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GM killed my planet.... rampART tonight

starts 8pm | 26.07.2007 10:51 | Bio-technology | Climate Chaos | Free Spaces | London

Tonight at the rampART social center in East London, the free weekly cinema presents films from the collective Serindipia from Spain and also the documentary 'Who Killed The Electric Car.

Films start 8pm

15-17 rampart street, E1 2LA


While the UK suffers from the unseasonal weather and floods (and the rampART roof leaks like a sieve) and people prepare for the coming camp for climate action near Heathrow airport, the documentary 'Who Killed The Electric Car' is a look at how sane environmental legislation in California was overturned by backroom manoeuvring by the oil and car industries and how companies such as GM sabotaged their own products to ensure that the electric car would not become established.

Additional, away from the climate change theme and General Motors we turn to Genetically Modified Organisms with the Serindipia collective from Spain presenting their film 'TranXgenia. the worm and the corn's story' (37 mins). The film is part of the anti GM campaign of Plataforma Trangenics Fora and covers the main issues surrounding GMOs. It shows what happens to consumers and peasants, polititians and enterprises in the local catalan urban and rural areas when this invasive agriculutre reaches the 18.000 ha. and is absolutely out of legal regulation. It also shows how organic peasants are trying to survive and what consumer alternatives are being organised in barcelona.

We'll also be showing two shorts about the successful anti-GM campaign in this country which has once more resulted in there being no GM crops in the ground this year. Chemicals giant BASF abandoned plans for a GM potato trial in Yorkshire after multiple protests [video] and the trial planted in cambridge was destroyed [video].

starts 8pm