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DESCRIPTION:About: \nWe are at a time of many crises. And in the face of all the global 
 challenges before us, the domination of the food supply, and the 
 contribution of the current food regime to climate change, numerous 
 environmental crises, humans rights abuses and displacement of people to 
 name a few, makes it perhaps the most pressing issue before us. \nTo 
 control food is to control people. To destroy topsoil is to destroy the 
 most elemental thing upon which we all depend. And to convince people that 
 this system is the only way and that there is no other option is one of the 
 most pressing myths before us that needs to be shattered. \n\nThe 
 conference: JUSTICE BEGINS WITH SEEDS will be a space for movement building 
 to actively address the the symbol of the corporate food regime: 
 genetically modified food, address the many layered implications of GE/GMO 
 food, and build strategic coalitions and deeper collaborations amongst 
 diverse stakeholders more widespread political action addressing GMOs in 
 varying levels throughout the state of California.\n\nThe conference will 
 focus on hands on workshops and panels on how to build alliances, how to 
 start a rights based campaign, and how to get involved with GMO labeling 
 initiatives throughout California. People from different organizing 
 contexts will have the space to discuss, share strategy and build the 
 movement to address the corporate food regime, encouraging people to 
 actively take on the issue politically.  \n\nPre-conference keynote event 
 by world renowned activist, environmental justice leader, author and 
 thinker: \n\nDr. Vandana Shiva \nSeptember 13th, 2011, 7-9 PM, San 
 Francisco, CA\nScreen shot 2011-09-01 at 11.03.40 PM.png\n\nHorace Mann 
 School Auditorium \n3351 23rd Street, San Francisco CA 94110\nSan 
 Francisco, CA\n7-9 PM\nSeptember 13th, 2011 \n\n\nKeynote Plenary 
 panelists:\n\nFriday, September 16th morning: Local and global implications 
 of genetically modified seeds.\n\n    * Ignacio Chapela: UC Berkeley 
 microbial ecologist and mycologist\n    * Anuradha Mittal: Oakland 
 Institute executive director \n    * Marcia Ishii-Eiteman: Pesticide Action 
 Network North America senior scientist\n\n\nFriday, September 16th 
 afternoon: Agricultural biodiversity and the real solutions we need\n\n    
 * Adelita San Vicente: Semillas De Vida A.Z. \n    * Dave Henson: 
 Occidental Arts and Ecology Center executive director\n    * Michael 
 Dimock, Roots of Change president\n\n\nSaturday, September 17th morning: 
 Where we are, learning from the past, and moving forward \n\n    * Carl 
 Anthony: Breakthrough Communities co-director\n    * Jeffrey Smith: 
 Institute for Responsible Technology executive director\n    * Eric Holt 
 Gimenez: Food First executive director\n    * Mari Margil: Community 
 Environmental Legal Defense Fund associate director\n\n\nSaturday, 
 September 17th afternoon: Linking perspectives and building the 
 movement\n\n    * Gayle Mclaughlin: Mayor of Richmond\n    * Andrew 
 Kimbrell: Center for Food Safety executive director\n    * Claire Hope 
 Cummings: Journalist and Author of Uncertain Peril\n    * Miguel Altieri: 
 UC Berkeley professor of agroecology\n\n\nPanel and Workshop 
 Speakers:\n\nTrack 1: GM Seeds: Global Threat, Local Struggles\nDr. 
