The 4th International Grassroots Gathering on Genetic
Engineering:
Resistance and Solutions to the Corporate Monopoly on
Power, Food and Life
Boston, March 24-30, 2000
Teach-in / Rally and Parade / Nonviolent Direct Actions
Join activists, scientists, farmers, and people from
around the world for a week of education, strategy and empowerment.
Help build a visible and unified movement against
genetic engineering and protest BIO 2000, the largest-ever convention of
the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
MARCH 24-26 - Teach-in / Counter-conference: Explore the
effects of genetic engineering on our health, the environment, farms and
society, help create community-centered solutions, learn and develop
organizing and action skills and more. At Northeastern University.
Panel and workshop topics will include:
* Damaging health effects of genetically engineered
foods
* Adverse environmental impacts of genetic engineering
* Demystifying human genetics and medical biotechnology
* Seeds, family farms and the future of organic food
* Biotechnology and corporate globalism
* Biopiracy and patents on life
* Dumping of engineered foods in the "third world" and
inner city communities
* Corporate and government agendas for biotechnology
* Resisting corporate control over our food and health
* Corporate campaigns, popular education and direct
action strategies
Featured speakers include Vandana Shiva (RFSTE, India),
José Bové (Confédération Paysanne, France, tentative), Ruth Hubbard
(Harvard University), Hope Shand (RAFI), Steve Wilson and Jane Akre
(formerly of Fox TV), Jonathan King (MIT), Brian Tokar (Institute for
Social Ecology), Beth Burrows (Edmonds Institute), Charles Margulis
(Greenpeace USA), Martin Shaw (GenetiX Snowball, UK), Jim Thomas
(Greenpeace UK), C.R. Lawn (Fedco Seeds), Martha Crouch (former plant
molecular biologist), Stuart Newman (Council for Responsible Genetics),
Orin Langelle (ACERCA) and numerous artists and performers, including
members of the Bread and Puppet Theater, and the band Seize the Day from
London.
This is the fourth in a series of international
grassroots gatherings, which began in St. Louis in July 1998, and
continued with events in New Delhi (March 1999) and Seattle (May 1999).
The conference is organized by Northeast Resistance Against Genetic
Engineering, People's Earth Network and the Institute for Social
Ecology, and co-sponsored by the Council for Responsible Genetics,
Greenpeace USA, Native Forest Network, Edmonds Institute, ACERCA (Action
for Community and Ecology in the Rainforests of Central America) and
many others.
MARCH 26 - Public Rally, Parade and Street Theater: A
festival of resistance against genetic engineering and the BIO
convention.
MARCH 27-30 - Continuing Actions*: A wide variety of
nonviolent actions and festivities will be occurring throughout the week
to resist the Biotechnology Industry Organization convention.
For more information, please contact:
Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering
(802) 454-9957,
nerage@sover.net
Boston Biodevastation clearinghouse:
(877) 9-RESIST (toll-free),
biod2000@jamaicaplain.com
* For more information on coordinated direct actions
throughout the week,
contact:
bio4actions@yahoo.com
* Registration materials and more information are
available online at
www.biodev.org
Source: NERAGE Vermont/ISE <nerage@sover.net>
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