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NEWS May 11 2001
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| Around the Web... Everything you ever wanted to know about Mayday and more – www.uk.indymedia.org ‘Bush’s Corporate Cabinet’ Brilliant expose of Dubya’s cronies’ corporate connections, (from Multinational Monitor) www.essential.org/monitor/mm2001/01may/may01toc.html Stop T25! Press release from Friends of the Earth Europe calling on European governments to suspend the licence on Aventis’ ‘T25’ GM maize (also known as Chardon LL) which has been strongly criticised by independent experts. One scientist concluded: ‘As a scientist, I wouldn’t drink milk from cows fed [this] GM maize with the present state of knowledge’. More: www.foeeurope.org/press/GL.26.4.1.htm Anti-smoking treaty Flaws plague the draft of an international anti-smoking treaty being discussed this week in talks sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO), charge civil society groups, particularly because proposed bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship have been watered down. More. (from Inter Press Service) www.oneworld.org/ips2/apr01/19_50_050.html NTL – downsizer of the fortnight Cable TV company NTL is to make more than 3,000 staff redundant this year. Most are likely to come from among its 22,000 workers in Britain. More. (from The Observer) www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,486414,00.html |