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Hey Street list, <br>
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anyone still here?<br>
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Please join us on Sunday for prep, 2pm & 6pm in Copley Sq and
actions on Monday outside Monsanto HQ, 8am, noon and likely 5pm to
serenade the office workers & scientists as they enter &
leave the building, eden<br>
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<pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in"><a href="http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/09/18/occupy-monsanto-sept-24/">http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/09/18/occupy-monsanto-sept-24/</a> </pre>
Doo-Occupy's press release then Eden's email 'big send'
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:26.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:26.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Contact:<span> </span>Crystal
Zevon – <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:chesterzev1@gmail.com" target="_blank">chesterzev1@gmail.com</a>
- <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:802-254-1333"
value="+18022541333" target="_blank">802-254-1333</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:26.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Spokespeople for
Occupy Monsanto are available by email </span><span
style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:gmo@occupy-Monsanto.com"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><b>GMO@Occupy-Monsanto.com</b></span></a></span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> or calling Adam
Eidinger at </span><span
style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#0047bf">202-744-2671</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><b>OCCUPY BOSTON,
OCCUPY MONSANTO & Vermont’s DOO-OCCUPY to protest with
song at MONSANTO’s Cambridge Offices on Monday, Sept. 24</b></span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Occupy Monsanto, a
decentralized network of food activists who organized 65
protests at GMO manufacturer Monsanto facilities across the
globe this week, is calling on the Barack Obama Administration
to clean house of appointed former Monsanto executives who
intentionally ignore the serious health impacts of eating
genetically engineered food due to their conflict of interest.
A new GMO food study released today gives alarming evidence of
GMO-induced lethal health complications in rats. The data
casts an ominous shadow on the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) where imperative consumer regulation of GMOs is handled
by former Monsanto executives. Read the new European GMO study
at </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><b>http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf</b></span></a></span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"><b>Occupy Boston - <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.occupyboston.org/"
target="_blank">http://www.occupyboston.org/</a>, Occupy
Monsanto - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/" target="_blank">http://occupy-monsanto.com/</a>
and Doo-Occupy - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.doo-occupy.org/" target="_blank">http://www.doo-occupy.org/</a>will
be
meeting at 8:00 a.m. 675 W. Kendall St. Aceituna Café on the
food court, Kendall Sq., Cambridge, on Sept. 24, 2012, to
prepare to serenade the employees of the nearby Monsanto
offices starting at 8:30 and continuing until we just can’t
croon anymore. All welcome! </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">“Activists are
renewing their push for the FDA to review the long term safety
of GMO food prior to its introduction to the food supply,”
says Occupy Monsanto spokesperson Gene Etic. “European
researchers confirmed today rats fed GMO food developed tumors
and other serious health problems at an alarming rate compared
to the control group. It isn’t too soon to pull GMO’s out of
the food supply based on today’s news. The FDA has an
obligation to protect people from unhealthy food but as long
as former Monsanto executive </span><span
style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/michael-taylor/"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><b>Michael
Taylor</b></span></a></span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> is running food
safety for Obama nothing will be done to protect Americans.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Absent a new approach
by the Obama Administration, the new study will fuel more GMO
protests that are increasingly becoming disruptive as
demonstrated last Wednesday, September 12, when activists
calling themselves the </span><span
style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/genetic-crimes-unit/"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><b>Genetic
Crimes
Unit</b></span></a></span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> (GCU) shut down
shipping and receiving access points at Monsanto’s massive </span><span
style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><b>Oxnard,
California
GMO seed factory</b></span></a></span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">. By peacefully
blockading the exit and access points at the factory, the
group </span><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><b>shut
down</b></span></a></span><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a"> the distribution of
genetically engineered (GMO) seeds for a day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">“If the government
refuses to stop the distribution of deadly GMO seeds in the
food supply, more and more activists will engage in acts like
last week that stopped GMO seed distribution for about 6 hours
in the state of California,” says Ariel Vegosen who was
arrested with 8 others in Oxnard and charged with trespassing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:.25in;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:#1a1a1a">Monsanto is the
largest producer of GMO seeds. Actions officially started on
September 17, a year since Occupy Wall Street movement began
and took place throughout the world including the 45 protests
in the US alone and many others in Germany, Canada, India,
Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Argentina, Australia, Spain,
Russia, Peru and Japan. More info as well as video available
for media use with credit of the GMO protests can be found at
