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Big Food Spent $50 Million This Year To Defeat GMO Labeling

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<h2>Big Food Spent $50 Million This Year To Defeat GMO Labeling</h2>
<span>Big Food Spent $50 Million This Year To Defeat GMO Labeling</span> <a href="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/field/image/testtubedailyshow-0046-what-is-lobbying-and-can-it-be-good-large.thumb_.jpg?itok=resXX_R3" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.occupy.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide_narrow/public/field/image/testtubedailyshow-0046-what-is-lobbying-and-can-it-be-good-large.thumb_.jpg?itok=resXX_R3" /></a>
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<p>A <a href="http://www.ewg.org/research/big-food-companies-spend-millions-defeat-gmo-labeling" rel="nofollow">new analysis</a> from Environmental Working Group (EWG) revealed that big food and biotech companies have vastly increased their lobbying expenditures in the first half of 2015. The main reason is the support they’ve provided for the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, also known as the DARK Act, which the House passed last month, despite the fact that 9 out 10 Americans want genetically engineered food, or GMOs, to be labeled.</p>
<p>The legislation prevents states from developing their own <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/05/22/label-gmos-patagonia/" rel="nofollow">GMO labeling laws</a> and from prohibiting “natural” claims on GMO foods. The bill also makes it virtually impossible for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to adopt mandatory national GMO labeling.</p>
<p>In the first six months of this year, Coca-Cola ($5,040,000), PepsiCo ($3,230,000), Kraft ($1,180,000), Kellogg’s ($1,310,000), General Mills ($1,100,000) and Land O’Lakes ($720,000) disclosed the largest lobbying expenditures that mentioned GMO labeling, according to EWG analysis.</p>
<p>“With the House passing the DARK Act last month, Big Food will certainly re-stock the cash pipeline and unleash its army of lobbyists who are pushing the Senate to pass the DARK Act and deny Americans in every state the right to know what’s in their food,” says Libby Foley, a policy analyst with EWG and author of the report.</p>
<p>The spending from proponents of GMO labeling, such as EWG and Just Label It, was dwarfed by Big Food. “The Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents these and other food manufacturers, reported expenditures of $5.1 million” and “hired 32 lobbyists exclusively to advocate for legislation to block state and federal GMO labeling,” reports EWG. Since 2013, industry lobbyists have outspent GMO labeling advocates by 25-to-1.</p>
<p>“The gap between the amount of money spent by Big Food and that spent by public interest groups is simply mind-boggling,” Foley said.</p>
<p>Just Label It’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=12&v=W2N-T3He6ZA" rel="nofollow">latest video</a> asked celebrity moms what they think about Big Food companies denying them the right to know what’s in their kids’ food.</p>
<p><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/08/04/big-food-gmo-labeling/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by EcoWatch</a></p>
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<p>A new report shows how much food and biotech companies increased their lobbying expenditures in 2015 – mainly to support the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, which the House passed last month.</p>
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<p>Newly released documents show Canadian officials are doing more than ever to monitor opponents of oil pipeline development, demonstration organizers and First Nations people involved in related activities.</p>
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How Canadian Agencies Stepped Up Surveillance Of Environmental Activists

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<h2>How Canadian Agencies Stepped Up Surveillance Of Environmental Activists</h2>
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<p>VANCOUVER, British Columbia — On July 16, James McIntyre, 48, was <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/james-daniel-mcintyre-id-d-as-man-shot-by-rcmp-in-dawson-creek-1.3160317" rel="nofollow">shot and killed</a> by police outside a public meeting about a proposed hydroelectric dam in Dawson Creek, a small town in northeastern British Columbia. The dam, called Site C, is controversial among environmentalists and First Nations people, and the night McIntyre was shot, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were responding to reports that a protester was disrupting the meeting.</p>
<p>Little is known about the circumstances surrounding his death, but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBtqU0IKjJs" rel="nofollow">in a video</a> taken immediately after the shooting, his blood can be seen pooling on the sidewalk and dripping into the street. Eventually, two officers approach his slumped body and place restraints on it while a third policeman keeps his gun drawn.</p>
