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David Waskow, Friends of the Earth
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20 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| David Waskow monitors the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations for Friends of the Earth U.S., where he is the trade and investment policy coordinator. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 20 Apr 2001 QUEBEC CITY, Quebec At around midnight last night, I found myself standing in a suburban hotel parking lot in 25-degree weather, talking on a BBC radio microphone to an anchor in London via satellite. Before I began speaking into the ether, the techni ... |
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David Waskow, Friends of the Earth
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19 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| David Waskow monitors the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations for Friends of the Earth U.S., where he is the trade and investment policy coordinator. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 19 Apr 2001 QUEBEC CITY, Quebec Things became a bit more exciting yesterday at about 3:00 p.m., when an official draft text of the key investment chapter of the FTAA was leaked and posted on the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy website. Until then, it ... |
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David Waskow, Friends of the Earth
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18 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| David Waskow monitors the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations for Friends of the Earth U.S., where he is the trade and investment policy coordinator. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 18 Apr 2001 QUEBEC CITY, Quebec I made it to Quebec yesterday afternoon, and I even managed to enter the country (at the Montreal airport) with my belongings intact. Some of my colleagues were not so blessed. A number of them had their baggage and packages ope ... |
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David Waskow, Friends of the Earth
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17 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| David Waskow monitors the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations for Friends of the Earth U.S., where he is the trade and investment policy coordinator. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 17 Apr 2001 MONTREAL, Quebec I finished yesterday with a flurry of last-minute tasks before heading to Quebec for the Summit of the Americas. With the help of Environmental Media Services and their blast-fax, I sent out a FoE press release announcing our call fo ... |
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David Waskow, Friends of the Earth
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16 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| David Waskow monitors the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations for Friends of the Earth U.S., where he is the trade and investment policy coordinator. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 16 Apr 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. It's Quebec City week, the week that some believe will be the next Seattle. Seattle, of course, refers to the monumental eruption over global economic issues that took place during the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings there. In ... |
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Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
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06 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Ronnie Cummins is national director of the Organic Consumers Association and the author of the recent book, Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 06 Apr 2001 SANTA FE, N.M. Friday is my day to review the week's activities, catch up on any priority tasks that still need to be done, and think about the next steps we need to take in our campaign work. Yesterday afternoon we had a staff confe ... |
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Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
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05 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Ronnie Cummins is national director of the Organic Consumers Association and the author of the recent book, Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 05 Apr 2001 SANTA FE, N.M. Five o'clock in the morning. After doing my morning stretches, calisthenics, and a few karate exercises, and brewing up a pot of organic coffee, it's time to check my list of "campaign priorities" for the w ... |
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Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
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04 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Ronnie Cummins is national director of the Organic Consumers Association and the author of the recent book, Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 04 Apr 2001 SANTA FE, N.M. It has taken our organization and our movement years of hard work to get to the point where we, working with our allies such as Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the Center for Food Safety, are starting to make ... |
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Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
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03 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Ronnie Cummins is national director of the Organic Consumers Association and the author of the recent book, Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 03 Apr 2001 SANTA FE, N.M. It's 5:30 a.m. and still dark outside. Last night, three of us from the Organic Consumers Association watched a video documenting the activities of a Zapatista coffee producers' cooperative in Chiapas, Mexico, called ... |
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Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association
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02 Apr 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Ronnie Cummins is national director of the Organic Consumers Association and the author of the recent book, Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 02 Apr 2001 SANTA FE, N.M. I woke up at 4:30 a.m. today thinking about organic coffee, social justice, and genetic engineering. Specifically, as I climbed out of bed slowly and quietly, so as to not wake my wife and my 3-year-old boy sleeping be ... |
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Noelle Barger, San Diego Oceans Foundation
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30 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Noelle Barger is operations manager for the San Diego Oceans Foundation (SDOF), a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting ocean stewardship through community-supported projects. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 30 Mar 2001 SAN DIEGO, Calif. I actually had fun getting dressed for work today -- I am in all my old work clothes. Since we're cleaning the white seabass nets today, I am wearing clothes that can get stinky and fishy. When I was walking t ... |
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Noelle Barger, San Diego Oceans Foundation
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29 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Noelle Barger is operations manager for the San Diego Oceans Foundation (SDOF), a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting ocean stewardship through community-supported projects. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 29 Mar 2001 SAN DIEGO, Calif. This morning, I heard an all-too-familiar voice on the answering machine. In a political, suave manner the voice said, "Noelle, this is Dave. I'm calling to get the Foundation's official position on the ... |
