CLick it AND sharE iT
Occupy Your Health: Our Second Alternative Health Fair and Community Swap Meet, hosted by Rochester Greenovation at 1199 E. Main St
Focusing on alternative medicine, natural healing, bodywork, & holistic approaches to the health care system. A number of local practition…ers, herbalists,nutritionists, therapists will be present. Also practitioners and teachers of Yoga, Tai Chi and Reiki.
This is a community organized event looking to offer a location where people who are interested in natural medicine and alternatives can come and learn without the pressure of denting their wallet. This is a FREE & open to the public.
Lets get in touch with the options we have available to us that aren’t driven by insurance company sick care ideologies.
There will be representatives from about 30 local practitioners, non-profits, clinics, advocacy centers, farms, and other social justice groups.
Health Care for all
NO MATTER WHAT
Community
Food
Demos
Tea
Art
Music
Classes
Herbs
INFO
Not to mention!
A SPRING SWAP MEET
Clothing exchange
Books, books, books, clothing, shoes, seeds, tools, music,
tinctures, herbs, comic books, zines, art, movies, treasures and
trash
BRING IT DOWN
to exchange or give away
visit us online
http://www.occupyyourhealth.tumblr.com/
http://www.occupyrochester.org/
Hey y’all we are having out next community organized health fair and swap meet
April 29
11-5pm
1199 E Main St
Contact to participate or volunteer
OR-OYHPlanners@lists.rocus.org
more news soon!!!
The Rights of Women
by Frederick Douglas
July 22, 1848One of the most interesting events of the past week, was the holding of what is technically styled a Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls. The speaking, addresses, and resolutions of this extraordinary meeting were almost wholly conducted by women; and although they evidently felt themselves in a novel position, it is but simple justice to say that their whole proceedings were characterized by marked ability and dignity. No one present, we think, however much he might be disposed to differ from the views advanced by the leading speakers on that occasion, will fail to give them credit for brilliant talents and excellent dispositions. In this meeting, as in other deliberative assemblies, there were frequent differences of opinion and animated discussion; but in no case was there the slightest absence of good feeling and decorum. Several interesting documents setting forth the rights as well as the grievances of women were read. Among these was a Declaration of Sentiments, to be regarded as the basis of a grand movement for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women. We should not do justice to our own convictions, or to the excellent persons connected with this infant movement, if we did not in this connection offer a few remarks on the general subject which the Convention met to consider and the objects they seek to attain. In doing so, we are not insensible that the bare mention of this truly important subject in any other than terms of contemptuous ridicule and scornful disfavor, is likely to excite against us the fury of bigotry and the folly of prejudice. A discussion of the rights of animals would be regarded with far more complacency by many of what are called the wise and the good of our land, than would be a discussion of the rights of women. It is, in their estimation, to be guilty of evil thoughts, to think that a woman is entitled to equal rights with man. Many who have at last made the discovery that the negroes have some rights as well as other members of the human family, have yet to be convinced that women are entitled to any. Eight years ago a number of persons of this description actually abandoned the anti-slavery cause, lest by giving their influence in that direction, they might possibly be giving countenance to the dangerous heresy that woman, in respect to rights, stands on an equal footing with man. In the judgment of such persons, the American slave system, with all its concomitant horrors, is less to be deplored than thiswicked idea. It is perhaps needless to say, that we cherish little sympathy for such prejudices. Standing as we do upon the watch-tower of human freedom, we cannot be deterred from an expression of our approbation of any movement, however humble, to improve and elevate the character of any members of the human family. While it is impossible for us to go into this subject at length, and dispose of the various objections which are often urged against such a doctrine as that of female equality, we are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold woman to be justly entitled to all we claim for man. We go farther, and express are conviction that all political rights that it is expedient for man to exercise, it is equally so for woman. All that distinguishes man as an intelligent and accountable being, is equally true of woman; and if that government only is just which governs by the free consent of the governed, there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the exercise of the elective franchise, or a hand in making and administering the laws of the land. Our doctrine is that “right is of no sex.” We therefore bid the women engaged in this movement our humble Godspeed.
Happy International Women’s Day. I got to spend it in Seneca Falls :).
Please re-blog, re-blog, re-blog. Check out link to FB page. Please like it. Let’s get momentum going.
