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Defending the Commons
Claiming and Protecting Water
Guaranteed Access to Healthcare
Community Control of Knowledge
Gift Economies
Solidarity Economies
Indigenous Territory & Resource Rights
Worker Ownership
Agrarian Reform
Environmental Protection and Zero Waste
Food Sovereignty
Transforming the Food Supply Chain
Biopiracy in the age of climate change and food shortages
While some groups have joined together to stop the patenting of indigenous traits they have cultivated for centuries it is hard as corporations have the economic and political upper hand and have warped patent laws in their favor.we must be ever mindful and vigilant of those seeking to cash in on nature by claiming false ownership. Such ownership of natural properties is illegal and unethical and sets the stage for further environmental degradation, the destruction of a natural way of life and sustainable agriculture, and the continued enslavement of farmers to multinational corporations.
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Biopiracy, GM Seeds and Rural India
Peru's patent win strikes blow against biopiracy
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PesticideAction Network
Urge Brown to reverse the methyl iodide decision
In an 11th-hour move, Governor Schwarzenegger's Department of Pesticide Regulation has approved methyl iodide for use in strawberry fields. This chemical is a potent carcinogen and neurotoxin.
The decision flies in the face of overwhelming public and scientific opposition. Prior to the decision, the DPR saw its largest public comment period ever, with 53,000 comments, most of them urging the state to ban the pesticide. But in the end, lobbying and media campaign by Arysta LifeScience -- the company that manufactures methyl iodide -- persuaded the DPR to put corporate interests ahead of public health.
The toxic five: Why are they still in our food? - Inspirational interview with Dr Shiv Chopra
In 1998 and 1999, former Health Canada scientist, Dr Shiv Chopra, along with two co-workers, Drs. Margaret Haydon and Gerard Lambert, testified to the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry that they were pressured by senior supervisors to approve drugs of questionable safety, including the genetically engineered cattle drug, Bovine Growth Hormone (rBST) – then produced by Monsanto and Eli Lilly.
In return for their whistleblowing, the scientists were fired from their government positions.
One Year After a Life-Changing Adventure: Long Way Round
In "Long Way Round," Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman travel 20,000 miles through 13 countries -- riding from London through Eastern Europe and Russia, then flying to Alaska and continuing through Canada and the U.S. to end in New York City.
Watch "Long Way Round" on Current TV, Tuesdays at 9/8c.
Harvested organs and body parts from prisoners and orphanages for sale in China
The Psychiatric Effects of a Nuclear Attack
Anti-American Sentiment is a manufactured phenomina to cloak New World Order aggression
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