Food and Agriculture

TPP: Out of the Shadows!

September 12, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Rally against the TPP in Washington, DC on Friday, September 20, 2013 at 12:00 noon at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative • 600 17th St NW, Washington, DC. Stop Fast Track Training Camp and Days of Action Sept. 21 and 22: Stop Fast Track Action Camp with Bill Moyer of the Backbone Campaign and Steph Cascadia of Rising Tide, where we’ll work together on strategy for direct action and developing ways to convey our message creatively. Sept. 23 and 24: Two days of creative actions to bring attention to the TPP using Washington, DC as our stage. Then the Trade Brigade that will be working Congress through the vote. Join whenever you can to take action for trade that puts people and the planet over profit. Schedule a few days when your group can come to DC to stop Fast Track and stop the TPP.

International Day Of Action In Solidarity With Honduran Indigenous Defenders

September 7, 2013 Staff, www.otherworldsarepossible.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, Honduras, Indigenous Rights

On September 12, three leaders of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) must appear in court to face charges by the Honduran government and a hydroelectric dam company. They are Berta Caceres, Tomás Gomez, and Aureliano Molina. The highly politicized case is aimed at criminalizing COPINH and breaking the strong Lenca indigenous resistance to illegal damming, logging, and mining in their territories. Beyond the plunder of their lands, forests, and waters, the physical, legal, and political attacks on COPINH members and other indigenous peoples have been increasing rapidly. Assassinations, kidnapping, machete slashing, arrests, and threats are weekly events in the communities which are resisting.

VIDEO: One Man Stops Fracking

September 2, 2013 You and I Films, www.vimeo.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Video

On 2nd September Rob an Anti-fracking activist climbs a loaded lorry exiting the Balcombe Cuadrilla site and d-locks himself to the vehicle blockading the road.

PA Public Health Assessment Finds Fracking Makes People Sick

September 1, 2013 Sandra Steingraber, PhD; Larysa Dyrszka, MD; Kathleen Nolan, MD, MSL, www.ecowatch.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Health Care

The early results from the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project study implicate air contamination as the likely cause of three-quarters of the associated illnesses so documented. In some cases, starkly elevated levels of fracking-related air pollutants were found in the air inside of people’s homes. This is an unacceptable problem: breathing is mandatory and, while a drinking water source might be replaced, air cannot. A minority of cases suffered from likely exposures to tainted water, but these low numbers are not reassuring. Many exposures related to natural gas extraction increase over time. First come airborne exposures, as seen in Washington County and around the country where drilling and fracking is taking place. In a small percentage of communities near drilling operations, water contamination also takes place immediately due to failure of the well casings. But, more often, water contamination is a delayed response.

Welfare Reform Insanity: Banning Convicted Drug Offenders From Food Stamps

August 31, 2013 Sheila Bapat, www.alternet.org Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drug Policy, Food and Agriculture, Poverty, Women's Rights

Well before the current, direct attack on federal funding of food stamps—also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—there have been systemic, state-imposed barriers to accessing food stamps that have been in place for nearly two decades. Several states require fingerprinting of recipients and reams of paperwork, or are stalled by outdated technology. The Los Angeles Times recently reported on the onerous barriers food stamp recipients face in California. But the ban barring drug convicts from accessing food stamps is one of the most problematic state-imposed barriers faced by poor people like Sutherland. Twelve states still ban convicted drug offenders from accessing SNAP benefits. A relic of welfare reform, the food stamp ban is an example of the political interplay between the drug war and the movement to reform welfare which in reality became a double indictment of the poor: People of financial means who made mistakes with drugs would not be rendered vulnerable to hunger for the rest of their lives.

Fukushima To Impact West Coast In Months

August 31, 2013 Staff, enenews.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Nuclear Energy

Fukushima radioactive plume being tracked toward U.S. West Coast [...] The radioactive plume from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster will reach U.S. shores within 3 years of the date of the incident, Australian researchers say. [...] “Observers on the West Coast of the United States will be able to see a measurable increase in radioactive material three years after the event,” researcher Erik van Sebille said in an ARC release Wednesday. “However, people on those coastlines should not be concerned as the concentration of radioactive material quickly drops below World Health Organization safety levels as soon as it leaves Japanese waters.”

Taking Direct Action To Make Dr. King’s Dream A Reality

August 28, 2013 Keith McHenry, http://www.foodnotbombs.net/ Organize! Food and Agriculture, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Police abuse, Wars and Militarism

Another travesty was the speech of Attorney General Holder who used the FBI to frame, arrest and brutally drive the Occupy Movement off America’s streets while he and Obama are bending over backwards to protect corporate power. How many bankers have been jailed compared to those of us participating in peaceful occupations? We are watching our civil liberties disappear as each day exposes another elaborate domestic surveillance operation. The type of COINTELPRO techniques used by the FBI and other agencies to disrupt and ultimately murder Martin Luther King.Jr because of his dream continue to be implemented by Holder’s FBI.

