’#Visa_War': EU Votes to Bar Visa-Free Travel for American Citizens
Since US won’t allow visa-free entry for citizens of some EU member states, European Parliament voted to end #visa-free travel for Americans
▻http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/02/visa-war-eu-votes-bar-visa-free-travel-american-citizens
#visa #visa_schengen #UE #Union_européenne #USA #Etats-Unis
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Les grandes banques françaises derrière le projet d’oléoduc combattu par les Sioux
▻http://multinationales.org/Les-grandes-banques-francaises-derriere-le-projet-d-oleoduc-combatt
Depuis plusieurs mois, les Sioux de la réserve de Standing Rock, dans le Dakota du Sud, s’opposent à un projet d’oléoduc qui menace des sites culturels ancestraux et leurs sources d’eau. Cette infrastructure, qui vise à faciliter l’exploitation du pétrole de schiste de la région, a bénéficié du financement de plusieurs grandes banques internationales, dont #BNP_Paribas, #Crédit_agricole, #Société_générale et #Natixis. Celles-ci se trouvent aujourd’hui ciblées par les militants écologistes. Depuis plusieurs (...)
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US Banks Top Cluster Bomb Investment ’Hall of Shame’ : Report | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
▻http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/16/us-banks-top-cluster-bomb-investment-hall-shame-report
The report, titled Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions: A Shared Responsibility (pdf), finds that the leading investors come from 14 countries including the U.S., the UK, and Canada. Of the top 10 overall investors, the U.S. is home to eight. Japan and China round out the last two.
Both the UK and Canada—along with France, Germany, and Switzerland, whose institutions are also named on the list—have signed the 2008 Oslo treaty known as the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning the use of the indiscriminate bombs under international law.
The U.S., which hosts by far the most companies on the list with 74, is not a signatory.
20 minutes - #Banques citées dans des armes à #sous-munitions - Suisse
▻http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/Banques-citees-dans-des-armes-a-sous-munitions-25848081
Au total, 158 institutions financières ont contribué à l’investissement dans la production de ces armes interdites, selon le rapport régulier d’une ONG néerlandaise publié jeudi. La majorité d’entre elles, soit 74, viennent des #Etats-Unis, devant la #Chine à 29 et la #Corée du Sud à 26.
Vingt sont établies dans des pays qui ont ratifié le Traité d’interdiction des armes à sous-munitions, dont la #Suisse qui avait par ailleurs adopté une loi en 2012.
#Washington_Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours
▻http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/08/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-bernie-sanders-16-hours
The Washington Post was sold in 2013 to libertarian Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is worth approximately $49.8 billion
As Rivers Run Black in Peru, Indigenous Tribes Left Cleaning Big Oil’s Disaster | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
▻http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/23/rivers-run-black-peru-indigenous-tribes-left-cleaning-big-oils-disaste
A disastrous spate of oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon have gone from bad to worse in recent days, leaving Indigenous tribes frantically trying to clean up the mess left by the nation’s state-owned oil company.
The catastrophic ruptures in Petroperu’s Northern Peruvian Pipeline occurred on January 25th and February 3rd and have threatened the water supply of nearly 10,000 indigenous people, says Amazon Watch.
On Monday, Petroperu officials confirmed to Reuters that the oil has poured into two critical Amazon River tributaries that eight Achuar tribes depend on for water. According to the news agency, these two tributaries of the Amazon River, the Chiriaco and Morona rivers, are now filled with 3,000 barrels of oil.
Critics charge that the spills continued to spread and caused far worse damage after the responsible company, Petroperu, failed to act to contain the oil released by the pipeline breakages.
