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Millions Against Monsanto Campaign 2011

treewolf39
The Millions Against Monsanto campaign is forming 435 local chapters, one for each U.S. Congressional District. Our goal is for each chapter to reach 2300 supporters by World Food Day. October 16, 2011, will be a nationwide day of action, turning out 1,000,000 people against Monsanto and in support of our right to know - and choose - what's in our food. Sign and distribute the Millions Against Monsanto petition. Join your local chapter. http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/action.cfm.
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  • ifthatsalright
  • Conspiracy2Riot
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      Conspiracy2Riot  
    • I went to the rally in Salem, OR and it was depressingly small but it did have heart. And there seemed to be some folks there who appreciated the anarchist solution to Corporate power and attacks on 'private property', which is totally ripe for destruction. ( And not to be confused with 'personal property, like your homes).

      What I think a great number of activists think about anarchists is that 'they RUIN our peaceful demonstrations' with their window smashing and graffitti. But at least they strike a blow and cost those companies some cash and a little grief. Peaceful protestors cost them NADA. They don't care about marches and silly little signs. They care about profits. And when people disrupt commerce they cut into profits.

      I would ask those in the bright green movement to rethink what their line in the sand is and if they are not willing to USE what they perceive as violence, at least support those who will. Power concedes nothing without a demand and some stupid chanting and letter writing ain't gonna force nobody powerful's hand.

      As for me, I'm not interested in just tweaking a beyond flawed system. I want it dismantled and I want globalization stopped. I want local economies where people trade or purchase what they need and there is no hierarchy of elitists way off yonder collecting a percentage of our money to fund wars on other people for their resources.

      Capitalism is immoral and it's destroying the planet. Just getting rid of GMO's, which you wont', isn't going to 'save the world'. Getting rid of industrial civilization will at least let us begin to repair Mother Earth. But it's going to take some serious action. 1,000,000 likes on Facebook aint' gonna cut it.

    • 1 year ago
  • galwayman
  • Agent_Alpha
  • Angeliron
  • VoyagerFilms
  • Denica_Cassandra
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      Denica_Cassandra  
    • Also surfactants used in some agriculture = made by Oil Co's - who also owns parts of (among other industries) GE who made the reactors at Fukushima... ETC etc! :( Great video.

    • 1 year ago
  • deane
  • ptr23
  • Tsuki_Yo
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      Tsuki_Yo  
    • ^'d Signed. Thanks for posting this! Monsanto's evil knows no bounds- this is the company that paid Fox to run a false news story on the alleged safety of their bovine growth hormone. The Fox reporters discovered it was NOT safe, and refused to report the lie. Not only did Fox fire them, but they took it a step further and SUED the reporters for refusing to lie. This is the landmark case, decided by the Florida Supreme Court, that gave Fox the legal right to lie AND to force their employees to present the lies to the public!

      http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/07/31/364678/-Fox-News-wins-in-court

    • 1 year ago
  • Jake_Leonard
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      Jake_Leonard  
    • The passing of the 14th Amendment protected African Americans' rights; but it also granted corporations to be covered under the rights of an individual. If Republicans are pro-big-business, want to be labeled as individuals, and are pro-capital punishment, then I demand the death penalty for corporations such as Monsanto.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • Jake_Leonard:

      That is because a summary at the constitutional archive was taken out of context. The Citizen United ruling is the product of sloppy lawyering and some sad sacks of shit justices!
      Shameful and counter intuitive. I agree with your comment. We have to make corporations have honest skin in the game. Threat the CEOs like drug dealers and seize all assets.

    • 1 year ago
  • Jake_Leonard
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      Jake_Leonard  
    • treewolf39:

      Indeed; just dissolve the entire corporation. Imagine what sort of statement would be made if BP was obliterated after the spill last year; or Monsanto after the evidence came out regarding Agent Orange... One can only hope that someday justice knows no boundaries, and transcends to all levels of income.

    • 1 year ago
  • twinite
  • ghostofamerica
  • FLeggplant
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
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    • http://www.facebook.com/rallyfortherighttoknow2011

      Here is their page on Facebook with some pictures of the rally today. I couldn't make this one, but I did manage to tweet President Obama today to tell him to label GMOs and will continue to do that. I am also going to try to get a meeting with Dennis Kucinich in Washington Dc and ask for Congressional hearings on labelling GMOs and the scientific studies coming out regarding effects of GMOs on mammals and the environment. Rescinding "substantial equivalence" is what must be done in order to get labelling. As long as they can get away with attaching that BS phrase to this cr** they will always have an out. Proving they are not equivalent is then the strategy. I am hopeful that momentum is shifting and it is because of people speaking on this, getting out information and truth, and using the Internet for what it was meant for... that which our own media can't even do. We are now the media!

      http://gmoreport.blogspot.com/

    • 1 year ago
  • figgdimension
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      figgdimension  
    • JanforGore:

      Great site Jan and Thanks for all the thankless work you do its comforting to know there are good people like you fighting the good fight Thank you sweetheart your the best!:) You ever need anything you got a friend in OHIO!
      G.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • CalgarC
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • Already working on this with my state legislature. We can all be the change. I will also be there in October to demand consumer disclosure on labels and continuing to spread the word through my blog and through word of mouth. And to those who know nothing about GMOs but pretend that they do, it is people who respect REAL science who denounce this fake pseudo science for profit and monoculture at the expense of our biodiversity and health.

    • 1 year ago
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • dalistuff
  • Debra_
  • EmileZ
  • Debra_
  • NiceN
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      NiceN  
    • Debra_:

      Seriously, you wanted the same makers of Napalm to modify your food? Do you think they will make things extra spicy or a bit closer to death when consumed?

    • 1 year ago
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • Debra_
  • Debra_
  • NiceN
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
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      COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM  
    • Debra_:

      you don't know what you like crazy. anything you liked was suppressed so deep, so long ago, when you sublimated the idiotic scripts of your corporate employers. if you were capable of sanity, you would know that you are contagion of malevolent stupidity.

      but for the benefit of your employer, who surely audits you; granting that they are not comparably insane to you, a conservative person, while resisting unnecessary change, would know that not to change when necessary is suicide. They would know that "a stitch in time, saves nine". They would know that "an ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure". therefore, employer of the insane, your use of the word "conservative", is a perversion of it's essential definition. you are SO outed.

    • 1 year ago
  • Debra_
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      Debra_  
    • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM:

      You are a petty child who engages in personal insults instead of argument. I have been here on Current for a long time, Almost a year and a half, and I am a respected member of the community. You are nasty human being that showed up in the past month or so. You need to learn your place or nobody will respect you here on Current.

    • 1 year ago
  • Debra_
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      Debra_  
    • NiceN:

      Most American companies today produced war part in WWII. It's our countries legacy. It doesn't mean they can't engage in peaceful activities later.

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • Debra_:

      There is no confirmed evidence of it increasing production over any substantial length of time. In fact, it has been shown to contaminate surrounding fields and to contribute to super-weeds. The larger yields was a marketing tool to sell it in the first place; they never proved more yield. And besides all we want is a label stating its origin and if it is genetically modified. Let time be the test of safety, Its just a label.

    • 1 year ago
  • Debra_
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • Debra_:

      Roundup is a pesticide that is poisonous to humans as well. Not all so called pests are bad ; for instance bees. Pesticides are indiscriminate in what they kill. There is even a link to ADHD and ADD.

    • 1 year ago
  • Tsuki_Yo
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      Tsuki_Yo  
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    • Debra_:

      When you modify food it isn't really food anymore. The body sometimes responds to perfectly harmless foods with allergies and autoimmune disorders- we don't know the extent of possible reactions to modified foods. We have the right to know what we're ingesting.

    • 1 year ago
  • cicly
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • treewolf39:

      Wow, I have to give you credit. I can't tolerate these shills anymore. I bet she doesn't even know what an endocrine inhibitor is, how tests have shown RoundUp (which I bet she doesn't know is known as Glyphosate) is toxic to fish and the brains of fetuses and may also have androgenous effects (such as we have seen with fish in the Potomac,) how it causes "dead zones" which bring on hypoxy, how it actually depletes some soil nutrients and has actually done nothing to increase yield as promised while bringing on "superweeds" which of course will now bring on the Agent Orange pesticides to deal with them which I am sure she would also say are perfectly safe. But then, shills aren't particularly up on the facts are they?

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • JanforGore:

      People still have a hard time believing that the government would allow poison to be allowed in quantities that hurt them. Where I live DDT was used in the late 60s and early seventies and the people it was sprayed around all have had abnormal cancers and their children dying at young ages. Yet people in the cities have little knowledge of the science experiment forced upon the unsuspecting and suspecting public alike. Shill or not I would not want her child or friends child to be exposed. Treewolfs experiments in Radical LOVE!

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • hnhm15
  • KB723
  • EmileZ
  • EmileZ
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      EmileZ [removed]  
    • EmileZ:

      I sent it with this addition....

      Listen, I absolutely agree with the above text and furthermore, if my food is labeled "organic" it darn well not be genetically modified!!!

      There is NO GOOD REASON that anyone should have to eat this stuff. We don't need it. Nobody needs it, not even the monopolists who are trying to corner the market on EVERYTHING!!!!

      For Goodness Sake!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • EmileZ:

      National Organic Program

      In the United States, the National Organic Program (NOP) is the federal regulatory framework governing organic food. It was made law in October 2002,[citation needed] and is administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The Organic Food Production Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C.A. § 6501-22) required that the USDA develop national standards for organic products.[1] The regulations (7 C.F.R. Part 205) are enforced by the USDA through the National Organic Program under this act.
      It covers in detail all aspects of food production, processing, delivery and retail sale. Under the NOP, farmers and food processors who wish to use the word "organic" in reference to their businesses and products, must be certified organic. Producers with annual sales not exceeding $5,000 US are exempted[2] and do not require certification (however, they must still follow NOP standards, including keeping records and submitting to a production audit if requested, and cannot use the term certified organic). A USDA Organic seal identifies products with at least 95% organic ingredients[3].
      There are currently 56 U.S. domestic certification agencies accredited by the USDA, including Organic Crop Improvement Association, CCOF, Oregon Tilth, Quality Assurance International (QAI), and Indiana Certified Organic. There are also 41 accredited foreign agencies that offer organic certification services.[4]
      The NOP covers fresh and processed agricultural food products, including crops and livestock. It does not cover non-food products that may be sold as organic, including natural fibers (eg: organic cotton), and health and beauty products (eg: organic shampoo).
      The National Organic Program has fewer than twelve total employees.[5] On February 4, 2008, it announced that it was reorganizing into three divisions: Standards Development and Review; Accreditation, Auditing, and Training; and Compliance and Enforcement.[6] The latter position remains unfilled.
      In August 2008 the NOP announced that 15 of 30 federally accredited organic certifiers had been placed on probation for various violations of USDA organic standards.[5]

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • JanforGore
  • EmileZ
  • MotherForTruth
  • treewolf39
  • Progresshiv
  • treewolf39
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • treewolf39:

      He may have had a chance, had he made it to the operating table, but once he saw that there would be immigrants in the room, he made a gurgling sound, then went stiff as a board.

    • 1 year ago
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