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Cuba Food and Farming

Cuba Offers Unused Land to Small Farmers

As part of a drive to increase food production and reduce imports, the Cuban government announced a new plan for distribution of idle land to small farmers and cooperatives throughout the island. The focus will be on land near urban areas, so that city-dwellers will not have to travel long...

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Population

Demography and Women's Rights

This email is from John Riddell, co-editor of Socialist Voice. He has given permission to republish it here. He stresses that these are informal notes, not a worked out article or analysis. The June 29 New York Times Magazine features a significant article on population trends, entitled No Baby...

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Climate Change Manifestos

G8 Moves Backward on Climate Change

Statement of organizations affiliated with the G8 Action Network   Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, July 9, 2008: The G8’s communiqué regarding their action on climate is actually inaction being masked as movement. It is a great fraud being perpetrated on the global community that would significantly...

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Canada & Quebec

British Columbia Awash in Greenwash

By Roger Annis Related Reading: B.C.’s Carbon Tax: A Regressive Hoax Environmental Activists Win Two Victories in British Columbia The Liberal Party government of BC Premier Gordon Campbell, first elected in 2001 and then re-elected in 2005, has carried out some of the worst attacks on social and...

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