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Sunday, 16 March 2008
Gordon Campbell declared “biohazard” on first annual GE Free Day
Wednesday, 12 March 2008 (Vancouver) – Gordon Campbell is a biohazard to British Columbia for his continual refusal to label genetically engineered products, says Greenpeace, which organized the province’s first annual GE Free Day on 11 March 2008.
Greenpeace volunteers, dressed in contamination suits and masks, “quarantined” the premier’s office this morning with yellow hazard tape while holding signs that read “What’s in Your Food? Demand the Right to Know!”
According to Greenpeace, more than 70 per cent of all products on grocery store shelves in B.C. today are tainted by genetic engineering, yet the provincial government, under the direction of Premier Campbell, has yet to take action. Greenpeace is demanding mandatory labelling of all GE products and is advocating for citizens who have so far been denied their right to this information.
“British Columbians have waited seven years for Gordon Campbell to label genetically engineered foods, which even his own Provincial Health Officer has warned could pose serious risks to the environment and human health,” said Josh Brandon, agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace. “Campbell’s lack of policy direction is becoming a biohazard to the people of BC.”
Mandatory labelling of GE products is already enforced in 40 other countries such as China, Germany, France, Russia and the UK, but Canada has yet to follow suit. Greenpeace created GE Free Day to raise public awareness and will continue to hold the provincial government to task until they commit to mandatory labelling.
More photos available at the Greenpeace blog.
For more details, please contact:
Josh Brandon, Agriculture Campaigner at 604-721-7493
Jessica Wilson, Media/PR Officer at 778-228-5404
Plan to shoot down satellite is nothing more than anti-satellite test
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 The planned Pentagon shoot down of the wayward U.S. military satellite is nothing more than an opportunity to test new Star Wars anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) technology says the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. “The Bush administration is magnifying the risk to justify the testing of new dangerous and provocative offensive space warfare technologies,” says Bruce Gagnon, Coordinator of the Global Network, which is based in Maine.
“At the time when we need to be constraining space debris-creating ASAT testing, this test will throw open the door to a new arms race in space.”
The Strategic Command’s (StratCom) high-tech Global Operations Center, buried beneath Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska, will play the lead role in coordinating the ASAT test. StratCom now heads all military space operations since merging with the U.S. Space Command in 2002.
"The decision to destroy the American satellite does not look harmless as they try to claim, especially at a time when the U.S. has been evading negotiations on the limitation of an arms race in outer space," a Russian Defense Ministry statement has concluded.
For many years Russia and China have gone to the United Nations General Assembly with a resolution calling for a treaty to ban all weapons in space. The U.S. and Israel have annually voted against the treaty while every other nation in the world supports such a new legal ban on space weapons. The U.S. aerospace industry says that Star Wars will be the largest industrial project in the history of the planet Earth.
Global Network board member Stacey Fritz, Coordinator of No Nukes North in Alaska where so-called missile defense interceptors have been deployed says, “A culmination of events this month reveals the true direction of space weapons technology. China and Russia have formally proposed a new ban on space weapons on the heels of polls showing widespread public support for such a treaty in both the U.S. and Russia. Not only does the U.S. refuse to consider the ban, but also after denying for years that these systems have offensive capabilities, the rogue Bush administration proposes to demonstrate missile defense's anti-satellite technology. The doors of the Trojan horse are spilling open and the new arms race is on."
Three U.S. Navy Aegis destroyers, outfitted with missile interceptors, will fire at the satellite as it falls back to Earth from positions just off Hawaii. These same Aegis ships are now being home ported by the Navy throughout the Asian-Pacific region giving the U.S. the ability to encircle China’s coast. These Aegis ships could give the U.S. the ability to intercept China’s twenty nuclear missiles that today are capable of reaching the west coast of the continental U.S. The Pentagon has been war-gaming a U.S. first-strike attack on China, set in 2016, for the past several years. In that attack the Aegis ships would negate China’s nuclear retaliatory force by intercepting their missiles in the boost phase.
The Global Network is made up of more than 140-affiliated peace groups around the world working to halt the nuclearization and weaponization of space.
For more information see www.space4peace.org
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652, Brunswick, ME 04011
Tel: 1-207-443-9502
space4peace.org
space4peace.blogspot.com
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