Jim Hightower will speak at Occupy the World Food Prize 2013! October 16 - Save the Date!

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National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow, Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.

Hightower is a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreading the message of progressive populism all across the American grassroots.

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2012 Occupy the World Food Prize Summary Report

Links to news items and other media from the 2012 Occupy the World Food Prize campaign in Des Moines, IA, June to October 2012.
 

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2012 OWFP Summer Panel/News Conf & Vigils photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_cordaro_and_the_dm_catholic_worker/sets/72157632155021439/

Oct 16-19, 2012 OWFP photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frank_cordaro_and_the_dm_catholic_worker/sets/72157632137524693/


**PART ONE - The pre-game**

June 18, 2012 “Occupy’ movement to take on World Food Prize, by Dan Piller Des Moines Register:
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2012/06/18/occupy-movement-to-take-on-world-food-prize/
or https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!topic/iowa-peace-list/cQh7ZdHBtmM

June 21, 2012 (28 min audio recording) Occupy the World Food Prize’s News Conference with Deborah Vanko, Jessica Reznicek and Frank Cordaro - Radio Iowa recording:
http://www.radioiowa.com/2012/06/21/occupy-iowa-speaks-out-against-world-food-prize/

Sept 26,  2012 - 14 min interview “What is the Occupy WFP” with Sharon Donovan, Jessica Reznicek/DMCW and Megan Felt/DMCW of the OWFP working committee:
http://youtu.be/Jg8D30JtdSM


Oct 3, 2012 “Iowa View: World Food Prize event should offer a real dialogue” by F Cordaro and S Donovan, DM Reg Editorial  / Plus pdf poster docs for Occupy World Food Prize events:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/iowa-peace-list/HsG8HBTZACc 

Oct 8, 2012 “Making the case for civil disobedience this year at the World Food Prize” by Frank Cordaro - DMCW:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/National-CW-E-mail-List/QV8BvebiXJc

Oct 8, 2012 DMCW Frank Cordaro on the Ed Fallon Forum radio show talking about the upcoming World Food Prize and what the Occupy World Food Prize are planning to do (Starting at the 25 1/2 min mark …):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAOObuimFOI&feature=youtube_gdata


Oct 17, 2012 “Food Sovereignty Advocates Occupy the World Food Prize” by Jake Olzen:
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/17-9

The World Food Prize: Not Fair and Balanced
http://occupytheworldfoodprize.com/about


**PART TWO - OWFP Events**


Oct 16, 2012 OWFP Panel:

Oct 16, 2012  OWFP Panel - F Thicke -  6  min YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vE5ALgmuR4&feature=youtu.be

Oct 16, 2012  OWFP Panel -B Kalbach  -  9  min YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFdK42AKwOY

Oct 16, 2012  OWFP Panel -G Naylor  -  11  min YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNoWdW5cPuU&feature=youtu.be

Oct 16, 2012 OWFP Panel video 1 hr 25 min.:
http://www.neighborhoodnetworknews.com/video/wmf/political/occupy/occupyfoodprize/oifp101612.html

Oct 26, 2012 Basu: “Farmers rejecting biotech ought to be heard” - DM Reg:
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20121026/BASU/310260055/1001/NEWS/Basu-Farmers-rejecting-biotech-ought-heard?nclick_check=1

OWFP 1st Direct Action, October 17 at the WFP Hall of Laureates:

DMCW press release, with photos and links:
http://just.dmcatholicworker.org/post/34647960573/five-activists-arrested-at-world-food-prize-site 

Oct 17, 2012 Direct Action - Rally and CD at the World Food Prize building - 9 min YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKq09ffgAzQ&feature=youtu.be

Oct 17, 2012 “World Food Prize summit protesters question priorities, big ag influence” by Mike Wiser, Globe Gazette, Masion City IA:
http://globegazette.com/news/iowa/world-food-prize-summit-protesters-question-priorities-big-ag-influence/article_305ab0ba-18db-11e2-b359-0019bb2963f4.html?comment_form=true

Oct 18, 2012 “World Food Prize activities attract Occupy protest in DM” by David Pitt -  AP:
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/event/article/id/71401/group/homepage/

Oct 19, 2012 “Five arrested at protest of World Food Prize in Des Moines” NCR:
http://ncronline.org/news/peace-justice/five-arrested-protest-world-food-prize-des-moines

Oct 19, 2012 “The World Food Prize Gets Occupied” by Rebecca Burns - In These Times:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/14056/the_world_food_prize_gets_occupied/


