Monthly Archives: April 2012

Products to Boycott from the Monsanto Evil Empire

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A List Poem developed by GloriaS

http://projectagentorange.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=4.msg836#msg836

Products developed and made by the Mansonato Evil Empire
Products we need to avoid and boycott to bring the Evil down
Products all of humanity would be better without–
let’s end the reign of terror:

Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal)
Aspartame Formaldehyde Poisoning is a serious concern

Roundup Herbicide
A toxic poison damaging everything it touches–even us

Genetically Engineered Soy & Canola Products & Ingredients (Roundup Treated)
GMO’s that poison the body, the earth and the spirit.

rBGH Dairy rBGH (Posilac)
A cause of breast cancer and prostate cancer

Ambien Insomnia Medication
Zolpidem Warning (new/worsening depression, abnormal thoughts, thoughts of suicide, hallucinations, confusion, agitation, aggressive behavior, anxiety, sleep-driving, sleepwalked, prepared/eaten food, made phone calls, or had sex while not fully awake.)

http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/products.shtml

This is How Dow Chemical and Other Major Corporations Celebrate Earth Day

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A Prose Poem Editorial by Sanjay Verma

Why is Dow responsible for the situation?
No one disputes the fact that Dow bought Union Carbide after the disaster occurred.
But when Dow purchased Union Carbide, it took on liability for the Bhopal tragedy.
It would be terribly convenient for Dow and other massive corporations
if the slate was wiped clean when a company was purchased.

But Dow didn’t just buy the profit sheet,
the shares and the expertise from Union Carbide.
They also bought their legacy,
the environmental tragedy ofBhopal
and the responsibility for it.

Dow must ensure that the site is cleaned up,
the victims finally get true justice and proper compensation.
If a company could escape liability for its malpractices
by arranging a merger or takeover,
then companies would be able to abuse human rights
and damage the environment with impunity. 

Poet’s note:

What happened in Bhopal?

On December 2-3, 1984, as the people of the central Indian town of Bhopal slept, an explosion caused over 40 tons of a deadly toxic gas, methyl isocyanate (MIC), and other gases from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant. The company executives could have warned the public, but instead they chose not to sound the emergency alarm bell in town.

The event occurred in the early hours of the morning of Dec 3rd 1984, at approximately 12:30 a.m. By 2am, most of the MIC had been dispersed over an area of 25 miles (40km), and the first deaths were reported to the police by 3am. By morning, there had been 1,000 reported deaths, some as far as 5 miles (8 km) from the plant. 90,000 patients were seen in local hospitals and clinics within the first 24 hours, and in total, about 200,000 people suffered acute effects of the leak.

The preventable Bhopal disaster has claimed over 20,000 lives, and it is not over yet because members of the community continue to suffer from chronic health problems, cancer and birth defects.

How has Dow responded?

Dow claims that it is not responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in any way. Despite that, they hired the same public relations firm that worked to tell people tobacco didn’t cause cancer, and that Foxconn hired to repair its public image around working conditions in Apple factories in China.

Union Carbide paid $470 million in compensation to existing victims in 1989, amounting to less than $500 per victim whether they were blinded by the gas, developed terminal cancer from exposure, or suffered debilitating birth defects. To date, neither Union Carbide nor Dow has paid to clean up the site, and they have refused to even decommission the factory after the accident.

http://sumofus.org/campaigns/london-olympics/

Dream Song 330 [the Fortune-Teller’s daughter]

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A Poem by Anon ymous

We hunted for quiet, legs pumping
hard up hills, bike tires worn bald.

She brought tarot cards,
said her mother was a gypsy;

her voice became small, I tried
to steal a kiss in the dark.

It’s been days without rain, the still waters
of the Saigon River drowns the wind.

The air is tight; you always know
what to say;

you have written me a map;
I smell burning Agent Orange, the ash.

My future lies bare, I’m at a loss; another
leaf blown from sidewalk to street,

the river dies; Dow’s chemicals press my name
through the roof of your mouth.

Dream Song 330: I No Longer See the Beauty of Butterflies

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A Poem by Anon ymous

Love is a great punishment for desire. (Anne Enright)

Agent Orange kills everything beautiful, even love. (Unknown)

We were sinless and uninterrupted [me, high hat handed; feathered
and full], [you, shiny; looking all dynamite wrapped in a summer
coat in the middle of February] you kissed me kissed me but never

said goodbye. I sit; testified and hungry, watch every [one] thing
fall: the wasted and the wan, the soundless and thin, the deserved
and the unearthed; the fortunate, unready and unfiltered: ashes,

ashes [we’re all messed up]. The sky is ordinary; we are untogether
and wanting. Your window faces east, I remember paper butterflies
[blue, green, red] on a string; mine is blank and frosted; directionless.

The butterflies dead. The bees dead. Monsanto kills everything.

Birth Defects

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A Poem by Shari Clark

I ask you, stockholders,
investors, money makers,
money movers, Monsanto
terrorists, Dow Chemical
criminals, I ask you:

is it right to place the cost of poison ahead of the cost of people?

Is it right to injure the newborn with chemical and herbicide,
with lie and sin,
because profit in wealth is greater than the profit in the betterment of humanity?

Is it right to cause birth defects in the innocent so you can have more, more profits, more wealth?

I ask you, do you attend my church?
Do you know my God?
I ask you, when will you learn
money is for the good of mankind,
not the good of one man.

http://foodfreedomgroup.com/2012/04/11/monsanto-and-big-tobacco-knowingly-poisoned-argentinian-workers-caused-birth-defects/#more-2113

When did man become God?
When did Monsanto become God?
When did Dow Chemical become God?
When did the Church of God
become the Church of Profit,
Lies and Sin, Chemicals and Herbicides?

Misanthropic Monsanto

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A Poem by Jennifer Hollie Bowles

Excuse me, misanthropic Monsanto,
but the anti-Christ is manifesting
in your herbicide glysophates and poly-
urethanes, and this black-soul garbage
truck your pushing is an apocalypse,
far worse than horns and dogma or even
instant catastrophe, because you\’re the
needle-eye of acquiescence in politics,
the archetypal lobbying whore-scum
of profit who even tries to genetically
modify Cerebus into a six-headed
plastic homunculus of malignant
greed, but what you don\’t know,
misanthropic Monsanto, is that many
of us know, and we have voices, rising
from every corner of every detail
of earth and life you attempt to destroy,
and for every ten screams that get lost in
an aspartame cup, one son or daughter
of a Vietnam Vet will rise from the orange
ashes and become an agent — aware of
your casualties and seedless goddamn lies.

Monsanto: From a Child’s Perspective

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A Prose Poem/Essay/Bio by Ci Yin Oliveira

As the U.S. Supreme Court has declared corporations like Monsanto to be ‘people’ with the same rights as us, it must mean that Monsanto was once a child. His parents clearly had high hopes, as his name implies – Mon Santo, or “My Holy.”

However, I am pretty sure from what I have discovered about Monsanto that he is not a child I would like to have known.

As a child, BOYsanto began to make creations that copied the natural world. One of his first products was the artificial sweetener saccharin. That was just the beginning…

– Excerpt from a speech given by a young boy, Ci Yin Oliveira, at the protest that shut-down a Monsanto research facility in Davis, CA, March 16 and 17, 2012.

Full speech: http://www.davisenterprise.com/opinion/opinion-columns/why-i-protested-at-monsanto/

Video of Ci Yin Oliveira giving the speech: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_25121.cfm