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“Beyond Biodevastation” List of Speakers

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Dr. Vandana Shiva – internationally renowned
activist/scientist/feminist/author and winner of the Right Livelihood
Award (sometimes called “the alternative Nobel Prize”), head of the
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in India –
concern: food security, agriculture, genetic engineering,
globalization, patents, biopiracy

Andrew Kimbrell – author/lawyer/executive director of the
International Center for Technology Assessment, the Center for Food
Safety, named by Utne Reader as one of the 100 most influential
voices in the US, well-known writer and speaker (and one-time concert
pianist) – concern: food safety, agriculture, genetic engineering,
patents, globalization

Percy Schmeiser – fighting Canadian farmer who was sued by Monsanto
Corporation for violating its patent rights (by growing canola that
had been pollinated by his neighbor’s crops) – concern: farmer’s
rights, food security, human rights

Steve Wilson and Jane Akre – Goldman Award-winning reporters who were
fired from Fox-TV in Florida for their (honest) reporting of the rBGH
(genetically engineered bovine growth hormone) story and later
vindicated in court and honored by their profession (and now by the
Goldman Award) for the ethical stance they took vis-a-vis reporting

Annuradha Mittal – author and brilliant co-director of California’s
path-breaking Food First organization – concern: food security, food
safety, hunger, agricultural sustainability, globalization

Dr. Peter Rossett – author and brilliant co-director of Food First,
consultant to CGIAR – concern: food security, food safety, hunger,
agricultural sustainability, globalization

Victoria Tauli-Corpuz – director of the Philippines-based Tebtebba
Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Center for Policy
Research and Education),an associate of the Third World Network, has
written widely and internationally about indigenous peoples’
concerns, is an indigenous person belonging to the Kankana-ey-Igorot
peoples in the Cordillera Region – concern: indigenous rights,
patents, globalization, biopiracy

Debra Harry – executive director of the Indigenous People’s Council
on Biocolonialism, expert on biopiracy, and a member of the Northern
Paiute nation – concern: indigenous rights, patents, globalization,
biopiracy

Luke Anderson – UK author, speaker, and campaigner on genetic
engineering, author of Genetic Engineering, Food and Our Environment
– concern: the whole range of genetic engineering issues

Dr. Martha Crouch – retired professor of biology, did pioneering
research at Indiana University until she discovered that her work was
being used to advance industrial agriculture at the expense of the
environment, author of “How the Terminator Terminates” and other
eye-opening works about genetic engineering – concern: biosafety,
Science, unethical use of tscience and technology

Andrew J. Imparato – the American Association of People with
Disabilities (AAPD)’s first full time President and CEO; AAPD is a
national non-profit, non-partisan membership organization of
people with disabilities, their family members, and supporters, founded
in 1995 to promote economic and political empowerment of the more than 56
million Americans with disabilities. Prior to joining AAPD, Imparato was
general counsel and director of policy for the National Council on
Disability. Andy graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School
and is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College. Concern:
disability rights, genetic privacy

Brewster Kneen – co-editor and publisher of Canada’s famous
newsletter about the food system, “The Ram’s Horn”, convenor of the
British Columbia Biotechnology Circle, author of several works,
including Farmaggedon and other works about industrial
agriculture,also a leading authority on Cargill Corporation. Concern:
food security, food safety, food systems, agricultural sustainability

Cathleen Kneen – co-editor and publisher of The Ram’s Horn, potter.
feminist, and social justice activist, retired farmer, now focused on
food systems and the development of local community-based food
policies, a tireless worker and organizer of local food systems and
councils in Canada. Concern: food security, food safety, food
systems, agricultural sustainability

Dr. Miguel Altieri – Professor of Environmental Studies at
UC-Berkeley, international expert on agricultural systems, and
consultant to the CGIAR.. Concern: food security, food safety, food
systems, agricultural sustainability, farmer’s rights

Dr. Richard Strohman – brilliant scientist and professor of biology
at UC-Berkeley, offers a deep critique of genetic engineering –
concern: biosafety, Science, feasibility of current paradigms of
genetic engineering

Dr. Paul Billings, M.D., Ph.D., co-founder of GeneSage ,
editor-in-chief of GeneLetter, and Chief Medical Officer and Deputy
Network Director of the Heart of Texas Veterans Health Care System. A
graduate of Harvard University, he is a clinical specialist in
internal medicine and medical genetics. His research has focused on
the immune system and, more recently, on the social impacts of
biotechnology. He is presently a director of the Council for
Responsible Genetics and has published over 100 scholarly articles
and book chapters in addition to his book, DNA on Trial:Genetic
Identification and Criminal Justice. Concern: genetic privacy,
genetic testing

Chaia Heller – author and teacher at the Institute for Social
Ecology. Concern: globalization, ecological philosophy

Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher – biologist, genetic scientist, and
outspoken critic of genetic engineering in UK, an advisor to many
national and international NGOs, also co-director of Eco-Nexus,
concern: the whole range of issues related to genetic engineering,
particularly biosafety

Dr. Marcy Darnovsky -teaches political science and the environment at
Sonoma College, also with Exploratory Initiative on the New Human
Genetic Technologies. Concern: human genetic engineering

Dr. Doreen Stabinsky – scientist with (name of university?), and with
Greenpeace USA, member of the board of directors of the Council for
Responsible Genetics. Concern: biosafety, food safety, patents

Britt Bailey – co-author (with Marc Lapp?) of Against the Grain,
writer/scientist with California’s CETOS (Center for Ethics and
Toxics). Concern: biosafety, food safety, human genetic engineering

Edward Hammond – formerly activist-researcher with Rural Foundational
International, now with the Sunshine Project, an international
organization concerned with biowarfare

Susana Pimiento – Columbian lawyer and environmentalist, now with the
Sunshine Project, an international organization concerned with
biowarfare

Charles Margulis – lead genetic engineering campaigner with Greenpeace
USA

Jim Thomas – food campaigner with Greenpeace UK, closely involved
with the Genetic Engineering Network since its establishment in 1996,
has written for The Guardian, BBC Online, and other publications

Rowan Tilly – one of the leading lights of GenetiX Snowball, the UK’s
crop-pulling conscientious objectors to genetic engineering

Brian Tokar – author/writer/teacher at Institute for Social Ecology,
member of the board of other organizations, editor of Redesigning
Life? The Worldwide Resistance to Genetic Engineering

Claire Cummings – path-breaking reporter, lawyer, and activist,
founder of Food and Farming Forum. Concern: alternative agricultures

Brian Leahy – Executive Director of CCOF (California Certified
Organic Farmers. Concern: alternative agriculture

Craig Winters – executive director of the Campaign to Label
Genetically Engineered Food, lecturer on food and nutrition at Bastyr
College in Seattle. Concern: food labelling

Anne Petermann – longtime forest activist with the Native Forest
Network and ACERCA, campaigner on genetically engineered trees

Heather Ryan – genetic engineering campaigner with California’s E.D.G.E.

Beth Burrows – founder, president, and director of the Edmonds
Institute, award-winning writer and producer, founder and board
member of many other organizations, co-editor of the forthcoming
Genetically Engineered Organisms: Assessing Ecological and Human
Health Effects and long-time teacher, lecturer,organizer, and
campaigner on trade issues and on patents, biopiracy, and biosafety