Join in Urging the U.S. Administration to Provide Leadership at the Nov. World Food Summit in Rome
**Urge organizations you are involved in to sign on to this letter by contacting eleonorew [at] iatp [dot] org by Wednesday, November 11th.
**Personally send a letter to President Obama.
**forward this message to others who might take action.
Contact President Barak Obama at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Contact Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack's office at 202-720-3631.
Dear President Obama and Secretary Vilsack,
Send a message to President Obama: CropLife & Monsanto men have no place in Gov't
Obama's campaign promise
"We'll tell ConAgra that it's not the Dept. of Agribusiness. It's the Dept. of Agriculture. We're going to put the people's interests ahead of the special interests."
Despite President Obama's early promises that "lobbyists won't find a job in my White House," he just nominated two "Big Ag" industry insiders who come straight from the pesticide and biotech sectors to vital posts.
La Via Campesina carries out Global Day of Action against Monsanto
(Mexico, 16 October 2009) Today, International World Food Day, as declared by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, La Via Campesina is mobilizing globally along with allies in an overwhelming expression of outright rejection of Monsanto and Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), in the name of food sovereignty.
Why Honduras needs your help
Hondurans are risking violence to depose our coup regime, but we need international support to restore democracy
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 15 August 2009 10.00 BST
by Juan Almendares and Rafael Alegría
Criminal attack against the offices of Via Campesina in Honduras
Call for Solidarity with Via Campesina in Honduras
August 12, 2009
Via Campesina Call to mobilize for a Cool Planet – Copenhagen, December 2009
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is going off the rails!
Via Campesina: URGENT CALL TO U.S. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OVER COUP IN HONDURAS
The arrogant rejection of the negotiation efforts by OAS by the perpetrators of the Military Coup, has complicated the situation in Honduras.
URGENT CALL TO U.S. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
4th of July, 2009
Peaceful protesters in Peru blockading oil development killed by government police
PLEASE TAKE ACTION to support our Indigenous brothers and sisters in Peru who are literally fighting for their lives at this very moment. In protest of the Peruvian government’s attempts to change laws and the constitution to open up Peru’s Amazon to exploitation by the oil, gas, mining and agribusiness industries to meet its obligations under the Peru-US Free Trade Agreement, Indigenous Amazonians have been protesting non-violently for over 60 days.
Tell Congress not to force genetically engineered crops on other countries as a condition of receiving aid
Please contact your senator today and forward this by e-mail to friends.
Co-sponsors of this bill include Sen. Mark Begich (D, AK), Sen. Robert Casey (D, PA), Sen. Susan Collins (R, ME), Sen. Richard Durbin (D, ME), Sen. Thomas Harkin (D, IA), and Sen. John Kerry (D, MA). If you live in one of the districts served by these senators, it is important that they hear from you. Please cut and paste this information into a personal letter to your senator.
No to transgenic maize! No to genetically modified corn!
Red en Defensa del Maíz of Mexico invites you to join them in sending a strong message to:
--the Mexican government
--the Convention on Biological Diversity / Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and
--the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations / FAO.
