This post is not meant to be a add...the info looks important however. BTW, a couple of months ago someone forwarded a comment on the Cairo Conference by Dr. Shiva Vandana (developmental amnesia?). Can you tell me where you originally saw that? It is very good and I would like to know if tereis a list that she reg. posts to, or a list that reg. publishes those types of comments. Thanks, -michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded message: > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 21 19:30:44 1995 > Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 21:14:23 -0400 (EDT) > From: PNEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ** DIFFERENTIAL FERTILITY ** > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > > [*****PNEWS CONFERENCES****] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 32-year-old Khalida had only two children when the family > planning worker came to her house in a small village in > Bangladesh. Persuaded by a promise of free medical care > for her children, free staple foods on a monthly basis, > valuable building materials to improve her house, and a > cash grant, Khalida went against the wishes of her mother- > in-law and went to a nearby family planning clinic to be > sterilized. But her secret did not remain a secret for long. > Upon her return from the center, she began bleeding > excessively and developed a high fever and pain. Even > with the skimpy dose of antibiotics she was later given, > she never fully recovered. Nor did she ever receive the > food, the cash, or the building materials she was > promised. And when her daughter got sick, the health > office told her there was no such thing as free medicine. > > Josefina T. lives in the Philippines, and she has an IUD > which was inserted in her courtesy of a population > program financed by the United States government and > other donors.. But she is 70 years old. In fact, she has > been trying unsuccessfully to get the device removed for > almost 35 years. > > Asya O. suffered from abdominal pain for over four years > until doctors at a church-sponsored health centre in Kenya > found out what was causing her discomfort. She, too, had > received an IUD. But she says she was entirely unaware > of the fact that it had been inserted, and gave no consent. > She believes it was placed there after the birth of her > youngest child at a hospital that receives large subsidies > under World Bank and U.S. government-sponsored > population policies. > > When Victoria D. of Rio de Janeiro lost her job in 1989, > she looked for nearly a month before finding another. And > when she did, she was told that a certificate of sterilization > would be required as a prerequisite for employment. > > To many, the subject of "population control" evokes images of > gender, class, and race discrimination. Coercive population control is, > after all, something that the governments of wealthy countries have > for decades attempted to impose on the poor, the uneducated, and > the vulnerable all over the southern hemisphere. And the most > effective and widely utilized anti-fertility agents are those created for > women -- the intrauterine contraceptive device, oral contraceptives, > long-acting injectables, the Norplant skin implant, and several > experimental forms of surgical and non-surgical sterilization. > > Exactly who makes these decisions that so dramatically affect the > lives of literally billions of people? And why? > > A group of researchers based in Washington, DC has been studying the > matter for nearly a decade. And the results are quite significant. The > group's research has just been published as a book: EXCESSIVE FORCE: > POWER, POLITICS, AND POPULATION CONTROL. This publication contains > information gained from literally thousands of government documents, > hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests, and travel on four > continents. Readers will be surprised to discover the extent to which > overseas population activities have been shaped by the Pentagon bosses and > the political analysts at the CIA. In fact, much of the material in this > book is from formerly classified documents and is unavailable anywhere > else. > > At the heart of the issue is the dilemma of "differential fertility." This > is a situation in which certain groups of people (those in developing > countries) experience high birthrates while others (the western > populations) simultaneously have extremely low fertility. The result is > that one group is growing in size while another is at the point of > absolute numerical decline. Thus, the ratio (comparative demographic > strength) of one group to another shifts dramatically. Concern about this > phenomenon explains, for example, why many European nations have explicit > pro-natalist domestic policies and, at the same time, contribute funds for > the development of anti-natalist population programs in developing > countries. It also explains why that portion of the global population > budget (funds contributed or controlled by U.S. leaders) increased more > than 50-fold under two presidents, Reagan and Bush, best known for their > hostility to family planning in the U.S. > > And how do the "secret" agencies of government see the global population > issue: Take, for example, a confidential CIA report, Political > Perspectives on Key Global Issues, which had this to say: > > Population growth will ... reinforce the > politicization of international economic relations > and intensify the drive of [less-developed > countries] for a redistribution of wealth and of > authority in international affairs. > > And a well-known French demographer, writing in the May/June > 1990 issue of the American Enterprise, made the same projection > even more forcefully: > > The abrupt and massive changes in world > population distribution resulting from the > demographic trends of the next four decades > will lead to a reshaping of world political > geography whose general outline can already > be foreseen. Young powers will emerge, basing > their strength in large part on their population > size and the stimulus it creates, and old powers > will face as their populations decline. > > EXCESSIVE FORCE is not so much a book on reproductive rights as > it is a study of the political background and objectives that sustain the > involvement of international institutions and industrialized nations in > such invasive programs. > > EXCESSIVE FORCE: POWER, POLITICS, AND > POPULATION CONTROL, ISBN 1-886719-04-7 > is now available prepaid by mail order. > > Write: Information Project For Africa, Inc. > P. O. Box 43345 > Washington, DC 20010, U.S.A > > Cost: $13.00 in (postage and handling included in U.S.) > > > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > ***** PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS ****** > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > PNEWS CONFERENCES provide "radical" alternative views with an > emphasis on justice, humanitarian positions, protests, > boycott alerts, activism information, etc. > **************** > To subscribe, send request to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ > > > > > > > > > > --
