Oakland Institute
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GMWatch
Countering the propaganda of the biotech industry. 🐘 https://t.co/JYMrD1IkU0
A. Sène
Pan-Africanist • learner • educator • researcher in conservation & development in West Africa & US• Tweets are my own thoughts.
Survival International
We are the global movement for Indigenous and tribal peoples' rights. For tribes, for nature, for all humanity. #DecolonizeConservation #UncontactedTribes
GRAIN
GRAIN supports small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.
IPES-Food
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) Guiding action for sustainable food systems | 🇫🇷 @IPESfood_fr | 🇪🇸 @IPESfood_es
.World Bank denounced as major driver of land grabbing & ecosystem destruction by large coalition of small farmers, #Indigenous Peoples, workers, grassroots communities & CSOs as the #LandConf2024 takes place.
Read the full statement calling on World Bank to stay out of our
Another allegation of million dollar fraud & corruption rocks #PHC . Ongoing infighting continues while the prominent universities and foundations invested in the company remain silent!
Gates Foundation University of Michigan Washington University in St. Louis Northwestern GEPF Climate Action Movement U-M Kamehameha Schools
Learn
What is driving unprecedented pressure on farmland & what can be done to achieve equitable access to land?
@ipesfood dives into the effects of soaring land prices & resurgent land grabs on farmers & our #foodsystems in timely new report: ipes-food.org/report/land-sq…
⚠️World Bank-supported carbon and biodiversity markets risk increasing dispossession and violence. #GreenWashing ⚖️States must redirect funding to real solutions for environmental justice, such as food sovereignty and agrarian reform.
👉Read the statement t.ly/i1huz
EXTREMELY URGENT: All out for #Rafah
via USCPR #StopArmingIsrael
Even President Biden said that an invasion of Rafah is a “red line”—but red lines are only real if there are consequences for crossing them. Take Action Now!
act.uscpr.org/a/call-for-gaz…
Amidst the ongoing #genocide decades of colonization & #ApartheidIsrael Alternative Policy Solutions hosts
Anuradha Mittal lecture at the American University Cairo to mark the 76th anniversary of the #Nakba
'The New Palestinian Nakba & Global Resistance to the Empire'
May 13, 2024 6:30 - 8:00 PM
.President Biden Arms sales & transfers to Israel MUST STOP! End the human suffering in Gaza - #CeasefireNOW !
Take action today:
act.amnestyusa.org/page/138002/ac…
#StopSendingArms
#AllOnYouBiden
#BidensLegacy
Anuradha Mittal Andy Currier
.Thomson Safaris – a US-based luxury tourism operator – is alleged to have capitalized on Samia Suluhu’s violent repression of #Indigenous communities to solidify its control over #Maasai land.
Agents for the company accused of beating children for grazing near disputed
We stand with students who despite police brutality continue to call for immediate & permanent #ceasefire , an end to the #occupation & #FreePalestine
Read the statement here:
mpowerchange.org/gazastudentpro…
.Tanzania National Parks rangers carry out another vicious attack within illegally expanded Ruaha National Park boundary just after World Bank suspended financing of the REGROW project.
Over 800 cattle in Iyala village seized on April 20th – Mbarali court orders the owners to pay an outlandish rate of
Read Oakland Institute 's 'You Cannot Be Free Without My Freedom: The Struggle of Nabi Salih' to learn more about courageous Bassem Tamimi.