We Request the Removal of "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" (c) from change.org

We Request the Removal of "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" (c) from change.org

The Issue

Whereas:  

0. It appears that the petition "Support Global Food Security" (a),  has been removed as per our request, it has nonetheless been reposted under the new name of  "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" (c).  As far as can be seen, this is the IDENTICAL petition in every respect to the one that has been removed.
THEREFORE: (a) = (c) except that the (a) LINK below no longer works.

Furthermore, all of the signatures from the first petition (a) have obviously been transferred to the second one.
Did anyone agree to signing the "new" petition? (c)
Therefore, in actuality, our request has not been granted and everything said with respect to (a) also applies to this newly named petition (c).

1. According to this petition, "Support Global Food Security", Obama said programs like these "are not charity." (a) = (c) "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger"
He is right. What he is not telling us is that some of these programs are really HANDOUTS to Big Agro Biz.
Neither does this petition, "Support Global Food Security" (a) = (c) "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger", make this clear to us.
http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/03/2638792-global-food-security-act-of-2009-protects-agribusiness-corporate-welfare  

2.
Without doing some research, people cannot know from the wording on this petition (a) = (c) "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" 
that they are signing that they agree
--- that it is OK for our gov (which means taxpayers) to fund GMO propagation in Africa and South Asia and
--- that it is OK to fund tech methods such as "plant protection products"  (aka pesticides and a myriad of other poisonous, heavy-carbon-footprint manufactured chemicals)  -- DemocracyNow
which reputable scientists and farmers with long experience can SHOW do not give higher yields,
in fact quite the opposite.
GMOs are not sustainable food production methods and they are outrageously EXPENSIVE.
GMOs contaminate real DNA, have already caused catastrophic crop failures and could cause the irreversible extinction of species of plants they cross-pollinate.
The wind, birds and insects carry live pollen across the whole planet.
Monocultures are risky (at best!) esp in times of unpredictable weather due to Climate Disruption.

http://food.change.org/actions/view/will_the_real_monsanto_bill_please_stand_up_oca_petition
-- Organic Consumers Association

"Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops" 
-- Union of Concerned Scientists

3. Further, people do not know from this "Support Global Food Security" petition (a) = (c)  "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" that this bill, the Global Food Security Act of 2009, S.384 (b) gives Monsanto et al a mandate to control food production in Africa and South Asia.

Bill to Mandate GMO Research for Africa/S. Asia Passes Unanimously​  http://www.lavidalocavore.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=1338  

It is further impossible to tell if GMO propagation corporations intend to experiment further with what used to be called "TERMINATOR" seeds and the vague wording of this bill leaves a loophole to allow them to do so without oversight.  

"Since 2000, when a de facto moratorium against Terminator technology was agreed at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity [CBD], these companies have re-branded Terminator as a 'biosafety' tool."
-- Silvia Ribeiro of ETC Group.

Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6063387598655207801
Part 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1482107411279204352&hl=en

"Terminator technology is designed to make “suicide seeds,” genetically engineered to be sterile in the second generation. The technology has been widely rejected around the world by farmers’ movements, governments, research institutions and UN agencies as dangerous, immoral and undesirable".
-- from the ETC alert: Posted By Devinder Sharma to Ground Reality at 4/18/2009 07:24:00 AM 

4.
The people of these under-developed nations have not agreed to have Monsanto and the like take over their food production.
This means that we in the USA have NO RIGHT to enact legislation (b) that affects their freedom of choice and their ultimate survival potential.  

5. This bill, the Lugar-Casey bill, S. 384, the Global Food Security Act of 2009 (b), will not help alleviate hunger in the world, it will only add extra expenses for already overburdened tax payers, funds that will end up in corporate pockets rather than actually helping the needy (or anyone else for that matter).
Meanwhile, more people than ever will starve and die because we ALL need
-- economical, eco-friendly ORGANIC farming practices,
-- freedom to provide for ourselves without corporate or gov interference-intimidation, 
--a broad gene pool of real DNA in our seeds and
-- the right to save our seeds as we choose.   
http://food.change.org/actions/view/why_the_lugar-casey_global_food_security_act_will_fail_to_curb_hunger

6.
Corporations only care about their profits, in this case profits from American tax payers who will foot the bill without  even knowing where their money is going.
This constitutes taxation without proper representation.

