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“A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto’s seeds, and has [...]

I watched two documentaries this weekend about the growing challenges of our fresh water supply. This is a very important topic, one that is hidden behind many of the squabbles going on in communities and between countries. Documentaries: For Love of Water and Blue Gold World Water Wars

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Huge raucous crowds converged outside bank employees’ houses on Sunday afternoon to demand banks stop lobbying against Wall Street reform. “Bank of America: bad for America!” shouted community leaders outside the house of Bank of America general counsel Gregory Baer. The Chicago-based grassroots organization National People’s Action, in coordination with the SEIU, bused more than 700 workers [...]

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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Just when you thought the EU could not go any further down the road towards authoritarian excess, it gets worse. The outcome – un véritable gouvernement économique – will put Britain and the eurozone on such separate courses that it will amount to separation in all but name. The sooner we get the nastiness of [...]

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By Jack Farchy At the Rand refinery in South Africa, the phone has not stopped ringing this week. Panicking German dealers and banks have been desperate to get their hands on krugerrands, the world’s most popular gold coin. “We have some extraordinary sales to German customers,” says Deborah Thomson, the Rand treasurer. The refinery, which usually sells [...]