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Wixárika/Huichol People: Protecting Sacred Lands of Mexico
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Samuel Beckett, Confessions and the Human Condition
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“Bleeding Kansas” and Stories of the Underground Railroad
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Jesse Marquez: Public Preparedness for Threats from Refineries, Ports, and Freeways
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Urban Oil Drilling and the Intersection Between Faith and Environmentalism
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal releases ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ this June, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
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Vandana Shiva: Monsanto Impoverishes Ecosystems, Farmers and Consumers
Posted on September 10, 2013 | No CommentsCorporate seed monopolies reduce ecosystem health, impoverish farmers, and cheat consumers health and nutrition, writes biodiversity campaigner Vandana Shiva. Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser found out the extent that Monsanto would go to maintain their monopoly in the anti-GMO documentary "David Versus Monsanto."Vandana Shiva: Maintaining Biodiversity and the Seeds of Freedom
Posted on May 11, 2013 | 2 CommentsHistorically, farmers have stored, traded and shared choice seed from one season to the next. According to Dr. Vandana Shiva, this practice ended with the introduction of patented genetically engineered seeds. Saving seeds now exposes the farmer to costly fines and lawsuits for patent infringement and has resulted in many farmer suicides.Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Plantations Threaten US South
Posted on March 22, 2013 | 1 CommentArborGen, has applied to commercially sell hundreds of millions of freeze tolerant genetically engineered eucalyptus trees annually for vast plantations across Texas, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina.Vandana Shiva: Industrial Agriculture Destroys Life
Posted on September 23, 2012 | 1 CommentAt a time when industry has set its eyes on the superprofits to be harvested from seed monopolies through patented seeds and seeds engineered with toxic genes and genes for making crops resistant to herbicides, people are seeking food freedom through organic, nonindustrial food.