Court update: BAYER WON
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- Published on Thursday, 27 April 2017 07:00
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BREAKING: Bayer just won the court battle to ban protest in the square outside its annual meeting -- the protest SumOfUs members helped pay for.
Court documents show that Bayer referred to peaceful protest as a "terrorist threat".
The meeting is tomorrow, and we want to help beekeepers appeal the decision. The beekeepers aren't terrorists -- not even close -- and we can't let Bayer squash free speech like this.
Please, could you make an emergency donation to help their legal fight and defend the bees? We don't have much time left.
If you've saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:
Donate CA$93 now Donate CA$140 now Donate CA$186 now Chip in another amountThank you so much for your support,
Anne
More information:
Court documents, verwaltungsgericht Köln (Administrative Court, Cologne), 26 April 2017 (PDF in German)
Original email:
Beekeepers are struggling to have their voices heard by Bayer -- who makes the neonics connected to mass bee die-offs in hives all around the world.
With your help, we'll get beekeepers in front of Bayer's own shareholders in just a few weeks, and force a policy change from within.
Can you donate now to save the bees?
If you've saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:
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Bayer's huge annual meeting is coming up in just a few weeks, and we're going to make sure beekeepers can be there.
With your help, beekeepers will have their voices heard -- finally -- after seeing mass bee die-offs for years. It's time Bayer's own shareholders hear their struggle and force change from within.
Thanks to you, we're on the cusp of winning some huge battles for the bees. The biggest battle will be to get Bayer to stop making the bee-killing neonics that are causing hive destruction and putting our food supply in jeopardy. Our best chance to do that is make sure Bayer's own shareholders know just how dangerous its products are to our survival.
Can you donate to bring beekeepers to speak to Bayer's shareholders?
If you've saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go through immediately:
Donate CA$93 now Donate CA$140 now Donate CA$186 nowA UN report showed that bees and other pollinators are threatened with global extinction -- and we rely on them for 75 percent of our food crops.
In other words, when bees die, people starve.
We need to stop killing bees. And the best way to do that is making sure neonic pesticides get off our shelves.
The BeeDefender Alliance in Europe is taking on Bayer in a massive legal battle, and it works directly with many of the beekeepers affected by mass bee die-offs.
They wanted to know if you could help bring beekeepers directly to Bayer's annual meeting and get Bayer's shareholders to hear their stories.
If you can help bring beekeepers, SumOfUs will make sure those beekeepers can have their voices heard -- even if it means giving up our own place at the meeting. The money we raise today will help fund our important bees work.
Can you help out?
Donate CA$93 now Donate CA$140 now Donate CA$186 nowThanks for all you do,
Anne, Jon and the team at SumOfUs
More information:
Pesticide manufacturers' own tests reveal serious harm to honeybees, The Guardian, September 22, 2016
Pollinators in Peril, Center for Biological Diversity, March 1, 2017
SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.
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