Midwest Anti GE Roadshow!!! Coming to a town near you! *************************************************** 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reviews ³you all were quite an inspiration to us...we would love to host you again² -Natasha Lapinski, Third Coast Autonomous Zone ---------- "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 ---------- 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. ---------- 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. ---------- "They are all hot. I want to kiss them all." -anonymous ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ---------- 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 . 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