To: Perm Practitioner <permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Melbourne and Sydney Rallies: December 3 & 4
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:52:13 +1200
FYI
Bob Phelps wrote:
> Dear Food Folks,
>
> Please attend the following protest rallies. We will seek a ban on GE foods
> and, failing that, labelling.
>
> MELBOURNE PROTEST RALLY
>
> Noon - 2pm, Thursday December 3, 1998
> Rockman's Regency Hotel
> Cnr Exhibition and Lonsdale Streets
>
> More Info: Bob 9416.2222
>
> SYDNEY PROTEST RALLY
> Noon - 2pm, Friday December 4, 1998
> Carlton Crest Hotel
> 169-170 Thomas St, Sydney
>
> More Info: "Luis Rappaport "<aura@zip.com.au>
>
> Monsanto, fronted by the Australian Nutrition Foundation, have invited an
> overseas speaker to tell Australians how deluded we are over safe GE foods.
>
> Joan Horbiak, a US public health nutritionist, will address the lunchtime
> meetings in Melbourne and Sydney mentioned above. Presumably they will also
> be after the media coverage they purport to despise. We hope to balance the
> equation.
>
> The organisers are excluding the interested public but if you want to try
> and get in we can send the paperwork.
>
> mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>
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>
> mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>
> Bob Phelps
> Director
> Australian GeneEthics Network
> c/- ACF 340 Gore Street, Fitzroy. 3065 Australia
> Tel: (03) 9416.2222 Fax: (03) 9416.0767 {Int Code (613)}
> email: acfgenet@peg.apc.org
> WWW: http://www.zero.com.au/agen
>
> "Non-cooperation with injustice is a sacred duty."
>
> Mahatma Gandhi
>
> "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for enough good
> people to do nothing"
>
> Edmund Burke
>
> "Knowing is not enough, you must also act"
>
> mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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PACIFIC EDGE PERMACULTURE
Russ Grayson and Fiona Campbell
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Re: Melbourne and Sydney Rallies: December 3 & 4,
Fiona Campbell + Russ Grayson, 11/19/1998