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Academic Repression - Who controls the research that gets funded and published?
Watch this three-minutes video clip by Miguel Altieri, agroecology professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
San Francisco March Against Monsanto
Food First executive director, Eric Holt-Giménez will speak at this event.
11 A.M. assembly. 12 noon begin march from Union Square, down Powell to Market, Market to Ferry Building Plaza at the foot of Market where speakers, including Eric Holt-Giménez will speak.
Marches are already organized in more than 100 U.S. Cities and in over 40 countries around the world.
Be Part of History: March on May 25, 2013
Marches are already organized in more than 100 U.S. Cities and in over 40 countries around the world.
Learn more about corporate control of our seeds - our food - our health.
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Boricuá : Agroecology and the return of family agriculture in Puerto Rico
Eric Holt-Giménez
May 15, 2013
Over a hundred years ago, my family lost their coffee farm in Puerto Rico when Hurricane San Ciriaco destroyed the crop and the bank refused an extension on our production loan. On the heels of the U.S. military occupation, it was a land grab (like the ones tearing up the continent today) and it eventually drove my young grandmother to immigrate to New York City. She was part of a large, painful agrarian transition that transformed Puerto Rico—an island of rich soil, abundant water and a 12-month growing season—into a food-dependent nation.
Despite Historic Conviction, Genocide Continues in Guatemala
By Leonor Hurtado, Food First
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On May 10th, the Guatemalan Court of Justice convicted the ex-dictator General Ríos Montt to 80 years in prison for the massacres of indigenous people during the 1980s [1]. Many Guatemalans hope that the judicial process against the criminals of the country's "dirty war" will continue [2].
But while the Guatemalan people celebrate the conviction, the processes of genocide initiated 30 years ago by Ríos Montt's massacres still continue by other means.
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- 01/12/2013 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
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