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COVID-19TRUTH TO POWER

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“Someone could have been sampling viruses from different caves for a decade and
just playing mix-and-match in the lab, and those viruses could be so different
from one another that none of our vaccines will work on them. We need to find
where this came from, and close it down.” — Alina Chan, molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, in a
September 9, 2020 interview
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As we’ve argued from the early days of the COVID-19
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But it’s equally important to know how to protect against future, potentially
worse, outbreaks. That means understanding where the virus came from, and what
made it so dangerous for some, especially vulnerable, people.

Getting to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins hasn’t been easy, thanks to a whole
lot of “global gaslighting of the media—and, by proxy, the public,” according to
the reporter for Boston Magazine, who wrote:

“There’s long been a sense that if the public and politicians really knew about
the dangerous pathogen research being conducted in many laboratories, they’d be
outraged. Denying the possibility of a catastrophic incident like this, then,
could be seen as a form of career preservation [for scientists]. ‘For the
substantial subset of virologists who perform gain-of-function research,’
Richard Ebright, a Rutgers microbiologist and another founding member of the
Cambridge Working Group, told me, ‘avoiding restrictions on research funding,
avoiding implementation of appropriate biosafety standards, and avoiding
implementation of appropriate research oversight are powerful motivators.
Antonio Regalado, biomedicine editor of MIT Technology Review, put it more
bluntly. If it turned out COVID-19 came from a lab, he tweeted, ‘it would
shatter the scientific edifice top to bottom.’”

Fortunately, some scientists aren’t afraid to speak truth to power. One of those
is Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Chan, whose work is featured in the Boston magazine piece, couldn’t continue her
own research while quarantined at home.

So Chan, along with a colleague from her days at the University of British
Columbia, started digging into the possible origins of COVID-19.

What they discovered, and what they published, is not what Big Media, Big
Pharma, Big Biotech—or the scientists (and their funders) in our Gain-of-Function Hall of Shame
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Read ‘Could COVID-19 Have Escaped from a Lab?’
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SIGN THE PETITION: Stop the Genetic Engineering of Viruses! Shut Down All
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“Everybody is losing in this system—except for the massive corporations that
have taken over the American food system.” — Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), in an interview
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Finally, a U.S. Senator who “gets it.”

Finally, a champion in the U.S. Senate who’s willing to publicly acknowledge
that the health of our food system affects every aspect of our society.

Finally, a Senator who isn’t afraid to go up against “ Big Meat
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In a recent interview
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only broken, it’s “savagely broken.”

Late last year, Booker, who serves on the Congressional Advisory Committee for
the national coalition
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system is, the more support he’ll be able to build for this, and other
legislation targeting the corrupt and monopolistic practices of the industrial
food system.

Read ‘'A Savagely Broken Food System': Cory Booker Wants Radical Reform . . .
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OCA and the organic movement mourn the passing of Grover Stock, a lifetime farm,
permaculture and analog forestry activist based in California and Central
America.

Grover was an advisor and consultant for OCA for many years, working on joint
projects in Chiapas (with Zapatista communities), San Miguel de Allende and
other locations.

Grover was also a founding member of OCA’s sister organization, Regeneration International
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We will miss Grover, but his legacy will live on.

Venceremos. We shall overcome.

Watch this video featuring Grover Stock
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SUPPORT OCA & CRLTHE PRICE OF GREED

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If we had to single out one common thread running through the multiple crises we
face today, it would be corporate greed.



Greedy Big Food and Big Ag corporations have exploited “essential” workers,
poisoned our water, destroyed the nutrients in our soil along with the soil’s
capacity to store carbon, made us obese, yet undernourished—and left us highly
vulnerable to illness, including COVID-19.

Greedy Big Oil (along with Big Ag) have fueled a dire climate emergency.

Greedy Big Pharma can’t wait to push the next pill—or vaccine—on people whose
health has been compromised by the processed junk food industry.

Greedy Big Advertising and Big Media collude with Big Business to promote false
narratives over facts.

Meanwhile, greedy politicians line up to grab their corporate donations in
exchange for selling out the public’s best interests.

Where does that leave you? Where does it leave us . . . and the generations to
come?

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VIDEO OF THE WEEK‘NEED TO GROW’
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“It’s a challenge to be in a world where our government can’t be depended on to
protect us from an industrial food system that is actually making us sick.” — from “The Need to Grow,” Rosario Dawson’s award-winning documentary

An eight-year-old girl challenges the ethics of the Girl Scouts of America. A
renegade farmer struggles to keep his land. An accomplished visionary inventor
faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a game-changing technology.

There’s no shortage of challenges for those intent on feeding the world without
destroying the planet.

But there are also solutions—and that’s what the makers of the documentary, “The
Need to Grow,” focus on.

According to the film’s website:

“‘The Need To GROW’ delivers an epic story of solutions and the struggle to
implement them. It will make you laugh, make you cry, give you chills, and
inspire you to participate in the restoration of the Earth.”

According to the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences: “No human being on the
planet should miss this film.”

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BOOK CORNERFALSE ALARM?

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You decide.

That’s what the authors of a new book
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they present, and the questions they pose, around COVID-19
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In the book’s introduction
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“The intent of this book is to provide readers with facts and background
information, so that they will be able to arrive at their own conclusions.
Statements in the book should be regarded as the authors’ opinions that we
submit for your scrutiny. Criticism and dissent are welcome. In scientific
discussions, postulation of any thesis should also invite antitheses, so that
finally the synthesis may resolve potential disagreement and enable us to
advance in the interest of mankind. We do not expect all readers to share our
points of view. But we do hope to ignite an open and much needed discussion, to
the benefit of all citizens of this deeply troubled world.”

The list of questions the authors raise include:

• How does COVID-19 compare? with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus?
• What do the infection numbers and the death rate really tell us?
• Were the protective measures justified?
• Does science support mandatory mask-wearing?
• Does the race for vaccine development make sense?

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Op-ed: How Patents Threaten Small Seed Companies
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New Study Finds Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' Contaminating School Water Systems in
18 States
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Kennedy Jr., CHD Sue Facebook, Zuckerberg and 3 Fact-Checkers
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New Research Aims To Uncover Long-Term Effects of Glyphosate Spraying on Forests
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Bayer Inks Deal with Three Roundup Cancer Law Firms as Settlement Progresses
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Fast-Growing Chickens Have Long Suffered From Unique Health Problems. Is It Time
To Ban Them From Animal Welfare Certifications?
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Gates Foundation Is Also Destroying Africa's Food Economy
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