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Food Coops and GMOs

in: Food, GE, GMO Food, Nov-Dec-2012-Vol22-No5, GMO/GE

by Lucy Sharratt

The proliferation of genetically engineered (also called genetically modified or GM) ingredients is an extremely complex challenge that’s set to frustrate and test any food co-op, but the co-op model itself is uniquely placed to face this challenge head-on and make sense of it for customer-members and the community at large. In fact, food co-ops in Canada are charting a path through an industrialized food system riddled with GM foods.
Defend the Coast Rally in Victoria

in: Northern Gateway Pipeline; Enbridge, Nov-Dec-2012-Vol22-No5, Oil, Pipelines

by Susan MacVittie
Photo Credit: Fireweed

When First Nations, dressed in regalia and beating drums and singing, slowly paraded through the crowd that had gathered in front of the Provincial Legislature in Victoria for Monday’s Defend Our Coast rally, I knew it was going to be an empowering day.
What Obama Did

in: Obama

As an environmental news org we have noticed the EPA slowly return to life, regulations begin to be enforced, and the insitution of small changes which undoubtedly make big differences in people's lives near the plants and factories which pollute. Here's a smart summary from the Rachel Maddow show of all the other things Obama accomplished, and which hardly ever get noticed in our disappointment that he didn't do more. Well worth watching while we consider the potential of politics to make a difference.
The Dogs of War are Barking

in: Oil, War

An important post from Tom Dispatch this day, analyzing the entire bucket of intellectual American slop that is the pending war with Iran:
Support Radio Ads against the Canada-China FIPA

in: Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA/FIPA)

I am very impressed with the quality of organizing around this leadnow campaign against the Canada-China FIPA and I urge you, if you can, to help out by contributing to the radio ads. It seems extremely practical to me, and I am going to make my donation immediately.

Delores Broten, editor, Watershed Sentinel.

The message from Leadnow follows:
Dave Coles, Head of the CEP, in a Solidarity Speech about Job-Killing Pipelines, Defend Our Coast

in: Enbridge
Canada-China FIPA - You'll Be Your Parents' Age By the Time It's Done!

in: Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA/FIPA)
FIPA and Canadian Democracy -- Gus Van Harten Expert Opinion

in:

Here is an excellent piece from the Tyee -- a letter to the Prime Minister from Gus Van Harten, an international trade expert and Osgoode hall professor about the deep concerns he has around the FIPA China-Canada trade deal and why it is an unprecedented move. Read it now -- it will be too late by November 1st to do anything for 31 years!
What You Can Do About Canada-China Trade Agreement (FIPA)

in: Harper

The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPA), is less than two weeks from automatically becoming law.
6th Annual Keepers of the Water Conference Videos

in: First Nations, Water

The 6th Conference Of The Keepers Of The Water was held Sept 26-29th, 2012 in Fort Nelson, BC.

To watch a video on the proceedings click HERE

Hosted and organized by the Fort Nelson First Nation, The Keepers of the Water is comprised of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples;

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