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GE Free
Phil Vernon
Upbeat roots ballad celebrating community empowerment, creating genetically-engineered crop-free zones around the world.
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Around the world a movement is growing as communities declare themselves to be genetically-engineered crop-free zones. GE Free - the song, is offered as inspiration for the continuing fight against corporate control of agriculture, for bio-diversity and food sovereignty, and for the rights of farmers everywhere.
CD Single Produced by Bill Henderson
Music & lyrics by Phil Vernon 2005 SOCAN
Phil Vernon has been writing songs for over thirty years, performing at benefits, on picket lines and in union halls. A founding member of the Vancouver cultural festival Mayworks, Phil has contributed to numerous benefit recordings over the years.
In April 2004 Phil released of the CD Single The Ballad of Percy Schmeiser to coincide with the Supreme Court of Canadas ruling on the Monsanto vs Schmeiser case. The immediate success of the song, telling the story of the Saskatchewan canola farmers battle with the agrochemical giant including airplay on CBC and other radio stations led to numerous performances in 2004 including the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Subsequently The Ballad of Percy Schmeiser was featured in the film, The Genetic Matrix: The Schmeiser Case.
Following up on the release of GE Free, Phil's most recent recording project is Something's In The Garden, a song about the Terminator gene. Look for it on-line soon!
Phil currently lives on Salt Spring Island.
THM MUSIC
971 Isabella Pt. Rd. Salt Spring Is.
B.C. CANADA V8K 1T7
pvernon@saltspring.com
Bass - Bob Delion
Drums - Jay Johnson
Guitars - Bill Henderson
Lead vocal - Phil Vernon
Backing vocal - Mary Applegate
Violin - Jamie Rokeby-Thomas
Special thanks to Christian Stonehouse and Jamie Sitar for their donations of time and technical expertise, to Randy Bachman for donating studio time, and above all to Bill Henderson, whose skill and generosity made this project possible.
GE Free Phil Vernon 2005
Well it started in Ukiah
Just a little northern California town
With just a few determined people
And you know they brought the whole county round
Going door to door with their petition
Holding meetings and talking on the phone
Thats how the County of Mendecino
Became the USAs first GE-free zone! and now theyre
Chorus:
GE-free safe food and strong community
GE-free thats the way thats the way it should be!
Now those farmers way Down Under
From what I hear, theyre clear on what to do
They know theyd lose international markets
If genetic seed technology goes through
Put to the test in West Australia
The biggest farm state in that southern land
They got their government to pass a law
And now commercial GE crops have been banned
and now theyre
Chorus
Peasant farmers in Venezuela
Fight the pressure from Monsanto
This is our land they tell their presidente
Now Monsantos plan is terminado
From Powell River out to Brooklin, Maine
Were gonna be GE-free from coast to coast!
From the farm field to the kitchen table
Lets work together to protect what matters most
All the power behind technology
Cannot surpass what our grassroots can do!
And when we say No! to GMOs
Then our vision for the futures that much
closer to coming true! and well be
Chorus (2X)
thats the way, Mendecino
thats the way, West Australia
thats the way, Venezuela
thats the way, Powell River thats the way it should be!
THM MUSIC
971 Isabella Point Road
Salt Spring Island BC V8K 1T7
Ph/Fax 250-653-9485
pvernon@saltspring.com
"I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that in itself creates new potential."
Vandana Shiva, Indian activist and author