[everyone-submit] #Occupy Monsanto, Sept 24, 8am, noon and 5pm, Cambridge
Aria Littlhous
aria at littlhous.net
Thu Sep 20 13:29:52 EDT 2012
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S17 was amazing in nyc, thousands of people ... Free U was likewise, a week
with 130 classes in Madison Park
... NEXT ... help us wrap-up a week of over 60
national anti-Monsanto actions ...
*S24, Monday, Occupy Monsanto, Cambridge, MA, 8am, noon and 5pm*
... action planning & sign-making
Sunday 2pm and 6pm, Copley Square.
Doo-Occupy, Occupy Boston, Occupy New Hampshire, Occupy Hyannis will sing
at Monsanto's Cambridge office starting at 8:30am on Monday, 9/24.
The Doo-Occupy singers will bring a small sound system and sing their
anti-Monsanto songs to the office workers and scientists as they enter.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/524737360876292/
Songs: http://occupy-monsanto.com/doo-occupys-anti-monsanto-songs/
Flyer:
http://occupy-monsanto.com/doo-occupy-to-serenade-monsanto-september-24-cambridge-ma/
*Location: Monsanto, 245 1st St # 2, Cambridge, MA 02142*
We'll meet early to gather then head over there approximately at 8:30am
Meet at 8am very near Monsanto, location TBA, and converge on the office
shortly afterwards, we will go all day, as long as people keep showing up.
Actions at 8:30, noon and 5pm.
Come ready to sing and sing-out for your BIOtech-free meals! Combat the
bullies with sweet music! FLASH music MOB brought to by Doo-Occupy, Occupy
Boston and Occupy Monsanto.
Wear something fun, a rubber chicken outfit, a huge ear of corn, hazmat
suits or maybe wear red as we did Sept 17th with Occupy Wall Street.
TWITTER or texts: Follow @omggmos17 for live updates of location during
event (if you’re not on twitter you can sign up for updates with text
messages from your phone, text “Follow omggmos17” to the number “40404” and
follow the instructions you receive (standard text fees will apply).
*Do you think we have the right to know if Genetically Modified Organisms
are in our food?**
**Do you want to help take back power over our food supply from corporate
giants like Monsanto?**
**Do you want to help create a culture of respect for all Life, human and
otherwise?**
**Most importantly... Do you want to have fun doing it??? ... Join us!*
www.doo-occupy.org <http://www.occupyboston.org/>
www.occupyboston.org*
http://occupy-monsanto.com<http://occupy-monsanto.com/get-your-free-genetic-crimes-unit-action-kit/>
*
http://twitter.com/gmo917 <http://facebook.com/GeneticCrimesUnit>
http://facebook.com/GeneticCrimesUnit
*More information:*
Doo-Occupy, WE are the 99%: http://youtu.be/EjZ5xsEt_DQ
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EjZ5xsEt_DQ>
Doo-Occupy B of A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDcsJB6i690
Doo-Occupy Why these Wars, #NATO: http://youtu.be/T_yqzTGPz3k
Download OMonsanto flyers, Millions Against Monsanto:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/materials.cfm
Loads of info:
http://www.nationofchange.org/search/apachesolr_search/monsanto
Great background on Monsanto:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
*A few facts:*
V.P. Dan Quale declared gmo the same as natural organisms.
Donald Rumsfeld on Searle corp board, company sold to Monsanto.
Clarence Thomas counsel for Monsanto ruled as supreme court justice in
favor of citizens united and corporate ownership of plant varieties. *
President Obama’s appointment of Michael Taylor, former Monsanto
Vice-President and legal** council for the chemical company, to head the
FDA’s food safety efforts ** despite his obvious conflict of interest,”*
*Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a former legal council for Monsanto.*
BEES & GMO: http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/19/blamed-for-bee-collapse-monsanto-buys-leading-bee-research-firm/
... it can be found in public company reports
hosted<http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/company-report?symbol=MON>on
mainstream media that Monsanto scooped up the Beeologics firm back in
September 2011. ... Owning a major organization that focuses heavily on the
bee collapse and is recognized by the USDA for their mission statement of
“restoring bee health and protecting the future of insect pollination”
could be very advantageous for Monsanto.
Monsanto is responsible for 50 Superfund pollution sites.
For the 11th year in a row, Monsanto was judged one of the most hated
companies in the world.
Monsanto public relations people are trained in intimidation.
Crop yield is not the problem with our food supply. Distribution and
poverty is the problem. GMOs tend to reduce yield.
