[WestMALocals] Fw: [WMAPage] this Sunday - Resisting Biotech gathering

[Owen Broadhurst]

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From: "kate harris" <kate at earthlovers.org>
To: WMAPage at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WMAPage] this Sunday - Resisting Biotech gathering
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 16:32:05 -0400

> 
> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:03:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: edmund frost <somesanite at yahoo.com>
> 
> Come One, Come All!
> 
> To a COMMUNITY GATHERING about RESISTING BIG BIOTECH
> 
> Sunday, May 29th, starting at 2pm,
> and continuing throughout the afternoon
> 
> at The ROOT 9 COLLECTIVE in Hadley, MA
> [68 Russell Street (Rte 9) - across from the Shell gas station]
> 
> Live Music [Shokazoba, a 10+ piece local Afro-Beat Band,
> and others], Workshops, Puppet Making, Gardening, Food,
> Films and Outdoor Games!
> 
> WITH:
> 
> Eve Lyman - speaking on the grassroots effort to stop
> construction of a level 4 bioweapons lab at Boston University.
> 
> Jack Kittredge from NOFA/Mass - speaking on how
> genetic engineering threatens organic farmers.
> 
> & Ed Stockman from NOFA/Mass - speaking about how
> crops genetically engineered to produce pharmaceutical
> drugs could contaminate our food and seed supplies.
> 
> Come gather, have fun, and learn more about
> biotechnology and how to help mobilize this June in
> Philadelphia!
> 
> CONTEXT:
> Each year 10,000 corporate and government
> representatives meet in a different US city at the
> Biotech 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
> to protest.
> 
> This year big biotech meets in Philadelphia, and
> planning is well underway for the BioDemocracy 2005
> mobilization - four days of workshops, street actions,
> panels, festivities and marches from June 18th - 21st.
> 
> This is also a good time to start thinking about what
> BIO might encounter when they come back to Boston in
> 2007 for their yearly spectacle.
> 
> Contact: 
> <http://us.f603.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=somesanite1@yahoo.com&YY=50914&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b>somesanite1 at yahoo.com
> 
> More info:
> reclaimthecommons.net
> biodev.org
> bostonmobilization.org


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