'2 Miscellaneous Campaigns.'
from
Robert Piller
on Jan 28, 2015 11:36 AM
Dear Sir/Madam,
Yet again we have some more articles and replies. As we and other groups put all of this information out and about, there really is no way of knowing what the long reaching effects and eventual results are going to be. We can only hope some good will have come otherwise it would all had been a complete waste of everyone's time. There's no doubt public perception would've been influenced, it would be impossible for it not to have been, but looking around the countryside I wonder just what difference several decades of campaigning has actually achieved. Chemical sprays are as widely used today as they were forty or fifty years ago. The hedgerows continue to be stripped to shreds as much now as ever. Recycling has become something people do often without thinking about it, although there's far more to be done. Excess packaging as big a problem as ever and the days of returning bottles has now largely gone forever even though reuse is a far better option than recycle. Plastic beads are manufactured with the sole purpose of washing them down the sink and ending up in the rivers and oceans. All in all looking around and weighing things up nothing but nothing has improved really a great deal over the past four decades or so, with the exception that is of whaling and CFCs., those propellants that were destroying the ozone-layer back in the seventies.
Other than these two issues, and as important as they were, everything is exactly the same only with more and more threats added on top of what we had before. TRF destruction continues as always, the only real way you'll ever protect them is to is to do what I've been saying for the past six years by giving monetary value to the forests, ie. example, by getting rubber sustainably grown back in Amazonia instead of plantations in S.E. Asia (and when I say sustainable I mean precisely that and not what WWF. or industries would have in mind). Wind-farms slaughtering every flying creature in sight, every wildlife charity handcuffed and gagged, either unable or more likely unwilling to speak out about anything, and it really is becoming a bad old world out there, there's no doubt about that at all. And this is precisely why I think we need to become a good deal more proactive about our approach to saving the planet, we need to move away from just talking about it and making statements to active campaigning on issues. OK., we've been campaigning for decades but now we need to step it up a notch or two.
Having I believe made some progress on the pistachio front, surely even they can't ignore receiving loads of emails on a given topic without something registering. I am now working on a similar tactic regarding farming practices and it's included in this report, please see 'A List of Things Defra Might Like to Consider.' If there are any changes be made for the better in the countryside it will take a loud voice to achieve any of it. Now with well over 200,000 members we can all of us send emails out there on any given issues. The countryside as we speak is in an absolutely abysmal state of brutalised maltreatment. From an almost willful lack of ponds which could so easily be dug to the vicious raping of the hedgerows, from the crushing to death of millions of birds' eggs or young with rolling and silage cutting in the spring to the assault of pesticides and wind-farms, and there is absolutely no doubt at all what the multiple problems are and exactly why it is we have no birds left. If just one in a thousand writes, and we're hoping for a good deal more support than that, it will mean 200 emails landing on a desk, so do please get involved if you want to see positive changes to the way things are currently done. By all means pick and choose your own pet causes but whatever you do please get involved if you want things to happen. We've also included the 'Where Do Your Nuts Come From' paper in case you'd like to write or get back to them again if you already have.
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A One Yearly Rotation.
Every time we start a campaign we don't just leave it there to be forgotten in the mists of time, we never have done that. Instead we bring it out each and every year, reporting on any updates dragging it all through the arena once again so to speak so that things can be moved forwards. This is the only way to get anything achieved. So many really good campaigns and bits of film footage have been made in the past only to find twenty or so years later it's all been slung into the archives somewhere. The CIWF's. frogs' legs film is just one example and the Greenpeace fur campaign another. It's such a waste, people go to all the trouble of gathering sometimes the most horrific footage with the very best intentions, only to be slapped in the face by the organisation they made it for by seeing it discarded.
I think once work has been done it should never be the right of that organisation to dispose of it just on their say so. Many organisations as we've revealed are totally bent and if materials are lost or removed it's usually down to some kind of deal and not for the common good. Fortunately these days this is far less likely to happen due to way stuff is broadcast on the Internet but it certainly has happened in the past.
Anyway, on all of these notes let's get campaigning on real issues of importance and hopefully we might even see some improvements in our bird populations. Certainly it's no good relying on the RSPB. to do anything, you might as well wait for the Archangel Gabriel to descend.
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Please open the following links and sign any petitions. Thank you.
http://bit.ly/1ygzSoo
https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=14884&s_src=914ASRSP01_NSRSR&autologin=true&sp_ref=95419839.5.11166.o.1.2&s_subsrc=c2c
Remember, if your zip/post-code doesn't work, just type in five ones instead.
Yours sincerely.
Robert Piller.
