Occupying Wall Street: News and Updates
For information, videos, news and analysis on the occupation of Wall Street, visit this website: https://occupywallst.org/
A Symbolic Victory for Palestine: Mahmoud Abbas’ New Political Gambit
When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided to go to the United Nations to request the admission of Palestine as a full member, he appeared to have had an epiphany.
Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds
Source: The Nation
This piece is one in a series of replies to Frances Moore Lappé’s essay on the food movement today.
We are in a food emergency. Speculation and diversion of food to biofuel has contributed to an uncontrolled price rise, adding more to the billion already denied their right to food. Industrial agriculture is pushing species to extinction through the use of toxic chemicals that kill our bees and butterflies, our earthworms and soil organisms that create soil fertility. Plant and animal varieties are disappearing as monocultures displace biodiversity. Industrial, globalized agriculture is responsible for 40 percent of greenhouse gases, which then destabilize agriculture by causing climate chaos, creating new threats to food security.
Natural Resource Wars: Stripping Burma Bare
With its lax environmental laws, Burma has become a battleground for neighboring countries keen to get their hands on the country’s abundant natural resources.
Troy Davis Execution: Did Georgia Kill an Innocent Man?
Source: Democracy Now
Troy Anthony Davis was killed by lethal injection by the state of Georgia at 11:08 p.m. EDT last night, despite widespread doubts about his guilt. The execution occurred shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop the execution. Democracy Now! was the only news outlet to continuously broadcast live from the prison grounds last night, where hundreds of supporters Troy Davis held an all-day vigil in Jackson, Georgia. Today we hear the voices of Troy Davis’s sister Martina Correia, hip-hop artist Big Boi, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, Ed DuBose of the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, two members of the Troy Davis legal team, and more. We also hear from journalist Jon Lewis, a witness to the execution: “[Davis] said to the family [of slain police officer Mark MacPhail] that he was sorry for their loss, but also said that he did not take their son, father, brother. He said to them to dig deeper into this case, to find out the truth… And then he said to the prison staff, the ones he said ‘who are going to take my life,’ he said to them, ‘May God have mercy on your souls.’ And his last words were to them: ‘May God bless your souls.'”
Colombia to the Congo: Lust for Gold Threatens Environment & Human Rights
Gold mining poses a danger to biodiversity and human rights across the globe.