Bernie Sanders: I Won’t Give the TPP Credibility…

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Published on Jun 5, 2015

Thom Hartmann talks with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who talks about the secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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Africa 2015 – Migration Inside and Outside Africa

World Economic Forum

Published on Jun 5, 2015

http://www.weforum.org/

Africa is home to over 3,000 distinct ethnic groups and 2,000 languages. How can the benefits of this rich diversity be sustained in the face of growing intolerance, violence and loss of life?

Dimensions to be addressed:
– Upholding respect for human rights
– Integrating skills and labour demand
– Managing migration schemes

•Ann Bernstein, Executive Director, Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE), South Africa.
•Erik Charas, Founder and Managing Director, Charas, Mozambique; Young Global Leader.
•Khalid Koser, Executive Director, Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), Switzerland; Global Agenda Council on Migration.
•Jeff Radebe, Minister in the Presidency of South Africa.

Moderated by
•Michael Hanna, Senior Correspondent, Al Jazeera English, Qatar.

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Activists call on G7 summit to be more than hot air

euronews (in English)

Published on Jun 5, 2015

Anti-poverty campaigners gathered in Munich on Friday, holding balloons depicting the world’s most powerful leaders and calling on a G7 summit due Sunday in the region to yield more than just hot air.

“Over 30,000 activists have been rallying in the Bavarian capital since Thursday”:http://www.euronews.com/2015/06/04/ac…, urging leaders to take real action on the world’s most pressing issues – from poverty to climate change and the wars in Ukr…
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2 years after Snowden, new leaks show more govt spying, surveillance

RT America

Published on Jun 5, 2015

The impact of Edward Snowden’s leaking of confidential information on government spying has continued since their initial leaks two years ago, as more information has been coming forward about how the US government attempting to muscle its way into more surveillance projects. Ameera David has more details.

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“Earth Democracy: Living as Earth Community” with Vandana Shiva, PhD

Naropa University

Published on Jan 7, 2015

Naropa University’s Radical Compassion Symposium Presents Vandana Shiva, PhD. “Earth Democracy: Living as Earth Community” by Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned Indian environmental and anti-globalization activist who received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993. She is the author of more than twenty books, including Making Peace with the Earth; Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace; and Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. More at www.naropa.edu.

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Making Peace with the Earth: Message for Mother Earth Day

Vandana Shiva

Published on Apr 17, 2015

We are at war with the Earth through Industrial Agriculture. Industrial Agriculture accounts for the largest share of destruction of biodiversity, soil, water, and climate stability, through the use of toxics and chemical-reliant GMOs.

Ecological agriculture based on Biodiversity can be the biggest contributor to Making Peace with the Earth- by rejuvenating the biodiversity that brings us nutrition, health and taste, by pulling out the excess carbon from the atmosphere where it does not belong, and putting it in the soil, where it increases soil fertility, conserves water, and contributes to mitigation and adaptation to climate change.

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A Billion Go Hungry Because of GMO Farming: Vandana Shiva

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Published on Apr 4, 2013

A Billion Go Hungry Because of GMO Farming: Vandana Shiva

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Vandana Shiva: Not Globalization, Localization

IntlForum

Published on Nov 25, 2014

Vandana Shiva was one of 45 leading scholars, authors and activists who convened at The Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City, on October 25-26, 2014, for the public presentation: “Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth.” Speakers discussed the profound impacts—environmental, economic and social—of runaway technological expansionism and cyber immersion; the tendency to see technology as the savior for all problems. For more info, see http://ifg.org/techno-utopia/program/ .

Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (South End Press, 2010) Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (South End Press, 2008), Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (South End Press, 2005),Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), and The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992).

Shiva addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the World Economic Forum in Melbourne , 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). In 2010, she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her commitment to social justice. The founder of Navdanya (“nine seeds”), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India.

Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India ’s leading physicists. She holds a master’s degree in the philosophy of science and a PhD in particle physics.

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We Are All Seeds – A New Year Message from Dr. Vandana Shiva for 2015

Seed Freedom

Published on Dec 28, 2014

As 2015 has been declared the Year of Soils, let us recognize that in the seed and the soil we can find answers to every one of the crisis we are facing.

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Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase

Geotherapy is an encyclopedia of ideas and tools for transforming the planet. The book is written by genuine earth stewards, most of who have field experience and a broad theoretical knowledge of the larger workings of the planet. Their experience spans many different climates, soils and cultures. This practical, get your hands-in-the soil manual is a good place to start to transform the world.
—John Todd, Todd Ecological Design, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA

From the Preface

That “carbon sequestration in soil being a win-win option” is the common thread that links all 34 chapters of the Geotherapy into a coherent and informative book.

… Geotherapy supports the truism that “If soils are not restored, crops will fail even if rains do not; hunger will perpetuate even with emphasis on biotechnology and genetically modified crops; civil strife and political instability will plague the developing world even with sermons on human rights and democratic ideals; and humanity will suffer even with great scientific strides. Political stability and global peace are threatened because of soil degradation, food insecurity, and desperateness. The time to act is now” (Lal, Science, 2008).
—Rattan Lal, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

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