OWFP 2nd Direct Action, October 18 at the State Capitol:

DMCW press release “Four Occupy the World Food Prize activists sentenced to jail time”:
http://just.dmcatholicworker.org/post/34842629651/update-four-occupy-the-world-food-prize-activists

December 2012, Z magazine “Activist Occupy the World Food Prize” by Gloria Williams: http://www.zcommunications.org/contents/189908/print

Nov 29, 2012 Opinion: Should Genetically Engineered Food Be Labeled? by Gloria
Williams:
http://littlevillagemag.com/opinion-should-genetically-engineered-food-be-labeled/

From June 21  News Conference announcing the “Occupy the World Food Prize” campaign in DMOccupy the World Food Prize Campaign’s over all goal: to use this yearly Pro GMO Corporate Agribusiness event to redirect the public discourse around our world food and farming systems. Much like the whole Occupy Wall Street movement has helped to re-cast the public discourse with the concerns of the “99% vs the 1%”, Occupy the World Food Prize Campaign hopes to get the general public to start seeing the challenges of feeding the world as needing to dismantle the corporate dominated World Food System that we currently have for more local base, sustainable forms of agriculture, both here in the USA and abroad.“Genetically engineered crops and agricultural modernization are designed to support the agribusiness industry, specifically in terms of the input costs associated with both. Supposed “modern farming” using GE seeds necessitates the use of irrigation, fertilizers, mechanical harvesters, etc.  It is estimated that 90% of profit gained by Monsanto input costs alone.  In 2011, America’s exports to India amounted to $17.7 billion of overall US exports.  Of these, chemical fertilizers constituted for $3.1 billion. ” Jess Reznicek - Occupy World Food Prize working group from June 2012 via pacis “Occupy the World Food Prize”The specific campaign goal is to influence the World Food Prize committee http://www.worldfoodprize.org/ to move away from being owned and controlled by the Global Pro GMO Corporate Food system to awarding World Food Prize recipients, whose work contribute to more local base, sustainable agriculture and to people and movements helping to dismantle the excising Global Pro GMO Corporate Food system.“The World Food Prize is for us in Iowa, what Wall Street is for the Occupy movement in NYC. The very same corporate/financial elites that run Wall Street are the same corporate/financial elites that own the World Food Prize and control the world food supply. ” Frank Cordaro - Occupy World Food Prize working groupTo this end, taking the lessons learned in DM during the Occupy the IA Caucus campaign,  we calling all those concern about the ‘common good’ and the survival of the life forces on our planet to come to DM in Oct and help us “Occupy the World Food Prize”
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From June 21  News Conference announcing the “Occupy the World Food Prize” campaign in DM


Occupy the World Food Prize Campaign’s over all goal: to use this yearly Pro GMO Corporate Agribusiness event to redirect the public discourse around our world food and farming systems. Much like the whole Occupy Wall Street movement has helped to re-cast the public discourse with the concerns of the “99% vs the 1%”, Occupy the World Food Prize Campaign hopes to get the general public to start seeing the challenges of feeding the world as needing to dismantle the corporate dominated World Food System that we currently have for more local base, sustainable forms of agriculture, both here in the USA and abroad.

“Genetically engineered crops and agricultural modernization are designed to support the agribusiness industry, specifically in terms of the input costs associated with both. Supposed “modern farming” using GE seeds necessitates the use of irrigation, fertilizers, mechanical harvesters, etc.  It is estimated that 90% of profit gained by Monsanto input costs alone.  In 2011, America’s exports to India amounted to $17.7 billion of overall US exports.  Of these, chemical fertilizers constituted for $3.1 billion. ” Jess Reznicek - Occupy World Food Prize working group from June 2012 via pacis “Occupy the World Food Prize”

The specific campaign goal is to influence the World Food Prize committee http://www.worldfoodprize.org/ to move away from being owned and controlled by the Global Pro GMO Corporate Food system to awarding World Food Prize recipients, whose work contribute to more local base, sustainable agriculture and to people and movements helping to dismantle the excising Global Pro GMO Corporate Food system.

“The World Food Prize is for us in Iowa, what Wall Street is for the Occupy movement in NYC. The very same corporate/financial elites that run Wall Street are the same corporate/financial elites that own the World Food Prize and control the world food supply. ” Frank Cordaro - Occupy World Food Prize working group

To this end, taking the lessons learned in DM during the Occupy the IA Caucus campaign,  we calling all those concern about the ‘common good’ and the survival of the life forces on our planet to come to DM in Oct and help us “Occupy the World Food Prize”