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To: NickSE who wrote (97975)	5/12/2003 1:06:45 PM
From: NickSE	Respond to of 281500

Protest Planned Against Greenpeace's 'Eco-Manslaughter' cnsnews.com\Nation\archive\200305\NAT20030509d.html (CNSNews.com) - An African American civil rights group is planning a Saturday protest against Greenpeace, alleging that the environmental group has committed "eco-manslaughter" through its support of international policies limiting development and the expansion of technology to the developing world's poor. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) will conduct a counter demonstration at Greenpeace USA's "Run for Your Life" 5K road race at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. The Greenpeace event itself will be a protest, meant to "raise awareness of the serious threats posed by chemical plants to New York and New Jersey residents and workers." CORE is using the event as an opportunity to confront Greenpeace activists about their opposition to infrastructure development projects in the developing world, opposition to genetically modified foods and the group's opposition to the use of the chemical DDT to kill malaria-ridden mosquitoes, particularly in Africa. "To serve its own ideological agenda, [Greenpeace] wants to keep the Third World permanently mired in Third World poverty, disease and death. So far, it has succeeded," said Niger Innis, national spokesperson for CORE. Innis believes that policies advocated by Greenpeace are keeping the developing world's poor from attaining running water, electricity and modern agricultural techniques that would allow more food to be grown on less land. "It's time to hold these zealots accountable for the misery and death they cause," Innis stated. According to CORE, 2 billion people worldwide have no electrical power or clean water and are forced to use manure for fuel. CORE alleges that groups like Greenpeace are partly responsible for this as a result of their opposition to infrastructure development projects in the poorest regions of the world. "Green radicals oppose all these projects and tell these destitute people they should be happy with little solar panels on their huts, now and for generations to come," a CORE press release stated. "People should be ashamed to support these fanatics and the eco-manslaughter they are perpetrating on the world's most destitute people. [Saturday's] protest is just the first step in bringing justice to the Third World," he added. Several calls to Greenpeace USA were not returned by press time.

To: NickSE who wrote (97975)	5/12/2003 1:16:59 PM
From: Lou Weed	Respond to of 281500

<<I wonder what the UN is going to do about this...gg>> About as much as the Bush Admin........NOTHING!! You're backhanded jab at the UN can be extended also to us. We're now in the business of liberating people from tyranny, right?!? Can't think of a better place to intervene if this is "truly" our incentive. As I write there's the same # of wmd's and links to Al-Quaeda in the Congo as there is in Iraq. Oh yeah, I guess not sitting on top of the world's second largest oil reserves means your tolerance for tyranny is much greater. MON.