Oxford Bio-technology Newswire Archive

Take a look at the terms of the interim court order given to Bayer (if you dare)... Read more >>

Today, Bayer AG tried to make permanent a court order against six named individuals and five 'organisations' connected to campaigns against the company.

The high court judge (who has a history of granting injunctions, for example responsible for a recent injunction preventing a tabloid news paper publish some poxy royal dirt story), will give his ruling on Friday 13th.

The interim injuntion, which was granted late last December, will remain effective until the ruling is given on friday.

The injuntion effectively makes previously lawful activities into criminal offences and it seems quite clear that the judge will rule in favor of bayer... Read more >>

According to a Reuters report Bayer Crop Science is pulling out of the approval procedures for six genetically modified (GM) seed varieties in the UK. Read more >>

Five minute video of interviews with the Littlemoor Four of Pink Castle fame. The four defendents, from Totnes, Oxford, Somerset and Wales, were just about to enter the court for a 'retrial'... Read more >>

4 anti GM activists ordered to pay up to £1000 court costs each for attempting to prevent planting of GM field trial ... Read more >>

5 minute video about abuse of police powers at a demo in Newbury. Read more >>

Contributors are being sought for a film about the last six or seven years worth of campaigning against the introduction of genetically modified crops. If you have video footage of demonstrations, protests, office occupations or direct action, please let us know. We are also seeking people who have a specific personal involvement in the campaign in some way and are willing to be interviewed for the film. Read more >>

Around 100 anti-bayer campaigners gathered outside Bayer HQ in Newbury and made a horrible bloody racket. Read more >>

Farmers, campaigners and consumers travelled from all over the UK to converge on London on the 13th October to express their opposition to the governments plans to allow the commerciallisation of genetically modified crops.

In the days running up to the event, 'pilgrims' traveled from as far afield as Wales, Cornwall and Scotland and visited significant 'bio-threat' locations such as Cambridge, Newbury, Weymouth and Oxford. Read more >>

4 people arrested for locking on to tractors planting Bayer CropScience GM maize in Dorset (next to the Pink Castle) have their aquital over turned in the high court and now face retrial Read more >>

Noise Demo at HQ of GM crops company Bayer in Newbury Nov 13th Read more >>

Stop GM food! Read more >>

Taken from the personals column in this saturday's Guardian. Read more >>

There was an unprecedented walkout of opposition Green, Liberal Democrat and Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) Councillors at a full meeting of Oxford City Council today (21st July). Read more >>

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at 4.00 am Sunday morning syngenta's GM wheat trial crop was trashed at Jealott's Hill research lab by 60 white clad activists from all over the UK. Read more >>

As 3 corporations, Bayer, Monsanto and Syngenta, push for the commercial growing of GM crops in the UK, Corporate Watch brings you the biotech family tree. The family tree shows the complex tangle of name changes, spin-offs, joint ventures and acquisitions woven by the biotech industry during 10 years of rapid expansion, consolidation and crisis. Read more >>

A nine minute video (in realvideo) of an anti-GM convoy and demonstration at DEFRA. Bags of GM taken from 17 trial sites around the country were dumped on DEFRA's doorstep to make clear that the public do not want GM crops. Read more >>

Video of the action against Bayer in Newbury... Read more >>

As German multinational Bayer launched on the New York Stock Exchange, activists blockaded their UK Headquarters to highlight their recently acquired status of Europe's biggest GM research company. Read more >>