http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/07/05/3064/ News, features and comment from Britain's left-wing magazine Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:32:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/07/05/3064/comment-page-1/#comment-9320 John Roberts Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:04:05 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/?p=3064#comment-9320 We are grateful for Mr. Ford's review of our book, "Freeing Tibet," and particularly his mention of the need for a coordinated consumer campaign to pressure China. To those who worry that this may benefit US corporate interests, let me assure you the opposite is true. US corporations are manufacturing in China to evade US labor, environmental, and safety regulations. This "China trade" generates obscene profits, hollows out unions, and forms the pool of money for multi-million dollar CEO salaries. By the way, it is a coincidence that this book was published by the American Management Association. An editor I had worked with on an earlier book published by Kensington/Citadel had seen the outline for the Tibet book back in the 1990s. But Citadel passed on publishing it then. When the editor,Bob Shuman, was hired by the AMA he recalled the book proposal and sent an email asking if we were still interested in writing it. I was at surf camp in Costa Rica when the welcome news came that we had at last found a publisher. The AMA wanted titles on China, and we managed due to Bob's good graces to squeeze our book about the movement to free Tibet into the line-up. We are still pushing for a coordinated consumer campaign. We approached Richard Gere at a reception at Senator Feinstein's home in Washington in April. Anyone in the UK interested in helping to start this campaign? John Roberts FreeingTibet.com We are grateful for Mr. Ford’s review of our book, “Freeing Tibet,” and particularly his mention of the need for a coordinated consumer campaign to pressure China. To those who worry that this may benefit US corporate interests, let me assure you the opposite is true. US corporations are manufacturing in China to evade US labor, environmental, and safety regulations. This “China trade” generates obscene profits, hollows out unions, and forms the pool of money for multi-million dollar CEO salaries. By the way, it is a coincidence that this book was published by the American Management Association. An editor I had worked with on an earlier book published by Kensington/Citadel had seen the outline for the Tibet book back in the 1990s. But Citadel passed on publishing it then. When the editor,Bob Shuman, was hired by the AMA he recalled the book proposal and sent an email asking if we were still interested in writing it. I was at surf camp in Costa Rica when the welcome news came that we had at last found a publisher. The AMA wanted titles on China, and we managed due to Bob’s good graces to squeeze our book about the movement to free Tibet into the line-up. We are still pushing for a coordinated consumer campaign. We approached Richard Gere at a reception at Senator Feinstein’s home in Washington in April. Anyone in the UK interested in helping to start this campaign?
John Roberts FreeingTibet.com

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