May 23rd, 2012 | Currency, D.I.Y., banking, Bill Still, Canada, debt, debt-peonage, libertarian, money, money system
Victoria Grant is a 12-year-old Canadian. Her father and she discovered that the debt money system was what was wrong with the Canadian economy and decided to do something about it. She recites this from memory at the First Annual Public Banking Conference in Philadelphia, April 27-28, 2012.
May 20th, 2012
Mike Guebert, a local small scale integrated livestock farmer who sells raw milk from his farm direct to the public shares his perspective on the safety and benefits of raw unpasteurized milk. According to data from the Center For Disease Control, there are an estimated 9 million people in the U ...
May 19th, 2012
Human Rights Watch Women and girls who work on farms in the United States face serious risk of sexual abuse and harassment. Many are unauthorized immigrants and fear of deportation keeps them from reporting abuses. In the current debate over the Violence Against Women Act, the US Congress is ...
May 18th, 2012
Source: Langley Advance Dear Editor, I am concerned about food freedom, about a government holding onto archaic ideas, unwilling to have a conversation, do the studies (or hear them), and unwilling to allow its citizens (mature, reasonable adults) to decide for themselves. It is unaccep ...
May 18th, 2012
Source: Nation of Change By Ellen Brown The Social Security program ... represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute. -- President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. ...
May 12th, 2012
Source: Sanhati By Roma Today natural resources – land, forests, air, mineral and water – are under major attack from neo-liberalism, wherein a few are usurping the rights and access of a significant proportion of the disempowered. Unsustainable economic development and inequitable growt ...
May 11th, 2012
Source: Frugal Dad The global economy is a highly complex network of interactions, and often the work of many companies goes into a single product or service. Here are six giant companies you may not know about who are making billions off of your everyday purchases. ...
May 10th, 2012
Source: The Guardian In December, Japan's prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, declared that "a cold shutdown" had been achieved and that the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was now over. "Today, we have reached a great milestone", Noda told the Japanese people in a televised a ...
May 4th, 2012
Source: West Papua Media PRESS RELEASE FROM awasMIFEE (April 25, 2012): Announcing the publication of a new report into a major land grab in West Papua. “An Agribusiness Attack in West Papua: Unravelling the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate” is now online at: http://awasmifee ...
May 4th, 2012
Source: Food and Water Watch Tue, May 15, 2012, 4:30 PM - 9:00 PM Join us in Albany May 15th for a rally on the West Capitol Lawn at 4:30 p.m. and a concert at The Egg at 7:00 p.m.! AN ALL-STAR CONCERT EVENT FEATURING: Mark Ruffalo Melissa Leo Medeski, Martin & Wood Natalie Me ...
