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North American action groups
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ARIZONA
Earth First!
PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702
Tel: 520-620-6900, Fax: 413 254 0057
Email: collective@earthfirstjournal.org
Earth First! is an umbrella for numerous autonomous local direct action groups around the world. This office in Tuscon is home of the Earth First! Journal, a voice and forum of the radical environmental movement. The EF! Journal includes stories and photos of frontlines direct action from around the world, with a focus on North America; prints news and views of radical ecologists; explores biocentric philosophy; critiques reform environmentalism; reports on monkeywrenching and discusses direct action techniques; and includes interviews, book and music reviews, a poetry page, international directory of EF! contacts, and announcements of interest to activists.
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CALIFORNIA
California Certified Organic Farmers
1115 Mission St., Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Tel: 831 423 2263
Website: www.ccof.org
One of the leading organic farming groups in the US. Has been active on GE issues since the late 1980s.
Californians for GE-Free Agriculture
15290 Coleman Valley Rd., Occidental, CA 95465
Tel: 707 874 0316
Email: calgefree@calgefree.org Website: www.calgefree.org
The Californians for GE-Free Agriculture brings together farmer-based organizations with consumer and environmental groups to halt the introduction of economically and ecologically destructive genetically engineered crops, and to promote economically, agronomically and ecologically sustainable farming.
Center for Ethics and Toxics
39120 Ocean Dr., Suite C-2-1, Gualala, CA 95445
Tel: 707 884 1700, Fax 707 884 1846
Email: cetos@cetos.org Website: www.cetos.org
Director and Research Associate are co-authors of Against the Grain, Common Courage Press, 1998. The CETOS Biotechnology Project's mission is to educate the public about the underlying ethical issues and possible public health and ecological consequences of the wholesale substitution of genetically modified food crops for more traditional crop varieties. The focus of their current work is the expansion of GMOs into previously underutilized agricultural lands (e.g., Brazil's Amazon Basin) and developing countries more generally (e.g., India); the risks attendant on spread of genetically modified germ plasm to non-engineered varieties (e.g., the spread of GM corn into Mexico); and the ecological disruption that comes with over-reliance on single herbicides or biological controls.
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Center for Genetics and Society
436 14th Street, Suite 1302, Oakland, CA 94612
tel: 510 625 0819, fax: 510 625 0874
Email: info@genetics-and-society.org Website: www.genetics-and-society.org
The Center for Genetics and Society is a nonprofit information and public affairs organization. The Center works with a growing network of scientists, health professionals, civil society leaders, and others to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies, and to oppose those applications that objectify and commodify human life and threaten to divide human society.
Corporate Watch
1611 Telegraph Avenue, #702, Oakland, CA 94612
Tel: 510 271 8080
Email: corpwatch@igc.org Website: www.corpwatch.org
CorpWatch aims to document the impacts of transnational companies and supports initiatives for human rights, environmental justice and corporate accountability. Counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism.
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
398 60th Street, Oakland, CA 94618
Tel: 510 654 4400, Fax: 510 654 4551
Email: foodfirst@foodfirst.org Website: www.foodfirst.org
Founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, the Institute for Food and Development Policy (better known as Food First) is a nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Its work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right. Food First participates in activist coalitions, and also produces books, reports, articles, films, electronic media, and curricula, plus interviews, lectures, workshops and academic courses for the public, policy makers, activists, the media, students, educators and researchers. Food First's programs include one on 'Challenging Industrial Agriculture and Biotechnology.'
Pesticide Action Network (PAN)
North American Office (PANNA)
49 Powell St., Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: 415 981 1771, Fax: 415 981 1991.
Email: spitzer@panna.org Website: www.panna.org/panna
PAN has regional centers in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Europe and North America. Pesticide Action Network North America is campaigning against the spread of GE foods and fiber. Key elements of its GE campaign include: Calling for a halt to commercialization of GE foods, unless independent testing demonstrates that they are safe for people and the environment, they are labeled, and the biotechnology companies that manufacture them are held liable for any harm they cause; Supporting the public's right to know about development, trials and commercialization of GE crops; Increasing public awareness of threats that GE crops present to health and the environment; Impacting government regulatory decisions and public debate on GE crops by mobilizing broad-based opposition; Lobbying food and fiber manufacturers and retailers to reject products that include GE crops; and Increasing public funding of sustainable agriculture research.
SmartMeme Strategy and Training Project
Tel: 415 255 9133
Email: info@smartMeme.com Website: www.smartmeme.com
The smartMeme Strategy & Training Project is a collective of long term organizers, trainers, and strategists who through writing, training, communication work and action organizing are exploring how to combine grassroots movement building with strategies to inject new ideas into the culture. SmartMeme works to promote a holistic vision of grassroots social change linking struggles for democracy, justice and ecological sanity. SmartMeme also helps to build grassroots movements and amplify their impact with new strategy and training resources, values based communication tools and "meme" campaigning.
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CANADA
Council of Canadians
502-151 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5H3
Tel: 1 800 387 7177
Email: inquiries@canadians.org Website: www.canadians.org
Independent, citizens' watchdog organization active on key national issues in Canada, including economic justice, genetic engineering and international trade, and comprised of over 100,000 members and more than 70 Chapters across the country.
ETC Group
(International Office) 478 River Avenue, Suite 200, Winnipeg, MB R3L 0C8 Canada
Tel: (204) 453-5259, Fax: (204) 925-8034.
Email: etc@etcgroup.org Website: www.etcgroup.org
The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC group, formerly called RAFI) is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of cultural and ecological diversity and human rights. To this end, ETC group supports socially responsible developments of technologies useful to the poor and marginalized and it addresses international governance issues and corporate power. ETC group works in partnership with civil society organizations for cooperative and sustainable self-reliance within disadvantaged societies, by providing information and analysis of socioeconomic and technological trends and alternatives. ETC group's strength is in the research and analysis of technological information (particularly but not exclusively plant genetic resources, biotechnologies, and biological diversity), and in the development of strategic options related to the socioeconomic ramifications of new technologies.
Polaris Institute
312 Cooper Street, Ottawa ON, Canada, K2P 0G7
Tel: 613 237 1717, Fax: 613 237 3359
Email: kimiko_inouye@on.aibn.com and lucy_sharratt@on.aibn.com
Website: www.polarisinstitute.org
The Polaris Institute works with citizen movements in Canada and Internationally to develop the kinds of strategies and tactics required to unmask and challenge the corporate power that is the driving force behind governments concerning public policy making on economic, social and environmental issues. The Polaris Insitute BioJUSTICE project aims to expose how corporations are aggressively pushing for genetic engineering through governments, universities, business lobby groups, as well as through specific groups such as farmers, patients and healthcare workers. Its research is intended to provide grassroots anti-biotech activists with information and analysis that will help in developing campaigns to target corporate power and support bioJUSTICE movements and mobilization.
Sierra Club of Canada
412-1 Nicholas St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7B7
Tel: 613 241 4611
Email: sierra@web.net Website: www.sierraclub.ca/national/genetic
The Sierra Club of Canada's Safe Food/Sustainable Agriculture campaign distributes information at grocery stores and exposes the environmental and human health risks of genetic engineering.
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COLORADO
Colorado GE Action Network
1140 US Hwy 287, Suite 400-125
Broomfield, CO 80020 Tel: 303 215 3384 or 877 454 6034
Email: info@foodlabeling.org Website: http://www.foodlabeling.org/index.asp
A network of organizations in the state of Colorado working on the issue of GMOs. Currently the coalition of organizations include: The Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, The Natural Law Party of Colorado, The Colorado Pesticide Network, The Colorado Green Party, The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, and Western Colorado Congress. Colorado GE Action Network advocates: The labeling of genetically engineered foods, A five-year moratorium on the introduction of genetically modified organisms, and biotech industry liability for contamination, and health and environmental damage caused by GMOs.
