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Dispatch: Leaders of the “Food Sovereignty” Movement Meet in Mali
By Anna Lappé, gnn.tv
February 25

Activists from five continents stand up for the small farmer at the International Food Forum

I am sitting in the “media headquarters” – a squat concrete building in the middle of a dusty compound – at the first gathering of social movements around the world fighting for “food sovereignty.” I’m staying here with more than 500 other delegates from five continents and eighty countries about two hours outside of Bamako, Mali.

When I told people I was coming to this forum not many people in the States

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From www.cbc.ca - Northern First Nations are calling for a halt to further development in Alberta’s oilsands, saying the massive industrial growth is hurting their land, their water and their people.

Dehcho First Nations Grand Chief Herb Norwegian told a news conference in Fort McMurray Tuesday the effect of the massive development can be felt downstream along the Mackenzie River system.

“When our people go visit their fish nets or harvest their waterfowl they’re definitely seeing a problem with the water,” said Norwegian, who is meeting with native leaders from northern Alberta this week.

The health of the Mackenzie River system is paramount …

January 17, 2007 - Grassy Narrows community leaders declared a moratorium on all industrial activity within their traditional territory without community consent. The moratorium rebukes a Provincial plan to increase clear-cut logging and asserts that any development proposals must gain community consent and participation. (www.ran.org/)

From: Grassy Narrows Chief and Council, Environmental Committee, Blockaders, Trappers, Clan Mothers, Elders, Youth

To: Abitibi Consolidated Inc., Weyerhaeuser Corporation, Companies sourcing from the Grassy Narrows Traditional Territory, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Hon. David Ramsay, Ontario Minister of Natural Resources and Aboriginal Affairs, Prime Minister Steven Harper, Regional Director of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Hon. …

Greetings Black Mesa Supporters & all who care about our planet. Please support a “NO ACTION” decision in solidarity with indigenous Dineh and Hopi communities.

It is urgent that as many people as possible send in a letter right away to stop Peabody Coal’s Black Mesa Project (BMP)! A Sample is accessible below. Peabody’s plans call for more relocation, water depletion, and global warming. The deadline to make your comments be heard, Feb. 6, is swiftly approaching!! Click here to send in your letter electronically or print it out and mail it. We must use this window to voice …

By Saswat Pattanayak
Radical Notes

One year ago, on January 2, 2006, I was in Orissa covering the most barbaric and shameful epoch in the aftermath of Kalinga Nagar incidents. 12 tribals were murdered by the Orissa state police, because they were protesting against the illegal, and inhuman encroachment of their sweet little homes by a profit-mongering private industry giant. As many as 13 industrial plants had been declared to be set up in Kalinga Nagar itself, resulting in evacuation of thousands of indigenous people from their own lands, sans adequate compensations, relocation benefits, education or healthcare assurances, let alone …

MEXICO CITY, Dec 30 (Tierramérica) - Although they live near a gigantic water distribution system, the indigenous Mazahuas lack access to water and live in deep poverty. Since Dec. 11, when they shut off the valves of one of the system’s plants in protest, Mazahua women have kept up the vigil — and warn that it could turn radical.

“We prefer jail over continuing without water,” Beatriz Flores, a member of the “General Command of the Mazahua Women’s Army in Defence of Water”, told Tierramérica.

The group, despite its name, declares itself to be a peaceful movement. Its protest consists of maintaining …

New Left Review 9, May–June 2001
What is ‘the anti-globalization movement’? [1] I put the phrase in quote-marks because I immediately have two doubts about it. Is it really a movement? If it is a movement, is it anti-globalization? Let me start with the first issue. We can easily convince ourselves it is a movement by talking it into existence at a forum like this—I spend far too much time at them—acting as if we can see it, hold it in our hands. Of course, we have seen it—and we know it’s come back in Quebec, and on the US–Mexican border …