Tag: agriculture
From farm to table, women in the US food system are...
The U.S. food sector depends heavily on immigrant labor and is also the lowest-paid and most exploited one in the nation.
Women get a voice in conventional agriculture
HarvestHER seeks to recognize the important role that females have played in the male-dominated harvesting industry and establish a community for well-being.
Standing Rock medic bus is now a traveling decolonized pharmacy
These Native herbalists are doing more than just healing sore muscles.
Why care about undocumented immigrants? For one thing, they’ve become vital...
These workers play vital roles in the U.S. economy, erecting American buildings, picking American apples and grapes, and taking care of American babies. Oh, and paying American taxes.
House passes farm bill – ‘rewards mega-agribusinesses and Wall Street,’ not...
"The GOP Farm Bill is a disaster for people and the planet."
Bayer, Monsanto acquisition a go
On June 7 "one of the world's largest pesticide producers will be combined with the world's largest seed company."
European Commission gives green light to Bayer-Monsanto merger
"The coming together of these two is a marriage made in hell – bad for farmers, bad for consumers, and bad for our countryside."
Inequality is feeding America
It's time to treat all farm workers with the respect due to the people who really are essential to our food security.
17 ways the Trump administration assaulted the environment over the holidays
New rules could affect everything from clean power to migratory birds, and they’re just a hint of what’s yet to come.
The anti-science seed treaty
Does the Seed Treaty run counter to science, agricultural development, and intellectual property rights?
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why guns?
From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America