Today on RTB, we hear from Percy Schmeiser, the Canadian canola farmer whose bitter, 7 year legal battle with Monsanto, was decided May 21 by the
Canadian Supreme Court. I spoke with Percy Schmeiser on March 12 when he was in Santa Cruz. 28:30

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woman's rights

Just what, exactly, is PNAC? Some kind of soft drink? A new type of snack? Unfortunately, PNAC affects our well-being much more adversely than could any junk food. To see why, and also for details on other oddball groups with strange agendas of which we should be aware, read on.

Explosive documentary "911: the Road to Tyranny" is now on the Internet Archive.

The Fast for Education was introduced on the Assembly floor on Friday
www.fast4education.org. It is currently entering its 21st day!

San Francisco: Sat, June 5th Gather 11 am UN Plaza Market between 7th & Hyde, Civic Center BART.

"De todas las historias narradas anteriormente, y de muchas otras, se desprende obviamente que las mujeres iraquíes están siendo usadas como objetos e instrumentos de violaciones. Se utilizan contra los hombres. Utilizar el valor del honor en su contexto árabe e islámico para quebrarlo significa que a través de estos abusos se pretende quebrar la estructura psicológica y cultural de la sociedad iraquí. Los abusos se están utilizando para romper la imagen que los propios iraquíes tienen de sí mismos, la imagen que tienen las mujeres en la sociedad y la que tienen de sí mismas" .

Speech excerpt by Ken Burns, filmmaker and historian, produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus

Over twenty Santa Cruz activists are walking from San Jose to San Francisco from May 29 to June 1 to dramatize the need for a U.S. Department of Peace (DOP). Comprised of 16 UC Santa Cruz students, five other city residents, and Cody the Peace Dog, the group set out from Larry Marcelli Park on El Camino Real on Saturday morning. They intend to continue on El Camino until reaching the office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, where they will deliver a petition bearing over 1,000 signatures that indicate support for the creation of the DOP.

The concept of the walk was conceived by first-year student Yoel Kirschner. Kirschner was inspired by Indian activist and author Satish Kumar, a former Jain monk who, at the instigation of Vinoba Bhave, Mahatma Gandhi’s chief disciple, walked all over the world for two years in the 1960s to plea for the elimination of nuclear weapons. Kirschner co-organized the walk with fourth-year student Will Parrish.