The 2012 U.S. Farm Bill was marked up on April 26 by the Senate Agriculture Committee
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry issued their proposed draft of the 2012 Farm Bill on Friday, April 20. The Committee markup the bill with amendments and modifications on April 26.
Read the entire 2012 Farm Bill Committee Print.
Call the senators at the Capitol at (202)224-3121
Senate Ag Committee Members.
Check here for a complete congressional listing including phone numbers.
Support Honduran Peasants in their struggle for land and livelihood
April 17th, the International Day of Peasant Struggle, isn’t just about slogans and marches. Honduran peasants began massive land occupations on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 and are paying the price. Because of this Rafael Alegria and other leaders are under threat. We ask you to send protest letters to the Honduras government with copy la La Via Campesina.
please send them to the following addresses:
Ministra de Derechos Humanos, Lic. Ana Pineda, E-mail: i [dot] quintanilla [at] sjth [dot] gob [dot] hn, i [dot] quintanilla [at] hotmail [dot] com
Ask USDA to reject genetically modified corn that is resistant to spraying from 2-4-D Herbicide by Dow Chemical
The USDA is currently deciding whether to approve a type of corn that is genetically engineered to withstand 2,4-D, a potent herbicide that may be linked to major health problems including reproductive abnormalities, birth defects, and several forms of cancer.
WalMart, pay the minimum wage. It's the law.
Stand With Daniel Lopez: Tell Walmart to Stop Abusing Warehouse Workers.
Why he and his fellow workers need your support
Organizations - Please sign this letter - AFRICA MUST NOT USE BIOTECHNOLOGY IN FOOD PRODUCTION
We are asking organizations around the world to sign on to this letter, to tell Corporations to hands off our food and also to ask our governments to support ecological- agriculture.
Dear Friends,
Please send your endorsement to mariann [at] eraction [dot] org and annybassi [at] yahoo [dot] com on or before 30 January 2012.
Thank you.
Mariann Bassey
Food Sovereignty /Agrofuels Coordinator,
Friends of the Earth Africa
Environmental Rights Action (ERA)/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria,
214 Uselu-Lagos Road, P. O. Box 10577, Ugbowo, Benin City, Nigeria, Tel: +234-52-880619.
Cell: +234 703 449 5940 . Skype: annybassi
Website: www.eraction.org
Mobilise...Resist...Transform
Our Future is not a gift.
Our environment is our life ...defend it!
Demand safe food - Tell USDA what you think about Monsanto and Dow's latest genetically engineered crops
Agent Orange Herbicide Ingredient Would be Widely Used
URGENT ACTION: Extreme violence against Honduran peasants - Write to the Special Prosecutor for Human Rights in Honduras
FIAN International Urgent Action
07 October 2011
Support peasants who are being kicked off their land in Honduras by signing this letter
In the past year, over 40 peasants in the Lower Aguan region of Honduras have died because they are refusing to give up their land to giant plantations growing African palm oil to produce agrofuel. Peasants have been intimidated, injured, and even killed by private security forces employed by the plantations. The situation has further deteriorated with the arrival of 600-1,000 military troops, who received aid and training from the U.S. military. In June Food First staff member, Tanya Kerssen, participated in a negotiation on behalf of a group of these peasants at the point of a gun.
Immokalee Workers Tour wraps up with powerful Bay Area finale! Days Six and Seven of the Trader Joe's CA Truth Tour July 16-17, 2011
Sunday's action -- and indeed the Truth Tour -- wrapped up with a brief exchange between Lucas Benitez and a Trader Joe's store manager. At first, the manager made clear that he felt the protest was inconvenient. Lucas said he understood, but assured him there were greater inconveniences at stake, like doing one of the hardest, most dangerous, most vital jobs in the country and never making enough to provide a decent life for your family.
Ban routine preventive use of antibiotics in animals
Contact your senators and representatives and ask them to support this important bill before we run out of effective antibiotics to treat humans with life-threatening infections.
You might think that by now, with threats of antibiotic resistant infections in hospitals on the rise nationwide, that our Congressional leaders would do the right thing and pass this sensible bill. The agribusiness and pharmaceuticals lobbies are strong. Only if a majority of citizens tell our leaders we want a change will this bill, which has been introduced in Congress for the past four years, finally be passed. Someone you care about may die if we don't act to end this practice which places more value on profits than human lives.
