The 5th Grassroots Gathering to Celebrate Biodiversity and Question Genetic Engineering
San Diego, California, June 22-27, 2001 From June 24th to 27th in San Diego, CA, leaders from the same chemical companies that brought us DDT, PCBs and Agent Orange will be meeting for the Biotechnology Industry Conference, (BIO), to discuss how to expand the biotech industry.
Those attending BIO will be leaders of multinational biotech and pharmaceutical corporations, bureaucrats, marketers and industry scientists. This promises to be the largest convention ever of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Be part of the growing global movement to stop genetic engineering and protest BIO 2001. Buses are being organized from communities throughout California and outside of the state to attend what promises to be the largest teach-in and public protest against the genetic engineering of our food, bodies and environment.
Explore the effects of genetic engineering on our health, the environment, our farms, and society as a whole. Consider the future being planned for us without our consent. If you would like to attend the teach-in and join a bus or carpool in your community, please call 415-981-6205 x 383 or check out www.biodev.org. Panel and workshop topics include:
patenting of seeds and other life forms/biopiracy globalization and biotechnology monopolization and commodification of food, agriculture, and biodiversity activism and consumer power impacts of genetic engineering on farmers human genetic engineering biotechnology and the environment assaults on food security
patenting of seeds and other life forms/biopiracy
globalization and biotechnology
monopolization and commodification of food, agriculture, and biodiversity
activism and consumer power
impacts of genetic engineering on farmers
human genetic engineering
biotechnology and the environment
assaults on food security
....and best of all,. . . The Alternatives Confirmed featured speakers and emcees include: Jim Hightower, author, radio commentator and former Texas Secretary of Agriculture Dr. Vandana Shiva- scientist and anti-GMO activist from India Percy Schmeiser, a farmer from Canada who was sued by Monsanto for having his field contaminated with their seed Steve Wilson and Jane Akre, Fox TV reporters fired for doing a story about Monsanto's GE milk hormone Dr. Doreen Stabinsky, Greenpeace genetic engineering science advisor Marcy Darnovsky, a human genetic engineering specialist and many other scientists and activists from around the world
Biodevastation - Days of Action Details There will be marches, street theater and protests while the BIO convention is taking place. Come celebrate the global campaign for a just and sustainable food system and take back our communities and our biodiversity. You can also check http://www.biodev.org for regular updates!!! In the Bay Area call (415) 981-6205 x383.
Cosponsors include: The Edmonds Institute, Institute for Social Ecology, Organic Consumers Association, The Ecology Center, GE-Free LA, Street Liberation Art Project, Pesticide Action Network, Greenpeace and many, many others.