{"id":169,"date":"2019-06-01T21:29:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=169"},"modified":"2019-06-10T17:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T00:17:26","slug":"the-fight-against-monsantos-roundup-the-politics-of-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/event\/the-fight-against-monsantos-roundup-the-politics-of-pesticides\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fight Against Monsanto\u2019s Roundup: The Politics of  Pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book reading by <em><strong>Mitchel Cohen<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nLast year, Bay Area former Benicia Unified School District groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson won a settlement for his cancer he got as a result of the use of Round Up owned by Monsanto, who was bought by Bayer. This herbicide glyphosate has caused cancer in not just workers but members of our community.<br \/>\nIn the trial, evidence was discovered that Monsanto had conspired to keep medical information secret that showed this was a dangerous substance, and Johnson\u2019s likely death will be the result of their negligence for more profits. Cohen looks at the politics behind the pesticide chemical industry, and why it is not being held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco Labor Council this year also passed a resolution calling on the California Attorney General to remove \u201cRound Up\u201d from the shelves in California.<br \/>\n<em><strong>Robert Howard<\/strong><\/em> will also join the book event. He was juror number #4 on the\u00a0Benecia Unified School District groundskeeper Dewayne \u201cLee\u201d Johnson trial.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9EnTwj4nfs\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticsofpesticides.com\/\">The Fight Against Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides &#8211; New Book<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#8220;The Fight Against Monsanto&#8217;s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides &#8211; New Book&#8221; &#8212; The Politics of Pesticides\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoliticsofpesticides.com\/embed\/#?secret=9EnTwj4nfs\" data-secret=\"9EnTwj4nfs\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/sflaborcouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/04-08-19ResReWorkersMemorialDay.pdf<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WW8-14-18 The Monsanto Ruling With Journalists Carey Gillam and Bob Egelko by WorkWeek Radio\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F485737425&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1060&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book reading by Mitchel Cohen<br \/>\nCohen looks at the politics behind the pesticide chemical industry, and why it is not being held accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[34,4],"class_list":["post-169","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-07-28-2019","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","cat_07-28-2019","cat_forum-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}