Source: The New Internationalist Uruguay has become the first country in the world to take the bold step to create a legal national market for marijuana. After 13 hours of passionate debate the country’s Broad […]
Upside Down World mourns the death of Benjamin Kohl, a long time writer on Bolivia. Source: Philly.com AS A TEMPLE University professor, Ben Kohl had this quaint idea that his students should think. Not just […]
As the government works on preparing “an attractive law that will entice investors”, Haitian popular organizations are mobilizing and forming networks to resist mining in their country. Already one-third of the north of Haiti is under research, exploration, or exploitation license to foreign companies.
Vanina Barboza Vaca from the Malvinas Assembly said that the town is a city “besieged” by fumigation, which has seen repeated spontaneous abortions, birth defects, cancer and respiratory diseases. “We know the evils of the model representing Monsanto. We also know that their promises are lies and so we refuse to allow them to install in our neighborhood 200 silos of transgenic seeds treated with agrotoxins,” warned Barboza Vaca.
(IPS) – The debate over the reform of Argentina’s seed law has pitted transnational corporations that make transgenic seeds against social and rural organisations and academics opposed to the expansion of monoculture in defence of […]
Source: NACLA Celebrating 2012’s best examples of broadcast journalism, the George Foster Peabody Awards attracted the likes of D.L. Hughley, Amy Poehler and Bryant Gumbel to the Waldorf-Astoria’s four-story grand ballroom in New York this […]
Armed thugs kidnap and threaten international human rights observers, in the midst of a community’s resistance and struggle against a mining project. “The terror we lived for two hours is the tragic everyday life in this town,” says kidnapped human rights observer.
Matones armados secuestran y amenazan a observadores internacionales de derechos humanos, en medio de una lucha de resistencia comunitaria contra proyecto de explotación minera Fuente: Honduras Laboral Orlane y Daniel, de nacionalidad francesa y suiza […]
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Nicolas Maduro has completed his first 100 days since being sworn in as president on April 18, a period marked by his new street government initiative, Latin American solidarity, and debate over spiked […]
Staunch opposition by the U.S. delegation and, to one extent or another, by European countries has blocked the approval this year of a draft multilateral declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, which is backed by the developing world.
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