UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE WILL TAKE ON PHARMACEUTICAL CORPS

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Rita4realnews

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:18:16 EDT

Fwd: UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE WILL TAKE ON PHARMACEUTICAL CORPS

 

 

MIND AID'S NOT IN OUR BRAINS CAMPAIGN, A MEMBER ORGANIZATION OF

UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE, CALLS TO ALL WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT

THE PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATIONS' HORRIFFIC EFFECTS ON OUR COUNTRY AND

OUR LIVES ATTEND THE FOLLOWING EVENT AND SUPPORT THIS GROUP'S WORK.

RITA DICARLO, FOUNDER

NOT IN OUR BRAINS-MIND AID

2130 BROADWAY SUITE 2205

NEW YORK, NY 10023

212-787-1100

 

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Web Site Updates

Further details of our 2004 and 2005 events in San Francisco and

Philadelphia, organized around the theme of " Reclaim the Commons, "

are available and updated regularly at

<http://www.reclaimthecommons.net/>reclaimthecommons.net.

 

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<http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=7125>farmer panel is also

available online. Audio from

<http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4840>bioJUSTICE /

bioDIVERSITY 2002 is also online.

 

 

<http://www.nerage.org/stories.php?story=05/05/17/6462543>Kenyan

farmers oppose GM foods bill

<http://www.nerage.org/stories.php?story=05/05/17/6211864>Monsanto

fined $1.5m over Indonesia bribes

<http://www.nerage.org/stories.php?story=05/05/17/5662410>The truth

about GE insulin

<http://www.nerage.org/stories.php?story=05/05/17/5315374>Bill

requires labeling genetically altered fish

<http://www.nerage.org/stories.php?story=05/05/17/5128596>Demand for

Organic Foods Soaring

 

 

 

 

The world's largest convention of biotech and pharmaceutical

executives is coming to Philadelphia this June.

 

Join us to resist their closed-door corporate agenda of GE

agriculture, health care for profit, and bioweapons proliferation.

 

Give voice to a different vision of local food sovereignty, fair

trade, health care for all, community power, biodiversity and honest

science.

 

<http://biodev.org/archives/001156.php>RECLAIM THE COMMONS FESTIVAL

Saturday June 18th. Live music, puppets, food, farmer speak-out,

plant give-away

 

<http://biodev.org/archives/001155.php>BIODEMOCRACY TEACH-IN Saturday

June 18th - Monday June 20th. With Ignacio Chapela, Medea Benjamin,

Anuradha Mittal, Percy Schmeiser, & many more. Full schedule

<http://www.biodev.org/archives/001229.php>here.

 

<http://biodev.org/archives/001154.php>DAY OF ACTION Tuesday June

21st. Expose biotech and pharma. hotspots in central Philadelphia

 

<http://biodev.org/archives/001153.php>FOOD NOT BOMBS 25th

ANNIVERSARY GATHERING

 

<http://biodev.org/archives/001152.php>GREEN AND BLACK URBAN GATHERING

 

<http://biodev.org/archives/001150.php>Get Involved! Contact

Philadelphia RAGE (Resistance Against Genetic Engineering):

<phillyragephillyrage(at)riseup.net

215-222-4711 or leave a message toll-free at 877-806-2871

 

For further details, housing information, etc., see

<http://www.reclaimthecommons.net/>www.reclaimthecommons.net.

 

More info. and ongoing coverage will be available from the

<http://www.phillyimc.org/>Philadelphia Independent Media Center and

<http://biotech.indymedia.org/>Biotech Independent Media Center

 

 

 

BIODEMOCRACY 2005: Reclaim the Commons!

 

Call to Action: Converge in Philadelphia, June 18th to 21st, 2005

 

 

CALLING ON ALL PEOPLE who resent the demise of democracy and hold to

the promise of authentic popular empowerment! All who dare to paint

poems of resistance on walls of oppression, dance in city streets in

defiance of police states, and plant seeds of sedition in the shadows

of Empire: come to Philadelphia! As the world's leading agents of

eco-devastation and medical malpractice meet here in June, we cannot

stand quiet. Join us to challenge the corporate crime, poisons for

profit, and flagrant lies of the biotechnology industry, at the time

of their annual international convention, with a creative uprising

for truth, life and justice!

