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GroundWire | September 12, 2016

GroundWire Production — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:39:26 +0000

Toronto Pride TownHall and Cleansing our waters: Indigenous resistance to fish farms

This week GroundWire is produced at CILU FM, on Fort William First Nation’s Annishinabe Traditional Territory, part of the Robinson-S

The Petronas Project and the LNG Pipe Dream

Ashley Zarbatany — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 05:49:16 +0000

Common sense suggests that any project which would devastate one of the largest and most fragile salmon estuaries in the world is short-sighted and ill-advised. However, the proposed Pacific Northwest Liquefied Natural Gas (PNW LNG) terminal would do just that. Instead of facing condemnation, it's being touted by the B.C.

Coffee Industry Fails Farmers

mfirl2014 — Tue, 13 May 2014 18:47:25 +0000

Amidst the leaf rust Roya crisis, co-operatives and organic farming shine a light

MONTREAL—I begin each day with my usual routine: enjoying a morning cup of organic fair trade coffee and wondering how millions of small-scale coffee farmers across Latin America are getting through the current leaf rust crisis—or "Roya" as it’s called in Spanish.

Blacklisting Migrant Workers

valcroft — Tue, 06 May 2014 16:53:47 +0000

Guatemalans speaking out against abuse expelled from temporary foreign worker program

GUATEMALA CITY—When Jose Sicajau left his community in Guatemala to participate in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, he hoped to make enough money doing seasonal agriculture work to be able to provide for his family back home.

Nothing Wasted

The Leveller — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:58:17 +0000

Ottawa Food Not Bombs launches war on hunger

Jonah Aglak wears a light coat and eats a plate of spaghetti near Rideau Street.

I ask if he’s homeless.

“I have a home in Nunavut, but not in Ottawa,” Aglak says, before suddenly standing and limping away into the night.

Winona LaDuke media interview at PowerShift Canada 2012

waawaaskesh — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:09:07 +0000

LaDuke speaks candidly about food- and energy- self-reliance, Indigenous sovereignty, and more ... including how she wants to be more like Cher.