[Street] Mon, 8am, noon + 5pm, September 24th #Occupy Monsanto Flash musical MOB, Cambridge
Eden
eden at occupyboston.org
Fri Sep 21 21:54:39 EDT 2012
Hey Street list,
anyone still here?
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
Blog post here and pasted at bottom:
http://www.occupyboston.org/2012/09/18/occupy-monsanto-sept-24/
Doo-Occupy's press release then Eden's email 'big send'
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact:Crystal Zevon -- chesterzev1 at gmail.com
<mailto:chesterzev1 at gmail.com> - 802-254-1333 <tel:802-254-1333>
Spokespeople for Occupy Monsanto are available by email
*GMO at Occupy-Monsanto.com* <mailto:gmo at occupy-Monsanto.com>or calling
Adam Eidinger at 202-744-2671
*OCCUPY BOSTON, OCCUPY MONSANTO & Vermont's DOO-OCCUPY to protest with
song at MONSANTO's Cambridge Offices on Monday, Sept. 24*
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
*http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf*
*Occupy Boston - http://www.occupyboston.org/, Occupy Monsanto -
http://occupy-monsanto.com/ and Doo-Occupy -
http://www.doo-occupy.org/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! *
"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 *Michael Taylor*
<http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/michael-taylor/>is running food safety
for Obama nothing will be done to protect Americans."
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 *Genetic Crimes Unit*
<http://occupy-monsanto.com/genetic-crimes-unit/>(GCU) shut down
shipping and receiving access points at Monsanto's massive *Oxnard,
California GMO seed factory* <http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/>.
By peacefully blockading the exit and access points at the factory, the
group *shut down* <http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/>the
distribution of genetically engineered (GMO) seeds for a day.
"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.
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 *http://Occupy-Monsanto.com* <http://Occupy-Monsanto.com/>
--
www.doo-occupy.org <http://www.doo-occupy.org>
Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is
killing a man.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMP4L7x5GPk&feature=relmfu
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMP4L7x5GPk&feature=relmfu>
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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/
<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 17^th 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://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/
<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.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A46648-2001Dec31>
_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
<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>
The protests will vary in size and nature but are unified in pushing backGMO 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=zqaaB6NE1TIIn 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
<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
PS, Sept 24th is Jewish New Year ...
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*Horrific Results of New GMO Food Study Reveal Obama Has Abandoned FDA
Regulation to Chemical Industry Profits*
/Increases in Tumors & Disease in Rats Fed GMO Food Discovered in First
Long Term Peer Reviewed Study/
*WASHINGTON, DC* -- 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
http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf
*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!*
"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 Michael Taylor
<http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/michael-taylor/> is running food safety
for Obama nothing will be done to protect Americans."
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
Genetic Crimes Unit <http://occupy-monsanto.com/genetic-crimes-unit/>
(GCU) shut down shipping and receiving access points at Monsanto's
massive Oxnard, California GMO seed factory
<http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/>. By peacefully blockading the
exit and access points at the factory, the group shut down
<http://occupy-monsanto.com/tag/oxnard/> the distribution of genetically
engineered (GMO) seeds for a day.
"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.
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 http://Occupy-Monsanto.com <http://Occupy-Monsanto.com/>.
Spokespeople for Occupy Monsanto are available by email
GMO at Occupy-Monsanto.com or calling Adam Eidinger at 202-744-2671.
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