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annagull Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-06-03 07:10 PM
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Lisa Ling: MSNBC Ultimate Propagandist
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for tomorrow's episode, Lisa takes a trip with the hired guns for the "war on terror in Colombia". She even sits in with the sprayers, who have a "dangerous job". Not to mention the danger on the ground for people who have to eat the chemical spray.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0722-05.htm
"Aerial spraying is death," they declare. "It is genocide. Glyphosate does kill. It kills communities through death by hunger because they spray our daily sustenance - the food, the pastures and the water."

The indigenous peoples of the Putumayo are the Muráis, Ingas, Quichuas, Pastos, Awas, Paeces, Emberá, Sionas, Muinanes, Yanakonas, Kamentzá, Koreguajes, and Kofanes.

They are asking for "the urgent presence of competent authorities that can support us in finding solutions to this problem, and accompany us in denouncing this situation."

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