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(Civil Disobedience to end Seed Slavery)

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	In Focus
	Call To Action for Living Seed and Living Soil – 2015 The Global Movement for Seed Freedom invites you to join people and communities around the globe, from the 2nd to the 16th of October to celebrate […]

	Terra Viva - The Choice to make Land Degradation, Climate Change, Forced Migration, Emerging Conflicts

	Food Smart Citizens for Food Smart Cities 2nd, August, 2015, Launch of Anna Swaraj Abhiyan with a campaign on Food Smart Citizens for Food Smart Cities – […]

	Sarson Satyagraha – Civil Disobedience against GMO Mustard NEW DELHI, INDIA, 31st July 2015


	Living Seed & Living Soil Events & Actions
	The 2015 National Heirloom Exposition SANTA ROSA CA, USA, 8 - 10 September 2015

	Jornada contra la incineración de residuos SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA, 8 September 2015

	Shumei and Navdanya Launch Visions of the Living Seed SANTA ROSA CA, USA, 8 September 2015

	SOS Save Our Seeds March & Rally SAN FRANCISCO CA, USA, 6 September 2015

	Soil Not Oil International Conference RICHMOND CA, USA, 4 - 5 September 2015

	A-Z of Agroecology and Organic Food Systems Bija Vidyapeeth, DEHRADUN, 1 - 30 September 2015

	AFSA Holding Its 4th AGM ACCRA, GHANA, 5 - 8 August 2015


	Living Seed & Living Soil Upcoming Events
	Vasundhara: National Gathering of Farmers Bija Vidyapeeth, Dehradun, India — 29 - 30 September 2015

	Bhoomi Maati Maa: the Festival of The Living Soil New Delhi, India — 1st October 2015

	Touch the Earth: A soil Pilgrimage Maharashtra – Madhya Pradesh, India — 2 - 5 October 2015

	Festival Madre Tierra Internacional Tarqui, Ecuador — 2 - 4 October 2015


	Living Seed & Living Soil in other languages
	Call To Action for Living Seed and Living Soil – 2015 Now available in: Italian, French, German, Spanish, Croatian, Greek, Indonesian, Portuguese

	The Living Seed and The Living Soil – Navdanya Film Now available in: French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Portuguese


	In the News
	Monsanto Found Guilty of Poisoning French Farmer TelesSur TV, 11 September 2015

	The Food Dharma By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 9 September 2015

	California Becomes First State to Label Monsanto’s Roundup as a Carcinogen By Lorraine Chow – EcoWatch, 8 September 2015

	Europe: Rejection of GM crops is not a failure for science By Colin Macilwain – Nature, 2 September 2015

	Ordinary citizens across Europe are stepping in to help refugees where their governments have failed By Cassie Werber – Quartz, 1 September 2015

	Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs By Jonathan R. Latham, PhD – Independent Science News, 31 August 2015

	Bija Swaraj, not Bt Raj By Dr Vandana Shiva, 31 August 2015

	Why Are Climate Groups Only Focused on 50% of the Solution? By John W. Roulac – EcoWatch, 27 August 2015

	European Patent Office boosts its business with Patents on Life No patents on Seeds, 25 August 2015

	Pesticides in paradise: Hawaii’s spike in birth defects puts focus on GM crops The Guardian, 23 August 2015

	Sin Maíz no Hay Paíz \| Update on the legal battle over transgenic corn in Mexico By Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. – Environmental and Food Justice, 20 August 2015

	Nothing green in the Green Revolution By Dr Vandana Shiva – India Today, 14 August 2015

	GMO in my mustard By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 11 August 2015

	Gobierno convoca proyecto a la medida de las transnacionales semilleras COSTA RICA – FECON, 10 de agosto de 2015

	Scotland GM crop ban The Scottish Government, 9 August 2015

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