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America Rising Up - We Have the Right2Know

#292, September 1, 2011

In this issue:

• Quote of the Week: Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy
• Millions Against Monsanto: We Have the Right2Know About GMOs!
• Alert of the Week: OCA's Fair World Project Launches 'Be Fair Campaign'
• Book of the Week: Work: Capitalism, Economics, Resistance
• Little Bytes

Quote of the Week

Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and
Defeat the Corporatocracy

"The lesson from the 2011 Arab spring in and other periods of history is that tyrannical and dehumanizing institutions are often more fragile than they appear, and with time, luck, morale, and our ability to seize the moment, damn near anything is possible. We never really know until it happens whether or not we are living in that time when historical variables are creating opportunities for seemingly impossible change. Thus, we must prepare ourselves by battling each day in all our activities to regain individual self-respect, collective self-confidence, determination, courage, and solidarity."

- Bruce E. Levine, "Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat
the Corporatocracy," August 26,  2011

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Millions Against Monsanto!

We Have the Right2Know About GMOs!

Get Involved in World Food Day Rallies, Marches, Recruiting Drives, Film Screenings, Potlucks and House Parties

This World Food Day, October 16, 2011, is going to be the largest day of action for labels on genetically engineered food in U.S. history.

All around the country, local Millions Against Monsanto chapters are planning Right2Know rallies, marches, recruiting drives, film screenings, potlucks and house parties.

Learn more about Millions Against Monsanto's plans for World Food Day

With your help and participation, there will be hundreds of events across the USA.

A taste of what's cooking for World Food Day around the country

OCA's Fair World Project Launches Be Fair Campaign

Make your voice heard: Tell brands to "Be Fair!"

Join the Fair World Project's Be Fair campaign and call upon major brands and companies in the marketplace to "Be Fair" and source Fair Trade ingredients and products. Help us educate the marketplace about Fair Trade and key Fair Trade certifiers and standards.

The Fair World Project's Be Fair Campaign aims to activate and empower consumers to encourage conventional brands and corporations to source Fair Trade ingredients and products. The Be Fair Campaign will educate conventional brands and corporations about Fair Trade standards and certification options.

Beyond sourcing token Fair Trade ingredients, Be Fair urges conventional brands:
- To make long-term commitments to producer groups.
- To steadily increase the percentage of Fair Trade ingredients in their product line.
- To accurately communicate the benefits of Fair Trade to their consumers.

Find the Be Fair Campaign on Twitter and Facebook

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Book of the Week

Work: Capitalism, Economics, Resistance

"Corporations can now patent genetically engineered organisms and the use of genetic information. Our own biology has become territory to exploit -- offering a new vista for accumulation when nearly everything we once held in common has been privatized.
 
"Without the imperatives of capitalism, would we have invented terminator seeds or other forms of planned obsolescence? Would we focus more resources on producing technologies that cause cancer than on finding ways to cure it? Without these imperatives, what else might we create?"
 
"As capitalism extends further into every aspect of our lives, health is increasingly determined by the distribution of capital, and not only as a result of hospital bills. Until a few generations ago, all food was organic; now this is an additional selling point, and an expensive one. Health food co-ops in wealthy suburbs offer the latest fads in nutrition while other neighborhoods don't have grocery stores, only corner stores. This mirrors the production process, in which migrant workers are exposed to pesticides while their bosses sit in orthopedic chairs."
 
- Excerpts from the book Work: Capitalism, Economics, Resistance by the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

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Little Bytes

David Bronner: Labeling is the Only Way to Win
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US Wheat Industry Pushing GM Wheat
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India to Prosecute Monsanto for Biopiracy over GM Eggplant
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Can Communities Reclaim the Right to Say "No" to Corporations?
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Nestle Wants You to be Scared of Organic Food
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