 

RECLAIM THE COMMONS! We recall a custom much older than two-party

Republics, in which croplands, grazing land and forests were a public

domain that benefited the whole community and belonged exclusively to

no one. In today's global society, our commons encompass the

biological strata that sustain life on earth - air, water, food,

medicine, energy, biodiversity - plus the means of communication,

education and transit that connect us culturally. Today, to a degree

unprecedented in human history, corporations have seized this public

wealth and privatized it to reap growing profits for a small and

ever-shrinking elite. As public access to and control over the

commons has eroded, so has true democracy. For democracy to thrive,

for racial, economic, social and environmental justice to take deep

root, and for sustainability to flourish ... we must reclaim our

commons!

 

 

RESIST BIOTECHNOLOGY! With their industrial exploitation of biotech

research, agricultural, pharmaceutical and weapons-manufacturing

corporations are now busily locking their greed into the most primal

area of the commons, the genetic structures of life itself. At the

expense of public health and ecological harmony, their profit-driven

success hinges upon the global proliferation of dangerous genetically

modified organisms (GMOs), disregarding the health needs of the poor

while sinking money into science-fiction treatments of questionable

safety, and governmental funding for deadly biological weapons

deceptively classified as " biodefense. "

 

The corporations gathering in Philadelphia this June are

contaminating the world with genetically engineered crops at the

expense of our health, popular food sovereignty and biodiversity.

They are profiting from unsafe and costly designer drugs, whose side

effects can be worse than the conditions they're aimed to treat,

while raising the false hope that biotechnology carries the solution

to all human ills. In the name of " biodefense, " they are profiting

from the costliest expansion of research into high-tech weaponry

since the Manhattan Project, developing new bioweapons and

resurrecting old ones, and exposing our communities to the hazard of

uncontrollable biological agents. To reclaim our nutrition, health

and security ... we must resist their biotech!

 

 

PLANT REAL DEMOCRACY! Sustainable, community-based alternatives to

corporate biotech are possible and viable, and we are making them

real! At our counter-convention in June, we will not only shine an

educational spotlight on the dangers of GE food, medicine and

weapons, but will also exhibit the grassroots eco-solutionstaking

shape in our own communities. The Philadelphia area is home to a

fabulous array of community gardens and organic farms, food co-ops

and urban nutrition initiatives, radical health collectives and

advocates for universal public health care, groups of student

environmentalists and war resisters, interfaith leaders for human

rights and renewable energy, and diverse neighborhood coalitions

against police brutality, the gutting of public services, and

environmental injustice ...

 

We welcome this opportunity for local residents to come together and

learn from each other, and for visiting activists to share energy and

ideas from your home communities! With a shared commitment to putting

our values and vision into action, we can and will counter their

corporate bio-devastation with our peaceful uprising for BIODEMOCRACY!

 

To be involved with the BIODEMOCRACY 2005 mobilization, please contact:

 

Philadelphia RAGE (Resistance Against Genetic Engineering) at

<phillyragephillyrage

OR Nathaniel from the Student Environmental Action Coalition at (215) 222 4711.

 

For updates about the mobilization:

Send a blank email

to:<biodev-biodev-

 

Read our <http://biodev.org/archives/001157.php>Biodemocracy 2005

Statement of Unity

 

And check these websites in the coming months:

<http://www.reclaimthecommons.net/>www.reclaimthecommons.net

<http://www.biodev.org/>www.biodev.org

<http://www.phillyimc.org/>www.phillyimc.org

<http://biotech.indymedia.org/>biotech.indymedia.org

 

" Because disease and starvation will not be solved by corporations! "

 

[photos from Reclaim the Commons 2004 in San Francisco]

 

 

 

Mobilization Website and Updates from Sacramento

 

 

<http://www.sacmobilization.org/>www.sacmobilization.org

 

 

For detailed reports from the Sacramento mobilization, June 20-25th,

2003, see the

<http://portland.indymedia.org/en/action/sacramento/>Indymedia

Portland website. Additional images and updates are available from

<http://www.biotechimc.org/>Biotech IMC.

 

 

<http://www.biodev.org/sacramento/archives/cat_frontpage.php#000181>Followup

from Sacramento: Photos and Community Garden victory!

 

<http://www.biodev.org/sacramento/archives/cat_frontpage.php#000186>Z

Magazine cover story: Countering Biotech and " Free Trade " in

Sacramento

 

 

 

Biodev Gallery

 

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the past biodevastation/biodiversity/biojustice events. Please check

out this selection of <http://www.biodev.org/gallery/>pictures from

several previous years' events. Also see the links to more recent

events in the upper left corner of this page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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