> Please circulate - apologies for cross-posting
>
>
> FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT - RESISTANCE IS FERTILE!
>
> Please note: flyers are available in english, german, dutch
> and french.
> A
> Spanish translation will be ready soon. Check:
> www.resistanceisfertile.org
> or www.aseed.net/cop6
>
> INVITATION: BIODIVERSITY COP6 IN DEN HAAG, THE NETHERLANDS
> Resistance is Fertile! Action, Discussion & Festivities beside and
> beyond
> the UN Biodiversity Summit, April 8-19 2002, The Hague, The
> Netherlands
> WHY COME TO DEN HAAG?
>
> In April 2002, the UN circus of government delegates,
> technical experts
> and
> business lobbyists will be contemplating the state of the world's
> biodiversity resources over hors d'oeuvres - COP6 of the Convention on
> Biological Diversity (CBD). This COP will be a stepping up to the
> Johannesburg 'Rio+10' World Summit.
>
> Meanwhile corporations continue unabated - cutting down forests,
> emptying
> the seas, force-feeding us GMO crops and then suing farmers when those
> crops
> contaminate the countryside.
>
> After years of negotiations, the CBD will soon have 2 legally binding
> international protocols, the Biosafety Protocol and "The Law of the
> Seed."
> Neither has the power to stop the spread of GMOs, protect
> farmers rights
> or
> stop finite resources being plundered for profit - once again
> demonstrating
> the UN's lack of political will and power.
>
> Fortunately another reality is possible! During these weeks
> other voices
>
> will be raised, other possibilities will be realised. Voices that call
> out
> for radical change in agriculture and international trade, for
> reclaiming
> our genetic resources (free the seed!), against GMOs and
> patents on life
> and
> against the corporate control of food and agriculture. The week will
> start
> with a bike tour ending in the Hague at a conference center, with a
> symbolic
> gesture and Food Not Bombs food. We will continue with guerrilla
> gardening,
> patent breaking contests and superconfusions throughout the week.
> Counter
> information will be delivered inside the conference center, and a
> benefit
> party organised for direct activists' legal costs.
>
> Includes actions around the International Day of Farmers' Struggles,
> April
> 17
>
> PROGRAMME (preliminary)
> April 8-19 Resistance is Fertile!
> Actions, workshops and festivities.
> Tackling issues of food, agriculture and biodiversity in the age of
> economic
> globalisation.
>
> April 13-14 Common Ground.
> Series of workshops bringing together farmers, activists and people
> involved
> in new rural initiatives.
>
> April 17. Global Day of Farmers' Struggles (called
> by Via Campesina.)
>
> HOW CAN YOU PARTICIPATE?
> We welcome everybody who wants to join us in our activities
> and protests
>
> from 8-19 april. We are ready to welcome people from the 7th,
> and leave
> before or after the 19th. The program will run from the 8th
> to the 17th
> of
> april. Autonomous initiatives are greatly appreciated....
>
> We have free accommodation available for up to 200 people in
> a beautiful
>
> building - you need a mat and sleeping bag.
>
> There will be cheap vegan/organic meals available most of or all the
> days.
> There is no participation fee.
>
> For a limited number of people from each country, we can even
> help with
> travel costs. Contact ASEED about this directly.
> ([log in to unmask],
>
> +31-20-6682236).
>
> We are working on making an Indymedia space available in the
> space where
> you
> will be staying, so you can write reports on what is going on and send
> them
> into the world. If you have any equipment or ideas on media ((digital)
> photography, video, radio, pamphlets), let us know.
>
> The next preparation meeting is open for everyone to come, and is
> organised
> the 16-17 of February in Den Haag. Contact ASEED for details.
> Finally, it is greatly appreciated if you could spread this
> information
> to
> whomever you think will be interested. Keep yourself updated
> by looking
> at
> www.resistanceisfertile.org, www.aseed.net, or tell us if you want to
> receive a weekly update by email on how the organisation is going.
>
> Contact details of Resistance is Fertile!
> [log in to unmask]
> p/o ASEED Europe
> PO box 92066
> 1090 AB Amsterdam, the Netherlands
> tel: +31-20-6682236
>
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