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No Blood for Exports

We’ve all heard the term “No Blood For Oil” – a popular protest slogan carried during the 2003 anti-Iraq war demonstrations. I’m afraid the next one could very well be “No Blood For Exports,” and carried in the streets of Washington ... ...full story at Biz Cult

from Biz Cult on Tue, Dec 23 2008

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15 Nov 07 visit The Blood of Yingzhou District (4/4)  »  YouTube videoThere are 75,000 children in China orphaned by AIDS (2004). In Yingzhou District, impoverished farmers sell their blood for 53 yuan (slightly less than $7) and some cake. The plasma is removed from the blood, and the remainder re-injected into the donors,...
07 Nov 07 visit Blood bank plea  »  Shanghai Daily THE Beijing Red Cross Blood Center yesterday appealed to the public to donate Rh-negative blood to fill blood stocks for the 2008 Olympic Games. Beijing plans to store 800 of the 200-ml units of Rh-negative blood for the Olympics, but so far the...
29 Sep 09 visit Lhasa: Emergency blood supply enough in National Day holiday  »  People's Daily &$ &$Tseten Lhamo, a college student from Lhasa, is preparing to donate blood. (Tibet Business Daily Photo)&$&$ To greet the National Day holiday, the Blood Center of the Tibet Autonomous Region launched activities to gather blood on the main streets...
01 Jun 08 visit Lesbian blood donors call for amendment in blood donation regulations  »  Shanghaiist The Sichuan earthquake caused such a large number of Chinese people to step out and donate blood that mobile blood donation buses around the nation had to stop accepting donations because more has been given than needed. Several lesbians were unhappy...
31 Jul 09 visit Li Yinhe: Not accepting blood donations from gay people is akin to fascism  »  Shanghaiist Renowned sexologist and sociologist Li Yinhe (李银河) writes in a recent blogpost on China's laws against gay blood donors. A group of lesbians in Beijing are now fighting for the right to donate blood: The rejection of gay blood donors is a grave pol...
17 Jun 08 visit Rare blood supply ensured for Beijing Olympics  »  People's Daily At president, nearly 70,000 Beijing residents have registered to make emergency blood donations and become regular volunteer blood donors. They will provide blood for possible health outbreaks during the Beijing Olympics, according to the B ...

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