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<font face="Calibri"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">PHM Global proposes an international writing campaign to expose machinations of think tanks like IPN (International Policy Network)</span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"></span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic" lang="EN-ZA">PHM South Africa has been involved in an important drive to unmask the role of conservative think-tanks in misinforming the public. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">It is time for PHM Global to rally support against them and we propose using our global networks to mobilise an international writing campaign.</span> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></b></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-bidi-font-style: italic" lang="EN-ZA">IN SOUTH AFRICA, the drive has been centred on an article by J. Mchangama published in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">Business Day (a business friendly daily newspaper in South Africa</span><font size="3">).<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"> The article debunked and undermined the right to health and other social and economic rights<i>. </i></span></font></font><a href="http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=90598" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=90598</font></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Conservative think tanks/lobby groups --IPN is certainly not alone-- are closely connected to each other; they form a highly co-ordinated global network whose main aim is to influence public opinion in favor of capital and the market. </font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">One of their main strategies is posting articles in influential mainstream newspapers around the world. </font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA" lang="EN-ZA"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA" lang="EN-ZA">This campaign is in reaction to the following:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></b></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA" lang="EN-ZA"> </span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">When PHM South Africa responded with a letter to the editor; the letter was heavily edited for publication by the periodical. Despite the editing, our colleagues unmasked the author as a member of the <span style="COLOR: black">International Policy Network (IPN) a conservative British think tank known to have corporate funding and whose CEO is </span></span></i><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA" lang="EN-ZA">Julian Morris. Mr Mchangama never responded, but Professor Morris, his boss, did so </span></i><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">describing the claim regarding IPN’s funding and partiality as a lie …”. </span></i><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA" lang="EN-ZA">Nevertheless, </span></i><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">he still did not name IPN’s funders… Mr Morris is just paid to do what he does (misinformation) full time. </span></i></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><a href="http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=92018" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=92018</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(</font></i><font face="Calibri"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We had written a longer piece with evidence from Cuba amongst other places, but they insisted on 700 words and edited us unfairly</span><font size="3">)</font></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></i></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA" lang="EN-ZA">Moreover, </span></i><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">outrageously, Julian Morris says in his letter that PHM claims to speak for the "the people"…but has no credibility to do so. </span></i><i><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA" lang="EN-ZA">PHM SA’s response to him was further edited down by Business Day.</span></i></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">ACTION CAMPAIGN</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font face="Calibri">1.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span></b><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Specific to IPN</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It would be very helpful if others, who have information about IPN in particular or about similar think-tanks (or who have access to networks that know of their activities) can </span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> </span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font face="Calibri">-</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><u><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Write a set of responses</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> / daily letters from different PHM members highlighting different issues in response to Julian Morris (e.g., IPN's track record elsewhere in the world; the fallacy of freewheeling markets; the role of self-proclaimed 'independent' think-tanks, etc.) </span></b></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">We therefore request PHM individual and organizational members to be alert for allegedly erudite and impartial articles in the mainstream press and mass media that deal with issues like human rights [social and economic rights in particular], health and health services, as well as tobacco control and climate change. These articles are made to appear as emanating from expert groupings, think-tanks or development institutions. </font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">We urge you to check whether such articles favor market approaches to the detriment of human rights, or undermine scientific evidence. </font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Try and get good information about who is funding the author or the institution behind her/him. Sourcewatch has a useful guide for doing this kind of research with many useful links. See: </font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch:How_to_research_front_groups" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch:How_to_research_front_groups</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font face="Calibri">Once you feel you have enough information; write a letter to the editor of the publication concerned to expose poor arguments, conflicts of interests, corporate funders, hidden agendas, as pertinent. Follow the publication's "letters to the editor" policies and do write and cc us at phm-exchange.</font></span></p>
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<font face="Calibri"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">We</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA" lang="EN-ZA"> really do need international pressure on newspapers like Business Day, as well as on the mainstream press and other mass media and expose IPN for what it is --. It regularly lashes out a market approach to health, food security and global warming, among others, in ways that promote the profit of its corporate funders, while pretending to be impartial. This "impartiality" is contrary to evidence of massive corporate funding as per information that is readily available on the internet. It is important to make sure that IPN’s veneer of legitimacy is removed. They can trumpet their opinions as much as they like, but not portraying themselves as an independent think tank when, in reality, they are the voice for large capital and should be seen and acknowledged as such.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"></span></i></font></p>
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