Please join us for an exciting national gathering of pesticide experts and activists March 14-16, 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley. Reclaiming Our Healthy Future: Political change to protect the next generation is convened by Beyond Pesticides, Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR) and Pesticide Action Network North America.
Keynote speakers include Arturo Rodriguez, President of the United Farm Workers, Devra Davis, author of the Secret History of the War on Cancer, and Marla Cone, Los Angeles Times environmental reporter and author of Silent Snow.
Additional featured speakers include Paul Saoke, Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Kenya, UC Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes, Ted Schettler of the Science and Environmental Health Network and Maria Elena Martinez of the International Network of Women's Funds of Oaxaca, Mexico.
The full program is available online. Session topics include: Children’s Health, Farmworker Justice, Healthy and JustFood Systems, the Politics of Pesticides and much more. Also, Actress Kaiulani Lee will perform A Sense of Wonder, her one-woman play based on the life and works of Rachel Carson. Conference registration includes this Friday evening performance; $20 tickets will be sold at the door for those not attending the conference.
For directions to the conference site, to register online and for more information, visit the Conference website.
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Forum Sponsors
Pesticide Action Network would like to thank the Aveda company for supporting the conference scholarship fund, making it possible for people around the country to attend this important meeting.
Please contact Gunther Korshak, gunther@panna.org or 415-981-1771 for more information about becoming a Forum sponsor.
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