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FLORIDA
Florida Alliance for Safe Foods
PO Box 21511, Sarasota, FL 34276-4511
Tel: 941 362-3869
Email: admin@protectorganic.org
Website: http://protectorganic.org/sasf/index.htm
A group of individuals and organizations dedicated to educating their community about the hazards of GE foods. Also committed to helping to create a healthy and sustainable local agriculture to the greatest possible extent.
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HAWAII
GE-free Hawaii
Website: www.higean.org
Hawaii has the highest concentration of experimental GE crop testing of anywhere in the world. GE-free Hawaii is a coalition of grassroots citizen groups from across the Hawaiian islands who are working together to move Hawaiian agriculture away from genetic engineering and towards truly sustainable agriculture. (See also GMO free kauai, GMO free Maui, Hawaii GEAN and kNOwGMOs.)
GMO Free Kauai
Tel: (808) 651-9603
Email: gmofreekauai@care2.com
Website: www.gmofreekauai.org
Grassroots group that aims to raise awareness and educate the public about the health, economic, and environmental risks of GMOs, while providing meaningful ways to work towards creating a GMO-free Kaua'i.
GMO Free Maui
Email: gmofreemaui@gmofreemaui.com
Website: www.gmofreemaui.com/
Grassroots group educating the public about GMOs and taking action towards a GMO free Maui.
Hawaii Genetic Engineering Action Network
PO Box 999, Captain Cook, HI 96704
Tel: 808 328 8888 or 808 322 2801
Website: www.higean.org/hawaii/
Grassroots group on Hawaii Island that is educating the public about genetic engineering and taking action towards a GE-free Hawaii. Hawaii GEAN was instrumental in helping to initiate action across the Hawaiian islands.
kNOwGMOs
Email: marisabelson@yahoo.com
Website: http://www.higean.org/oahu/
Grassroots group on Oahu that is educating the public about GMOs and taking action towards a GMO free Oahu.
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IOWA
Alliance for Bio-Integrity
2040 Pearl Lane #2, Fairfield, IA 52556
Tel: 641 472 5554
Email: info@bio-integrity.org Website: www.bio-integrity.org
The Alliance organized a lawsuit against the FDA in 1998, aiming to secure a scientifically sound system for safety-testing of genetically altered foods. The plaintiffs included eminent scientists, public interest organizations, and people from diverse faiths who reject genetically altered foods on the basis of religious principle. The Alliance's website includes internal FDA memos that were released during the discovery process of the lawsuit.
Mothers for Natural Law
PO Box 1177, Fairfield, IA 52556
Tel: 1 800 REAL FOOD
Website: www.safe-food.org
Mothers for Natural Law launched a national public awareness campaign on the dangers of genetically engineered foods in July 1996, and an initiative to secure rigorous pre-market safety testing, mandatory labeling and a moratorium on these foods. Their website includes a database of non-GE suppliers for manufacturers, guides on how to avoid GE ingredients, and information about GE-free certification.
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MAINE
Beehive Collective
3 Elm St., Machias, Maine 04654 Tel: 207 255 6737
Email: bees@beehivecollective.org Website www.beehivecollective.org/
Action& Efforts: The Beehive collective run a formal apprentice program, in which they share they share their skills in design, political organizing, and mosaic construction with other young activists. Visit their website to see the examples of their art.
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MASSACHUSSETTS
Amberwaves
305 Brooker Hill Rd., Box 487, Becket, MA 01223
Tel: 413 623 0012, Fax: 413 623 6042
Email: info@amberwaves.org Website: http://www.amberwaves.org/
Amberwaves is a network of concerned friends, families, farms, and communities devoted to preserving natural and organic rice, wheat, and other essential foods from the hazards of genetic engineering.
Council for Responsible Genetics
5 Upland Road, Suite 3, Cambridge, MA 02140
Tel: 617 868 0870, Fax: 617 491 5344.
Email: marty@gene-watch.org Website: www.gene-watch.org
Founded in 1983, The Council for Responsible Genetics fosters public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of genetic technologies. CRG works through the media and concerned citizens to distribute accurate information and represent the public interest on emerging issues in biotechnology. CRG also publishes a bimonthly magazine, GeneWatch, which covers a broad spectrum of issues, from genetically engineered foods to biological weapons, genetic privacy and discrimination, reproductive technologies, and human cloning.
