>> **PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**
>>
>> MOBILIZE TO RESIST THE GENETIC-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
>> MAY 15-20, during the BIO 99 (Biotechnology Industry Organization)
>> convention in Seattle
>> (check out http://www.bio.org/meetings/future/bio99/bio9914.html)
>>
>> TUESDAY MAY 18- PROTEST the "LIFE SCIENCES" INDUSTRY
>> NOON - @ 801 CONVENTION PLACE 8th & Pike
>> at their annual International convention, BIO 99, taking place all week
>>at the Seattle Trade and Convention Center.We will gather at noon in front
>>of the Convention Center. We will leaflet, perform street theater, wave
>>our signs, & provide education on what Genetic Engineering is & the
>>dangers of it. We will march around & thru the Convention Center to
>>FREEWAY PARK located on the 4 th floor of the Convention Center. We will
>>gather to listen to amazing speakers who have revealed the TRUTH & DANGERS
>>of GENETIC ENGINEERING. Please join us in the PICKET LINE DANCE as we
>>delight to the sounds of supportive bands : JIM PAGE, The HANUMAN TRIO,
>>The SHAMANIACS, The Bubbleman, Funky Drum Ensemble & more. Come to Seattle
>>for the weekend before to prepare street theater and organize with
>>direct action folks.
>> >
>> > PLEASE CONTACT :
>> >
>> > Community Action Network - (206) 632-1656 (E-mail:waal@seanet.com)
>> > www.aa.net/~paik/biotech
>> > BRING YOUR SKILLS, art, props, stilts, good food donations,
>> mayhem, instruments, & your friends. Let us know when you are
>> coming so we can figure out housing for you. We will have a fun, creative
>> art space to make props,banners, & puppets. LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD!
And, on the 2 days that follow:
>> ** BIODEVASTATION 3 Conference ** May 19, 20
>> Plymouth Congretational Church ( 6th & University)
>> 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ( Panels/ workshops )
>> 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. ( Strategy Sessions )
>>
> BIODEVASTATION 3 is the third in a worldwide series of
> grassroots gatherings about genetic engineering
> (following in the footsteps of St. Louis and New Delhi)
>
>. . . all-day workshops and evening strategy sessions addressing
>food safety and food security, patenting of seeds and other life
>forms, environmental issues, monopolization and industrialization
>of food production, etc.
>
>. . .featuring such major critics of science and technology as:
>* Brian Tokar (writer/critic for Z Magazine and the Ecologist,
>author of Earth for Sale, and professor at Goddard College and
>the Institute for Social Ecology),
>* Dr. Michael Hansen (Consumer Policy Institute scientist,
>expert on bovine growth hormone, mad cows, and most of the
>insanity in our food system),
>* University of Indiana Professor Martha Crouch (biologist/
>critic, and author of "How the Terminator Terminates..."),
>* Oregon State University Professor Elaine Ingham (the soil
>ecologist who first shared the problems with an engineered
>microorganism that might have spelled the end of agriculture),
>* Brewster Kneen (editor of The Ram's Horn, food system analyst,
>and author of Farmageddon),
>* Cathleen Kneen (co-editor of The Ram's Horn and organizer of
>community food councils across Canada),
>* Debra Harry (renowned critic of the Human Genome Diversity Project
>and Coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples Coalition Against Biopiracy),
>* Ronnie Cummins ( guardian of Global Days of Action and
>organizer of the Campaign for Food Safety),
>* Charles Margulis, head of Greenpeace USA's genetic engineering
>campaign, the strategist in the fishberry suit,
>* and many others, including RAFI researcher/campaigner
>extraordinaire Edward Hammond, long-time campaigner for
>techno-sanity and civil rights UW Professor Phil Bereano, techno-
>eugenics maven Rich Hayes, activist/ecology professor Doreen
>Stabinsky
>
>
>. . . hosted by the Edmonds Institute and Washington Biotechnology Action
>Council; co-sponsored by: Food and Farming Forum, Greenpeace U.S.A.,
>Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (West Bengal,India), International
>Center for Technology Assessment, Campaign for Food Safety, Diverse
>Women for Diversity, Biotechnology Action Montreal, Council for
>Responsible Genetics, Center for Ethics and Toxics, the Gateway Greens,
>Institute for Social Ecology, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy,
>Non-Violent Action Committee of Cascadia, Northeast Resistance Against
>Genetic Engineering, the Global Economy Working Group of the Church
>Council of Greater Seattle, Sustainable Communities, and others.
>
>There is NO charge to attend (and free lunch will be offered both days).
>
>To pre-register and ensure space at what is sure to be a crowded event,
>contact the Edmonds Institute, beb@igc.org or 425-775-5383.
N.B.: Space is filling up fast. If you want to attend Biodevastation 3,
you need to preregister now.
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