<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Silke Helfrich via Commoning</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 8:25 PM<br>Subject: [commoning] Fwd: Newsletter Monsanto Tribunal - Help us to make the Monsanto Tribunal a success!<br>To: COMMONING LIste engl <<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<p>Dear all, <br>
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<p>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. <br>
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!</p>
<p>All the best</p>
<p>Silke <br>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt">Dear Monsanto Tribunal
Supporter,</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
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.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
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.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
<strong>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? <a href="http://en.monsantotribunal.org/donate/" target="_blank">Click here
to donate by credit card or by paypal.</a></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
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?</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
Here’s the good news. <strong>Bayer’s proposed buyout of
Monsanto will have no negative impact on the Monsanto
Tribunal.</strong></p>
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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), <strong>those legal opinions will apply to <em>all</em>
agribusiness corporations (including Bayer)—not just
Monsanto.</strong></p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
Monsanto’s (and Bayer’s) crimes against human health and the
environment, on a global scale, are well-documented.<strong>
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</strong>—even as it looks to merge
with yet another corporate criminal, Bayer.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
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.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"> </p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><strong>In order to have the
greatest impact, we still have a lot of work to do</strong>
to finish organizing the Tribunal and People’s Assembly, and
to promote the Tribunal to the public and especially to the
international media.</p>
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We need your help to make this a success.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
<strong>Please help us raise $75,000 over the next two weeks
to cover the costs of this historic event. <a href="http://en.monsantotribunal.org/donate/" target="_blank">Click here </a>to
donate by credit card or by paypal.</strong></p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
Thank you.<br>
In Solidarity,<br>
Tjerk Dalhuisen, on behalf on the organizing committee.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt"><br>
<em>P.S. The Monsanto Tribunal is a grassroots citizens’
initiative, funded by people like you. No donation is too
small. <a href="http://en.monsantotribunal.org/donate/" target="_blank">Please make
a contribution today. </a>Thank you!</em></p>
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