Legal Team From Reclaim The Commons Needs Your Help
Evidence Call Out

"Were you at the 2004 Biotech Protest in San Francisco on June 8th? Were you there early in the morning, that is prior to 7:00am? Do you remember the streets, in particular, 4th coming south from Mission down to Howard, being blocked off by the police? And/or do you remember seeing 3rd being blocked going north to Howard? A number of protesters are still facing charges for 'willfully and substantially blocking the free passage' of others when they sat down or stood in the intersections of 4th and Howard and at 3rd and Howard." The legal team for the protesters who were arrested on the morning of June 8th, 2004 at the Reclaim the Commons "Shut Down San Francisco" protest are seeking witnesses for this case whose outcome, they think, will set a precedent on protest in SF.
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According to the film The Corporation, a corporation is simply a psychopath: Lying, harming others and not caring about it, unable to learn from mistakes, and more. Biotech croporations are just that: harming and threatening farmers around the world, destroying biodiversity - and yet they describe themselves as selling "Food, Health, Hope". ( interviews)

Some 17,000 people from biotech companies from about 60 countries are meeting behind closed doors to set up more contacts, to sell their ideas, to raise venture capitalism - and to convince journalists and the public that biotech is just great. To spin pro-biotech PR, corporate journalists were provided with story ideas already a week before the conference started, while Indymedia journalists were denied press credentials due to writing from an "activist point of view".
For corporate journalists, BIO2004 started out on Sunday with a media brunch full of GM food and corporate lies, promoting GM crops as the weapon against obesity.

Reclaim the Commons vs BIO

From 6 to 9 June, some 17,000 people from about 60 countries will converge at the BIO Convention in San Fransisco, USA. BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, is the biggest organisation of the biotech companies around, and they traditionally hold their annual conventions in different cities in the US.

The agenda is covering all kind of biotech topics in presentations, so-called executive workshops, receptions and corporate exhibitions. It is a place for companies to convene, to make business contacts, to lobby, and to convinve themselves that they are doing the right thing... Which they aren't!

BioDev is organizing a teach-in with panels and workshop from 3 to 5 June, followed by 4 days of colorful street actions to resist biotechnology, reclaim the commons and plant alternatives!

Check for the RTC web site www.reclaimthecommons.net for an overview of actions and events or call 877-806-2071.

The Convergence Space is loaceted at 960 Howard between 5th and 6th.

[ Indymedia: Biotech IMC | Indybay || Biodevastation to Biojustice | Reclaim the Commons ]

Genetic Engineering Action Network Conference
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March 12th, 2004 marked the beginning of the GEAN (Genetic Engineering Action Network) conference in San Francisco, CA, USA. Events began with a public forum called "California at the Crossroads". A roundtable of speakers talked about current GMO issues from the struggles farmers are facing, activists passing legislation in Mendocino County, CA, USA and consumer issues from GE foods, mad cow and other safety and environmental concerns. [ AUDIO: GEAN Conference 03-12-2004 ]

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