<p>A day after the shooting, it emerged that McIntyre was not the person who interrupted the meeting, though he was <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/2122106/anonymous-responds-after-dawson-creek-man-fatally-shot-by-police/" rel="nofollow">reportedly wearing a Guy Fawkes mask</a> and holding a knife. Five days after McIntyre’s death, Minister of Public Safety Steven Blaney responded to questions about the incident at a press conference in a Vancouver suburb.</p>
<p>“I’ve said clearly in the past, there are many ways, in this country that enjoys freedom, to express our democratic views,” he said. “I invite those who want to express their views to use democratic ways. Those who don’t expose themselves to face the full force of the law.”</p>
<p>According to Sean Devlin, <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/protester-sean-devlin-tells-how-he-got-onstage-with-pm-1.2486133" rel="nofollow">an activist</a> who has spent the last two years working on a documentary about Canadian government surveillance, both the shooting and Blaney’s remarks are consistent with a larger government crackdown on environmental activists.</p>
<p>“They are using violence to intimidate those who oppose [projects like the Site C Dam],” Devlin said, adding that what the country’s conservative government tolerates as legitimate dissent is shrinking.</p>
<p>Nowhere is this tension felt more acutely than in British Columbia, where the province’s premier, Christy Clark, has staked her legacy on transforming the region into a global hub for liquefied natural gas. In addition to megaprojects like the Site C dam, two pipelines are under discussion that would carry massive amounts of heavy crude from the Athabasca oil sands in central Alberta to the coast of British Columbia.</p>
<p>The scramble for natural resources has turned Canada’s westernmost province into a battleground for conservationists, and First Nations people have led the way in fighting these efforts. The environmental movement in British Columbia is diverse and gaining public support. It enjoys the backing of Vancouver’s mayor, for example, and rallies <a href="http://www.straight.com/blogra/642646/photos-thousands-reject-pipelines-noenbridge-rally-vancouver" rel="nofollow">attract thousands</a>, including families.</p>
<p>Occasionally, there are confrontations with police. In November 2014 dozens of people were arrested when they refused to leave a protest camp erected to prevent survey work related to a proposed pipeline expansion. But that incident eventually ended peacefully, without violence or accusations of police brutality.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, evidence has slowly revealed that several Canadian security agencies are monitoring the activities of pipeline opponents, demonstration organizers and First Nations people involved in related activities. Documents released in response to freedom of information requests present a picture of state surveillance that activists say is stifling dissent. In the wake of McIntyre’s death, these tensions have only heightened.</p>
<p><strong>Widespread Surveillance</strong></p>
<p>One afternoon in March 2015, Tim Takaro, a professor at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and a self-described activist, was out for lunch with his teenage daughter when her cellphone rang. On the other end was an RCMP officer who wanted to know her father’s whereabouts.</p>
<p>After she handed the phone to him, the officer said he was calling about photographs Takaro took of a property owned by Kinder Morgan, an oil pipeline company. Takaro acknowledged that one week earlier, he had had a brief interaction with a security guard working for Kinder Morgan.</p>
<p>But the incident was nothing serious, Takaro recounted. He was simply asked to stop taking pictures. Takaro thought it was all a misunderstanding until the officer continued to press him. “Then he said, ‘We also saw your car at a protest in November,’” Takaro continued. “And then, ‘But don’t worry, there are no criminal charges.’”</p>
<p>“It was definitely intimidation,” Takaro concluded.</p>
<p>Over the last several years, stories like Takaro’s have corroborated documents released through freedom of information requests that outline the extent to which law enforcement agencies are monitoring environmental activists. These files are notable for the language they use to describe protesters and the level of detail they include on the activities of organizations and the lives of their members.</p>
<p>An <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2195711-rcmpinternaldoc.html" rel="nofollow">RCMP internal document</a> dated December 2012 compares the First Nations movement Idle No More to “bacteria,” warning, “it has grown a life all of its own all across the nation.”</p>
<p>“There is a high probability that we could see flash mobs, round dances and blockades become much less compliant to laws,” it continues. “The escalation of violence is ever near.”</p>
