Food and Agriculture

How Food With Palm Oil Is Wiping Out Orangutans And Enslaving Workers

December 3, 2013 Piper Hoffman, www.ecowatch.org Educate! Environment, Food and Agriculture, Human Rights

“Adam,” a poor 19-year-old Indonesian, found a job driving trucks for a palm oil plantation that paid $6 a day. The foreman picked him up for a three-week, two-thousand mile journey to the worksite in Borneo. Along the way the terms of employment changed: Adam wouldn’t be paid for two years, and in the meantime he would have to borrow money from the employer for his food and housing. Workers who ran away from the company were dragged back and beaten. Adam had become a slave laborer, as Businessweek’s Benjamin Skinner reports.

Monday: Unchain The Gaza Sea

December 1, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Egypt, Food and Agriculture, Israel, Palestine

We are sailing at 10 am in the morning, keep us safe and keep us in your prayers. We need you to raise Awareness about us, fishing for freedom, we are going to Implement the International law. Sumud and Justice for Fishermen Freedom Flotilla. Armed only with international law, Palestinian and international activists will join Gaza's fishermen on Monday 2nd December at 9am, to Peacefully challenge the Israeli sea blockade of Gaza. Sumud and Flotilla considers that for too long, the international community has stood by the while Israel, and now even Egypt, Prevents Gaza's fishermen from sailing in their own territorial seas, and using the wealth of their own waters. "The fishermen of Gaza are Unable to support Themselves or our economy, and we are fishing for freedom under the international law and struggling to end this illegal blockade of Gaza and # advice I United Nations to protect Fishermen and Palestinians in the Sumud and Justice now Flotilla "said one of the Organisers, Majed Abusalama.

Emergency Day of Action Dec 2nd – Solidarity for #Elsipogtog

December 1, 2013 Staff, www.lastrealindians.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Indigenous Rights

“We are not giving up despite these harsh weather conditions, sacrificing time with our families, our jobs, our homes, not only to protect land, water and people but to ensure a brighter future for the next 7 generations. We are asking for more support, through road blocks to be in solidarity. This is not just an Elsipogtog issue, this is a global issue and we need to raise awareness. Show us support any way possible, sending thank you’s, road blocks, banners, even dropping by, all and every type of support is appreciated.” ElsipogtogThe 3rd encampment in Mi’kmaq Territory, at HWY 11, which saw stand off’s between the Mi’kmaq peoples protecting the water and RCMP protecting corporate interests, is requesting widespread global support.

Masked RCMP Continue To Enforce Violation Of Treaties

November 30, 2013 Derrick, www.westcoastnativenews.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Indigenous Rights, Sovereignty

The RCMP turned out in full force again friday to protect SWN Resources corporate interests, stopping traffic on Highway 11 near Rexton due to the ongoing anti-shale gas protest. One person asked, Is this Canada? where cops protect the corporations that the government is literally paying to steal our resources and put the people who are standing up for their land…..native and non-native in jail. Is this the Canada our grandparents and great grandparents fought for? And why are the RCMP wearing masks when it’s illegal for demonstrators to do same? This man was arrested after standing on the side of the road with his sign that reads, Dear government Alward, you are allowing the children of Kent-North be used as laboratory rats. Have you no shame?

China Rejects 60,000 Tons Of US GMO Corn

November 29, 2013 Staff, www.usa.chinadaily.com.cn Resist! China, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto

China's quality watchdog said on Friday that China has recently rejected 60,000 tonnes of corn imports from the United States which contains unapproved transgenic content. Local authorities in the southern port city of Shenzhen found MIR162, a type of insect-resistant transgenic corn, among a batch of over 60,000 tonnes of corn imported from the United States, said Chen Xitong, spokesman for the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). MIR162 is not authorized by China's agricultural department, and the Shenzhen bureau returned the batch of imports according to China's regulations for genetically modified agricultural products, Chen said. According to the spokesman, the AQSIQ has notified US authorities of the event, hoping they will order the US corn exporters concerned to strengthen inspection and quarantine of corn exports to China in conformity with Chinese law and regulations.

