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DESCRIPTION:What:     Bay Area Mobilizing Meetings for Sacramento Convergence 
 6/21-25\nWhen:    7 PM Thursdays -- 6/5 & 6/12\nWhere:   6/5 @ Art & 
 Revolution (Redstone Building), 16th & Capp St. San Francisco\n             
 6/12 @ NION office, 1611 Telegraph Ave. @16th, Oakland\n\nSpokes Council: 
 Monday, June 16th 7pm @ St. Boniface Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave. San 
 Francisco\n\nContact: hungry_justice@yahoo.com\n\nJoin with bay area 
 affinity groups and NGOs that are mobilizing to create a festival of 
 diverse resistance to big biotech, bioioimperialism, the \nBush 
 administration and "free trade". Non-violent direct action, marches, rally, 
 teach-in, alternative expo and more to confront the \ncorporate agenda and 
 the war on the earth. Demand food sovereignty, safe food and farmers' 
 rights.\n\nMobilization planning includes: Art & Performance, Outreach, 
 Transportation, Legal, Medical, Media, NVDA Training, Food, & Coms and 
 \nMore!!\n\nGet your affinity groups together and join us in planning an 
 amazing resistence to Corporate ownership of the food supply!\n\nWhy we're 
 mobilizing --> --> -->\n\nThe Ministerial:\nFrom June 23-25th 2003 the 
 Ministers of Trade, Agriculture and Environment from 180 nations, including 
 all member states of the World \nTrade Organization (WTO), will meet in 
 Sacramento California at a summit hosted by the United States Department of 
 Agriculture (USDA), \nUSAID, and the US State Department. The Sacramento 
 Conference will be held at the same time as the "Expo on Agricultural 
 Science and \nTechnology" that will highlight the "benefits" of 
 transnational agribusiness and biotechnology. The two events are not open 
 to the public.\n\nFrom the Via Campasina Call to Action in 
 Sacramento:\n\n...Though the Conference and Expo the US government wants to 
 impose its corporate agricultural agenda on the rest of the world, 
 \nincluding new technologies such as genetic engineering. We understand 
 that the US government is trying to usurp the process of the \nWorld Food 
 Summit held in June 2002 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture 
 Organization (FAO) by claiming that the Sacramento \nConference is a 
 "follow up to the Rome Summit."\n\nWe understand that this Conference will 
 be used by the US government to remove obstacles to US corporate interests 
 on the road to WTO\nMinisterial Conference and the Summit of the 
 Americas.\n\nVia Campesina calls upon its organisations and other social 
 movements to:\n- denounce this event publicly and organise protest,\n- 
 question their parliaments and governments and demand that they denounce 
 this Conference and cancel their participation,\n- participate in protest 
 actions organised by the US social movements and at the international 
 level.\n\nWhat can you?\n- write to your agriculture, environmental and 
 trade ministers to make your position know,\n- inform local and national 
 media so that they will be aware how contentious this issue is,\n- ask 
 Deputees to raise the issue in Parliament\n- make your proposals for action 
 known and post them on www.sacramentoministerial.org\n\nHungry for Justice? 
 See you at the meeting -- see you in the streets!\n\nResources: 
 http://www.sacmobilization.org/\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/20843.php
SUMMARY:Mobilize for June 20-25 Sacramento Convergence
LOCATION:Not In Our Name Office\n1611 Telegraph Ave. at 16th\nOakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/20843.php
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