Genetic Engineering Action Network USA
11 Ward Street, Suite 200, Somerville, MA 02143
Tel: 617 661 6626
Email: info@geaction.org Website: www.geaction.org
The Genetic Engineering Action Network (GEAN) is a diverse network of grassroots activists, national and NGOs, farmer and farm advocacy groups, academics and scientists who have come together to work on the myriad of issues surrounding biotechnology. GEAN USA seeks to support and further the work of those organizations and individuals working to address the risks to the environment, biodiversity and human health, as well as the socioeconomic and ethical consequences of genetic engineering.
Union of Concerned Scientists
National HQ, 2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA 02238-9105.
Tel: (617) 547-5552.
Email: ucs@ucsusa.org
Website: www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/biotech.html
Alliance of 70,000 committed citizens and leading scientists who aim to "augment rigorous scientific research with public education and citizen advocacy to help build a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world". Provides a scientific critique of the various applications of genetic engineering, and supports sustainable alternatives.
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MINNESOTA
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
2105 1st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404.
Tel: (612) 870-0453.
Website: www.iatp.org
Aims to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy. Provides educational materials and technical assistance, and works to build networks.
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
6101 Cliff Estate Rd, Little Marais, MN 55614
Tel: 218 226 4164, Fax: 218 353 7652
Website: www.organicconsumers.org/
The OCA is a grassroots non-profit public interest organization which deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial agriculture, genetic engineering, corporate accountability, and environmental sustainability. Formed in 1998 in the wake of the mass backlash by organic consumers against the USDA's controversial proposed national regulations for organic food, the OCA was part of the network helped to mobilize 280,000 consumers to send in letters and emails to the USDA. The OCA is calling for: a global moratorium on genetically engineered foods and crops; a phase-out of the most dangerous industrial agriculture and factory farming practices; and the conversion of American agriculture to at least 30% organic by the year 2010.
Upper Midwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering (GrainRAGE)
P.O. Box 580444, Minneapolis, MN 55458
Tel: 651 213 6131
Email: grainrage@visto.com
Website: www.tao.ca/~ban/grainrage.htm
Grassroots group and organizer of demonstrations at Minneapolis-area corporate headquarters and major regional animal and plant genetics conferences.
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NEVADA
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
P.O. Box 818,Wadsworth, NV 89442
Tel: 775 835 6932, Fax: 775 835 6934
Email: ipcb@ipcb.org
Website: www.ipcb.org
The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. The IPCB provides educational and technical support to indigenous peoples in the protection of their biological resources, cultural integrity, knowledge and collective rights.
NORTH DAKOTA
Dakota Resource Council, PO Box 1095, Dickinson, ND 58602
Tel: 701 483 2851, Fax: 701 483 2854
Nonprofit, grassroots activist organization, formed in 1978 to protect North Dakota's land, air, water, rural communities and agricultural economy. DRC is working for preservation of family farms, enforcement of corporate farming laws, soil and water conservation, regulation of coal mining and oil and gas development, protection of groundwater and clean air, renewable energy, and sound management of solid and toxic wastes. The mission of DRC is to form enduring, democratic local groups that empower people to influence decision-making processes that affect their lives.
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OREGON
Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering
P.O. Box 15289, Portland, OR 97293 Tel: 503 239 6841
Email: info@nwrage.org
Website: www.nwrage.org
Non-violent, grassroots organization dedicated to promoting a responsible, sustainable and just use of agriculture and science through education, community building, advocacy and action. NW RAGE is working to stop the instrusion of genetic engineering into our lives, our food supply, our environment and our privacy.