<p>Two years later, a separate RCMP intelligence assessment warns, “violent anti-petroleum extremists will continue to engage in criminal activity to promote anti-petroleum ideology.” The 44-page document, <a href="http://aptn.ca/news/2014/10/17/rcmp-tracked-movements-indigenous-activist-extremist-group-documents/" rel="nofollow">made public</a> by Greenpeace in February, calls attention to British Columbia, saying, “there is a coalition of like-minded violent extremists who are planning criminal actions to prevent the construction of the pipeline.”</p>
<p>Yet with rare exceptions, there are almost no reports of existing environmental groups engaging in illegal actions. When asked for examples, RCMP representatives usually cite a series of attacks that occurred in the 1990s. (These were the actions of one man, Wiebo Ludwig, who in 2000 was convicted of sabotaging oil and gas infrastructure in northern Alberta.)</p>
<p>In March, declassified documents revealed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada’s equivalent of the CIA, was involved in helping local law-enforcement agencies track protesters, particularly in British Columbia. That memo <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2192521-goc-riskforecast.html" rel="nofollow">also described</a> the role of the Government Operations Centre, another federal agency, in compiling a “risk forecast” report for the 2014 “spring summer protest and demonstration season.”</p>
<p>A previously released Government Operations Centre document includes details of more than 800 demonstrations throughout Canada since 2009.</p>
<p>The names of well-known Canadian environmental groups appear in these documents. Among them are Greenpeace, Tides Canada, the Sierra Club, the Georgia Strait Alliance, the Wilderness Committee and Idle No More.</p>
<p><strong>Creating Paranoia</strong></p>
<p>In November 2014, David Lavallee, a Vancouver-based filmmaker, used a small unmanned aerial vehicle to record footage of an oil tanker marine terminal that serves as the endpoint for a Kinder Morgan oil pipeline. Lavallee is producing a documentary about unconventional energy sources such as the oil sands, and the facility he videotaped receives significant amounts of diluted bitumen from Alberta.</p>
<p>Two days later, he received a voice mail from a local RCMP detachment. That was followed by a visit from two local police officers and a visit from officers with the RCMP’s anti-terrorism unit.</p>
<p>In a subsequent telephone call, an officer warned him, “What you are doing could be seen as a precursor to terrorist behavior,” Lavallee said.</p>
<p>“I’m not a terrorist,” he told them. “I’m a kindergarten teacher.”</p>
<p>Lavallee wasn’t surprised when he learned about the Dawson Creek shooting, saying that it was only a matter of time before a violent confrontation occurs between protesters and police. “If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” he said.</p>
<p>Clayton Thomas-Muller, a former organizer with Idle No More, now works as an campaigner on indigenous issues for the climate change group 350.org. Documents made public by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network in October 2014 reveal that the RCMP has monitored his activities since at least 2010.</p>
<p>“A known member of the Indigenous Environmental Network will be heading to northern B.C. tomorrow,” reads a reference to Thomas-Muller that appears in an RCMP occurrence report dated July 7, 2010. “We would like to anticipate and monitor any protests in order to keep you informed if these protests happen in your detachment areas.”</p>
<p>On the phone from his home in Winnipeg, Thomas-Muller said he suspected that the government was monitoring him. He recounted how RCMP officers often acted as if they were familiar with him when they saw him at public demonstrations, making clear they knew his name and face.</p>
<p>“These things are designed to create paranoia. They are designed to create mistrust. They are designed to affect your confidence in your cause,” he said.</p>
<p>The Canadian Ministry of Public Safety and the RCMP refused repeated requests for interviews. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service did not respond to emails or voice mail messages. An emailed statement supplied by RCMP spokeswoman Annie Delisle claims the force respects the public’s right to peaceful demonstration.</p>
<p>“Security operations balance individual rights and freedoms with the need to maintain public safety, peace and good order,” it reads.</p>
<p>Stewart Phillip is the president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs and a prominent figure in the province’s environmental movement. He described the federal government’s monitoring of environmentalists as part of its focus on the development of the Alberta oil sands and pipelines.</p>
<p>He called attention to the controversial anti-terrorism legislation <a href="http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=6932136&Col=1&File=4" rel="nofollow">Bill C-51</a>, which was passed into law on June 18. He warned that several aspects of Bill C-51 could be used against environmentalists. For example, the bill broadens the definition of an “activity that undermines the security of Canada” to include anything that targets the country’s “economic or financial stability” or “critical infrastructure” — including energy projects such as pipelines.</p>
