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News from Tvind Alert
Investigating the Tvind organisation and exchanging information in 50 countries
No 2 Sept 8th 2002
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WHATS IN THIS NEWSLETTER?
Tvind Alert (a voluntary investigative network) receives
many reports and messages from around the world that deserve to be shared with a
wider audience. There is
always more information than we can fit in one bulletin!
This is a summary of new postings at the website http://www.tvindalert.org.uk
and the weeks press reports on Tvind.
The newsletter is sent each Sunday and copies are archived on the Tvind
Alert site at:
http://www.tvindalert.org.uk/index/latest_news.htm
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Jes Fabricius Mllers brief information on Tvind and news update for non-Danes: http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/jesfab/abouttvind.htm#update
Friedrich Griesss German-language archive of Tvind news:
http://griess.st1.at/tvind
IICD Watch:
http://iicdwatch.bravepages.com/
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NEW CHARGES AGAINST EIGHTH TEACHERS GROUP MEMBER IN DENMARK
Sept 5th: Danish
newspaper Jyllands-Posten reported that the number of accused
persons in the Danish court case has increased to eight: it includes also
Kirsten Fuglsbjerg. Amdi
Petersen is still in jail in California, but has agreed to be returned for trial
in Denmark. Fuglsbjerg is a
member of the TG and belonged to the management of several Tvind-associations
around the world. The same news was
reported the following day in Berlingske Tidende:
Danish: http://www.berlingske.dk/artikel:aid=211876/
German: http://griess.st1.at/tvind/211876.htm
TVIND FARM WORKERS
IN ECUADOR SACKED AND HOMELESS
Ecuador, Sept 2nd.
The 230 workers at Tvinds Rio Culebra banana plantation in
Ecuador, south America, were met by armed guards when they turned up for work.
The workers had earlier been on strike for months in protest at
non-payment of wages and health insurance by Tvind.
The manager, Bjarne Hjorth, a member of Tvinds Teachers Group, told
them they were sacked. Since many
of the workers live on the plantation, many are now homeless and jobless.
Tvind has at least two other banana farms in Ecuador.
(Source: Danish media contacts.)
http://www.tvindalert.org.uk/countries/Ecuador/ecuador.htm
NEW BOOK REVEALS 18
YEARS AT THE HEART OF TVIND
Denmark, Friday Aug
30th: An idealistic
young man who joined Tvind, became a close confidant of Amdi Petersen and helped
launder money through the Humanitarian Fund has now written a book revealing the
truth of 18 years in the Teachers Group.
Hans la Cour, now a TV producer in New Zealand, has written a 365-page
account of his time with the organisation.
He is a leading witness against Amdi and the other TG-members in the
upcoming Danish fraud case.
La Cour was in a
central position in the Fund, a project-leader in some of the most important,
extravagant projects, amongst them Global Research (2.4 million Danish kroner)
and The Voice of The Third World (14 million Danish kroner).
He left the TG 12 years ago because, he says, he found out that the whole
idea not was to help the suppressed masses of the world - but to help Amdi and
the TG. He stayed silent for 10
years but 2 years ago he told Danish TV2 what he knew.
In the book he - for the first time - tells the whole story about his
life in the TG and his many meetings with Amdi.
(Danish media)
More details will
follow if anyone can send them in English to Tvind Alert.
DANISH COOP SUPERMARKETS BAN UFF/HUMANA CONTAINERS
Denmark, Aug 23rd: Coop
Denmark, the countrys largest retailer, the cooperative movement that runs
800 supermarkets all over Denmark, has decided to ban UFF/Humana used-clothes
containers from its supermarkets. UFF/Humana
have around 150 containers placed on the supermarket car parks. The reason
is the lack of openness in UFF/Humana which is against Coop Denmarks business
ethics - according to head of information in Coop Denmark, Jens Juul Nielsen.
The Danish Red Cross will be allowed to place their containers instead.
Source: Kristeligt
Dagblad newspaper, August 23.
Coop Sweden has already ordered UFF/Humana in Sweden to remove 100 containers. So has the supermarket chain Q8, and 200 City Councils in Sweden. In Denmarks second largest city, Aarhus, the City Council has ordered UFF/Humana to remove their 60 containers from the city (Source: Aarhus Stiftstidende Sept 3rd.) The chairman of the environmental commission of the Association of City Councils, Kurt Hockerup, has asked all the City Councils to do as in Aarhus. (Source: Danish Media contacts)
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From the Danish and international Press:
TVIND DEFENDS AMDI PETERSEN AGAINST CHARGES
Denmark, Friday Sept 6th, Berlingske Tidende (Danish newspaper):
A new book,
by members of the Teachers Group, seeks
to defend Amdi Petersen and the Humanitarian Foundation against fraud charges.
The 300-page book, formally by nine leading TG members, praises the
foundation and its "29 projects in the service of mankind and nature.
A Danish journalist tells Tvind Alert: There is nothing new in the
book - nearly everything was published on one of the several Tvind web-pages, www.fonden.org,
more than a year ago. Actually the book is only a reprint of - parts of - the
web-page.
http://www.berlingske.dk/artikel:aid=210840/
Aug. 30, Kristeligt Dagblad: UFF (Humana Denmark) are still keeping their incomes and expenditures a secret.
Aug. 22. Kristeligt Dagblad: Tvind is not complying with regulations when collecting money on the streets of Denmark for the TCE (Fighting AIDS).
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New on Tvind Alert:
GAILS STORY AND WEB PAGE - A VIENNA HORROR STORY
Scottish volunteer Gail Lawrence (gail4081@yahoo.co.uk)
was sent by Humana to a filthy, spider-infested squat in Vienna to work in
Humana shops raising money. Luckily,
she was rescued (by a woman who works for the UN).
Gail was so outraged and disgusted at Humana she has set up her own web
page with her story and pictures. She writes: Hopefully, this site will
educate people as to the dangers of joining such a group and avoid many others
having to tell a similar story to mine.
http://www.geocities.com/humana_experience/index.html
TVIND IN LITHUANIA - INFORMATION WANTED
Alenas, from Vilnius, is researching UFF/Humana in Lithuania for Tvind Alert. If you have any information for him, please send it by email to: valkos@eminem.com
http://www.tvindalert.org.uk/countries/Lithuania/lithuania.htm
http://www.tvindalert.org.uk/companies/humana_baltic.htm
UFF IN FINLAND RECEIVES THOUSANDS OF EUROS FROM FINNISH
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Lots of people are interested in Tvind in Finland. Joni (joni.valkila@helsinki.fi)
checked with the Finnish ministry of foreign affairs and reports:
I don't
know the total yet, but three teaching projects in Mozambique and Malawi have
received 134 550 euros each annually.
http://www.tvindalert.org.uk/countries/Finland/finland.htm
NEW CAMPAIGN AGAINST UFF IN FINLAND
Mattias, (mattias.sjoberg@burfi.infrabrk.com), writes to say he may soon be launching a campaign against UFF and Tvind in Finland and would like more information. Also, Anna Ottelin (anna.ottelin@yle.fi), a radio news journalist from the Finnish Broadcasting Company would like to hear from anyone with information about Tvind and UFF in Finland.
HOW TO GET YOUR MONEY BACK FROM HUMANA
Alain, from Belgium, spent five months with DRH Tvind and wants outstanding money back. He would like to hear from anybody with experience of getting money back from Tvind. alaindelariviere@yahoo.com
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