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Bite-Back Campaign Update: Tell Bush to go GM cold turkey this Thanksgiving (and beyond) Nic Lee, Friends of the Earth representative for England, Wales & N. Ireland reports: The US Government continues to pursue its complaint with the World Trade Organisation regarding the European Union's policy on GM food. Friends of the Earth believes that it's just the latest Bush government-led attempt to bulldoze over other countries' rights to protect their people and the environment. Don't let Bush tell you what to eat - Bite back! and send him a turkey as his thoughts turn to food this Thanksgiving: www.bite-back.org.uk
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Biodevastation/Biojustice Teach-in & Conference, San Francisco, June 3 - 5 Engineered Foods? Medicine For Profit? Corporate Control? Designer Babies? Biological Weapons? How do they affect our communities? How do they impact racial and economic justice? What are the alternatives?  Join us for the Reclaim the Commons Teach-In and Conference, followed by 4 days of colorful street actions to resist biotechnology, reclaim the commons and plant alternatives!
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San Francisco Call to Action Dazzle the forces of corporate globalization with streets full of resistance and vision! While the biotechnology industry and its lobbyists meet in San Francisco and the G8 meets in Georgia, join us in San Francisco for a mass mobilization that says NO to corporate profiteering and destruction and YES to the world we want.
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From Biodevastation to Reclaiming the Commons: A brief history The “Reclaiming the Commons” mobilization in San Francisco continues a series of international grassroots gatherings on issues of genetic engineering, the patenting of life, and corporate dominance over our food and health that began six years ago in St. Louis. Since May of 1999, most of these gatherings have coincided with the annual convention of BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
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Global Citizens' Challenge Presented in Cancun An expanded Global Citizens' GMO Challenge was presented by Dr. Vandana Shiva on September 9th in Cancun, Mexico, as delegates began to gather for this year's Ministerial conference of the WTO. The document presented in Cancun contained the signatures of hundreds of organizations and individuals from around the world. Read Dr. Shiva's letter and the full text of this statement here.
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Mobilization Website and Updates from Sacramento www.sacmobilization.org For detailed reports from the Sacramento mobilization, June 20-25th, 2003, see the Indymedia Portland website. Additional images and...
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Spring 2003: From Biodevastation to Biojustice Announcing the 2003 Biodevastation/Biojustice events including Biodevastation 7 in St. Louis, the Caravan Acrosss the Cornbelt, response to the Washington, DC BIO convention, and the Sacramento Mobilization around the USDA's agriculture ministerial. Details here.
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Biodev 2002 Report Back This report can be found on the web here . Contact: Lucy Sharratt, Polaris Institute lucy_sharratt@on.aibn.com The gathering aimed to...
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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]
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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...
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Biodev Gallery Online We've installed a new gallery system that has pictures from Biodev 2000 and the bioJUSTICE/bioDIVERSITY events of 2002. If you...
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bioJUSTICE-bioDIVERSITY 2002 report online View the report from last year's teach-in and picnic in Toronto, Canada at www.polarisinstitute.org. Go to the Biojustice page and...
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News Coverage of bioJUSTICE/bioDIVERSITY 2002 News Coverage independent media coverage :: ontario.indymedia.org toronto star :: rival conferences Associated Press :: Biotech lobbyists' clout grows in...
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News Coverage of bioJUSTICE/bioDIVERSITY 2002 News Coverage independent media coverage :: ontario.indymedia.org toronto star :: rival conferences Associated Press :: Biotech lobbyists' clout grows in...
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Biodev Gallery We've put together a photo gallery that includes images from many of the past biodevastation/biodiversity/biojustice events. Please check out this...
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Report from Toronto, June 2002 From ontario.indymedia.org: Biojustice events raise new issues, strategies, alliances Over 2500 people gathered in Toronto's Grange Park on Sunday, June...
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Media Background on Biodevastation Events Links to alternative media coverage of Biodevastation 2000 (Boston) and Biojustice 2001 (San Diego).
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Report from San Diego, June 2001 From la.indymedia.org: They said it couldn't be done. That we'd never be able to assemble hundreds of people for a...
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Biodev2001 Schedule of Events BIOJUSTICE! 2001 Teach-In June 22-23, San Diego, California. "Beyond Biodevastation: The 5th Grassroots Gathering to Celebrate Biodiversity and Question...
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Biodev2001 List of Speakers » list of speakers Dr. Vandana Shiva - internationally renowned activist/scientist/feminist/author and winner of the Right Livelihood Award (sometimes called...
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Beyond Biodevastation Teach-in Program, San Diego 2001 "Beyond Biodevastation"- The Fifth Grassroots Gathering to Celebrate Biodiversity and Question Genetic Engineering Teach-In, June 22-23, 2001, San Diego, California, USA
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Statement from Biodev 2000 On March 26, in Boston, 4000 people took to the streets to oppose the commodification of life. This was the largest protest against the biotechnology industry that North America and Europe have ever seen.
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Biodev2000 Demands Biodevastation 2000 List of demands from the organizers of Biodevastation 2000. • End the commercialization of genetically engineered products...
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Biodev2000 Cosponsors List Biodevastation 2000 Co-sponsors and Supporters as of 3/21/00 Co-sponsors: Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering Institute for Social Ecology People's Earth...
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Biodev2000 press reports Press Release for BioDevastation Boston.com March 23, 2000 -- "Bio-protest will be peaceful, groups promise" Boston Herald March 23, 2000...
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Biodevastation 2000 program BIODEVASTATION 2000, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Program
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Biodevastation 2000 workshops Biodevastation 2000 Workshop Schedule, Friday and Saturday, March 24-25th, 2000.
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Biodevastation 3 (Seattle) program Biodevastation 3, Seattle, May 19-20, 1999 Final Schedule
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Biodevastation 2 Programme (New Delhi) BIODEVASTATION II The International Citizens Strategy Meeting on "Genetic Engineering and Patents on Life" 9 and 10 March 1999 Sri Aurobindo Ashram, New Delhi
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Biodevastation 1 Program (St. Louis, July 1998) First Grassroots Gathering on Biodevastation: Genetic Engineering July 17-19, 1998, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, Missouri
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