<p>Activists such as Takaro worry that this legislation could be used to expand what he sees as overreaching federal oversight. “The thing that is most concerning to me is that with Bill C-51, my taking a picture could actually be construed as a criminal act, because it could be construed as interfering with critical infrastructure,” he said.</p>
<p>“If they are really after you,” Takaro continued, “you’re not paranoid, right?”</p>
<p><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/8/5/canada-keeps-eye-on-environmental-activists.html" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Al Jazeera America</a></p>
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<p>A new report shows how much food and biotech companies increased their lobbying expenditures in 2015 – mainly to support the Deny Americans the Right to Know Act, which the House passed last month.</p>
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<p>Newly released documents show Canadian officials are doing more than ever to monitor opponents of oil pipeline development, demonstration organizers and First Nations people involved in related activities.</p>
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<p>Social media are monitored and controlled by large corporations – so can they also facilitate the kind of self-organization that defines radical politics?</p>
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<p>Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are agents of a revolt, from the left and the right, fueled by anger at those who have had power over our economic and political system since the start of the 1980s.</p>
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Social Media and Movements: Is the Love Affair Really Over?

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<h2>Social Media and Movements: Is the Love Affair Really Over?</h2>
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<p>When I started my PhD in 2011 there was a strong feeling that radical politics was changing. On the one hand, there was more of it. The Arab Spring, the Indignados, Occupy: they all made it seem like direct action and direct democracy were moving out of the ghettos of what remained of the alter-globalization movement. With mass assemblies and a radical DIY (or even DIO: Do It Ourselves) politics, something was changing across the world. In the face of austerity and totalitarianism, an actual alternative was being prefigured.</p>
<p>At the same time, the tools of these protests and uprisings came into the spotlight. Not only the democratic mechanisms of decision-making but also the digital infrastructures that, many argued, were facilitating what was so promising in these movements.</p>
<p>Social media was increasingly seen as an essential element in how large groups were able to organize without centralized leadership. Platforms like Facebook and Twitter were allowing people to mobilize not as hierarchical structures like trade unions and political parties but as horizontal networks. Individual activists and sub-groups enjoyed a tactical autonomy while remaining part of a larger whole.</p>
<p>Almost four years have passed, and now at the end of my PhD the gloss to this narrative has to a large extent worn off. Some elements of the 2011 uprisings have been consumed by the tragedy of civil war and renewed dictatorships, while others have dispersed.</p>
<p>But of course, four years is not a long time in the grand scheme of things, and the examples of Podemos and Syriza suggest that perhaps these movements are in fact evolving and developing new strategies. While the story of mass mobilization and radical social movements is by no means over, what has been disputed perhaps more than anything else in the last four years is the promise that lay in the tools of the 2011 uprisings.</p>
<p>Social media, once held up by some as the very essence of contemporary radical politics, is now seen in a harsher, less forgiving light. A number of experiences have underlined the implicit hierarchies and inequalities that were reinforced by social media.</p>
<p>Others have pointed towards the ways in which social media exploit, for profit, our online behavior. The Edward Snowden saga has shown how vulnerable our online organizing is, as has the repression of social media-based activism seen in Turkey and elsewhere.</p>
<p>But among these critiques of social media, is there something that can be salvaged? Can platforms like Facebook and Twitter be useful in radical politics, and if so how? Perhaps we don’t need to abandon social media just yet. Perhaps it can, in one form or another, still facilitate the kind of organization that was so promising in 2011 and that continues, in many ways, to define radical left politics.</p>
<p><strong>The Promise of Social Media</strong></p>
<p>Social media platforms are often discussed as means of communication, self-expression and forming public discourse. As well as this, however, social media platforms — and communication practices more generally — also act as infrastructures that support the actions we take. They allow us to share information and resources, and to make decisions that can then be enacted.</p>
