PHM-Exch> Nestle-Free Week - are you ready?

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Baby Milk Action (Mike Brady) <mikebrady at babymilkaction.org>


[image: Baby Milk Action]   Email update : 10 October 2012 Get ready for
International Nestlé-Free Week : 29 October - 4 November

Nestlé-Free Week is a time for supporters of the Nestlé boycott to do more
to spread the word and for those who don't boycott to give it a go - at
least for a week.

Nestlé executives continue to put company profits before the lives and
well-being of babies as they push Nestlé breastmilk substitutes in ways
that break internationally agreed marketing standards.

The boycott gives executives a financial reason to think again and helps to
force changes.
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Help to spread the word, particularly during Nestlé-Free Week. Resources to
help you:

   - *Facebook event* - show your support by saying you are attending and
   invite your Facebook friends - click
here<http://www.facebook.com/events/115639361920556/>
   .

On the *Nestlé-Free Week* page:
http://info.babymilkaction.org/nestlefreeweek

   - A Nestlé-Free Zone poster to display in shops and workplaces.
   - Put the Nestlé-Free Zone poster in your window during Halloween if
   this is marked in your country.
   - Nestlé-Free labels for bags of candy during Halloween.
   - Logos to mark you website or blog as a Nestlé-Free Zone.
   - The Nestlé boycott product list and cards to share with friends and
   family.
   - How to explain the boycott in 30 seconds. Post to discussion groups.
   Write to the media.
   - The MyMeter iPhone app - a fun way to raise the boycott.
   - Send a message to Nestlé telling it you will continue to boycott until
   it stops breaking the rules.

Also visit our online Virtual Shop for the *Fight the Nestlé
monster*t-shirt and shopping bag and other resources:
http://www.babymilkaction.org/shop<http://www.babymilkaction.org/shop/tshirts.html>
*The boycott helps to save lives*

The boycott is part of an integrated strategy that includes monitoring and
reporting company malpractice and bringing in regulations to hold companies
to account. But we need more support.

Right now Nestlé is leading efforts to replace the strong baby milk
regulations achieved in the Philippines with a new weak law. We stopped the
industry attack on the regulations in 2007 - we can do so again with your
help. According to the Philippines Department of Health, the proposed new
law: *"aims to support multinational companies while damaging the Filipino
society: families, the mothers and children."*

Around the world Nestlé continues to claim its formula protects babies,
when it well knows babies fed on formula are more likely to become sick
than breastfed babies and, in conditions of poverty, are more likely to
die. We have forced Nestlé to drop other claims - we can do so again with
your help.

According to UNICEF *"Improved breastfeeding practices and reduction of
artificial feeding could save an estimated 1.5 million children a year."*

Nestlé refuses to bring its instructions on how to prepare formula into
line with World Health Organisation guidance, so endangering babies who
have to be fed on formula. Nestlé reviewed all its labels once before when
the media picked up on our campaign over it refusing to translate
instructions into the correct language. Help us to make this year's
Nestlé-Free Week the biggest so far so journalists will expose what Nestlé
is doing.

Go to the *Nestlé-Free Week* page:
http://info.babymilkaction.org/nestlefreeweek

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Diary dates

Click here <http://info.babymilkaction.org/diarydates> for more information.

*29 October - 4 November 2012: *International Nestlé-Free Week - click
here<http://info.babymilkaction.org/nestlefreeweek>.


*10 November 2012*: Baby Milk Action workshop at the *Shared
Planet*student conference at Sheffield Hallam University.

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MyMeter iPhone app

A fun way to promote the Nestlé boycott.



See what it does by clicking
here<http://www.babymilkaction.org/shop/ringtones.html>
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