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DESCRIPTION:Unite For Change: New Approaches to Pesticides and Environmental Health  
 The 22nd National Pesticide Forum  University of California, Berkeley - 
 Clark Kerr Conference Center  April 2-4, 2004  Visit 
 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/forum for registration, agenda and further  
 details. You need not register for the entire conference if you want to  
 just drop in on a session.  The 22nd National Pesticide Forum, Unite for 
 Change: New Approaches to  Pesticides and Environmental Health, will begin 
 on Friday, April 2 at  1:00 pm with a garden tour featuring "The Edible 
 Schoolyard" garden at  Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. The trip is 
 just a few minutes away  by bus, please email jkepner@beyondpesticides.org 
 to reserve a seat if  you plan to attend. Registration will begin at 3:00 
 pm and the program  will begin at 6:30 pm.  Speakers at the Forum include: 
 Howard Lyman, family farmer and author of  Mad Cowboy who was sued by Texas 
 cattlemen following an appearance on the  Oprah Winfrey Show; Sandra 
 Steingraber, ecologist and author of Living  Downstream and Having Faith: 
 An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood; Tyrone  Hayes, UC Berkeley biologist 
 that linked atrazine exposure to  hermaphroditic frogs; Warren Porter, 
 University of Wisconsin zoologist  currently studying the impact of lawn 
 chemicals on aggression and the  immune system; Ignacio Chapela, UC 
 Berkeley microbial ecologist who  discovered GE corn may have contaminated 
 the last reserve of biodiverse  maize. The speaker list is growing daily; 
 please see  http://www.beyondpesticides.org/forum/speakers for recent 
 additions.  Topics to be covered include: emerging pesticide science, 
 successful  grassroots campaigns, corporate accountability, genetic 
 engineering,  pesticides in schools, sustainable food systems, uniting 
 labor and public  campaigns, pesticides and asthma, West Nile virus, 
 stopping pesticide  drift, messaging, litigation for change, pesticide body 
 burden  monitoring, alternatives for the home and garden, international 
 issues and much, much more. The Forum is sponsored by Beyond 
 Pesticides/NCAMP,  Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR), Pesticide 
 Action Network North  America (PANNA), California Student Sustainability 
 Coalition and the  Society and Environment Division of UC Berkeley's 
 Department of  Environmental Science, Policy and Management.  Register now 
 and save! Print and mail the form below or register online  at 
 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/forum/brochures.                            
      Fees  Member rates: $75 individual/ $75 non-profit/ $175 business  
 Non-Member rates: $85 individual/ $85 non-profit/ $200 business  Student 
 rates: $25 UC Berkeley students/ $30 other students                        
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SUMMARY:Ignacio Chapela + others- National Pesticide forum
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