Oxygen Collective presents Back to the Roots Roadshow! Cascadia to Sacramento

As momentum builds to mobilize against bio-imperialism and the WTO agenda, the Oxygen Collective will lead a caravan from near the Canadian border to the Sacramento convergence. Priscilla, the Oxygen Collective’s 40-foot biodiesel bus, will help to raise energy and highlight the shadowy issues being discussed behind closed doors in Sacramento. Come help us unravel the mythology of genetic engineering, industrial agriculture and corporate globalization. Meet others in your community who are heading south for the Sacramento convergence. The Oxygen Collective will perform a colorful multi-media presentation including costumes, puppets, street theater, excerpts from the film ‘Fed Up,‘ and music with Becky White of the Sisters of the Revolution.

Back to the Roots roadshow schedule:

JUNE
13 FRIDAY - Ashland - Elks Lodge - Wide Awake Benefit and Back to the Roots kick-off, 7pm
14 SATURDAY - Eugene - Free Speech Plaza, 7:30pm - dusk
15 SUNDAY - Portland - Liberty Hall - Benefit to send street medics to Sacramento, 7pm
16 MONDAY - Seattle - TBA
17 TUESDAY - Bellingham - TBA
18 WEDNESDAY - Olympia - Heritage Park, 4pm - dusk
19 THURSDAY - Redding - Caldwell Park, 5pm - dusk
20 FRIDAY - Sacramento - 5 day Festival in the Streets!

From June 23-25, 2003 the Ministers of Trade, Agriculture and Environment from around the world will meet in Sacramento, at a summit hosted by the US Department of Agriculture, USAID and the US State Department. This summit promotes industrial models of agriculture that enrich transnational and large-scale agribusiness interests while undermining the food security and welfare of the impoverished and disenfranchised peoples of the global South. It will push for a consensus on the review of the Agreement of Agriculture of the WTO in time for the 5th Ministerial Meeting in Cancun, Mexico, September 10-15, 2003. Through this meeting transnational corporations will push to expand the use of the untested and unlabeled products of agricultural biotechnology, which pose extraordinary risks to public health, farmer independence and the environment.

There has been a Call to Action from around the world.
Listen. Act.

Join the Sacramento mobilization and festival of diverse resistance, June 20-25. Non-violent direct action, marches, rally, teach-in, alternative expo and more to confront the corporate agenda and war on the earth! Demand food sovereignty, a safe and clean environment and farmers’ rights!

For more information on the Back to the Roots Roadshow,
email: lesley [at] o2collective.org
phone: 541.821.3882

Additional funds for this roadshow are still needed.
Please contact us if you are able to donate food, money or biodiesel.
The Oxygen Collective is a 501,c-3 non-profit sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE).

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