1999 Economic Human Rights Bus Tour: Georgia
About the Tour
Across the United States dynamic citizen organizations are sounding the call for economic human rights. Despite the efforts to promote the right to a living wage, need for comprehensive and affordable health and childcare, and locally driven community development, the gap between the wealthy few and the many poor continues to widen at an alarming pace.
A Victory for Peru's Indigenous People
(CNN) -- Peru's Congress voted Wednesday to suspend indefinitely a controversial law that has created tension between President Alan Garcia's government and indigenous communities in the Amazon, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
The vote to suspend the Forestry and Wildlife Law and repeal another related law came days after clashes between indigenous citizens and national police left more than 30 dead and 50 wounded in northwest Peru.
Adjusting America
There is enough evidence on how policies of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have come to connote colonialism and a dominating world capitalist system for the Third World. The unregulated flow of global capital has placed the fate of developing economies at the mercy of Wall Street traders. However, nations of the South are not the only victims of this process. There is also a "South" in the North-right here in the United States, that is being harmed by domestic policies of the U.S.
Agricultura Alternativa Durante La Crisis Cubana
Dr. Peter M. Rosset
Co-Director, Food First
Posted: May 7, 2002
Alternative Nobel Prize Goes to Cuban Group Promoting the Organic Revolution
STOCKHOLM and OAKLAND -- The Grupo de Agricultura Organica (GAO), the Cuban
organic farming association, which has been at the forefront of the
country's transition from industrial to organic agriculture, was named as
winner of a major international prize--the Right Livelihood
Award--commonly known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize.'
Argentinean Campesinos Publish Their Own Newspaper
by Alex Perrotti
Small farmers in the region of Santiago del Estero, Argentina have begun publishing a newspaper giving voice to their struggle against the encroachment of large-scale soy agribusiness on their lands. The first printing circulated 4000 issues of “El Ashpulito” (Quechua for “Full of Earth”) and documents the abuses and issues facing the nearly 9000 families who make up the Campesino Movement of Santiago del Estero (MOCASE).
Beyond the Classroom—Students Study Urban Agriculture and Improve the Local Food System
By Natalia Margolis
At Richmond High School in Richmond, CA, students are participating in a new class called Urban Agriculture and Food Systems. This innovative curriculum combines public health, nutrition, local policy, food distribution, marketing, agriculture, and ecology. The classroom learning about food systems is combined with participatory research involving the students in changing their own low-income community.
Big Agriculture Derides the White House Garden
By Colin Murphy
Michelle Obama’s organic garden at the White House has ruffled the feathers of agri-businesses. Voicing concern that she failed to recognize the importance of conventional agriculture in meeting increasing demand for food, the agro-industry lobby, Mid-America CropLife Association (MACA), sent a letter of concern to the White House shortly after the garden’s debut. Despite this criticism, at least two members of Congress approve of the First Lady’s recent move.
