Conservation groups urge Canada to review a UN submission highlighting human rights and food security impacts of B.C.’s Site C dam. Continue reading UN submission highlights Site C Dam’s impacts on Indigenous rights, food security
Organizations from across Canada urge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take immediate action to halt construction of BC’s Site C dam. Continue reading Federal Government faces growing calls to halt the Site C dam
Environmental groups call on federal politicians to come together across party lines in support of environmental rights. Continue reading Federal environmental bill of rights tabled on eve of Human Rights Day
The Blackfeet Nation and members of Pearl Jam release a new video to build support for protecting the sacred Badger-Two Medicine region. Continue reading Blackfeet Demand an End to Drilling in Badger-Two Medicine
The final book in Maude Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis — and what we can do to prevent it. Continue reading Blue Future: Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever
With the worldwide explosion of the Occupy movement, and related Indignado protests in Europe, renewed attention has focused on the possibility of a new high water mark in the push for social change. Each of these four books approaches issues of social change from different perspectives, all drawing from a similarly rich vein of wisdom and experience. Continue reading The Agitator’s Library
The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
David E. Gumpert
White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green, 2009, 288 pages
The Raw Milk Revolution, by David E. Gumpert, would more accurately be entitled “Milk Wars.” Any attempt to sell raw milk creates a froth of such proportions that we must conclude that it is symptomatic of something bigger.
The war is all about politics and ideology – about food control and food beliefs. So when battle lines are outwardly drawn around issues of food safety and the right of citizens to choose the food they want, it takes Gumpert’s sharp journalistic skills to uncover what risks to profits and livelihoods could lie beneath….[Click here to read more!] Continue reading The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
To address global inequality, the authors acknowledge that they “grappled with the use of terms designating geopolitical regions and decided to use both conventional language reflective of existent mindsets, as well as visionary language that strives to free us from these mindsets.” Continue reading The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights
This is a video trailer for a book called NoLogo. The book discusses marketing and globalization. Continue reading NoLogo Book Trailer (No Logo by Naomi Klein)