Le #TTIP menace les petites exploitations agricoles européennes
▻http://www.euractiv.fr/sections/commerce-industrie/le-ttip-menace-les-petites-exploitations-agricoles-europeennes-320870
« Personne ne peut produire des céréales, par exemple, d’une manière aussi peu couteuse que les #États-Unis », expliquent les auteurs d’une étude sur le TTIP menée par UnternehmensGrün, une association de défense d’une économie verte, qu’EurActiv a pu consulter avant sa publication. L’étude prédit notamment l’utilisation du génie génétique au niveau local, des normes plus faibles et des zones de productions plus étendues. « Économiquement parlant, les #agriculteurs européens sont beaucoup moins puissants [...] [le TTIP] pourrait entrainer la chute de certains pans du secteur agricole », conclut l’étude.
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L’interdiction européenne d’utiliser des #hormones de croissance rend impossible la vente de la majorité de la production de #viande américaine sur le marché européen. Cette interdiction a pour objectif de protéger l’agriculture locale conventionnelle. Depuis le début des négociations, l’industrie de la viande américaine fait pression sur Washington pour que cette barrière soit supprimée dans le cadre du TTIP.
La question des #pesticides présente les mêmes caractéristiques. Les plafonds des résidus de pesticides autorisés aux États-Unis sont environ 5 000 % plus élevés que dans l’UE. Ces divergences sont partiellement dues à une philosophie différente quant à la #sécurité alimentaire entre les deux blocs. En 2015, la Commission européenne a cependant envisagé d’élever le taux de résidus de pesticides autorisé.
#agriculture #OGM #Europe #UE #TAFTA
Bolstering that argument, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a recent study (▻http://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1937478/err198.pdf) that too found that if tariffs are removed under the TTIP EU farmers will overall export less than they currently do.
▻http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/12/how-americas-embrace-gmos-and-pesticides-could-trigger-downfall-eu-far
Où vont les eaux usées et les déchets du #gaz_de_schiste ?
▻http://multinationales.org/Ou-vont-les-eaux-usees-et-les-dechets-du-gaz-de-schiste
La fracturation hydraulique est au coeur de la contestation du gaz de schiste. Les multiples risques associés à cette technique de forage ont fait couler beaucoup d’encre, mais ils ne représentent à bien des égards que la partie émergée de l’iceberg. De l’extraction de sable et d’eau en amont à la gestion des eaux usées et des déchets en aval, c’est toute la filière du gaz de schiste qui pèse sur l’environnement et les territoires. Des milliards de litres d’eaux usées issues du fracking sont injectés dans le (...)
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The #Palestine exception to free speech
▻http://palestinelegal.org/the-palestine-exception
Over the last decade, a dynamic movement in support of Palestinian human rights, particularly active in US colleges and universities, has helped raise public awareness regarding the Israeli government’s #violations of international law, as well as the role of corporations and the US government in facilitating these abuses. This activism, fueled by Israel’s increasingly destructive assaults on Gaza, presents a robust and sustainable challenge to the longstanding orthodoxy in the United States that excuses, justifies, and otherwise supports discriminatory Israeli government policies.
Fearful of a shift in domestic public opinion, Israel’s fiercest defenders in the United States—a network of advocacy organizations, public relations firms, and think tanks—have intensified their efforts to stifle criticism of Israeli government policies. Rather than engage such criticism on its merits, these groups leverage their significant resources and #lobbying power to pressure universities, government actors, and other institutions to censor or punish advocacy in support of Palestinian rights. In addition, high-level Israeli government figures, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and wealthy benefactors such as Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban have reportedly participated in strategic meetings to oppose Palestine activism, particularly boycott, divestment, and sanctions (#BDS) campaigns.
#intimidation #menaces #mensonges #droit #droits_humains #Etats-Unis #Israel #Israël
How US Colleges Have Become Ground Zero for Suppression of Palestine Solidarity
▻http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/09/30/how-us-colleges-have-become-ground-zero-suppression-palestine-solidari
According to another report released Wednesday by Jewish Voice for Peace, entitled Stifling Dissent: How Israel’s Defenders Use False Charges of anti-Semitism to Limit the Debate Over Israel on Campus, these campaigns are also doing profound damage to Jewish communities across the country.
