Presentation given in Bremen, Germany, June 14-15, 2012 By Charles Benbrook, PhD, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 1. Increased herbicide use on GM RR soy compared with non-GM soy:*Use of glyphosate on GM…
In a study that prompted sharp criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller suffered tumors and multiple organ damage. The French government asked the…
Many communities have mobilized in opposition to prevailing mining models in Argentina this year. The use of road blocks to obstruct exportation of goods has been one popular tactic. However, these demonstrations have often been suppressed by police force. On…
The fight of Occupy Wall Street is the struggle of all movements in the world. Finance capital, that created the crisis in 2008, has increased its power instead of being disciplined. At present, world GDP is 64 trillion US dollars while the derivatives market reached…
On this international and national day of mobilization in support for workers at Lonmin plcs Marikana mine, member organisations from the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity express solidarity with the Marikana Solidarity Committee, the Lonmin plc…
We, the members and representative of 19 community organisations based in the greater Cape Town area; Condemn the massacre of the Lonmin mineworkers and the continued efforts by the state and the Lonmin bosses to smash the strike. These efforts…
In January 2011, the Board of Attac France decided that mobilization against shale gas, shale oil and fracking, and more broadly against the logic of extractivism, would be one of its five major priorities for the year. Attac France decided…
Jorge Parra smiled and laughed as he opened his mouth, no longer bound by thread, and bit into his first meal in 22 days. About anhour earlier, at 10:00pm on August 22nd, Mr. Parra signed an agreement with General Motors…
Foto:Diario NTR Zacatecas By Adazahira Chávez, desinformémonos.org Mining yields great dividends to the mine operators, but at great cost to Mexico in lives and the environment. In just two weeks 13 coal miners have died in the northern state of Coahuila.…
The majority of the dead in the 16 August massacre at Marikana appear to have been shot at close range or crushed by police vehicles. They were not caught in a fusillade of gunfire from police defending themselves, as the…
No event since the end of Apartheid sums up the shallowness of the transformation in this country like the Marikana massacre. What occurred will be debated for years. It is already clear the mineworkers will be blamed for being violent.…
On Wednesday 22 August, civil society organisations – faith-based, non-governmental and community-based organisations, social movements and trade unions – will initiate an independent civil society-led inquiry into the massacre of more than 34 mineworkers at Marikana. The launch will take place at a…