------ soil, soul, society - satish kumar
Hi all, We have confirmed with the Mumbai Sarvodaya mandal and will be holding our one day fast tomorrow at the mandal, the location is above the gandhi book centre . This place is near the Bhaji gulli on the west side of Grant road station .......please join us .... If you cant join us for the whole day , please come for part of the day .......if you are planning to come please send me your name.... * BOMBAY SARVODAYA MANDAL * *GANDHI BOOK CENTRE* *299, Tardeo Road, Nana Chowk, Bombay-400 007 India* *Tel: 91-22-2387 2061 Fax No: 91-22-22008292 * ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kavitha Kuruganti <kavitha.kuruga...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM Dear friends, As you all know, without addressing any fundamental concerns with regard to GM foods like Bt Brinjal, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) of India had yesterday cleared Bt Brinjal, the first ever GM food crop in India and the first ever such GM vegetable in the world with the Bt poison inside it, for 'environmental release' (a euphemism being used for some reason for permission for commercial cultivation since environmental release began years ago with open air trials!). It is reported that the Government of India will now take a final decision on this. In protest against this approval by GEAC of this toxic, unneeded brinjal, which will take away choices from farmers and consumers in irreversible ways, we are putting out this call for a one-day Fast on World Food Day, tomorrow, the 16th of October. The message is simple:* "WE WOULD RATHER FAST THAN EAT YOUR POISON".* May I request a large number of you to express your own stand against GM foods and convey it to the government through this one-day fast tomorrow. You can fast wherever you are but an ideal situation would be if some of you can form a group and sit outside the office of any concerned authority for a while at least, to convey your message. Whether you are at home fasting or at your office, please make sure that you let us know that you are doing this by sending a message to me *(kavitha.kuruga...@gmail.com) or Jaikrishna at (green...@rediffmail.com)*. Please circulate this widely so that we have hundreds of Indians registering themselves for this fast tomorrow. Meanwhile, for those of you who are going to speak to a few of your friends/colleagues/family members and would be enlisting more people for this, kindly send me the entire list of people who are going to fast in one mail rather than many. We will be putting up all the names that come in on the web by tonight. Please issue press releases wherever you want to, to highlight this initial response to the callous attitude of the Indian regulators when it comes to sustainable development for all of us. Please mention the following details when you register yourself for this: NAME and CITY/TOWN. Thank you. Kavitha ps: Also watch out for a mail on a more sustained battle on this issue being planned out. -- KAVITHA KURUGANTI Kheti Virasat Mission Jaitu, Faridkot dist., Punjab Phone: +91-9393001550 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GM Free India" group. To post to this group, send email to gmfreein...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gmfreeindia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<gmfreeindia%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmfreeindia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Warm regards devi