Women Lead Way In Sustainable And Organic Agriculture

November 28, 2013 Eleanor J. Bader, www.truthout.org Create! Environment, Food and Agriculture

According to the US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, the number of women-operated farms more than doubled in the 25 years between 1982 and 2007. In fact, female farmers now make up the fastest-growing sector of the country's changing agricultural landscape and nearly 1 million women - approximately one-third of total domestic farmers - list farming as their primary occupation. The National Women in Agriculture Association calls it "breaking the grass ceiling." It's that and more. Some are choosing to farm as a way of maintaining continuity, tending land that has been in their families for decades. Others, however, are choosing farming for many different reasons, among them the desire to do something concrete, constructive and quickly gratifying; to tweak gender norms; or simply to have better control over their work lives. Many see their efforts as overtly political.

Obama, Pelosi And Reid Greeted By Anti-TPP Protesters In LA

November 28, 2013 Lauren Steiner, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Democracy, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Health Care, Internet Freedom, TPP, Video

On November 25th, Barack Obama came to Beverly Hills for a high dollar fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees at the Beverly Park homes of former basketball star Magic Johnson and billionaire media mogul Haim Saban. Tickets started at $2500 a person for the reception and $16,200 a person for the dinner. 250 protesters were there to greet Obama and tell him to flush the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Below is how the day and night went in pictures. The TPP is a global trade agreement being secretly negotiated by the US Trade Representative with 600 transnational corporations and industry trade groups, will affect nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives. If passed, it will undermine state, local and federal laws, including those governing food safety, environmental protection, internet freedom, worker rights, democratic sovereignty, healthcare and drug prices, and banking and finance regulation.

Students Mobilize Against Wendy’s For Farmworker’s Rights

November 26, 2013 Aaron Cantú, www.thenation.com Resist! Food and Agriculture, Worker Rights and Jobs

The tomato pickers of the farms in Florida have raised the torch of accountability for over a decade now, successfully challenging behemoth food conglomerates in a self-determining struggle for their own welfare. Where there were once rampant human rights abuses, economic exploitation and a culture of fear peddled by infectious ignorance, there is now the legally binding Fair Food Program, “an initiative consisting of a wage increase supported by…corporate purchasers of Florida tomatoes, and a human-rights-based Code of Conduct.” Designed by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers—a vanguard group representing the voices of Florida’s tomato pickers—the FFP establishes ongoing audits by an independent council to ensure that the farms supplying tomatoes to the FFP’s corporate signees are upholding these labor standards.

Homeless Under Attack Across The Nation

November 24, 2013 David Tereshchuk, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, Homelessness, Housing

My PBS movie is devoted not so much to the homeless themselves ... as to a spreading phenomenon that involves them (is aimed at them, to be blunt about it) in mid-sized American cities from Tampa to Seattle. A phenomenon that has so far generated insufficient media coverage nationally. For PBS's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (check local listings for airtimes) correspondent Lucky Severson and I investigate cities' growing enforcement of new, or moribund but newly-revived ordinances in the streets of their downtown districts, as they work to spruce up those districts in the interest of post-recession recovery. One inescapable result of the recession was the dramatic increase in homelessness since 2008 that has brought it to the current high level, with considerable concentration in those downtown areas. Local governments and businesses appear united in their desire to now sweep away the homeless -- whose lingering presence, they feel, detracts from the economic improvement they have begun to experience and want to encourage. Their chosen tactic has been to act -- with police enforcement if need be -- against charities and churches who are attempting to help the homeless on downtown streets. Especially, it seems, by offering them food.

Resisting GMOs: “Saving Seeds Is a Political Act”

November 24, 2013 Sarah Van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org Create! Environment, Food and Agriculture, GMOs

You know it is true that on the one hand, the concentration of power is more than ever before. But I think the awareness about the illegitimacy of this power is also more than ever before. If you take into account the number of movements, the number of protests taking place, and the number of people building alternatives, it’s huge. The first place where I get joy as well as the energy to continue is the positive work of seed saving, promoting a peaceful agriculture, working with farmers, and now increasingly working with non-farmers. In the course we are running on the farm right now, we have 55 young people—someone from a banking system, someone from a software firm, three filmmakers. No matter where in the world you are, people are realizing food is important. They are realizing food begins with seed, and everyone wants to learn.