 Alejandro Espinoza: INIFAP Mexico, Union de Cientificos Comprometidos con 
 la Sociedad\nDr. Antonio Turrent: Union de Cientificos Comprometidos con la 
 Sociedad (Mexico)\nDana Harvey: Mandela Marketplace\nDavid Bacon: 
 Journalist and photographer\nCarlos Martinez: Ecoviva\nColin Rajah: 
 National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights\nDr. Elena 
 Alvarez-Buylla: Instituto de Ecologia-UNAM, Mexico\nJuan Pablo:  Indigenous 
 voice on seed sovereignty\nKatherine Zavala: International Development 
 Exchange\nLuis Magana: Comite de Defensa del Maiz Criollo\nMaria Catalan: 
 Catalan Farms\nPhil Bereano: AGRAwatch\nRucha Chitnis: Women's Earth 
 Alliance\nTezo Tezozomac: South Central Farmers Cooperative\n\nTrack 2: 
 Understanding the Landscape: Legal, Political and Business Challenges and 
 Opportunities for Change\nDoug Mosel: GMO Free Mendocino and farmer\nGayle 
 Mclaughlin: Mayor of Richmond\nJohn Avalos: San Francisco Supervisor\nMari 
 Margil: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund\nMark Squire: Non-GMO 
 Project and Good Earth Foods\nMichael Dimmok: Roots of Change\nPhilip 
 Heiselmann: California Attorney for sustainable food and food safety\nRana 
 Chang: House Kombucha\nRebecca Spector: Center for Food Safety\nAlbert 
 Straus: Straus Family Creamery\nZea Sonnabend: California Certified Organic 
 Farmers\n\nTrack 3: Building the Movement: Goals and Strategies\nAdam Scow: 
 Food and Water Watch\nAshley Schaeffer: Rainforest Action Network\nAaron 
 Lehmer: Bay Localize\nClaire Hope Cummings: Journalist and Author of 
 Uncertain Peril and other books\nDave Murphy: Food Democracy Now\nDoria 
 Robinson: Urban Tilth\nDoug Mosel: Farmer and Consultant to the former 
 Mendocino campaign to ban GMOs\nHeather Whitehead: Center for Food 
 Safety\nJeffrey Smith: Institute for Responsible Technology\nJeff Conant: 
 Global Justice Ecology Project\nJohn Wick: Marin Carbon Project\nOscar 
 Grande: PODER\nPamm Larry: Label GMOs in California 2012\nRey Leon: Latino 
 Environmental Advancement and Policy Institute\nMary Ensch: 
 Seedlings\nMateo Nube: Movement Generation\n\nThe California Biosafety 
 Alliance is a cross sector, multilevel and inter-ethnic alliance of 
 individuals and organizations working together to engage in broader 
 outreach around genetically modified (GMO) food issues and to bring 
 together strategic coalitions of diverse stakeholders to advocate for a GMO 
 free food supply, as a means of pushing for a shift from an industrial food 
 model, to a model of local resilience. GMOs are a symbol that represent the 
 industrial food system and a key point that needs to be addressed in order 
 to address and shift  away from the industrial food model.\n\nOur vision is 
 to get the multi-faceted number of issues with GMOs, ranging from health, 
 to social justice, to environmental destruction, to a major contributor to 
 climate change though topsoil degradation and numerous un-factored 
 externalities, to corporate consolidation, to enter the framework of 
 various groups that have not traditionally focused on the issue of GMOs as 
 a central theme and point that needs to be addressed to push for a systemic 
 shift in the current corporate food 
 regime.\n\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nEndorsers:\n\nAGRA 
 Watch: project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice\nBay 
 Localize\nBreakthrough Communities\nCalifornians for Pesticide 
 Reform\nCenter for Food Safety\nComite de Defensa del Maiz 
 Criollo\nCommunity Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)\nFood Democracy 
 Now!\nFood First/Institute for Food and Development Policy\nFood and Water 
 Watch\nDavid Campos: San Francisco Supervisor District 9\nGayle Mclaughlin: 
 Mayor of Richmond\nGlobal Exchange\nGMO Free Los Angeles\nGuerreros Verdes 
 (Mexico)\nInternational Development Exchange (IDEX)\nInstitute for 
 Responsible Technology\nInstitute of Near Eastern and African Studies 
 (INEAS)\nLatin American Alliance for Immigrant Rights (ALIADI)\nLatino 
 Environmental Advancement and Policy Institute\nMandela 
 Marketplace\nMovement Generation\nNavdanya\nNational Organization for Women 
 (NOW)\nOakland Institute\nOakland Food Connection\nOccidental Arts and 
 Ecology Center\nOrganic Consumers Association\nPequenos Agricultores de 
 California (PAC)\nPesticide Action Network\nPesticide 
 Watch\nPODER\nRainforest Action Network\nSan Francisco Urban Agriculture 
 Alliance (SFUAA)\nSemillas De Vida (Mexico)\nSin Maiz no hay Pais 
 (Mexico)\nSouth Central Farmers Cooperative\nWomen's Earth Alliance\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/14/18690327.php
SUMMARY:Justice Begins with Seeds Conference
LOCATION:September 16 and 17th Summit at\nThe Women's Building:\n3543 18th St. # 
 8\nSan Francisco, CA, 94110\nAnd other surrounding locations in the mission 
 district. All plenaries will be in the women's building.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/14/18690327.php
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