permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@intrex.net>]

Prudence F
prudence_ferreira@yahoo.com
Mon Jan 21 15:33:22 EST 2008

This looks pretty important - forwarded on from a southern oregon 
permaculture list....

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: fionnula97201 <fionnula97201 at yahoo.com>
To: sprg at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 2:43:12 PM
Subject: [sprg] Seed Savers Exchange power grab - Kent Whealy screwed

Dear Folks:

There appears to have been a naked grab for power at Seed Savers
Exchange in Decorah, Iowa. The end aims are unknown but it may be that
Johnny's seeds are invovled and the aim may be to simply kill SSE or
worse - co-opt a huge bank of germplasm and patent it.

Below is the link to the open letter Kent Whealy send to members in
the SSE Yearbook. It also includes more information about the board
takeover that loks like Johnny's Seeds is behind or collusive with
Whealy's being unceremoniously  - possibly illegally - fired and run
off. This information is circulating on permaculture and bioregion
lists and needs to be disseminated as far and wide as possible.

Please forgive the cross-post but this is important and the more
people who know about it the quickest - the better.

Kathleen

Re: Power grab at Seed Savers Exchange -[Fwd: [permaculture] changes
at seed saver's exchange]
See this URL for a digitized photocopy of Kent's letter:
http://www.mustangm ods.com/ims/ u/1016/1377/ 217012.pdf