Terrance e-mails to note "News :: Food BioDemocracy 2005 in Philadelphia This Weekend :"
From June 19 to June 22, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) -- is holding its annual international convention in downtown Philadelphia. In response:
Activists in Philadelphia and throughout the East Coast are hard at work mobilizing a diverse smorgasbord of activities to challenge the biotech industry with our own vision of peaceful, sustainable and GE-free grassroots democracy.
The group Food Not Bombs will also be gathering to celebrate their 25th anniversary. Z Magazine did a history piece on them. The official name for the gathering as a whole will be the BioDemocracy Teach-In & Conference and it's main activities will take place from
2-10pm
@ Friends Center
(15th & Cherry)
and will convene the next day from
2-9pm
at the same place.
On the third day, they'll meet from
11am-10pm
@ Ethical Society
(19th & Locust).
The website Under The Pavement describes the events in more detail.
" href="http://biotech.indymedia.org/" BioTech section that will feature more and more articles as the Teach-In gets closer. [Read More at Philadelphia IMC]
The e-mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com. Yes, there are more posts coming. I'm working on a Downing Street Memo roundup but there are at least 300 e-mails I've read thus far steering us to a post or a news source.