People Putting Food First #126

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ACTION ALERT!
If you could help end modern-day slavery in Florida's fields with an email, would you?
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/Governor_Crist_stand_against_slavery

A Legal Right to Food?
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2352

The Limits of Microcredit— A Bangladesh Case
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2351

Accelerating into disaster – when banks manage the food crisis.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2350

Agriculture does not need "business as usual."
by George Naylor, National Family Farm Coalition.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2347

Biotechnology and Biosafety: A Holistic View
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2345

President-elect Obama presented with urgent “Call to Action” to end food crisis.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2331

Change we can believe in! Tell President Obama and Congress no more corn for fuel.
http://www.change.org/foodfirst/actions/view/ask_obama_and_congress_for_...

Send a message to the White House giving your vision of change needed to improve access to food.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Common Security Clubs Shelter Communities from Fiscal Insecurity
By Frances Lambrick

The economic crisis has precipitated a wave of community action—from strikes in France to local food exchanges in groups across the U.S. A new mechanism to discuss the roots of our economic problems and their ecological counterparts has sprung up in the form of common security clubs. In the face of the dominant economic attitude of ‘each for his own’, this trend represents a deeply powerful switch in focus toward community over credit. Read more here.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2358

World Social Forum 2009—Beyond capitalism
By Leonor Hurtado and Frances Lambrick

The world economic crisis spells the death of globalization, and action is needed to protect the poor, said organizers of the World Social Forum as it wrapped up in Brazil on Sunday, February 1st. The forum's leaders hailed the strong participation at this year's gathering, which brought together 133,000 people from unions, religious associations, family organizations, ecologists and other progressive groups. Held at the same time as the World Economic Forum in Davos, the World Social Forum presents an alternative to address the global food and financial crises. The strong critical analysis of neo-liberalism delivered by previous World Social Forums has been proven. The role now is to revaluate neo-liberal policies—and opening the door to social democratic reform of economies and states. Read more.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2359

Fighting to Stay Afloat
by Frances Lambrick

Detroit residents are fighting to keep the water in their taps. The campaign has been gaining momentum over a decade, and is now seeking 30,000 signatures to transform Detroit’s water policy. Read more.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2360