In the PGA meeting in Rote Flora social center in Hamburg a workshop will take place:Unpacking the Biotech engines:
The manipulating voice of biotechnology lobbies promoting their agenda to
people and State
The last two decades the emerging techniques of Genetic Engineering and modern biotechnology have broadened the spectra of economic exploitation to fields previously unspoiled. Most big global players of Pharma-industry, Agri-chemicals and Bio-sciences have yet found in DNA decoding and modification innovating means to proliferate profits, raise property and spread dominion.
Once again as for Nuclear Energy and Green Revolution the Biotech-Boom threats with its agenda to have devastating effects on social structures, primary production, people's intellectual property and living entity as a whole. Gene modification, cloning, living material patenting, pre-birth control, terminator technology are some of the new terms entering the scientific, and of course market place.
On the other hand, state & sovereignty mechanisms found a perfect ally to maximise control and production efficiency. Bio-politics as a term is getting real-life implemented. A post-modern bio-controlling State is shaped and abandoned nightmares, like Eugenics, threaten to appear again in more flexible form.
Beyond the description of facts & consequences of the biotech's onset, most methods of promotion and imposition follow well known tactics of public relation & state-corporation interaction aiming to social acceptance and unpleasant facts suppression. Biotech engines promote their agenda through well defined, as well expensive ways that target state, education, science and production. Peoples resistance developed since the very first moment has made their movements even more careful and sophisticated followed in many cases by support and protection of the state.
Knowledge of biotech engines concrete tactics can challenge and offend the promotion of their agenda. Thus, the workshop, within the framework of the PGA meeting, will focus on the current functions of the biotech lobby as representative aspects of a huge issue of Biotechnology. Some thematics to cover would be:
- Brief overview on biotechnology and gmo state-of-the-art today inEurope & worldwide
- Biotech lobbies: The voice of biotech engines. Action and tactics.
- Activism Vs the Biotech lobby in Europe & US. Case ofGreece
- Other emerging technologies (nano-technology, RFID)
The above subjects will not stand as discussion end point but as motivating facts to stimulate interaction, bearing in mind the time and data restrictions, in order to define our point of view and explore ways of counter- & inter-action.
Material to be presented will be paper editions of certain counter-information groups, as well short videos of activism inEurope .
people and State
The last two decades the emerging techniques of Genetic Engineering and modern biotechnology have broadened the spectra of economic exploitation to fields previously unspoiled. Most big global players of Pharma-industry, Agri-chemicals and Bio-sciences have yet found in DNA decoding and modification innovating means to proliferate profits, raise property and spread dominion.
Once again as for Nuclear Energy and Green Revolution the Biotech-Boom threats with its agenda to have devastating effects on social structures, primary production, people's intellectual property and living entity as a whole. Gene modification, cloning, living material patenting, pre-birth control, terminator technology are some of the new terms entering the scientific, and of course market place.
On the other hand, state & sovereignty mechanisms found a perfect ally to maximise control and production efficiency. Bio-politics as a term is getting real-life implemented. A post-modern bio-controlling State is shaped and abandoned nightmares, like Eugenics, threaten to appear again in more flexible form.
Beyond the description of facts & consequences of the biotech's onset, most methods of promotion and imposition follow well known tactics of public relation & state-corporation interaction aiming to social acceptance and unpleasant facts suppression. Biotech engines promote their agenda through well defined, as well expensive ways that target state, education, science and production. Peoples resistance developed since the very first moment has made their movements even more careful and sophisticated followed in many cases by support and protection of the state.
Knowledge of biotech engines concrete tactics can challenge and offend the promotion of their agenda. Thus, the workshop, within the framework of the PGA meeting, will focus on the current functions of the biotech lobby as representative aspects of a huge issue of Biotechnology. Some thematics to cover would be:
- Brief overview on biotechnology and gmo state-of-the-art today in
- Biotech lobbies: The voice of biotech engines. Action and tactics.
- Activism Vs the Biotech lobby in Europe & US. Case of
- Other emerging technologies (nano-technology, RFID)
The above subjects will not stand as discussion end point but as motivating facts to stimulate interaction, bearing in mind the time and data restrictions, in order to define our point of view and explore ways of counter- & inter-action.
Material to be presented will be paper editions of certain counter-information groups, as well short videos of activism in
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