<p>In this way, communication practices can also be understood as information management systems. This is a concept borrowed from the world of business and management and refers to any system, normally electronic and increasingly digital, that facilitates organization. Work email and intranets are of this sort. They don’t just let people talk to one another but also contribute to getting tasks completed.</p>
<p>What social media might offer when viewed as information management systems, as platforms that facilitate certain forms of action, is a way to make radical and anarchist forms of organization more like the participatory and democratic structures that characterized the 2011 uprisings and radical left politics since at least the Zapatista rebellion, the alter-globalization movement in the 1990s and, even earlier, the radical feminism of the 1960s and 1970s.</p>
<p>Social media can provide the infrastructure for both democratic decision-making and autonomous action, with activists given access to resources and information that may enable them to act in ways that more hierarchical communication structures reduce to command and control processes.</p>
<p>While there are significant critiques of social media from activists and scholars alike (focusing on privacy and surveillance, corporate and state control, the political economy of free labor and the psychology and behavior that is encouraged by the architecture of mainstream platforms), I want to suggest that there is still a potential inherent in social media owing to the nature of the communication practices it supports.</p>
<p>These practices can be described as many-to-many communication. They are potentially built on conversations with multiple actors that reflect some of the necessary foundations of the participatory democracy of radical Left politics. Social media can, therefore, be seen as systems that facilitate radically democratic forms of organization and that can support the kinds of autonomy and horizontality that have in part been seen in the 2011 uprisings.</p>
<p>This is the promise of social media. And it is a promise that may yet be fulfilled. If social media present opportunities for horizontal, conversational communication, and these types of communication are consistent with the ways in which we try to imagine non-hierarchical social relationships and decision-making structures, then social media can be considered as having at least the potential to be a part of a radical left politics.</p>
<p><strong>Internal and External Communication Practices</strong></p>
<p>As part of my PhD research I interviewed a number of activists involved in the Dutch radical left and anarchist scene. The pictures they provided of the communication practices of the groups they were involved in can be used to work through some of the ideas around many-to-many communication, its relationship to radical politics and the promise of social media.</p>
<p>Internally, the radical left groups in question all more or less conform to the many-to-many communication model. Much of this communication is done through face-to-face meetings at which members aim to reach consensus on the topics being discussed and the decisions that need to be made.</p>
<p>In terms of social networking technologies, however, activists spoke of the email listservs and online forums that have been common to radical left politics at least since the Battle of Seattle in 1999 and the beginnings of the alter-globalization movement.</p>
<p>While none of the groups used newer, mainstream platforms like Facebook in their internal communication practices, one of the groups did use the alternative social networking site Crabgrass as a core part of their discussion and decision-making infrastructure. Crabgrass was developed by people connected to the RiseUp collective that provides secure email addresses for activists. It aims to facilitate social networking and group collaboration with a specifically radical, left-wing bent.</p>
<p>Externally, many-to-many communication practices became much rarer. While most of the groups use Facebook and Twitter, they use them primarily as extensions of their websites, which in turn act mainly as extensions of their printed newspapers.</p>
<p>The three exceptions to this highlight the abilities of both mainstream and alternative social media platforms to play this role. One group, involved in community organizing, was active on Facebook not only in sharing articles and announcements but also in responding to comments and engaging in discussions with other users.</p>
<p>Another made use of crowd-sourced mapping in a way that reflects the scope of many-to-many communication to support autonomous action. The third example of using social media in line with this participatory ethos came from one group that printed comments and responses from Facebook and Twitter in their newspaper, facilitating some level of conversation between the group and those outside it.</p>
<p><strong>Institutionalizing Autonomy</strong></p>