The Migrant Crisis: Arms That Welcome, Arms That Kill
▻http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/09/11/migrant-crisis-arms-welcome-arms-kill
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, speaking of the migrant crisis, said this week at the State of the European Union speech in Strasbourg, France: “I’m not talking about 40,000. I’m not talking about 120,000. It’s 160,000. That’s the number Europeans have to take in charge and have to take in their arms.” Junker, of course, meant by “arms” a protective embrace. But another European with firsthand knowledge of the plight of the refugees takes the word in its other sense:
“It is our arms which are also killing and destroying these countries,” Annette Groth told us on the “Democracy Now!” news hour. She is a member of the German Parliament and spokeswoman for human rights for Germany’s Left Party. She just returned from a trip to Hungary, where she witnessed thousands of migrants stranded at the Budapest train station. “Germany is the third-biggest weapons exporter, and we have very good relations with, for instance, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, despite massive protest,” she said. “Our government is still delivering arms to Saudi Arabia, [which] is also supporting ISIS, the jihadists”
Fracturer chez les gens heureux : #Total, le #gaz_de_schiste et la « démocratie modèle » du #Danemark
▻http://multinationales.org/Fracturer-chez-les-gens-heureux-Total-le-gaz-de-schiste-et-la-democ
En mai, puis en août 2015, Total a successivement abandonné les deux concessions de gaz de schiste qu’elle détenait au Danemark, invoquant le caractère insuffisant des gisements. Les projets de Total avaient suscité une vive résistance localement, ainsi qu’une controverse sur la capacité (ou la volonté) des autorités danoises à superviser et réguler efficacement le secteur du gaz de schiste. Comme l’écrivait en juillet dernier Anders Vang Nielsen sur le site #CommonDreams.org, « la poursuite de gaz de (...)
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"►http://worldhappiness.report"
"▻http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/07/01/fracking-happy-people"
Africa to #Obama: Mind Your Own Business
▻http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/07/30/africa-obama-mind-your-own-business
Contrary to Obama’s self-appointed role as the secular priest of good governance, Africans fight for more freedom, democracy, and clean government daily.
And in these struggles, the US has consistently sided with our oppressors.
It was complicit in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, supported apartheid South Africa against Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC, whom it declared terrorists), financed the terrorist organisation National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), and propped up incompetent and corrupt tyrants like Mobutu, Samuel Doe, and Siad Barre.
Instead of coming to lecture, Obama should have had the humility to come and apologise to Africans for his country’s sadistic adventures on our continent.
Indeed, Obama has no moral right to lecture Africans on democracy, human rights, and clean government because his country has been sponsoring corrupt and cruel policies against black people at home and thieving tyrants on our continent.
If there are weaknesses in our governance they are ours to struggle against and overcome.
Steven Biko, a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, said that the greatest weapon in the hands of an oppressor is never his guns and armies, but the mind of the oppressed.
This was clear from the assembled African #elites in Addis Ababa who were cheering Obama as he presented himself as the altruist advising our leaders on how to lead us better.
Like all imperial powers before it, the US seeks to dominate the world in order to exploit it. This is how it sustains her greedy consumption.
But to disguise its intentions, the US rewrites history, employs selective indignation, and chooses arbitrary priorities to present its selfish agenda.
Obama being of African ancestry is the best puppet the US uses to disguise its contempt for Africans. But the best he can do is to mind his own business and let us mind ours.
Body Count Report Reveals At Least 1.3 Million Lives Lost to US-Led War on Terror
▻http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/26/body-count-report-reveals-least-13-million-lives-lost-us-led-war-terro
How do you calculate the human costs of the U.S.-led War on Terror?
On the 12th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, groups of physicians attempted to arrive at a partial answer to this question by counting the dead.
In their joint report— Body Count: Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the ’War on Terror—Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Global Survival, and the Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War concluded that this number is staggering, with at least 1.3 million lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan alone since the onset of the war following September 11, 2001.
However, the report notes, this is a conservative estimate, and the total number killed in the three countries “could also be in excess of 2 million, whereas a figure below 1 million is extremely unlikely.”
