[Peace] March against Monsanto, 9am Saturday, Strawberry Fields to Farmer's Market!

[Stuart Levy via Peace]

Midge, and others who missed this due to short notice - I'm very sorry - 
this was my fault, as Lois Kain had passed along the word of it days 
earlier.

In exchange, here's some news from the event.   The march drew a good 
crowd - maybe 30+ of us at peak.

That day, there was an Organic Consumers Association / Food and Water 
Watch booth at the Market - perhaps they'll be back.   Among other 
things they are gathering petition signatures to call on the IL 
legislature to *label* GMO foods, as I think Vermont recently became the 
first state to do.

One of the marchers was a woman, Tove, in a wonderful bee costume. She 
hopes at some point to organize a group of pro-bee demonstrators to call 
on Lowe's, urging them to promise that the bedding plants they sell 
won't have been treated with systemic bee-toxic neonicotinoid 
pesticides, as apparently many commercial plants are.   This is some 
sort of nationwide movement.   Home Depot has already agreed to do this, 
but Lowe's hasn't so far.   Will let you-all know when such a thing is 
planned.


On 5/24/14 12:12 PM, via Peace wrote:
> I wish I had known about this yesterday when I checked my email about 
> noon but didn't read it until now (Saturday noon).  I was at Lincoln 
> Sq Market until 8 am.
>
> Midge
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Levy via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>
> To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Cc: occupycu <OccupyCU at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Fri, May 23, 2014 3:28 pm
> Subject: [Peace] March against Monsanto, 9am Saturday, Strawberry 
> Fields to Farmer's Market!
>
> Tomorrow at 9am, there'll be a March Against Monsanto, organized by 
> Food and Water Watch and others --
>
> *March Against Monsanto*
>     9AM  Saturday, May 24th
>     from Strawberry Fields in Urbana
>     to the Farmer's Market outside Lincoln Square
>
>
> March Against Monsanto - organized by Food and Water Watch and others 
> - a local part of a global event. They write:
> "March Against Monsanto" is a global call to action aimed at informing 
> the public, calling into question long-term health risks of 
> genetically modified foods, and demanding that GMO products be labeled 
> so that consumers can make informed decisions.
> Why we march -
>
>   * Protect our food supply
>   * Support local farms
>   * Protect our environment
>   * Promote organic solutions
>   * Expose the cronyism between big business and the government
>   * Bring accountability to those responsible for corruption
>
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