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Barcelona introduces Spanish translation of the Food First book, Food Movements Unite
Food Movements Unite! and Producer-Consumer action networks
Food First book Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems has just come out in Spanish (Icaria Publishers). I traveled to Barcelona for the book launch of Movimientos Alimentarios Unidos!
Help Send a Message to Congress - Raise the minimum wage!
Tom Harkin and George Miller are re-introducing the Fair Minimum Wage Act today!
Three weeks after President Obama highlighted the need for a raise in the minimum wage in his State of the Union Address, Congress members Senator Tom Harkin and Representative George Miller introduced the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013. This proposal includes a raise in the regular minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 per hour over three years, and also a raise in the tipped minimum wage from $2.13 to 70% of the regular minimum wage.
Elikadura Burujabetza! Food Sovereignty in the Basque Country
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director of Food First
I gave the keynote speech at EHNE—the Basque Farmers Union—national gathering in Bilbao on the northwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula last Friday. EHNE is a member of Via Campesina and brings together over 3000 family farms from Euskadi—the Basque Country.
World Bank Ombudsman scrutinizes investment project in Aguán Valley, Honduras because of human rights abuses
International organizations welcome the World Bank Ombudsman´s initiative to scrutinize an investment project of the International Finance Corporation due to allegations of human rights violations of peasant communities in the Lower Aguán valley, Honduras, and demand immediate halt to the project. The statement (attached in Spanish and English) has been sent today to the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank Group and was signed by the following 17 organizations and networks:
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