Category: Nanotechnology

Nan­otech­nol­o­gy

Earth First! summer gathering — Wednesday 18th July until Sunday 22nd July 2007 — location & programme announced

What is the Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing?

* Are you fed up with bare-faced lies from politi­cians, big busi­ness and the media?
* Have you had enough of a world where cor­po­rate prof­it comes before life and dig­ni­ty?
* Do you want to see an end to mind­less con­sump­tion>
* Then this Gath­er­ing is for you! Read on…

EF! gathering '07 logo (rabbit/fence)What is the Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing?

* Are you fed up with bare-faced lies from politi­cians, big busi­ness and the media?
* Have you had enough of a world where cor­po­rate prof­it comes before life and dig­ni­ty?
* Do you want to see an end to mind­less con­sump­tion>
* Then this Gath­er­ing is for you! Read on…

Explor­ing alter­na­tives to the cor­po­rate world of greed, lies & exploita­tion -

The Earth First! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing is the place where peo­ple involved in rad­i­cal eco­log­i­cal direct action — or those who want to be involved — get togeth­er for five days of time and space to talk, walk, share skills, learn, play, rant, find out what’s going on, find out what’s next, live out­side, strate­gise, hang out, incite, laugh and con­spire.

The gath­er­ing is also a prac­ti­cal exam­ple of non-hier­ar­chi­cal low-impact liv­ing in action.

We are a diverse com­mu­ni­ty with a wide range of approach­es to our action, so there should be plen­ty to inter­est and inspire every­one whether you have been active for years or are com­plete­ly new to it all.

More info at earthfirstgathering.org.uk

Call for workshops at the Earth First! Summer Gathering 2007

This year’s gath­er­ing is from 18 — 22 July in Nor­folk, near a main­line rail­way sta­tion.

The focus is on prac­ti­cal skills, but there will also be many of the reg­u­lar diverse and inter­est­ing work­shops.

EF! summer gathering 2007 logoThis year’s gath­er­ing is from 18 — 22 July in Nor­folk, near a main­line rail­way sta­tion.

The focus is on prac­ti­cal skills, but there will also be many of the reg­u­lar diverse and inter­est­ing work­shops.

The idea is to have mul­ti­ple work­shop ses­sions, e.g. four two-hour slots spread over four days build­ing up skills in a par­tic­u­lar area, so peo­ple can learn the basic skills to actu­al­ly do the job at oth­er mobil­i­sa­tions, events like the cli­mate camp — or wher­ev­er. For exam­ple plumb­ing, elec­tri­cal skills, medics…and what­ev­er else peo­ple want to do… It’s not just about the prac­ti­cal skills but also about get­ting to know each oth­er and start­ing to work togeth­er.

If you would like to offer a work­shop please write to:
martinshaw64@riseup.net

Thanks — the EF! sum­mer gath­er­ing col­lect­ing
Gen­er­al con­tact details etc at http://www.earthfirstgathering.org.uk/

please for­ward to peo­ple you think would be inter­est­ed.

Invitation to the Biovision 2007 counter-summit

This mes­sage is adressed to all peo­ple in Europe who want to resist active­ly GMO’s, cloning, nano-tech­nolo­gies, bio­met­rics, DNA reg­is­tra­tion, indus­tri­al exper­i­ments upon ani­mals, BioPatent and more gen­er­al­ly agro­chem­i­cal multi­na­tion­al pol­i­cy.

This mes­sage is adressed to all peo­ple in Europe who want to resist active­ly GMO’s, cloning, nano-tech­nolo­gies, bio­met­rics, DNA reg­is­tra­tion, indus­tri­al exper­i­ments upon ani­mals, BioPatent and more gen­er­al­ly agro­chem­i­cal multi­na­tion­al pol­i­cy.

If it is pos­si­ble for you to take a few days off between the 9th and the 14th of March, 2007 and if you have the means to come to Lyon (France), we invite you to take part in our Sum­mit against Biovision/Biosquare.

The Biovision/Biosquare Forum is the biggest Euro­pean Forum and one of the three biggest world­wide on Biotech­nolo­gies. This Forum takes place every odd year in Lyon. On the one hand it is an instru­ment of pro­pa­gan­da (Bio­vi­sion) in favour of biotech­nolo­gies and on the oth­er a mar­ket (Biosquare) where sci­en­tists pro­pose to sell indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions to com­pa­nies of the sec­tor.

The oth­er years Biosquare is held in a Swiss city (Gene­va in 2006, Basle in 2004, Zurich in 2002) while Bio­vi­sion is held from now on in a large town of a coun­try of the south (in 2006 in Alexan­dria, Egypt).

By the time, this Forum has become a full-time lob­by­ing machin­ery in favour of biotech­nolo­gies. It aims to the cre­ation of jobs with high incomes in the area and to decide our future.

If you choose to oppose to biotech­nolo­gies as we do, we invite you to con­tact ( nonabiovision@no-log.org) and to join us.

We will be able to accom­mo­date a cer­tain num­ber of peo­ple, but it can be more pleas­ant for you to pay hotel rooms if you can or to stay at a friend’s house.

It will be pos­si­ble to park car­a­vans or bus­es. Also we would appre­ci­ate all kind of help, for instance if you could come one week in advance.

If you can­not come, watch out : a cyber-action is already being planned.

See more…
www.rebellyon.info/spikini/biopognon/PagePrincipale

nonabiovision@no-log.org

EF! gathering advance notice: date & contact to get involved

The Earth First Gath­er­ing 2007 is well into the plan­ning stage.

Make space in your diary now: 18th — 22nd July 2007, some­where in Nor­folk. Please cir­cu­late this infor­ma­tion wide­ly.

If you want to get involved con­tact nexter@riseup.net.

The Earth First Gath­er­ing 2007 is well into the plan­ning stage.

Make space in your diary now: 18th — 22nd July 2007, some­where in Nor­folk. Please cir­cu­late this infor­ma­tion wide­ly.

If you want to get involved con­tact nexter@riseup.net.

Thanx
The Col­lec­tive.