{"id":61949,"date":"2018-02-22T19:54:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=61949"},"modified":"2018-02-22T19:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:54:06","slug":"monsanto-hits-avaaz-subpoena-all-data-glyphosate-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/monsanto-hits-avaaz-subpoena-all-data-glyphosate-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto Hits Avaaz with Subpoena for All Data from Glyphosate Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global campaign movement Avaaz has been served with a 168-page subpoena<\/a> demanding almost a decade\u2019s worth of internal campaign communications and member data be turned over to Monsanto. Avaaz, with 46-million members around the world, has been part of the movement to regulate glyphosate from the US to the European Union \u2013 glyphosate is the cornerstone chemical in Monsanto\u2019s $50 billion empire. Avaaz\u2019s members have voted to fight the subpoena.<\/p>\n

The subpoena<\/a>, issued on behalf of Monsanto from a New York court, is notable for its scope. It covers every Avaaz email, note, and record regarding Monsanto or glyphosate, including the names and email addresses of Avaaz members who have signed Monsanto petitions. The subpoena specifically covers several of Avaaz\u2019s campaigns, including: the group\u2019s successful effort in 2017 to help move the EU not to reissue a 15-year license for glyphosate; its successful 2013 effort to help block a Monsanto genetically-modified seed factory in Argentina; and an ongoing campaign to stop the merger between Monsanto and Bayer.<\/p>\n

Monsanto has a history of going after its critics in court. In 2017, the company sued the State of California for its decision to include glyphosate on the state\u2019s list of products known to cause cancer, and that same year Monsanto sued the Arkansas Plant Board over a proposed ban on its herbicide Dicamba, after it was linked to widespread crop damage.<\/p>\n

The subpoena was issued as part of Peterson v. Monsanto Co., a case pending in the Circuit Court of St. Louis, Missouri, that involves two men who allege that exposure to Monsanto\u2019s Roundup, a product containing glyphosate, caused their non-Hodgkin\u2019s Lymphoma. Notably, all of Avaaz\u2019s advocacy efforts on glyphosate occurred after the plaintiffs had stopped using Roundup and had already been diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n

Avaaz is being represented by the New York firm of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP (by Andrew G. Celli, Jr and Douglas Lieb).<\/p>\n

Emma Ruby-Sachs, Deputy Director of Avaaz, in response to the subpoena stated; \u201cAvaaz beat Monsanto in Europe and in Argentina, and so they\u2019re coming after us in US courts. Monsanto is infamous for its corporate bullying, but this time they\u2019ve picked a fight with a movement of nearly 50 million people who are going to fight back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Global campaign movement Avaaz has been served with a 168-page subpoena demanding almost a decade\u2019s worth of internal campaign communications and member data be turned over to Monsanto. Avaaz, with 46-million members around the world, has been part of the movement to regulate glyphosate from the US to the European Union \u2013 glyphosate is the cornerstone chemical in Monsanto\u2019s $50 billion empire. 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