Fwd: 21st National Pesticide Forum

<x-flowed>
This announcement is forwarded at request of the National Coalition
Against the Misuse of Pesticides:

21st National Pesticide Forum
TOXICS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
April 25-27, 2003 - University of Texas at Austin

Visit www.beyondpesticides.org/forum for registration and further details.

The 21st National Pesticide Forum, Toxics in the Age of
Globalization, is a national conference focusing on the adoption of
alternative practices and policies to protect our children, workers
and communities from the toxic hazards of pesticides in an age of
global social, economic and corporate politics. In addition, relevant
issues such as health effects, West Nile virus, pesticides in
schools, organic agriculture, farmworker justice, habitat impact and
much more will be covered in the Forum workshops. This yearâs event
is convened by Beyond Pesticides/ National Coalition Against the
Misuse of Pesticides, Chemical Connection, Clean Water Action Texas,
Environmental Outreach, Public Citizen Texas, Texans for Alternatives
to Pesticides, and University of Texas Campus Greens.

Featured speakers include: Baldemar Velasquez, founder and current
president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC); Derrick
Jensen, author of Listening to the Land, A Language Older Than Words,
and The Culture of Make Believe; Routt Reigart, MD, Professor of
Pediatrics at MUSC and co-editor of EPA's Recognition and Management
of Pesticide Poisonings; Percy Schmeiser, Canadian farmer sued by
Monsanto after his crops were contaminated by Monsanto's "Round-Up
Ready" canola; Brent Blackwelder, President of Friends of the Earth;
Lori Wallach, author of Whose Trade Organization and Director of
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch; Angus Wright, author of The
Death of Ramon Gonzales; Warren Porter, professor of Zoology at the
University of Wisconsin. The speaker list is growing daily; please
see www.beyondpesticides.org/forum for recent additions.

The 21st National Pesticide Forum will be held April 25-27, 2003, in
the Thompson Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Austin, TX, often called the "Live Music Capital of the World" and
the "Cultural Center of the Southwest," is also a great place to
visit alone or with family and friends. The campus is just a few
blocks north of downtown.

Register now and save! Print and mail the form below or register
online at www.beyondpesticides.org/forum.

--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
WESTNILEVIRUS-L is an email discussion group for communication
and discussion about West Nile Virus, particularly regarding policy,
risk reduction and public education issues. It is moderated by
Dr. Lois Levitan at Cornell University's Center for the Environment.
Subscribers are encouraged to post to the group by sending an email
to: <WESTNILEVIRUS-L@cornell.edu>.  Please send only unformatted
text, without attachments.  Archives are posted at:
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/erap/WNV/WNV-L_ArchiveIndex.html.
To subscribe (or unsubscribe), send an email request to
<envrisk@cornell.edu>. To receive messages once a day in digest
format,  send an email to <listproc@cornell.edu> with message:
"set WESTNILEVIRUS-L mail digest-nomime".
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
</x-flowed>