Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our LivesBy Brie Mazurek The Center for Urban Education about Sustainable AgricultureFarmer David Little of Little Organic Farmgrows potatoes without irrigation in a dry part of California.This week, as the nation grapples with the worst drought in decades, the USDA added more than 218 counties to its list of natural disaster areas, bringing the total to 1,584 — more than half of all U.S. counties. Farmers in the Midwest and Great Plains have been the hardest hit, but the drought is a growing reality for farmers across the country, including California. While the secretary of agriculture won’t comment on the drought’s link to climate change, it’s at the forefront of everyone’s mind, and as global warming unfolds, knowledge of dryland agriculturewill become increasingly valuable.David Little of Little Organic Farm has had to adapt to water scarcity in California’s Marin and Sonoma counties, where most farmers and ranchers rely on their own reservoirs, wells, and springs, making them particularly vulnerable in years with light rainfall. Through a technique known as dry farming, Little’s potatoes and squash receive no irrigation, getting all of their water from the soil. Continue reading “permaculture.. Farming without water”
by WW4 More than 500 residents in the campesino community of Tumpa in Yungay province of Peru’s central Andean region of Áncash, began blocking roads leading to the local operations of the Mina California company Aug. 6, declaring an open-ended paro (civil strike) to demand a halt to the mine’s pollution of local waters.
The mine is located near Nevado Huascarán, Peru’s highest mountain, and the national park of the same name, which forms the headwaters of several of Peru’s major rivers. (Servindi, Aug. 6) Continue reading “Peru: The Battle for Pachamama”
Global anarchists return to Swiss birthplace of Anarchist International
by WW4. Anarchists from all over the world gathered Aug. 8-12 in the town of Saint-Imier in the Jura region of Switzerland to mark the 140th anniversary of a congress which saw the anarchists break with the workers’ movement dominated by Karl Marx. The International Anarchism Gathering called for public protests and strikes to oppose austerity measures imposed in response to the European debt crisis. “Capitalism goes from crisis to crisis, so this is an opportunity for us,” said Aristides Pedraza, one of the event organizers. Continue reading “1000’s of Anarchists in Celebration”
Climate Change Capitalism Destroys the Planet Earth
On Sunday, people from across Montana, and the larger area affected by coal export projects, will start converging in the state capitol of Helena. They’re coming for what will likely be the largest act of nonviolent direct action related to energy policy the Northern Rockies region has ever seen.
We’re calling it the Coal Export Action. By tapping into the type of nonviolent protests in other parts of the country this summer — such as the fights against mountaintop removal and fracking — our coalition of groups plans to challenge an energy project that threatens the health of communities across the Northwest: coal mine-for-export projects.
Los matones de la burguesía, la extrema derecha, sale, como siempre, en defensa de sus amos. Un ciberterrorista amenaza de muerte al dirigente sindical Sánchez Gordillo, amenazándolo con pegarle un tiro. E
English: Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, dirigente del Colectivo de Unidad de los Trabajadores – Bloque Andaluz de Izquierdas (CUT-BAI), Sindicato de Obreros del Campo (SOC) e Izquierda Unida (IU). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
l ministro, con toda seguridad, lo mandará identificar y detener…
El líder sindical andaluz y parlamentario de la CUT, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, ha denunciado esta mañana a través de su cuenta de twitter las amenazas de muerte que ha recibido por parte de algún ciberterrorista de extrema derecha, que, con todo lo que está pasando, ha salido raudo en defensa de los intereses de sus amos burgueses.
Britains role in supplying information to an American military “kill list” in Afghanistan is being subjected to legal challenge amid growing international concern over targeted strikes against suspected insurgents and drug traffickers.An Afghan man who lost five relatives in a missile strike started proceedings against the Serious Organised Crime Agency Soca and the Ministry of Defence demanding to know details of the UKs participation “in the compilation, review and execution of the list and what form it takes”.
gion of Switzerland to mark the 140th anniversary of a congress which saw the anarchists break with the workers’ movement dominated by Karl Marx. The International Anarchism Gathering called for public protests and strikes to oppose austerity measures imposed in response to the European debt crisis. “Capitalism goes from crisis to crisis, so this is an opportunity for us,” said Aristides Pedraza, one of the event organizers. Continue reading “1000’s of Anarchists in Celebration”
Serious Organised Crime Agency Soca and the Ministry of Defence demanding to know details of the UKs participation “in the compilation, review and execution of the list and what form it takes”.
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