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Move for a Day is taking place during the Micronomics Festival in Brussels. Therefore some non-profit organiations, buisnesses and micro-initiatives will swap their work places with each other.

5 minutes movie made by Indymedia on the move1day-activities:

(click the image to link to the indymedia site).

More information can be downloaded on David Helbich’s blog.
A slideshow of the event we be presented at Micronomics festival.
More pictures about the Movie1Day-project:
http://thoughtsandtalks.so-on.be/photo-albums/, select move1day-album.

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From 27th to 29th March 2009 the Course “Grandmother’s University” was held at the Navdanya Vidya Peeth campus in Derhadun. About 30 female farmer’s from Uttaranchal, Uttrakand and Maharashtra and 20 western students gathered together to celebrate woman’s work and knowledge through attending interactive lectures.

Dr. Vandana Shiva conducted a session on Women and Agriculture in which she stated that throughout history keeping seeds has been mostly women’s business.
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aubergine ‘black beauty’ and ‘orange de turquie’
eggplant (courges) ‘ronde de nice’ and ‘black beauty’
pumpkin ‘red kuri’ and ‘rouge vif d’estampes’
capsicum (paprika) ‘yolo wonder’
tomato ‘marmande’, de Berao’ and cherrytomato ‘black cherry’
chillipepper ‘cayenne’
radish ‘cherry belle’
cucumber ‘russian’
fennel ‘zera fino’
cardon (kardoen) ‘vaulx de velin’
oseille (zuring), broccoli, spinach, phacelia, marigolds and icelandic poppies,
basil ‘canelle’ and ‘big green’