Eighty percent of packaged food contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The right to know what's in the food we're eating is the basis for a campaign to put a measure on the California ballot in November that would require labeling of foods with GMOs.
A film about GMOs, THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade:
Wednesday, February 8 2012 at 7PM
Bluelight Cinemas at Cupertino Oaks
21275 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino
For volunteers who want to help gather signatures for the ballot initiative, a training workshop will be held on Saturday, February 11 from 2 to 4pm at the Peace & Justice Center.
This month's production from the 48South7th team, Inside Mexico's Drug War, Part I, is available online and on TV. Comcast Channel 15 in San Jose and Campbell broadcasts 48South7th every Tuesday at 8pm.
Investigative journalist John Gibler takes us inside the drug war in Mexico, revealing the facts behind the popularized versions of the violence. In Part 1, Gibler, author of To Die In Mexico, analyzes the narcotics traffic as a $250 to 500 billion a year global business providing illegal drugs everywhere in the world. He debunks the myth that those who are killed - as many as 50,000 since Felipe Calderon took office in 2006 - are all somehow involved in the drug trade. In the U.S., drug policies have racial implications, as spelled out in Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow."
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By Sharat G. Lin
Reporting from Cairo, 30 January 2012
A year ago, a million Egyptian people swarmed into Tahrir Square to demand that then President Hosni Mubarak leave immediately. But a majority also placed their trust in the Army, which vowed not to fire on protesters.
On the first anniversary of the beginning of that popular uprising, 25th January 2012 witnessed massive gatherings across the country that were a mixture of celebration of national pride and protest against the deaths of revolutionary martyrs. The crowds in Tahrir Square were entirely peaceful. No police or soldiers were in sight. They dared not show their faces in Tahrir Square, and they were not needed.
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On Friday evening, February 24, anti-nuke protesters will head south to Lompoc, CA on the Green Tortoise Bus to join a midnight rally outside the gates of Vandenberg Air Force Base. That night the Air Force will launch a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) from Vandenberg, targetting an atoll in the Marshall Islands. The launch is part of the US nuclear weapons program and will test the capability of the ICBM to deliver a hydrogen bomb.
The Green Tortoise will head south from Oakland on Friday evening (February 24), stopping in San Jose at the Diridon Caltrain Station at 6:30 pm and will return from Lompoc by 6am on Saturday morning. A limited number of seats are available on the bus and the requested donation is $40 but no one will be refused a seat. To reserve a seat, contact MacGregor Eddy: macgregoreddy at gmail.com. You must reserve a seat; no last-minute joiners!
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The author of "SCAPEGOAT: The Chino Hills Murders and the Framing of Kevin Cooper" will speak at the Peace & Justice Center this Sunday about the case of Kevin Cooper who is currently on San Quentin's Death Row:
