Group of U.S. Elected Officials
Back Helga
Zepp-LaRouche's `Double Food Production' Call
Humanity is in Mortal Danger!
Instead of Wars of Starvation,
Let Us Double Food Production
May 19, 2008
The head of the Schiller Institute,
Helga Zepp-LaRouche has put out a call to the FAO conference, taking place in Rome, Italy on June 3-5, for
"doubling world food production," including eliminating both the
World Trade Organization, and diversion of food crops to
biofuels.
UNITED STATES
Elected officials
1. State Senator Joe Neal (former), North Las Vegas, Nevada
2. Fred Huenefeld, Chairman of the Boeuf River Soil and
Water Conservation District, and Trustee of the Louisiana
Realtors Political Action Committee, Board Member of Schiller
Institute.
3. Thomas Trigona, Mayor, City of Johnstown, Pa.
4. Kareem Johnson, Council Vice President, City of
Coatesville, Pa.
5. Marcia Goodman-Hinnershitz, Council Member, City of
Reading, Pa.
6. State Rep. Harold James of Pennsylvania
8. Sen. Joey Pendleton, Minority Whip, Kentucky Senate;
Hopkinsville, Ky
9 . Rep. Catherine Barrett (former); Cincinnati, Oh
10. Rep. LaMar Lemmons III (former); Detroit, Mi.
11. Ross Neidich, City Council of Bradford, Pennsylvania
12. Bob Onuffer, City Council of Bradford, Pennsylvania
13. Anthony Pinizzotto, City Council of Johnstown,
Pennsylvania
15. Rep. Larry Bell, Vice-Chair House Agriculture Committee,
North Carolina House of Representatives, Clinton, North Carolina.
16. Diane Bernardo, Council Member, City of Dubois,
Pennsylvania
17. Gloria Martin Roberts, Council Member, City of
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
18. Barbara O'Neil Lane, Council Member, City of Duquesne,
Pennsylvania
19. William Reese, Council Member, Borough of East
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
20. Judith M. Livingston, Republican State Rep from
Manchester, VT
21. Karen Dolan, Council Member, City of Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania
22. Robert Gaughan, Council Member, Borough of Lansford,
Pennsylvania
23. Kevin Troup, Council Member, City of Sunbury,
Pennsylvania
24. Richard Reedy, Council Member, Borough of Kittanning,
Pennsylvania
25, John Wheeler, Council Member, Borough of Wellsboro,
Pennsylvania
26. Jean Belinski, Council Member, City of Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania
Professionals
101. Dr. Luise Light, former USDA, Director of Dietary
Guidance, Bellows Falls, VT
102. Cathy M. Helgason, M.D. Professor of Neurology
University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
103. Professor Stephen Herbert, Professor of Agronomy,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
104. Hal B.H. Cooper, Jr., Cooper Consulting Company,
Kirkland, Washington: "We most definitely need to immediately
double the level of World food production to save the people who
badly need to have affordable and available food instead of
having speculation drive shortages instead. I strongly endorse
the call made by Helga Zepp LaRouche calling on the World's
leaders to heed the call to double World food production
immediately."
Unionists
201. Gary Barnett, Chairman, UAW CAP Franklin Co., Columbus,
OH
202. Maurice Pulley, President, AFSCME local 1654;
Milwaukee, WI
203. Scott Stringer, Vice Chairman Bricklayers local 3;
Rochester, NY
204. Wayne Rebich, President, Carpenters local 1911,
Beckley, WV;
205. John Jeffries, Executive Board and former President,
IAM local 830; Louisville, KY
Farmers
206. William Sickner, Board of Directors; Michigan Farmers
Union, Otter Lake, Michigan
207. Herman Steffen of Detour, Maryland, dairy farmer,
founding member of the Schiller Institute's Food for Peace
208. Randy Sowers of Middletown, Maryland, dairy farmer,
founding member of the Schiller Institute's Food For Peace
209. Noel Cowling, Texas farmer/activist, a former adviser
to the NFO (National Farm Organization), and member of the AAM
(American Agriculture Movement)
FROM RUSSIA AND CIS REGION
Institutional support
1. The Tajik Social and Ecological Union, Dushanbe,
Tajikistan Sonya Kurbanova, Executive Director
"Tajik Social and Ecological Union fully supports the idea
about New Bretton Woods system."
[The call for support went out in the Russian languages, for
both the food Call for Action, and the New Bretton Woods appeal
of August 2007.]
Individual signers (* denotes public person)
1. Maxim Alexandrovich Chernov, Poltava, Ukraine
2. Magomed Ali Suleymanovich Suleymanov, bank branch
director, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russian Federation
3. Igor Morozov, government employee, Murmansk, Russian
Federation
Statement: "We need to get more attention to problem of
hunger and food production at all levels! Accept the idea -- stop
the hunger in third world and growing countries!"
4. Mikhail Koshelev, student, Kaluga
[0. Anton Levsuk, Tallinn, Estonia] [N.B. If individual
signatures are published / posted by area of the world, this one
belongs with Western Europe, not Russia/CIS !]