* General articles about Monsanto:*
*Monsanto Hid Decades Of
Pollution*<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31>
PCBs Drenched Ala. Town, But No One Was Ever Told, By Michael Grunwald,
Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, January 1, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?&entry_id=33905> *Obama
specifically praised Vilsack's support of biotechnology*, which has led the
Iowan to back genetically modified food products, and that 'Vilsack, like
Obama, supports ethanol, and frankly anyone who isn't on the dole of some
agribusiness or other can see that ethanol is an absurd idea. In fact, it's
hard to find a worse political idea, and that's saying a lot.' In short:
progressives, you've been sold out again, as Andrew Leonard writes in Salon
(December 17):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?&entry_id=33905 he links
to:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805 May
2008, Monsanto's Harvest of Fear ... Monsanto already dominates America's
food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk
production. Just as frightening as the corporation's tactics 'ruthless
legal battles against small farmers' is its decades-long history of toxic
contamination. by Donald L. Barlett and James B.
Steele<http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/donald-l-barlett-span-classlcandspan-james-b-steele>
And some people are winning against Monsanto (sacred mountain, uses .org,
claims it's corporate mission is sustainability!!!!)
*
http://wakeup-world.com/2012/06/14/five-million-brazilian-farmers-take-on-monsanto-and-win-2-billion/
*
*More about Occupy Monsanto and the Genetic Crimes Unite, GCU:*
Press release for the 60+ occupy Monsanto actions from S17-s24
*<http://occupy-monsanto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Occupy_Monsanto_PR_8_27.pdf>
<http://occupy-monsanto.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Occupy_Monsanto_PR_8_27.pdf>The
protests will vary in size and nature but are unified in pushing back
GMO food into the lab from which it came. An interactive map with
times, dates and locations of the 60+ protests can be found at *
http://occupy-monsanto.com/genetic-crimes-unit/
**The GCU opposes Monsanto’s bid to increase spraying of crops with toxic
weed killers like 2,4 D (the main ingredient in Agent Orange) and dicambia,
the continued genetic contamination of the organic food supply, and other
risks associated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
In the name of Wall Street profits, chemical corporations such as Monsanto
genetically engineer crops to withstand high doses of their herbicides and
pesticides that contaminate our food and water, and have not been proven
safe. We deserve to know what we are eating. Europe, Japan, China,
Australia, New Zealand, and other industrialized nations require the
labeling of GMOs so that citizens can make informed choices. Other nations
like Peru and France have even banned GMO crops.
But thanks to companies like Monsanto, US consumers are denied the right to
know if their food is GMO.Monsanto pays Congress vast sums of money under
the guise of lobbying efforts to keep GMO labels off their patented
Frankenfood products. Our Congress is contaminated with GMOs and toxic
chemicals, and the lack of rational, responsible labeling policy threatens
our health and the health of the planet.
*More than 1.1 million people have signed onto the JustLabelit.org
citizens’ petition to the Food and Drug Administration for GMO labeling
(the most to sign an FDA petition ever).* *Citizens across America demand
that President Obama keep his campaign promise to label GMO foods. Video of
the promise can be seen here:**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqaaB6NE1TI In
California Monsanto faces a 2012 ballot proposition on GMO labeling.*
*
*
*Coverage of our action in June, at the BIO Conference (Biotechnology,
Industry, Organization):*
*June 2012, Occupy Monsanto, along with the Northeast Organic Farming
Association, Occupy Boston, and Doo-Occupy action at the Biotechnology
Industry Organization (BIO) held at the Boston Convention Center to
demonstrate opposition to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's)
embeddable video here: http://youtu.be/WGl98olJe74 -- Writer, Dennis
Trainor Producer, Director of American Autumn: an
OccuDoc<http://www.occudoc.org/>,
Host @ Acronym TV <http://www.acronymtv.com/>, Follow:
Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/dennistrainorjr>
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/dennistrainorjr>
Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/118181888869836993144>
*
NOFA/Mass maintains that Genetically Modified Organisms are a major threat
to the organic farming community, pose a serious health danger to consumers
and animals, can have an enormous detrimental impact on plant biodiversity,
promote a monopoly in the seed industry, and can increase pesticide use
nationwide. "GMOs do not diminish when released into the environment as
they are an alteration made to a living organism that can reproduce. Even
small amounts of GMO contamination will increase over time after they are
released into our agriculture and environment," explained Jack Kittredge,
NOFA/Mass Policy Director, Organic Farmer and Editor of *The Natural Farmer*,
NOFA's quarterly news magazine.
http://www.nofamass.org/news/occupymonsanto.php
#J18:
http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/phlog/archive/2012/06/22/fuck-gmos-ciclovida-occupy-monsanto-and-occupy-boston-protest-corporate-biotechnology-conference-in-boston.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PHXPhlog+%28phlog%29
KC's blog:
http://whywalkabout.blogspot.com/2012/06/sidewalk-session-of-international-bio.html
http://bluemassgroup.com/2012/06/occupy-monsanto-on-monday-morning/ and
linked to that is his earlier piece with more info:
http://nosuppertonight.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/a-lotta-people-wont-get-no-supper-tonight/
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!, 4 Earth, eden
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