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PopularResistance.Org Daily Digest Daily Movement News and Resources VIDEO: Millions WorldWide March Against Monsanto Millions March Worldwide Against Monsanto: Resistance Report O10: Saturday October 12- People in over 400 cities and 57 countries march against Monsanto. The worldwide action comes days ahead of Monsanto receiving the Nobel Prize for Agriculture- the prestigious World Prize of Food for creating GMOâs. Also in this episode of the Resistance Report. Is the Department of Homeland Security Preparing for Another Wall Street Collapse? (5:37) The Plunder of Africa (9:22 ) Veterans Arrested at Their Own Memorial (16:51 ) Itâs the Drones, Stupid(19:21 ) -more- Photo Gallery: March Against Monsanto, October 12, 2013 March Against Monsanto events began in New Zealand and revolve around the world for the second March Against Monsanto. This cause has truly united the world! Over 400 cities in 57 countries will take place as we, the citizens of the world, say NO to poison! Three million people will stand up for the food supply, the environment, and our planet's sustainability. This will go down in history books and we would like to thank YOU for supporting a cause that is very much one of the most important of our lifetimes. We would like to express our deep gratitude for all at the national level. MAM has an awesome team that has spent countless hours working hard to make these events an international victory!! We would also like to give a very special thank you to all of our local organizers, whose hard work and selfless dedication has been instrumental in the global success of MAM. -more- Lynne Stewart: The Peopleâs âFirst Responderâ We are here to celebrate Lynne Stewartâs birthday, as an affirmation of the human will to resist injustice. Her birthday is a joyous occasion, because many decades ago she chose to interpose herself between the forces of concentrated capital and white supremacy, and the rest of us. Lynne Stewart is a âfirst responderâ in a time of great danger to the species and to all life on Earth. The Lords of Capital on Wall Street have their own armies of âfirst respondersâ wearing uniforms of blue or green or camouflage, backed by faceless legions of spies who lay traps in order to eradicate unwanted human ânetworksâ â treating the people like roaches. The poor and oppressed have only themselves â and a few precious âfirst respondersâ of our own, like Lynne Stewart, the peopleâs lawyer. Lynne has saved many from the clutches of the powerful â too many to mention, here â but there is one thing she could not save: the rule of law in the United States. -more- 14 Reasons To Be Hopeful About The Future Of Food When it comes to the future of the food system, itâs hard not to be discouraged. Nearly one billion people are hungry, and another 1.5 billion are obese or overweight. All over the world, people waste 1.3 billion tons of food each year. And according to the International Panel on Climate Change, humans are to blame for an increasingly hot, dry and natural disaster-prone planet. But Food Tank has compiled a list of 14 reasons to be hopeful about the future of the food system. Share these with your networks to spread the message that the food system is changing for the better. 1. The next generation is learning more about where their food comes from than their parents did. In the U.S., initiatives like The Kitchen Community, The Edible Schoolyard Project, The Sylvia Center and The FARM Institute are getting kids involved in learning about food from farm to fork. . . . -more- At the UN, A Latin American Rebellion Without a doubt, the 68th UN General Assembly will be remembered as a watershed. Nations reached an agreement on control of chemical weapons that could avoid a global war in Syria. The volatile stalemate on the Iran nuclear program came a step closer to diplomacy. What failed to make the headlines, however, could have the longest-term significance of all: the Latin American rebellion. For Latin American leaders, this yearâs UN general debate became a forum for widespread dissent and anger at U.S. policies that seek to control a hemisphere that has clear aspirations for greater independence. In a region long considered the United Statesâ primary zone of influence, Washingtonâs relations with many Latin American nations have gone from bad to worse under the Bush II and Obama administrations. -more- Wall Street Whistleblower Awarded $14 Million An undisclosed Wall Street whistleblower was just awarded $14 million for information that led to the recovery of millions of dollars in investor funds. Without the tip, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) might not have uncovered the Wall Street fraud. SEC whistlebower monetary awards were made possible by a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that set up a fund to encourage individuals to step forward with information about financial crimes and regulatory violations. The law also requires that the SEC maintain the confidentiality of the whistleblower. -more- How Domestic Workers Won Their Rights: Five Big Lessons Domestic workers have had some breakthrough wins over the past two weeks. Up until then, these workers were excluded from protections such as a guaranteed minimum