The Biotech Industry Organization (BIO) is coming to Chicago this April for their annual international convention and PR Extravaganza, BIO 2006. BIO is an organization of the world’s biggest agribusiness, pharmaceutical and bioweapons corporations.
Reclaim The Commons is responding with three days of events, from Saturday April 8th to Monday April 10th, to educate, inform and link together people and movements that are working to reclaim our public space and common heritage from transnational biotech corporate interests.
This is one of 3 series of events around the time of this year’s BIO convention in Chicago. There’s another local event, called BioEthics and described at www.bioethics2006.org, as well as a Joint International Day of GM Opposition, initiated by folks in France, and including an international videoconference featuring Ignacio Chapela, Vandana Shiva and many others, and local actions around the world (http://altercampagne.free.fr/)
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