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SHAME ON SHASTA - MT SHASTA SPRING WATER POLICY DISCRIMINATORY
Last month Mount Shasta Spring Water Company abruptly canceled my family’s bottled water delivery service. I was a loyal, prompt-paying customer for over 7 years. According to Bill Ellis, General Manager of Mount Shasta Spring Water Company, our service was discontinued due to a US flag displayed in front of our house. My daughter decorated this 12 by 18 inch flag as an _expression of peace. I am proud that my daughter made this innocent improvement to our flag and do not consider it desecration.
SHAME ON SHASTA - MT SHASTA SPRING WATER POLICY DISCRIMINATORY: Bottled Water or Freedom of _Expression
Last month Mount Shasta Spring Water Company abruptly canceled my family’s bottled water delivery service. I was a loyal, prompt-paying customer for over 7 years. According to Bill Ellis, General Manager of Mount Shasta Spring Water Company, our service was discontinued due to a US flag displayed in front of our house. My daughter decorated this 12 by 18 inch flag as an _expression of peace. I am proud that my daughter made this innocent improvement to our flag and do not consider it desecration.
Also flying outside our house were the flags of Cuba, Palestine, and Iraq, flown in solidarity with the peoples of these countries – peoples that have long suffered under oppressive US foreign policy. In the past 4 years, the US flag has been a symbol of revenge, blind patriotism, of war without end, and government manufactured deception. Flying the flags Cuba, Palestine, and Iraq was an act of independence, not meant to offend others, but meant as a prayer to the struggles of the people of these countries.
Ellis claims he respects our freedom to “disrespect our flag and our country”, claims that their decision has nothing to do with our opposition to the war and occupation in Iraq. Yet, he says “I know many, including a very close friend who is in opposition of this decision. However, they would never be disrespectful of what our flag stands for.”*
Mount Shasta Spring Water Company feels we have desecrated the US flag and believes that the leaders of our country made the “decision to liberate Iraq”* in order to safeguard our country from foreign attack and to protect our freedoms. For this I extend an apology to all the peoples of the planet, the worldwide over. While others are oppressed, I am not free and when others pay for our way of life, our freedoms are meaningless.
Mount Shasta Spring Water Company serves Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Just to keep things even, you can do your own research at http://www.mtshastaspringwater.com/index.html . (I hear their info/order link is up and running again.) Or by calling 800/922-6227, 530/246-8800.
Please join us in spreading the word about Mount Shasta Spring Water Company and their arbitrary discriminatory policy.
*(Letter from Bill Ellis, October 19, 2005)
Last month Mount Shasta Spring Water Company abruptly canceled my family’s bottled water delivery service. I was a loyal, prompt-paying customer for over 7 years. According to Bill Ellis, General Manager of Mount Shasta Spring Water Company, our service was discontinued due to a US flag displayed in front of our house. My daughter decorated this 12 by 18 inch flag as an _expression of peace. I am proud that my daughter made this innocent improvement to our flag and do not consider it desecration.
Also flying outside our house were the flags of Cuba, Palestine, and Iraq, flown in solidarity with the peoples of these countries – peoples that have long suffered under oppressive US foreign policy. In the past 4 years, the US flag has been a symbol of revenge, blind patriotism, of war without end, and government manufactured deception. Flying the flags Cuba, Palestine, and Iraq was an act of independence, not meant to offend others, but meant as a prayer to the struggles of the people of these countries.
Ellis claims he respects our freedom to “disrespect our flag and our country”, claims that their decision has nothing to do with our opposition to the war and occupation in Iraq. Yet, he says “I know many, including a very close friend who is in opposition of this decision. However, they would never be disrespectful of what our flag stands for.”*
Mount Shasta Spring Water Company feels we have desecrated the US flag and believes that the leaders of our country made the “decision to liberate Iraq”* in order to safeguard our country from foreign attack and to protect our freedoms. For this I extend an apology to all the peoples of the planet, the worldwide over. While others are oppressed, I am not free and when others pay for our way of life, our freedoms are meaningless.
