STOP THE BU BIOTERRORISM LAB

 Links

  • Go to the website of the Council for Responsible Genetics, one of our partners in opposition to the bioterrorism laboratory, for more information and links to other resources: www.gene-watch.org/bubiodefense

  • Go to the website of BUGBLOC, another partner in opposition to the bioterrorism laboratory: www.bugbloc.org

  • The Sunshine Project is an international non-profit that works against the hostile use of biotechnology and to strengthen the global consensus against biowarfare:
    www.sunshine-project.org.

  • The MIT Security Studies Program has a website, Level 4, Biosafety Laboratories: Public Information and Risk Analysis, whose purpose is to educate the public about the new BSL4 labs. The site includes information about BU’s proposed bioterrorism lab. http://web.mit.edu/ssp/twg/level4/

  • Go to the website of Boston Mobilization, another partner in opposition to the bioterrorism lab: http://www.bostonmobilization.org/

  • SAMPAN, New England's only Chinese-English newspaper, has done much reporting on the lab.  You can find the articles at
    http://www.aaca-boston.org/SampanWeb/ehtml/2003/1205/bioinfo.html

  • The article, Proposed U.S. Biological Research Could Challenge Treaty Restrictions, Experts Charge, from the June 30, 2004, issue of Global Security Newswire.  “Offering a controversial justification, the Bush administration is planning to perform certain biological defense activities that some arms control experts say could violate the Biological Weapons Convention and potentially render its restrictions meaningless”  http://tinyurl.com/yqxe6

  • The article, Bioterror Brain Drain, in the October 2003 issue of the American Prospect, discusses how the Bush administration's bioterrorism agenda is distorting public health research in the country. It discusses the type of research that may get done in the bioterrorism lab, why the lab will not be working on finding cures for diseases such as tuberculosis, and the economics of the research. http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/9/goozner-m.html.

  • The article, The Next Worst Thing, in the March/April 2004 issue of Mother Jones, discusses whether the federal government's expansion of biodefense research is paving the way for the bioweapons of the future.
    http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2004/03/02_400.html

  • The article, The devil by the Tail or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Weaponized Anthrax, the Last Thing the World Needs is a Biological Arms Race, but Somebody Forgot to Tell Boston University, in the Weekly Dig. Although the article was written in summer 2003 before NIAID announced that it would fund BU to build a bioterrorism lab, much of the information remains timely.
    www.weeklydig.com/dig/content/3838.aspx
     

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