Growing a GE Free Northeast:  Education, Strategy and Action Against
Genetic Engineering

NOVEMBER 1-3 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, AMHERST MA.

You are invited to the first major regional gathering of GE activists
since the landmark "Biodevastation 2000" events in Boston, when 4000
people marched on the annual convention of the biotech industry. Come
and join with people from across the region to learn and develop
strategies to protect our food, our health and our farms from genetic
engineering. Special guests will include farmers from the front lines
of anti-GE campaigns across the country, plus music, theater and more.

Workshops will include the science of genetic engineering, farmers
and the politics of food, globalization and GMOs, plus campaign
reports from across the region, strategy discussion and development,
and skill trainings to help create a more effective and inspiring
movement!

Help us spread the word and creating the most empowering and historic
event we can imagine.

Friday Night, 11/1, Public Panel: Presenters include: Barry Commoner
(invited), Theresa Podell (Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture
Society), Chaia Heller and Brian Tokar (both Institute for Social
Ecology), with special presentations by the Liberty Cabbage Theater
Revival and singer/songwriter David Rovics.

Location:  Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College, Rte. 116,
south of Amherst, Mass.


Saturday Morning Panels: What is GE? Science and impacts, Farmers and
the politics of food, Globalization and GMOs.

Saturday Afternoon Discussions: Town to town campaign, state
initiatives, supermarket campaigns, farm strategies, campus and youth
organizing. A group strategy session will follow, with regional
breakout times.

Sunday: Large group strategy and wrap-up session.  Skill workshops,
including: campaign development, street theater, media, public
speaking, direct action, and more!


To pre-register for the event, please fill out the form at nerage.org:
http://www.nerage.org/pages.php?node=02/10/03/4970806


To get involved with organizing this event, please contact:

In Eastern Mass., Connecticut and Rhode Island, Clean Water Action or
Greenpeace: lsetchell@cleanwater.org (401-331-6972) or
kim.foster@dialb.greenpeace.org,

In Northern New England, New York and elsewhere, the Institute for
Social Ecology's  Biotechnology Project:  info@nerage.org,
802-454-7138.

Sponsors:  Hampshire College, Institute for Social Ecology, Genetic
Engineering Action Network, Farmer-to-Farmer Campaign, Clean Water
Action, Greenpeace, Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering,
Vermont GE Action Network, People's Voluntary Labeling Brigade.