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| Summer Issue 2002 |
| Click here for: June Activism: Working for the EarthMother |
| EarthMomma's Caring and Compassionate Award For Summer 2002 Is Awarded to: |
| Pfizer Drug Company & The International Trachoma Initiative |
| For outstanding efforts in the field of humanitarianism. Together they have undertaken an initiative to end one of Mankind's most ancient and tragic diseases: Trachoma. Especially prevalent in families with small children, this highly communicable infection causes scarring and corneal damage which leads to early blindness. A single dose of antibiotics (supplied free by Pfizer) and frequent cleansing of the face (medication distributed and hygenic methods taught by the workers of the Trachoma Institute) with clear, clean water can control this terrible disease. These two organizations are to be lauded for their push to end this disease in this generation. At least six million people worldwide have been blinded by trachoma, with Africans being most affected. It is believed trachoma will be totally eradicated by 2020. |
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| Success at last! |
| The first Sumatran Rhino to be born in captivity since the late 1800s was born at the Cincinnati Zoo after five miscarriages and 475 days of gestation. His mother, eleven year old Emi, gave birth on Sept. 13, 2001 to the seventy-two pound male calf who has been named Andalas. He now weighs in at just over seven hundred pounds and is being considered for a captive breeding program in Malaysia or Indonesia. The Sumatran Rhino, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis, is considered one of the most endangered mammals on Earth: Perhaps only 300 exist in the wild and only 15 are in captivity. Smaller and hairier than its cousins the armored Rhinos, the Sumatran Rhinos have lost a great deal of the mystery surrounding them in the breeding program. Scientists will use the information to enhance the chances of successful breeding programs in the future and, it is hoped, to ensure the survival of the species. |
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| United Nation's World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
| Stated purpose for summit: Touching on poverty, disease and conservation of clean water, global environmental issues, habitats and vanishing species. |
To help ensure that the world moves forward toward sustainable development in the next ten years rather than backwards, please write to President Bush today. Urge the president to go to the Johannesburg summit and commit to a global action plan and funding for progress on fresh water and other aspects of sustainable development. In addition, write to your senators and representative and tell them to urge the president to attend the summit and commit the United States to a global action plan. |
| Please -- as a caring environmentalist and activist -- do take the time to write these letters and post them to your representatives. Every message received is calculated as representing the opinion of a much larger grass roots portion of their constituency. Being inundated with demands from voters does influence the voting of our elected representatives. Look at the giant turnaround in thinking regarding the opening of the Arctic Preserve. Many Senators voted "no"; after stating "pro" drilling stances because of millions of email messages, letters and phone calls from concerned activists like you. Act! You do make a difference. |
| ";What's wrong with loving the Earth? Everyone should love their Mother." - K. Hanna |
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| Contact your President, Senator and Congressmen at the addresses below. |
| President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 |
| The Honorable (full name) United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 |
| The Honorable (full name) U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 |
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