Panel: Crop Contamination and the Future of Indigenous Agriculture
Bioprospecting, horizontal gene transfer and the contamination of traditional maize landraces in Mexico with transgenic DNA are just a few of the most notable threats posed by genetic engineering to indigenous agricultures around the world. Panelists will discuss these and other issues, and highlight the growing resistance to GMOs and biopiracy in Mexico.
SACRAMENTO MINISTERIAL CALL TO ACTION
RESIST CORPORATE DOMINATION OF THE WORLD’S FOOD SUPPLY. COME TO SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA JUNE 23-25TH.
The resistant spirit of Seattle, D.C., Prague, and Quebec is alive and
flows through Sacramento toward Cancún and beyond…
Tentative SCHEDULE for Biodevastation 7
Here is the current schedule, as of late April 2003…
Panel: Globalization, Food Imperialism and War
Leading critics of the global “free trade”/biotech agenda from the US, India and Africa will discuss corporate concentration, the role of international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO) and aid agencies such as USAID in promoting this agenda for world agriculture. With another global WTO ministerial on the horizon for this coming fall, the panel and related workshops will illustrate how agriculture has become the WTO’s “Achilles Heel.”
Panel: Environmental Racism
This panel will bring together leading environmental justice advocates with those who work on genetic engineering (GE) in agriculture and human genetic technologies. It will be a unique opportunity to discuss how genetic technologies may pose a hazard to the health of people of color and low-income people, and how the technologies are being used to discriminate against and exploit communities of color.
Who’s Behind the WAF?
WAF’s theme for 2003 is “A New Age in Agriculture: Working Together to Create the Future and Disabling the Barriers.” It will bring together trade and agriculture ministers and officials from the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific, agribusiness and biotech corporate executives, officials from multilateral financial institutions, the UN and the WTO, academics and a sprinkling of pro-biotech NGOs.
Panel: Backyard Bioweapons: Biolabs, Biodefense, Biotech and $Billions
This Biodevastation 7 panel will bring together activists from across the US who are resisting today’s out-of-control expansion of research on bioweapons. There will be workshops on Colombia, biotech and the Pentagon, and organizing strategies.
Invitation and Basic Schedule
You are invited to attend the
7TH INTERNATIONAL GATHERING ON BIODEVASTATION
May 16-18, 2003 St. Louis, Missouri USA.
Genetic Engineering: A Technology of Corporate Control /
A FORUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM,
WORLD AGRICULTURE AND & BIOWARFARE
Panel: International Threats to Farms and Farmers
The opening panel at Biodevastation 7, “The International Threat to Farms and
Farmers,” will highlight the destructive impact of corporate policies,
including those of Monsanto, on farms and farmers throughout North America
and around the world.
Convergence at Monsanto’s World Agricultural Forum
The World Agricultural Forum, similar to the World Economic Forum, is a
Monsanto-led, corporate-sponsored opportunity for agribusiness and
biotechnology companies to lobby government leaders from around the world. On Sunday, May 18th, participants in Biodevastation 7 will march and rally at the site of the WAF.