</span><span style="font-family:ArialMT;color:#1a1a1a"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://Occupy-Monsanto.com/"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><b>http://Occupy-Monsanto.com</b></span></a></span></p>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"> </font></span></div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>
<div><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.doo-occupy.org"
target="_blank">www.doo-occupy.org</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><font color="#181818" face="georgia, serif"><span
style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">Killing
a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it
is killing a man. </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#181818" face="georgia, serif"><span
style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">~
Jean-Luc Godard</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#181818" face="georgia, serif"><span
style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><br>
</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#181818" face="georgia, serif"><span
style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 14px;
line-height: 18px;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMP4L7x5GPk&feature=relmfu"
target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMP4L7x5GPk&feature=relmfu</a><br>
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</span></font><span style="right: auto;">Join us, it's gonna
be fun and powerful ... forward or modify this message,
Tweet, text, Facebook, post ... get the word out ... call
your friends. <br>
</span><span style="right: auto;">
<span class="moz-smiley-s9"></span> Reply
just to me since this is a long list of individuals, join
our list if you haven't: </span><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob_o_monsanto">https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob_o_monsanto</a><br>
<span style="right: auto;"><br>
S17 was amazing in nyc, thousands of people ... Free U was
likewise, a week with 130 classes in Madison Park <br>
... NEXT ... help us wrap-up a week
of over 60 national anti-Monsanto actions ...<br>
<br>
<b><big><big>S24, Monday, Occupy Monsanto, Cambridge, MA,
8am, noon and 5pm</big></big></b><br>
... action planning
& sign-making Sunday 2pm and 6pm, Copley Square.<br>
<br>
</span> Doo-Occupy, Occupy Boston, Occupy New Hampshire,
Occupy Hyannis will sing at Monsanto's Cambridge office
starting at 8:30am on Monday, 9/24.
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> 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. <br>
Facebook: <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/events/524737360876292/">http://www.facebook.com/events/524737360876292/</a>
<br>
Songs: <a
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/doo-occupys-anti-monsanto-songs/">http://occupy-monsanto.com/doo-occupys-anti-monsanto-songs/
</a><br>
Flyer: <a
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/doo-occupy-to-serenade-monsanto-september-24-cambridge-ma/">http://occupy-monsanto.com/doo-occupy-to-serenade-monsanto-september-24-cambridge-ma/</a>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> </p>
<b><big>Location: Monsanto, 245 1st St # 2, Cambridge, MA
02142</big></b>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> We'll meet early
to gather then head over there approximately at 8:30am<br>
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.<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> 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.</p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Wear something
fun, a rubber chicken outfit, a huge ear of corn, hazmat
suits or maybe wear red as we did Sept 17<sup>th</sup> with
Occupy Wall Street. <br>
</p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in;"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><big><big><font
face="Arial"><font style="font-size: 7pt;" size="1"><big><big><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
rgb(255, 255, 255);">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).<br>
</span></big></big></font></font></big></big></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><font face="Times
New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><big><font size="4"><big><span
style="background: #ffffff"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><big><big><i><b>Do
you think we have the right to know
if Genetically Modified Organisms
are in our food?</b></i></big></big></font></font><b><br>
</b><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2"><big><big><i><b>Do you want to
help take back power over our food
supply from corporate giants like
Monsanto?</b></i></big></big></font></font><b><br>
</b><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2"><big><big><i><b>Do you want to
help create a culture of respect for
all Life, human and otherwise?</b></i></big></big></font></font><b><br>
</b><font face="Arial"><font style="font-size:
9pt" size="2"><big><big><i><b>Most
importantly... Do you want to have
fun doing it??? ... Join us!</b></i></big></big></font></font></span></big></font></big><br>
</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"><font
color="#000080"><font size="3"><a
href="http://www.occupyboston.org/">www.doo-occupy.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.occupyboston.org/">www.occupyboston.org</a></font><span
lang="zxx"><u><br>
<a
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/get-your-free-genetic-crimes-unit-action-kit/"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><big>http://occupy-monsanto.com</big></font></font></a></u></span></font><small><br>
<a href="http://facebook.com/GeneticCrimesUnit"
target="_blank"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">http://twitter.com/gmo917
</font></a><br>
<a href="http://facebook.com/GeneticCrimesUnit"
target="_blank"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">http://facebook.com/GeneticCrimesUnit</font></a></small></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> <b>More
information:</b></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <small>Doo-Occupy,
WE are the 99%: <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EjZ5xsEt_DQ"
target="_blank">http://youtu.be/EjZ5xsEt_DQ </a><br>
Doo-Occupy B of A: <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDcsJB6i690"
target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDcsJB6i690</a><br>
<big><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><font
size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Doo-Occupy
Why these Wars, #NATO: <a
href="http://youtu.be/T_yqzTGPz3k">http://youtu.be/T_yqzTGPz3k</a><br>
