Brian Tokar speaks on biotechnology at Quaker House - Tucson, Thursday, March 10th, 7pm
by Brian Marks
Monday, Mar. 07, 2005 at 12:34 PM
bmarks1@email.arizona.edu
Brian Tokar, scholar and activist in the food sovereignty/anti-genetic modification movement will speak in Tucson at the Friends Meeting House (931 North 5th Avenue) on Thursday, March 10th from 7pm to 9pm. The talk is free and open to the public.
Brian Tokar has been an activist, author and a leading critical voice for ecological activism since the 1970's, and is a faculty member and Biotechnology Project Director at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative (1987, revised 1992) and Earth for Sale (1997), and edited Redesigning Life?, an international collection on the politics and implications of biotechnology (Zed Books, 2001.) His latest book is Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger. Brian was the recipient of a 1999 Project Censored award for his investigative history of the Monsanto company (The Ecologist, Sept./Oct. 1998.)
Brian has lectured internationally throughout the U.S. as well as internationally, and is acclaimed as a passionate advocate for food sovereignty and global justice. Brian holds concurrent degrees from MIT in biology and physics and a Masters degree in biophysics from Harvard University.
His talk in Tucson is sponsored by the Arizona Independent Media Center.
http://www.biotechimc.org
http://www.nerage.org
http://www.biodev.org
http://www.reclaimthecommons.net
http://www.foodnotbombs.net
