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DESCRIPTION:Dear Greens,\n\nWe hope you will come out for Green Sunday on July 8th for 
 the presentation:\n\nUnmasking Bay Area BioLabs and Synthetic 
 Biology:\nHealth, Justice, and Communities at Risk\n\nSpeakers: \nJeff 
 Conant\n(Global Justice Ecology Project)\nTina Stevens\n(Alliance for 
 Humane Biotechnology)\nGopal Dayaneni\n(Movement Generation)\n5:00 – 6:30 
 pm\nNiebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Ave. at 65th in North 
 Oakland\n\nThe Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is working with local mayors, 
 city councils, and a host of business interests to transform the East Bay 
 into a biotech hub, the “Green Corridor.”  Without public awareness or 
 adequate attention to health and safety issues in this earthquake-prone 
 region, controversial synthetic biology research — known as “extreme 
 genetic engineering” — is planned for labs throughout the East 
 Bay.\n\nLearn more at this SynBioWatch.org sponsored presentation.\n\nJeff 
 Conant is Communications Director with Global Justice Ecology Project. He 
 is a writer, journalist, and popular educator, and was the coordinator and 
 lead author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health, a popular 
 education manual that has been translated into numerous languages. He is 
 also author of A Poetics of Resistance: the Revolutionary Public Relations 
 of the Zapatista Insurgency, as well as numerous articles, reports, and 
 educational materials on climate justice, water privatization, ecological 
 agriculture and food sovereignty, zero waste, and related 
 issues.\nhttp://biosafetyalliance.org/ \n\nTina Stevens teaches US History 
 and Bioethics at San Francisco State University and is the author of 
 Bioethics in America: Origins and Cultural Politics (Johns Hopkins 
 University Press, 2003).  She is a board member of the Alliance for Humane 
 Biotechnology. 
 http://www.humanebiotech.com/usheringinneweugenics.html\n\nGopal Dayaneni 
 has worked for social, economic, and environmental justice through 
 organizing & campaigning, teaching, writing, and speaking since the late 
 1980′s. He has been a campaigner for Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition 
 on human rights and environmental justice in the high-tech industry and the 
 Oil Campaigner for Project Underground, a human rights and environmental 
 rights organizations which supported communities resisting oil and mining 
 exploitation around the world. Gopal has also provided progressive 
 organizations with support in Strategic Communications and Campaign 
 Planning through the Design Action Collective and is an active trainer and 
 organizer with the Ruckus Society and a member of the Progressive 
 Communicators Network. Gopal is also an elementary and early childhood 
 educator, working formerly as a teacher and as the co-director of the 
 Tenderloin Childcare Center, a community based childcare center supporting 
 children and families forced into 
 homelessness.\nhttp://www.movementgeneration.org/about-us/who-we-are\n\nLOCATION: 
 Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. at 65th in North 
 Oakland.\n\nDIRECTIONS: One block north of Alcatraz on the West side of 
 Telegraph, wheelchair accessible. Buses pass by regularly. Ashby BART is 
 approximately 7 blocks away.\n\nSPONSOR: Green Sundays are a series of free 
 programs & discussions sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County. They 
 are held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of 
 the County Council of the Green Party of Alameda County follows at 6:45 
 p.m. Council meetings are always open to anyone who is interested.\n\nThank 
 you,\n\nThe Green Party of Alameda County\nwww.acgreens.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/05/18716968.php
SUMMARY:Unmasking Bay Area BioLabs and Synthetic Biology
LOCATION:LOCATION: Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. at 65th in North 
 Oakland.\n\nDIRECTIONS: One block north of Alcatraz on the West side of 
 Telegraph, wheelchair accessible. Buses pass by regularly. Ashby BART is 
 approximately 7 blocks away.\n\nSPONSOR: Green Sundays are a series of free 
 programs & discussions sponsored by the Green Party of Alameda County. They 
 are held on the 2nd Sunday of each month. The monthly business meeting of 
 the County Council of the Green Party of Alameda County follows at 6:45 
 p.m. Council meetings are always open to anyone who is interested.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/05/18716968.php
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