Minus the minor factual inaccuracy (we never left and came back), very happy with yesterday’s protest and the article!
Limbaugh-backing professor draws fire at UR by Jim Goodman, March 7, 2012.
From the Greek Streets: Occupied Hospital of Kilkis: Message from a member of the workers’ general assembly
Hello all,
Thank you so much for your interest and support.
The occupation of our hospital in Kilkis by its workers started on Monday, February 20th, at 8:30 local time. This occupation is not only about us, the physicians and the workers at the Kilkis Hospital. Neither is it only about the Greek National Health System (ESY), which is collapsing, indeed. We are in this fight because what are in real danger now are the human rights. And this threat is not against just a nation, or against a few countries, or a few social groups, but against the low and middle classes in Europe, America, Asia, Africa, in the whole world. Today’s Greece, is tomorrow’s picture of Portugal, Spain, Italy and the rest of the countries worldwide.
The workers at the Kilkis Hospital and at most of the hospitals and health centers in Greece are not paid on time and some of them see their salaries being cut down to practically zero. A fellow-worker of mine was transferred to our cardiologic clinic in shock, when he realized that instead of receiving the usual check of 800 euros (yes; that is his monthly salary) from the state, he received a note saying that not only he will be paid nothing for this month, but he is also to return 170 euros. Other workers were paid only 9 (nine) euros for this month. Those of us who still receive some kind of a salary will support them in any way we can.
This is a war against the people, against the whole community. Those who say that the public debt of Greece is the debt of the Greek people are lying. It is not the people’s debt. It was created by the governments in collaboration with the bankers in order to enslave people. The loans to Greece are not used for salaries, pensions and public care. It is exactly the opposite: salaries, pensions and care are used to pay the bankers. They are lying. Contrary to what they declare, they do not want a debt-free society. They create the debts themselves (with the help of corrupt governments and politicians) for their own benefit. They gave Greece a banker as prime minister to ensure that the “job” will be done properly. Our Prime Minister Lucas Papademos was not elected at all. He was appointed by the ECB and the bankers with the help of European and Greek corrupt politicians. This is their interpretation of the term “democracy”.
The debts are created by bankers who create money out of thin air and collect interest, just because our governments gave them the right to do so. And they keep saying that for those debts it is you and me and our children and grandchildren that will have to pay with our personal and national assets, with our lives. We do not owe them anything. On the contrary, they owe the people a great part of the fortunes they made thanks to the political corruption.
If we do not open our eyes to this truth, we will soon all become slaves, working for 200 or less a month. That is those of us who will be able to find a job. No medical care, no pensions, homeless and starving, as now is the case with my fellow citizens in Greece. Thousands of them live outdoors and starve.
We have no intention to paint the reality with dark colors, but this is the truth. This situation is not due to a financial or monetary accident or mistake. It is the start of the ugly phase of a long process following a carefully designed plan, a process that has started decades ago.
We have to fight together against this neoliberal plan. And this is what we, in Kilkis and in so many cities around the world, do now.
For the time being, we are not considering the opening of a donations account. We might, however need to do this in a few months or even weeks, if the situation worsens. What we currently need most of all is moral support and publicity. Local struggles all around the world have to spread and gain massive support if we are to win the war against the corrupt system. If you can think of any additional ways to spread our news and ideas, it would be great.
You can contact us at enosi.kilkis@yahoo.gr
Again, we can’t thank you enough for your kind thoughts and words.
Yours,
Leta Zotaki, director of the radiology department, Kilkis Hospital
member of the workers’ general assembly
president of the Union of the Hospital Doctors in Kilkis (ENIK)
Rochester NY Albany NY & Ithaca NY Unite Tomorrow FREE
CSA FAIR
What is CSA?
What if you could get a season’s worth of produce directly from a local farmer? You can! Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is becoming a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food straight from the farmer who grows it. Here’s how it works: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” of the farm’s bounty for sale at the beginning of the season. Typically, the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm products may be included, like eggs or fresh bread. Consumers purchase a membership and in return receive a weekly share of produce each week throughout the farming season. You get the freshest produce, picked at the peak of ripeness – not shipped from across the country or stored for weeks.
