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A little of our own 'shock and awe'
At precisely 10:03 pacific time, the Sacramento Mobilization began kicked off their ceremonies.
Biotech Family Tree 2003
As 3 corporations, Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta, push for the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, Corporate Watch brings you the biotech family tree. The family tree shows the complex tangle of name changes, spin-offs, joint ventures and acquisitions woven by the biotech industry during 10 years of rapid expansion, consolidation and crisis.
Sacramento webradio mirror
An Oakland-based relay of the Sacramento webradio stream.
Global Biotech Food Fight Moves to California
WASHINGTON - The global debate over genetically-modified foods moves to California, where the Bush administration will tout the technology to dozens of agriculture and health ministers from developing nations. The three-day conference beginning Monday in Sacramento will be led by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman.
corporate media article w/ pix gallery
corporate media article w/ pix gallery
a day in the streets
my day in the streets of Sacramento
Global Biotech Food Fight Moves to Californi
WASHINGTON - The global debate over genetically-modified foods moves to California, where the Bush administration will tout the technology to dozens of agriculture and health ministers from developing nations
Superweeds: Setback for GMO Crops
More on the uproar in Britain over GMO crops and their safety. From the London Independent, today, 6/23.
Former Environment Minister Has Evidence Blair Is Covering Up Dangers of GM Food
Attempts by the US and Britsih governments to sell the public on the safety of GM food look a lot like their attempts to sell the public on their failed war in Iraq.
Day 2 in Sacramento brings direct action and arrests
Other articles: [ A Chicano Perspective on the Activism in Sacramento, CA 2003 | Fascists, Foam Trees and Unitarians | a day in the streets ]
3rd Legal Update
20 activists are released from Rio Cosumnes correctional facility in Elk Grove. Four (4) comrades are still practicing jail solidarity. We need a show of support in Elk Grove for the activists still locked up. Also needed are individuals with cars to pickup those released. Call 916-359-1081 or legal info line if you can help pickup.
Images from the streets of Sacramento 6/21-22
Summary of events in Sacramento: June 22, 2003
a brief summary of the day, featuring links to indymedia coverage
Summary of events and breaking news in Sacramento, June 22
a summation of the day's events and a collection of all the breaking news updates (which are all nine hours off o their timestamps).
Protesters block downtown Sacramento traffic
Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of downtown Sacramento Sunday, blocking traffic and prompting some arrests, as agriculture officials from around the world prepared for a meeting where United States government officials will pitch advances in genetically engineered food and farming.
breaking news from sacramento on biotechimc.org
first pictures from sacramento protests
Sacramento--Now Cancun BioDevastation Conference
BioDevastation in Sacramento, nextstop Cancun--
Photo essay of Sacramento protest - 18 photos
2nd Legal Update
20 arrested. Lawyers on site.
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Sunday, June 22 was a hot day in Sacramento, California. The day started with an attack on activists 
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Photo essay of Sacramento protest
Thousands of people showed up in Sacramento to protest the WTO miniterial meeting and were chased around the streets of downtown for several hours by almost as many cops. Public transit was shut down and many public places were made off limits. [ 
Fish-corn hybrid says NO GMOs [ 
Energy is high and jubilant here at the Sacramento welcome center. A drum circle with lots of creative dancers has been going since I arrived. A long line extends from the food tent, where vegan dinner is being server, just pasta with veggies and yummy sauce. [ 
Images from the streets of Sacramento 6/22 Despite the huge police state turnout for Sunday's demonstrations, today's mobilization in Sacramento were highly spirited and seemingly productive. We believe that the trade reps were aware of our presence and that our continuous presence in the streets was a clear manifestation of the global resistance the corporate takeover of the agricultural production chain. [ 
Opening Plenary: The Significance of Sacramento A standing room only room of over one-hundred attended the Opening Plenary teach-in this morning at California State University. The panel presented an overview of Genetic Engineering and included Silvia Ribeiro from Action Group on Erosion, Technology, and Concentration in Mexico,Peter Rosset of Food First, Drinah Nyirenda of Programs Against Malnutrition Zambia, Ignacio Chapela, professor of Indigenous Agriculture at UC Berkeley, and Luke Anderson of Genetic Engineering Action Network. [ 
GE Trees Protest The kick off protest took place at an Xpedx store, owned by IP, at 1015 Vine Street in Sacramento. Activists unfurled banners, marched through the aisles within the business shouting slogans, and ended the demonstration by performing street theater that included a roaming grove of old growth trees that symbolically collapsed in the middle of the road. [ 
This article will be updated to contain an archive of breaking news from sacramento posted to 
Pictures from the streets of sacramento have finally started showing up on various indymedia centers, especially on 
A 9 page 18 photo essay of the protest in Sacramento today.