Dear Friends, This is the final week to sign the petition to stop the Navy from their worldwide killing of whales and dolphins with their underwater sonar sound program. Unless we all act they will carry out their plan to harm our ocean friends over 31 million times over the next 5 years! We are […]
EWG’s 2012 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ Eat your fruits and vegetables! The health benefits of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables outweigh the risks of pesticide exposure. Use EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides™ to reduce your exposures as much as possible, but eating conventionally-grown produce is far better than not eating fruits […]
It’s bad enough that regulatory agencies continue to allow tons of Monsanto’s herbicide, Roundup, to be sprayed on food crops – despite evidence that the herbicide’s key ingredient, glyphosate, causes birth defects, endocrine disruption and a host of other health problems. Now, a new study says the most widely used herbicide in the world is […]
Farmer: “If you care about where your food comes from, you need to care about who controls our seeds.” Scientist (who was fired for suggesting that Monsanto’s genetically engineered products needed more testing): “It’s my constitutional right that you don’t wreck my food, you don’t inject things into my body, you don’t force these things […]
Read the OCA press release “As a nation we worry about our security from foreign attacks. But what this actually does is slap private business in the face and in no regard showing attempt to protect us from terrorists.” – JD Alexander, past president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), commenting on the EPA’s […]
Suddenly, it seems, everyone’s talking about what’s wrong with processed and genetically engineered (GE) food. The New York Times published an in-depth exposé last week revealing decades of science experiments conducted by junk food companies that have spent millions to make us all, including and especially our kids, junk food addicts. Yesterday, a report called […]
TAKE ACTION: Boycott Smuckers, R.W. Knudsen and Santa Cruz Organic! That Santa Cruz Organic© applesauce and peanut butter you’re feeding your kids? Although by law they can’t contain genetically engineered ingredients, they might contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), according to a Santa Cruz customer service representative. The profoundly misinformed rep also wrongly told us that […]
It’s time we ask ourselves: How long will we tolerate the growing monopolization and genetic engineering of seeds by an aggressive cabal of chemical and pesticide corporations who pose a deadly threat to our health, our environment and the future of our food? And when does “how long” become “too late?” Last week, the U.S. […]
Children of the Fifth World: A Guide to the Coming Changes in Human Consciousness, Bear & Company, 2012 www.cinemind.com/atwater
Moving Toward the Millionth Circle: Energizing the Global Women’s Movement, Conari Press, 2013 and the upcoming events at the United Nations working towards a Fifth World Conference on Women www.JeanBolen.com
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 55 – Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 Link to full text of the bill www.4VAWA.org The House passed the inclusive Senate VAWA reauthorization! The bill will be sent to the President to sign! In a strong, bipartisan vote, the House has just voted 286-138 for S. 47, […]
There are more than 800 chemicals capable of disrupting our endocrine systems and causing a host of health issues, including thyroid and adrenal disorders, hormone-related cancers, bone, metabolic and immune disorders, infertility, and attention deficit disorder in children. The chemicals are in our air and water, our food, our personal care products. They’re not […]
They came in buses and cars, on planes and trains. They stood in the cold, flags and banners waving, babes in arms. They listened as leaders of indigenous tribes, climate activists and a senator from Rhode Island spoke about the devastation oil and gas companies have already caused in Canada and the U.S. And the […]
Look What You’ve Done! You’ve lit a match. You’ve started a fire. And we’re all winning.Last year, hundreds of thousands of you responded when we said we needed your help to pass the first GMO labeling law in the country, Prop 37, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act. Technically, we lost that […]
“Democracy is messy, that’s the way it works. And we need to take the time for something that’s this huge, to really make sure we think it through.” Watch Susan Sarandon, Yoko Ono and other Artists against Fracking tour Pennsylvania where hundreds of families’ water supplies have been polluted by fracking.
Not So Fast! FDA Delays ‘Frankenfish’ Decision TAKE ACTION: Tell the FDA to reject Frankenfish!The FDA did its best to sneak genetically engineered (GE) salmon by us in late December, when it quietly announced a 60-day public comment period. Folks there thought we were all too busy to notice, what with the holidays and […]
Please sign the online petition by Feb. 27, asking the EPA to make it a priority in 2014-2016 to force factory farms to stop polluting our drinking water and destroying our lakes, rivers and streams. Tell the EPA you also want it to collect the data necessary to monitor water pollution from CAFOs and enforce […]
By Alexis Baden-Mayer Organic Consumers Association, February 20, 2013 For related articles and more information, please visit OCA’s Environment and Climate Resource Center page. Author’s note: On Sunday, Feb. 17, I marched with the OCA at the Forward on Climate rally in Washington, D.C. At one point, our banner, “Cook Organic Not the Planet,” caught […]
A 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW) is an idea with widespread support. The women listed below have agreed to serve on the 5WCW Circle of Advisors and have given their endorsement to this initiative. To see the long and growing list of organizations that also supports a 5WCW, CLICK HERE to go to our […]
President Obama keeps saying we need to confront climate change. So why is he considering appointing a major proponent of fracking to lead the Department of Energy? According to Reuters, President Obama is seriously considering appointing Dr. Ernest Moniz – the director of MIT’s Big Oil-sponsored Energy Institute and a big believer in expanding toxic, […]