What if you could get a season’s worth of produce directly from a local farmer? You can! Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is becoming a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food straight from the farmer who grows it. Here’s how it works: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” of the farm’s bounty for sale at the beginning of the season. Typically, the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm products may be included, like eggs or fresh bread. Consumers purchase a membership and in return receive a weekly share of produce each week throughout the farming season. You get the freshest produce, picked at the peak of ripeness – not shipped from across the country or stored for weeks.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a unique economic relationship because it is a partnership between consumers and farmers. Consumers contract with farmers before the growing season begins, and agree to share the risks and rewards of growing food in their local climate. Farmers are free to practice the art of sustainable farming because they are guaranteed a market and an income; consumers receive fresh, just-picked local produce and the satisfaction of helping to keep local farms in business. Each CSA, like every farm, is different and this fair will allow you to find the best fit for your household.
Similar Event! - Ithaca CSA Fair
Boynton Middle School, 1601 North Cayuga Street (at Rt. 13), Ithaca, NY
Saturday, March 3 from 12pm-3pm
This fair is produced by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
For more information on the Ithaca Fair, call Debbie Teeter at CCE-Tompkins, 607-272-2292 or email dlt22@cornell.edu.
More information as well as dates and locations for upcoming CSA Fairs at www.nofany.org/csafair
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Rochester NY lets try this out! Integrated Urban Agricultural Systems…contact if interested
****After reading this, and if you live in the Rochester NY area please leave us a message with your contact info so we can start making this happen for your City!****
On Monday January 30th, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) held a public meeting at Suffolk University, halfway between the State House and City Hall, to change the Boston zoning laws to allow for agriculture throughout the city, making it easier for local residents to grow and sell fresh, healthy, foods in Boston and the greater Boston Metropolitan Area. Nearly 300 people attended. Boston currently has about 150 community gardens serving 3000 gardeners, the highest per capita of any US city. Now the city is trying to figure out how to change zoning to increase urban agriculture beyond gardening and household use into businesses and economic development.
Mayor Menino, the newly appointed chair of the food policy task force for the US Conference of Mayors, opened the meeting and the keynote address was given by Will Allen, Founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc. (http://www.growingpower.org), non-profit based in Milwaukee, WI which also does work in Chicago, Detroit, Ghana, and around the world. Growing Power addresses social justice and food access issues through building local agriculture and farm-based businesses and Mr. Allen won the 2008 McArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant for his work on urban farming and sustainable food production. Growing Power has grown an underutilized 2-acre lot into a farm that produces enough produce, eggs, honey, fish and other meats to feed more than 10,000 local residents and employs more than 100 people on 20 farms, 13 farmstands, and a year round CSA.
They start by growing soil through composting to replace the existing contaminated urban soils and continue with growing worms, mushrooms, sprouts, which alone provide from $5 to $50 worth of production per square foot, and fish in integrated urban agricultural systems. There are seven different levels of production in their greenhouses, some of which are heated by compost. At their main farm, a quarter of their electricity comes from solar electric panels and 70% of their hot water is solar heated. They also have an anaerobic digester for methane production and electricity.
Growing Power also provides hand’s on education and summer jobs for children planting flowers by sidewalks and corners, a measure which actually reduces crime. Green Power also has community kitchens for food preservation and processing. They are now building a five story vertical farm at their national headquarters and planning for 15 regional centers.
Will Allen said that, since food “is the one thing we have in common,” the good food movement “starts with everybody working together” and if you don’t have a sustainable food system, you won’t have a sustainable city.
Video of the entire proceedings at the meeting, including the presentation by Mr. Will Allen: http://www.cityofboston.gov/cable/video_library.asp?id=2444
The minutes of that meeting, the recommendations by the group, maps of greater Boston food resources, and information about the ongoing urban agriculture planning meetings the city is holding:
http://tinyurl.com/BRARezoneUrbanAgriculture/
Other cities are doing the same thing:
Seattle is planting a public food forest
http://crosscut.com/2012/02/16/agriculture/21892/Nation-s-largest-public-Food-Forest-takes-root-on-Beacon-Hill/one_page/
NYC has prepared an exhaustive assessment of their urban agricultural potential (pdf alert)
http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/urban_agriculture_nyc.pdf
London is growing wheat for making local bread
http://brockwell-bake.org.uk/
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On Sunday, February 19, 6 Cambridge residents met to talk about how Cambridge, MA (pop 100,000) could become more self-sufficient in food, following the example of Todmorden (pop 15,000) (http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/ and an article in the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html)
Helen Snively invited people over to her house. Five women and one man showed up. The ages varied from the 20s to the 60s with older outnumbering younger by 4 to 2. Everyone was a gardener at home and in community gardens. Among the ongoing activities of that group was participation in a yogurt coop, a group that bought milk and made fresh yogurt weekly (https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/), a web-based effort to map and encourage yard sharing in the Cambridge and greater Boston area (http://www.mycitygardens.com), fruit tree growing, and beekeeping. There was a graduate student studying urban homesteading, a producer for “Living on Earth” (http://www.loe.org/), a syndicated radio show, the director of the Green Streets Initiative (http://www.GoGreenStreets.org), the organizer of annual plant swaps, and the keeper of a local gardening mailing list.
