Do you read or publish in the following journals?....
Geoforum
Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography
Geographical Abstracts: Physical Geography
Political Geography
Applied Geography
(as well as many other journals and books)
....Then there is something YOU should know
THEY ARE OWNED AND PUBLISHED BY:
Reed Elsevier: the Arms Fair specialist
It is a little known fact that the giant information company Reed
Elsevier - famous for its work in education, science and health
publications, as well as massive web-based services such as the
LexisNexis Total Research System used by academics and legal
professionals - also plays a significant role in the arms trade.
Through its subsidiary companies, Reed Exhibitions and Spearhead
Exhibitions, Reed Elsevier is responsible for organising arms fairs in
several countries across the world, as well as here in the UK. These
include DSEi in London and Latin America Aero and Defence. Dsei will be
happening again in London in 2007.
For many customers and shareholders of Reed Elsevier, convinced of the
company's good reputation and ethical stance, this has come as a rather
unpalatable surprise. In September 2005 The Lancet, arguably the world's
most prestigious medical journal and owned by Reed Elsevier, published a
letter signed by public healthcare professionals from five continents.
The letter highlighted the surprising involvement of The Lancet's
publisher in the global arms trade, and prompted The Lancet's editorial
board itself to issue a scathing condemnation of Reed Elsevier in the
same issue, calling upon the company 'to divest itself of all business
interests that threaten human, and especially civilian, health and
well-being'.
What can you do?
There is lots you can do. Contact the journals above, write to the
chairman of Reed Elsevier, look at the following websites for other
ideas:
http://www.caat.org.uk/armsfairs/reed.php
(info and campaign website)
http://www.sgr.org.uk/ArmsControl/letter_lancet_10sep05.htm
(an article published in the Lancet - owned by Elsevier)
http://www.caat.org.uk/caatnews/2005_12/reed-campaign.php
(campaign website)
http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2008
(report on elsevier)
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