Furthermore, the researchers do not look at other countries targeted by U.S.-led war, including Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria, and beyond.
Even still, the report states the figure "is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the public, experts and decision makers are aware of and propagated by the media and major NGOs.
Le #gaz_de_schiste en plein reflux au niveau mondial, mais les industriels français s’obstinent
▻http://multinationales.org/Le-gaz-de-schiste-en-plein-reflux-au-niveau-mondial-les-industriels
Alors que le gaz de schiste est en plein reflux au niveau mondial, sous l’effet conjugué de raisons économiques et politiques, les groupes industriels français ont annoncé la création d’un centre de ressources dédié à cette technologie controversée. Une fois de plus, les lobbys français du gaz de schiste repartent à la charge. D’un côté, ce sont des amendements sur la loi sur la transition énergétique, introduits par la majorité de droite au Sénat ; de l’autre, c’est la création par le gratin du CAC40 d’un (...)
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US Backing for ’Moderate’ Syrian Rebels: Long Reported, Continually Forgotten
▻http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/02/23/us-backing-moderate-syrian-rebels-long-reported-continually-forgotten
That the US is arming and training Syrian rebels has been well-documented for over two years, yet Western media have historically suffered from a strange collective amnesia when reporting this fact.
[…]
This week, it appears, the media’s collective FSA/CIA amnesia has struck once again, with a series of reports that make no mention of the CIA’s ongoing operation of arming and training Syrian rebels that’s been thoroughly documented for over two years.
These reports were previewed last month with a report on CNN (1/16/15) headlined “Pentagon: US to Begin to Train and Equip Moderate Syria Rebels.” This was just false: The US isn’t “beginning to train and equip moderate rebels.”
Why Big Business Loves Desperate Workers | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
▻http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/17/why-big-business-loves-desperate-workers
... business and their elected allies fight efforts to expand food stamps or unemployment insurance or TANF [because a] desperate worker is a cheap and compliant worker.
Will Politics Kill a Deal on #Iran? - Defense One
▻http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/11/will-politics-kill-deal-iran/99740
If it were left to the negotiators, we would have a deal already. Those close to the talks say that they have crafted technical solutions that can prevent Iran from using its program to build a bomb and verify any attempt to cheat.
The track record is encouraging. Iran has fully complied with the interim agreement negotiated last November. For the first time in a decade, progress on the program has been halted and even reversed. Iran has stopped enriching uranium over 5 percent and eliminated the stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned 2 years ago could give Iran the core material for a bomb within “weeks.”
Iran is further away from a bomb today than before this interim deal. The nuclear sites are under unprecedented inspections. Some issues of compliance have arisen, but have been resolved. A comprehensive agreement could provide verifiable assurance that Iran’s program remains non-military, and impose intrusive inspections to provide substantial warning of cheating, break-out or “sneak-out.”
The main problems are political. Hardliners in Iran and the United States remain opposed to any deal.
“My brothers, we are in danger,” one Iranian hardliner told a conference audience as they watched a video portraying Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his negotiators “as gullible tools of the United States,” reports Thomas Erdrink for The New York Times. They fear that a deal would be the beginning of a fundamental shift in society, triggering other reforms. This, indeed, is precisely why many Iranian human rights advocates support a deal as a critical first step to realize their reform goals.
There are signs that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei may have reined in this opposition, at least for now. Revolutionary Guard leaders have recently expressed support for the negotiators.
President Obama could only wish for such power. His political opponents seem a mirror image of Rouhani’s, portraying Obama as a vainglorious fool, desperate to get a deal. They are whipping up a frenzy of activity to block any agreement.
While some Democrats are critical of a deal, increasingly this is shaping up as a partisan attack to prevent Obama from achieving anything resembling a victory. This strategy brought the GOP control of the Senate and it might work to assure further gains in 2016.
Thus, 43 U.S. Senators wrote to Obama last week—all Republicans. The letter by Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill, blasts an agreement that hasn’t even been written yet as “a weak and dangerous deal which will prove unacceptable to the American people.”
