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BigBlether, Lanarkshire 6-8.9.2002 : finally pics, feedback, report

23-10-2002 16:46

BigBlether, Lanarkshire 6-8.9.2002 : finally pics, feedback, report
From 6.-8.September there was a Big Blether happening in Lanarkshire, south of Glasgow, Scotland. The Big Blether is a meeting of grassrooot activists campaigning for social and ecological justice. Here are finally the pictures, summary of the feedback and a overview of the program. (article 1)

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Farmers and the GM Maze

11-09-2002 18:59

This film was produced for a Lifecycles tour of south Devon that started 6th September. The intention was to show this film to farmers, collect footage for a new film and find out what they know and what they think about the prospect of GM commercialisation next year.

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Plans to promote GM crops defeated

02-09-2002 22:15

...ministers rejected clauses in the summit's plan of action which would have given the World Trade Organisation (WTO) powers over international treaties on the environment.

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GM debate a sham say experts

31-08-2002 10:41

PROMISES by the Government of an independent national debate on GM farming are a sham, say its own advisers.

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GM contamination tests not convincing

31-08-2002 09:42

Friend of the Earth say tests for GM contamination are not convincing.

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Antibiotic Resistance Is Fertile

30-08-2002 20:31

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Video of the attempt to decontaminate an illegal crop of antibiotic resistant GM oilseed rape from a field in Dorset on 18th August.

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Bayer in GM Crop Contamination Scandals

26-08-2002 13:28

On 15th August it emerged that Bayer's new agricultural wing, Bayer CropScience (1), was responsible for the illegal planting of genetically modified (GM) oil seed rape.
GM seed, planted at more than 20 farm scale trial sites in the UK since 1999, was contaminated with substantial quantities (up to 2.8%) of an unauthorised variety of
GM OSR.

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Police spread missinformation for biotech scum

20-08-2002 15:21

Police correct earlier 'mistake' regarding whether GM protesters had targetted the correct crop for decontamination.

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Police Say NO to GMO

19-08-2002 12:15

Police Say NO to GMO
Photos from protest at illegal GM crop trial at Hilton, Dorset. 18th August 2002

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Photos from Dorset GM crop action

19-08-2002 09:11

Photos from Dorset GM crop action
Photos from illegal gm crop trial decontamination action.
18th August 2002 - Hilton, Dorset. (article 1)

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Arrests at illegal GM crop trial (photos)

19-08-2002 03:04

Fourteen people arrest, then released on police bail without charge after pulling up illegal GM crop in Dorset.

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GM trial trashed ~ 12 arrested

18-08-2002 17:04

Dozen arrested at illegal GM trial site in Dorset.

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Government allows GM trials to continue

16-08-2002 18:15

The government has once again proved itself unable and unwilling to listen to public concern and overwhelming evidence about how baddly ill-conceived and mismanaged the farmscale GM evaluations have been......

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Convoy - Messages to DEFRA

31-07-2002 15:25

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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.

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GMO`s Could Wipe Out Natural Species.

23-06-2002 18:45

This is a bleak warning to all. We are a natural species and part of a whole ecological system. Its survival has a lot to do with our own survival. Lets not fudge the issue while science debates the Pro`s & Con`s of a particular GM Crop or Genetically Handicapped Animal.

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Environmental protection from GM contamination

21-06-2002 11:11

Activists protect environment from contamination from GM potato crops between 16 and 17 June respectively for the second time near Berlin.

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Pink Castle Protesters Charged

03-06-2002 12:10

Unwilling to take a police caution, the Littlemoor Four were charged with Aggrevated Trespass (Sec 68, CJA 94) when they appeared at Weymouth police station this sunday.

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Latest news from Castle

16-05-2002 14:06

Four people arrested under Section 68 - aggrivated tresspass.
All taken to weymouth police station.
Other people looked on to another tractor not arrested because it was still on somebody elses field.

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Pink castle needs help!! Planting started

16-05-2002 12:07

GM now being planted at occupied trial site in Dorset.
Six tractors and thirty police. Some protesters locked on.
Pink castle not yet evicted. More poeople needed.
Please come down. Please pass the word.
PHONE 07773 640159 or 07790 306111

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Exxon pushed for coup in Venezuela

13-05-2002 13:36

Oil prices, Exxon's profits and US fears of OPEC embargo behind Venezuelan coup