[Peace-discussion] Re: (Reply to Henry Duke) Re: Paid Green Media Chief Scott McLarty on International Womyns Day
Henry D.
henryduke2004@yahoo.com
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Scott,
You are paid by the Green Party to head our media sound bytes, emphasis, and priorities.
Even if you included women in this press release, it still would not emphasize feminist principles and a rejection -- not delay -- of forcing young women -- 6th grade girls -- to either get the shots or get a public education.
I appreciate your work in merely getting out volumes of opinions. In my opinion, such press release should be done with a more prudent and wise use of our limited resources.
Coming as it did on international womens day, and not emphasizing feminism and a rejection of the implicit race- and class-ism of any mandate upon young womens bodys, leaves continuing questions of committment to feminism, anti-racism, and democratic principles of some of our paid green national staff officials.
Scott McLarty <scottmclarty@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Henry
The release below ('DC RELEASE Statehood Greens
urge delay on DC bill mandating HPV vaccination')
was written & issued by me at the behest of DC
Statehood Green Party leaders. It is a DC
Statehood Green Party press release, not a
release from the GP of the US, and I'm not paid
for work I do for the local party.
The information & positions were provided to me
by women in the DC Statehood Green Party. Drafts
of the release were circulated widely among and
vetted by the Steering Committee and other
activists (including women) in the DC Statehood
Green Party. The release was not a vehicle for
my personal opinion, nor was I the one who
initiated the DC Statehood Green Party's
involvement or recommended our position on this
issue.
However, in answer to your expressions of
confused outrage, it should be obvious to anyone
of reasonable intelligence who reads the release
that we called for a delay on the DC Council vote
precisely because we oppose mandatory
vaccination, for reasons clearly stated in the
body of the release.
Since you took the liberty of forwarding your
misinformed complaint to discussion lists on
which I do not hold membership, please do me the
courtesy of forwarding this response unedited to
these same lists.
Scott
(If Henry doesn't forward it to said lists, can
other Greens receiving this do so? Thanks!)
--- henry duke wrote:
> Patriarchy is safe in the national office of
the
> GPUS!
>
> This press release calls for delay rather than
> rejection of a proposal to
> mandate vaccination injections into womyn's
bodies
> -- a little bizarre
> released by the paid Green Media person on
> international womyn's day.
>
> Patient autonomy and non-compulsion with
> confidentiality are fundaments of
> medical ethics.
>
> Under what conditions should we say that the
> government can EVER mandate
> sterilization or any therapy upon the bodies of
> womyn?
>
> International Womyns Day and the national staff
> office paid Green is
> promoting delay rather than deny the
governments
> right to force womyn to
> take injections that, while as a doctor I might
> recommend, it is not ethical
> in any way to tolerate a mandate upon womyn's
body
> that they get an
> immunization -- especially when the long-term
safety
> and non-harm are not
> completely known or established.
>
> Sexism and racism: we need to continue to
struggle
> against these cancers.
>
> -henry "hank" duke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DC Statehood Green Party
> [mailto:dcsgpnews2@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:24 PM
> To: dcsgpnews2@yahoo.com
> Subject: DC RELEASE Statehood Greens urge delay
on
> DC bill mandating HPV
> vaccination
>
> THE DC STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY
> http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org
>
> For immediate release:
> Thursday, March 8, 2007
>
> Contact:
> Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party Media
> Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org
>
>
> DC Statehood Greens urge delay, hearings on
bill
> mandating HPV vaccination
>
>
> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- DC Statehood Green Party
leaders
> are asking D.C. Council to delay voting on a
bill
> that
> would require girls to receive a vaccine
promoted by
> Merck, which is promoting the vaccine for the
> prevention of cervical cancer.
>
> "Council should take no action on this
legislation
> until a number of important questions about the
HPV
> [Human Papilloma Virus] vaccine have been
answered,"
> said Mai Abdul-Rahman, candidate for the D.C.
Board
> of
> Education in District 2 (Wards 3 and 4).
"Until
> then,
> the bill is an expensive giveaway to Merck that
> places
> young women in D.C. at risk."
>
> "We urge Council to hold public hearings on the
HPV
> vaccine legislation, to seek a range of opinion
from
> public health experts and advocates, and to
hold off
> on a vote at least until the Wards 4 and 7
seats on
> Council are filled in the May 1 special
election,"
> added Statehood Green Party member Erica
Madrid.
>
> The legislation, B17-0030 "The HPV Vaccination
and
> Reporting Act of 2007"
>
,
> would mandate "that the parent or legal
guardian of
> a
> female child enrolling in grade 6 for the first
time
> submit certification that the child has
received the
> HPV vaccine." The bill is currently in
Council's
> Health Committee, led by Council member David
> Catania;
> Mayor Adrian Fenty supports it.
