[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Sacramento WTO

[susan at gleason.net]

Looks good -- thumbs up.

"to resist corporate domination..." - currently reads
"to resistance".

If appropriate, you could add David Suzuki's article on
genetic engineering to the links list:
"Experimenting with Life"
http://www.yesmagazine.org/14foodforlife/suzuki.htm

- Susan

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:09:49 -0700, jonathan lawson
wrote:

> 
> subtitle: CORPORATIONS AND THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY
> title: Activists Descend Upon Agribusiness Mini-WTO in
> Sacramento
> 
> On June 22-25, the 180 WTO member states will send
> senior trade ministers 
> to Sacramento for a "Ministerial Conference and Expo
on
> Agricultural 
> Science and Technology," a stepping stone to the
> September WTO Ministerial 
> in Cancun and  November's FTAA Summit in Miami. The
> conference and an 
> accompanying expo will highlight the "benefits" of
> transnational 
> agribusiness and biotechnology. Neither event is open
> to the public. The US 
> government hopes to use this mini-WTO to impose its
> corporate agricultural 
> agenda on the rest of the world, including new
> technologies such as genetic 
> engineering.
> 
> <p>Organizations including <a 
>
href="http://www.viacampesina.org/art_english.php3?id_article=212">Via 
> Campesina</a>, the <a 
>
href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/sacramento041003.cfm">Organic 
> Consumers Association</a> and <a 
>
href="http://www.biodev.org/archives/000054.php">Biodevastation</a> have 
> invited activists of all nations to come to
Sacramento,
> to resistance 
> corporate domination of the world's food supply. The
> Sacramento Coalition 
> for Sustainable Agriculture is organizing a response
to
> the Conference and 
> Expo. Events in Sacramento will include a public
> demonstration and march, 
> media events, street theater, public education forums
> and literature, and 
> non-violent direct actions. <a
> href="http://www.sacmobilization.org">Visit 
> their organizing site for details.</a>
> 
> <p><a href="http://www.sacmobilization.org">Sacramento
> Mobilization</a> | 
> <a href="http://www.nwrage.org">NW RAGE</a> | <a 
>
href="http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2003-06/15shiva.cfm">Vandana 
> Shiva on Food Slavery</a>
> 
> image:
> http://vancouver.indymedia.org/uploads/sacramento.jpg
> 
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