Alexander Ryking

Drop the Money Bomb on Monsanto!

Between May 1 and May 26, a broad coalition of food, farm, health, public interest, and environmental groups all over the country, joined by leading organic food companies, will attempt to raise one million dollars to support the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, a citizens’ ballot initiative, and other state GMO-labeling campaigns.

If California is successful Monsanto would be forced to either spend extra money to have two types of packaging for all of its products (one for California with the GMO warning label and one for the rest of America without the label) or save money by simply updating all of its packaging to carry the warning. In other words: California’s law would benefit the entire country.

latimes:

Islanders move love and money to their own credit union: Fed up with corporate indifference, a green haven in Puget Sound, Wash., finds a novel way to snub big banks.

It would be hard to imagine a place further removed from the brash intensity of Occupy Wall Street. This secluded island of fir forests and rolling lavender fields — home to 23 organic farms, a tofu factory and a monastery that markets its own gourmet coffee — has always been a counterculture retreat for those who bike to the sound of different drummers.

Yet a continent away — a whole world away, really — from New York, this small island of 11,000 residents has become one of the darlings of the Move your Money campaign, an Occupy effort to hit corporate banking where it hurts: the ledgers.

Photo: Community activist Bill Moyer helped lure a branch of the Puget Sound Cooperative Credit Union to Vashon Island, Wash., and now sits on the board. It has been a hit with islanders fed up with impersonal corporate banks. Credit: Kim Murphy / Los Angeles Times

Ariz. lawmakers receive knitted uterus as protest

Critics of an Arizona proposal to limit birth control coverage have given a personalized gift to more than a dozen state lawmakers — a fuzzy, knitted uterus with googly eyes.

The packages were delivered Thursday, each in a clear plastic bag labeled with a legislator’s name and containing a letter from a woman opposing the measure.

The bill has been at the center of a political fight.

March for Trayvon Martin held in Sanford

washingtonpoststyle:

George Clooney is arrested this morning after protesting at the Sudan Embassy in Washington, D.C. Live updates here.

Photo by Kevin Lamarque (Reuters)