[WestMALocals] 5/29 - Resisting Big Biotech Community Gathering

[kate harris]

From: Erika Arthur <earthsister45 at yahoo.com>

Come One, Come All!

to a COMMUNITY GATHERING about RESISTING BIG BIOTECH

Sunday, May 29th, beginning at 2pm and continuing throughout the afternoon

at The ROOT 9 COLLECTIVE in Hadley, MA
[68 Russell Street (Rte 9) - yellow house across from Shell gas station]

Live Music, Workshops, Puppet Making, Gardening, Food & Outdoor Games!

WITH:

Eve Lyman - will discuss the grassroots effort to stop construction of a 
level 4 bioweapons lab at Boston University;

Jack Kittredge of <http://nofamass.org/>NOFA/<http://nofamass.org/>Mass - 
will speak about how genetic engineering (GE) threatens organic farmers;

& Ed Stockman of NOFA/Mass - will speak on the risk of crops genetically 
engineered to produce pharmaceutical drugs contaminating our food supply.

Gather, have fun, and learn more about biotechnology and how to help 
mobilize this June in Philadelphia!

CONTEXT:
Each year 10,000 corporate and governmental representatives meet in a 
different US city at the <http://www.bio.org/>Biotech<http://www.bio.org/> 
Industry Organization (BIO) convention to promote GE agriculture, 
bioweapons development and a profit-driven healthcare system. In the year 
2000, four thousand people marched in the streets of Boston in protest.

This year big biotech meets in Philadelphia and plans are well underway for 
four days of counter-workshops, street actions, panels, festivities and 
marches from June 18th - 21st. Come learn how to get involved in 
Biodemocracy 2005 and start thinking about what BIO might encounter when 
they return to Boston in 2007 for their annual gathering.

Contact: somesanite1 at yahoo.com

More info:
reclaimthecommons.net
biodev.org
bostonmobilization.org