Spotlighting Six Books on Corporations, Science & Public Health
Author panel discussion and book signing at NYU spotlighting six books on Corporations, Science & Public Health featuring Mitchel, Marion Nestle, Sheldon Krimsky, Mary Holland, and Jonathan H. Marks. Moderated by Mark Crispin Miller. Sunday, March 31st 3 – 5 p.m.
Location: Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street at West 3rd Street, near Washington Square Park, NYC
Please Register by sending an email to
sheldon.krimsky@tufts.edu
at The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Register here!
Click to view National Pesticide Forum trailer
This a unique opportunity to share knowledge with those on the cutting edge of pesticide research, meet with effective advocates to talk organizing and policy strategy on protecting people and the environment, and learn from practitioners on implementation of plans for organic management practices without toxic pesticides.
See draft Forum schedule, HERE For hotel information, see Booking link for the Hotel Wales in New York City For more information about Friday's Field Trip, see flyer, HERE Join us for the New York Premiere of Ground War, a documentary.
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Partial list of confirmed speakers (see speaker bios)
Sarah F Evans, PhD, assistant professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Institute for Exposomic Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
Co-Sponsors
Environmental Law Advocates at Fordham University School of Law, No Spray Coalition, Grassroots Environmental Education, New York Environmental Law and Justice Project, Friends of Animals, New Yorkers for Pesticide-Free Parks (NYPFP), The Sierra Club NYC Group, Sixth Street Community Center, Food and Water Watch in New York, NYC Grassroots Alliance, Garden of Eve Organic Farm & Market, iEatGreen, Perfect Earth Project, Battery Park City Authority, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Center for Earth Ethics, Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farms, Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), Clean Water Action NJ, Green City Force, Newtown Creek Alliance, 350 NYC, Green Inside and Out, and more.
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Videos from Previous Forum
Miss out on previous Beyond Pesticide Forums? See Beyond Pesticides’ YouTube page to view speakers, panels, and workshop discussions on a range of critical topics relevant to adverse health and environmental effects of pesticides and strategies for change. Check out our past conferences here.
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The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides – New Book
Written and edited by Mitchel Cohen Foreword by Vandana Shiva
“This may be one of the most important books you read this year. We are being poisoned and this book is sounding a well-informed alarm.
Read it. Get educated and then join the thousands rising up against those who care more for profit than the health of our bodies and our earth.”
Order your copy HERE
To request a review copy or to arrange an interview with the author, please contact: Hector Carosso / (212) 643-6816 x 277 / hcarosso@skyhorsepublishing.com
Chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives — housing, agriculture, work places, sidewalks, subways, schools, parks, even the air we breathe. More than half a century since Rachel Carson issued Silent Spring — her call-to-arms against the poisoning of our drinking water, food, animals, air, and the natural environment — The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides takes a fresh look at the politics underlying the mass use of pesticides and the challenges people around the world are making against Monsanto’s most dangerous creation, glyphosate. The scientists and activists contributing to The Politics of Pesticides, edited by long-time Green activist Mitchel Cohen, explore not only the dangers of glyphosate — better known as “Roundup” — but the campaign which ended with glyphosate declared as a cancer-causing agent. In an age where banned pesticides are simply replaced with newer and more deadly ones, and where corporations such as Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and DuPont scuttle attempts to regulate the products they manufacture, what is the effective, practical, and philosophical framework for banning glyphosate and other pesticides? The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides explores the best strategies for winning the struggle for healthy foods and a clean environment. It takes lessons from activists who have come before, and offers a new, holistic and radical approach that is essential for defending life on this planet and creating for our kids, and for ourselves, a future worth living in.
Mitchel Cohen coordinates the No Spray Coalition in New York City, which successfully sued the City government over its indiscriminate spraying of toxic pesticides. In 1997, he organized the campaign to rid NYC public schools of milk from cows injected with genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone, and in 2001, he ran for Mayor of NYC as one of five Green Party candidates. He was editor of the national newspaper Green Politix, and of the NY State Green Party newspaper. Mitchel edited Red Balloon, the journal of the Red Balloon Collective that he cofounded at SUNY Stony Brook, and chaired WBAI radio’s Local Board. His writings include: The Social Construction of Neurosis, and numerous other pamphlets; What is Direct Action?, a book that draws on personal experiences as well as lessons from Occupy Wall Street; An American in Revolutionary Nicaragua; and two books of poetry, One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight and The Permanent Carnival.
- Order your copy here.
- Bulk discounts for anti-pesticides and anti-GMO organizations are available. Write to mitchelcohen@mindspring.com to make arrangement
