[Peace-discuss] Farmer's Market - tabling with Food & Water Watch?

[Stuart Levy]

No big sign.  Not much table space either - as far as I know, what she's 
bringing is one stack of postcards + conversation.  Maybe there are 
leaflets too, but anyway not much.

Concerns - I haven't really had much chance to talk with Hanna.   If we 
end up saying Yes to her I'll get more time to do that.

On 9/7/12 3:41 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Seems like a compatible use, as I think they say in the zoning business. (But do they have a honking big sign, too?)
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> Have you communicated your (apparently quite reasonable) concerns to them?
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> If you don't object, I say go ahead.  --CGE
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> On Sep 7, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> AWARE will be back at the Farmer's Market as usual tomorrow. Expect cool (55-65F!) clear weather.
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>> Question for those assembled on this list, especially for those who might work the table:
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>> We have another request for the who's-tabling-with-us-this-week roster:
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>>    Hanna Saltzman, an activist with Food and Water Watch, is petitioning about genetically modified food - specifically, encouraging people to sign petition cards to call for a GMO food labelling law.
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>> This might seem a distraction from AWARE's mission - if people think so, we can certainly say No.
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>> However I'd like to put in a plug for this sort of citizen action, both on process grounds (if you care about political action, it's not just via the November ballot) and on substance: by calling for transparency in food production, this is effectively a citizen challenge to corporate power.
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>> [I'm disappointed that the campaign's focus seems to be on food *safety* (we don't know how safe long-term consumption of a variety of modified foods will be) rather than issues like the concentration of power and price-setting and intellectual-property controls in the hands of a tiny number of huge GMO-seed-making corporations, or the promotion of bad agriculture (who needs integrated pest management if you can just use pesticides on pesticide-resistant crops).   I'm not sure whether they raise the issue of the loss of farmers' independence - e.g. draconian practices by Monsanto used against farmers who try to grow non-GMO crops.]
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>> Anyway, if you feel strongly pro, con or sideways, please lemme know.  If nobody objects, the Food and Water Watch campaigner may be tabling with us, this week or some future weeks.   (She's also trying to get her own table.)
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