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Reclaim The Commons Update and Schedule! |
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by Reclaim The Commons
Email: reclaimthecommons (nospam) gmail.com (unverified!) |
04 Apr 2006
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Reclaim The Commons 2006 is fast approaching! April 8th-11th events include a festival, panel discussion, concert, parade and workshops. A full schedule is below. Also see RECLAIMTHECOMMONS.NET or email reclaimthecommons (at) gmail.com.
Reclaim The Commons is a response to the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Convention in Chicago from April 8th-12th. BIO is a group of the world’s biggest agribusiness, pharmaceutical and bioweapons corporations. BIO promotes genetically modified (GM) food, corporate controlled farms, bioweapons research and a profit-driven healthcare system.
Join Reclaim the Commons to call for: Safe and healthy food! Sustainable farms! The right to save and plant seeds! Community garden space! Science in the public interest! Intact ecosystems! Access to healthcare! The genetic integrity of all life! Biodiversity! Human rights for farmers in the Global South! A world free of genetically engineered bioweapons! Stopping cruelty to animals!
HOUSING: If you need housing during RTC, or if you live in Chicago and can offer housing to out-of-town activists, email rtchousing (at) gmail.com or call 773-403-9121 (starting Wednesday).
WELCOME CENTER: New World Resource Center (1300 N. Western Ave.) 10-6 on Friday April 7th and 10-2 on Saturday April 8th. More TBA.
Check reclaimthecommons.net during the week for updates!
THURSDAY, APRIL 6th
Screening of The Future of Food (directed by Deborah Koons Garcia). 7:00 at Acme Art Works (1741 N. Western Ave), followed by a discussion. $5 suggested donation goes to the Acme Art Works cafe project.
SATURDAY, APRIL 8th
Joint International GMOpposition Day in 30 Countries! altercampagne.free.fr
FESTIVAL! 2-5 pm at Federal Plaza (Adams & Dearborn) Music, speakers, art making, food, kids’ activities, circus performers, tabling & Really Really Free Market (bring something to give away or just come and get free stuff). Speakers include urban farmer and writer LaDonna Redmond, and representatives for Coalition of Imokalee Workers & Food Not Bombs.
PANEL on Genetic Engineering and Human Rights – North and South.
6:30 at DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, Schmidt Academic Ctr. 2320 N. Kenmore With Anuradha Mittal, writer and international speaker on human rights, trade and agriculture; Puerto Rican author and environmental educator Carmelo Ruiz; Sarah Alexander of White Earth Land Recovery Project; and John Kinsman, Wisconsin farmer and president of Family Farm Defenders. Moderated by Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception.
SUNDAY, APRIL 9TH:
HANDS-ON AND EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS. 9am – 5pm at Acme Art Works (1741 N. Western) Seed Saving, Food Sovereignty, Bioremediation and Urban Sustainability, Making Shoes from Recycled Materials, Bike Fixing, GMOs and Indigenous Rights, Tapestry of the Commons, Huntington Life Sciences, Intentional Community & more.
CONCERT 7:30 at Acme Art Works: Broadcast Live (Hip Hop from Albany NY), Adhamh Roland of Riot Folk Collective & presentation by the Beehive Collective (beehivecollective.org).
MONDAY, APRIL 10TH:
MARCH in solidarity with immigrants in the National Immigrants’ Rights March.
TUESDAY, APRIL 11TH:
GARDENING PROJECT: 9am-3pm at Nelson St. & N. Califorina Ave.
PARADE! 4:30 pm. Meet at the Merchandise Mart (N. Franklin at the river), home of Monsanto’s Chicago office. Head for the Biotech Industry Organization (BIO) Gala at the Field Museum for a “Mutant Ball!”
ANIMAL RIGHTS PROTEST SCHEDULE: http://reclaimthecommons.net/article.php?id=307
INFORMATION ON BIOETHICS 2006 events in response to the BIO Convention: www.bioethics2006.org. |
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