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Pre-Conference Events: September 12-15th 2011
Main Conference Days: September 16-17, 2011
The Women’s Building and other locations in the Mission District, San Francisco
Pre-Conference Keynote: September 13th: 7-9 pm, Horace Mann School: 3351 23rd Street, San Francisco, CA
Vandana Shiva:
World-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, and founder of Navdanya, promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she is the author of many books, including Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (South End Press, 2010) Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (South End Press, 2008), Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (South End Press, 2005),Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), and The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992).
Keynote Plenary panelists:
Friday, September 16th
Opening remarks: 9-9.15 AM
Karen Swift: California Biosafety Alliance
Francisco Alarcon: Opening Ceremony
9.15-10.30 AM: Local and global implications of genetically modified seeds.
Ignacio Chapela: UC Berkeley microbial ecologist and mycologist
Eric Holt Gimenez: Food First Executive Director
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman: Pesticide Action Network North America senior scientist
Friday, September 16th 3-4.15 PM: Agricultural biodiversity and the real solutions we need.
Adelita San Vicente: Semillas De Vida A.C.
Miguel Altieri: UC Berkeley professor of agroecology
Michael Dimock, Roots of Change president
Saturday, September 17th 9-10.15 AM: Where we are, learning from the past, and moving forward.
Carl Anthony: Breakthrough Communities co-director
Jeffrey Smith: Institute for Responsible Technology executive director
Mari Margil: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund associate director
Saturday, September 17th 3.30-5 PM: Linking perspectives and building the movement.
Gayle Mclaughlin: Mayor of Richmond
Andrew Kimbrell: Center for Food Safety executive director
Patrick Holden: Sustainable Food Trust and farmer (UK)
Dave Henson: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center executive director
Closing Remarks: Miguel Robles: California Biosafety Alliance
Panel and Workshop Speakers:
Track 1: GM Seeds: Global Threat, Local Struggles
Track 2: Understanding the Landscape: Legal, Political and Business Challenges and Opportunities for Change
Track 3: Building the Movement: Goals and Strategies
Friday, September 16th: 10.45 AM-12.30 PM:
Risks of transgenic maize in its center of origin (Track 1): Dr. Antonio Turrent Fernández, INIFAP. Dr. Alejandro Espinoza, (INIFAP) Mexico, Union de Cientificos Comprometidos con la Sociedad MC Adelita San Vicente: Semillas de Vida AC Dr. Ignacio Chapela UC Berkeley microbial ecologist and mycologist
The Gates Foundation’s Attack on Seed Sovereignty and Responses from the Ground: (1) Bill Aal: AGRA Watch Phil Bereano: AGRA Watch Marcia Ishii Eiteman: Pesticide Action Network North America
The current legal climate and challenges surrounding GMO crops: (2) Philip Heiselman: California Attorney for sustainable food and food safety Rebecca Spector: Center for Food Safety Daniel B. Ravicher: Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT)
Building a Powerful Political Campaign against the corporate control of seeds: learning from other contexts (3):Ashley Schaeffer: Rainforest Action Network Adam Scow: Food and Water Watch
Friday, 1:00-2:45 PM
Not Under Our Watch: Grassroots Struggles Against Corporate Control of Seeds: Lessons from India, South Africa and El Salvador (1): Carlos Martinez: Ecoviva Katherine Zavala: International Development Exchange Rucha Chitnis: Women’s Earth Alliance
Counteracting the food industry with ethnic diversification and alternative market forces (2): Dana Harvey: Mandela Marketplace Maria Catalan: Catalan Farms Michael Dimock: Roots of Change Tezo: South Central Farms
Successful Campaign Strategies and the non-GMO movement in California (3): Doug Mosel: Farmer and Consultant to the former Mendocino campaign to ban GMOs Pamm Larry: Label GMOs in California 2012 Ballot Initiative Rey Leon: Latino Enviornmental Advancement and Policy Institute
Eco Justice 101 (3): Dave Henson: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Mateo Nube: Movement Generation
Saturday, September 17th: 10.30 AM-12.30 PM:
Indigenous displacement and retaining seeds as cultural value (1): Juan Pablo Zapotec Eugenio Lopez Bernabe Lora Dana Pearls: Pesticide Watch Astrid Lindo: Living Seed Company
Organic Business Challenges and Responses to GMOs (2): Mark Squire: Non-GMO Project and Good Earth Foods Rana Chang: House Kombucha Albert Straus: Straus Family Creamery Zea Sonnabend: California Certified Organic Farmers
Growing the Non-GMO Uprising (3) Jeffrey Smith: Institute for Responsible Technology, Dave Murphy: Food Democracy Now, Andrew Kimbrell: Center for Food Safety
Shifting the Industrial Food Regime with Community Based Solutions (3): Aaron Lehmer: Bay Localize Doria Robinson: Urban Tilth John Wick: Marin Carbon Project Oscar Grande: PODER
Saturday, 1:30-3 PM
Migration and the Food System (1): David Bacon: Journalist, Writer and Photographer Luis Magana: Organizacion de Trabajadores Agricolas de California (OTAC) Navina Khanna: Movement Strategy Center
Political commitments and engagements for an alternative food system (2): Gayle Mclaughlin: Mayor of Richmond John Avalos: San Francisco Supervisor District 11 Mari Margil: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Developing effective strategies: Addressing Food Security, Climate Change and Agriculture with value driven narratives (3): Claire Hope Cummings: Journalist and Author of Uncertain Peril and other books Jeff Conant: Global Justice Ecology Project Mary Ench: Seedlings
The conference: JUSTICE BEGINS WITH SEEDS will be a space for movement building to actively address the symbol of the corporate food regime: genetically modified food, address the many layered implications of GE/GMO food, and build strategic coalitions and deeper collaborations amongst diverse stakeholders for more widespread political action addressing GMOs in varying levels throughout the state of California.
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Endorsers:
AGRA Watch: project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice
Bay Localize
Breakthrough Communities
Californians for Pesticide Reform
Center for Food Safety
Comite de Defensa del Maiz Criollo
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
Food Democracy Now!
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Food and Water Watch
Friends of the Earth
David Campos: San Francisco Supervisor District 9
Gayle Mclaughlin: Mayor of Richmond
Global Exchange
Global Justice Ecology Project
GMO Free Los Angeles
Guerreros Verdes (Mexico)
International Development Exchange (IDEX)
Institute for Responsible Technology
Institute of Near Eastern and African Studies (INEAS)
Latin American Alliance for Immigrant Rights (ALIADI)
Latino Environmental Advancement and Policy Institute
Mandela Marketplace
Movement Generation
Navdanya
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Oakland Institute
Oakland Food Connection
Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
Organic Consumers Association
Pequenos Agricultores de California (PAC)
Pesticide Action Network
Pesticide Watch
PODER
Rainforest Action Network
San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance (SFUAA)
Semillas De Vida (Mexico)
Sin Maiz no hay Pais (Mexico)
South Central Farmers Cooperative
Women’s Earth Alliance
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CONTACT: info@biosafetyalliance.org
*Anuradha Mittal will unfortunately be unable to attend the conference
*Claire Hope Cummings will also be unable to make the conference, but we have an excellent guest in her place: Patrick Holden from the UK who will talk about the global movement.
