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RT @joshviertel Take Back the Value Meal! Take the $5 Challenge. http://t.co/Gpu0U5W #5challenge @SlowFoodUSA

It’s one thing when stock market clowns like Jim Cramer say that Karl Marx was right, but it’s much more interesting when you hear someone like Nouriel Roubini explain it.

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Evidence, this time from #Rwanda that agribusiness is authoritarian, and Green Revolutionaries wear jack boots http://t.co/ZdgiHN8

And after reading his statement, as @bittman says, Support Tim deChristoper (with cash): http://t.co/oRCgmyp

Tim DeChristopher: I’m not saying any of this to ask you for mercy, but to ask you to join me http://t.co/HiTOFQf

Great news from #SouthAfrica and a perfect birthday gift for Nelson Mandela-The Kennedy 12 have been freed. http://t.co/RA9WJ0P

Good news from South Africa today. No, the news isn’t that Nelson Mandela is 93 today. It’s something far more in keeping with Mandela’s spirit and struggle.

The Kennedy 12 – twelve men accused of a range of crimes, including murder – have been acquitted. It’s becoming increasingly clear that they were framed. The government couldn’t stand the idea of poor people in the poorest areas of the city thinking and organizing for themselves, and so they used the party apparatus, the police, thugs and state power to first terrorize a shack settlement, and then to use that terror as an alibi to lock up the innocent. It has taken three years to clear the names of the Kennedy 12. The Unemployed Peoples Movement, Bishop Michael Vorster, Bishop Ruben Philip and Abahlali baseMjondolo themselves have shared the news already.

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Last month, La Via Campesina held an agroecology training workshop in Zimbabwe. Most of the time was spent, as you’d expect, learning about what agroecology actually means, but they also drafted a declaration, the full text of which is here, and from which this paragraph makes an economic case for sustainable farming methods. Keep Reading »

The massive unreported #landgrab in China is behind unrest and protest. Women are the most vulnerable. http://t.co/iSC5shw