ATTACKING GREED AT ITS ROOTS
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A Critique of Hillary Clinton's speech about hunger, "Attacking Hunger at
its Roots"
A recent
speech delivered by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was widely
circulated, adding support to efforts in Congress -- and by highly paid
corporate lobbyists -- to pass legislation that slips GMO technologies
into bills with some merits, such as regional purchase of food aid and
increasing support for technical support for farmers in Africa. The
language in her speech, however, when looked at with a critical eye,
displayed the forces at work in the D.C. debate, as well as the influence
of the Gates Foundation AGRA program for a new Green Revolution in Africa.
What follows is a critique of Clinton's speech, from a food sovereignty
perspective shared by AMI's partners. READ More
REPORT ON AGRICULTURAL
MISSIONS 2009 STUDY SESSION
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March 9-12, 2009
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(Photo gallery under construction)
This year's Agricultural Missions study
session was on the theme: Food and Ecological Crisis: Rebuilding Food
Economies in Haiti and Where you Live. It took place in Papay, the Central
Plateau of Haiti March 9-13, 2009 at the Training Center of the Peasant
Movement of Papay (MPP). The training center is a campus capable of
receiving relatively large groups with adequate though basic facilities. MPP
is the largest peasant movement in Haiti comprising numerous associations,
cooperatives, and grassroots community groups. It is a member of the Via
Campesina movement and Chavannes Jean Baptiste, our host and director of MPP,
is on the International Coordinating Council of the Via Campesina
representing the Caribbean Region.
by Marta
Benavides, Agricultural Missions Board Vice-president
Executive Director
of the International Institute for the Cooperation Amongst People (IICP)
Last
year, the World Social Forum (WSF) issued a challenge to celebrate the WSF
by bringing it about on January 26, 2008 in each country instead of at one
location. After verifying that no one planned to bring it about in our
country, our movement Siglo XXIII- IICP organized the El Salvador Social
Forum, a great one day socio--cultural celebration on January19,
which brought together 300 national and international people and 48
different workshops about peace and justice and the environment. It was a
very celebratory day, with a very enlightening educational and cultural
opening, and closing. We issued a challenge for other groups, movements
etc. to carry out programs on the WSF day, January 26. Our movement
carried out three events in three different states and three other
movements did too.
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