I'm nomail at the moment, but I thought you'd like to hear about my
little success!
I'm a member of the board in our local Lutheran parish. We have about
25.000 members in the parish. Members of the board can make
suggestions to the board, and in May, I suggested we start boycotting
Nestle.
Every October, the churches in Finland have a week loosely translated
to "a week of responsibility", where the theme this year is food and
hunger. They even talk about the Nestle boycot, and that's where I got
the idea.
Anyway, yesterday we had the board meeting. A smaller body had already
researched my idea, and they suggested, we don't start the boycot
because we don't even use any Nestle products in our parish. I held a
long speech, and suggested that we start the boycot anyway. We voted
about it, and I WON! 13 people said yes to the boycot, 12 said no, and
one voted empty. So, from this day on, our parish does boycot Nestle,
until the boycot is not anymore needed.
I'm really happy :) This doesn't change anything in our parish, but
it's a great signal, and I hope our decision gets a lot of publicity
in our country that is about 90 % Lutheran. The week of responsibility
is next week, so I hope the Nestle boycot will get some publicity.
And, this week we are celebrating the world breastfeeding week here in
Nordic countries (in August when everybody else celebrates it, we are
on vacation...). I feel this decision couldn't have come in a better
time.
Hanna Graeffe (leader of a breastfeeding support group, mother of two)
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www.lumenvalo.fi
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