Where: DePaul's Lincoln Park Campus (Fullerton Red or Brown Line), Brownstones (in the Student Center 2345 N. Sheffield Ave)
When: 2pm, Sunday, April 3

The Biotechnology Industry Organization, the biotech trade group, is in the business of the commodification of the commons, of all of the natural resources that we require, and of our bodies. Every year, thousands of governmental and business leaders from wealthy nations meet in this annual conference, including state governors, agriculture ministries, and officials from corporations like Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck, Monsanto, and Genentech.

Every year, local activists organize the framework for the international protest against the attempt to push the neo-liberal war of privatization into spheres we once never thought could be threatened, including, the food we eat, the medicine we take, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and even of our own bodies.

Chicago activists will hold their first general meeting for the organizing on April 3rd.

They will meet April 9-12, 2006. We will be ready for them.