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Speeches from Tractors and Trollies anti-GM event

r2r, 27-10-2003 16:14

Audio
Here is an mp3 audio file containing the speeches given after the Tractors and Trollies against GM event on the 13th October. The play time is about 1 hour and it is highly compress down to a modest 15mb which should make it pretty much accessable to all. Read more >>

Pink Castle legal case update

bbc article, 18-10-2003 12:57


No Allianz With Bayer

r2r, 15-10-2003 01:20

Video
On tuesday 14th october, the offices of Allianz in London recieved a visit from anti-GM campaigns. Allianz is the biggest shareholder of Bayer. Since Bayer bought Aventis Cropscience the company is the major player in GM crops in the UK and the only company to have varieties ready for commercial planting should the UK government ignore public opinion and allow GM crops to be grown.

Read more | 1 comment >>

Glove wuld like to meet ...

Knobbly Knees, 06-10-2003 13:11

Taken from the personals column in this saturday's Guardian. Read more | 2 comments >>

Anti-GM activists off their trolleys?

mike+kyra, 05-10-2003 18:34

On Saturday 4th October 2003, anti-GM activists set off from Totnes in Devon to cycle to London for the Tractor + Trolley event on Monday 13th October, on a bike ride that will take them via several GM-related locations, spreading the word that the majority of the British public do not want GM crops in the UK. Read more | 3 comments >>

Bayer back out of GM trials

bayer beware, 28-09-2003 18:23

Bayer beginning to back out of GM? Read more | 2 comments >>

GM Debate? Exclusive Indymedia Video

R2R, 20-07-2003 04:23

Video
During the six weeks worth of public debates, our roving reports attended almost a dozen sperate events and interviewed people leaving the debates to find out what they thought.
This 25 minute video gives you an insight into public opinion about the government consultation exercise and the state of our democracy... Read more | 2 comments >>

Farmers and the GM Maze

R2R, 11-09-2002 20:59

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. Read more | 2 comments >>

Bayer in GM Crop Contamination Scandals

CBG NetWork, 26-08-2002 15:28

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. Read more >>

Police Say NO to GMO

jim, 19-08-2002 14:15

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

Photos from Dorset GM crop action

ToGG, 19-08-2002 11:11

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

Arrests at illegal GM crop trial (photos)

ToGG, 19-08-2002 05:04

Fourteen people arrest, then released on police bail without charge after pulling up illegal GM crop in Dorset. Read more | 3 comments >>

GM trial trashed ~ 12 arrested

Jean, 18-08-2002 19:04

Dozen arrested at illegal GM trial site in Dorset. Read more >>

Government allows GM trials to continue

GM!NO, 16-08-2002 20:15

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...... Read more | 1 comment >>

Convoy - Messages to DEFRA

R2R, 31-07-2002 17:25

Video
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 | 2 comments >>

Anti-GM convoy heads to London

Bill Posters, 23-07-2002 00:27

Anti-GM convoy heads to London
People from Totnes and other parts of Devon have headed off in convoy to arrive in London July 24th. On route they will be joining up with other concerned citizens from all over the country and converging at Westminster to voice a strong message of resistance to the commercialisation of GM crops. (article 1) Read more | 1 comment >>

GM crop squat 'pink castle' video

pesky peasants, 29-04-2002 20:13

Video and photos from the dorset crop squat.
Come to the castle - stop the crop. Read more | 1 comment >>

GM Action-Pink Castle in Dorset update

Pink Castle Maiden, 26-04-2002 22:31

The Prettiest GM Action continues in Dorset! Read more | 1 comment >>

Pink Castles in Dorest GM test site

William Posters, 25-04-2002 17:29

Pink Castles in Dorest GM test site
Pink castles appears in GM test site in Dorset.
Occupation set to disrupt plans to plant. Read more >>

New GM trials announced

foe, 14-03-2002 19:05

The Government today announced the location of the latest round of GM maize sites in England. Friends of the Earth warned that the sites will pose a pollution threat to neighbouring conventional and organic crops. There are 35 sites in England, but none in Wales. The Scottish Executive will make an announcement on any Scottish trials later today. List of sites at url. Read more | 1 comment >>

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