Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hello, Folks may be interested in reading the story in the Sunday (11/4) New York Times Money and Business Section titled "A Muscular Lobby Rolls Ups its Sleeves" by Leslie Wayne and Melody Petersen. Among the highlights of the article: *There are more registered drug industry lobbyists in DC than actual elected politicians - half of these lobbyists are former Congresspeople, Congressional staffers or ex government employees (hmmm...revolving door, conflict of interest, anyone?) *Between 1999 and 2000 drug companies spent $197 million lobbying Congress - now the largest lobby group on Capitol Hill *Last year alone the anti-anthrax drug, Cypro, earned its corporate patent holder, Bayer, a whopping $1.6 billion *Former WI Governor now turned Bush White House Health and Human Services Sec., Tommy Thompson, has been boasting in the press about what a "tough" negotiator he is when it comes to the drug cartel - well, thanks to his "herculean" effort, Bayer agreed to cut its profit margin on Cypro from 95% to "only" 65% in exchange for protecting its patent monopoly.  In other words, taxpayers are now paying $1.00 per pill that costs less than a dime to make, versus the $1.77 that was charged in the pre-9/11 "free market"... Of course, no corporate "free trade" apologists in the mainstream press, the Democratic/Republican party leadership, etc. etc. are willing to address the real issue of why we are still allowing private interests to profit off of war and disease.  Isn't affordable quality healthcare a human right of ALL people? And aren't government sanctioned monopolies an oxymoron in a free market system? Thanks, X, Madison -- _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, November 05, 2001 7:12 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients discuss@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] Drug Companies Profit from War and Disease... Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] Drug Companies Profit from War and Disease... 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-11-05