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DESCRIPTION:Friday morning, September 16th\n\nOpening remarks: \n9:00 AM - 9.15 AM AUD 
 WB*\nKaren Swift: California Biosafety Alliance \nFrancisco X. Alarcon: 
 Opening Ceremony\nDavid Campos Supervisor of San Francisco District 
 9\n\nPLENARY PANEL: 9.15 AM - 10. 15 AM AUD WB*\nLocal and global 
 implications of genetically modified seeds.\nIgnacio Chapela: UC Berkeley 
 microbial ecologist\nEric Holt Gimenez: Food First Executive 
 director\nMarcia Ishii-Eiteman: Pesticide Action Network North America 
 Senior Scientist\n\nWorkshops and panels\nFriday morning, September 16th 
 \n\n10.30 AM-12.15 PM \nImproved and Native Corn Seeds in Mexico Against 
 GMO and Legislation of Seeds (Track 1) AUD WB*\n Dr. Antonio Turrent 
 Fernández, INIFAP Mexico\nDr. Alejandro Espinoza, INIFAP Mexico \nMC 
 Adelita San Vicente, Semillas de Vida AC \nM.C. Margarita Tadeo Robledo 
 Senior Scientist\nDr. Ignacio Chapela UC Berkeley microbial ecologist and 
 mycologist\n\nThe Gates Foundation’s Attack on Seed Sovereignty and 
 Responses from the Ground: (Track 1) AL WB **\nBill Aal: AGRA Watch \nPhil 
 Bereano: AGRA Watch \nMarcia Ishii Eiteman: Pesticide Action Network North 
 America\n\nThe current legal climate and challenges surrounding GMO crops: 
 (Track 2) AUD CP ***\nPhilip Heiselmann: Attorney, Sustainable Food 
 Law\nRebecca Spector: Center for Food Safety\nDaniel B. Rachiver: Public 
 Patent Foundation (PUBAT)\n\nBuilding a Powerful Political Campaign against 
 the corporate control of seeds: learning from other contexts (Track 3) CFPE 
 ****\nAshley Schaeffer: Rainforest Action Network \nAdam Scow: Food and 
 Water Watch\n \n12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: LUNCH AUD WB*\n\nWorkshops and Panels 
 Friday afternoon\nSeptember 16th  1:00 PM - 2:45 PM\n\nNot Under Our Watch: 
 Grassroots Struggles Against Corporate Control of Seeds: Lessons from 
 India, South Africa and El Salvador (Track 1) CFPE ****\nCarlos Martinez: 
 Ecoviva \nKatherine Zavala: International Development Exchange \nRucha 
 Chitnis: Women’s Earth Alliance\n\nCounteracting the food industry with 
 ethnic diversification and alternative market forces (Track 2) AL WB 
 **\nDana Harvey: Mandela Marketplace \nMaria Catalan: Catalan Farms 
 \nMichael Dimock: Roots of Change \nTezo: South Central Farms\n\nSuccessful 
 Campaign Strategies and the non-GMO movement in California (Track 3) AUD 
 WB*\nDoug Mosel: Farmer and former Mendocino campaigner to ban GMOs \nPamm 
 Larry: Label GMOs in California 2012 Ballot Initiative Rey Leon: Latino 
 Enviornmental Advancement and Policy Institute\nEco Justice 101 (Track 3) 
 AUD CP ***\nDave Henson: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center \nMateo Nube: 
 Movement Generation\n \nPLENARY PANEL Friday afternoon \nSeptember 16th 
 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM AUD WB*\nAgricultural biodiversity and the real 
 solutions we need.\nAdelita San Vicente: Semillas de la Vida A.C.\nMiguel 
 Altieri: UC Berkeley professor of agroecology\nMichael Dimock: Roots of 
 Change\n\nFriday evening: 5:00 PM- 8:00 PM CFPE ****\nSeeds 
 Exchange/Presentation\nAstrid Lindo from the Living Seed Company and the 
 Everything is Medicine. Team of Olivia Chumacero, Meredith Hackleman, Joy 
 Anderson and Sarah Dougherty will be giving away seeds and sharing 
 knowledge about them on Friday, September 16th at 5 pm through theatre, 
 dialogue, and creating sacred relationships to seeds.\n\nAUD WB *\n* 
 Auditorium Women’s Building\n3543 18th St. #8 San Francisco, CA 94110\nAL 
 WB **\n** Audre Lorde Room \n3543 18th St. 2nd floor San Francisco, CA 
 94110\nAUD CP ***\n*** Centro del Pueblo\n474 Valencia St. 2nd floor San 
 Francisco, CA 94103  \nCFPE ****\n**** Center for Political Education\n522 
 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110-1798\nHMMS *****\n*****Buena Vista 
 Horace Mann K-8 Community School\n3351 - 23rd Street, San Francisco, CA 
 94110\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/15/18690413.php
SUMMARY:Justice Begins with Seeds, Statewide Conference
LOCATION:Women's Building (Auditorium)\n3543 18th St # 8\nSan Francisco, CA 
 94110-1697\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/15/18690413.php
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