This morning Diverse Women for Diversity presented a panel on Women and Agriculture which included our launching of the joint Diverse Women for Diversity and Western Mass Global Action Coalition capaign against High Fructose Corn Syrup in our food. This joint action was formulated by a group of women sitting in a bar after a Vandana Shiva Speech and talking about the issue. We wrote the pamphlet in Western Mass, created a poster of food labels
of those foods containing HFCS and sent this to Diverse Women for Diversity in New Delhi India. DWD printed the pamphlet and the poster and this morning it was widely distributed through the World Social Forum meeting in Bombay India.

Women from all over the world have agreed to join this campaign and to educate their groups on the issue. The campaign will now move to Western Europe and the Women for Life on Earth meetings. In these ways we fight the corproate control of our food.

The Forum continues bathed in dust and meeting in old factory buildings under asbestos roofs. This morning's panel was attended by about 300 people from all over the world. People took copies of the corn syrup poster and broshure with promises to distribute the information through their groups. Now the campaign will move to Europe and Women for Life on Earth headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Next month we will arrange a launch in Western Mass. This is one of the creatrive ways that we work
to link women's groups to international issues. The HFCS issue links corproate globalization of agriculture, WTO rules on trade, Genetic modifications of food products and American trade imperialism. The internationl origins and creativity has inspired many women at this World Social Forum.

The Forum meanwhile continues. Amongst those of us engaged in international organizing and activism, the issue rests on building national forces against corporate privatization.

Meanwhile hundreds of local groups are campaigning
with banners and drums for their own issues which are, justifiably, food, shelter, education and human rights.

So we continue to meet in this old factory complex, the floors covered by two inches of black dust, the buildings roofed in old flakey asbestos, the paths outside full of dangerous holes and stumbling places and dust dust everywhere. Everyone walks around with bottles of water looking harried and very tired. It is a circus, a big international circus. Conveniently isolated from the
daily life of Mumbai it allows the governemnt to continue uninterrupted its corporate course.

I try to explain what is happening in the United States and what these globasl forces have in store... I tell them the United States government has been completely privatized. We no longer have a public forum through which to
participate, to share power. The lunacy of the electoral process makes that clear. Give the people circuses, the government have found a way to distract the opposition, send them to abandoned factories in far away places.

There are a wide variety of issues but the biggie, as mentioned, is corporte take over of public resources. Corproate control of the world economy including the
necessities of life food and water.