Invitation: The GM-Free Australia Alliance (GMFAA) April 2-4 in Melbourne
Friends of the Earth are a member group of the GM-Free Australia Alliance.
The GM-Free Australia Alliance (GMFAA) would like to extend you a warm invitation to attend the 9th Annual GMFAA Conference in Melbourne, 2nd-4th April.
As global GMO and chemical conglomerates consolidate their grip on farming and seed ownership, our networks are gaining strength to combat their hold over the future of food on our planet.
Seed saving, community gardening, food hubs, regenerative agriculture and indigenous food movements are growing and gaining popularity.
That is why strategic work like ours is so important.
The Alliance brings together campaigners from Foodwatch WA, SAGFIN, Gene Ethics, MADGE and Friends of the Earth with activists based in the Pacific and New Zealand.
Topics covered will include:
· Creating glyphosate-free spaces.
· GM-free food labelling, the GM-Free Shopping list and using social media to promote GM-Free food choices.
GM-free zones and the right to farm GM-Free.
· World-wide threat : New GM techniques are escaping regulation.
· How the industrial food system drives climate change.
· Solidarity with indigenous groups – protecting our region, seeds and food production from climate disasters and biopiracy.
****************************************************************************************************** Keynote Discussion:
10am to 12.00 on Sunday 3rd April at the Green Building
Networking Cool Food Futures – an invitation to join forces – with Nick Rose, Sustain and Fran Murrell, MADGE
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Social night :
7pm on Monday 4th April at Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith St, Collingwood.
Snacks, skits and GM-free songs. GMFAA fundraiser.
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The GMFAA Conference will be held at the Green Building, 60 Leicester St, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia.
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Please RSVP and we will send the full Agenda for the weekend.
More info : GMFAA Co-ordinator Jessica Harrison 0407307231
info@gmfreeaustralia.org.au
GM-Free Australia Alliance Inc www.gmfreeaustralia.org.au
