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Justice Begins with Seeds State Wide Conference/GMO Awareness Week | |
Date | Saturday September 17 |
Time | 8:30 AM - 8:30 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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PLENARY PANEL: Saturday morning
September 16th, 9.15 AM - 10. 15 AM AUD WB* Where we are, learning from the past, and moving forward. Carl Anthony: Breakthrough Communities co-director Jeffrey Smith: Institute for Responsible Technology executive director Mari Margil: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund associate director Workshops and panels: Saturday morning September 17th: 10.30 AM-12.15 PM: Indigenous displacement and retaining seeds as cultural value (Track 1) AUD CP *** Juan Pablo Zapoteca immigrant/Seed keeper Eugenio Lopez: Zapoteco Immigrant/Seed keeper Bernabe Lora: Otomi Immigrant/Seed keeper Dana Pearls: Pesticide Watch Astrid Lindo: Living Seed Company Organic Business Challenges and Responses to GMOs (Track 2) AL WB ** Mark Squire: Non-GMO Project and Good Earth Foods Rana Chang: House Kombucha Albert Straus: Straus Family Creamery Zea Sonnabend: California Certified Organic Farmers Growing the Non-GMO Uprising (Track 3) AUD WB* Jeffrey Smith: Institute for Responsible Technology Dave Murphy: Food Democracy Now Heather Whitehead: Center for Food Safety Shifting the Industrial Food Regime with Community Based Solutions (Track 3) CFPE **** Aaron Lehmer: Bay Localize Doria Robinson: Urban Tilth John Wick: Marin Carbon Project Oscar Grande: PODER 12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: LUNCH AUD WB * Workshops and Panels: Saturday afternoon, September 17th 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM Migration and the Food System (Track 1) CFPE **** David Bacon: Journalist, Writer and Photographer Luis Magana: Organizacion de Trabajadores Agricolas de California Navina Khanna: Movement Strategy Center Political commitments and engagements for an alternative food system (Track 2) AUD WB* Gayle Mclaughlin: Mayor of Richmond John Avalos: San Francisco Supervisor District 11 Mari Margil: Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund Developing effective strategies: Addressing Food Security, Climate Change and Agriculture with value driven narratives (Track 3) AL WB ** Claire Hope Cummings: Journalist and Author of Uncertain Peril Jeff Conant: Global Justice Ecology Project Mary Ench: Seedlings CLOSING PLENARY PANEL: Saturday afternoon September 16th, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM HMMS ***** Linking perspectives and building the movement Gayle McLaughlin: Mayor of Richmond CA Andrew Kimbrell: Center for Food Safety executive director Claire Hope Cummings: Journalist and Author of Uncertain Peril Dave Henson: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center executive director Closing Remarks by Miguel Robles: California Biosafety Alliance Saturday, September 17th 5:00 PM HMMS ***** Dinner/Celebration/Networking Musicians: Diana Gameros Locura Sang Matiz Poets: Jack Hirschman 4th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Dorothy Payne, Revolutionary Poets Brigade Neeli Cherkovski, poet, critic, memoirist and literary biographer 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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