Mount Shasta Spring Water Company serves Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Just to keep things even, you can do your own research at http://www.mtshastaspringwater.com/index.html . (I hear their info/order link is up and running again.) Or by calling 800/922-6227, 530/246-8800.
Please join us in spreading the word about Mount Shasta Spring Water Company and their arbitrary discriminatory policy.
*(Letter from Bill Ellis, October 19, 2005)
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Across North America, the bottled water industry is exploding. Bottled water sales are now the fastest growing segment of the entire beverage industry. Over the past decade, the consumption of bottled water has more than doubled in the U.S. alone, in Canada; bottled water consumption now outpaces that of coffee, tea, apple juice or milk.
Inside the Bottle provides a vivid and disturbing portrayal of how four big companies Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Danone --- dominate the bottled water industry today. It examines key issues of public concern about their operations, including how they:
pay little or next to nothing for the water they take from rural springs or public water systems;
turn ‘water’ into ‘water’ through elaborate treatment processes;
produce a product that is not necessarily safer than, nor as regulated as, tap water;
package it in plastic bottles made of toxic chemicals that are environmentally destructive;
market it to an unsuspecting public as ‘pure, healthy, safe drinking water.’
sell it at prices that are hundreds and even thousands of times more costly than ordinary tap water.
This book also identifies what people can do in their communities to:
stimulate public awareness and debate about these issues.
challenge and resist the more exploitive practices of the big-4 bottled water companies.
promote the rebuilding of public tap water systems and services.
develop alternative models of bottled water production that are locally controlled and ecologically sustainable.
Order online by sending a message to insidethebottle [at] polarisinstitute.org
The cost of the book is $15 Canadian + shipping (or $13 US + shipping).
Bulk orders of the book are also available for groups to use the book as an educational and fundraising tool for local water struggles!
Contact insidethebottle [at] polarisinstitute.org for order details.
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/pubs/pubs_inside_the_bottle.html
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
Inside the Bottle provides a vivid and disturbing portrayal of how four big companies Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Danone --- dominate the bottled water industry today. It examines key issues of public concern about their operations, including how they:
pay little or next to nothing for the water they take from rural springs or public water systems;
turn ‘water’ into ‘water’ through elaborate treatment processes;
produce a product that is not necessarily safer than, nor as regulated as, tap water;
package it in plastic bottles made of toxic chemicals that are environmentally destructive;
market it to an unsuspecting public as ‘pure, healthy, safe drinking water.’
sell it at prices that are hundreds and even thousands of times more costly than ordinary tap water.
This book also identifies what people can do in their communities to:
stimulate public awareness and debate about these issues.
challenge and resist the more exploitive practices of the big-4 bottled water companies.
promote the rebuilding of public tap water systems and services.
develop alternative models of bottled water production that are locally controlled and ecologically sustainable.
Order online by sending a message to insidethebottle [at] polarisinstitute.org
The cost of the book is $15 Canadian + shipping (or $13 US + shipping).
Bulk orders of the book are also available for groups to use the book as an educational and fundraising tool for local water struggles!
Contact insidethebottle [at] polarisinstitute.org for order details.
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/pubs/pubs_inside_the_bottle.html
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/
If Gore had become President in 2000 and had taken all the same actions. Most anti-war types would have no problem with war in Iraq. With them it's about politics with President Bush it's about protecting America.
I do not agree with the resident who had his Daughter draw on the flag hiding behind the freedom of expression arguement-it is Disrespectful.Show some good old fashioned common sense and respect our flag. If you disagree with the War fine, but dont drag flag desecration into it.Also why dont you fly Israel's flag outside your house to commiserate with all the Kids and Civilians who are blown up by Muslim Suicide bombers - or don't they count? A little objectivity and balanced perspective would be a true nod of respect to the Stars and Stripes.
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