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Noelle Barger, San Diego Oceans Foundation
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28 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Noelle Barger is operations manager for the San Diego Oceans Foundation (SDOF), a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting ocean stewardship through community-supported projects. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 28 Mar 2001 SAN DIEGO, Calif. What a view! I am standing among hundreds of beautiful sailboats and pleasure yachts. The air around me smells crisp and fishy -- the perfect combination for a deep inhale of that sensational ocean smell. A ... |
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Noelle Barger, San Diego Oceans Foundation
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27 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Noelle Barger is operations manager for the San Diego Oceans Foundation (SDOF), a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting ocean stewardship through community-supported projects. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 27 Mar 2001 SAN DIEGO, Calif. I have a meeting today with Andrew, one of the Board of Directors, regarding our water quality program. We have been brainstorming for several weeks to try to develop a better program for water quality. Ideas ... |
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Noelle Barger, San Diego Oceans Foundation
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26 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Noelle Barger is operations manager for the San Diego Oceans Foundation (SDOF), a nonprofit organization devoted to promoting ocean stewardship through community-supported projects. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 26 Mar 2001 SAN DIEGO, Calif. Imagine this: You are standing in front of a crowd of 100 people, your body is moist from what I call "the nervous sweat," your voice is higher than normal because you are anxious, and all 200 eyes a ... |
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Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day
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25 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Sunday, 25 Mar 2001 PARIS, France Well, yes. No doubt John and the Fremantle crew had it right when they said, "The sun will never set on Earth Car Free Day." But they also said, "if we manage to get it right." Come 19 Apr. 2001, we'll know one way or anot ... |
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Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day
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24 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Saturday, 24 Mar 2001 PARIS, France "G'day," sang the friendly voice on the other end of the line. "Eric is it? This is John. John Pinkard? From Fremantle?" (One of the great things about Australians and Canadians is that they often end even their most definit ... |
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Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day
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23 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Friday, 23 Mar 2001 PARIS, France The phone rattled once again, but this time it was a voice that I knew all too well. "It's me," the voice rasped, "Don Corleone" (as if I could forget that voice!). "How's things going, Rico?" (Rico?) And witho ... |
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Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day
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22 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Thursday, 22 Mar 2001 PARIS, France It was late afternoon in Paris on 14 Jan. 2000 when the telephone rang dully. I could hear a distant voice (bad connection?) at the other end trying to get out my name and asking where I might be found. The voice said with an accent that its ... |
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Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day
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21 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Wednesday, 21 Mar 2001 PARIS, France The great team that is shaping this first-ever Earth Car Free Day is a striking contrast to at least one long-established historical pattern. But before I reveal to you why this is the case, let me give you a few words of historical background ... |
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Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day
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20 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Tuesday, 20 Mar 2001 PARIS, France Yesterday, as we cyber-labored ever so diligently to make sure that the Earth Car Free Day website and its huge self-managing, tailor-built database could accommodate hundreds, if not thousands, of cities, groups, and projects between now and th ... |
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Eric Britton, Earth Car Free Day
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19 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Eric Britton is an international consultant, author, and founder of The Commons, a Paris-based nonprofit organization cosponsoring Earth Car Free Day. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 Monday, 19 Mar 2001 PARIS, France On 19 Apr., Earth Car Free Day 2001 is going to take another whack at the catastrophic problems behind global warming. And this time, it is quite possible that something useful may come of it -- for a change. The event is being organized in hundr ... |
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Al Thieme, Cascadia Wild!
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16 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Al Thieme is an animal tracker, naturalist educator, and executive director for Cascadia Wild!, a conservation and environmental education organization. Currently, he is searching for forest carnivores in Mt. Hood National Forest. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 16 Mar 2001 MT. HOOD, Ore. Our quest for tracks this week has been part of the Lynx Tracking Project. With this collaborative effort by Cascadia Wild! and Portland's Metro Parks and Green Spaces, we hope to ... |
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Al Thieme, Cascadia Wild!
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15 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Al Thieme is an animal tracker, naturalist educator, and executive director for Cascadia Wild!, a conservation and environmental education organization. Currently, he is searching for forest carnivores in Mt. Hood National Forest. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 15 Mar 2001 PORTLAND, Ore. It's 7:30 a.m., and I roll in front of the computer after my morning Chi Kung energy exercises. Today's poor snow conditions confine me to the office to complete overdue organiza ... |
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Al Thieme, Cascadia Wild!
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14 Mar 2001 |
Dispatches |
| Al Thieme is an animal tracker, naturalist educator, and executive director for Cascadia Wild!, a conservation and environmental education organization. Currently, he is searching for forest carnivores in Mt. Hood National Forest. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 14 Mar 2001 MT. HOOD, Ore. Dave and I arrive at the trailhead at 9:00 a.m., still buzzing from the green tea we drank on the ride over from Portland. Soft snow conditions fuel our tracking appetites as we ... |
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