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“If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” wins Sundance Award

Winner of the US Documentary Editing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front is reportedly slated for broadcast later this year on PBS’ POV series. The Hollywood Reporter gave it a positive review. Thanks to Rising Tide North America for the sharing this information. Film […]

Egypt: Analyses and Information

Have a suggestion for something that should be shared with readers of this blog? Contact us: admin @ social-ecology (dot) org VIDEO: “Meet Asmaa Mahfouz and the vlog that Helped Spark the Revolution“ “Interview with an anarcho-communist activist in Tahrir Square in Cairo” from anarkismo.net Statement of the Revolutionary Socialists, Egypt “The Egyptian Revolution: First Impressions […]

Egypt: Tariq Ramadan & Slavoj Zizek

Events in Egypt (and the surrounding region) continue to unfold quickly with wide-ranging implications. We link to the Thursday edition of the Al-Jazeera network’s Riz Khan which featured a discussion  with Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek about the power of popular dissent, the limits of peaceful protest and the future of Egyptian politics.

Chomsky: “This is the Most Remarkable Regional Uprising that I Can Remember”

In solidarity with the Egyptian people, we link to an interview with Noam Chomsky on his analysis of the situation by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: For analysis of the Egyptian uprising and its implications for the Middle East and beyond, we’re joined now by the world-renowned political dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky, […]

bioJustice/bioDiversity 2002 Program


bioJUSTICE/bioDIVERSITY 2002
6th International Grassroots
Gathering on Genetic Engineering
June 7-9, Toronto, Canada

Sponsors: Polaris Institute, Council of Canadians, BIOdevastation
Toronto Coalition, Institute for Social Ecology [USA]

Biodevastation to Biojustice: A brief history

bioJUSTICE/bioDIVERSITY 2002 was the sixth in a series of international grassroots gatherings on issues of genetic engineering, the patenting of life, and corporate dominance over our food and health. It was the fourth such gathering to coincide with the annual convention of BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

Agribusiness, Biotechnology and War

Most of the chemical “tools” taken for granted by modern agribusiness are products of warfare. What does it tell us about the new technologies of genetic manipulation that the very same companies posit as the centerpiece of the current generation of crop “improvement” technologies?

Come to bioJUSTICE/bioDIVERSITY 2002

Over the last two years, thousands of people have gathered to counter the annual conventions of the biotechnology industry in Boston and San Diego. This year, people will be converging on Toronto to broaden the biojustice movement and challenge the biotechnology industry and their vision for our future. It will be a gathering to learn, strategize and network about genetic engineering in agriculture and pharmaceuticals, biowarfare, genetic and non-genetic discrimination, trade regimes and corporate control, patenting of life and more. This event is timed to challenge the industry’s annual convention BIO2002, Toronto, June 9-12.