This is a very important meeting for NYC-Metro area activists. It is NOT a forum or workshop, it is an activist meeting to plan Area-wide campaigns against Genetic Engineering. It is the first time that a number of groups are trying to work together on this issue. Please try to come!!!
Mitchel Cohen
---------------------------------------------------- FOOD ACTIVISTS UNITE!!
NEW YORK STATE AGAINST GENETIC ENGINEERING (NYSAGE) invites you to a gathering
SUNDAY, JANUARY 9TH NOON - 4 pm (Come on time, please) at SIXTH COMMUNITY CENTER 638 East Sixth Street (between Avenues B and C) Manhattan
Good Food Provided.
Join us in building a powerful coalition to stop the genetic engineering of our food and to promote organic and sustainable farming in New York State. (A meeting with upstate groups similarly organizing is planned for spring 2005 to formalize the coalition).
This will be a great opportunity to network with others involved in healthy food and food safety.
12 noon - 1.00 p.m. - Introductory talk on genetically engineered food, lunch, and video
1.00 - 4.00 p.m. Organizing Meeting.
CHILD CARE PROVIDED lots of fun activities for kids (RSVP very important for this)
RSVP Sixth Street Community Center: 212. 677-1863
Sponsors: Sixth Street Community Center/SOS Food Park Slope Food Coop Organic Consumers Association Sierra Club NYC Group Just Food No Spray Coalition New York State Greens Cancer Awareness Coalition Friends of Brook Park.