Their discussion produced 3 general tasks:
Adding to an existing survey of fruit trees/bushes
Planting something to start off, possibly at City Hall on a spot where raspberries once grew
Mapping and connecting the existing local agriculture and food network to begin thinking, together, about producing 100% of our food (and fuel?) in Cambridge
Not present was a representative of the League of Urban Canners which harvest local fruits and makes jams, sauce, and other preserves from it, returning 10% of the product to the owners of the trees, vines, and bushes. In the fall of 2011, LUrC canned over 70 pints of apple sauce and 50 pints of grape jam. They can be contacted at leagueofurbancanners@gmail.com
There is also a Boston Sustainable Food Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/The-Boston-Sustainable-Food-Meetup-Group/
Other resources include
Boston Food System mailing list bfs@elist.tufts.edu, https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subrequest/bfs
Northeast Food mailing list nefoods@elist.tufts.edu, https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subrequest/nefood
And the national local food system mapping system
http://www.localharvest.org/
The informal Cambridge 100% local grown food group will meet again in March.
Another local food event in March is
Growing Civic Fruit
7pm, Tuesday, March 27
Rm 110 School of Hospitality Administration
928 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA
Urban agriculture has captured the imagination of artists, architects and designers all over the world in recent years. Please join us for a cross-disciplinary discussion on the intersection of art, urban agriculture, and civic engagement – fertile ground for sowing seeds that remind us of our interdependent relationship with nature and each other.
The conversation will follow a screening of the new Boston Tree Party short documentary film.
Panelists will include artist Lisa Gross, founder of theBoston Tree Party, art critic Nicole Caruth, and Rachel Black, professor of Gastronomy at Boston University. The conversation will be moderated by Dina Deitsch, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
The discussion will be followed by an apple cider reception in celebration of the launch of the second Boston Tree Party planting campaign.
About the project
The Boston Tree Party (http://www.bostontreeparty.org/) is a participatory public art project, a performative re-imagining of American political expression, and an urban agriculture project. At its core, the Party is a diverse coalition of communities from across the Greater Boston Area coming together in support of Civic Fruit. Communities ranging from elementary schools to assisted living centers, universities, churches, and more have each committed to planting and caring for their own pair of heirloom apple trees. Together, these trees form a decentralized public urban orchard that symbolizes a commitment to the environmental health of our city and the vitality and interconnectedness of our communities.
The structure and design of the Party is a playful re-imagining of patriotic and political language, imagery, and forms of association. Over forty communities from across Greater Boston are currently participating as “Tree Party Delegations.” Each pair of trees creates a new gathering place and opportunities for learning, exchange, and participation. The project seeks to catalyze a lasting engagement with the issues of food access, health, environmental stewardship, biodiversity, public space, and civic engagement.
The Party launched in April 2011 with the Boston Tree Party Inauguration on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. A new planting campaign will begin in April 2012.
More on this theme:
Occupy Green http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/16/1037270/-Occupy-Green
Urban Fruit Harvesting http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/07/22/754250/-Urban-Fruit-Harvesting
Raspberry Gobble http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/12/225631/438
City Sunday Garden Story http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/28/14530/3540
Recycled Solar Garden Cloche http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/09/965283/-Recycled-Solar-Garden-Cloche
How to Heal the World http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/29/850948/-How-to-Heal-the-World
posted at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems
Mayor Menino, the newly appointed chair of the food policy task force for the US Conference of Mayors, opened the meeting and the keynote address was given by Will Allen, Founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc. (http://www.growingpower.org), non-profit based in Milwaukee, WI which also does work in Chicago, Detroit, Ghana, and around the world. Growing Power addresses social justice and food access issues through building local agriculture and farm-based businesses and Mr. Allen won the 2008 McArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant for his work on urban farming and sustainable food production. Growing Power has grown an underutilized 2-acre lot into a farm that produces enough produce, eggs, honey, fish and other meats to feed more than 10,000 local residents and employs more than 100 people on 20 farms, 13 farmstands, and a year round CSA.
