Sacramento mobilization planning meetings for Bay Area

Please know that East Bay and Sacramento Food Not Bombs, Berkeley Catholic Worker, and Seeds of Peace are cooperating to create a mini food warehouse, and will be cooking at the Mother of All Communal Kitchens at the Showdown in Sacramento June 20-25. You are welcome to join with us.

Something historic is underway in Sacramento. People from around the world who are concerned about democracy, justice, human rights, the environment, workers, biotechnology, the safety of our food and our collective future are uniting to raise their voices in opposition to the corporate take over
of the food supply. The Sacramento Ministerial on Agriculture, Science and Technology is an immense opportunity to educate and mobilize the public
around sustainable agriculture, community democracy and a just, ecologically sane future.

Join in the fun! Here are 10 Ways to Plug in to the mobilization and Change the World:

1. Educate Yourself!
Empower yourself with the facts! Check out http://www.sacmobilization.org and find out what this Ministerial is all about and how the closed door
discussions between some of the world's largest and most destructive corporations and government officials from around the globe will affect all
of us. Learn why so many people all over the planet are speaking out against biotechnology, irradiation, pesticides, corporate globalization and the take over of the food supply by corporate agribusiness. Learn about the alternatives like organic farming, community-supported agriculture, local democracy and people's globalization movements.

2. Spread the word!
Tell your friends and family! Forward the Call to Action. Announce the mobilization at local meetings. Include the website http://www.sacmobilization.org in your email signature. Put a sign up in your window promoting the mobilization.

3. If you are in Sac or Davis Area: House an Out of Town Guest!
Concerned citizens from around the world will be coming to Sacramento to confront the corporate take over of the food system. Do you have a spare
bed, a couch, floor space or a back yard where people could stay? Could your church or union hall open up its basement? Do you know someone with a
big field for people to camp in? Contact sachousing2003 [at] yahoo.com or call
NOW: 916 519 3007

4. Provide a Donation!
Food, Office Supplies, Furniture, or any of the items listed on the sacmobilization wish list: http://sacmobilization.org/article.php?id=87 are
needed to make the vision of the mobilization possible.


5. Give Money!
Organizing requires money for everything from phone calls to photocopies, march permits to meeting rooms. Your donation could help a farm worker,
representative of a pesticide-impacted community or a campesino leader come to the ministerial and make their voice heard! You can send donations to:
SacCSA
c/o Alliance for Democracy
1500 W. El Camino Ave. #621
Sacramento, CA 95833-1945

If you'd like to make a large tax-deductible donation of $500 or more, email: info [at] sacmobilization.org

6. Attend Local Meetings/Regional Spokescouncils!
The Sacramento coalition for sustainable agriculture (SacCSA) meets
Every Wednesday, 7pm - 9pm.
Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento
2425 Sierra Blvd. Sacramento, CA.
Two blocks north of Fair Oaks Blvd. between Howe and Fulton.

Regional spokescouncils for Afiinity Group nonviolent action planning are:
*Saturday June 14th at 4 PM at the
Welcome Center at
12th & C Sts Sacramento
*Friday June 20th at 7 PM (Location TBA) and every evening through the Convergence.

7. Endorse!
96 organizations have endorsed the mobilization. Can we break 100? Get your local organization to endorse the call to action and the mobilization and post it on http://www.sacmobilization.org/endorse.php

8. Write a Letter to the Editor! Call in to the Radio!
Your local paper and community wants to know why You will be in the streets to protest the Sacramento Ministerial. Call into your favorite talk radio show and explain why you will take action to stop the corporate
takeover of our food and future.

9. Attend the events in Sacramento and bring 10 friends!
The Convergence opens on Friday June 20th with trainings and meetings, and continues with a teach-in counter conference, concerts, organic food fair,
nonviolent direct actions, and the Rally to Reclaim our Food and our Future at 10 am, Monday June 23rd at the west steps of the Capitol building in Sacramento. Events continue through Wednesday with a high profile panel discussion, spokescouncil meetings, media events, roundtable discussion, and more! For a full schedule see http://www.sacmobilization.org/article.php?list=type&type=50

10. Form an Affinity Group and Begin Planning Actions.
There is a call for non-violent direct action in the streets of Sacramento to join the world in saying no more hunger, no to Genetically Engineered foods, stop GE trees and fish, and to decry corporate trade deals that steal the food from our tables. Not sure where to start? Attend a training here in Sac and plug into the regional spokescouncil meetings--for a
schedule see http://www.sacmobilization.org/calendar.php

Together we will make history in Sacramento! Plug in to the Convergence..

http://www.sacmobilization.org --
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doyle canning
organizer
Institute for Social Ecology
Biotechnology Project
1118 Maple Hill Road
Plainfield VT 05667
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