News and Updates

Check out this Al Jazeera film and note from our allies at Rights Action.

ACTIVATE: How to Stop a Multinational Company

"Argentinians are used to hitting the streets to start revolutions, fight for their rights or overthrow governments. But now people are taking to the streets to protect the country's valuable water sources up in the Andean mountains from multinational mining companies.  This film is made from within the anti-mining activist movement and will follow three teachers that have defeated a Canadian mining company [Barrick gold] and are now mounting a campaign against a Chinese one.

Please consider signing this letter distributed by our allies working in climate justice and Honduras solidarity. For more information on the issue, as well as a human rights delegation traveling to Honduras this month, see http://honduraseyewitness.tumblr.com/.

Dear Dr. Rigoberto Cuellar,

We are writing in relation to the CDM Project 3197: ‘Aguan biogas recovery from Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME) ponds and biogas utilisation - Exportadora del Atlántico, Aguan/Honduras’ which was approved by SERNA With the reference SSERNA-164-2008 on November 13 2008. 

Consider signing your organization on to this letter that is being circulated by the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, emphasizing equity in the 2012 Farm Bill.

Dear House and Senate Agriculture Committee Leadership: The undersigned groups, representing millions of farmers, ranchers, farmworkers, businesses and consumers, write to express our strong support for Congress to complete the reauthorization of the farm bill in 2012. We seek a 2012 Farm Bill that increases economic opportunity for family fishermen, farmers and ranchers -- including socially disadvantaged, beginning and limited resource farmers and ranchers-- farmworkers, Indian Tribes, and rural communities, while protecting the environment and ensuring proper nutrition for all families and communities.

Below is the second announcement for the International Human Rights Gathering in Solidarity with Honduras, called by grassroots Honduran groups facing enormous levels of violence in their communities. Many international allies, including two of Other Worlds' staff, will travel to Bajo Aguán next week to strategize ways to expose the violence and strengthen international support for our Honduran brothers and sisters organizing for a more just Honduras.

Cross-posted from the Rio+20 Portal.

We, people of all continents, gathered in the Assembly of the Social Movements during the Thematic Social Forum Capitalist Crisis and Social and Environmental Justice, fight against the causes of a systemic crisis expressed as the economic, financial, political, food, and environmental crisis, that puts at risk the survival of humankind. Decolonizing oppressed peoples and confronting imperialism is the main challenge of the social movements of all over the world.

Check out this amazing event hosted by our ally, the Restaurant Opportunities Council. 
Cross-posted from http://rocny.org/events/2012128.

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"When you go out to eat, you shouldn't get wage theft, racism, and sick cooks
in the kitchen, along with your meal.  How the food tastes at a restaurant really
doesn't matter, if the people who work there are being mistreated.  
This guide will help you separate the good guys from the bad."
-Eric Schlosser, Author, Fast Food Nation



YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND:

ROC National Diners' Guide 2012 Release!