Midwest Anti GE Roadshow!!! Coming to a town near you!
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Full description, bios, reviews and schedule below -
*Thurs. 4/11 -Des Moines @ Drake University
*Sat. 4/13 - Iowa City @ New Pioneer Coop, Hwy 6 in Coralville @ 1pm.
More info:
Theresa Carbrey, <[log in to unmask]>
Jennifer Masada <[log in to unmask]>
From:
http://www.stlimc.org/roadrage.html
What is the Midwest Anti Genetic Engineering Roadshow?
Last year, the ³Life² science industry launched a $50-million ad campaign to
convince Americans that the manipulation of life at the genetic level,
corporate ownership, and industrial food is what weıve always wanted. Lured
by promises of federal research dollars and venture capital investment in
new businesses, Midwestern politicians and universities also preach the
genetic engineering gospel. In the Midwestern US, where much of the global
food supply is produced, the acceptance and widespread use of genetically
engineered foods not only puts the health of eaters around the world at
risk, but severely compromises the independence of farmers, rural
communities and economies here at home.
Luckily, a rag tag group from Columbia, Missouri sees through the corporate
farce, and weıre taking our message to the people of the Midwest. Our
multi-media hour and a half presentation, includes a slide show, radical
cheerleading, short talks, music, puppet shows and skits. The show follows
the plight of an innocent Midwestern community besieged by corporate
executives and public relations lackeys scheming to corrupt mid-American
values for profit, profit, profit.
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Who are we?
Heidi Bennett is a mover and shaker in local Columbia activism. Her efforts
have resulted in numerous protests, puppets, and parades for social and
environmental justice across the Midwest. Heidi has used her psychology
degree from Central Missouri State University to work with the
developmentally disabled and elderly for the past twelve years. Heidi was
raised in mining communities in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Rolla,
Missouri. She is inspired to be politically active with the forest
protection movement because most of what is occurring is unfair to both
people and life which cannot speak for itself.
Sarah Bantz launched her acting career as a nun extra in her high schoolıs
performance of the Sound of Music. She completed her Masterıs degree in
Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri where she researched
the role of private funding in agricultural genetic engineering research.
With Missouri Resistance Against Genetic Engineering, she helped to organize
the mobilization for Family Farms and the Environment and day of action
against Monsanto in August, 2000. She has volunteered with Heartwood and
Missouri Heartwood, educating and organizing to stop multinational companies
from extracting the Ozarkıs natural resources. She grew up in eastern Iowa
and central Illinois and now lives in Columbia, Missouri.
Sadye Osterloh is very experienced in the field of Genetically Engineered
food. She attended the Consternate School of Mutant Foods for 54 years,
before furthering her studies to become a BioPirate at the well known School
'o Biopiracy for a good 72 years, when she came to realize the monstrocities
of genetic engineering. What made her change her mind after 126 years? you
might ask yourself. Well, let me tell you. After 126 years of testing out
her own mutant foods (she's not into animal testing), her own body began to
mutate. She now has a tumor in the shape of a fish on her elbow, a glowing
right butt cheek, and two extra toes -- on her back! She don't like GE food
no mo! She is now aspiring to become a professional radical cheerleader and
compete in those cheerleading competitions that you see on T.V., while
educating others of the monstrosities of GE food.
Abe Morgan is a Washington, DC native who has lived in mid-Missouri for the
better part of four years. A college dropout who has dedicated himself to a
life of ³slacktivism,² Abe has since 1996 published the quarterly fanzine
³The Trouble with Mayonnaise², which deals with music, literature and the
problems of trying to live a conscientious lifestyle outside the mainstream.
Abe has twice been featured on the nationally syndicated NPR program ³This
American Life² reading sections from his fanzine. This is his first time
touring with a puppet show.
