Engineered Foods? Medicine For Profit? Corporate Control? Designer Babies? Biological Weapons?
How do they affect our communities? How do they impact racial and economic justice? What are the alternatives?
Join us for the Reclaim the Commons Teach-In and Conference, followed by 4 days of colorful street actions to resist biotechnology, reclaim the commons and plant alternatives!
(See www.reclaimthecommons.net [inactive] for full details.)
Opening Panel on International GE Food issues: Thursday evening, June 3rd 7 PM
Closing Panel on Resistance and Alternatives: Saturday evening, June 5th 7:30 PM at the Unitarian Hall, 1187 Franklin (at Geary), in San Francisco
All day Friday, June 4th and Saturday, June 5th, Starting at 9:30 AM (Fri.) and 10 AM (Sat.) at the Women’s Building, 3543 18th St. (off Valencia), with workshops at the Women’s Building and New College (777 Valencia).
Featured speakers include Vandana Shiva, Anuradha Mittal, Ignacio Chapela, Starhawk, Van Jones, Annamaria Loya (La Raza Centro Legal), Andrew Kimbrell, Brian Tokar, Clarence Thomas (ILWU), and guests from Mexico, Brazil, the UK, Australia and many other places!
Panel and workshop themes: Genetically engineered food and agriculture; Human genetics, Disability and the politics of health; Myths and realities of “biodefense;” Corporate power, global and local; Resistance and alternatives to biotechnology and corporate control.
Suggested donations: $5 – $15 (evenings); $10 – $100 (Friday and Saturday). No one will be turned away.
Major sponsors: Institute for Social Ecology, Sonoma County Green Bloc, Greenwood Earth Alliance, Direct Action to Stop the War, New College.
Cosponsors: Public Citizen, Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering, Reclaiming, Northwest RAGE (Resistance Against Genetic Engineering), Californians for a GE-Free Agriculture, and many others.
Registration information and full schedule available NOW! Click the San Francisco 2004 button for details.
