Two Weeks To Rome: Group of Officials Back Helga LaRouche's 'Double Food Production' Call
May, 2008 (LPAC)--With a price hyperinflation that has suddenly cut off people in many countries from food, threatening famine and causing riots in 40 nations, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) meets in Rome June 3-5 and must dramatically change free trade policies. The head of the Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche has put out a call to the FAO conference for "doubling world food production," including eliminating both the World Trade Organization, and diversion of food to biofuels. Two weeks before the conference a group of elected officials has come out backing Helga Zepp-LaRouche's call. Others have started to denounce ethanol diversion of corn. Support for the LaRouche statement has come from:
US Elected Officials:
* State Rep. Thomas Jackson, Alabama House Agriculture Committee Chairman. Jackson's resolution demanding the U.S. adopt of policy of doubling food production, ceasing ethanol subsidies, and cancelling its membership in the World Trade Organization passed the Alabama House on May 19.
* State Rep. LaMar Lemmons, Jr., Michigan. A resolution (PDF) to memorialize the Congress of the United States to adopt new agricultural policies that maximize food production, and to call for the United States to withdraw from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement and return to bilateral trade agreements.
* Former State Senator Joe Neal, North Las Vegas, Nevada
* State Sen. Joey Pendleton of Kentucky
* Thomas Trigona, Mayor of Johnstown, Pennsylvania
* Kareem Johnson, Council Vice President of Coatesville, Pennsylvania
* Marcia Goodman-Hinnershitz, City Council of Reading, Pennsylvania
* Former State Rep. Catherine Barrett of Cinncinati, Ohio
* Former State Rep. LaMar Lemmons III of Detroit
* Mayor Andrew M. Cohen of Menlo Park, California.
* Sen. Joey Pendleton, Minority Whip, Kentucky Senate; Hopkinsville, Ky
* State Rep. William F. Boyland, Jr., New York
* Sen. Antoine Thompson, New York Senate
* Harold James, State Representative, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Maggie Stock, Mayor, City of Butler, Pennsylvania
* Ronald Bradley, Mayor, City of Shamokin, Pennsylvania
* Anthony Pinizzotto, Council Member, City of Johnstown, Pennsylvania
* Ross Neidich, Council Member, City of Bradford, Pennsylvania
* Bob Onuffer, Council Member, City of Bradford, Pennsylvania
* Jeanette Heckman, Council Member, Borough of Hamburg, Pennsylvania
* Charles Eisenhart, Council Member, Borough of East Berlin, Pennsylvania
*Rep. John P. Fresolo, Massachusetts State Legislature
*Rep. Larry Bell, Vice Chairman House Agriculture Committee, North Carolina House of Representatives; Clinton, NC
*Joan Seymour, President, Southfield Michigan City Council; Southfield, MI.
Unelected US Signers:
* 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.
* Mohd Peter Davis, Visiting Scientist, Universiti Putra
Malaysia
* Dr. Luise Light, former USDA, Director of Dietary Guidance,
Bellows Falls, VT
* 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
* Piers Corbyn British Astrophysicist and long range weather
forecaster, United Kingdom
* Cathy M. Helgason, M.D. Professor of Neurology University of
Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
* Noel Cowling, Texas farmer/activist, a former adviser to the
NFO (National Farm Organization), and member of the AAM (American
Agriculutre Movement)
* John Jeffries, Executive Board and former President, IAM local 830;
Louisville, Ky.
* Gary Barnett, Chairman, UAW CAP Franklin Co., Columbus, Oh.
* Wayne Rebich, President, Carpenters local 1911; Beckley, West Virginia
* William Sickner, Board of Directors, Michigan Farmers Union; Otter Lake, MI.
Signers from Russia and CIS Region:
* Maxim Alexandrovich Chernov, Poltava, Ukraine
* Magomed Ali Suleymanovich Suleymanov, bank branch director,
Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russian Federation
* 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!"
* Mikhail Koshelev, student, Kaluga
Russian Websites Posting Helga's Call:
* Russian Anti-Globalist Resistance, RF (www.anti-glob.ru)
* Strategium East European Online Political Experts Community,
founder and coordinator Sergei Pozny, Ukraine (www.strateger.net)
* RPMonitor, director Andrei Kobyakov, RF (www.rpmonitor.ru)
* Sarov Top Secret portal, founder A. Borisov, RF (www.sarov.cc)
* Imperiya website, Belarus (www.imperiya.by)
* Rossiya - Ring of Patriotic Resources portal, RF
(www.rossija.info)
* Global Venture forum, RF (www.aventurist.org)
* The Big Forum, founded by readers of Zavtra newspaper, RF
(www.bolshoyforum.ru)
Signers from Guatemala:
* Raul Anibal Marroquin Casasola, Guatemalan Labor Union
* Randolfo Ernesto Maldonado Cambara, INDE-STINDE Union
* Miguel Ángel Tzoc Morales, INDE-STINDE Union
* Walter Conrado Gaytan Morales, INDE-STINDE Union
* Samuel Nenroht Hernández Orantes, INDE-STINDE Union
* Luis Antonio Chinchilla Corado, INDE-STINDE Union
* José Maria Santos Morales, INDE-STINDE Union
* Carlos René Baeza Olivares, INDE-STINDE Union
* César Augusto Flores Rodas, INDE-STINDE Union
