At midnight Monday Dr Ignacio Chapela's contract with UC Berkeley expired. Below is a link to the latest article about Chapela's protest at the lack of transparency in the review of his tenure.

Berkeley Professor Moves Office to Lawn
http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2003/Ignacio-Chapela-Lawn1jul03.htm
includes a couple of Paul Goettlich's photos of Chapela relaxing

For a collection of background articles on and by Ignacio Chapela
http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2003/Ignacio-Chapela30jun03.htm

For the extraordinary lengths the biotech industry has gone to in order to try and discredit Ignacio Chapela and his research
http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit3.html
http://ngin.tripod.com/deceit_index.html

Mexican scientist was threatened because he wanted to tell the truth
http://ngin.tripod.com/080602d.htm
The Newsnight transcript on the Mexican Maize Scandal

HEAR IGNACIO CHAPELA SPEAKING IN THE UK
Corn Hall, St Nicholas Street, Diss, Norfolk, 8th July, 7:15pm
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"There's no bigger, odder, or meaner story in biotechnology today than the gunfight over the disavowal by the journal Nature of an explosive paper on genetic contamination of native Mexican maize by bioengineered corn from the United States." - Biotech's OK Corral

"I think there are a group of people who for whatever reason don't want to hear anything at all about reasons to question the technology. I read Chapela's paper over and over again and I just couldn't find anything that was inflammatory about it." - lan McHughen, Crop Development Center, University of Saskatchewan