Sadly, the city voted to turn this garden site into a parking lot.
Click here to view video of the garden
http://www.sunmt.org/hmonggarden10-08elfie.html

Help protect a 4-acre Hmong Garden down in Fresno, CA from becoming a police sub-station. Please read the following email and consider faxing or calling the listed city council members, writing a letter to the editor of the Fresno Bee, or signing this online petition:

SIGN PETITION

We do not view the food crisis as an unexpected, sudden emergency of the last year, but as the inevitable consequence of misguided agricultural and food policies over the last 30 years.

We will not resolve the problems exposed by this food crisis with more of the same policies and thinking. A wholesale change in the worldwide food system is necessary to address these problems sustainably and equitably.

http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/Amilcar

On August 2 two masked men swerved in front of Amilcar Pop's car, forcing him to a violent stop. The men drew guns and beat on the windows of the Guatemalan lawyer's car shouting that they would kill him. Despite injuries from the accident, Pop was able to reverse his car and escape.

Our colleague, Rafael Alegría, peasant leader of Honduras and member of the International Coordinating Committee of the Via Campesina is receiving threats from landholders and members of the national police after a bloody confrontation in the Struggle for the Land, between the Grupo Campesino Guadalupe CARNEY and the Osorto family, occurred on Sunday, August 3 of this year, in the community Silin, Trujillo, Colón, where 11 people died, and two were wounded.

AB 541 is close to becoming California's first state law protecting farmers from the hazards of genetically engineered crops. Having already passed the Assembly, it has cleared its Senate committees and is ready to be voted on by the full Senate in August. Please let your Senator know that you support this bill!

Dear friends,

I rarely initiate an email like this, but this situation is critical. Another farm worker has died of heatstroke this summer. Please help by e-mailing Gov. Schwarzenegger today. I did today, and the UFW system is very easy to use.

You may have seen the news of the tragic heat death of 17-year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez. She died on a farm that contracts with Broonco Winery, producer of Charles Shaw "Two Buck Chuck" which is sold at Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's boasts about their "great relationship with a valued supplier" (Charles Shaw) on their website.

In response to violence against peaceful protesters in front of a Bunge soy crushing facility last week in Brazil, Rainforest Action Network has set up an e-mail action alert. Please click the link below and send Bunge an instant fax expressing your outrage that non-violent protesters were met with rubber bullets and tear gas as they were trying to call attention to the food crisis and policies that favor agribusiness over small producers.

(Castellano abajo, Français en bas)

Thanks for circulating this further to your contacts and networks!
Gracias por circular esta llamada en vuestras redes!
Merci de diffuser cet appel dans vos reseaux!

Global launch of an international call by social movements and civil society concerning the World Food Emergency

To the Relevant Authorities:

We direct this letter to the Paraguayan authorities and Cargill--the largest exporter of soy in the country--in relation to the citizen protest that will take place on March 26, 2008 in the department of San Pedro. This protest, organized by the Interdistrict Coordination in Defense of Sovereignty, under the banner “Against the Soy Invasion”, expresses the concern of campesino and Indigenous communities for the serious social and environmental problems that are being caused and exacerbated by the expansion of transgenic soy monoculture.