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TEXAS
Sunshine Project USA
101 West 6th Street, Suite 607, Austin TX 78701
Tel/Fax: 512 494 0545
Email: spimiento@sunshine-project.org and hammond@sunshine-project.org
Website: www.sunshine-project.org
An international non-profit organization with offices in Hamburg, Germany and Austin, Texas, USA. The Sunshine Project works against the hostile use of biotechnology, and research and publishes to strengthen the global consensus against biological warfare and to ensure that international treaties effectively prevent development and use of biological weapons.
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VERMONT
Action for Social & Ecological Justice
P.O. Box 57, Burlington, VT 05402
Tel: 802 863 0571, Fax: 802 864 8203
Email: info@asej.org Website: http://asej.org/
Action for Social and Ecological Justice works to: Improving the flow of information and analysis between and among social and ecological justice movements globally; Support, create and enable grassroots initiatives and campaigns that mobilize for social and ecological justice and reject the neoliberal model of economic globalization; and Create and participate in spaces for dialogue so that locally based initiatives may share their experiences and collaborate in their struggles to confront corporate globalization and create socially and ecologically just alternatives.
Global Justice Ecology Project GE trees campaign
PO Box 412 - Hinesburg, VT 05461
Tel: 802 482 2689
Email: info@globaljusticeecology.org
Website: www.globaljusticeecology.org
The Global Justice Ecology Project advances global justice and ecological awareness by identifying issues, creating strategies, organizing campaigns, building alliances and disseminating photographic images that demonstrate the interconnections between the social and the ecological, promoting a crucial holistic analysis to unify and strengthen movements. The Global Justice Ecology Project is collaborating with The Union of Ecoforestry in Finland and other European groups on a campaign to convince the United Nations to ban GE trees in carbon sink plantations as part of the Kyoto Protocol.
Institute for Social Ecology
1118 Maple Hill Rd., Plainfield, VT 05667
Tel: 802 454 8493
Email: ise@sover.net
Website: www.ise.rootmedia.org
Rooted in a politics of direct democracy and moral economy, the Institute offers activism and educational programs on biotechnology, along with education on ecological politics, philosophy, design and building.
Institute for Social Ecology Biotechnology Project
Tel: 802 454 7138
Email: doyle@riseup.net or briant@sover.net
An independent project of the Institute for Social Ecology (ISE), operating since 1997. The ISE Biotechnology Project is focused almost entirely on facilitating grassroots action around genetic engineering and other biotechnologies, with a particular focus on the importance of the biotechnology industry's links to corporate driven globalization. The biotechnology project: Maintains a clearing house for information on genetic engineering, agricultural, and human genetics issues; Organizes local, regional and national events and campaigns; Participates in national and international biotechnology events and campaigns; and Produces a quarterly newsletter and website at www.nerage.org, featuring the work of grassroots biotechnology opponents locally and around the world.
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Native Forest Network/ACERCA
P.O. Box 57, Burlington, VT 05402
Tel: 802 863 0571
Email: nfnena@sover.net or acerca@sover.net Website: www.nativeforest.org
International forest protection network, with a focus on opposing genetic engineering in forestry. ACERCA highlights issues in the Central American region.
Northeast Organic Farming Association
P.O. Box 697, Richmond, VT 05477
Tel: 802 434 4122
Email: novavt@together.net Website: www.nofavt.org
Offers assistance and advocacy for organic growers in the northeastern US, including support for active opposition to genetic engineering in agriculture.
Northeast Resistance Against Genetic Engineering
(Northeast RAGE)
c/o ISE, 1118 Maple Hill Road, Plainfield, VT 05667
Tel: 802 454 9957
Email: nerage@sover.net
Website: www.nativeforest.org/nerage
Northeast RAGE is a network of biotechnology activists, organizations and concerned individuals working in the north eastern parts of north america. Currently, neRAGE is made up of groups working in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusettes, and Quebec. Groups have been involved in education, labeling, direct action, organic farming, legislation, community building, and more.
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WASHINGTON D.C.
Center for Food Safety
660 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Suite 302, Washington DC 20003
Tel: 202 547 9359 Fax: 202 547 9429.
