 90066-5144 Telephone (310) 305-0100 Facsimile (Provided upon Court's Request) RACE DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST COCA-COLA COMPANY Abdallah, et al. v. The Coca-Cola Company. Filed on: April 22, 1999 . Text of Complaint. Exhibit A Proportion of African-Americans and Whites in Each Performance Rating, 1995 PLASMA ARC WASTE TREATMENT ESSENTIAL ACTION PO Box 19405, Washington, D.C. 20036 Tel (+1) 202.387.8030; Fax (+1) 202.234.5176 action@essential.org www.essential.org/action/waste/ MALAWI | STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND LABOR Essential Action >Structural Adjustment and Labor: Malawi. Malawi - Privatization and Utility Reform Project (Vol.1), 2000/06/02, PID7404, Project Information Document The project will consist of four components. PPI policy component.

ESSENTIAL ACTION

Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control. Groups around the world are linking together to take on the global epidemic of tobacco-related death and disease and the corporations that profit from it. Tobacco & Trade. Essential Action & Partners' Amicus Brief in U.S. DOJ RICO Case Against Tobacco Industry. Licensed to Kill, Inc. ESSENTIAL ACTION: CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE IMF, WORLD BANK AND Essential Action P.O. Box 19405 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: 202-387-8030 Fax: 202-234-5176 BOYCOTT SHELL/FREE NIGERIA: THE MAIN ISSUES Although oil from Ogoniland has provided approximately $30 billion to the economy of Nigeria 1, the people of Ogoni see little to nothing from their contribution to Shell's pocketbook.Emanuel Nnadozie, writing of the contributions of oil to the national economy of Nigeria, observed "Oil is a curse which means only poverty, hunger, disease and exploitation" for those living in oil producing

ESSENTIAL ACTION

The campaign for environmental justice and corporate accountability for Shell's operations in Nigeria. Background, tools and action ideas for campaigning in your community or campus. ACCESS TO MEDICINES PROJECT by Robert Weissman Published at Taipei Times. Jeremiah Norris, the author of a recent article published in your paper, works for the Hudson Institute, which is described in his bio as a think tank (“WHO: Long on agenda, but short on the facts,” Nov. 4, page 8).This think tank is funded by pharmaceutical giants including Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer and the Pharmaceutical Research and ACCESS TO MEDICINES PROJECT Click here to download a fact sheet on Access to Medicines in Thailand: Interference by the United States.. Click here for the html version of the fact sheet on Access to Medicines in Thailand: Interference by the United States.. Click here for a January 2007 letter from 22 Members of the U.S. Congress to USTR, asking for an end to pressure on Thailand for its compulsory license. A MARLBORO GIRL SPEAKS OUT October 2001 . A Marlboro Girl Speaks Out. In countries around the world - Africa to Asia to Eastern Europe - Philip Morris employs young women to don short skirts, color-coordinated with the company's cigarette brands, and distribute free cigarettes. ARTICLE: MEDICAL WASTE INCINERATION AND THE WORLD BANK BY KEVIN KNIFFEN / THE ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE. Medical Waste Incineration and the World Bank. BINGHAMTON, New York, December 29, 1997 (ENS) - Hospitals are supposed to be the places for people to have their wounds mended. QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ABOUT INCINERATION Questions & Answers About Incineration Question: Isn ˇt incineration the solution to the solid waste crisis? Answer: No. Incineration is not the long-term solution to the solid waste crisis, because it wastes (not recovers) resources. Simply removing and recycling the glass (not to mention the aluminum, office paper, cardboard etc.) SOME HUMOROUS CROSS-CULTURAL ADVERTISING GAFFES Some Humorous Cross-Cultural Advertising Gaffes! When a passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your

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