Hawaii’s Big Island Bans Biotech Companies, GMO Crops

November 21, 2013 Staff, rt.com Create! Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

The governing council for Hawaii (or Big) Island Tuesday banned biotech companies from operating on the island while barring growth of genetically modified organisms. The Hawaii County Council approved Bill 113 by a vote of 6-3, which would mandate a possible 30 days in jail and up to a $1,000 fine for any violator of the ban on growing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Big Island, officially known as Hawaii Island, the largest and southernmost of the Hawaiian state. The bill also keeps out biotech giants like Monsanto, Dow and BASF, which have operations on other Hawaiian islands. One of them, Kauai, recently advanced its own legislation that increases regulation of biotech companies there. The large papaya industry, with around 200 farms on Big Island, would be exempt from the bill, which was supported over a competing bill that that would have subjected papayas to the rules. Big Island Mayor Billy Kenoi has 10 days to decide whether to approve the council’s bill. The council could override a veto by Kenoi with a vote from six members.

National Gathering On The New Economy Next Spring

November 20, 2013 Staff, , www.neweconomy.net Create! Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Poverty, Worker Rights and Jobs

The New Economy Coalition is delighted to invite you to a convening at Northeastern University in Boston, MA from June 6-8, 2014. In the spirit of our "Strategies for a New Economy" conference at Bard College in 2012, and our "reRoute: Building Youth and Student Power for a New Economy" convergence at New York University in 2013, we will be bringing together a diverse group of the New Economy’s most energetic thinkers, practitioners, and newcomers. We intend to share practices, tools, and stories; highlight achievements; and create an environment that propels existing work and powerful innovations forward. Everywhere we look, people are experimenting with new ways to create sustainable businesses, share knowledge and resources, and build resilient and democratic communities. From many people and places, a common vision for a New Economy is gaining the momentum and power to transform our broken system. A movement is emerging . . .

Coast Guard To Approve Barging Hazardous Fracking Waste On Rivers

November 15, 2013 Mike Ludwig, www.truth-out.org Resist! Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking

The Coast Guard is moving forward with a proposal that would allow barges to transport large amounts of hazardous and radioactive wastewater from fracking operations on America's major rivers. After studying the issue at the request of the fracking industry, the Coast Guard recently released proposed regulations for fracking wastewater barging. A public comment period on the proposal runs through November 29, 2013. Hydraulic fracturing, aka "fracking," is the controversial natural gas and oil extraction technique that produces millions of gallons of wastewater laced with toxic chemicals as well as radioactive materials that occur naturally deep underground. Wastewater from the Marcellus Shale, a heavily fracked formation under much of Pennsylvania, is known to contain elevated levels of radium and other radioactive elements. The fracking industry has been shipping the wastewater from fracking fields in the Marcellus region for disposal in Ohio, Texas and Louisiana by truck and rail. And now the industry wants to barge large quantities of wastewater on major rivers such as the Ohio and Mississippi.

The Smartest People in Seattle Politics

November 14, 2013 Dominic Holden, Cienna Madrid, Anna Minard, Ansel Herz, Jen Graves and Paul Constant, www.thestranger.com Create! Education, Food and Agriculture, Housing, Occupy, Police abuse, Women's Rights

Having political smarts isn’t about brokering power. True political geniuses are bringing policy to the table and suturing it to the flesh and bones of our city. They’re working, usually behind the curtain, to change conversations about what’s possible. Seattle is wealthy. It’s educated. And the voters are liberal. We’ve got everything it takes to become a national model for building mass transit, closing achievement gaps in schools, innovating environmental policy, and treating everyone equitably. But way too often, the same cast of self-satisfied schmucks hogs the limelight while settling for a career of unmemorable civic housekeeping. For instance, the Seattle City Council lacks a vision for a citywide light-rail system while instead making noisy fanfare over largely inconsequential tweaks to the city budget.

Monsanto Threatens Protesters in Argentina

November 13, 2013 Staff, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Environment, Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

Monsanto is threatening protesters in Argentina who are blockading construction of a Monsanto factory. Protesters in Argentina continue to block construction of what is planned to be the biggest Monsanto plant in Latin America. Monsanto has resorted to intimidation tactics to try and remove them. They have been camped at the construction site in Malvinas, Argentina for 56 days. As of today they have established five blockades, one at each entrance to the construction site. Monsanto recently mailed letters of intimidation to the protesters threatening them to lift the blockades or face 3 years in prison. The blockades were recently flooded by heavy rains and protesters lost almost everything they had built including most of their tents. The community rallied to restock and rebuild the camps. Despite floods and threats of imprisonment, they are still showing no signs of going home.

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