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“OccupyStrategy”? 5 Questions for Eli Zigas, food systems and urban agriculture program manager at SPUR.

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“OccupyStrategy”? 5 Questions for Eli Zigas, food systems and urban agriculture program manager at SPUR.  In support of: Panel Discussion – Expanding Urban Agriculture on Public Land. May 16, SF.  Interview by Willi Paul, Permaculture Exchange.   – excerpt – “I think there’s no question that in the urbanized parts of the Bay Area, there is a strong demand for space where people can grow food or learn about growing food. And since those efforts often require more land than what’s available in an individual yard, people are looking to public land for space. And, … Continued

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Justice Begins with Seeds Conference – Interview #2 with GMO Educator & Presenter Pamm Larry, labelgmos.org. Presented by the biosafetyalliance.org. May 18 – 19. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine.

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Justice Begins with Seeds Conference – Interview #2 with GMO Educator & Presenter Pamm Larry, labelgmos.org. Presented by the biosafetyalliance.org. May 18 – 19. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine. http://planetshifter.com/node/2015   WP: Tell us about the forces that are fighting to not label GMO foods? PL: “They are the chemical companies that produce the genetically engineered seeds and all the chemicals that the farmer has to buy to use them. They are the large monoculture agribusiness companies who are shoving out small farmers and poisoning us, the soil and our planet. … Continued

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We are having a Community Visioning Meeting at 5 pm Saturday at the Farm

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The flier for this weekend’s events has been posted on this site. Please check out all the cool workshops the Gill Tract Project has for both Saturday and Sunday this three week anniversary weekend to preserve urban farming in Albany! Come for the workshops but stay for the community visioning meeting! Phat Beets and the Ecology Center are coming. We hope to welcome everyone who wants to know more about the undeveloped acres of the Gill Tract. Our community will be the beginning and result of planning for this land. … Continued

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Justice Begins with Seeds Conference – Interview with Presenter Katherine Zavala , IDEX. Presented by the biosafetyalliance.org. May 18 – 19, 2012, SF. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine.

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Justice Begins with Seeds Conference – Interview with Presenter Katherine Zavala , IDEX. Presented by the biosafetyalliance.org. May 18 – 19, 2012, SF. By Willi Paul, Planetshifter.com Magazine. The purpose of the upcoming Justice Begins with Seeds conference is to grow the food sovereignty movement by advancing learning and building coalitions between the GMO counter-movement in the US, and other movements thriving to develop sustainable food systems, alleviate climate change through soil practices, defend the rights of indigenous communities, reduce social inequalities and encourage citizen democracy against corporatocracy. http://planetshifter.com/node/2014   … Continued

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CÓRDOBA (SPAIN) – AGAINST THE ATTACK TO OUR RIGHT AND OUR FREEDOM: FROM THE INDIGNATION TO THE ORGANIZATION

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After one year fighting, debating, accumulating forces and organization, 15M Movement in all the State of Spain will organize marches and debates spaces to do the point of situation and to launch another time the movement and the fight. In Córdoba (Andalucía, south of Spanish State) too is moving this process – in the days that, one year ago, thousand peoples took the street and camped in central places of the cities all over the State – to remember, to think, to reorganize and to go forward a new time … Continued

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Occupy the Farm – all night May 9-10

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Mobilize tonight, May 9th-10th, for an entire night of farming, potluck, and to maintain and preserve open access to the land. March from North Berkeley BART at 6:30 PM. (See map below) We will be farming all night long, continuing the water march to make sure that our food crops grow healthy and strong! Come in shifts or stay the whole night. Sleep in a tent on the tract or outside of the gates. Poncho Ramos will help facilitate a midnight meditation on the agricultural land at midnight. Farmland is … Continued

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ALERT!! SUPPORT NEEDED!: The Farm is being raided by UCPD 5/9/12 7:11am

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According to the Occupy Oakland alert system we been informed that early today 5/9/2012 the farm is being raid. Here are the messages: 5/9/2012 6:24am: “UC police just locked the West gate to the Farm They barricaded the East gate to San Pablo. No arrests but “chemical agents” will be used on those who interfere” 5/9/2012 6:38am: “Looks like UCPD is staging to raid the Farm. Please mobilize. Come to the Gill Tract if you can.” 5/9/2012 7:03am:  “All of the gates to the farm are blocked. But the fence is not … Continued

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Foreclosure Defense Group Update – May 5, 2012

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FORECLOSURE DEFENSE GROUP UPDATE – May 5, 2012 1. ACTION THIS THURSDAY! 2. OOFDG Debrief on Mayday DnR march 3. Updates: Emergency callout, Marquinita’s eviction, etc. 4. Upcoming: canvass, shifts in focus, la Fruitvale 5. CHECK THIS OUT! : Portland throws down! 6. GA announcement policy for OOFDG —————————————————- 1. Action this Thursday: We are collaborating on a fight in the Fruitvale: a teacher who has had her hours cut back to the point that she is now fighting to keep her home. She and other homeowners have organized a … Continued

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Brooms Collective — Mission District Cleanup, Saturday, 5/5, 11:30 AM

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In response to the May 1st vandalism of small businesses and automobiles in this largely working class neighborhood, we at the Brooms Collective are planning on gathering at the 16th Street Mission BART Station at 11:30 on Saturday morning to participate in a neighborhood clean-up and outreach action. Many seem to blame these deplorable actions on supporters of the Occupy Movement, and even Occupy Oakland in particular, while many of us in the Brooms Collective found this truly senseless destruction wholly out of step with our beliefs, political, social or … Continued

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‘Occupy Oakland Documentary Portraits’ by Debra Saye – Saturday 5/5/12 at La Peña 4-6pm

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    Occupy Oakland Documentary Portraits by Debra Saye   When: Saturday May 5th, 2012 Where: La Peña, 3105 Shattuck near Ashby. Berkeley, CA –click here for directions– Everyone is welcome! For more information: dlsaye@gmail.com , www.DebraSaye.net   A tribute to Occupy Oakland and the People who are fighting for the 99% The current economic crisis and the policies that led to it, coupled with the advent of the Internet, have given rise to a new form of protest, the Occupy Movement. Already changing the political discourse, this movement is achieving historical … Continued

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