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By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, ILPS International Coordinating Committee
Monday, 10 August 2009

Post Source: Dawn August 09, 2009

HYDERABAD, Aug 8: Representatives of farmers, agriculturists and NGOs on Saturday termed cultivation of Bt cotton a conspiracy against farmers and peasants of the province and urged the government to ban the genetically modified seed, which, they claimed, was highly poisonous and harmful for humans as well as for animals.

To: All ILPS Member Organizations
From: ICC Chairperson
Subject: G20 Summit on September 24-25, 2009
Date: August 7, 2009

The International Coordinating Committee calls on all ILPS member organizations around the world to plan and carry out campaigns of information and mass actions to protest the G20 Summit to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the United States on September 24-25. For the purpose of info dissemination, the campaign plans are to be submitted to the General Secretariat through its staff before August 24.

LAGUNA, Philippines – A Statement signed by 100 people's organizations from all over Asia calling for the closure of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) was launched last July 17 at the very university hosting the institution.

The petition Statement, entitled "50 Years of IRRI is Enough!" was presented during a forum on "GMOs and Food Security: Trends and New Developments in Food and Agriculture" at the College of Agriculture in the University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna, where IRRI headquarters is located.

Days before the State of the Nations Address (SONA) of the Philippine President, thousands of farmers, workers,
students and activists braved the heat and the rain as they marched from the provinces of
Southern Tagalog Region on July 20 to Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City on July 26.

The march, called Lakbayan (People’s March), is their way of fighting the regime’s abuses and asserting their basic rights.