[Ob_action_announce] #Sept 24, Camb, #Occupy Monsanto begins at 8am
Eden
eden at occupyboston.org
Thu Aug 30 12:55:05 EDT 2012
Subject: #Sept 24, Camb, #Occupy Monsanto begins at 8am
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Doo-Occupy <http://occupy-monsanto.com/doo-occupys-anti-monsanto-songs/>
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 as they enter. Perhaps we will
have a giant puppet or 2. See attached flyer or view on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/524737360876292/ Our flyer is also up at:
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
We'll meet at 8am very near Monsanto, (staging area location TBA) and
converge on the office shortly afterwards, we will go all day, as long
as people are there.
Come ready to sing. Sing-out for your BIOtech-free meals! Combat the
bullies with sweet music! FLASH music MOB brought to by Doo-Occupy,
members of Occupy Boston and Occupy Monsanto.
Wear something fun, a rubber chicken outfit, a huge ear of corn, or
maybe wear red as we will be Sept 17^th with Occupy Wall Street. There
will be hazmat suits available.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/524737360876292/
<http://www.facebook.com/events/524737360876292/>
Wiki: http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_Monsanto with a link to
the song page
Forum Discussion:
http://voices.occupyboston.org/forum/general-discussion/monsanto
<http://voices.occupyboston.org/forum/general-discussion/monsanto>
Our flyer is also up at:
http://occupy-monsanto.com/doo-occupy-to-serenade-monsanto-september-24-cambridge-ma/
To help coordinate join our discussion list:https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob_o_monsanto
Sign-making Assembly Sunday, September 23^rd in the park at Copley Square ... meetings at 3pm and 6pm.
www.doo-occupy.org <http://www.occupyboston.org/>
www.occupyboston.org/ <http://www.occupyboston.org/calendar/>
www.occupyboston.org/calendar/ <http://www.occupyboston.org/calendar/>
occupy-monsanto.com,
_http://occupy-monsanto.com/get-your-free-genetic-crimes-unit-action-kit/ <http://occupy-monsanto.com/get-your-free-genetic-crimes-unit-action-kit/>_
GCU at Occupy-Monsanto.com <mailto:GCU at Occupy-Monsanto.com>
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 Bof A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDcsJB6i690
Doo-Occupy Why these Wars, #NATO: http://youtu.be/T_yqzTGPz3k
Loads of info:
http://www.nationofchange.org/search/apachesolr_search/monsanto
A few facts:
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.
Monsanto 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 Alabama 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>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?&entry_id=33905
<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): ... His article is conversational
and has a link to
Vanity Fair article:
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!!!! 4 Billions $$$$)
_http://wakeup-world.com/2012/06/14/five-million-brazilian-farmers-take-on-monsanto-and-win-2-billion/_
Invitations and coverage of our action in June, at the BIO Conference
(Biotechnology, Industry, Organization)
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/
Please join us this action promises to be fun and powerful.
Join our list: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/ob_o_monsanto
Or even without joining write to me there and I'll see your note and
I'll moderate it in if it is helpful for the assembly.
Depending on how many new members this new list I'll send out 2 or 3
more emails as the date nears.
THANK YOU for ALL you do, eden
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