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December 20th, 2003, 06:30 PM
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OT but makes for good streamside chit chat: Fisherman Priest Declines Pew Foundation Award
Fisherman Priest Declines Pew Foundation Award
NEW DELHI (CWN) -- Redemptorist Father Thomas Kochery, hailed as a champion of India's 8 million traditional fishermen, on Wednesday turned down a $150,000 award from the Pew Charitable Foundation of Massachusetts saying the award sponsored by the Sun Oil Company is "blood money." The Pew Foundation, instituted by the Sun, has been "one of the largest polluters in the US. He (Father Kochery) believes that a polluter giving an award for marine conservation is a contradiction," said a statement from the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers meeting in New Delhi attended by over 150 delegates from 32 fishing countries. The foundation chose Father Kochery, the founding director of the National Fish Workers Forum in India, for its prestigious fellowship for "outstanding scientists, researchers, and conservation activists dedicated to the conservation and sustainable use of marine sources" in June for "his leadership in the fight against foreign fishing vessels." Countrywide protests by traditional fishermen under the leadership of Father Kochery against environmentally destructive trawlers and foreign fishing vessels in Indian waters had achieved a crucial breakthrough earlier this year when the government decided not to renew the licenses of foreign fishing vessels. "The Sun Oil Company is one of the worst polluters of the sea. I will be betraying the fishermen, if I receive this fellowship," Father Kochery told CWN. "For us, what is important is not the award or money but fighting forces that destroys marine resources and put in peril fishermen's lives," said the priest who had ventured to sea daily with fishermen for a decade in the 70s before he started campaigning for their rights. This is the web page http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=6339 -- James Ehlers Outdoors Magazine www.outdoorsmagazine.net 
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December 20th, 2003, 06:39 PM
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OT but makes for good streamside chit chat: Fisherman Priest Declines Pew Foundation Award
"Outdoors Magazine" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Fisherman Priest Declines Pew Foundation Award NEW DELHI (CWN) -- Redemptorist Father Thomas Kochery, hailed as a champion of India's 8 million traditional fishermen, on Wednesday turned down a $150,000 award from the Pew Charitable Foundation of Massachusetts saying the award sponsored by the Sun Oil Company is "blood money." Seems reasonable, not many priests are sun worshippers. TL MC
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December 20th, 2003, 07:45 PM
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OT but makes for good streamside chit chat: Fisherman Priest Declines Pew Foundation Award
"Outdoors Magazine" wrote in message ... **** snipped.... You really are a dumb-ass! Plonk Op
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December 21st, 2003, 10:24 PM
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OT but makes for good streamside chit chat: Fisherman Priest Declines Pew Foundation Award
Now OP, that is not the gentlemanly thing to say. His ass may or may not be
dumb. We have yet to see evidence of that and probably do not wish to. What you seem to be confusing is his ****-for-brains. That is what probably got you on the erroneous track that HE IS A DUMB-ASS. You just cannot go around calling him A DUMB-ASS. You must apologise straight away and henceforth refer to him as ****-FOR-BRAINS until you can discover for yourself that HE REALLY IS A DUMB-ASS. -- Wayne (always glad to help) To Fish is Human...To Release Divine! "Guyz--N-Flyz" wrote in message ink.net... "Outdoors Magazine" wrote in message ... **** snipped.... You really are a dumb-ass! Plonk Op
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December 23rd, 2003, 12:58 AM
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OT but makes for good streamside chit chat: Fisherman Priest Declines Pew Foundation Award
Merry Christmas.
-- James Ehlers Outdoors Magazine www.outdoorsmagazine.net "Guyz--N-Flyz" wrote in message ink.net... "Outdoors Magazine" wrote in message ... **** snipped.... You really are a dumb-ass! Plonk Op
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December 23rd, 2003, 12:59 AM
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OT but makes for good streamside chit chat: Fisherman Priest Declines Pew Foundation Award
Merry Christmas, Wayne.
-- James Ehlers Outdoors Magazine www.outdoorsmagazine.net "Wayne" wrote in message t... Now OP, that is not the gentlemanly thing to say. His ass may or may not be dumb. We have yet to see evidence of that and probably do not wish to. What you seem to be confusing is his ****-for-brains. That is what probably got you on the erroneous track that HE IS A DUMB-ASS. You just cannot go around calling him A DUMB-ASS. You must apologise straight away and henceforth refer to him as ****-FOR-BRAINS until you can discover for yourself that HE REALLY IS A DUMB-ASS. -- Wayne (always glad to help) To Fish is Human...To Release Divine! "Guyz--N-Flyz" wrote in message ink.net... "Outdoors Magazine" wrote in message ... **** snipped.... You really are a dumb-ass! Plonk Op
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