7. Globular Corporations have received enough "Free Lunch" from the whole world already and they have shown us that they are not capable of giving back to the base upon which they depend for their sociopathic profits.
It is time to put an end to unaccountable corporate rule before it is too late to save ourselves and all life on earth.

"A REALLY INCONVENIENT TRUTH"
, FSTV  

"THE CORPORATION"  by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot, Joel Badan, LINKTV 3/21 

"The Global Dominance Group: 9/11 Pre-Warnings & Election Irregularities in Context"
By Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler.
-- Union of Concerned Scientists action@ucsusa.org

"Never have so many suffered so much for the sake of so few." -- "Upside Down" by Eduardo Galleano  

Therefore,
 

8. We the undersigned support TRUE Global Food Security and Food Freedom thru Organic, Localized, LowCarbonFootprint Food Production-Distribution practices.

9. We do not support the Lugar-Casey bill S. 384, the Global Food Security Act of 2009 (b), as it currently stands with its "monsanto amendment" and vague wording.

10. We the Undersigned respectfully request that this "Support Global Food Security" petition (a) be TRULY removed from change.org  a.s.a.p., not merely "virtually" removed. 

11. We the undersigned also respectfully request that this SAME petition in support of the Lugar-Casey Global Food Security Act of 2009, S.384 (b), now under the NEW NAME of "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" (c), be removed a.s.a.p. as well and not merely renamed AND/OR reworded
BECAUSE in this case, (a) = (b) = (c) = Global Food Shortage "Shock and Awe".

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(a)
This "Support Global Food Security" petition can no longer be found at
http://www.change.org/actions/view/support_global_food_security?suggested=true  

(b)
Manuela sent us a new link to the Lugar-Casey "Global Food Security Act of 2009, S. 384: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:12:./temp/~c111jhIp17::
This is the updated LINK from Manuela, 4/22, ~7:40 pm PDT.

(c) The "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" petition can NO LONGER be found at
http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_congress_to_stand_against_global_hunger 

Here is a fresh one, 4/23, 16:54 PDT:

http://www.change.org/care/actions/view/tell_congress_to_stand_against_global_hunger
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Signatories, please add your comments below. Please feel free to contribute any links you feel contain apropos info on this issue.   With the LINKS, you can either send them to me and I will include them above in the pledge text itself or you can post them to the comments below.

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This action is shared between sustainable food, stop genocide, humanitarian relief and global health.
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Special thanks to
Ralph Fucetola JD, Linn Cohen-Cole, Walter L. Bradley Jr., OpEdNews, The Pen, Organic Consumers Association, La Vida Locavore, Union of Concerned Scientists, Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler. Jill Richardson, Elanor Starmer, Margaret Free, Lynn Chuba, Devinder Sharma & Ground Reality, ETC and Silvia Ribeiro of ETC Group, Maria José Guazzelli from Brazil and the international Ban Terminator Campaign (made up of hundreds of organizations throughout the world), all recruiters  and so many others that I cannot keep track of everyone.
Also, super special thanks to Linn Cohen-Cole who alerted me to the presence of the newly named HIDDEN replication before I received the update from change.org PUSHING the newly named petition.
Extra special thanks to all who have the courage to stand up and Speak Truth To Power. 
Without this, we would ALL be dead little duckies sooner than anyone thinks possible, including our "masters".

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Ani L. SchwartzPetition StarterINDEPENDENT CERTIFIED GENIUS; triple Sagittarius VersatileViolinist; ViolaDoubles; BFA, MFA: California Institute of the Arts Big Mouth but know how to Listen; Have a reputation for "thinking like Schwartz" (as a fellow blogger put it). One of my main "religions" is Daoism, the I Ching is one of my "bibles"; Music, Jungian Psychology, Dreams, Life, Synchronicity are some of my others which are all interwoven with each other. Serendipity Rules!!!! Pay Attention to it and you will SEE.
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The Issue

Whereas:  

0. It appears that the petition "Support Global Food Security" (a),  has been removed as per our request, it has nonetheless been reposted under the new name of  "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" (c).  As far as can be seen, this is the IDENTICAL petition in every respect to the one that has been removed.
THEREFORE: (a) = (c) except that the (a) LINK below no longer works.

