Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street, Calling for Food Justice. As Wall Street’s corrupt influence on the economy has grown, the corporate ownership of our food system has hurt the health and livelihood’s of some of our most vulnerable communities.
This Sunday, December 4th food justice activists and occupiers will be traveling from as far as Colorado, Iowa, Maine and Upstate New York to join together for the Occupy Wall Street FARMERS’ MARCH.Through a day of dialogue, musical performances, and a march, farmers and their urban allies working for food justice in their communities will form alliances to fight and expose corporate control of the food supply. Events throughout the day will call and inspire participants to fight against the corporate manipulation of the agriculture system. An industry that is responsible for using chemical toxins tied to soaring obesity rates, heart disease and diabetes and limiting access to affordable, wholesome food to the country’s poorest citizens. Speakers will include: Global Climate Campaign. Untitled. Occupons Durban et la COP-17 !
Il y a tout juste deux ans se tenait le sommet de « la dernière chance ».
Copenhague a donné Flopenhague (1). Depuis, un nouveau record d’émissions de gaz à effets de serre est battu quasiment chaque année : + 6 % en 2010 (2). Les niveaux d’émissions sont aujourd’hui plus hauts que le pire des scénarios publiés par les scientifiques il y a à peine 4 ans. Nous allons vers 3 à 4°C de réchauffement climatique global et la consommation d’énergie carbonée s’accroît. Les conséquences à travers le monde sont désastreuses (3) : sécheresses en Australie et en Afrique, inondations au Pakistan et en Thaïlande, feux de forêts en Russie, montée des eaux qui menacent les îles du Pacifique, changement des saisons des pluies dans les Andes ou en Asie du Sud-Est, etc.
Durban risque d’enterrer le protocole de Kyoto Si le sommet de Cancun avait entériné (6) le pseudo-accord de Copenhague, Durban risque d’enterrer le protocole de Kyoto (7). Des financements inexistants, ou très insuffisants ! Smoke Ceremony transcript – mostly. Uncle Kevin Buzzacott & Jamie Goldsmith UK: You need to work out your aims to save the mother earth, to make peace whatever the cost and make a list for people to see. Sooner or later we so called human beings have to break free then the circle will get bigger and more will join for at the moment it is like a pressure cooker.
I don’t know how long you’re going to stay here but you can never do enough to save yourself and to save the earth. At the moment I am dealing with BHP Billiton and it is like a nightmare. We need to look after the earth because it looks after us. A sacred fire is like a crucifix in a church….It connects people to their church and the fire connects all of us to our country which is our church. JG: There are a lot of scabs on the Kaurna country here; roads, cement, buildings and so on, but we still know what’s under the scabs.
The point in being here isn’t about putting up tents with permission of the council or having a fire with permission of the council.