Mark Des Marets is a graduate of the Evergreen State College where he
studied forests, farming and the cultivation and identification of
mushrooms, graduating with a B.S. in environmental science. Realizing the
incredible importance of an intact and healthy planet he has been active in
many movements for 20 years and co-founded Northwest Resistance Against
Genetic Engineering. His most recent paying job was a-hunting rare slugs and
snails in the forests of Oregon where he was awestruck by the not so
graceful jumping of a Malone Jumping Slug, Hemphillia malonei, which kind of
just flopped sideways a couple of inches. When not hunting for slugs or
snails in the woods, he is hunting mushrooms in the woods, battling the
corporate biotech giants like Monsatan, growing great organic food in his
gardens, and peddling St. Mark's Miracle Tattoo Salve to hip tattoo parlors
up and down the west coast.
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Reviews
³you all were quite an inspiration to us...we would love to host you again²
-Natasha Lapinski,
Third Coast Autonomous Zone
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"Informative, lively, humorous and creative, yet covering the deeper issues
of biotechnology and commodification of life. The anti-ge roadshow is an
essential educational part of the global movement against GE crops in
solidarity with farmers from India to Missouri, and central to our five year
campaign against Monsanto's lies.²
-Mark Bohnert, editor,
Three Rivers Confluence
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³Iım hoping the media will begin to pay as much attention to the scientists
as to the teenagers dressed up in cornstalk outfits²
- US Senator Kit Bond, Missouri
Associated Press newswires, January 6 2000.
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³Those of us in industry can take comfort of a sort from such obvious
Luddism. After all, weıre the technical experts. We know weıre right. The
antisı obviously really donıt understand the science, and are just as
obviously pushing a hidden agendaprobably to destroy capitalism.²
-Robert Shapiro
Former CEO, Monsanto
In report for the Center for the Study of American Business, Washington
University.
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"They are all hot. I want to kiss them all."
-anonymous
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Tour Dates
Everything is tentative right now. As we confirm dates we will post them.
These are suggested locations and if you are interested in hosting whether
or not you are in these towns, please contact us.
Monday, April 8 Lawrence, Kansas
University of Kansas Ecumenical Christian Ministries 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 11 Des Moines, Iowa
Drake University
Saturday, April 13 Iowa City, Iowa
New Pioneer Food Coop City Center Square, Highway 6 Coralville 1:00 p.m.
319-338-9441
Monday, April 15 East Lansing, Michigan
Tuesday, April 16 Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Wednesday, April 17 Traverse City, Michigan
Northern Michigan College Olsen Center Rm 2 7:00 p.m.
231-228-5489
Friday, April 19 Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Space coffeeshop 105 Walbridge St 7:30 p.m.
616-553-5555
Saturday, April 20 Detroit, Michigan
Green House -- SW corner of 9 Mile/Woodward 5:30 p.m.
248-336-9241
Sunday, April 21 Toledo, Ohio
IWW Union Hall 419-242-5692
Monday, April 22 Bowling Green, Ohio
Bowling Green University Olscamp Hall 101B 7:00 p.m.
419-352-4592
Wednesday, April 24 Madison, Wisconsin
Thursday, April 25 Richmond, Indiana
Earlham College
Saturday, April 27 St. Louis, Missouri
Gateway Green Center 6101 Delmar Blvd, St. Louis 7:30 p.m.
314-771-8576
Sunday, April 28 Columbia, Missouri
Rag tAg Cinemacafe 23 N 10th St. 8:00 p.m.
573-443-4359
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Posted by:
Ericka Dana, Sierra Iowa City Area Group Membership Chair
Catnip Farm Organic
(319) 685-4270 <[log in to unmask]>
Box 72, Victor, IA 52347
Organic Consumers Association Regional Coordinator
http://www.purefood.org
Sierra Club Iowa Chapter Executive Committee
http://www.sierraclub.org/chapters/ia/
Wildgirl Jewelry & Ceramics (@ Iowa Artisans Gallery, I.C.)
http://www.catnipfarm.com
http://www.localharvest.org/listing.jsp?id=87&hit=1
Also - check out our geodesic dome season extension project at
http://us.geocities.com/catnipfarmdome/index.html . Fun pictures!
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