Social Ecologist Profile: Mark Restall of London, England
Please introduce yourself (What kind of work you do, Where you live, etc.) Somehow – I blame the inescapable tyranny of linear time – I appear to have reached the age of 38. For the last 10 or so years I’ve lived in London. For the moment I can’t imagine living anywhere else (though I […]
Biodevastation Midwest Conference – May 15th
STALKING THE BIOTECH TYRANT: Confronting Biorepression with Creative Alternatives
More than ten panels and workshops are designed to examine various aspects of Genetic Engineering and to invigorate us to share and create alternatives to biotechnology.
Biodevastation 7 Feature from Z Magazine
By Jesse Reynolds
Z Magazine July/August 2003
Volume 16 Number 7/8
Several hundred activists from around the world gathered in mid-May in St. Louis to strategize and exchange reports of the global opposition to genetically modified (GM) organisms. BioDevastation 7 was scheduled to coincide with the corporate-dominated World Agricultural Forum, affiliated with locally-headquartered Monsanto and hosted by Cargill—both among the strongest proponents of GM crops. Reports from activists indicated that the agricultural genetic engineering industry, on the heels of both worldwide protests and lukewarm market successes, is on the defensive and resorting to increasingly desperate tactics.
BioDevastation 7 sought to extend the critique of GM crops to include their relationships to war and environmental racism. Unexpectedly, these connections were vividly demonstrated by an unlikely ally: the St. Louis police department. Upon arriving at the BioDev venue, we were shocked to learn that nearly 30 local activists and BioDev participants had been arrested on spurious grounds.
Biojustice 2007 Speakers
Full list of speakers available here…
Biojustice 2007 Schedule of Events
May 4th – 7th, 2007. Click headline for schedule.
Animal Rights Conference June 18th
On Saturday, June 18th, HUGS FOR PUPPIES will host an anti-vivisection conference in response to BIO 2005.
Get involved and donate!
We can’t stop the earth-eating insanity perpetuated by greedy biotechnology corporations all by ourselves. We need your help! There are many opportunities to help, donate funds and donate/loan items that we need to make this event a huge success!
San Francisco Call to Action
Dazzle the forces of corporate globalization with streets full of resistance and vision! While the biotechnology industry and its lobbyists meet in San Francisco and the G8 meets in Georgia, join us in San Francisco for a mass mobilization that says NO to corporate profiteering and destruction and YES to the world we want.
Biodevastation/Biojustice Teach-in & Conference, San Francisco, June 3 – 5
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!
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s presentation at RTC
Mumia Abu-Jamal prepared a 6 minute presentation that was featured at the Racial Justice Day of Action during the San Francisco Reclaim the Commons mobilization. Mumia addresses a breathtaking range of issues, from prison abuse in Iraq and the US, to historic struggles for the commons and the commodification of life. Not to miss! Download it here.
