Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005

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From: Tumbleweed
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"August West" <august@kororaa.com> wrote in message 
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>M Holmes <fofp@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> However, to show I'm not yet completely cynical, I will salute those
>> campaigning to abolish the CAP (and the yank equivalent); the World
>> Bank, and the IMF, and replace them all with global free trade.
>
> Don't forget reforming the WTO.
> Or, rather, taking it out of America's pocket.
>
>> That'd do a hell of a lot more for Africans than all the rest of the
>> demands put together.
>
> Effectively applied and available treatment for malaria and TB would
> also be rather useful. It's hard to work when you're debilitated by
> disease. But diseases of poverty don't attract the big R&D money of
> the drug companies.
>


Why should it? If you are so keen on the idea, send your own money to 
organistions developing such cures.
How much have you sent *of your own money* recently on this? Or are you just 
keen that others spend?

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Tumbleweed

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