Monsanto Co. wants to take over Mexico's heartland with GM corn

If their requests are approved by outgoing president Felipe Calderón, Monsanto Co. and DuPont will be planting 2,500,000 hectares (more than 6 million acres) of transgenic or GM maize in the heartland of Mexico.

According to ETC Group, the consequences will be devastating for the heart of the center of origin and diversity for maize, and also globally. 

Mexico is considered to be the global repository of maize genetic diversity, as scientists have identified thousands of peasant varieties of maize.

Should Monsanto's applications be approved, this would mark the world's first commercial-scale planting of GM varieties of a major food group, in it's center of origin.Basically this would wipe out all biodiversity, and all the various local varieties of maize, developed over around 7,000 years... read more and find out how you can help/sign petition.

Petition against Enbridge for misleading tar sands pipeline ads

Oil and gas giant Enbridge is fighting to build a 700 mile tar sands pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast, despite massive public opposition. In their ads promoting the pipeline, they have removed islands from the map.

It is bad enough that they are promoting the planned tar sands pipeline, but what is worse, despite opposition to their project, they are misleading the public, by deleting islands off of public safety videos and maps (above), to make the project look safer than it actually is... read more and sign petition.

EU Finance Regulator on Avaaz — 'Put bankers behind bars'

Avaaz has started a brand new petition, asking the European Commission and the EU Parliament to introduce strong regulation against market abuse, including criminal sanctions for bankers.

Recently big banks have been caught out in a massive scam to rig global interest rates. Millions of people have been ripped off on their student loans, mortgages and more.

Barclays Bank recently got caught out manipulating the key interbank lending rate. What did they get for this? They got fined... read more and sign petition.

Jimmy Wales petitions against extradition of Richard O’Dwyer

24-year-old Richard O’Dwyer is to be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. on copyright charges. Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia has started a petition against this.

Digital Journal reported on March 14 that the U.S. had won its case to extradite Richard O'Dwyer to the U.S. to face trial for operating a U.K.-based website linking to copyright materials.

The United States claims that the website infringed on American copyright legislation by linking to copyright protected material. O’Dwyer’s website, TVShack.com, sold advertising space and, according to American officials, netted more than $230,000 before American agents first shut it down.... read more and find out where to sign the petition.