<p>The many-to-many communication social media facilitates, insofar as it allows for conversation rather than merely the broadcast of information (or even orders), is intimately connected to a radical left and anarchist vision of organization. If prefiguration, the realization of the goals of politics in the here and now, is taken as one of the core concerns of radical social movements, then a commitment to many-to-many communication might need to be seen as just as important as the commitment to democracy and equality.</p>
<p>It has the potential to empower activists to take autonomous action and the bedrock of participatory democracy. In this way, social media platforms can contribute towards freeing activism from the top-down structures of political parties and trade unions.</p>
<p>But is there another way of looking at these types of organization and of the structures suggested by social media and many-to-many communication? I mentioned at the start of this article that social media and the examples of the 2011 uprisings have lost some of what made them so attractive at the time. Activists are, it seems, increasingly (and perhaps rightly given the limitations) wary of both networked organization and networked communications. In the last year or so, however, radical politics has shifted somewhat.</p>
<p>In place of social movements that are completely opposed to, and autonomous from political parties, the rise of Podemos and Syriza, and indeed the surge of support for the Greens in England and Wales and the Scottish National Party in Scotland, might point to a return of the mass party as an element of radical left social movement strategy.</p>
<p>Podemos and Syriza, by many accounts, have become the institutional articulations of mass social movements. They haven’t replaced them and are clear that they aim to act as parliamentary wings subservient to those movements (although the current tensions in Syriza suggest that this is much more problematic that some might make out).</p>
<p>In the case of Podemos, this has meant a continuation of the radical, direct democracy of the 15-M movement and the party has relied on social media and many-to-many communication not in getting its message across to voters but in defining the very content of that message and of its policies.</p>
<p>Social media might continue to have a role in radical left politics after all. The many-to-many communication practices it supports can be, at their best, prefigurative of the goals of radical politics, of democratic and participatory decision-making. As information management systems, facilitating concrete action, the examples of the radical left groups involved in my PhD research point towards this conclusion.</p>
<p>Both mainstream social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, and alternative platforms, such as Crabgrass and n-1, can be an important part of radical left politics, whether in the form of mass social movement mobilizations or the articulation of those movements in more democratic political parties.</p>
<p><em>Thomas Swann is a PhD student in the University of Leicester School of Management and member of the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy. Follow him <a href="https://twitter.com/thomasswann1" rel="nofollow">@ThomasSwann1</a>.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://roarmag.org/2015/07/social-media-organization-movements/" rel="nofollow">Originally published by Roar Mag</a></p>
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San Francisco’s Inequality, Between the Levels of Rwanda and Guatemala, Is Still Growing

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<p>Early Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park reveals inequality like perhaps no other place can. Here, a group of several dozen young professionals, all white, are playing a game of kickball with one additional rule: they must be holding a cup of beer in their hands at all times. Meanwhile, 100 yards away is a group roughly the same size, but they're not having so much fun; along with thousands in San Francisco’s homeless population, they're struggling daily for food and survival.</p>
<p>Across the city, this is becoming a familiar scene as an ever-growing influx of wealthy techies live side-by-side with the homeless, creating stark juxtapositions in a city many still view as the progressive epicenter of America. In recent years, despite the vocal conversation occurring over gentrification, inequality in San Francisco has reached historic levels.</p>
<p>To put it into perspective, San Francisco’s level of income inequality is now on par with Rwanda, according to <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Income-inequality-on-par-with-developing-nations-5486434.php" rel="nofollow">a report</a> published last year by the city's Human Services Agency. As poor, working and middle class segments of San Francisco continue to fall farther behind, more and more people are being forced to abandon their homes in search of places where they can simply survive.</p>
