<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Oh yum! Another rally with an abstruse theme about another international convention the Shrub administration is spitting on. <BR>
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Of course helping the tobacco companes get access to international markets and weasel their ways into "public health" planning is one of those lowkey background components of quest for world domination!<BR>
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Let's put the paragraph above on a sign and get the WWP to charter some buses ;=)!<BR>
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Seriously, I will at least forward it to one of my favorite instant letter to officials outfits because I would certainly check an email box about it, and if I were walking by anyway I would cheer, but I ain't expending fossil fuel on this one!<BR>
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In a message dated 2/3/2003 9:09:40 AM Pacific Standard Time, lfeather32@erols.com writes:<BR>
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Date:2/3/2003 9:09:40 AM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
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[Somehow at this dire moment in history, I just can't think of this as the<BR>
most urgent thing to have a rally about...]<BR>
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RALLY FOR GLOBAL TOBACCO CONTROL<BR>
FEB 12 NOON at Dept of Health Human Services< DC<BR>
(Independence & 4th st SW)<BR>
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WHY?<BR>
The Bush Administration is blocking progress on the world's first<BR>
public health treaty, becuase of close ties to Philip Morris.<BR>
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The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), has the<BR>
potential to set global standards on how tobacco corporations<BR>
operate. Most of the world is working together for an effective,<BR>
strong treaty, but the Bush Administration, with strong ties to the<BR>
tobacco industry, is working to weaken some of the most crucial<BR>
provisions in the treaty! (the final talks are in Geneva this month,<BR>
so we have 2 weeks left to target the Dept of Health/Human Services,<BR>
chair of the US delegation to the convention).<BR>
The overwhelming majority of countries are moving toward a strong<BR>
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the US is standing in<BR>
the way. <BR>
This is outrageous, as 4.9 million people around the world are dying<BR>
every year from tobacco-related illnesses.<BR>
The US needs to stop blocking progress on the treaty!<BR>
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FOR MORE INFO EMAIL dcinfact@yahoo.com or see www.infact.org<BR>
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