Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

public talk in brixton: nanotech & synthetic life

Corporate Watch | 09.06.2010 16:47 | Bio-technology | Climate Chaos | Technology

SYNTHETIC LIFE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY:
A PUBLIC TALK ON THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGY
Organised by the Stop Unsafe Nano-silver Campaign and Corporate watch
Monday June 14th, 7 - 9pm
at Brixton Community Base, Talma Road, Brixton, SW2 1AS

SYNTHETIC LIFE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY:
A PUBLC TALK ON THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGY

Organised by the Stop Unsafe Nano-silver Campaign and Corporate watch

Monday June 14th, 7 - 9pm
at Brixton Community Base, Talma Road, Brixton, SW2 1AS
see  http://www.bsvcc.org/contact.html for directions

The evening will include:
- a presentation by the Stop Unsafe Nano-silver Campaign on their
legal challenge against the selling of unsafe nano-silver products in
the UK. see  http://www.eco-action.org/nanotech and
www.corporatewatch.org for more information.
- a speaker on the new 'synthetic life' genetics from Human
Genetics Alert. See  http://www.hgalert.org for more information
- time for discussion, questions, planning, announcements, updates

//\\//\\DESCRIPTION//\\//\\

We are at the beginning of a new industrial revolution, a 21st Century
industrial revolution where computers, molecules, and genetic engineering
are being combined in new and uncanny ways. While the many advances in new
technologies may bring great promise, they also create many concerns.

Genetically Modified Food, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Geoengineering &
now ‘synthetic life’…what are all these new technologies and how can we
know they are safe? We are told that these technologies will be the
future, but who's making the decisions and who benefits the most from the
insertion of these new forces into our lives? Which corporations are
behind these technologies and how are they doing well out of these
apparent advancements? Are we moving too far too fast with inadequate
precaution & no democratic safeguards?

The talk and discussion will be a chance for people to get a grip on
what's going on. We will discuss environmental, human health, economic and
social concerns. Everyone is welcome, we hope you can make it.
---------------

Glossary:

Nano-silver is a brand new type of silver that is highly reactive and
extremely small in size. As a powerful bactericide it can kill both the
good bacteria and the bad bacteria in our ecosystems, in our water
supply, and in our human bodies. For more information see
 http://nano.foe.org.au/node/332
 http://www.eco-action.org/nanotech/

'Synthetic life' is the use of laboratories to make genetic material
which can be inserted into microbes which then reproduce with the new
genetic material. Investors hope to build bugs that will produce oil or
other profit-making chemicals. For more information on 'synthetic life' see
 http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/5142
 http://www.icta.org/template/page.cfm?id=218

The biotechnology research for these so-called advances is publicly
funded despite poor returns on the investment. Universities and the
public purse often cooperate with private corporations who take all the
rewards in the end. For more information on the biotechnology research
economy see "Biosciences for Life"
 http://www.genewatch.org/pub.shtml?als%5Bcid%5D=492774

Corporate Watch

Comments

Display the following 2 comments

  1. free? — Skint
  2. yes it is free — Corporate Watch
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech