Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Organic Farm Blossoms in Kenya’s Largest Slum

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Organic Farm Blossoms in Kenya’s Largest Slum

Published on Saturday, September 20, 2008 by Guardian/UK
Organic Farm Blossoms in Kenya’s Largest Slum

by Xan Rice in Nairobi

Victor Matioli’s organic pumpkins are plump, his coriander aromatic and his spinach
“very soft, sweet, and tasty”. His half-acre farm is a former rubbish dump in the
heart of east Africa’s biggest slum.

So arresting is the sight of tall sunflowers growing amid the rust-coloured shacks
and dirt paths of Kibera that Matioli and his fellow growers have had to put up a
“No photographing” sign to allow them to work in peace. Their reputations – the
farmers are all reformed criminals – mean the warning is seldom ignored.

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Canadian Scientist Speaks Out

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Another egghead figures it out…wonder if he’s ever conversed w/ an
Indigenous person before in his life.

ASW

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“Climate scientists who grapple with this every
day … we see where it’s headed.
We understand it very well.

“I think the public needs to know, straight in
their face, that you can give up on
civilization as we know it. This is what I’m
trying to get across in the book. Do we
actually give a s— for future generations?”
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Vancouver Sun
Saturday » September 20 » 2008

Scientist speaks up
Andrew Weaver’s conscience pushed him into the political fray

Nicholas Read
Special to the Sun

Andrew Weaver says global warming could cause 80
per cent of the world’s species to become
extinct, and destroy civilization as we know it
by the end of the century.

It was pure chance that University of Victoria
climate scientist Andrew Weaver’s new book on
global warming came out during a federal election
campaign. But since it has, he’s taking an
extraordinary step for a scientist and declaring,
point-blank, no punches pulled, how he thinks
people should vote.

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Thanksgiving Gathering on Black Mesa!

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Make plans now! The annual Thanksgiving Food-Supply
Caravan/Work-Party/Gathering for Black Mesa, AZ is on for Nov. 22-29, 2008. See what U can organize from your bio-region. This would be an excellent opp-for instance-to get long-time local folx from the Appalachian Coalfields to Black Mesa: a meeting of the matriarchs…

Come for the week, a month, the season…on-Land support is always needed-& travelling about w/ the rolling work party may connect U w/ a family/household U can stay with & support for awhile.

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For more info see the Black Mesa Indigenous Support website:

blackmesais.org