http://www.clintonfoundation.org/062107-nr-cf-ee-pr-wjc-and-business-leaders-lau\
nch-sustainable-development-initiative-in-the-developing-world.htm

Just look at this:

Former President Bill Clinton announced today that
his foundation is launching a new sustainable
development initiative in Latin America, the Clinton
Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative (CGSGI), thanks
to the major financial commitment of two prominent
philanthropists, Frank Giustra and Carlos Slim Helú.
Giustra, a Canadian businessman, has pledged a minimum
of $100 million to the effort, as well as one half of
all of his future earnings from his work in the
natural resources sector. He has also been the driving
force to bring together a coalition of mining industry
and non-industry actors that will make CGSGI possible.
Carlos Slim Helú, the Chairman of Grupo Carso, has
already answered Giustra’s call for financial
commitments to CGSGI and committed at least $100
million to CGSGI’s work in Latin America.

Clinton did not address the root causes of hunger and
poverty (domestically or internationally) when he was
president any more than Gore did anything for the
environment as vp.

If Clinton and his philanthropying cronies care about
eradicating poverty in the developing world, they
should, for starters:

* Support land reform, especially Venezuelan president
Chavez and the Brazilian MST in their efforts to that
end.

* Oppose zionism and support the Palestinian people's
right to self-determination.

* Oppose the war in Iraq and the military industrial
complex.

* Oppose patents on life forms and on life-saving
drugs.

* Support food sovereignty as defined in the Nyeleni
forum.

* Advocate Third World debt cancellation.

* Oppose GMO's, Green Revolution technological
packages and agribusiness, and support instead
locally-based ecological agriculture.

* Oppose large-scale agrofuels, carbon trading,
geoengineering and other nonsense false solutions to
global warming.

* Advocate that the US obey international law, for a
change.

And so on...

CARMELO RUIZ
June 22 2007