<p>The report cited the Gini Coefficient, a standard used by the World Bank, CIA and other organizations to measure economic standards worldwide. The closer a country or city is to a 0 score, the more economic equality it experiences, according to the standard. In Sweden and Denmark, for example, the score is 0.25 and 0.24, respectively. The U.S., by contrast, earned a 0.45 score, showing the increasing gaps between the haves and the have nots.</p>
<p>San Francisco ranks far lower than the national average, with a 0.523 score. That’s worse than Rwanda, at 0.508, but slightly better than Guatemala, at 0.559.</p>
<p>In figures most Americans can by now understand, the middle class in San Francisco has declined by over 10 percent since 1990 – meaning those earning between 50 and 150 percent of the city’s median household income of $72,500. On top of that, the number of households earning more than $200,000 has nearly tripled in the same period.</p>
<p>Nowadays, the trend of big businesses buying up land or housing complexes in order to “flip” them and turn a fast profit has spread to even the most affordable areas of the city. In Visitacion Valley, home to what are still considered San Francisco’s “cheap” rental prices, developer Patrick McNerney of Martin Building Co. earlier this year purchased a large expanse of land in the hopes of turning it into the city's latest development spot.</p>
<p>McNerney is seeking to build a new upscale apartment complex with over 1,500 units, develop the local business area, and redesign the neighborhood in a way similar to the makeover that was given to SOMA, or South of Market – a once middle-class stronghold where one-bedroom apartments now routinely run for $3,500 a month. The average rental price in “Visi Valley” for a one-bedroom currently goes for $2,000.</p>
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<p><strong>Pushing People Out</strong></p>
<p>While some praise the move as an effort to rebuild a once forgotten gem on the city’s outskirts, others, especially middle-income residents, fear it will initiate a new process of the gentrification that has already turned San Francisco into a playground for the wealthy.</p>
<p>“I don’t think that once the new building gets off the ground, people like my family and me will be able to survive,” said Martin, a 46-year-old plumber and father of three in Visi Valley. He added, “It means we will be pushed out like so many others across the city as landlords charge more and more.”</p>
<p>Still, there is a perception across the city that all residents are able to earn a living wage. Howard Anderson, an analyst working in the financial district, said San Francisco is “giving more” to the underprivileged than any other city.</p>
<p>“Here in San Francisco we offer a great living minimum wage that is going to increase to $15 in the coming years, and we help our homeless more than any place I am aware of, so I don’t know why people are still questioning our values," Anderson told Occupy.com.</p>
<p>"This whole inequality issues seems strange to me," he added.</p>
<p>Mainstream media outlets like The New York Times have chimed in on the issue, while maintaining that poor neighborhoods like the Tenderloin – the long-time face of inequality in the city – remain affordable.</p>
<p>“The neighborhood’s inexpensive rents have drawn artists,” one article argues, despite evidence that San Francisco's middle class artist community long ago left the Tenderloin and other neighborhoods for cheaper rents in the East Bay.</p>
<p>“I don’t know where people are getting all this misinformation about San Francisco,” said Trevor Mason, a San Francisco resident who was evicted from his Mission district apartment in 2014 and couldn’t find similar rent anywhere in the city.</p>
<p>“I moved to Oakland because it was the only place where I could afford to pay my bills and survive,” he said.</p>
<p>The Tenderloin has seen average one-bedroom rent prices soar by 20 percent in the last year, to nearly $3,000. High-paid techies have taken up shop in what many have taken to calling the “Twitterloin,” in reference to the giant social media site’s headquarters located there.</p>
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<p><strong>Finding a Better Way</strong></p>
<p>Aside from the undeniable wealth gap, the U.S. is the only industrialized country where workers aren't guaranteed vacation time and where maternity and paternity leave remain up to the employer – so it's no wonder that frustrations here are building. Economist Robert Reich, an ardent supporter of the $15 minimum wage movement, repeatedly points out that consumers with greater purchasing power will spur economic growth, boosting the quality of life for all.</p>
<p>“Widening inequality challenges the nation’s core ideal of equal opportunity, because it hampers upward mobility," Reich wrote in the Christian Science Monitor. "High inequality correlates with low upward mobility."</p>
<p>For Reich, the answer lies in increasing wages for the fastest growing sectors of the economy, namely retail and service jobs. To do this, he advocates rebuilding the union structure to assist workers as they demand better wages and working conditions. “We need to reinvigorate unions, beginning with low-wage service occupations that are sheltered from global competition and from labor-replacing technologies. Lower-wage Americans deserve more bargaining power,” Reich argued.</p>
