Endnagered Species Act
By a 244-181 vote, the House approved an Interior Department appropriations
bill extending for one year an 8-month old moratorium on listing species
and protecting critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act. The moratorium,
initially imposed as part of a Defense spending bill, keeps 239 candidate
species in limbo, including the jaguar, Peninsular bighorn sheep, Atlantic
salmon and California red-legged frog. The latter, the nation's largest
frog made famous in Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County," has lost 75 percent of its former range. -Forest Guardians
612 Old Santa Fe Trail, Suite B, Santa Fe, NM 87501
DEADLY EMBRACE
A video documentary, Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank, and the
IMF, exposes the devastating effects of World Bank and IMF Structural Adjustment
Policy on Nicaragua's economy. Deadly Embrace weaves testimonials of Nicaraguans
with statements by past World Bank and IMF employees and academics to depict
the situation and to show grassroots solutions. This 30-minute video by
Elizabeth Canner, a Boston-based award-winning producer and director, will
be shown on cable access stations and offered to PBS stations nationwide.
It will also be used by organizations involved in the "Fifty Years
Is Enough" Campaign to inform and mobilize people in the U.S. around
issues involving Nicaragua., the U.S., and international lending institutions.
Your tax deductible checks can help in the editing phase of this video,
payable to Newton Television
Foundation . Send to Deadly Embrace, Buffalo Road, Wentworth,
NH 03282.
NCX Feb/Mar 1996