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Go rock the vote! This is democracy at its finest people – you choose the fool and then we’ll all go challenge them to stop their ridiculous and destructive fantasies of converting land for fuel. This is no April fools joke. If you haven’t heard, biofuels are naaaasty. People are already being displaced by big [...]
Continue reading...By Andrea, March 19 2009
Money speaks louder than… Oh, yeah–just about everything, including a renewable energy future or attempts to reverse climate change. In a not so surprising, yet utterly short-sighted and outdated move (circa 20th century, not new Millenium), Shell Oil has decided to abandon all their investments in renewables such as solar and wind energy, and transfer [...]
Continue reading...By Andrea, February 3 2009
I returned last night from a 24 hour visit to the Agropalma plantation. Their sprawling 107,000 hectare (264,402 acre) complex is located just three hours south of Belem, in the Brazilian Amazon.
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This year’s World Social Forum is officially kicking off tomorrow, and is being held in Belem–in the Brazilian Amazon. Approximately 100,000 people, representing civil society, social movements, and Indigenous people around the world are expected to participate throughout the week. Indigenous federations COIAB and COICA along with RAN, Amazon Watch, Amazon Alliance, and Spectral Q, [...]
Continue reading...By Andrea, September 27 2008
On Lake Minnetonka today, just down the road from Cargill’s world headquarters, the rainforest agribusiness campaign set sail amongst the hundred or so sailboats participating in a regatta in Wayzata Harbor. We turned an M-20 sailboat into a floating banner in order to send Cargill a clear message in their own backyard. The main sail [...]
Continue reading...By Andrea, September 22 2008
The RAN agribusiness campaign, together with Student Trade Justice Campaign have organized a U.S. speaking tour for Leticia Galeano, a campesina youth leader from Paraguay. Other co-sponsors include Georgetown University, School of Americas Watch, Institute for Policy Studies, Grassroots International, Across the Americas, World Hunger Year, Global Justice Ecology Project, Small Planet Institute, Witness for [...]
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ADM is exactly where they should be–in the Corporate Hall of Shame. Today, this U.S. agribusiness giant was officially inducted into the Corporate Hall of Shame, along with Blackwater and WalMart. Thanks to all of you for casting your vote and helping call attention to the role they’re playing in rainforest destruction, human rights violations, [...]
Continue reading...By Andrea, June 23 2008
In the last couple of months we’ve heard quite a bit about a global food crisis. There’s been a flurry of media coverage, emergency multilateral meetings (FAO), and concern even amongst U.S. consumers who have been hit with higher food prices at the store. I want to share this article called “The Empty Plate Club” [...]
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Bunge was clearly expecting us. When Judson Barros (director of the NGO FUNAGUS in Piauí, Brazil) and I entered the Sofitel and walked to the check-in for the shareholder meeting, they treated us like VIP’s that they were expecting. The three people at the table looked at our proxy letters and one mumbled, “Oh, yes, [...]
Continue reading...By Andrea, May 22 2008
You’re not alone. Bunge has a rather low profile, and up until now they’ve delighted in that. But, RAN is doing everything to change this. And, tomorrow in New York City we’ll be holding quite a coming out party for them at their annual shareholders meeting. We’re doing our best to bring Bunge out of [...]
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Genetically Modified Crops Tap a Wellspring of Protest via @juliamoskin @nytimes http://t.co/mjEevQxj #occupyfood
By Andrea, April 1 2009
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