It does seem to me from faraway Singapore and knowing American culture
only from the movies, media and books that you people are very different
from
one another 'cause after I asked that question, two of EcoFem readers
thought I
was being nasty and I got chided!!! And unless this is
tongue-in-che
Wong Ee Ling,
That's one hell of a question... I missed much in conversation on the list,
but that was one hell of a question. Who is the president of ecofem?
You're so funny! I am so very grateful for your insight, intelligence, and
perspective when I have time to read what you've written. I hav
Thks Vicki, The American system evolved out of their history and lobbying is
one of the ways interest groups try to reach their representatives and in a
way that is good to have open door policy. Of course, complications is
conveying one's political msg may happen as I presume. In Singapore, we
fo
Not really. Because I am trying to locate the president
of EcoFem!
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> From: vikki charles[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 2:56 AM
> To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT
> Subject: RE: Society for Human
> Does anyone know any thing else about this woman? I heard
> something about it before and I think it's great.
I believe she has a webpage at lunatree.org that's pretty good, if you
want to find out more. I'm not sure that that's the address (no web access
right now) but I think that's it.
I agree with Vikki, I remember when she first sat up there and gave the tree
a name, I thought it was "Luna" or something. She wants the world to become
aware of what is going on in regards to logging and the swift deforestation
that is occurring. She has definitely gained the publicity she wanted
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 10:48:17 +0800 Wong Ee Ling
> >Hello, I agree with what you are saying. It is a
disillusionment to realise that lobbying the governemtn is
a total waste of time. I live in England which is basically
full of people who worship America. But when you look at it
their govern
What makes you think thay? I'm not. Are you being nasty?
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 09:04:26 +0800 Wong Ee Ling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vicki...are you the "president' of ECOFEM?
>
> > --
> > From: vikki charles[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent:
I wouldn't say it was specifically women's rights other
than the fact she is a woman. But it is to do witht he
environment. I think she's sitting there to stop "them"
chopping the forest down - they can't chop it down while
she's sitting there because there would be world-wide media
coverage
You can actually read chapters of Betsy Hartmann's book, Reproductive Rights and
Wrongs: the Global Politics of Population Contol online:
Chapter 1: Security and Survival
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21/globalism/HARTMANNc1.html
Chapter 2: The Malthusian Orthodoxy
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu
Hello Comrads!
I was delighted to read Larry Fahn's account of our triumph in Seattle. I
flew from Kingston, Ontario to participate in the work of the Direct Action
Network (DAN), who organized the barricades that circled the convention
center. I have never seen so many beautiful people in one pl
below, forwarded from a colleague in melbourne, au. her commentary on
what she sees as an unusual focus on anarchists in the US when, elsewhere,
the concerns are focused on other things altogether. i forward because it
also provides info on demonstrations world wide. the next planned even is
The danger of trying to assure safe food by imposing limits to pollution is
also the danger implied in the assessment of the risks accompanying this
pollution. This danger is described in a paragraph of the article :
"Ethical Hazards of Risk Assessment" by Peter Montague :
"But risk assessment i
>"Without TV images
>of violence the police would have had an impossible time opening the
>streets because it would have been much harder for them to use violence.
>The WTO would have been shut down all week or the police would have
>provoked such rage that there would have been massive global es
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