Coming Together for Action: Teach-In Schedule

Coming Together for Action:
Teach-In Schedule

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

From Frankenfoods to Factory Farming:
Propelling American Agriculture to Organic Production

The rapidly expanding controversy over genetic engineering and food safety provide and unprecedented window of opportunity for propelling the USA toward a system of organic and sustainable agriculture.

This workshop will layout how farmers, public interest activists and consumers can join together to drive unsafe foods and practices off the market and convert the nations system of agriculture to organic and fair trade processes.

Speaker: Ronnie Cummins

Ronnie is the national director of the Organic Consumers Association, the editor of BioDemocracy News, a monthly on-line newsletter devoted to genetic engineering and factory farming and organics.

Author of the book, Genetically Engineered Food: A Self- Defense Guide for Consumers, he is an important voice in the national and international food safety community.

12:30-2:00 p.m.

Nuclear Stewardship, Community Sacrifice

The DOE and its contractors has put forth "stewardship" as the answer to its tons of nuclear waste and numerous contaminated sites.

Focusing specifically on the Mixed Waste Landfill here in Albuquerque, this workshop will examine what stewardship really means both locally and nationally, its political and psychological rhetoric, the financial gains for the nuclear establishment from the reduction of cleanup costs, and the inherent sacrifices of community health and environmental well being inherent in the DOE vision of stewardship.

Speakers: Members of Citizen Action

2:00-3:15 p.m.

Our River, Our Future

The Rio Grande is the heart of our region and it is in peril.

The health of our river affects the food we eat the water we drink and
the quality of life and future of all. Creating equitable solutions that support the needs of all while ensuring our precious survives must be our common goal.

A coalition of organizations, the Alliance for Rio Grande Heritage is working to restore the health of the Rio Grande in its Upper Basin.

Speakers: Members of the Alliance for Rio Grande Heritage

Come to one, come to all — and participate in a community dialogue on some of the most pressing issues facing us today.