To be acceptable, they say, the agreement must require Iran “to dismantle its illicit nuclear infrastructure and completely disclose its past work on nuclear weaponization.”
Eleven senators-elect also wrote the president. Again, all Republicans. They also demanded that the deal “eliminates their nuclear program and all future nuclear capabilities.”
The tactic of these attacks and similar ones raised by conservative and neoconservative groups is to raise impossibly high standards for the deal. The favored approach to Iran’s program is reminiscent of Rome’s approach to Carthage: the entire program must be razed to the ground, never to grow again.
Le tour de force de l’article : la non évocation de l’écrasant rôle d’#Israël.
The Danger of Derailing the Iranian Nuclear Deal | The National Interest Blog
▻http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/the-danger-derailing-the-iranian-nuclear-deal-11720
The energy for the Congressional wrecking ball comes, as it always has, from three sources.
One is a general need for a foreign enemy and a habit of viewing America’s role as one of militant and uncompromising confrontation with that enemy. This habit and felt need have roots in some broader American attitudes, although they are manifested most starkly in neoconservatism. Iran has been filling this role of needed enemy for some time.
A second is the strong opposition of the right-wing Israel government—with everything that customarily implies regarding American politics—to anyone making any agreement with Iran. This opposition serves the Israeli government’s purposes of fixing blame for regional problems firmly on someone else, of positing opposition to such an enemy as supposedly a basis for U.S.-Israeli strategic cooperation, and of diverting international attention from problems directly involving Israel itself.
The third driver, which has become especially relevant the more that the Iran negotiations have become a prominent effort in Barack Obama’s foreign policy, is the determination of much of the Republican opposition to oppose anything that Mr. Obama favors and to deny him any achievements. The heightened acrimony over the issue of immigration has made this even more of a factor than before, if that is possible. Amid talk about government shutdowns and freezing of all appointment confirmations, trashing of a diplomatic agreement with Iran would be done while barely batting an eyelash.
Heureusement, il y a i24 News pour rappeler le rôle des absents…
Analyse : la bataille est terminée, comment s’assurer que l’Iran ne triche pas ? | i24news - Voir plus loin
▻http://www.i24news.tv/fr/opinions/52132-141124-analyse-de-combien-de-temps-la-bombe-sera-t-elle-reportee
Dans les coulisses, Israël, l’Arabie saoudite et les Émirats arabes unis observent en silence. Ils ont travaillé en coopération étroite et secrète pour saboter l’accord.
Pro-Israel Hawks Take Wing over Extension of Iran Nuclear Talks | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
▻http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/25/pro-israel-hawks-take-wing-over-extension-iran-nuclear-talks
If Congress approves new sanctions legislation, as favoured by McCain, Rubio, and other hawks, President Barack Obama could veto it. To sustain the veto, however, he have to keep at least two thirds of the 40-some Democrats in the upper chamber in line.
That could pose a problem given the continuing influence of the Israel lobby within the Democratic Party.
Élections de mi-mandat aux #États-Unis : les entreprises françaises votent républicain
▻http://multinationales.org/Elections-de-mi-mandat-aux-Etats
Cette année encore, les élections américaines sont placées sous le signe de l’argent. Milliardaires et entreprises ont injecté des millions de dollars dans la campagne pour renouveler le Congrès. #Sanofi, Airbus, #Vivendi, #Areva, #Michelin, #BNP_Paribas... Les entreprises françaises participent elles aussi, via leurs filiales américaines, à cette déferlante, majoritairement en faveur des Républicains. Et n’hésitent pas à soutenir des candidats de la droite radicale et ouvertement climato-sceptiques. Chez ces (...)