*5. Felix Goryunov, international economics journalist,
Moscow, Russian Federation.
6. Ivan V. Chorba, Moscow, Russian Federation
"WTO must be destroyed. Biofuel is evil."
7. N. Bicheva, Russian Federation
"Dear Mrs. LaRouche, I express my appreciation for your
engagement and desire to save the world, based on food security.
I believe that the measures you propose are correct and timely.
But the new world financial system must be reformed in the
context of the foreign and domestic policies of all countries.
Those fundamental principles of Life, Liberty, and Happiness must
be recognized not only for every individual, but for every
nation. Respectfully yours"
8. Akmaral Imanbayeva, Kazakstan
"I agree with your position!"
9. Ilyas Mussayev, Atyrau, Kazakstan
"Dear Helga, I absolutely agree with your point, world
financial organizations and capitalists do not care about hunger
in so-called 3rd World countries. My point of view is only
neo-socialism a la Latin America (Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba),
nationalization of agriculture and food supply (such as wheat,
corn, etc.) can give a chance to save millions of lives around
the world. USA and transnational corporations are the main
obstacles as well as mass media controlled by them, but
progressive mankind and all progressive force should unite to
bell this problem immediately. No more WTO!!! With best regards"
*10. Dr. Igor A. Seleznyov, leading research specialist,
Institute of Socio-Political Research (ISPI) of the Russian
Academy of Sciences.
"To the extent that the scientific community has any force,
I would like to support the measures proposed by H. Zepp-LaRouche
and the call for a New Bretton Woods system."
Websites that published the Call for Action in Russian:
1. Russian Anti-Globalist Resistance, RF (www.anti-glob.ru)
2. Strategium East European Online Political Experts
Community, founder and coordinator Sergei Pozny, Ukraine
(www.strateger.net)
3. RPMonitor, director Andrei Kobyakov, RF
(www.rpmonitor.ru)
4. Sarov Top Secret portal, founder A. Borisov, RF
(www.sarov.cc)
5. Imperiya website, Belarus (www.imperiya.by)
6. Rossiya - Ring of Patriotic Resources portal, RF
(www.rossija.info)
7. Global Venture forum, RF (www.aventurist.org)
8. The Big Forum, founded by readers of Zavtra newspaper, RF
(www.bolshoyforum.ru)
EUROPE:
1. Mrs. Wunderlich, FERMILA GmbH & Co. (milk production),
CEO (Saxony, Germany)
2. Emil Deutsch, DüKa (fertilizer business), CEO (Saxony,
Germany)
3. Bern Schlesiger, farmer (Saxony, Germany)
4. Richard S Courtney, former lead material scientist for
the UK's Coal Research Establishment and has served as a
Technical Advisor to the European Coal and Steel Community
(ECSC), United Kingdom
5. Piers Corbyn British Astrophysicist and long range
weather forecaster, United Kingdom
6. Guy Allan Svensson, chairman of the Small and Family
Farmers, Sweden.
7. Senator Lidia Menapace, former member of the Italian
Senate.
IBERO-AMERICA
1. Julio Gonzalez, former Technical Secretary to the
Presidency of Argentina; Professor at the University of Lomas
Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2. Dr. Leopoldo Frenkel, lawyer, former professor of the
University of Buenos Aires, and current member of the
Justicialista Party of Argentina.
3. Dr. Pedro Grima Gallardo, Professor of Physics of the
University of Los Andes (Merida, Venezuela), Former Dean of the
Experimental University of Los Llanos Occidentales, "Exequiel
Zamora" (UNELLEZ), Venezuela
4. The `Catedra Pio Tamargo' Center for Studies of Current
History of the Venezuela Central University's Institute of
Economic and Social Research, posted Helga's call to the center's
blog, with an introduction calling upon people to read it, and
become inspired by "the approach to the problem posed by Helga
Zepp-LaRouche," and her emphasis on "the role of the individual
in the great collective epics that current history demands from
us."
5. Isaac Alvarado, C, director general of a La Paz, Bolivia
hotel.
6. Jaime Martinez, President of the Medellin, Antioquia
local of Colombia's Bank of the Republic Workers Union, and Sec.
of Education for the national union.
6. Carlos Julio Daz, President of the Antioquia local of the
Unifi7d Workers Federation (CUT) of Colombia, and former director
of the Bank of the Republic workers union.
8. Jaime Torres Riano, President of the Eastern Andean Area
Regional Workers Federation (FETRANDES - CGT) in Colombia.
9. Luis Enrique Escovar, president of the Voluntary
Association of UPAC System Debtors in Colombia. (This is a group
mobilizing to defend people losing their homes because they can't
meet their mortgages.)