Email: office@centerforfoodsafety.org Website: www.centerforfoodsafety.org
Established in 1998, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) is a public interest and environmental advocacy organization that works to address the impacts of our food production system on human health, animal welfare and the environment. The CFS works to protect human health and the environment by curbing the proliferation of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. CFS engages in legal, scientific and grassroots initiatives to guide national and international policymaking on critical food safety issues. CFS has also developed www.foodsafetynow.org as an interactive tool for the public to use in submitting food safety comments to government officials, agencies, and members of Congress.
CropChoice
PO Box 33811, Washington, DC 20033
Tel: 202 797 7554
Email: editor@cropchoice.com Website: www.cropchoice.com/
An alternative news and information source for American farmers and consumers about genetically modified crops, corporate agribusiness concentration, farm and trade policy, sustainable agriculture, wind farming and alternative energy, and rural economic and social issues.
The Foundation on Economic Trends
1660 L St. NW, Suite 216, Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 202 466 2823, Fax: 202 429 9602
Email: office@foet.org Website: www.foet.org
The Foundation on Economic Trends, established in 1977, examines new trends in science and technology and their impacts on the environment, the economy, culture and society. The Foundation engages in litigation, public education, coalition building and grassroots organizing activities to advance its goals.
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Friends of the Earth US
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC 20036-2002
Tel: 877 843 8687 (toll free), Fax: (202) 783-0444
Email: foe@foe.org Website: www.foe.org
The U.S. voice of an international network of grassroots groups in 70 countries. FOE conducted the lab tests that confirmed starlink (genetically engineered corn not approved for human consumption) was in products on supermarket shelves across the US. FOE is pushing for labeling and testing of genetically crops.
Genetically Engineered Food Alert
1200 18th Street, NW, 5th floor, Washington, DC 20036
Tel: 800 390 3373, Fax 800 390 4751
Website: www.gefoodalert.org
GE Food Alert is a coalition of seven organizations united in their commitment to testing and labeling genetically engineered food. The organizations are: Public Interest Research Group, National Environmental Trust, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Organic Consumers Asociation, Friends of the Earth, The Center for Food Safety and Pesticide Action Network of North America.
National Family Farm Coalition
110 Maryland Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002
Tel: 202 543 5675, Fax 202 543 0978
Email: nffc@nffc.net
The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) serves as a national link for grassroots organizations working on family farm issues, including genetic engineering. NFFC represents 34 grassroots organizations in 32 states and brings together farmers and others to organize national projects focused on preserving and strengthening family farms. The NFFC Farmer to Farmer campaign provides farmers with education about genetic engineering, has been one of the leading farmer advocacy voices that has raised concerns about the potential effects this new technology will have on farmers.
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WASHINGTON STATE
The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
PO Box 55699, Seattle, WA 98155
Tel: 425 771 4049, Fax: 603 825 5841
Email: label@thecampaign.org Website: www.thecampaign.org
Concerned with the growing acreage of unlabeled and inadequately tested genetically engineered crops, The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods was launched in March 1999 to educate the public and to lobby Congress and the President to pass legislation that will require the labeling of GE foods in the US.
The EdmondsInstitute
Beth Burrows, 20319-92nd Avenue West
Edmonds, WA 98020. Tel: 425 775 5383, Fax: 425 670 8410.
Email: beb@igc.org Website: www.edmonds-institute.org
Conducts research, publishes policy analysis and scientific thought pieces, distributes information, sponsors public workshops, and provides expert witnesses at national events and for international bodies engaged in decision making. Disseminates information about and criticism of technology assessment, encourages pro bono research and policy analysis by scientists and scholars, and seeks to create alliances and coalitions with like-minded organisations and individuals. Can put people in touch with other campaigns.
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PR Watch : Center for Media & Democracy
520 University Avenue, Suite 227, Madison, WI 53703
Tel: 608 260 9713, Fax: 608 260 9714
Email: editor@prwatch.org
Website: www.prwatch.org
PR Watch offers investigative reporting on the public relations industry, It does this to help the public recognize manipulative and misleading PR practices by exposing the activities of secretive, little-known propaganda-for-hire firms that work to control political debates and public opinion.
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