Pesticide Usage versus Agroecological Approaches Part One
If you are unsure about GE food, consider this: the potential harm to human health caused by glyphosate (AKA Roundup®) has been clearly established. The ever growing use of...
Just Food Conference 2016
On Sunday, March 13th, the annual Just Food Conference will bring together more than 800 community organizers, CSA members, local food advocates, urban and rural farmers, and entrepreneurs for...
Indian Activists and Students Demand Equality and Justice for Dalits (former untouchables) after the Suicide of Dalit Ph. D. Student Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad India
Student protests have erupted throughout India in response to the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit (formerly called untouchable) student at the University of Hyderabad (India) and the...
The Second Chance Foundation is Raising Money for Flood Victims
The Second Chance Foundation is raising money for poor coastal families in India, South of Chennai, who lost their homes to the devastating floods of November-December 2015. Unlike the...
New Worker Protection Standards “A Step in the Right Direction” for U.S. Farmworker Advocates
2015 marked a successful year for farmworker advocates in their struggle against pesticide use and exposure. In September, activists finally succeeded in pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
India is Covering Up its Public Health Crisis with Claims to the Historical Responsibility of Developed Countries
The COP21 negotiations establishing an international framework agreement to mitigate climate change recently closed in Paris, and heads of state around the globe are heralding the finished agreement. ...
Indigenous Communities in South India Lost Everything to Floods. Please Donate to Emergency Fund!
Click HERE to donate! In just three days, a storm system hovering over Chennai, India dumped one-fifth of the regions annual rainfall. News reports have focused attention on the...
Reports of Dangers of Industrial Meat Industry Should Concern India
In case you missed it, the World Health Organization recently released a controversial report concluding that consumption of processed and red meats leads is linked to increased rates of...
The Blurred Lines of Religious Difference: Hindus and Muslims Eat Beef
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a wave of anti-Muslim violence spread across India over the issue of eating beef. Muslims have been attacked and murdered by Hindu...
Saying Goodbye to Nuclear Energy (and Bombs)
If we flew round the world from Hiroshima to Fukushima, we would pass over thousands of sites contaminated by radioactive material. Some are places we’ve all heard about, power...