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Subject: OCCUPY CORPORATISM
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jlh1182 4.12.12 - 11:45pm
Corporations Descend on Africa to Securitize Natural Resources for Profit * +

jlh1182 5.12.12 - 12:13am
An 11 million dollar project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Cocoa- Cola Corporation are employing 50,000 Kenyan and Ugandan smallholders to produce fruit for Minute Maid, a subsidiary for Cocoa-Cola. Mutli-national corporations are descending on Africa to utilize their land in the hopes that crop yields will boost their profit margins. * +

jlh1182 5.12.12 - 12:14am
Efforts like the Gitaus banana project, which produces varied crops, have invested in improved transportation while exploiting small-scale farmers in a blueprint plan to revolutionize Africas unused arable land. * +

jlh1182 5.12.12 - 12:15am
Africa is now the last frontier in terms of arable land, said James Nyoro, the Rockefeller Foundations managing director for Africa. With the population growing to 9 billion, the rest of the world will have to depend upon Africa to feed it. * +

jlh1182 5.12.12 - 12:16am
I have no doubt whatsoever that Africa can feed itself and that Africa can be a major contributor to world food security, Namanga Ngongi, the former president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). * +

jlh1182 5.12.12 - 12:18am
Researchers for the British Geological Survey (BGS) and the University of London have uncovered underground aquifers of water in Africa that are 100 times the amount found on the surface of the continent; and have written a paper in the Environmental Research Letters journal. The created a detailed map of the underground water. * +

jlh1182 5.12.12 - 12:19am
This discovery could be the largest attempt at water privatization. Corporations like Coca-Cola and Nestle, through third party corporations True Alaska, have taken excessive amounts of water from water-starved communities, only to bottle it and sell it back to them. * +

jlh1182 5.12.12 - 12:20am
Once these corporations purchase the mineral rights to land they own, they turn their privately-owned city water into bottled Dasani. The price consumers pay is equivalent to 1000 times its worth. In the 1990s, the World Bank required numerous impoverished countries (like Africa) to privatize their water supplies as a condition of economic assistance. * +

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