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Palestine : des militants écossais occupent une usine de drones de #Thales
▻http://multinationales.org/Palestine-des-militants-ecossais
Des militants pro-palestiniens de Glasgow ont occupé pendant une journée, le 23 septembre, une usine du fabricant d’armes français Thales. Celui-ci y construit en effet des drones dits « tactiques » Watchkeeper, en partenariat avec l’entreprise d’armement israélienne #Elbit. Le modèle Watchkeeper, qui intéresse la France et d’autres pays, est basé sur le drone Hermes 450 d’Elbit, largement utilisé à Gaza et ailleurs par l’armée israélienne. Les militants qui ont occupé l’usine voulaient dénoncer les (...)
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« ▻http://rt.com/uk/190004-palestine-protest-elbit-israel »
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« ▻http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-29325338 »
« ▻http://www.waronwant.org/campaigns/corporations-and-conflict/private-armies/action/18038-killer-drones-report »
« ▻https://uk.news.yahoo.com/activist-group-london-palestine-action-shuts-down-israeli-094152815.h »
« ▻http://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/aeronautique-defense/20140929trib000850978/drone-tactique-le-watchkeeper-de-thales-deploye-en-afghanistan.html »
« ▻http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/09/09/uk-scotland-independence-thales-idUKKBN0H40Q120140909 »
« ▻http://www.tni.org/eurodrones »
The Double Identity of an « Anti-Semitic » Commenter | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
▻http://www.commondreams.org/hambaconeggs
Un étudiant étatsunien #sioniste ("Common Dreams" lui donne le pseudo de Beck) abreuve les sites qui ne se plient pas à la doxa israélienne de commentaires antisémites auxquels il répond ensuite lui-même pour fustiger le « climat antisémite qui règne » dans les sites en question.
The impersonation, this character wrote, must be part of an “elaborate #Hasbara setup,” referring to an Israeli international public-relations campaign. When Common Dreams finally confronted the man behind the deceptive posting, he denied that he himself was involved with Hasbara.
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“Today many supporters of Israel worldwide are becoming digital ambassadors,” Neil Lazarus, a prominent Israeli public-relations consultant to the government, wrote in the Times of Israel in 2012. “The internet is transforming the battle lines of Israel’s public relations war. . . . As Hasbara becomes a grass-roots movement, the very essence of the relationship between Israel and Diaspora Jewry is being transformed.”
Lazarus, in fact, has teamed up with the pro-Israel website HonestReporting.com to train “digital ambassadors” globally to promote Israel’s interests online. The website claims 3,000 such ambassadors, a number Lazarus confirmed in a phone conversation with Common Dreams from Israel.
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Beck may have shown the future, unless defenses are mounted. As the ADL’s Todd Gutnick said, “Any idiot with a computer can do something like this.” But Beck is highly intelligent—at least in some ways. Think what a team of Becks could do.
’Agri-Terrorism’? Town’s Seed Library Shut Down
▻http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/04/agri-terrorism-towns-seed-library-shut-down
A public library in small Pennsylvania town offered a new public resource for its patrons: a seed library. That is, until the state Department of Agriculture pulled the rug out from under the plan.
Launched on April 26, the seed library at Mechanicsburg’s Joseph T. Simpson Public Library would have held all heirloom, and preferable organic, seed. Its first seed trove, with help from the Cumberland County Commission for Women, came from Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving heirloom seeds.
Library patrons could “check out” the seeds to plant, and, if all went well, at the end of the plant’s growing season, they’d save its seeds and return them to the library to replenish the stock. If the crop failed or the borrowers were just unable to save seeds, they were allowed to bring back store-bought heirloom seeds instead.
In the process of this seed library circulation, patrons would be bringing a new use to the library space, exchanging seeds with their community members and practicing the art of saving seeds — something farmers have done for years but which stands at odds with proprietary seeds.
“People have been really excited to have this opportunity to borrow seeds,” Adult Services Director Rebecca Swanger told local news ABC27 in May. “That way they don’t have to purchase a whole packet of seeds and end up not using a lot of them.”
According to reporting by the Carlisle Sentinel on July 31, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture sent a letter to the library stating that the seed library violated the state’s Seed Act of 2004.