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[darko nikolic <seaturtle333@yahoo.com>]

--- Occidental Arts and Ecology <oaec@oaec.org> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:57:16 -0700
> Subject: CALIFORNIA AT THE CROSSROADS - March 12th
> panel discussion in SF
> From: Occidental Arts and Ecology <oaec@oaec.org>
>  
> 
> 
> Below is an announcement for a genetic engineering
> panel discussion in San
> Francisco on March 12. This event is being organized
> by Californians for
> GE-Free Agriculture. The Occidental Arts and Ecology
> Center is a co-founder
> and member of the Californians for GE-Free
> Agriculture coalition. For more
> information on the coalition or the event, please
> contact OAEC's Renata
> Brillinger (renata@oaec.org or 707-874-1557 x 222).
> 
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>
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> 
> CALIFORNIA AT THE CROSSROADS
> PANEL DISCUSSION IN SAN FRANCISCO
> 
> FRIDAY MARCH 12, 2004 at 7pm
> 
> HORACE MANN MIDDLE SCHOOL -  3351 23rd St, San
> Francisco
> (Between Valencia and Mission, 2 blocks from 24th
> St. BART station)
> 
>
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> 
> California, which produces over 350 crops, is
> currently free of genetic
> engineering(GE) with the exception of cotton grown
> in the Central
> Valley. This could all change soon as Monsanto and
> friends have their
> sights set on California, the country's largest food
> producer and
> exporter of food. Come find out more about how this
> technology will
> impact California's farmers, our environment, our
> food and learn how you
> can stop it.
> 
> Californians for GE-Free Agriculture and Genetic
> Engineering Action
> Network (GEAN) present a panel discussion to kick
> off GEAN's national
> conference which is taking place in Berkeley March
> 13-14. Register
> online at www.geaction.org
> 
> Percy Schmeiser - Canadian Farmer and Folk Hero.
> The Canadian Supreme Court is currently deciding
> Monsanto's seed patent
> case against Percy.
> 
> Ronnie Cummins - Organic Consumers Association
> 
> Renata Brillinger - Californians for GE-Free
> Agriculture
> 
> Claire Cummings - Food and Farming Forum, KPFA
> 
> Nick Greco - Organic Rice Farmer, Greco Farms, CA
> 
> Suggested Donation $10 but no one turned away for
> lack of funds.
> 
> Sponsored by: Californians for GE-Free Agriculture,
> The Ecology Center,
> Genetic Engineering Action Network, International
> Forum on Globalization
> 
> *****For more information call: 415-561-2523 or
> visit www.calgefree.org
> ******
> 
> Californians for GE-Free Agriculture is a unique
> coalition of
> sustainable farming, environmental, and consumer
> organizations united to
> prevent genetically engineered (GE) agriculture in
> California. Our
> members include: California Certified Organic
> Farmers, Center for
> Environmental Health, Center for Food Safety,
> Community Alliance with
> Family Farmers, Ecological Farming Association, Four
> Elements Farm,
> Genetic Engineering Action Network, Occidental Arts
> and Ecology Center,
> and Organic Consumers Association.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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