And they’re off: the National Youth Climate Exchange Summit

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This afternoon I’m boarding a plane with three Grow Dat Policy Interns – Amber Young, Josh Kemp, and Kamau Johnson – to attend the National Youth Climate Exchange (NYCE) in Pennsylvania.

Grow Dat is honored to join the NYCE, the latest Global Kid’s Human Rights Activist project. Youth from Grow Dat in New Orleans are participating in a 3-day climate action summit with Build it Up West Virginia and Global Kids students from NYC and Washington, DC.

Addressing climate change is key to us at Grow Dat because food system emissions account for  between 19%-29% of all total greenhouse gases. And agricultureaccounts for 80%-86% of emissions within the food system. Check out the infographics from CGIAR:

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On our farm, youth grow food using sustainable and chemical-free methods. Our commitment to carbon reduction and environmental stewardship ensures that agriculture is part of the solution, rather than remaining a leading contributor to the…

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A Day in Grey for Joseph Massenburg

A Lifetime Of Service

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On the evening of April 1, 2013, 18-year-old AmeriCorps NCCC member, Joseph Massenburg, was shot and killed while deployed in New Orleans. As part of the AmeriCorps family, we mourn the passing of a member of our community. Click here to read the news coverage.

Today, join us in “A Day in Grey for Joseph Massenburg” as we wear our grey & green shirts for Joseph and his team, Delta 4, from the Vicksburg, Mississippi  – Southern Region NCCC campus. We wear these colors to remember and celebrate Joseph’s lifetime of service. If you no longer have your AmeriCorps shirts, please join us in spirit. In addition to AmeriCorps Visibility Day, today is a day to unite and make our AmeriCorps community visible to others.

AmeriCorps Alums will also be collecting photos and condolences on our Facebook page to share with the Vicksburg campus and Massenburg…

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Salud, Dignidad y Justicia Más Allá De Nuestras Fronteras

Nuestra Vida, Nuestra Voz

By: Dian Alarcon

Mil gracias por todo el apoyo y enseñanzas en esta semana de abogacía. Realmente fue una experiencia enriquecedora. No importa cuántas veces la hagas siempre es una experiencia nueva que te enseña el poder que tiene tu voz. Aunque solo seas uno, es como el cardumen de peces, si esta solo es más fácil que un depredador se lo pueda comer pero cuando está acompañado por miles o cientos de peces, los depredadores piensan que eres un animal demasiado grande y poderoso para atacarlo y desisten de comerlos.
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Para mí la mayor reflexión esta semana es que cuando trabajamos ordenadamente en equipo, con pasión y todas con el mismo enfoque logramos llevar nuestro mensaje de Salud, Dignidad y Justicia más allá de nuestras fronteras.

NLIRH hizo un ejemplo de trabajo en equipo, muy ordenadas y cada una sabiendo cual era su roll en esta semana. Soy muy…

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In Egypt, Brotherhood may ‘spoil’ everything

Leading when you’ve never led is always difficult – especially when you can’t seem to ask others, or the people to work with you.

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Egyptian president Morsi orates last year in Germany. (AFP photo)

This piece was initially published in NOW.  Look forward to your feedback

Whenever there is a regime change, there are those who carry the potential to ‘spoil’ it. This idea has long been entrenched in the minds of many leaders in the Middle East. Each new regime has viewed the remnants of their predecessor as possible spoilers.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and his ruling party, the Muslim Brotherhood, have opted to view the violence that continues to dominate the political scene in Egypt through the spoiler prism, and treat their opposition as ‘spoilers’ of the democratic process. Wasat Party leader Abul-Ela Madi’s recent insinuations that Egypt’s intelligence apparatus is engaged in destabilizing the Morsi-led government illustrate the obsession of many, particularly Islamists, with the idea that various security and administrative apparatuses have links to the old regime, and may…

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Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts > Rich Products Corporation Expands Voluntary Recall to All Products Produced at Its Waycross, Georgia Facility Due to Possible Contamination with E. Coli O121

Rich Products Corporation of Buffalo, New York, which previously announced a voluntary recall of certain Farm Rich® and Market Day® products is expanding its voluntary recall to include all products produced at its Waycross, Georgia plant with “Best By” dates ranging from January 1, 2013 to September 29, 2014 due to possible contamination with Escherichia coli O121 bacteria (“E. coli O121”). The expanded recall is in addition to products recalled on March 28, 2013.

via Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts > Rich Products Corporation Expands Voluntary Recall to All Products Produced at Its Waycross, Georgia Facility Due to Possible Contamination with E. Coli O121.

H7N9: 11th Case Announced, 4th Fatality – Bird Flu

For the better part of an hour reports have been filtering out of China (see Flutrackers Thread) of a 4th fatality (and 11th confirmed infection) from the H7N9 virus, and I’ve been trying to find an official announcement.

 

While I’ve yet to find one, AFP, CCTV (Chinese State run TV), and the South China Morning Post are all carrying the story.  The victim, a 48-year old Jiangsu Man, notably worked in the chicken & duck transport business.

via H7N9: 11th Case Announced, 4th Fatality.

269life Activists Etch and Burn White Calf Branding Number Into Skin | Green Prophet

This is not just “pretend.” Animal activists in Israel have started a movement where people are branded just like cows destined for slaughterhouse.

Animal rights activism has taken a radical turn with a virulent new movement that has roots in Israel. Sasha Bojoor, 27, started 269life in order to create solidarity with a white calf that was branded with the number 269 within the first few days of its short life. Fattened at a private cowshed in Azor just outside of Tel Aviv, the calf will be shipped to a slaughterhouse for processing just over a month after its first birthday.

via 269life Activists Etch and Burn White Calf Branding Number Into Skin | Green Prophet.

Press does not fact check lies in UK either.

Pride's Purge

(It’s not satire. It’s Grant Shapps!)

Tut tut tut! Mr Shapps has been caught playing fast and loose with official government figures I see.

Nobody should be all that surprised that Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps has been telling porkies about how the Tories have supposedly managed to ‘scare’ nearly 900,000 people off disability benefits rather than face a medical assessment. After all, this is the man who conducts his private businesses under numerous pseudonyms.

Turns out that just the same number of people now are voluntarily choosing to come off disability benefits every month under the Tories as they did under Labour  – probably because they simply get better and don’t need the benefit any more.

As Sue Marsh so eloquently put it when she was interviewed on Sky News recently about it – people are honest!

Thanks to research by the indefatigable Declan Gaffney we can see clearly that…

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