The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the foremost research and legal civil rights organizations in the US fighting hate and bigotry, has released a new report highliting the role and injustices against immigrant women in the food industry. The profiles, put together from interviews with 150 women, and statistics from a broad range of sources, expose the [...]
On the event of the COP16 UN Climate Change Conference, and the huge demonstrations outside, AGRA Watch has put out a press release along with La Via Campesina North America calling on the Gates Foundation to support real solutions to hunger and climate change. You can read the whole press release here, and see what other writers [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From Seattle to Cancun: International Coalition Calls on Gates Foundation for Real Solutions to Hunger and Climate Change December 7th, 2010 Contact: Janae Choquette, AGRA Watch, (425) 218-2213, janaechoquette@aol.com Anne Maina, African Biodiversity Network, (+52) 998 188 7412, anne@africanbiodiversity.org Seattle, WA – Today as thousands march in Cancun for climate justice, Seattle-based [...]
