As part of New York’s May Day activities, NY Reclaim the Streets planned a guerrilla gardening [a] action at the heart of the city, in Wall Street. Unfortunately massive police presence and many ridiculous arrests, (for cycling or wearing masks,) made this impossible. The black bloc, (similarly dressed anarchists in black), were especially singled out.[b] …
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Seed Issues
from – https://www.primalseeds.org/seedissues.htm Seed Issues By Primal Seeds There are rows of different food products available in the supermarkets, but the variety on offer is an illusion. The essential foodstuffs that make up all of these products are derived from fewer and fewer sources. The number of differing crop varieties and animal breeds used in …
Primal Seeds
Seed Issues Farming has become monoculture. Everywhere the same uniform and standardised seeds are sown. Most of the worlds once diverse crop varieties have been lost forever. go> Corporate Control Supermarket needs demand an industrial agriculture that destroys nature and makes unhealthy food. Now seed production is being taken over by chemical corporations. go> Guerrilla …
Alternatives – InterNICHE
Alternatives Video A look at alternatives in education. Downloadable, full of things to see, it’s so captivating it will haunt you at night. You’ve been warned! Book From Guinea Pig to computer Mouse, a comprehensive reference guide to nearly 400 alternatives. Details each product’s practical application, specifications and source. …
Conscientious Objection
Intro Leaflet <is there a better word to use for this?> Testimonies (13 short essays) back
NYC Guerrilla Gardening
A victory in anti-biopiracy patent case The European Patent Office in Munich today upheld objections from the Green Group in the European Parliament to a patent granted in 1994 to the transnational W.R. Grace company and the US Department of Agriculture for a claimed invention of the fungicidal properties of the Indian Neem tree. The …
Amaranth – Amaranthus spp.
Description Amaranth was a sacred food of the Aztecs and in Asia, varieties of Amaranthus tricolor have been grown as a green vegetable since the beginning of recorded history. Grain amaranth plants can grow 3m tall and 1m wide and the towering red and gold seed heads form a striking backdrop to any garden. Leaf …
Kew gardens may commit biopiracy
The Millenium Seed Bank is a cover for Wellcome Pharmaceutical Corporation who are trying to gain access to indigenous medicinal, edible and heat resistant plant varieties, according to the Kenyan scientists The Royal Botanical Gardens Kew scientists claim that the purpose of the seed bank is the preservation of endangered species, but the Kenyans point …
The massacre of Apple Lincoln
By Pat Mooney A tyranny of sameness is sweeping the earth. Why? Because the chemical companies have discovered gold in genes. E-mail this article Bookmark this page Printer-friendly version Join us on our discussion groups, to leave your reactions, comments and questions. Lincoln was assassinated. So were Washington and Jefferson. In fact all …
victory for french farmers
An embarrassed French state have been forced into a delaying the verdict until September in the trial of Jos? Bov? and nine other French farmers. The defendants are charged with causing ?70,000 damage after they drove a tractor into a Macdonalds that was under construction in the town of Millau last August. Meanwhile Macdonalds have …