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From: Silke Helfrich via Commoning <commoning at lists.commons-institut.org>
Date: Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 8:25 PM
Subject: [commoning] Fwd: Newsletter Monsanto Tribunal - Help us to make
the Monsanto Tribunal a success!
To: COMMONING LIste engl <commoning at lists.commons-institut.org>

Dear all,

I think, that it is very important to support the Monsanto Tribunal with
whatever we can, make sure you put it on the mailinglists you reach out to,
write about it, help crowdfunding etc.
Monsanto (eh, Bayer/Monsanto) to me is symbol of enclosure of the commons
at all levels: technogical, economic, legal and ... the enclosure of the
mind!

All the best

Silke

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Betreff: Newsletter Monsanto Tribunal - Help us to make the Monsanto
Tribunal a success!
Datum: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:16:10 -0400 (EDT)
Von: english at newsletter.monsantotribunal.org
An: english at nieuwsbriefamsterdam.nl

Dear Monsanto Tribunal Supporter,

In less than one month, 30 witnesses and legal experts, from five
continents, will testify in The Hague before five international judges.
These witnesses will tell the judges, and the world, how Monsanto has
ruined their health, their communities, their livelihoods.

This historic citizens’ tribunal will shine an international spotlight on
Monsanto’s poisonous products and on the crimes this company has committed
against human health and the environment.

*We need to raise $75,000 over the next two weeks to cover the costs of
this historic event. Can you make a donation today? Click here to donate by
credit card or by paypal. <http://en.monsantotribunal.org/donate/>*

Many of you have asked about the pending buyout of Monsanto by Bayer, and
how this will affect the Monsanto Tribunal. Will the tribunal still happen?
Will the name change? Will all the work and planning of the last year be
wasted?

Here’s the good news. *Bayer’s proposed buyout of Monsanto will have no
negative impact on the Monsanto Tribunal.*

Here’s why. First of all, the buyout will be challenged. And even if it’s
approved, it won’t be final until well into 2017. More important, when the
tribunal judges issue their final advisory opinions (about a month after
the tribunal concludes on October 16), *those legal opinions will apply to
all agribusiness corporations (including Bayer)—not just Monsanto.*

Monsanto’s (and Bayer’s) crimes against human health and the environment,
on a global scale, are well-documented.* And yet, with great arrogance,
calculated planning, and riches acquired at the expense of human suffering
and irreparable harm to the environment, Monsanto carries on with business
as usual*—even as it looks to merge with yet another corporate criminal,
Bayer.

Citizens’ tribunals have a long history of drawing widespread attention to
corporate corruption, and of ultimately leading to criminal trials. Like
you, we want the Monsanto Tribunal to push courts in countries all over the
world to hold Monsanto accountable for its crimes.

*In order to have the greatest impact, we still have a lot of work to do*
to finish organizing the Tribunal and People’s Assembly, and to promote the
Tribunal to the public and especially to the international media.

We need your help to make this a success.

*Please help us raise $75,000 over the next two weeks to cover the costs of
this historic event. Click here <http://en.monsantotribunal.org/donate/>to
donate by credit card or by paypal.*

Thank you.
In Solidarity,
Tjerk Dalhuisen, on behalf on the organizing committee.

*P.S. The Monsanto Tribunal is a grassroots citizens’ initiative, funded by
people like you. No donation is too small. Please make a contribution
today. <http://en.monsantotribunal.org/donate/>Thank you!*

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