Landgrab for Food Security - Happening in your name?

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Are you aware of that? Since it’s not so big in the news…

Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies. … read more

When the US went to war in Iraq in 2002 there was a movement that formed under the title ‘Not in our Name‘. A lot of artists and activists performed the declaration. This landgrab happening now is continuing colonialism to secure (food for) systems that continue to exploit and destroy. And we are part of these systems. And information is a crucial resource for a system to adapt and to change.

Spread the news and if you want to look for ways to take action (of any kind), browse through this info.

‘Not in our Name’…: Saul Williams reading “The Pledge of Resistance” live


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Sunday Links

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Some miscellaneous articles coughed up by my rss reader today:

Finally, Walt Handelsman sums it up:

Walt Handelsman - Summer Blues

Picture by newsday.com / Walt Handelsman


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