[Upd-discuss] Corporate vs Public: UC Berkeley professor fired for publishing on Mexican corn contamination article on Nature (sign petition of solidarity)

[Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza]

Professor Chapela has been removed from his
tenure under the pressures of Monsanto and other
GM corporate giants, according to the evidences
below. He should have emptied his office at UCB
by 31 December 2004.

This is a blatant example on how more and more
the Corporations are becoming a serious threat
against  the Public Domain, the communal nature
and the environment.

As Joel Bakan deeply analysed in his critical
book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of
Profit and Power, see:
<http://gallery.bcentral.com/GID5059307P3128968-Book-The-Corporation-The-Pathological-Pursuit-of-Profit-and-Power.aspx>.
The corporation's interest are not compatible
with the public's or the well being of species
and environment, i.e. Bopha, India 20 years ago.
Carl Sagan was right too on his Broca's Brain;
The Haunted-demon world: Science as a Candle in
the Dark, that scientist discoveries sometimes
upset some corporations. But if the public
institutions like universities do not protect
their scientists, then who is going to protect
them?

Now is the case of the University of California
Berkeley firing this professor because the
scientific true, for the benefit of the public
domain and the environment helped the Mexican
government to be informed of the dangers of GM
corn --the life, soul, and everything of
Mexicans-- and passed a Bill against GM
investments. Monsanto, food patenting and
monopolizing giant, who have business wiht UC
Berkeley pushed them to fire this professor.

Now more than ever the thinking humans of our
planet must stop this cruelty of corporations and
create legislations where all secrets, assets,
and internal information of all corporations of
the world be transparent, open to public
scrutiniy, same as the fight goes to make the
software code open, free, and transparent for
democracy, same all corporation, BY LAW,
LEGISLATION, must be open, free, and transparent
under the ruling of law, otherwise democracy will
be abolished, by THE CORPORATION NEO-ABSOLUTISTS
AND CO. (THEIR DE/REGULATING SUPPORTING
GOVERNMENTS).

Now is Professor Chapela, who is next? Orwell's
1984 is the current Corporate absolutist power
and their friends the corporate governments: the
absolutist police of the world's thought.

In solidarity with Professor Chapela.

Zapopan Martín Muela Meza
PhD candidate University of Sheffield, UK
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http://lib-info-society.library-blogs.net/read/1005693.htm

Corporate vs Public: UC Berkeley professor fired
for publishing on Mexican corn contamination
article on Nature 

>From Rory Litwin to Progressive Librarian Guild
mailing
list.-------------------------------------------------------------From
the Organic Consumers Association.  Judge
foryourself before signing/passing on. - Merry

Dear Friend,A well-respected and popular
professor at the University of California in
Berkeley has been firedafter publishing a
scientific paper regarding the uncontrolled
contamination of irreplaceable nativeMexican corn
varieties by genetically engineered corn.Read the
article:<http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/NATURE/journal/v414/n6863/full/414541a_fs.html>Dr.
Ignacio Chapela, whose corn contamination
articlewas published in the science journal
"Nature," wasdenied his tenure due to pressure
from the biotechcompany Monsanto on the
University (the UC Berkeley tenure review panel
had actually voted almostunanimously to approve
his tenure). Professor Chapela has been told to
have his office cleaned out byDecember 31,
2004.Sign a petition to demand a review of Dr.
Chapela'stenure denial.Sign here:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/uc.htm----------------------------------------------------More
information:
Monsanto's Dirty Tricks Campaign Against Fired
Berkeley 
Professor Ignacio Chapela



Posted 12/16/04.



Monsanto's dirty tricks campaign against Chapela
- Interview with 
GM Watch

founder



excerpt from: Marina Littek of Italy's 'Green
Planet' interviews Jonathan

Matthews of GM Watch

http://www.gmwatch.org/p1temp.asp?pid=49&page=1 
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/ignacio121604.cfm


Mexican 
Maize - Industry Disinformation
http://www.organicconsumers.org/corn/industrylies041502.cfm


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ENG: "Corporations are not democratic
institutions --their directors and managers owe
no accountability to anyone but the shareholders
that employ them."
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ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son
instituciones democráticas: a sus directores y
gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades
ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les
emplean."

-- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The
Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power : La
corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de
ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson,
p. 151


		
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ENG: "Corporations are not democratic institutions --their directors and managers owe no accountability to anyone but the shareholders that employ them."
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ESP: "Las corporaciones (empresas) no son instituciones democráticas: a sus directores y gerentes no se les puede fincar responsabilidades ante nadie excepto ante sus accionistas que les emplean."

-- Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power : La corporación (empresa). La búsqueda patológica de ganancias y poder. London: Constable & Robinson, p. 151


		
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