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Biodevastation 8 Midwest Conference — May 15th STALKING THE BIOTECH TYRANT: Confronting Biorepression with Creative Alternatives, at Nerinx Hall, 530 E. Lockwood Ave. in Webster Groves, MO. Discount tickets available now.
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Biodevastation 7 Feature from Z Magazine Available at http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/Aug2003/reynolds0803.html.
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Global Citizens' GMO Challenge During the Biodevastation conference in St. Louis, Missouri, activists from India, the UK and the US discussed the need for a citizens' challenge in the dispute that the US was threatening to initiate against Europe in the WTO to end Europe's de facto moratorium on GMOs. The full text of the Citizens' GMO Challenge, as presented in Cancun on September 9th follows.
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Presentation: The Future of Indigenous Agriculture Several people have contributed to define and help us to understand the importance of diversity in the food chain. Among them the Huicholes, Tzotziles and Mijes, Indians native to the cradle of corn in Jalisco, Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico. We need to be aware of this ancient wisdom and hope for a science that is as wise.
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Presentation: Resisting GMOs in Africa Genetic engineering in its present form cannot form part of the solution of the food crisis in Africa. Most farmers in Africa live an egalitarian life and are able to save, sell and exchange seeds freely; biotechnology will dissolve these good values and prohibit farmers from such practices.
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Presentation: Bioweapons in New Mexico Los Alamos: the place now infamous for cover-ups, theft, the attempted purchase of a 30,000-dollar car with taxpayer money, missing hard drives, ethnic prejudices, and destroyer of vice-presidential hopefuls. Now they want to line their pockets with a piece of the biodefense pie.
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Biodevastation 7 Global Declaration Participants in Biodevastation 7 in St. Louis drafted and ratified a Global Citizen's Declaration for Biosafety and Food Security, in...
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Global Declaration from Biodevastation 7 U.S. and International Citizens Oppose the U.S./WTO Intervention Against European Controls on Genetically Modified Foods. A fuller draft of this declaration will be developed as a worldwide sign-on prior to the WTO Ministerial in Cancun, Mexico this coming fall.
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Media reports from Biodevastation 7 Transcripts of media reports on Biodevastation 7 and related arrests from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Associated Press, with...
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Media reports from Biodevastation 7 Transcripts of media reports on Biodevastation 7 and related arrests from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Associated Press, with...
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Monday 5/19 Legal Update These are some addresses and contact numbers for the City of St. Louis. Please write, call do everything you can!
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Biodev. 7 Media Press reports from Biodevastation 7, part 1.
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Biodev. 7 media 2 Second installment of press reports from Biodev. 7.
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Biodev. 7 arrests/bike caravan on the radio Links to news reports on Democracy Now and Free Speech Radio News
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Pre-emptive arrests in St. Louis At least 20-30 people have been arrested and we need your help. Police invaded two known movement homes Friday morning...
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Workshop descriptions/May 16-17th This is the final listing of concurrent workshops for Biodevastation 7: A Forum on Environmental Racism, World Agriculture and Biowarfare
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Press Release: Farmers vs. GE Wheat Coming to St. Louis There is widespread opposition in the northern US and Canada to the introduction of Roundup Ready wheat, a genetically modified (GM) crop Monsanto hopes to market. Farmers in the forefront of this opposition will join with scientists, environmentalists and civil rights activists in St. Louis immediately prior to the World Agricultural Forum (WAF) and participate in a protest at the WAF.
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REGISTRATION FORM Click on [MORE... ] for an e-mailable registration form for Biodevastation 7. If cost is a barrier to your attending, please call 314-727-8554 or write to fitzdon@aol.com before May 10.
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Housing Information Information on homestays, hostel and hotels...
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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.
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Tentative SCHEDULE for Biodevastation 7 The current draft schedule for Biodevastation 7 as of April 27th.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Come to St. Louis: Time to Abolish Monsanto! "Monsanto is considered a takeover target... could be bought and sold off in pieces." New York Times, January 14, 2003
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St. Louis Information The May 2003 Biodevastation Gathering will be the cutting edge event defining links between environmental racism and the biotechnology industry.
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