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Study: Arctic methane emissions significantly increased since 2014

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Hillary Clinton: Climate Champion

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How the Red Cross, UN, and Foreign Governments Made Haiti More Vulnerable to Hurricane Matthew

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People’s Assemblies across the world – Seed Freedom

The urgency and importance of the Monsanto Tribunal/Peoples Assembly is even higher than when we started to plan the process.

Across the world the movements against Monsanto have grown.

Monsanto is the most visible part of the Poison Cartel that has been engaged in a century of ecocide and genocide. Aggressive mega-mergers of the grain and chemical cartels have now become the norm. The Monsanto and Bayer $66 billion merger is just the latest, following on the heels of both the Dow/Dupont and Syngenta /Chem-China mergers. The more powerful these corporations get the more harm they do and the lesser their liability and accountability.

The only reason GMOs were introduced into agriculture was to patent seed and collect royalties. Countries rightly excluded seed and plants from patentability. Monsanto is fighting governments from India to Argentina to impose its illegitimate claims to collecting royalties.

Movements around the world are demanding a ban on glyphosates/roundup. GMOS, Monsanto and the Poison Cartel cannot co-exist with democracy as is exemplified in the movements against the DARK Act (denial to Americans to the right to know) in the USA and the Investor State Dispute Agreements in new ‘free’ trade agreements such as TTIP and TTP.

Even as the failure of herbicide tolerant and BT crops are exposing genetic engineering to be a failed technology, new genetic engineering tools are being pushed in the form of gene drives and gene editing.

Never before has it been more critical for people to organize to stop the corporate take-over of our food and planet.

We invite you to organize a People’s assembly wherever you are to shape another future of our food and our planet.

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People’s Assemblies across the World

Seed Freedom

Published on Sep 24, 2016

Seed Freedom Call to Action 2016 — People’s Assemblies for The Future of Our Food & The Future of Our Planet – Everywhere

We invite you to organize a People’s assembly wherever you are to shape another future of our food and our planet. Learn more: http://seedfreedom.info/peoples-assem…

Main Campaign Page: http://seedfreedom.info/campaign/call…

Join Seed Freedom online:

Website – http://seedfreedom.info
Twitter – https://twitter.com/occupytheseed
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/savetheseed
Facebook Event — http://bit.ly/SF2-16Oct15
YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/user/occupythe…
Email: info [at] peoplesassembly [dot] net

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Ruchi Shroff, director Navdanya International, Scup, Rome, 3 oct 2016

Seed Freedom

Published on Oct 4, 2016

Language: English/Italian

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Pablo “Shooting in the Air” Russell, Blackfoot leader, Canada 5 oct. 2016

Seed Freedom

Published on Oct 7, 2016

Language: English

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Morocco’s Chouara tannery still operates as it did a thousand years ago

CCTV Africa

Published on Oct 7, 2016

Fez is the second-largest city in Morocco. UNESCO declared its medina – or marketplace — a world heritage site in 1981. Fez has many amazing tourist sites, but perhaps most impressive is the ancient skills of its inhabitants, which date back to medieval times. Follow our reporter Zhang Cheng as he explores the oldest leather tannery in the world

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Green: At What Price?

Journeyman Pictures

Published on Oct 7, 2016

In a drive towards reforestation, Uganda has committed 8000 hectares to sustainable logging. Although successfully regenerating the forest, the scheme threatens local communities who rely on the land.

For similar stories, see:
Dangerous ‘Rat-Hole’ Mining Destroying India’s Environment
https://youtu.be/jEcA6jnaRek
The Conflict At The Heart Of Sweden’s Environmental Debate
https://youtu.be/6POdf33u2-4
Uganda is Desperate to Protect its Gorilla Tourism Industry (2000)
https://youtu.be/5NSbo4zxrhc

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