wage, paid breaks, and overtime pay. On September 17, the Obama administration announced new rules extending the Fair Labor Standards Act to include the 800,000 to 2 million home health workersâwho help seniors and others with self-care tasks like taking medications, bathing, and shoppingâunder the federal government's wage and hour protections. Next, California governor Jerry Brown signed into law the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights on September 26, allowing the full spectrum of domestic workersâincluding live-in nannies and housekeepersâto benefit from the same gains as the home health workers. For the first time ever, these employees will be guaranteed the federal minimum wage and will earn overtime pay. And their victories have implications for a much larger portion of the workforce. -more- âTake Back the Streetsâ Report Details Excessive Police Force Against Protestors In response to increasing restrictions on personal freedoms and civil protest, national human rights organizations from 10 countries this week launched the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO). They also released âTake Back the Streets: Repression and Criminalization of Protest Around the World,â a collection of case studies showing patterns of police crackdown and abuse against peaceful assembly, accompanied by concrete recommendations to expand free speech. "Fundamental rights and freedoms we enjoy are a direct result of protest movements of the past,â said Gastón Chillier, executive director of the Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales in Argentina. âFreedom of speech and as a result, our societies, will only flourish if peaceful assembly is protected from excessive police force and government obstruction.â -more- The Incredible Injustice System For Immigration Removal This kangaroo court called Operation Streamline is America's modern version of Expedited Indian Removal; chase, capture, pseudo-judicial proceeding, incarceration and deport. It convenes daily at 1:30 PM in Tucson, Arizona. The chains are the ultimate symbol of dehumanization, there is something beyond them that is even more disturbing. What unfolds before the judge is not supposed to be taking place in an American courtroom, just as torture is not supposed to be part of âthe American way.â What unfolds in these 90-minute show trials is that the anonymous prisoners are identified, charged, convicted, sentenced and shipped to a private prison. For the prisoners, there is no true consultation and no deliberation. The court grants a three-hour block each morning between 9 AM and noon for attorneys to consult with their clients in the open courtroom. Each attorney is assigned eight to nine clients per day (and is compensated fairly well). What serious legal scholar will cont! end that one attorney can do an adequate job, much less a competent job, under such conditions and time constraints? -more- Arizona Immigration Protesters Block Court Proceedings Immigration activists chained themselves to buses and blocked an entrance to a federal courthouse in Tucson, Ariz., today, halting immigration proceedings that could have resulted in deportations. Protesters forced two buses carrying detainees on their way to court for immigration cases to stop for over four hours beginning about 8 a.m., after they locked themselves to the vehicles five minutes from the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse. Another six protesters chained themselves to gates at a vehicle entrance at the court. About 70 detainees remained in the buses throughout the demonstration, before police removed the protesters, a U.S. Marshals official told ABC News. Authorities in both locations tried to negotiate with protest leaders and give them a chance to voice their message, but ultimately decided to remove them forcibly, the official said. -more- Video: Snowden Speaks When Receiving Sam Adams Award The videos show Mr Snowden as he was given the award by Ray McGovern (ex-CIA) who said "Sam Adams Associates are proud to honor Mr. Snowdenâs decision to heed his conscience and give priority to the Common Good over concerns about his own personal future. We are confident that others with similar moral fiber will follow his example in illuminating dark corners and exposing crimes that put our civil rights as free citizens in jeopardy.... Just as Private Manning and Julian Assange exposed criminality with documentary evidence, Mr. Snowdenâs beacon of light has pierced a thick cloud of deception. And, again like them, he has been denied some of the freedoms that whistleblowers have every right to enjoy." Also present at the ceremony was WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison who took Mr Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow and obtained his asylum. -more- Help grow the movement! Share this email with your friends. Sign up for our weekly newsletter here. Subscribe or unsubscribe from this digest here. 11 new articles have been posted since yesterday. You received this e-mail because you asked to receive a daily digest of our articles. Help grow the movement! Share this email with your friends. Sign up for our weekly newsletter here. Subscribe or unsubscribe from this digest here. 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