10.. Raul Anibal Marroquin Casasola, Union of National
Electrical Industry Workers (INDE-STINDE), of Guatemala
11. Randolfo Ernesto Maldonado Cambara, INDE-STINDE Union,
Guatemala
12. Miguel Ángel Tzoc Morales, INDE-STINDE Union, Guatemala
13. Walter Conrado Gaytan Morales, INDE-STINDE Union,
Guatemala
14. Samuel Nenroht Hernández Orantes, INDE-STINDE Union,
Guatemala
15. Luis Antonio Chinchilla Corado, INDE-STINDE Union,
Guatemala
16. José Maria Santos Morales, INDE-STINDE Union, Guatemala
17. Carlos René Baeza Olivares, INDE-STINDE Union, Guatemala
18. César Augusto Flores Rodas, INDE-STINDE Union, Guatemala
19. Congressman Alberto Cantero, chairman of the Agriculture
and Cattle-Ranching Committee of the Argentine Chamber of
Deputies, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
20. Guatemala's Popular Front for Sovereignty, Dignity and
Solidarity (FRENTE POPULAR POR LA SOBERANIA, LA DIGNIDAD Y LA
SOLIDARIDAD) endorsed Helga's call, with 4 signatures of its
leading officials in, and the other 4 leaders' signaturess
expected today.
MEXICO CITY, June 5, 2008:
As of this evening, six sitting Congressmen (one Senator and five
Deputies), plus two former Congressmen, have signed Helga Zepp-LaRouche's
call for an international mobilization to double world food production,
and crush the WTO. All the Congressional signators, so far, are from
the opposition Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD). They
include:
Sen. Carlos Navarrete Ruiz, coordinator of the PRD
Parliamentary group;
Rep. Carlos Navarro Lopez, chairman of the Rural Development
Committee, who is playing a leading role in the fight for the
PLHINO project, including holding a press conference with the
LaRouche movement-founded Pro-PLHINO Committee in Hermosillo,
Sonora on June 3, to expose opposition to the vitally needed
water project by the malthusian head of the National Water
Commission;
Rep. Celso Pulido, a member of the Agriculture and Livestock
Committee;
Rep. Arturo Fernel Galvez Rodriguez, who serves on the
Agrarian Reform Committee;
Rep. Gerardo Villanueva Albarran;
Rep. Ana Yurixi Leyva Pinon;
Former Rep. Agustin Rodriguez F., Secretary General of the
UNAM Workers Union (STUNAM); and
Former Rep. Eric E. Villanueva Mukul, Vice President of the
PRD National Council.
Labor, Grassroots Leaders :
Guadulpe Acosta Naranjo, interim national president of the
PRD;
Arturo Del Fino Loya, Secretary General of the Nuclear
Workers Union (SUTIN);
Dr. Enrique Serrano Galvez, Director of Research and
Postgraduate Studies at Mexico's premier agricultural research
center, the Autonomous University of Chapingo, where Norman
Bourlaug carried out his original Green Revolution research;
Gumersindo Juarez Mendoza, from the FEPUN peasant
organization;
Said Lopez de Olmoz Martinez, Coordinator General of the
Huasteco Democratico Movement, which is fighting to get water
projects built in their stated, of San Luis Potosi; and
Jaime Vazquez Peralta, Technical Secretary of the State
Reform Commission.
AFRICA
Dr. Sam Aluko, Professor of Economics, former chairman of
Nigeria Economics Intelligence Committee
Albert Ndandu, President- Cries for Congo for Peace ('Cries
pour le Congo Pour la Paix')
Larry Fejokwu, Publisher, Polcom Press, Lagos, Nigeria.
ASIA
1. Mohd Peter Davis, Visiting Scientist, Universiti Putra
Malaysia. SUPPORTING STATEMENT from Mohd Peter Davis, see
a8205mob001
2. Hunter Huang, President, National Association for
Chinese Unification (NACU)
3. Prof. M S Swaminathan, member of Parliament (Raiya Sabha),
Chairman M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
Prof. Swaminathan was, along with Norman Borlaug, the leading
force in implementing the original Green Revolution. He wrote in
his endorsement: ``What we need urgently is an evergreen
revolution, which can help to enhance productivity in perpetuity
without ecological harm.''
CANADA
1. M. Michel Langevin, former executive member and President
of the Parti Québécois ( a provincial party ), also former
Regional President of Montreal, the Hydro-Quebec technicians
union.
2. M. Marc-André Viens, Assistant-director of a secondary
school
3. M. Daniel Ostiguy, Agricultural Producer, Dairy Farm
AUSTRALIA
1. Gordon Hancock, Councillor, Member Murrylands Regional
Development Board, South Australia
2. Brian McCarthy, National Chairman, Citizens Electoral
Council
3. John Carter, Director and former Chairman, Australian
Beef Association, New South Wales
4. Barbara Dunnett, President Nannup Shire Council, Deputy
Chair, Southwest Local Government Association, Western Australia
5. Dale Frankel, Chairman, Wimmera Irrigators Association,
Victoria
6. Rodney Wheeler, Councillor, Busselton Shire, Western
Australia
7. Lorraine Thomas, Councillor, Ashburton Shire, Western
Australia
8. Mathew Ledwith, Councillor, Kulin Shire Council, Western
Australia
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