Sunday's event discussing UC Berkeley's ties to biotech

*If you want to be involved in organizing for the tenure case, this event, and
its follow-up
please write to tenurejustice [at] riseup.net. Help is urgently needed.

Fight the Corporate Control of UC Berkeley! (Participation at the Sunday's
event is free.)

As part of the Genetic Engineering Action Network (GEAN) conference:
http://www.geaction.org <http://www.geaction.org/>
Conference fee: Students $15 dollars per day. To sign up please write to
conference [at] geaction.org

A Lunchtime strategy session about corporate control of research at UC
Berkeley and
Ignacio Chapela's tenure case.

A conversation with:
Jesse Reynolds,
Earth Duarte-Trattner,
Ken Worthy

Special guest:
Ignacio Chapela PhD

Moderator:
Claudia Carr PhD,

When: Sunday March 14, 2004 from 1 pm to 2:30 pm. Please RSVP( to make sure we
have enough to eat) at conference [at] geaction.org

Where: at the GPBB (Genetic and Plant Biology Building at Berkeley)
For more information in how to get there go to:
http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/BC23.html

What: A strategy and informational session on how to organize around the issue
of
increasing corporate control of the university. (The participation in this
event is free, a 5
dollar donation for the food will be much appreciated).

The discussion will focus on the history of the Novartis alliance with the
College of
Natural Resources at UC Berkeley and the tenure case of Ignacio Chapela. * Dr.
Chapela?s tenure was denied, despite a unanimous recommendation from his
department, after he published an article in Nature in November 2001 observing
the
contamination of native corn in Mexico by material from illegally-planted
genetically
modified corn.

Students will also talk about their experience organizing Students for
Responsible
Research (SRR), a group formed to publicize and resist Novartis? alliance with
the
college.

Don?t miss it! Join the session and have lunch with students, professors and
other
interested people involved in the struggle to have a public university system
free of
corporate control.

If you want to be involved in organizing for the tenure case, this event, and
its follow-up
please write to tenurejustice [at] riseup.net.