Philip Bereano papers, 1967-2008

Contains documentation of the adoption of the Cartagena Protocol in Madrid, 2002

Contains documentation of the adoption of the Cartagena Protocol in Madrid, 2002

Contains documentation of the adoption of the Cartagena Protocol in Madrid, 2002

Contains documentation of the adoption of the Cartagena Protocol in Madrid, 2002

Materials from the 1994-1996 drafting meetings for the Cartagena Protocol

Materials from the 1994-1996 drafting meetings for the Cartagena Protocol

Materials from the 1994-1996 drafting meetings for the Cartagena Protocol

Materials from the 1994-1996 drafting meetings for the Cartagena Protocol

Correspondence, drafts, reports, etc from general biosafety discussions surrounding the Cartagena drafting process

Correspondence, drafts, reports, etc from general biosafety discussions surrounding the Cartagena drafting process

Correspondence, drafts, reports, etc from general biosafety discussions surrounding the Cartagena drafting meeting in Aarhus, 1996

Correspondence, drafts, reports, etc from general biosafety discussions surrounding the Cartagena drafting meeting in Aarhus, 1996

Correspondence, drafts, reports, etc from general biosafety discussions surrounding the Cartagena drafting meeting in Aarhus, 1996

Documents from the first Montreal meeting of the working group that eventually produced the Cartagena protocol

Documents from the first Montreal meeting of the working group that eventually produced the Cartagena protocol

Documents from the first Montreal meeting of the working group that eventually produced the Cartagena protocol

Includes bound copies of various UNEP guidelines and reports on biosafety

Includes bound copies of various UNEP guidelines and reports on biosafety

Mostly concerned with the US ratification of the treaty, and controversies thereof

Reads "Albert Gore, Jr., Open Speaker's Forum - the 92 global forum - June 7, 1992"

Predominantly focused on the 2000 seminar "Release of Genetically Modified Organisms in the Environment: is it a Human Health Hazard?" (Rome)

Pamphlets

Mostly mailing lists

Documents Bereano's work reviewing the WTO risk assessment documents as a subject-matter expert

Mostly newsletters and mailing lists

Mostly newsletters and mailing lists

Includes discussion of GMO tracing and monitoring

Local, national and international campaigning and organizing around GMOs in food

Includes documentation and discussion of GENet, a network for concerned activists about genetic engineering

Includes documentation around a campaign to prevent Starbucks using GMO sources

EU President Conference in Vienna, Austria on "the role of precaution in GMO policy"

Contains photographs

Held In Seattle, WA

Contains various Codex Alimentarius reports

Much of it concerns patent rights around genetics and drugs

Biosafety meeting in Curitiba, Brazil at the Meeting of the Parties (MOP) 3

Contains photographs

Contains correspondence and notes about, and a draft of, Julie Dawson and Margaret E. Smith's "Research, Rhetoric and Reality: Evaluating Genetic Technology in Agriculture"

Contains a draft of a Sheila Jasanoff article on "biology and the constitution"

A report, and correspondence, relating to genetic patenting

A copy of the report "genetically-modified diplomacy", by Peter Andree, along with correspondence and notes.

Largely about the International Conference on Impacts of Climatic Variations and Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions. Contains stickers

Involves the International Conference on Impacts of Climatic Variations and Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions

Conferences organized by the Milazzo Group, including those of the International Association of Law, Ethics, and Science

Mostly covers the WTO protests in Seattle and the Doha conference in 2001

The Doha meeting and TRIPS treaty

Mostly lawsuits and protests

Mostly washington state level activism and proposals. Contains some genetic discrimination-related materials

Mostly washington state level activism and proposals.

National and international correspondence, activism and events; contains some genetic discrimination material

Report of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Mostly on patents and biowarfare

Includes a draft of the Council for Responsible Genetics' Amicus Brief in Landry v. Harshbarger, and a briefing by the Australian Genethics Network to the Human Rights Australia Privacy commissioner

Report by the American Council of Life Insurance

Includes meeting minutes, correspondence, position paper drafts

Includes materials from the Harrison Institute for Public law about the "massachusetts burma law", along with newsletters

Includes published and unpublished works relating to biotechnology patenting

Extensive materials relating to the run up to, course of and aftermath of the "Battle of Seattle" (same with next four folders)

Mostly the TRIPS and GANT treaties; heavy overlap with the WTO - Seattle folders

Materials relating to discussion and protest surrounding plans to build a high-security biowarfare laboratory in Seattle in 2005

Miscellaneous publications and pamphlets relating to GMOs, including (potentially rare) magazine editions

Predominantly Reclaim the Streets, GE News and AllSorts

Correspondence relating to Bereano's participation in the TV series of the same name

Mostly IATP Food Safety Week, the Biotech Activists mailing list, and "BioDive"

Food Bytes, Genetix Update, Rachel's, and the RAFI newsletter

Mothers for Natural Law, Biotech Bits, Intellectual Property & Biodiversity News, and the Biotechnology Working Group newsletter

Conference in Norway on "Holistic Foundations for Assessment and Regulation of Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified Organisms"

