SEACer's
Watch what happens in Iowa on the "subsidy-free pledge" (see below).
Removing subsidies on virgin materials would be a death blow to ALL the
extraction industries. (for more in-depth down load GRRN's Welfare for Waste
report at http://www.grrn.org/welfare4waste.html; while you're there, check
out the Coke Campaign) Quite frankly this Iowa campaign is a ready made as
a National SEAC project for the 2000 election cycle. The mere CONCEPT of
removing forest (extraction) subsidies is frighteningly radical--it would
turn the whole system upside down. <snip>
Maurice Sampson, Alumni
Former Co-Chair
Stockton Action Volunteers for the Environment
http://loki.stockton.edu/~save/index.html
Stockton State College, Pomona, NJ
1974 -1977
----- Original Message -----
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 08:39:36 -0400
From: "Bill Sheehan" <zerowaste@grrn.org>
To: "CRRA listserve" <CRRA@ucsd.edu>, "GreenYesL"
<greenyes@earthsystems.org>
Subject: [GRRN] "SUBSIDY-FREE" PLEDGE -- PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CHALLENGED
[Tom Weis is working to get timber subsidies addressed by
presidential candidates in Iowa. This is a project that grew
out of GRRN's Welfare for Waste report. /bill]
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CHALLENGED TO
TAKE "SUBSIDY-FREE" PLEDGE
Forest Activists Call for End to $1 Billion Logging Subsidy
& End to Commercial Logging on Public Lands
For Immediate Release: October 7, 1999
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