They start by growing soil through composting to replace the existing contaminated urban soils and continue with growing worms, mushrooms, sprouts, which alone provide from $5 to $50 worth of production per square foot, and fish in integrated urban agricultural systems. There are seven different levels of production in their greenhouses, some of which are heated by compost. At their main farm, a quarter of their electricity comes from solar electric panels and 70% of their hot water is solar heated. They also have an anaerobic digester for methane production and electricity.
Growing Power also provides hand’s on education and summer jobs for children planting flowers by sidewalks and corners, a measure which actually reduces crime. Green Power also has community kitchens for food preservation and processing. They are now building a five story vertical farm at their national headquarters and planning for 15 regional centers.
Will Allen said that, since food “is the one thing we have in common,” the good food movement “starts with everybody working together” and if you don’t have a sustainable food system, you won’t have a sustainable city.
Video of the entire proceedings at the meeting, including the presentation by Mr. Will Allen: http://www.cityofboston.gov/cable/video_library.asp?id=2444
The minutes of that meeting, the recommendations by the group, maps of greater Boston food resources, and information about the ongoing urban agriculture planning meetings the city is holding:
http://tinyurl.com/BRARezoneUrbanAgriculture/
Other cities are doing the same thing:
Seattle is planting a public food forest
http://crosscut.com/2012/02/16/agriculture/21892/Nation-s-largest-public-Food-Forest-takes-root-on-Beacon-Hill/one_page/
NYC has prepared an exhaustive assessment of their urban agricultural potential (pdf alert)
http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/urban_agriculture_nyc.pdf
London is growing wheat for making local bread
http://brockwell-bake.org.uk/
————————————————
On Sunday, February 19, 6 Cambridge residents met to talk about how Cambridge, MA (pop 100,000) could become more self-sufficient in food, following the example of Todmorden (pop 15,000) (http://www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk/ and an article in the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2072383/Eccentric-town-Todmorden-growing-ALL-veg.html)
Helen Snively invited people over to her house. Five women and one man showed up. The ages varied from the 20s to the 60s with older outnumbering younger by 4 to 2. Everyone was a gardener at home and in community gardens. Among the ongoing activities of that group was participation in a yogurt coop, a group that bought milk and made fresh yogurt weekly (https://sites.google.com/site/somervilleyogurtcoop/), a web-based effort to map and encourage yard sharing in the Cambridge and greater Boston area (http://www.mycitygardens.com), fruit tree growing, and beekeeping. There was a graduate student studying urban homesteading, a producer for “Living on Earth” (http://www.loe.org/), a syndicated radio show, the director of the Green Streets Initiative (http://www.GoGreenStreets.org), the organizer of annual plant swaps, and the keeper of a local gardening mailing list.
Their discussion produced 3 general tasks:
Adding to an existing survey of fruit trees/bushes
Planting something to start off, possibly at City Hall on a spot where raspberries once grew
Mapping and connecting the existing local agriculture and food network to begin thinking, together, about producing 100% of our food (and fuel?) in Cambridge
Not present was a representative of the League of Urban Canners which harvest local fruits and makes jams, sauce, and other preserves from it, returning 10% of the product to the owners of the trees, vines, and bushes. In the fall of 2011, LUrC canned over 70 pints of apple sauce and 50 pints of grape jam. They can be contacted at leagueofurbancanners@gmail.com
There is also a Boston Sustainable Food Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/The-Boston-Sustainable-Food-Meetup-Group/
Other resources include
Boston Food System mailing list bfs@elist.tufts.edu, https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subrequest/bfs
Northeast Food mailing list nefoods@elist.tufts.edu, https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/subrequest/nefood
And the national local food system mapping system
http://www.localharvest.org/
The informal Cambridge 100% local grown food group will meet again in March.
