----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 10:41 PM Subject: [STOPNATO] Fwd: [Activist_List] Fw: DAY OF ACTION AGAINST MONSANTO - AUGUST 18, ST.LOUIS, MISSOURI STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 09:49:18 From: Betty Martini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Activist Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Activist Mailing List - http://get.to/activist >----- Original Message ----- >From: morage! (by way of Debbie Ortman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <Recipient list suppressed> >Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2000 11:32 AM >Subject: DAY OF ACTION AGAINST MONSANTO - AUGUST 18, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI > > >OCA IS A CO-SPONSOR OF THIS EVENT! > >********************************FOR IMMEDIATE >RELEASE*************************** > >MOBILIZATION FOR SAFE FOOD AND FAMILY FARMS: STOP THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER > >DAY OF ACTION AGAINST MONSANTO > >AUGUST 18TH, SAINT LOUIS > >Speakers >Bill Christianson, National Family Farm Coalition >Rhonda Perry, Missouri Rural Crisis Center >Tammy Shea, Gateway Green Alliance >Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology (invited) >'Biotech' Bob Shapiro, Monsanto Company > >We demand >* That Senator Kit Bond halt his campaign to create the 'silicon valley' of >genetic engineering in Missouri >* An end to Missouri government's uncritical support of the hazardous >technology of GMOs and Monsanto. We support shifting Kit Bond's $25 million >tax break and tobacco settlement money away from genetic engineering and >toward Missouri's family farmers, and sustainable, organic agriculture. >* An immediate ban on the private ownership of life forms, and a moratorium >on marketing, development and private testing of genetically modified >organisms. >* Revocation of Monsanto's corporate charter based on the company's long >history of flagrant illegal activity. > > 9:00 teach in, Gateway Green Center, 6101 Delmar Ave. Saint Louis >12:00 rally at Monsanto headquarters > 2:30 rally at Senator Kit Bond's office, Bonhomme & Hanley, Clayton > 8:00 benefit concert, TBA > >What is going on? > >The State of Missouri and the University of Missouri have ignored citizen's >concerns of the negative impacts of genetically modified foods and >Monsanto's long history of corporate crime. Monsanto has a long history of >violating the public interest, turning a blind eye to the public good in >favor of private greed and squelching our democracy with blatant corporate >crime. Monsanto's irresponsibility includes the production of Agent Orange, >toxic herbicides and pesticides, PCBs, and terminator seed technology-all >of which threaten family farmers and the environment. They have also >produced 'food' products harmful to humans, including genetically >engineered organisms, saccharin, bovine growth hormone, and the fat >substitute Simplesse. The company is responsible for numerous superfund >sites and occupational hazards around the country, including the PCBs at >Times Beach. The University of Missouri and the Missouri Departments of >Agriculture and Economic Development fully support Monsanto >and >Missouri Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (MORAGE) supports a safe >and democratic food system grounded in the health of Missouri's farmers and >consumers. We support the University of Missouri in returning to its >commitment of serving the public interest research and education. We call >for the enforcement of anti-trust laws to halt corporate seed monopoly. We >demand grassroots democratic control of our food system and, upon >dissolution of Monsanto, that their assets be redirected toward making >Missouri a leader not in genetic engineering but in creating a safe and >secure food system for the 21st Century. > >!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!CALL FOR >COSPONSORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >We need your support!!! In order to make this Day of Action against >Monsanto a success, WE ARE ASKING YOUR ORGANIZATION TO CONTRIBUTE A MERE >$18 TO COSPONSOR THIS EVENT and to help us spread the word. > >Sponsors: Missouri Resistance Against Genetic Engineering, Citizens for a >Better America, Missouri Heartwood, Missouri Rural Crisis Center, The >Gateway Green Alliance, Three River Confluence, Organic Consumer's >Association, Missouri Public Interest Research Group > >For more information, contact >MORAGE c/o Confluence >PO Box 63232 >Saint Louis, MO 63163 >http://www.missouri.edu/~ldd0aa >or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >(314) 721-3192 > > ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb --------- End Forwarded Message --------- --- _____________________________________________________________________________ Claudia White~Main Line News~Human & Civil Rights Campaign Internationale' Free Mumia Abu Jamal~Free All Political Prisoners~End the Drug War! 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