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From the desk of the director:

For Immediate Release
September 11, 2005
phone:  917 804-0786
Contact:  Eileen Dannemann, Director
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PRESS RELEASE

Africa – Big Pharma’s Laboratory

The Constant Gardener Gains Grassroots Support

The National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW) is organizing grassroots health freedom networks to promote the new Hollywood movie, “The Constant Gardener.” Grassroots lobbyists are hitting the streets and the members of Congress with flyers and materials urging people and politicians to address the real life implications of issues raised in this film—namely the disastrous public health consequences that have come with Big Pharma’s influence over government regulators. “It is very sad that we didn’t focus on this sooner," says Ms. Dannemann. "Africa has become the world’s pharmaceutical laboratory. We destroy the African people like lab rats and guinea pigs.” The movie begins with a subtle reference to AIDS when Tessa (Rachel Weisz), a grassroots activist in Africa, discovers that a pharmaceutical company is testing unapproved, dangerous drugs on the African population—and hiding fatal adverse reactions by burying the victims. “It is interesting, how the movie begins with an inference to AIDS, commented NCOW Director Eileen Dannemann. “Most people might miss the subtle reference, which is why I point it out,” she added.

Project Bioshield passed last year giving unfettered authority to the Dept. of Defense to mandate the vaccination of military and civilians

According to Dannemann, The Constant Gardener is not fiction and accurately portrays the real-life relationship between public health policy makers and Big Pharma. “These are the people who have been empowered to medicate us at gunpoint,” Dannemann stated.
Among the real life issued raised by the movie is the widespread, government-approved use of humans as test subjects for medical experimentation without their knowledge or consent.
Last year the Congress passed Project Bioshield I, giving the Dept. of Defense (DoD) and the Dept. of Human Health Services (HHS) authority to arbitrarily declare national emergencies. Bioshield gives these agencies broad authority to mandate use of untested, unlicensed and unproven biodefense vaccines on both military personnel and civilians. The DoD has already invoked this authority. Based on the “belief” that Iraq “may” expose our troops to a weaponized form of anthrax, the DoD declared an emergency (which is still in effect) and forced the untested anthrax vaccine on military personnel. (www.milvacs.org).

Testing unapproved drugs is happening right here in the United States

Dannemann warns that medical experimentation is not limited to military personnel. “Big Pharma is testing drugs on our children and elderly right here in the United States with experimental AIDS cocktails to foster children,” Dannemann stated. (www.ahrp.org) Another example is the introduction of Fluarix, an investigational new drug from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Though not yet licensed for use in the U.S., HHS has purchased 1.2 million doses of Fluarix, apparently for pre-approval testing among unsuspecting populations of flu shot-recipients. Under a new federal rule nursing homes are required to offer flu vaccines to all residents or risk losing Medicare/Medicaid funding.

An entire generation has been damaged by the childhood vaccine program

Another issue raised by The Constant Gardener is the public health disaster triggered by the nation’s childhood vaccination policy. For the past 20 years the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been “recommending” the injection of our children with vaccines containing dangerous levels of mercury and other known toxins. “An entire generation of our children received 22 of these vaccines by the time they were two years old. The result is that nearly 20 percent of the children entering school today have Autism, ADD, ADHD, hyperactivity and/or depression and are being prescribed psychiatric drugs like Ritalin, Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac, Zyprexia, Wellbutin and Adderall,” said Dannemann (www.ProgressiveConvergence.com).
Dannemann observed that the kids such as those involved in the Columbine killings, Chris Pittman at the age of 12 (who shot his Grandparents and burned down the house) and a vast number of suicide victims were on these medications. “An estimated eight million children are on psychiatric drugs, today,” she said. (www.drugawareness.org)

Big Pharma using Teen Screen and the New Freedom Commission to directly market psychotropic drugs to students

Perhaps the most serious and pressing question begged by the revelations of The Constant Gardener is how those in government and industry are now authorized to screen all American children for mental illness.. “TeenScreen and the New Freedom Commission in no more than a thinly veiled strategic marketing tool for the pharmaceutical industry, authorizing the use of the public school system as a marketing medium for their drugs,” says Ms. Dannemann.
During its last session, the U.S. Congress approved the presidential executive order to fund a program that would screen America’s children for mental illness. This year it will survey, mis-diagnose, label, report and force school aged children into the arms of health professionals who routinely prescribe these dangerous medications.
Independent researchers point out that the majority of symptoms expressed by this generation of children is mercury poisoning. “Rather than pointing the finger at the real problem (the 20 years of injecting our children with toxic amounts of mercury), the government agency administrators mask their complicity and dumb down our children by forcing them to take dangerous and addictive psychotropic drugs. Teen Screen must be stopped by parents this year,” insisted Dannemann. www.psychsearch.net/teenscreen.html.

Project Bioshield II, currently in the Senate, is protectionist legislation for Big Pharma

Rather than reducing Big Pharma’s influence over public health policy, the U.S. Senate is currently entertaining legislation that will dramatically increase drug makers’ ability to continue using hapless Americans for medical research. Senators Hatch, Lieberman and Brownback have constructed a 157-page bill (S.975) giving big Pharma congressional protection and privileges such as special patent and liability protection, anti-trust and visa exemption and special tax incentives. “Upon reviewing S.975, it becomes obvious that these three senators represent Big Pharma, not the people, Dannemann said.
Dannemann is convinced that The Constant Gardener will raise public awareness that government’s public health policies are contrary to Americans’ health and well-being. She is also confident that those injurious policies will change when the people collectively refuse to be the unwitting subjects of medical experimentation.