</span></font></font></big></small></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><big><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><big>Download OMonsanto flyers, Millions
Against Monsanto</big></font></big><font size="2">: </font><a
href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/materials.cfm"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/materials.cfm</font></a></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight:
normal"> <font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Loads
of info: <a
href="http://www.nationofchange.org/search/apachesolr_search/monsanto">http://www.nationofchange.org/search/apachesolr_search/monsanto</a></font>
</font> </p>
<p> <big><font color="#1f497d"><font face="Calibri,
sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><big>Great
background on Monsanto: </big></font></font></font><a
href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm"><font
color="#1f497d"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><big>http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm</big></font></font></font></a></big><br>
<br>
</p>
<b><big><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 16pt" size="4"><big><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt"
size="2"><big><big><span
style="text-decoration: none">A few
facts:</span></big></big></font></font></span></font></big></font></font></big></b><font
color="#ff0000"><font size="2"><br>
</font><small>V.P. Dan Quale declared gmo the same as
natural organisms.</small></font> <font color="#ff0000"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt"
size="2"><br>
Donald Rumsfeld on Searle corp board, company sold to
Monsanto.</font></font></font> <br>
<font color="#ff0000"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font color="#ff0000"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">Clarence Thomas
counsel for Monsanto ruled as supreme court
justice in favor of citizens united and corporate
ownership of plant varieties. </span></font></span></font></font><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt"
size="2"><b><br>
President Obama’s appointment of Michael Taylor,
former Monsanto Vice-President and legal</b></font></font></font><font
color="#ff0000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><b> council for the
chemical company, to head the FDA’s food safety
efforts </b></font></font></font><b> <small><font
color="#ff0000">despite his obvious conflict of
interest,”</font></small></b><br>
<b><small><font color="#ff0000">Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, a former legal council for Monsanto.</font></small></b><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><br>
<br>
<big><big>BEES & GMO</big></big>: <a
href="http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/19/blamed-for-bee-collapse-monsanto-buys-leading-bee-research-firm/">http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/19/blamed-for-bee-collapse-monsanto-buys-leading-bee-research-firm/
</a>... it can be found in public <a
href="http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/company-report?symbol=MON">company
reports
hosted</a> 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.</font>
<p> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"><big><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><big><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><font color="#ff0000"><span
style="text-decoration: none">Monsanto is
responsible for 50 Superfund pollution
sites. </span></font></span></font></big></font></font>
</big></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"><big> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt;" size="2"><big><font color="#000080"><span
lang="zxx"><font color="#ff0000"><span
style="text-decoration: none;">For the 11th
year in a row, Monsanto was judged one of
the most hated companies in the world. </span></font></span></font></big></font></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><big><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#ff0000"><span style="text-decoration:
none;">Monsanto public relations people are
trained in intimidation. </span></font></span></font></big></font></font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><big><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#ff0000"><span style="text-decoration:
none">Crop yield is not the problem with our
food supply. Distribution and poverty is the
problem. GMOs tend to reduce yield. </span></font></span></font></big></font></font>
</big></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"><big><b><small> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font
color="#000000"><font style="font-size:
16pt" size="4"><span
style="text-decoration: none">General
articles about Monsanto:</span></font></font></span></font></font></font></small></b></big><br>
<a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31"><font
color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="5"><b>Monsanto
Hid Decades Of Pollution</b></font></font></font></a><font
color="#000000"> </font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2">PCBs Drenched
Ala. Town, But No One Was Ever Told, </font></font><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><font color="#000000"><font
face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"><span
style="text-decoration: none">By Michael
Grunwald, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday,
January 1, 2002 </span></font></font></font><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><span
style="text-decoration: none">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31</span></font></font></a></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> <font face="Times
New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">
</font></font><u>Obama specifically praised Vilsack's
support of biotechnology</u>, 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): <font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><a
href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?&entry_id=33905">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?&entry_id=33905</a></font></font>
he links to: <br>
<a
href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805">http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/monsanto200805</a>
May 2008, <font style="font-size: 16pt" size="4">Monsanto's
Harvest of Fear</font><font size="4"> ... </font>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 <a
href="http://www.vanityfair.com/contributors/donald-l-barlett-span-classlcandspan-james-b-steele">Donald
L. Barlett and James B. Steele</a></p>
