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Presents<br><br>
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<b>José Bové<br>
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<i>"New Forms of Peasant Struggles Inspired by Civil
Disobedience"<br><br>
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French farmer and activist José Bové is best known for his efforts to
disrupt the trend toward globalized food production and in particular,
genetically modified crops. With supporters, he dismantled a McDonald's
in Millau, France just days before it was to open in 1999, he destroyed
genetically-modified maize developed by Novartis, and he broke into a
research laboratory and destroyed a transgenic rice experiment. He has
served jail time for some of these attacks, and remains in legal trouble.
But his campaign against hormone-treated beef, genetically-modified
crops, the impact of faraway corporations on local habits, and the
homogenization of food and eating, has stuck a chord with many around the
world. Bové is co-organizer, with François Dufour, of the radical
international farmer's union Confederation Paysanne, and is co-author,
with Dufour, of<i> The World is Not for Sale.<br><br>
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</i>Tuesday, March 8, 2005<br>
7 p.m.<br><br>
Building 6 Room 120<br><br>
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This event is co-sponsored by "Modern Times, Rural Places," the
Program in Science, Technology and Society, the MIT-France program, the
Department of Urban Studies, the Kelly-Douglas Fund, and the MIT Free
Radicals, all of MIT.<br>
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