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  • AMERIQUE LATINE : In El Salvador, An Invasion of American Agriculture
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-25.htm
    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Boston Globe In El Salvador, An Invasion of American Agriculture by Derrick Z. Jackson
    When the US-backed government and military of El Salvador brutally repressed their people in the 1980-92 civil war that took 75,000 lives, Gregorio Rosa Chavez was one of those who pleaded to the outside world, ’’We don’t need bullets; we need beans."
    Today, he still pleads for the (…)

  • The Cannabis Man - The last word.
    17 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    According to the Cannabis Man this is it. We have promised all along that this is leading somewhere and we reckon that we’re just about ready to show you where.
    So, if you will indulge us for a few more lines then we can get to the nitty gritty of this issue and - hopefully - move on. By now you probably think you know a bit about this man (after all, if I mention his 13 years of work again I’ll probably hear you scream from here!) but he wants it known that he is distinctly working class (…)

  • Opportunity, Cubed, for World’s Organic Growers A sugar plantation in Brazil found dividends beyond
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Sunday, April 9, 2006 by the Los Angeles Times Opportunity, Cubed, for World’s Organic Growers A sugar plantation in Brazil found dividends beyond its dreams after making the switch. The reason? U.S. farmers can’t meet demand. http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0409-07.htm
    by Colin McMahon and Andrew Martin
    SERTAOZINHO, Brazil - Growing up on his family’s sugar plantation, Leontino Balbo slept like a dream. The hard work, fresh air and lullaby (…)

  • McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Friday, April 7, 2006 by Agence France Presse McDonald’s Is Super-Sizing Destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0407-09.htm
    The environment group Greenpeace launched a campaign against McDonald’s, accusing the US restaurant chain of abetting the destruction of the Brazilian rainforest by buying meat raised from Amazonian soya.
    Greenpeace protestors staged colourful but peaceful demonstrations at several McDonald’s (…)

  • SEEDS OF DEATH VS. SEEDS OF LIFE Vandana Shiva
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    , MARCH 2006 (IPS) - In this analysis, Shiva writes that these seeds kill biodiversity, farmers, and people’s freedom — for example, Monsanto’s Bt cotton, which has already pushed thousands of Indian farmers into debt, despair, and death. Bt cotton is based on what has been dubbed ’’Terminator Technology’’, which makes genetically engineered plants produce sterile seeds.
    High costs of cultivation and low returns from genetically modified seeds have trapped Indian peasants in considerable (…)

  • BBC and Channel 4 censorship of the Cannabis Man!
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    So where were we before Channel 4 and the BBC decided to rain on our parade? Well, we were having a little look at how it might actually be a good idea to try and take drugs out of the hands of dealers and protect citizens from crime and adulterated substances.
    Obviously this represents a concept that might be mistaken for joined up thinking so it’s unlikely that there will be a queue of politicians lining up to join us.
    However, before we get back to the straight forward sensible stuff (…)

  • GE Contamination in Spain: A Warning for Europe - Greenpeace
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    April 04, 2006
    Contact: Gina Sanchez Greenpeace International Communications - Office: +31207182051 Mobile No. +316 2700 0064
    Vienna, 4 April 2006—The spiralling uptake of Genetically Engineered (GE) crops in Spain is causing massive genetic contamination, threatens the livelihood of farmers and urgently needs to be suspended, says Greenpeace. In a new report: ’Impossible Coexistence’, environmentalists (1) show how GE crops in Spain - the only EU country that grows Genetically (…)

  • Cannabis is not about Drugs
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today is the day, as promised when we will take the time out to have a little look at the benefits that cannabis could bring to a society willing to embrace its possibilities.
    But first, and perhaps most importantly, it may be necessary to address one or two of the issues raised by previous posts under this banner.
    Many, many are supportive but others raise issues and debating points that we will not duck.
    We are not sure at which point the Cannabis Man’s views have ever expressed a (…)

  • Farm Workers Target McDonald’s, Suppliers Over Wages Farmers Workers Target Mac Donald
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by OneWorld.net
    by Abid Aslam
    WASHINGTON - Florida tomato pickers converged on McDonald’s Corp.’s flagship Chicago restaurant over the weekend to protest poor working conditions and wages they say have stagnated for 30 years.
    The farm hands, members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, want a penny-per-pound pay raise from their employers, growers based in and around Immokalee, Florida. And they want Oak Brook, Illinois-based McDonald’s to (…)

  • The Cannabis Man Fights On
    4 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    So what exactly is it about cannabis that frightens governments so much? Now isn’t that a question that great swathes of the world’s population would like an answer to? Let’s face it, many, many people turn to cannabis at one point or another in their lives. We all know that just about ever pop musician in the world has a relationship with this plant, that’s not mention at least one member of the Royal Family in Britain and people on probably every street in the nation not to mention in many (…)