<p>The question now is whether people begin to see inequality as a key barrier to economic development and community health – and, in a city with values as progressive as San Francisco's, if they ultimately decide to do something about it.</p>
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<p>KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed early on Thursday that a Boeing 777 wing segment discovered in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is from the missing Flight MH370, the first real breakthrough in the search for the plane that disappeared 17 months ago.</p>
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<p>“The international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the aircraft debris found on Reunion Island is indeed from MH370,” Najib said in a televised statement.</p>
<p>Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared in March last year enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board.</p>
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<p>52% of the produce department’s offerings would be pulled from shelves if bees went extinct.</p>
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<p>Ever wonder what <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/these-kids-are-texting-while-having-dinner-dads-reaction-priceless/">dinner</a> would look like if bees – one of nature’s most miraculous and necessary <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/this-mycologist-holds-the-patent-that-could-destroy-monsanto/">insects</a> – became extinct due to mankind’s <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/within-10-years-one-third-of-polar-bears-will-be-dead/">unsustainable habits</a>?</p>
<p>To inspire more people to take seriously the concern of <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/blamed-for-bee-collapse-monsanto-buys-leading-bee-research-firm/">colony collapse</a>, as well as get involved in the <em>co-creation of their own future</em>, <a href="http://upriser.com/posts/whole-foods-shows-customers-the-bleak-future-of-produce-without-bees">Whole Foods asked this question</a> and partnered with the Xerces Society to produce the <strong>shocking visual</strong> below.</p>
<p>This is what supermarkets might look like in the future if bees are allowed to die out:</p>
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<p>To highlight the <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/this-122-year-old-woman-has-the-most-important-secret-to-a-life-of-longevity/">importance</a> of bees, the University Heights, Rhode Island store removed all foods that are reliant upon the important pollinators. <strong>52% of the produce department’s offerings would be pulled from shelves</strong> if the bumbling insects disappeared… leaving little to get excited about.</p>
<p>Bees are responsible for <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/100000-german-beekeepers-just-called-for-a-ban-on-gmos/">pollinating</a> a number of plants which often make their way to the dinner table. So if they were to go extinct (due to <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/this-unfortunate-new-finding-explains-why-bees-are-disappearing/">a number of suspected reasons</a>), it’s quite accurate to say Earth’s menu would change dramatically as well.</p>
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<p>Without <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/list-of-pesticides-to-avoid-if-you-want-to-help-save-the-bees/">bees</a>, <strong>the following foods would no longer be available:</strong> <em>apples, onions, avocados, carrots, mangoes, lemons, limes, honeydew, cantaloupe, zucchini, summer squash, eggplant, cucumbers, celery, green onions, cauliflower, leeks, bok choy, kale, broccoli, broccoli rabe and mustard greens.</em></p>
<p>For the <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/he-turns-junk-into-animal-art-projects-to-raise-awareness-about-pollution/">project</a>, only fruits and vegetables were yanked from the shelves, but the scene could be a glimpse at the <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/france-is-making-it-illegal-for-grocery-stores-to-waste-food/">dismal future of food</a> if more is not done to revive dwindling bee <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/us-beekeepers-report-that-honeybee-populations-are-growing-again/">populations.</a></p>
<p>Whole Foods also launched ‘<em>Share the Buzz’</em>, a new program which gives shoppers insight on foods that help foster bees, as well as non-toxic pest tips. You can learn more about that <strong><a href="http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/pollinators">here.</a></strong></p>
<p>A number of <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/real-video-question-existence/">videos</a> have also been produced and released by the <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/vegan-company-turns-down-googles-300-million-buy-out-offer/">company</a> sharing how boring culinary creations will become without pollinators:</p>
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