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Food riots have exploded into public consciousness as food prices have risen dramatically throughout the world in recent months. Read Food First’s analysis of this emerging crisis at www.foodfirst.org

New on YouTube! Food First Executive Director, Eric Holt-Giménez speaking to a UC Berkeley class on rural development—the green revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0m5sz26xw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyife558z8

1. Bakers March on Washington to Protest Rising Wheat Prices
2. Rising Food Prices, Rising Food Protests
3. The Cooperative Grocery of the East Bay is now open to shop the shelves
4. The Learning Farm: teaching street youths to grow food in Indonesia

1. Bakers March on Washington to Protest Rising Wheat Prices

1. Legal Mexican “guest workers” fired for striking against slave-like conditions in Amite, Louisiana
2. Whole Foods Market refuses to meet with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about the human rights violations in the Florida tomato fields that supply the company
3. South Africa’s Abalimi Bezekhaya ('Planters of the Home') Stimulates Urban Agriculture and Community in Cape Town

1. Legal Mexican “guest workers” fired for striking against slave-like conditions in Amite, Louisiana

1. Join together with organizations and individuals calling for a U.S. moratorium on biofuels
2. Plant a Row for the Hungry—Providing local food to food banks
3. Fuel at the Farm Gate – New tools for local fuel production
New at www.foodfirst.org
Thousands of People Protest NAFTA and defend Food Sovereignty in Mexico

1. Join together with organizations and individuals calling for a U.S. moratorium on biofuels

1. Tax Dollars Fueling Food Prices: Your Rebate has already been spent!
2. Innovations in Backyard gardening
3. Walking Out on the Hungry?
Biotech industry withdraws from international agriculture assessment
4. Michael Pollan’s Advice on Eating Healthy
New at www.foodfirst.org Presidential candidates continue to promote agrofuels as food prices rise

1. Tax Dollars Fueling Food Prices: Your Rebate has already been spent!

If you are a typical family of four, your food bill likely increased by about $2,400 last year. Why?

1. YOUR URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED—on behalf of Brazilian landless in their opposition to Syngenta’s illegal experimental genetic engineering site
2. The ban on genetically modified corn has been extended in France
3. Africa takes a stand against Europe’s unequal economic partnership agreements (EPAs)

1. Urgent Action--on behalf of Brazilian landless in their opposition to Syngenta’s illegal experimental genetic engineering site

This urgent appeal is at the request of Terra de Direitos, a Via Campesina member organization.

1. International Day of Action for Food Sovereignty
2.Working for Food Sovereignty—Kenyans Teach Fish Pond Aquiculture
3. A Bay Area Cooperative Grocery (CoG) now open for membership

1. International Day of Action for Food Sovereignty-January 26, 2007

Make your own sign, organize your own protest—join with Via Campesina and other organizations worldwide in demanding food sovereignty and an end to the corporate control of our food system by global agribusiness.

1. Meetings on Climate Change, Hunger, Rural Development and Agroecological Alternatives to the Green Revolution held in Mali, Africa November 26th – December 2nd 2007
2. One Piece of Building Healthy Communities in West Oakland
3. Hungry Planet, hungry Americans, and hungry Africans—What can be done to obtain food sovereignty?

1. Meetings on Climate Change, Hunger, Rural Development and Agroecological Alternatives to the Green Revolution held in Mali, Africa November 26th – December 2nd 2007

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1. Farmworkers in Southern California Need Help
2. TESCO—Negotiate, Don’t Hesitate
3. Food Security in a Time of Low Wages and High Inflation

New at www.foodfirst.org