Mostly relates to the "no patents on life" campaign

Held by the Sos Mata Atlantica Foundation for UNCED 1992

Second draft of the Peter Andre report

Work on developing videos on GMOs

Some overlap with Codex folders, above

From the Earth Summit

Mostly CRG board minutes

Specifically, a letter to Nature and a submission to the Washington Book Review, and a chapter in Tuskegee University's "Plain Talk about the Human Genome Project"

Correspondence around recombinant DNA campaigning, including relating to Bereano's role on the University of Washington DNA Oversight Committee

Materials from the UW committee overseeing research with recombinant DNA; inclutes minutes, correspondence and project proposals

Includes the recombinant DNA report of the ad-hoc UW committee (1976)

Contains a copy of "a case for public participation in science policy formation and practice" by Halsted R. Holman and Diana Dutton

Includes federal policy work, such as efforts to place Bereano on the federal DNA committee of the National Institutes of Health. Some overlap with 34/7-11

Mostly relating to legislation and policy-making

Much discussion of HIV/AIDS and WA-area civil rights activism

Publications and reports covering HIV/AIDS in Black communities, feminist circles, drug users and sex workers

Includes discussion of and activism around the omnibus health legislation of 1988-9, along with state-level rulemaking from the same era

Particularly concerns how test changes led to a reclassification of asymptomatic people with HIV/AIDS

Correspondence, news releases and internal memoranda

Contains documentation, drafts and correspondence relating not only to national and state-level policies and activism around them, but the University of Washington's specific approaches

Materials gathered for the teaching of Social Work 409 (The AIDS Epidemic: Social and Political Realities). Includes policy documents, in-community zines, policy drafts and activist responses, including works about (and from) sex workers, Black gay organizations and feminist bodies

Correspondence and files relating to Social Work 409, 1989 - The AIDS Epidemic: Social and Political Realities

Includes "caring for a loved one with AIDS", the AIDS Education business guide, and the resource manual for the Seattle needle exchange

Activism and correspondence surrounding mandatory proposals to test and punish people for having HIV. Particularly focuses on the proposal of House Bill 1343 in Washington State, which would have made HIV testing mandatory

Of particular note is the range of international activist literature and correspondence, including from the Paris branch of ACT UP

Particularly good representation of Seattle-area HIV/AIDS organizations' newsletters, letters, etc

Seattle-specific; focuses not only on the importance of needle exchanges but also the consequences of an "anti-loitering" law for their viability. Contains substantial ACT UP Seattle correspondence and campaign material

Newsletter issues

Publications and reports covering HIV/AIDS in Black communities, feminist circles, drug users and sex workers

Material from/about other organizations working on issues around HIV/AIDS, including the People of Color AIDS Network (POCAN), the ACLU, Street Outreach Services (SOS), the National Aliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, the Department of Health and Human Services, and Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.

Includes activist works and newsletters from Project Inform, ACT UP, the AIDS Treatment Bulletin, and others

Correspondence, mailing lists, assorted magazines; includes epidemiological reports and material related to GACHA

Contains rare/niche press clippings, alongside conference presentations and correspondence with organizations including ACT UP

Mostly conference precis, the media guide, calls for abstracts

Largely covers HIV/AIDS confidentiality and the politics of healthcare surrounding the disease

Fund-distributing organization Bereano was applying to for Gay Community Services-related grants

Includes quarterly surveillance reports, and editions of PI Perspective and PWA Coalition News

Note; many of the materials in this set come from the files of Michael Myers, Bereano's partner, who died of HIV/AIDS in 1988

Magazine put out by NWAF

Washington state LGBT rights group and convention

Includes early versions of various pieces by John Stoltenberg, along with correspondence, flyers, and other notes and publications, particularly Project Redirection - Detroit

Board minutes and organizational features

Discussed "the impact of DNA-based identification systems on civil liberties"

Talk given by Bereano at Oregon State University in 2002

Correspondence and papers from/surrounding the International Conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy, held at Harvard in 2002

Includes testimony to the california state legislature, and participation in UW's "Saturday Seminars"

Participation in the Florence Kluckhohn Center for the Study of Values talks, and talks at ASEC and the American Bar Association

Talk at Drexel University as part of their continuing education program

Interdisciplinary workshop on the interrelationships between science and technology, and ethics and values, hosted by AAAS

Documents relating to Bereano's participation in the May Day protests in Washington, DC.

Materials for the conference "Technology assessment: management, manpower, and methodologies"

A trip Bereano took to Oslo, and notes on the talk he gave there

Notes, correspondence and drafts from Bereano's work on technology assessment, particularly a paper (and then anthology) with Fred Lee

Correspondence with and for Wiley, including royalty statements, contracts and permissions

Correspondence relating to people reusing Bereano's works, or vice versa

Materials relating to an adaption of Nadezhda Mandelstam's book of the same name

Materials relating to two pieces by Bereano for the Cornell Law Review; one, a review of "electricity and the environment: the reform of legal institutions", and the second, an original piece "the role of the courts in technology assessment", with Jerry H. Portnoy

Materials from the publication of "the scientific community and the crisis of belief", in American Scientist. Consists mostly of reprint requests

Two pieces for the ISTA venues - "Technology, the Past and the Future", and "Technology and Planning: the Politics of Choice"

A piece by Bereano in the edited volume "scientists in the legal system".

Book review of "Environmental Control: Priorities, Policies, and the Law"