>
> "I am a mother," said Mary Pat Rowan of
Brookland,
> D.C. "And I insist on my right to consult with
my
> husband and my child and our doctor to decide
> whether
> and when to have the HPV vaccine administered.
If I
> decide to wait for better data on safety; if I
> decide
> that the sixth grade is not the appropriate
time for
> this vaccination; if I cannot in good
conscience
> trust
> Merck or Big Pharma with my daughter's
well-being,
> that's the end of it. The Council has no place
> intruding into my family's decisions about such
> intimate issues."
>
> Statehood Greens cited several concerns about
the
> bill:
>
> . Since the vaccine is still in the
experimental
> phase, the required vaccination puts D.C. girls
at
> risk by making them laboratory subjects.
>
> . The bill doesn't include a clear 'opt-out'
> provision
> for parents who don't want their daughters to
> receive
> a vaccine whose effectiveness remains in
question.
>
> . Local public health advocates have questioned
the
> compensation available to D.C. residents in the
> event
> of adverse effects from the vaccine.
>
> . The vaccine is more expensive and less
effective
> in
> preventing cervical cancer than regular pap
smears
> and
> condom use; Merck itself has acknowledged that
the
> pap
> test has already led to the decline of cervical
> cancer.
>
> . The vaccine has been aggressively advertised
as
> Gardasil and is manufactured by Merck
Pharmaceutical
> Co., which as lone distributor under the
proposed
> legislation stands to make huge profits from
its
> use.
> Merck is also the maker of the infamous
painkiller
> Vioxx, which was pulled off the market after it
was
> shown to increase the risk of heart attacks and
> strokes. Merck faces 27,000 lawsuits resulting
from
> the use of Vioxx, and was ranked among the top
10
> worst U.S. companies in 2004 by the
Multinational
> Monitor because of its role in the Vioxx
scandal
>
.
> Merck has also been ordered to pay billions in
back
> taxes in the wake of tax evasion charges: the
firm
> has
> swindled the U.S. for billions of dollars and
> falsified IRS tax documents.
>
> . Like Vioxx, the HPV vaccine has not been
> thoroughly
> tested. The drug was tested on 500 women over
the
> age
> of 18, not on 6th grade girls, and the tests
were
> conducted by Merck itself instead of an
impartial
> scientific body. No data has been published
showing
> effectiveness of the vaccine for viral strains
> prevalent in D.C. or for women of different
> ethnicities, a major concern for a city with an
> African-American majority.
>
> . Public health advocates have asked how much
> influence Merck has had in the drafting and
> introduction of the legislation in D.C.
Council;
> according to the D.C. Office of Campaign
Finance.
> Pharmaceutical firms, including Pharmaceutical
> Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA),
have
> donated extensively to the 2006 campaigns of
several
> Council members, as well as the Fenty campaign
> .
>
>
> MORE INFORMATION
>
> "Questions about the HPV vaccine to answer
before it
> becomes mandatory"
> Testimony by Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture before D.C.
> Council
> City Desk, The Progressive Review, February 9,
2007
>
http://prorev.com/2007/02/questions-about-hpv-vaccine-to-answer.htm
>
> "Texas to acquire poorly tested vaccine"
> City Desk, The Progressive Review, February 5,
2007
>
http://prorev.com/2007/02/texas-to-require-poorly-tested-vaccine.htm
>
>
> ~ END ~
>
>
>
>
____________________________________________________________________________________
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<div>Scott,</div> <div>You are paid by the Green Party to head our media sound bytes, emphasis, and priorities.</div> <div> </div> <div>Even if you included women in this press release, it still would not emphasize feminist principles and a rejection -- not delay -- of forcing young women -- 6th grade girls -- to either get the shots or get a public education.</div> <div> </div> <div>I appreciate your work in merely getting out volumes of opinions. In my opinion, such press release should be done with a more prudent and wise use of our limited resources.</div> <div> </div> <div>Coming as it did on international womens day, and not emphasizing feminism and a rejection of the implicit race- and class-ism of any mandate upon young womens bodys, leaves continuing questions of committment to feminism, anti-racism, and democratic principles of some of our paid green national staff officials.<BR><BR><B><I>Scott McLarty
