and we do all need to grow our own gardens i had to nick my neighbor my yard just a couple weekends ago and expanded our garden by three times so if you're in maple valley covington area and you need some place to plant some stuff wow it looks like a lot more people from up here this is curry thank you so much for coming out today we're here because we need to take a stand a stand against a company that has wreaked havoc across this world and one of the ways we need to do that is to educate each other and one of the best ways to do that is to label g e food right now more than sixty other countries label genetically engineered food former attorney it's deep and so we need to take control and we need to educate each other about what's in our food we need to share that information and spread it around one of the best ways to do that is to the way in a lot i have learned has led the way in a lot of things and we can lead the way in this fight too so one of the best ways if you want to get involved and do something start to volunteer for labeling genetically engineered food volunteer we have a very active group here in seattle and bellevue and across the state and if you want to get involved it's a great way to do it so please support g e labeling educate your friends your family your neighbors whoa hold my gatherings at your house show genetic roulette show some of the other documentaries have a discussion i don't know how many times i walk into a store and i have a discussion with someone they don't even know what my mon five years and one of the main reasons is because of their tight relationship with monsanto maga watches alliance for green revolution in africa when we first learned about it about five years ago jasmine one of our lead organizers and she's going to tell you a little bit more about i just want to say as a new mom i'm more frightened than ever about these issues and i just can't thank you enough for taking the time to come out today i also want to say that we are a small group of really dedicated activists and we really need you we need more folks to get involved to volunteer we have in like fifteen turns every year it's a great experience i'm so one of the activist groups that you can really do you get your teeth into these issues and work with us year round so if you're interested  please find me there's a sign up on the on the table as well and we can get you signed up and get too involved or you can go to our web site seattle global justice i love like to introduce jasmine is going to tell you a little bit more about our campaign monsanto in two thousand and seven when heather and travis met a farmer named joshua machine guy here he was talking on the panel with alongside gates and heather and travis noticed that what they were saying the two approaches that joshua was describing versus the approach that again foundational was describing was a very different approach to agricultural development in africa that's when we started wondering what was going on and started looking into what this huge a second largest philanthropic organization in the our old place in our city was doing with african agriculture and where they had gotten their ideas from so since two thousand and seven i go watch has been looking at that relationship in two thousand and eight we discovered a bunch of connections between monsanto executives and  foundation folks in two thousand and ten when we exposed a purchase of five hundred thousand shares monsanto worth two point twenty three point one million solutions in africa and we started looking into that the programs that he cited were things like monitoring water shantz the least harmful of the things that they had been they were universities for the most part that were that were supposed to develop more sustainable high yielding drought resistant stress resistant crops  by many of those partners are participating in marches in africa today as well i mean i suppose has told us there are more than four hundred marchers in forty five different countries  i'm going to say globalize hope and you're going to say  food give us a choice you so much and you would like to say something you just have a couple of things about the march we're going to be lighting up right here on high street we're going to have this banner up front we wa to have a mini really