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Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood--the cooperative movement shows us how
We're being told by today's High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation. This heavenly institution, the HPCW explain, has such financial and political mass that it is the optimal force for organizing and directing our society's economic affairs, including the terms of employment and production.
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The mendocino rebellion
Since the long-term effects of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) on our health and environment have not been tested, many nations have banned them.
Our own corporation-hugging government says that Monsanto and the other GMO—makers can mess with genes as much as they want —so We the People will just have to look after ourselves.
The good folks of Mendocino County, California, have taken the lead by passing a March 2 ballot initiative to ban all GMO crops and animals from being raised in their county. Proposition H was supported not only by consumers and environmentalists, but also by local merchants, farmers, and wineries.
The pro-Frankenfood forces were led by the bucolic-sounding CropLife America. Who? It's a lobbying front funded by (I'm sure you've guessed) Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, Bayer, and the other multibillion-dollar biotechies. These out-of-towners dumped half a million bucks into their campaign—which is a ton of cash in a county with only 47,000 people—outspending the local proponents of Proposition H by seven to one.
But, as campaign spearhead Els Cooperrider put it, "They had the money, we had the people." And the people poured it on, winning by a sweeping 12 percent margin.
To join counties proposing similar bans, call 218- 226-4164.