<scottmclarty@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dear Henry<BR><BR>The release below ('DC RELEASE Statehood Greens<BR>urge delay on DC bill mandating HPV vaccination')<BR>was written & issued by me at the behest of DC<BR>Statehood Green Party leaders. It is a DC<BR>Statehood Green Party press release, not a<BR>release from the GP of the US, and I'm not paid<BR>for work I do for the local party.<BR><BR>The information & positions were provided to me<BR>by women in the DC Statehood Green Party. Drafts<BR>of the release were circulated widely among and<BR>vetted by the Steering Committee and other<BR>activists (including women) in the DC Statehood<BR>Green Party. The release was not a vehicle for<BR>my personal opinion, nor was I the one who<BR>initiated the DC Statehood Green Party's<BR>involvement or recommended our position on this<BR>issue.<BR><BR>However, in
answer to your expressions of<BR>confused outrage, it should be obvious to anyone<BR>of reasonable intelligence who reads the release<BR>that we called for a delay on the DC Council vote<BR>precisely because we oppose mandatory<BR>vaccination, for reasons clearly stated in the<BR>body of the release.<BR><BR>Since you took the liberty of forwarding your<BR>misinformed complaint to discussion lists on<BR>which I do not hold membership, please do me the<BR>courtesy of forwarding this response unedited to<BR>these same lists.<BR><BR>Scott<BR><BR>(If Henry doesn't forward it to said lists, can<BR>other Greens receiving this do so? Thanks!)<BR><BR><BR>--- henry duke <HENRYDUKE2004@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> Patriarchy is safe in the national office of<BR>the<BR>> GPUS!<BR>> <BR>> This press release calls for delay rather than<BR>> rejection of a proposal to<BR>> mandate vaccination injections into womyn's<BR>bodies<BR>> -- a little bizarre<BR>> released by
the paid Green Media person on<BR>> international womyn's day.<BR>> <BR>> Patient autonomy and non-compulsion with<BR>> confidentiality are fundaments of<BR>> medical ethics.<BR>> <BR>> Under what conditions should we say that the<BR>> government can EVER mandate<BR>> sterilization or any therapy upon the bodies of<BR>> womyn?<BR>> <BR>> International Womyns Day and the national staff<BR>> office paid Green is<BR>> promoting delay rather than deny the<BR>governments<BR>> right to force womyn to<BR>> take injections that, while as a doctor I might<BR>> recommend, it is not ethical<BR>> in any way to tolerate a mandate upon womyn's<BR>body<BR>> that they get an<BR>> immunization -- especially when the long-term<BR>safety<BR>> and non-harm are not<BR>> completely known or established.<BR>> <BR>> Sexism and racism: we need to continue to<BR>struggle<BR>> against these cancers.<BR>> <BR>> -henry
"hank" duke<BR>> <BR>> -----Original Message-----<BR>> From: DC Statehood Green Party<BR>> [mailto:dcsgpnews2@yahoo.com] <BR>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:24 PM<BR>> To: dcsgpnews2@yahoo.com<BR>> Subject: DC RELEASE Statehood Greens urge delay<BR>on<BR>> DC bill mandating HPV<BR>> vaccination<BR>> <BR>> THE DC STATEHOOD GREEN PARTY<BR>> http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org<BR>> <BR>> For immediate release:<BR>> Thursday, March 8, 2007<BR>> <BR>> Contact:<BR>> Scott McLarty, DC Statehood Green Party Media<BR>> Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> DC Statehood Greens urge delay, hearings on<BR>bill<BR>> mandating HPV vaccination<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- DC Statehood Green Party<BR>leaders<BR>> are asking D.C. Council to delay voting on a<BR>bill<BR>> that<BR>> would require girls to receive a vaccine<BR>promoted by<BR>> Merck, which is promoting the
vaccine for the<BR>> prevention of cervical cancer.<BR>> <BR>> "Council should take no action on this<BR>legislation<BR>> until a number of important questions about the<BR>HPV<BR>> [Human Papilloma Virus] vaccine have been<BR>answered,"<BR>> said Mai Abdul-Rahman, candidate for the D.C.<BR>Board<BR>> of<BR>> Education in District 2 (Wards 3 and 4). <BR>"Until<BR>> then,<BR>> the bill is an expensive giveaway to Merck that<BR>> places<BR>> young women in D.C. at risk."<BR>> <BR>> "We urge Council to hold public hearings on the<BR>HPV<BR>> vaccine legislation, to seek a range of opinion<BR>from<BR>> public health experts and advocates, and to<BR>hold off<BR>> on a vote at least until the Wards 4 and 7<BR>seats on<BR>> Council are filled in the May 1 special<BR>election,"<BR>> added Statehood Green Party member Erica<BR>Madrid.<BR>> <BR>> The legislation, B17-0030 "The HPV Vaccination<BR>and<BR>> Reporting Act
