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DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20TH FROM 11AM TO 2PM AT OCCUPY SAN JOSE\nLocation: CITY 
 HALL 4h St & Santa Clara St., San Jose\n\nShare your organic (no chemicals) 
 backyard bounty with others.\nLeave some for the protesters.\nLearn about 
 environmental health issues, the corporate takeover of agriculture\nShare 
 your organic gardening tips\nHelp preserve our crop diversity & culinary 
 heritage.\nBring washed veggies/fruit/herbs, heirloom seeds, flowers, eggs, 
 honey, gardening expertise, food justice info, etc...\nThis works better if 
 there is no money changing hands onsite. What you do elsewhere is your 
 biz.\nBring your own folding table if you need one\n\nCOME FOR THE FOOD - 
 STAY FOR THE REVOLUTION!\nOccupy SJ General Assembly at 
 12pm\n\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nPRESS RELEASE -- Embargoed 
 until 00:01 16/11/2011\n\nBig 6 agrochemical companies indicted for crimes 
 against humanity\n\nFrom 3-6th December 2011, the Permanent Peoples' 
 Tribunal (PPT) will convene in Bangalore, India, to hear cases brought 
 against six multinational agrochemical companies who stand accused of 
 violating human rights by promoting reliance on the sale and use of 
 pesticides known to undermine internationally recognised rights to health, 
 livelihood and life.\n\nKnown as the 'Big 6', the indicated agrochemical 
 corporations are Monsanto, Dow, BASF, Bayer, Syngenta and DuPont. 
 Collectively, these companies control 74% of the global pesticide market, 
 making the pesticide/agricultural biotechnology industry one of the most 
 consolidated sectors in the world.\n\nThe World Bank estimates that 355 000 
 people per year die of unintentional pesticide poisoning. "The aim of 
 taking the Big 6 to the PPT is to give a voice to the otherwise voiceless 
 victims of pesticides around the world who have suffered as a result of the 
 relentless promotion of toxic poisons by these multinational companies." 
 Said Nick Mole, PAN UK Policy Officer.\n\nCases from the UK and Europe will 
 focus on the loss of bees due to neonicotinoid pesticides developed and 
 sold by Bayer; Graham White, a beekeeper said, "Bee losses in the UK and 
 Europe have been catastrophic, with over a million colony deaths since 
 1993; there is a massive body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence from 
 European universities, which indicate that neonicotinoids are having a 
 lethal impact on bees and other pollinating insects. It is high time that 
 the companies that manufacture these toxic pesticides are held to account 
 for the damage they have done."\n\nCases from the UK will also focus on the 
 damage that has been done to the health of UK citizens by organophosphate 
 (OP) pesticides, most notably sheep dips. In the UK many hundreds of 
 individuals and their families have had their lives devastated by exposure 
 to OP pesticides and have had no recognition or compensation for their 
 suffering. "We hope that by taking these companies to the PPT we will raise 
 the issue of OP poisoning in the UK and bring to the attention of the 
 public and politicians the suffering that has been caused" stated Elizabeth 
 Sigmund of the Organophosphate Information Network.\n\nDuring the course of 
 the tribunal, Pesticide Action Network will invite witnesses including 
 scientists, medical doctors, and lawyers, to prove the charges through 
 expert testimony on pesticides, genetic engineering, intellectual property 
 rights, and other subjects germane to the cases at hand. The PPT will also 
 hear testimony from farmers, farm workers, beekeepers, mothers, young 
 people, scientists and consumers from around the world. The defendants will 
 be served and summoned to offer their perspectives and responses.\n\nAlso 
 under indictment are the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World 
 Trade Organisation; these entities are charged with facilitating corporate 
 concentration of power through their policies and programs. Additionally, 
 the governments of Switzerland, Germany, and the United States -- the home 
 nations of six defendant companies -- have been indicted for colluding 
 with, and failing to regulate, corporate power.\n\nThe verdict from the 
 hearing will be given on 6th December.\n\n-- ENDS --\n\nFor more 
 information please contact:\n\nKeith Tyrell, Director, PAN UK: 020 7065 
 0905\n\nNick Mole, Policy Officer, PAN UK\nTel: 020 7065 0905\nMob: 07906 
 892648\nEmail: nickmole@pan-uk.org\n\nNotes for Editors:\n\nPesticide 
 Action Network UK is the only organisation in the UK focussed solely on 
 global pesticide issues\n\nA full copy of the charges against the Big 6 is 
 available on request\nBiographic details of the PPT jury panel are 
 available on request\n\nThe World Bank estimates that 355 000 people die of 
 pesticide related illness every year\n\nThe Permanent Peoples' Tribunal was 
 founded in 1979 and grew out of the work by Senator Lelio Basso of Italy. 
 The PPT is an international opinion tribunal that aims to raise awareness 
 of situations of massive human rights violations when such situations 
 receive no institutional recognition or response. Starting in 1979, the PPT 
 has held 35 sessions exposing various forms of human rights abuses through 
 alternative judgements and legal articulations. It was created as an 
 institution to\ncompensate for the absence of access to justice for all 
 people; where barriers to justice exist, the Tribunal serves as a 
 grassroots, ad hoc court to consider charges and to issue 
 verdicts\nNeonicotinoid pesticides have been implicated in the death of 
 bees since they were introduced into agricultural use on the early 
 1990s\n\nIn the EU honey bees play a key role in the successful production 
 of 80 million tonnes of food every year - that is approximately 160kg of 
 food per EU citizen\n\nIn the winter of 2008/2009 around 1/5 of honey bee 
 hives in the UK were lost\nIn Germany in 2008 60% of their bees were 
 lost\nIn 1999 France banned the use of the neonicotinoid based product 
 Gaucho after the loss of 1/3 of French honey bees\nOther countries in 
 Europe have banned or restricted the use of neonicotinoids including 
 Germany,\n\nItaly and Slovenia. In Italy following the neonicotinoid ban 
 bee populations have seen recoveries with greatly reduced bee 
 mortality\n\nGlyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup can 
 cause birth defects even at very low levels. However, this information has 
 been known and ignored by regulators and the manufacturers\n\nsince the 
 early 1990s OPs are nerve poisons which kill the target pest (usually 
 insects). Most OP pesticides are insecticides, although there are also a 
 number of related herbicide and fungicide compounds\n\nWorld Bank, World 
 Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development (Washington, DC: World 
 Bank,\n2007)\n\nhttp://www.organicinthegarden.com/forum/index.php?topic=49.0\n\nhttp://www.cra-api.it/online/immagini/Apenet_2009_eng.pdf\n\nhttp://www.earthopensource.org/index.php/reports/17-roundup-and-birth-defects-is-the-public-being-\nkept-in-the-dark\n\nhttp://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/Actives/organoph.htm\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Occupy Crop Swop
LOCATION:Meet at Occupy San Jose \nSan Jose City Hall: 4th St./Santa Clara St.
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