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France to EU: Stop Monsantos Corn | Common Dreams
Agence France-Presse reports:The request is “based on the latest scientific studies” which show that the use of the GM crops “pose significant risks for the environment,” the ministry said in a statement.The ministry pointed to a recent study by the European Food Safety Authority EFSA that raised concerns with another form of GM crop, BT11, […]
Spain: Urgent call for action in solidarity with protesters in Valencia « Contra Info
On Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, large police force attacked a protest of school students outside the IES Lluís Vives Institute of Secondary Education, with students from 13 to 18 years in Valencia, the third largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona. The cops brutally beat many of the students who had gathered to express […]
Ethiopias tribes cry for help
A drive to become a world leading sugar producer threatens the livelihoods of thousands of people in rural areas.Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The Lower Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia is a vast and rugged region of mountains and valleys, inhabited largely by nomadic agro-pastoralist tribes numbering some 200,000 people. Many live a simple existence, living in […]
Spain faces unemployment pain after embracing austerity in European crisis – The Washington Post
By Edward Cody,MADRID — While Greece haggles over every detail in an austerity plan imposed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, Spain has been Europe’s good student.Even while the Socialists were still in power, Spain took the initiative in slashing mercilessly into welfare budgets and reducing salaries, vowing to get a handle […]
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