Peasant Film Club If you missed the screening you can watch it here The Someone Else’s Country: (1996) The New Zealand coup (90 min): Covers the Lange-Douglas years of political upheaval in New Zealand: when the New Right element came to the fore from within the Labour government upon its re-election in 1984. […]
A Mexico judge has placed an indefinite ban on genetically engineered corn. Effective immediately, companies like Monsanto and DuPont/Pioneer will no longer be allowed to plant or sell their corn within the country’s borders. Article
======================================= Peasant Film Club Thurs 17th, 7:30pm Locally Abundant (2011) A story of the search for our true nature (75 min): A homemade film by two Canadian lads who lived and volunteered on 10 small-scale organic farms using Canada’s World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) network. Come bump around the […]
A march to assert the human right to save seeds and to draw attention to the corporate grab for power and control over the world’s food supply through patenting seeds, as well as through the development of GE technologies (such as the “terminator gene” which makes plants sterile) will take […]
Twitter has suspended the account belonging to ‘Truckers for the Constitution’, a group that has received national media attention over its plan to roadblock traffic in DC and arrest members of Congress later this week. Article
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Had enough of the secrecy of the TPPA (“Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement”) negotiations? So have a number of prominent Kiwi actors, musicians and commentators. They have made a video that airs on TVNZ Breakfast and TV3 Firstline on Tuesday 1 October calling for the government to release the TPPA text – and urging you to sign the petition to the PM […]
Guest Speaker: Stephanie Messenger Venue: Grey Lynn Library Hall, 474 Great North Road, Auckland Date: Sunday, 6th OCTOBER, 2013 Time: 2:00pm – 5:30pm Cost: $15 single and just $20 couple To Book: To confirm your attendance […]
The WellFest health expo will take place in Auckland on October 5-6 from 10 am to 5 pm. Entry is $10 for adults and children under 12 years are free. The venue for the event is the Vodafone Events Centre in Manukau. The address of the venue and a map can […]
On September 4, 2013, James Comey became the 7th director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The first change in leadership at the bureau since the 9/11 attacks provides Congress, the president, and the attorney general the opportunity to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the FBI’s post-9/11 policies and programs. Over […]