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solitaryforager:

Farmers v. Monsanto Solidarity Rally!

On January 31st, family farmers from across the county will take part in the first phase of the OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto court case filed to protect farmers from genetic trespass by Monsanto’s genetically modified (GMO) seed, which can contaminate organic and non-GMO farmers’ crops and open them up to abusive lawsuits.

As a result of aggressive lawsuits against farmers with contaminated crops, Monsanto has created an atmosphere of fear in rural America and driven dozens of farmers into bankruptcy. 

But farmers are fighting back!

The Federal District Court judge has agreed to hear oral arguments in this landmark case to decide whether or not this case will move forward.

Occupy Wall Street Food Justice, Occupy Big Food and Food Democracy Now! will assemble in solidarity with farmers on the front lines of the struggle against corporate domination of our food system.

#J31 #StopMonsanto

For more info on the case, check out:

www.fooddemocracynow.org
www.osgata.org
http://www.pubpat.org/ monsanto-seed-patents.htm

Monsanto is GOING DOWN

(Source: socialuprooting)

wisconsinforward:

 Motorcycle rally in support of labor rights organized by a Madison Public School teacher.

foxtrot-echo:

150,000 people in Madison, WI today (March 12th, 2011). A view from inside the Capitol. During the rally Gov. Scott Walker was getting a haircut and visited the Mayfair Mall in Milwaukee.

(via foxtrot-echo-deactivated2012032)

smutandeggs:

Rally in the Fog - Madison, WI - February 16, 2011

At least it was unseasonably warm today.

(via l3fan-o-rama)

It’s appropriate that such a rally as yesterday and today should be held in Wisconsin — considered almost as the birthplace of the Labor Movement.

125 years ago, The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions called for a great movement to win the 8-hour workday.  Of course that ended with the Bay View Massacre. 

Let’s hope the protests of today, do not end as those in 1886 when Wisconsin Governor Jeremiah Rusk issued the order to the National Guard: “Fire on them.”