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<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"><big> <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2"><big>And some people are winning
against Monsanto (sacred mountain, uses .org, claims
it's corporate mission is sustainability!!!!)</big></font></font></big></p>
<h6 class="western" style="margin: 0in -0.02in; text-indent:
0.02in;"><big> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4"><big><font
color="#000080"><span lang="zxx"><u><a
href="http://wakeup-world.com/2012/06/14/five-million-brazilian-farmers-take-on-monsanto-and-win-2-billion/"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><big><big>http://wakeup-world.com/2012/06/14/five-million-brazilian-farmers-take-on-monsanto-and-win-2-billion/</big></big></font></a></u></span></font></big></font></font></big></h6>
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<b><big>More about Occupy Monsanto and the Genetic Crimes Unite, GCU:
</big></b>
Press release for the 60+ occupy Monsanto actions from S17-s24 *<a href="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></a></font>
<font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">The protests will vary in size and nature but are unified in pushing back </font><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">GMO food into the lab from which it came. An interactive map with times, </font>
<font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">dates and locations of the 60+ protests can be found at *</font> <a href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/genetic-crimes-unit/"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">http://occupy-monsanto.com/genetic-crimes-unit/</font></a>
</pre>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><big><b><font
color="#222222"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><big><span
style="background: #ffffff"></span></big></font></font></font></b><font
color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><big><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: #ffffff"></span></span></big></font></font></font><font
color="#222222"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><big><span
style="background: #ffffff">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).</span></big></font></font></font><font
color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><big><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></span></big></font></font></font></big></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><big><font
color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><big><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></span></big></font></font></font></big><big><font
color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><big><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: #ffffff"></span></span></big></font></font></font></big><big><font
color="#222222"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><big><span
style="background: #ffffff">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. <br>
But thanks to companies like Monsanto, US
consumers are denied the right to know if their
food is GMO.</span></big></font></font></font><font
color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><big><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: #ffffff"></span></span></big></font></font></font><font
color="#222222"><font face="Arial"><font
style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><big><span
style="background: #ffffff">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.</span></big></font></font></font><font
color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><big><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br>
</span></span></big></font></font></font></big><big><font
color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><big><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span
style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0%
rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></span></big></font></font></font></big></p>
<big><font color="#222222"><font face="Times New Roman"><font
size="4"><big><span style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: #ffffff"></span></span></big></font></font></font><big><font
color="#222222"><font style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><big><big><span
style="background: #ffffff"><b>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).</b> <b>Citizens
across America demand that President Obama
keep his campaign promise to label GMO foods.
Video of the promise can be seen here<font
color="#1155cc"><font size="4">:</font></font></b></span></big></big></font></font><b><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqaaB6NE1TI"
target="_blank"><font color="#1155cc"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><font size="4"><big><big><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: #ffffff"></span></span></big></big></font></span></font><font
color="#1155cc"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font
style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><big><big><span
style="background: #ffffff">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqaaB6NE1TI</span></big></big></font></span></font></a><font
color="#222222"><font size="4"><big><big><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: #ffffff"> </span></span></big></big></font></font><font
color="#222222"><font style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><big><big><span
style="background: #ffffff">In California
Monsanto faces a 2012 ballot proposition on
GMO labeling.</span></big></big></font></font><font
color="#222222"><font size="4"><big><big><span
style="font-weight: normal"><span
style="background: #ffffff"></span></span></big></big></font></font><font
color="#222222"><font style="font-size: 7pt" size="1"><big><big><span
style="background: #ffffff"></span></big></big></font></font></b></big></big>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><b><br>
</b></font></font></p>
<b>Coverage of our action in June, at the BIO Conference
(Biotechnology, Industry, Organization):</b><br>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><b>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)<br>
<br>
embeddable video here: <a
href="http://youtu.be/WGl98olJe74">http://youtu.be/WGl98olJe74</a>
-- Writer, Dennis Trainor Producer, Director of <a
href="http://www.occudoc.org/" target="_blank">American
Autumn: an OccuDoc</a>, Host @ <a
href="http://www.acronymtv.com/" target="_blank">Acronym
TV</a>, Follow: <a
href="http://www.twitter.com/dennistrainorjr"
