San Francisco 2004

Dazzle the forces of corporate globalization with streets full of resistance and vision! While the biotechnology industry and its lobbyists meet in San Francisco and the G8 meets in Georgia, join us in San Francisco for a mass mobilization that says NO to corporate profiteering and destruction and YES to the world we want.
Engineered Foods? Medicine For Profit? Corporate Control? Designer Babies? Biological Weapons?
How do they affect our communities? How do they impact racial and economic justice? What are the alternatives?
Join us for the Reclaim the Commons Teach-In and Conference, followed by 4 days of colorful street actions to resist biotechnology, reclaim the commons and plant alternatives!
Mumia Abu-Jamal prepared a 6 minute presentation that was featured at the Racial Justice Day of Action during the San Francisco Reclaim the Commons mobilization. Mumia addresses a breathtaking range of issues, from prison abuse in Iraq and the US, to historic struggles for the commons and the commodification of life. Not to miss! Download it here.
Reclaim the Commons pre-teach-in press conference, featuring Brian Tokar, Anuradha Mittal, Marcy Darnovsky, Anne-christine d’Adesky, Inga Olson and David Kahn from Books not Bars. Play or download mp3 (22 minutes) from radio4all.net.
Brief schedule here. More details were at www.reclaimthecommons.net.
Full workshop schedule and room assignments. See “Schedule and Program” entry for keynote panels.
Full driving and transit directions and maps to teach-in venues: Unitarian Church, Women’s Building, New College.
Click here for the full Reclaim the Commons teach-in, program as of 6/1/04.
List of confirmed speakers for panels and workshops, including Vandana Shiva, Anuradha Mittal, Ignacio Chapela, and other U.S. and international guests…
Biodev Archive
These pages display the contents of a website formerly housed at biodev.org, documenting a series of events initiated and organized by the ISE (with many local allies) under a variety of names, including Biodevastation, Biojustice and Biodemocracy. They occurred between 2000 and 2007, and were preceded by 3 events in 1998-'99 that we also helped with. Most were planned to coincide with the annual conventions of the Biotechnology Industry Organization – the main biotech lobby in the US – and other major corporate events. For full articles on the individual event pages, just click on each headline.
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