of 2007"<BR>><BR><HTTP: 20070126124422.pdf 00001 images www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us>,<BR>> would mandate "that the parent or legal<BR>guardian of<BR>> a<BR>> female child enrolling in grade 6 for the first<BR>time<BR>> submit certification that the child has<BR>received the<BR>> HPV vaccine." The bill is currently in<BR>Council's<BR>> Health Committee, led by Council member David<BR>> Catania;<BR>> Mayor Adrian Fenty supports it.<BR>> <BR>> "I am a mother," said Mary Pat Rowan of<BR>Brookland,<BR>> D.C. "And I insist on my right to consult with<BR>my<BR>> husband and my child and our doctor to decide<BR>> whether<BR>> and when to have the HPV vaccine administered. <BR>If I<BR>> decide to wait for better data on safety; if I<BR>> decide<BR>> that the sixth grade is not the appropriate<BR>time for<BR>> this vaccination; if I cannot in good<BR>conscience<BR>> trust<BR>> Merck or Big Pharma with my
daughter's<BR>well-being,<BR>> that's the end of it. The Council has no place<BR>> intruding into my family's decisions about such<BR>> intimate issues."<BR>> <BR>> Statehood Greens cited several concerns about<BR>the<BR>> bill:<BR>> <BR>> . Since the vaccine is still in the<BR>experimental<BR>> phase, the required vaccination puts D.C. girls<BR>at<BR>> risk by making them laboratory subjects.<BR>> <BR>> . The bill doesn't include a clear 'opt-out'<BR>> provision<BR>> for parents who don't want their daughters to<BR>> receive<BR>> a vaccine whose effectiveness remains in<BR>question.<BR>> <BR>> . Local public health advocates have questioned<BR>the<BR>> compensation available to D.C. residents in the<BR>> event<BR>> of adverse effects from the vaccine.<BR>> <BR>> . The vaccine is more expensive and less<BR>effective<BR>> in<BR>> preventing cervical cancer than regular pap<BR>smears<BR>>
and<BR>> condom use; Merck itself has acknowledged that<BR>the<BR>> pap<BR>> test has already led to the decline of cervical<BR>> cancer.<BR>> <BR>> . The vaccine has been aggressively advertised<BR>as<BR>> Gardasil and is manufactured by Merck<BR>Pharmaceutical<BR>> Co., which as lone distributor under the<BR>proposed<BR>> legislation stands to make huge profits from<BR>its<BR>> use. <BR>> Merck is also the maker of the infamous<BR>painkiller<BR>> Vioxx, which was pulled off the market after it<BR>was<BR>> shown to increase the risk of heart attacks and<BR>> strokes. Merck faces 27,000 lawsuits resulting<BR>from<BR>> the use of Vioxx, and was ranked among the top<BR>10<BR>> worst U.S. companies in 2004 by the<BR>Multinational<BR>> Monitor because of its role in the Vioxx<BR>scandal<BR>><BR><HTTP: mokhiber.html 122004 mm2004 multinationalmonitor.org>.<BR>> Merck has also been ordered to pay billions
in<BR>back<BR>> taxes in the wake of tax evasion charges: the<BR>firm<BR>> has<BR>> swindled the U.S. for billions of dollars and<BR>> falsified IRS tax documents.<BR>> <BR>> . Like Vioxx, the HPV vaccine has not been<BR>> thoroughly<BR>> tested. The drug was tested on 500 women over<BR>the<BR>> age<BR>> of 18, not on 6th grade girls, and the tests<BR>were<BR>> conducted by Merck itself instead of an<BR>impartial<BR>> scientific body. No data has been published<BR>showing<BR>> effectiveness of the vaccine for viral strains<BR>> prevalent in D.C. or for women of different<BR>> ethnicities, a major concern for a city with an<BR>> African-American majority.<BR>> <BR>> . Public health advocates have asked how much<BR>> influence Merck has had in the drafting and<BR>> introduction of the legislation in D.C.<BR>Council;<BR>> according to the D.C. Office of Campaign<BR>Finance. <BR>> Pharmaceutical firms, including
Pharmaceutical<BR>> Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA),<BR>have<BR>> donated extensively to the 2006 campaigns of<BR>several<BR>> Council members, as well as the Fenty campaign<BR>> <HTTP: index.shtm ocf.dc.gov>.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> MORE INFORMATION<BR>> <BR>> "Questions about the HPV vaccine to answer<BR>before it<BR>> becomes mandatory"<BR>> Testimony by Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture before D.C.<BR>> Council<BR>> City Desk, The Progressive Review, February 9,<BR>2007<BR>><BR>http://prorev.com/2007/02/questions-about-hpv-vaccine-to-answer.htm<BR>> <BR>> "Texas to acquire poorly tested vaccine"<BR>> City Desk, The Progressive Review, February 5,<BR>2007<BR>><BR>http://prorev.com/2007/02/texas-to-require-poorly-tested-vaccine.htm<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ~ END ~<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>____________________________________________________________________________________<BR>Don't pick
lemons.<BR>See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.<BR>http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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