target="_blank">Twitter</a> <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/dennistrainorjr"
target="_blank">Facebook</a> <a
href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/118181888869836993144"
target="_blank">Google+</a></b></font></font></p>
<br>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">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 </font></font><em><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2">The Natural Farmer</font></font></em><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size:
11pt" size="2">, NOFA's quarterly news magazine.<br>
<a
href="http://www.nofamass.org/news/occupymonsanto.php">http://www.nofamass.org/news/occupymonsanto.php</a>
</font></font> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> <font face="Times
New Roman, serif"><font size="2">#J18: <a
href="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">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</a></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0in"> <font face="Times
New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt" size="2">KC's
blog: <a
href="http://whywalkabout.blogspot.com/2012/06/sidewalk-session-of-international-bio.html">http://whywalkabout.blogspot.com/2012/06/sidewalk-session-of-international-bio.html</a>
</font></font> </p>
<p style="margin-left: -0.02in; margin-right: -0.02in;
text-indent: 0.02in"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt" size="2"><a
href="http://bluemassgroup.com/2012/06/occupy-monsanto-on-monday-morning/">http://bluemassgroup.com/2012/06/occupy-monsanto-on-monday-morning/</a>
and linked to that is his earlier piece with more info:
<a
href="http://nosuppertonight.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/a-lotta-people-wont-get-no-supper-tonight/">http://nosuppertonight.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/a-lotta-people-wont-get-no-supper-tonight/</a></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; border-top: none; border-bottom:
1.10pt double #000000; border-left: none; border-right:
none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in;
padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in"> </p>
<span style="right: auto;"></span><big><font color="#ff0000">O,
pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,<br>
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!</font>, 4
Earth, eden<br>
</big><big><span style="right: auto;"></span><br>
</big><span style="RIGHT: auto"><big> PS, Sept 24th is Jewish
New Year ...<br>
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</font></big></span></div>
</font></span><br>
<strong>Horrific Results of New GMO Food Study Reveal Obama Has
Abandoned FDA Regulation to Chemical Industry Profits</strong>
<p>
<em>Increases in Tumors & Disease in Rats Fed GMO Food
Discovered in First Long Term Peer Reviewed Study</em><br>
</p>
<p>
<b>WASHINGTON, DC</b> – Occupy Monsanto, a decentralized network
of food activists who organized 65 protests at GMO manufacturer
Monsanto facilities across the globe this week, is calling on the
Barack Obama Administration to clean house of appointed former
Monsanto executives who intentionally ignore the serious health
impacts of eating genetically engineered food due to their
conflict of interest. A new GMO food study released today gives
alarming evidence of GMO-induced lethal health complications in
rats. The data casts an ominous shadow on the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) where imperative consumer regulation of GMOs
is handled by former Monsanto executives. Read the new European
GMO study at<br>
<a
href="http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf">http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf</a></p>
<p>
<strong>Occupy Boston and the Occupy Monsanto Do Wop Chorus will
be meeting at 8:00 a.m. at the corner of Athenaeum and W.
Kendall, Kendall Sq., Cambridge, on Sept. 24, 2012, to prepare
to serenade the employees of the nearby Monsanto offices
starting at 8:30 and continuing until we just can’t croon
anymore. All welcome!</strong></p>
<p>“Activists are renewing their push for the FDA to review the long
term safety of GMO food prior to its introduction to the food
supply,” says Occupy Monsanto spokesperson Gene Etic. “European
researchers confirmed today rats fed GMO food developed tumors and
other serious health problems at an alarming rate compared to the
control group. It isn’t too soon to pull GMO’s out of the food
supply based on today’s news. The FDA has an obligation to protect
people from unhealthy food but as long as former Monsanto
executive <a
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/michael-taylor/">Michael
Taylor</a> is running food safety for Obama nothing will be done
to protect Americans.”</p>
<p>
Absent a new approach by the Obama Administration, the new study
will fuel more GMO protests that are increasingly becoming
disruptive as demonstrated last Wednesday, September 12, when
activists calling themselves the<br>
<a href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/genetic-crimes-unit/">Genetic
Crimes Unit</a> (GCU) shut down shipping and receiving access
points at Monsanto’s massive <a
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/">Oxnard, California
GMO seed factory</a>. By peacefully blockading the exit and
access points at the factory, the group <a
href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/">shut down</a> the
distribution of genetically engineered (GMO) seeds for a day.</p>
<p>
“If the government refuses to stop the distribution of deadly GMO
seeds in the food supply, more and more activists will engage in
acts like last week that stopped GMO seed distribution for about 6
hours in the state of California,” says Ariel Vegosen who was
arrested with 8 others in Oxnard and charged with trespassing.</p>
<p>
Monsanto is the largest producer of GMO seeds. Actions officially
started on September 17, a year since Occupy Wall Street movement
began and took place throughout the world including the 45
protests in the US alone and many others in Germany, Canada,
India, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Argentina, Australia, Spain,
Russia, Peru and Japan. More info as well as video available for
media use with credit of the GMO protests can be found at <a
href="http://Occupy-Monsanto.com/">http://Occupy-Monsanto.com</a>.</p>
<p>
Spokespeople for Occupy Monsanto are available by email
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:GMO@Occupy-Monsanto.com">GMO@Occupy-Monsanto.com</a> or calling Adam Eidinger at 202-744-2671.</p>
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