Furthermore, all of the signatures from the first petition (a) have obviously been transferred to the second one.
Did anyone agree to signing the "new" petition? (c)
Therefore, in actuality, our request has not been granted and everything said with respect to (a) also applies to this newly named petition (c).

1. According to this petition, "Support Global Food Security", Obama said programs like these "are not charity." (a) = (c) "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger"
He is right. What he is not telling us is that some of these programs are really HANDOUTS to Big Agro Biz.
Neither does this petition, "Support Global Food Security" (a) = (c) "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger", make this clear to us.
http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/03/2638792-global-food-security-act-of-2009-protects-agribusiness-corporate-welfare  

2.
Without doing some research, people cannot know from the wording on this petition (a) = (c) "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" 
that they are signing that they agree
--- that it is OK for our gov (which means taxpayers) to fund GMO propagation in Africa and South Asia and
--- that it is OK to fund tech methods such as "plant protection products"  (aka pesticides and a myriad of other poisonous, heavy-carbon-footprint manufactured chemicals)  -- DemocracyNow
which reputable scientists and farmers with long experience can SHOW do not give higher yields,
in fact quite the opposite.
GMOs are not sustainable food production methods and they are outrageously EXPENSIVE.
GMOs contaminate real DNA, have already caused catastrophic crop failures and could cause the irreversible extinction of species of plants they cross-pollinate.
The wind, birds and insects carry live pollen across the whole planet.
Monocultures are risky (at best!) esp in times of unpredictable weather due to Climate Disruption.

http://food.change.org/actions/view/will_the_real_monsanto_bill_please_stand_up_oca_petition
-- Organic Consumers Association

"Failure to Yield: Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops" 
-- Union of Concerned Scientists

3. Further, people do not know from this "Support Global Food Security" petition (a) = (c)  "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" that this bill, the Global Food Security Act of 2009, S.384 (b) gives Monsanto et al a mandate to control food production in Africa and South Asia.

Bill to Mandate GMO Research for Africa/S. Asia Passes Unanimously​  http://www.lavidalocavore.org/showDiary.do?diaryId=1338  

It is further impossible to tell if GMO propagation corporations intend to experiment further with what used to be called "TERMINATOR" seeds and the vague wording of this bill leaves a loophole to allow them to do so without oversight.  

"Since 2000, when a de facto moratorium against Terminator technology was agreed at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity [CBD], these companies have re-branded Terminator as a 'biosafety' tool."
-- Silvia Ribeiro of ETC Group.

Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6063387598655207801
Part 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1482107411279204352&hl=en

"Terminator technology is designed to make “suicide seeds,” genetically engineered to be sterile in the second generation. The technology has been widely rejected around the world by farmers’ movements, governments, research institutions and UN agencies as dangerous, immoral and undesirable".
-- from the ETC alert: Posted By Devinder Sharma to Ground Reality at 4/18/2009 07:24:00 AM 

4.
The people of these under-developed nations have not agreed to have Monsanto and the like take over their food production.
This means that we in the USA have NO RIGHT to enact legislation (b) that affects their freedom of choice and their ultimate survival potential.  

5. This bill, the Lugar-Casey bill, S. 384, the Global Food Security Act of 2009 (b), will not help alleviate hunger in the world, it will only add extra expenses for already overburdened tax payers, funds that will end up in corporate pockets rather than actually helping the needy (or anyone else for that matter).
Meanwhile, more people than ever will starve and die because we ALL need
-- economical, eco-friendly ORGANIC farming practices,
-- freedom to provide for ourselves without corporate or gov interference-intimidation, 
--a broad gene pool of real DNA in our seeds and
-- the right to save our seeds as we choose.   
http://food.change.org/actions/view/why_the_lugar-casey_global_food_security_act_will_fail_to_curb_hunger

6.
Corporations only care about their profits, in this case profits from American tax payers who will foot the bill without  even knowing where their money is going.
This constitutes taxation without proper representation.

