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Justice Begins with Seeds, Statewide Conference | |
Date | Friday September 16 |
Time | 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM |
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Location Details | |
Women's Building (Auditorium) 3543 18th St # 8 San Francisco, CA 94110-1697 |
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Event Type | Conference |
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Friday morning, September 16th
Opening remarks: 9:00 AM - 9.15 AM AUD WB* Karen Swift: California Biosafety Alliance Francisco X. Alarcon: Opening Ceremony David Campos Supervisor of San Francisco District 9 PLENARY PANEL: 9.15 AM - 10. 15 AM AUD WB* Local and global implications of genetically modified seeds. Ignacio Chapela: UC Berkeley microbial ecologist Eric Holt Gimenez: Food First Executive director Marcia Ishii-Eiteman: Pesticide Action Network North America Senior Scientist Workshops and panels Friday morning, September 16th 10.30 AM-12.15 PM Improved and Native Corn Seeds in Mexico Against GMO and Legislation of Seeds (Track 1) AUD WB* Dr. Antonio Turrent Fernández, INIFAP Mexico Dr. Alejandro Espinoza, INIFAP Mexico MC Adelita San Vicente, Semillas de Vida AC M.C. Margarita Tadeo Robledo Senior Scientist Dr. Ignacio Chapela UC Berkeley microbial ecologist and mycologist The Gates Foundation’s Attack on Seed Sovereignty and Responses from the Ground: (Track 1) AL WB ** Bill Aal: AGRA Watch Phil Bereano: AGRA Watch Marcia Ishii Eiteman: Pesticide Action Network North America The current legal climate and challenges surrounding GMO crops: (Track 2) AUD CP *** Philip Heiselmann: Attorney, Sustainable Food Law Rebecca Spector: Center for Food Safety Daniel B. Rachiver: Public Patent Foundation (PUBAT) Building a Powerful Political Campaign against the corporate control of seeds: learning from other contexts (Track 3) CFPE **** Ashley Schaeffer: Rainforest Action Network Adam Scow: Food and Water Watch 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: LUNCH AUD WB* Workshops and Panels Friday afternoon September 16th 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM Not Under Our Watch: Grassroots Struggles Against Corporate Control of Seeds: Lessons from India, South Africa and El Salvador (Track 1) CFPE **** Carlos Martinez: Ecoviva Katherine Zavala: International Development Exchange Rucha Chitnis: Women’s Earth Alliance Counteracting the food industry with ethnic diversification and alternative market forces (Track 2) AL WB ** Dana Harvey: Mandela Marketplace Maria Catalan: Catalan Farms Michael Dimock: Roots of Change Tezo: South Central Farms Successful Campaign Strategies and the non-GMO movement in California (Track 3) AUD WB* Doug Mosel: Farmer and former Mendocino campaigner to ban GMOs Pamm Larry: Label GMOs in California 2012 Ballot Initiative Rey Leon: Latino Enviornmental Advancement and Policy Institute Eco Justice 101 (Track 3) AUD CP *** Dave Henson: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Mateo Nube: Movement Generation PLENARY PANEL Friday afternoon September 16th 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM AUD WB* Agricultural biodiversity and the real solutions we need. Adelita San Vicente: Semillas de la Vida A.C. Miguel Altieri: UC Berkeley professor of agroecology Michael Dimock: Roots of Change Friday evening: 5:00 PM- 8:00 PM CFPE **** Seeds Exchange/Presentation Astrid Lindo from the Living Seed Company and the Everything is Medicine. Team of Olivia Chumacero, Meredith Hackleman, Joy Anderson and Sarah Dougherty will be giving away seeds and sharing knowledge about them on Friday, September 16th at 5 pm through theatre, dialogue, and creating sacred relationships to seeds. AUD WB * * Auditorium Women’s Building 3543 18th St. #8 San Francisco, CA 94110 AL WB ** ** Audre Lorde Room 3543 18th St. 2nd floor San Francisco, CA 94110 AUD CP *** *** Centro del Pueblo 474 Valencia St. 2nd floor San Francisco, CA 94103 CFPE **** **** Center for Political Education 522 Valencia Street San Francisco, CA 94110-1798 HMMS ***** *****Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School 3351 - 23rd Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
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Added to the calendar on Thursday Sep 15th, 2011 11:18 AM
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