Be Wary – AFL-CIO Joins Effort To Stop The TPP

August 27, 2013 Staff, aflcio.org Organize! Corporatism, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Government, Health Care, Solidarity, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Corporations are trying to manipulate the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a free trade agreement being negotiated right now that would be bigger than NAFTA—to increase their power over the global economy, so they have a say in everything from your rights at work to the prices of your prescriptions and the safety of your child’s toys. Watch the video below to learn more and share it with your friends. Then send an email to trade representatives for all the countries involved to tell them to create a trade agreement that works for working families.

Churches Threatened With Arrest For Feeding The Homeless

August 27, 2013 Hugh Hollowell, www.s3.amazonaws.com Organize! Food and Agriculture, Police abuse, Poverty

This morning we showed up at Moore Square at 9:00 a.m., just like we have done virtually every Saturday and Sunday for the last six years. We provide, without cost or obligation, hot coffee and a breakfast sandwich to anyone who wants one. We keep this promise to our community in cooperation with five different large suburban churches that help us with manpower and funding. Today officers from Raleigh Police Department prevented us from doing our work, for the first time ever. An officer said, quite bluntly, that if we attempted to distribute food, we would be arrested.

VIDEO: Friendship Neighborhood Fair To End Gang Violence

August 26, 2013 Marlene Alvarado, www.vimeo.com Create! Commons, Community, Food and Agriculture, Video

The Friendship Neighborhood Fair held at Drake Park in Long Beach, CA. It is organized by a group of activist neighbors who want to help end gang violence. They also have created an urban farm. They cook the produce they grow and hand it out for free. They also clean the streets.

Walmart’s Latest Scheme To Replace Middle Class

August 24, 2013 Stacy Mitchell, www.alternet.org Educate! Finance and the Economy, Food and Agriculture, Worker Rights and Jobs

Worse, very little of this small increase in spending on American-made goods will actually result in new U.S. production and jobs. Most of the projected increase will simply be a byproduct of Walmart's continued takeover of the grocery industry. Most grocery products sold in the U.S. are produced here. As Walmart expands its share of U.S. grocery sales — it now captures 25 percent, up from 6 percent in 1998 — it will buy more U.S. foods. But this doesn't mean new jobs, because other grocers are losing market share and buying less. What it does mean is lower wages. As I reported earlier this year, Walmart's growing control of the grocery sector is pushing down wages throughout food production .

Berry Pickers vs. Guest Workers: Standoff In The Strawberry Fields

August 23, 2013 David Bacon, www./america.aljazeera.com Organize! Food and Agriculture, Worker Rights and Jobs

Over a tense two-week period in July, at the peak of the summer harvest season, almost 250 workers at the $6.1 million Sakuma Brothers strawberry and blueberry farm — one of the largest in Washington state — went on strike twice. Workers fought with the farm’s owners over wages, overtime pay, alleged racist treatment and conditions in their housing camp. They won concessions but lost on most of their monetary demands. With few resources left, they returned to the fields. Sakuma Brothers Farms could afford to play hardball because it had an ace in the hole: It had been certified to bring 160 new workers from Mexico under the restrictive H2A guest-worker program. And the lower wages mandated for guest workers under U.S. immigration law proved to be the limit not just for the H2A workers but also for all the other pickers at the company.

Global March Against Monsanto: Meet Me In St. Louis

August 23, 2013 Compiled Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Monsanto

On Saturday, October 12, 2013, an estimated 3.5 Million People will once again, take part, in the 2nd, Global Day of Action against Monsanto, in more than 600 cities, world wide! We invite you to join us, as we march on the Monsanto Global Headquarters in Saint Louis Missouri. This WILL BE the main event! We will be meeting at Stacy Park, at 9750, Old Bonhomme Road, Saint Louis Missouri, 63132. The Rally will begin at 1pm. We will then proceed to march, to the Olive Street Entrance, of the Monsanto, Global Headquarters. Save the Date, Saturday, October 12, 2013, and Meet me in Saint Louis!

Mountain Grown: Appalachia’s New Local Food Economy

August 23, 2013 Erin L. McCoy, www.truthout.org Create! Environment, Food and Agriculture

The shift points to just how interconnected this local community has become: consumers once again know where their food comes from, know who produced it, and are proud to support those producers. It’s pretty good proof that local, sustainable food in Appalachia isn’t just a passing trend. It’s both a return to tradition and a new model for economic and environmental viability. What's more, while southern Appalachia may be ahead of the curve in making this model work, it's by no means limited to these mountains. It's a way of doing business that's worth trying anyplace where a critical mass of farms and tables exist within a few hours drive from one another.

Nestlé Exploits British Columbia’s Water Laws To Bottle The Commons

August 19, 2013 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture

“Outside of the fact that they are draining the size of a small lake on an annual basis without any sort of accountability,” Muxlow adds, “this is a microcosm of a larger failure with the way B.C.’s water is managed.” Facing mounting environmental cuts and a government effort led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to privatize all of Canada’s drinking water, citizen advocacy group the Council of Canadians is leading a movement to protect the country’s freshwater sources. Arguing that water is part of a “shared commons,” they write, “water is a human right and as such, must be protected from privatization, pollution and bulk exports.”

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