7. Globular Corporations have received enough "Free Lunch" from the whole world already and they have shown us that they are not capable of giving back to the base upon which they depend for their sociopathic profits.
It is time to put an end to unaccountable corporate rule before it is too late to save ourselves and all life on earth.

"A REALLY INCONVENIENT TRUTH"
, FSTV  

"THE CORPORATION"  by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot, Joel Badan, LINKTV 3/21 

"The Global Dominance Group: 9/11 Pre-Warnings & Election Irregularities in Context"
By Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler.
-- Union of Concerned Scientists action@ucsusa.org

"Never have so many suffered so much for the sake of so few." -- "Upside Down" by Eduardo Galleano  

Therefore,
 

8. We the undersigned support TRUE Global Food Security and Food Freedom thru Organic, Localized, LowCarbonFootprint Food Production-Distribution practices.

9. We do not support the Lugar-Casey bill S. 384, the Global Food Security Act of 2009 (b), as it currently stands with its "monsanto amendment" and vague wording.

10. We the Undersigned respectfully request that this "Support Global Food Security" petition (a) be TRULY removed from change.org  a.s.a.p., not merely "virtually" removed. 

11. We the undersigned also respectfully request that this SAME petition in support of the Lugar-Casey Global Food Security Act of 2009, S.384 (b), now under the NEW NAME of "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" (c), be removed a.s.a.p. as well and not merely renamed AND/OR reworded
BECAUSE in this case, (a) = (b) = (c) = Global Food Shortage "Shock and Awe".

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(a)
This "Support Global Food Security" petition can no longer be found at
http://www.change.org/actions/view/support_global_food_security?suggested=true  

(b)
Manuela sent us a new link to the Lugar-Casey "Global Food Security Act of 2009, S. 384: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:12:./temp/~c111jhIp17::
This is the updated LINK from Manuela, 4/22, ~7:40 pm PDT.

(c) The "Tell Congress to Stand Against Global Hunger" petition can NO LONGER be found at
http://www.change.org/actions/view/tell_congress_to_stand_against_global_hunger 

Here is a fresh one, 4/23, 16:54 PDT:

http://www.change.org/care/actions/view/tell_congress_to_stand_against_global_hunger
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
Signatories, please add your comments below. Please feel free to contribute any links you feel contain apropos info on this issue.   With the LINKS, you can either send them to me and I will include them above in the pledge text itself or you can post them to the comments below.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This action is shared between sustainable food, stop genocide, humanitarian relief and global health.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

Special thanks to
Ralph Fucetola JD, Linn Cohen-Cole, Walter L. Bradley Jr., OpEdNews, The Pen, Organic Consumers Association, La Vida Locavore, Union of Concerned Scientists, Peter Phillips, Bridget Thornton and Celeste Vogler. Jill Richardson, Elanor Starmer, Margaret Free, Lynn Chuba, Devinder Sharma & Ground Reality, ETC and Silvia Ribeiro of ETC Group, Maria José Guazzelli from Brazil and the international Ban Terminator Campaign (made up of hundreds of organizations throughout the world), all recruiters  and so many others that I cannot keep track of everyone.
Also, super special thanks to Linn Cohen-Cole who alerted me to the presence of the newly named HIDDEN replication before I received the update from change.org PUSHING the newly named petition.
Extra special thanks to all who have the courage to stand up and Speak Truth To Power. 
Without this, we would ALL be dead little duckies sooner than anyone thinks possible, including our "masters".

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

avatar of the starter
Ani L. SchwartzPetition StarterINDEPENDENT CERTIFIED GENIUS; triple Sagittarius VersatileViolinist; ViolaDoubles; BFA, MFA: California Institute of the Arts Big Mouth but know how to Listen; Have a reputation for "thinking like Schwartz" (as a fellow blogger put it). One of my main "religions" is Daoism, the I Ching is one of my "bibles"; Music, Jungian Psychology, Dreams, Life, Synchronicity are some of my others which are all interwoven with each other. Serendipity Rules!!!! Pay Attention to it and you will SEE.

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