Chapter 12: Ja!
1.“Bereiche und Projekte,” DA, accessed April 29, 2017, http://da.bz.it/bereiche-und-projekte.html.
2.Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Human Rights Council, 34th Session (27 Feburary–24 March, 2017), Agenda Item 3 (United Nations, January 24, 2017), http://reliefweb.int/report/world/report-special-rapporteur-right-food-ahrc3448, 22.
3.Ibid.
4.Damian Carrington, “UN Experts Denounce ‘Myth’ Pesticides Are Necessary to Feed the World,” Environment, Guardian, March 7, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/07/un-experts-denounce-myth-pesticides-are-necessary-to-feed-the-world.
5.Danny Hakim, “Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents,” New York Times, posted March 14, 2017, accessed April 30, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup-safety-lawsuit.html.
6.“International Monsanto Tribunal—April 18, 2017,” accessed April 30, 2017, http://www.monsanto-tribunal.org/Conclusions.
An Activist’s Primer
1.Anne Nagro, “[RISE 25th Anniversary] Looking Back: The Rise of RISE,” October 19, 2015, PCT: Pest Control Technology, http://www.pctonline.com/article/pct1015-responsible-industry-sound-environment-rise.
2.Matthew Porter, “State Preemption Law: The Battle for Local Control of Democracy,” Beyond Pesticides, from Pesticides and You 33, no. 3 (Fall 2013), https://www.beyondpesticides.org/assets/media/documents/lawn/activist/documents/StatePreemption.pdf.
TOPPLING GOLIATH
WWW.TOPPLINGGOLIATH.ORG
Toppling Goliath is a multimedia project depicting how a group of citizens in the South Tirolean town of Mals banded together to pursue a pesticide-free future, ultimately becoming the first town in the world to use democratic methods to ban all pesticides. Comprised of a traveling pop-up show, short films, a website, and the book A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement (Chelsea Green Publishing), the project is a multilingual—English, German, and Italian—exploration of the dangers of pesticides, alternative models of sustainable agriculture, the conservation of traditional foodways and landscapes, direct democracy, and successful strategies for activists.
The project offers a portable pop-up show of twenty “information artworks”—by internationally acclaimed multimedia artist, author, and filmmaker Douglas Gayeton, a cofounder of the Lexicon of Sustainability—for use by groups throughout the world. Short films, photos, interviews, and an “activist toolkit” are available to international audiences at www.topplinggoliath.org, thanks to the support of the Lexicon of Sustainability.
Toppling Goliath is a two-year collaborative effort between the Lexicon of Sustainability, Brunnenburg Agricultural Museum & International Study Center, ididthisfilm.com, and Green Mountain College.
For more information and to contact the Toppling Goliath team, visit the website at www.topplinggoliath.org or send an email to [email protected].
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eric Hudiburg
PHILIP ACKERMAN-LEIST, author of Rebuilding the Foodshed and Up Tunket Road, is a professor at Green Mountain College, where he established the college’s farm and sustainable agriculture curriculum, directs its Farm & Food Project, and founded its Master of Science in Sustainable Food Systems, the nation’s first online graduate program in food systems, featuring applied comparative research of students’ home bioregions. He and his wife, Erin, farmed in the South Tirol region of the Alps and North Carolina before beginning their twenty-year homesteading and farming venture in Pawlet, Vermont. With more than two decades of field experience working on farms, in the classroom, and with regional food systems collaborators, Philip focuses on examining and reshaping local and regional food systems from the ground up.
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VANDANA SHIVA is a world-renowned environmental leader and recipient of the 1993 Right Livelihood Award (the “Alternative” Nobel Peace Prize) as well as the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 Award and the Earth Day International Award of the United Nations. She has authored several bestselling books, including Earth Democracy, Who Really Feeds the World, Water Wars, and Soil Not Oil. Activist and scientist, Shiva leads, with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin, the International Forum on Globalization. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India’s leading physicists.
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