Another local food event in March is
Growing Civic Fruit
7pm, Tuesday, March 27
Rm 110 School of Hospitality Administration
928 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA
Urban agriculture has captured the imagination of artists, architects and designers all over the world in recent years. Please join us for a cross-disciplinary discussion on the intersection of art, urban agriculture, and civic engagement – fertile ground for sowing seeds that remind us of our interdependent relationship with nature and each other.
The conversation will follow a screening of the new Boston Tree Party short documentary film.
Panelists will include artist Lisa Gross, founder of theBoston Tree Party, art critic Nicole Caruth, and Rachel Black, professor of Gastronomy at Boston University. The conversation will be moderated by Dina Deitsch, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
The discussion will be followed by an apple cider reception in celebration of the launch of the second Boston Tree Party planting campaign.
About the project
The Boston Tree Party (http://www.bostontreeparty.org/) is a participatory public art project, a performative re-imagining of American political expression, and an urban agriculture project. At its core, the Party is a diverse coalition of communities from across the Greater Boston Area coming together in support of Civic Fruit. Communities ranging from elementary schools to assisted living centers, universities, churches, and more have each committed to planting and caring for their own pair of heirloom apple trees. Together, these trees form a decentralized public urban orchard that symbolizes a commitment to the environmental health of our city and the vitality and interconnectedness of our communities.
The structure and design of the Party is a playful re-imagining of patriotic and political language, imagery, and forms of association. Over forty communities from across Greater Boston are currently participating as “Tree Party Delegations.” Each pair of trees creates a new gathering place and opportunities for learning, exchange, and participation. The project seeks to catalyze a lasting engagement with the issues of food access, health, environmental stewardship, biodiversity, public space, and civic engagement.
The Party launched in April 2011 with the Boston Tree Party Inauguration on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. A new planting campaign will begin in April 2012.
Occupy Green http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/16/1037270/-Occupy-Green
Urban Fruit Harvesting http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/07/22/754250/-Urban-Fruit-Harvesting
Raspberry Gobble http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/3/12/225631/438
City Sunday Garden Story http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/6/28/14530/3540
Recycled Solar Garden Cloche http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/09/965283/-Recycled-Solar-Garden-Cloche
How to Heal the World http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/03/29/850948/-How-to-Heal-the-World
posted at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/29/1069619/-Integrated-Urban-Agricultural-Systems
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Take control our your food system!
When: Thursday, March 1st from 4-6pm
Where: Starting at Washington Square Park and marching to the Liberty
Pole (Rochester, NY)Who: All students, teachers, administrators, parents, activists, and
education supporters! Public and private, primary, secondary, and
higher education!Why: We…
#F29:Occupy Wall Street Gives Award to Pfizer: “Excellence in Profiteering”
Part of National Day of Action against corporate greed and corruption
New York, NY – February 29 – Healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, and Occupy Wall Street activists gathered outside of Pfizer’s International Headquarters in New York City to protest the world’s largest drug company’s connection to the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a right-wing, corporate-funded think tank that develops and promotes radical pro-corporate laws for state legislators to enact.
Healthcare for the 99%, the working group of Occupy Wall Street that organized the demonstration at Pfizer, pointed out that ALEC promotes bills that limit drug companies’ liabilities for defective products and deceptive marketing, prohibits Americans from importing cheaper drugs from other countries, and prohibits states from negotiating lower prices for drugs, especially for programs like Medicaid.
Dr. Steve Auerbach of Physicians for a National Health Program NY Metro Chapter stated, “even though most of Pfizer’s drug research is funded by tax payer dollars, corporate control prevents equitable access to the products funded by the people.”
Billionaires for Wealth Care showed up to defend Pfizer’s profit making in healthcare, saying, “We support healthcare that serves the 1%. We want healthcare for profit…not people,” and proceeded to award Pfizer with “Certificates of Excellence in Profiteering, Passing Laws for the 1%, and Pricey Medications.”
Hoisting a sign reading “I can’t afford to get sick” was Jennifer Roberts, 44, a painter who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. “I’ve lived the bulk of my adult working life without insurance,” said Roberts. “I feel it’s very important to pursue a single payer system for this country.”
Occupy nationwide is holding actions today to raise awareness about the destructive political activities of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the corporations, Pfizer among them, that run it.
