In this issue we present an article on automating food production, "No Hands Touch the Land," originally a pamphlet by the California Agrarian Action Project. The article documents how publicly funded research at the University of California is used to further the interests of a handful of large growers at the expense...
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1977 has proved to be a vintage year for our chapter. Our membership has grown steadily to about 30 active members. In addition, we've reached a wider audience through publications, events, and better distribution of the magazine (now available at most bookstores in Ann Arbor). This fall we held a series of political...
Progressive forces in southern Mexico need help from Spanish-speaking health workers. Since early this year, class struggle m the Mexican state of Oaxaca has been fierce. A transport workers' strike during the winter paralyzed the state. A worker-student alliance mobilized demonstrations in many towns. The army and...
A nationwide boycott of the Nestle Corporation has been called, because of their aggressive and deceptive promotion and marketing of infant formula in the developing world. Third World mothers are being encouraged to abandon breast feeding in favor of buying such products as Nestle's Lactogen. Intensive advertising...
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Up until last summer, Flavio Martinez made his living in the cannery tomato fields of the Sacramento Valley. Though he found work thinning and weeding tomato plants, picking apricots, or gathering prunes and walnuts, he earned most of his annual income in the eight weeks of the tomato harvest.
Physicians play a crucial role in modern American society. No power of the physician has been more far-reaching than the power to determine which drugs can be "safely" given to the American public. A relatively small number of doctors have almost absolute control over the safety and effectiveness standards used in...
In the past few years much energy and enthusiasm has been directed towards the supposedly new idea of extending the comparative study of animal social systems to human social systems. However, we of the Sociobiology Study Group see this movement as the latest reappearance of a much older doctrine of biological...