Campaign Against the Trade in Endangered Species...
Dear Sir/Madam,
Yet again we have some more articles and replies. As we and other groups put all of this information out and about, there really is no way of knowing what the long reaching effects and eventual results are going to be. We can only hope some good will have come otherwise it would all had been a complete waste of everyone's time. There's no doubt public perception would've been influenced, it would be impossible for it not to have been, but looking around the countryside I wonder just what difference several decades of campaigning has actually achieved. Chemical sprays are as widely used today as they were forty or fifty years ago. The hedgerows continue to be stripped to shreds as much now as ever. Recycling has become something people do often without thinking about it, although there's far more to be done. Excess packaging as big a problem as ever and the days of returning bottles has now largely gone forever even though reuse is a far better option than recycle. Plastic beads are manufactured with the sole purpose of washing them down the sink and ending up in the rivers and oceans. All in all looking around and weighing things up nothing but nothing has improved really a great deal over the past four decades or so, with the exception that is of whaling and CFCs., those propellants that were destroying the ozone-layer back in the seventies.
Other than these two issues, and as important as they were, everything is exactly the same only with more and more threats added on top of what we had before. TRF destruction continues as always, the only real way you'll ever protect them is to is to do what I've been saying for the past six years by giving monetary value to the forests, ie. example, by getting rubber sustainably grown back in Amazonia instead of plantations in S.E. Asia (and when I say sustainable I mean precisely that and not what WWF. or industries would have in mind). Wind-farms slaughtering every flying creature in sight, every wildlife charity handcuffed and gagged, either unable or more likely unwilling to speak out about anything, and it really is becoming a bad old world out there, there's no doubt about that at all. And this is precisely why I think we need to become a good deal more proactive about our approach to saving the planet, we need to move away from just talking about it and making statements to active campaigning on issues. OK., we've been campaigning for decades but now we need to step it up a notch or two.
Having I believe made some progress on the pistachio front, surely even they can't ignore receiving loads of emails on a given topic without something registering. I am now working on a similar tactic regarding farming practices and it's included in this report, please see 'A List of Things Defra Might Like to Consider.' If there are any changes be made for the better in the countryside it will take a loud voice to achieve any of it. Now with well over 200,000 members we can all of us send emails out there on any given issues. The countryside as we speak is in an absolutely abysmal state of brutalised maltreatment. From an almost willful lack of ponds which could so easily be dug to the vicious raping of the hedgerows, from the crushing to death of millions of birds' eggs or young with rolling and silage cutting in the spring to the assault of pesticides and wind-farms, and there is absolutely no doubt at all what the multiple problems are and exactly why it is we have no birds left. If just one in a thousand writes, and we're hoping for a good deal more support than that, it will mean 200 emails landing on a desk, so do please get involved if you want to see positive changes to the way things are currently done. By all means pick and choose your own pet causes but whatever you do please get involved if you want things to happen. We've also included the 'Where Do Your Nuts Come From' paper in case you'd like to write or get back to them again if you already have.
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
A One Yearly Rotation.
Every time we start a campaign we don't just leave it there to be forgotten in the mists of time, we never have done that. Instead we bring it out each and every year, reporting on any updates dragging it all through the arena once again so to speak so that things can be moved forwards. This is the only way to get anything achieved. So many really good campaigns and bits of film footage have been made in the past only to find twenty or so years later it's all been slung into the archives somewhere. The CIWF's. frogs' legs film is just one example and the Greenpeace fur campaign another. It's such a waste, people go to all the trouble of gathering sometimes the most horrific footage with the very best intentions, only to be slapped in the face by the organisation they made it for by seeing it discarded.
I think once work has been done it should never be the right of that organisation to dispose of it just on their say so. Many organisations as we've revealed are totally bent and if materials are lost or removed it's usually down to some kind of deal and not for the common good. Fortunately these days this is far less likely to happen due to way stuff is broadcast on the Internet but it certainly has happened in the past.
Anyway, on all of these notes let's get campaigning on real issues of importance and hopefully we might even see some improvements in our bird populations. Certainly it's no good relying on the RSPB. to do anything, you might as well wait for the Archangel Gabriel to descend.
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
Please open the following links and sign any petitions. Thank you.
http://bit.ly/1ygzSoo
https://secure.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=14884&s_src=914ASRSP01_NSRSR&autologin=true&sp_ref=95419839.5.11166.o.1.2&s_subsrc=c2c
Remember, if your zip/post-code doesn't work, just type in five ones instead.
Yours sincerely.
Robert Piller.
Campaign Against the Trade in Endangered Species...
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