Subject: QRN Emergency Response Network/Environmentalists (fwd)

From: Emanuele John Gelsi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 20:42:41 +1000 (GMT+1000)

To all peramculturists
The following message may be of interest to the list.

Emanuele Gelsi/ 
University of Qld/ Australia

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Subject: QRN Emergency Response Network/Environmentalists (fwd)

Some RURSOC-L subscribers may be interested in participating in the environ-
mental quick response network.  Milt Coughenour, Moderator rursoc-l
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Stop Eco-Violence!

Quick Response Network established to respond to
worldwide threats against Environmental Activists.

        Global Response, an international environmental
action network based in Boulder, Colorado, has
established a Quick Response Network (QRN) to publicize
and counter threats against activists working to protect
their communities, regions, or nations from environmental
destruction.

        To sign on to the Quick Response Network send
an e-mail message from your modem to:

                  [email-masked].

In your message all you need type in is the
following text:

                  subscribe globresmembers.

There is no charge for this service.

        Why the Quick Response Network?

        Cases continue to cross our desks describing
threats to, attacks on, and the murders of
representatives of:
        -local or national environmental groups
        -environmental journalists
        -student organizers
        -community leaders
        -indigenous spokespersons

        The forces opposed to environmental protection
include public and private individuals and
organizations.  Unfortunately these elements recognize
that one strategy to derail the environmental movement
is to silence its most eloquent voices.

        Global Response recognizes the need to mobilize
our members and recruit new members to be 'on-call'
to instantly respond to these emergencies.

Examples from this past year include:

  -Unsolved murder in Honduras of forest protection
advocate Jeanette Kawas.  She had vigorously campaigned to
prevent logging in Punta Sal National Park.

  -Deaths of Costa Rican ecologists and activists
Jaime Bustamante, Maria del Mar Cordero, and Oscar
Fallas-Baldi in a suspicious house fire.  These three
were leaders in the campaign to stop a shipping and
industrial complex in the environmentally unique
Golfo Dulce.

  -The murder of Cambodian journalist Chan Dara.
Two days before his murder Chan Dara had received
threats from the military police warning him to stop
his investigations into military involvement in the
illegal timber trade.

  -The arrest of Kenule Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian
environmental and human rights activist, who was
leading the struggle of the Ogoni people in their
opposition to Shell International Petroleum Company's
operations in the Ogoni's homelands.

  -The murder of dozens of Tarahumara Indians in
Mexico's Sierra Madre by loggers and drug lords
attempting to control the Tarahumara's communal
lands.  Environmentalists working to protect the
Indian's land rights have been threatened,
kidnapped, shot, and tortured.

These cases reached our desk.  How many other cases
went unnoticed by the outside world?  The Quick
Response clearinghouse will:

        -receive information on cases involving
        threats to environmental advocates, and
        -develop a Quick Response Environmentalist
        Action (QREA) to e-mail to our international
        membership for immediate action.

        The QREA will include:

        -a case summary
        -recommended actions providing suggestions on
        what you should say in your letters/faxes/phone
        calls /e-mail messages
        -additional background information on the issue
        -the name, address, fax and phone numbers of the
        officials who can make a difference in the case.

Who can join the Quick Response Network?

Anyone with a modem and a desire to protect
environmental and human rights:

-individual "internet surfers" committed to
environmental justice
-members of environmental groups
-staffpersons of national or international
environmental organizations
-campus environmental clubs
-peace and justice organizations
-classrooms

Does public pressure work?      YES!

        Your letters, faxes, phone calls let the
targeted officials know that they are not operating
under a cloak of secrecy.  You are casting the spotlight
of awareness and world opinion on those decision makers
who want to silence environmentalism or are willing
to turn a blind eye to the violence against
environmental activists.

        There is no charge to the subscribers who wish
to be put on the QRN and we will certainly not make
the names and addresses on this list available to
the public.

        To sign on to the Quick Response Network send
an e-mail message from your modem to:

                  [email-masked].

In your message all you need type in is the
following text:

                  subscribe globresmembers.

  There is no cost to you for this service.  In
addition to the Quick Response Environmentalist
Actions you will be e-mailed Global Response's
monthly Global Response Action and Action Status
update (which provides new information on past cases).
The GRActions often deal with indigenous rights,
environmental justice, and citizen opposition to
industrial development, resource exploitation,
or hazardous materials.  The local activists in these
cases are often operating under threatening and
dangerous conditions.

Background - Global Response is an international
environmental pressure group comprised of citizens
who are concerned about such issues as resource
protection, pollution prevention, and environmental
justice.  In the past five years we have issued more
than 60 monthly Global Response Actions on a variety
of environmental emergencies.  We have issued these
GRActions at the request of and in support of more
than 50 environmental groups from all of the Earth's
continents.

  To contact Global Response:

        Global Response
        PO Box 7490
        Boulder, CO  80306-7490
        USA
        Phone/fax   (303) 444-0306.