Bay Area Organizing Meeting to Prepare for the BIO 2004 Annual International Convention

First Bay Area organizing meeting to prepare for the BIO 2004 Annual International Convention

WHO: Food First and other concerned groups and individuals

WHAT: First organizing meeting to prepare to mobilize around to the BIO Conference 2004 this Jun 6-9. (Pls. RSVP)

WHEN: Feb 3, 2004 3-5 PM

WHERE: The Humanist Hall, Oakland Ca (full address below)

This year, the bay area will be playing host to the biotech industry's annual largest jamboree. June 6, 2004 marks the beginning of the annual International Biotechnology Convention organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).

The convention will bring Corporations, Bankers, Industrial
"celebrities", investors and delegations from around the world to network and present exhibitions about the Benefits of biotechnology at "invitation only" events at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. This International Convention will have more 1,200 participating companies and organizations. It will be the World's
largest Biotech exhibit and networking forum of the year. For more information on the Bio Conference go to: http://www.bio.org/events/2004

For all of us concerned by the profiteering of the biotech industry, fighting for human rights, sustainable agriculture, social justice and other related issues, this is and opportunity not to be missed. We want to support Biodevastation (http://www.biodev.org), which has launched
mobilizations and conferences around the world, bringing together scientists, farmers, and activists to resist the biotechnology that has and will devastate local and global communities. Biodevastation has held many annual conferences since 1998'S BIODEV in St. Louis, New Deli,
Seattle, Boston, San Diego, St. Louis and more recently participated at the mobilization around the Sacramento Ministerial.

At Food First we'd like to host an initial brainstorming session open to all "like minded" groups and individuals here in Oakland to organize around the BIO Convention 2004. The organizing meeting will be held on February 3, 2004, as follows:

Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2004

Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Place: Humanist Hall 390 27th Street & 411 28th Street, Oakland CA
94609 Between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill

Questions: call Paulina at 510-654-4400 x226

RSVP Please: pnovo (at) foodfirst.org

For a map on how to get to the Humanist Hall, go to:
http://www.humanisthall.net/DIRECTIONS.htm

Do let us know if you will be coming, or whether, for future meetings, a different time would work better. Please forward to other interested groups and individuals.

In peace and solidarity,

Paulina Novo
Re-Shaping Global Food System Program
Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First
398 60th Street,
Oakland, CA 94618 USA
Phone: (510) 654-4400 (ext. 226)
Fax: (510) 654-4551
E-mail: pnovo (at) foodfirst.org
See also:
http://www.foodfirst.org
http://www.biodev.org