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A new website against bilateral free trade and investment agreements

09-09-2004 17:11 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | World

We would like to invite you to participate in a new collaborative website to support the struggle against bilateral free trade and investment agreements:
www.bilaterals.org.

Venezuela: Sowing prohibition for GMO

Venezuela president Hugo Chavez announced a sowing prohibition for genetically manipulated organisms on venezuelan soil - and in favor for the cultivation of the indian Yuka quit a contract with the multinational corporation MONSANTO.
An indigenous seed bank is to follow.......

engineered bt soil virus in commercial use

28-06-2004 19:16 | Bio-technology | Education | Social Struggles | World

it has come to my attention that certain products are available pesticide free and are sold near to and next to organic produce... it has become clear that in some cases these products are maintain and grown with the use of genetically modified bt soil virus's. a batch of them were registered back in 94 and i am sure others have been registerd since. i understand that many were not employed until 97 or later.

Corporate giants who poison and pollute also control "policy"

28-06-2004 02:26 | Analysis | Bio-technology | Health | World

A Warning to the ME/CFS Community
Margaret Williams

27th June 2004

It is a matter of record that there is mounting awareness and concern over
the increasing manipulation of science and medicine by global corporations
with vested interests which now amounts to a stranglehold.

It seems that this corporate control extends not only to a corrupted peer
review process that results in a biased view being presented to the medical
community by compliant or ineffectual editors of medical journals, but the
US government now insists that scientists must be politically approved
before the scientists can participate in meetings of the World Health
Organisation.

Protesting BIO 2004 in San Francisco

12-06-2004 20:48 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Globalisation | World

An account of the June 8th protest at the biotech convention in San Francisco, California

Follow up protests on Critical Art Ensemble Arrest

10-06-2004 11:03 | Bio-technology | Culture | Repression | World

PROTEST TO DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE INVESTIGATION OF STEVE KURTZ
AND THE CRITICAL ART ENSEMBLE

Stop-Inghams-Ge.org: Email In, Fax In and Phone In Day: 28th of May (Tommorow)

27-05-2004 07:14 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

On Friday the 28th of May (Tommorow), GE Free activists and supporters of
a GE Free Aotearoa/New Zealand are invited to join in an email, fax and
phone in day to help

http://www.Stop-Inghams-GE.org/.

56 windows broken in "goodbye" Bayer action

24-05-2004 15:37 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

A (belated) action report from the Stop Bayer GM campaign.

another Bayer Stay Out Action

17-05-2004 11:00 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

another report of an action against Bayer to warn them against continuing with GM crops:
see manila indymedia for a report of a Bayer action in the Philippines.

2 more Bayer actions

01-05-2004 11:38 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

There have been reports of more actions to send notice to Bayer, just before their AGM, that if they DO continue to push GM crops in the UK they will be hit again.
Here are the first 2 reports in.

GM testing failures.

22-04-2004 08:18 | Bio-technology | World

Having had imported wild bird seed containing oilseed rape which germinated in cracks in our concrete yard, I discovered that it and the kibbled maize seed had been imported. there is therefore a chance that, if it is GM it is being spread throughout the UK.

GREENPEACE STATEMENT ON DEMISE OF GM CROP

31-03-2004 10:46 | Bio-technology | World

Reacting to the announcement that Bayer will not commercialise its GM Chardon LL Maize in Britain, Greenpeace campaigner Sarah North said:

BAYER PULLS OUT OF BRITAIN

31-03-2004 09:27 | Bio-technology | World

Bayer CropScience, the company responsible for trying to grow GM crops in Britain, has pulled out of the UK!

PHONE BLOCKADE

21-03-2004 14:28 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Technology | World

PHONE AND EMAIL BLOCKADE - AGAINST GM.
Phone 01223 252514 - direct line of Paul Rylott, head of Bayer Bioscience.
Email

ukinfo@bayercropscience.com

Undercover Lawyer Exposed At Animal Rights Meeting

10-03-2004 12:28 | Animal Liberation | Bio-technology | World

The following was cut and pasted from the archive section.
It seems the original posting was misssed by the majority of readers.

gm findings - latest

07-03-2004 11:44 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

sorry -its lifted from a mainstream newspaper but: new sci-findings from tests on non-GM crops to prove impossibility of co-existence

GM MAIZE COMMERCIALISED: Decision revealed today

04-03-2004 15:21 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

It was leaked to Greenpeace today that GM Maize is to be commercialised.

Callout to International Mobilization Against the FTAA/bFTA's for April 17

01-03-2004 18:47 | Bio-technology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

This is a callout from the anti-FTAA campaign based in Quito, Ecuador. Recognising that bilateral free trade agreements with the United States have replaced the FTAA as the new and immediate threat for the Andean and Central American nations, we call out for an international network of solidarity to fight neoliberalist politics and mobilize on April 17 international day of peasant struggles

GREENPEACE COWS INVADE SAINSBURYS FLAGSHIP STORE

20-02-2004 16:29 | Bio-technology | London | World

Over 50 Greenpeace volunteers dressed as panto cows invaded Sainsburys in Greenwich today to highlight the use of GM in animal feed by Sainsbury's - and therefore the Scary in the dairy.

VIRTUAL SIT-IN OF BAYER

10-02-2004 12:56 | Bio-technology | Ecology | World

Another day of action against Bayer - from the comfort of your armchair.

World Bio-technology Newswire Archive

A new website against bilateral free trade and investment agreements

Venezuela: Sowing prohibition for GMO

engineered bt soil virus in commercial use

Corporate giants who poison and pollute also control "policy"

Protesting BIO 2004 in San Francisco

Follow up protests on Critical Art Ensemble Arrest

Stop-Inghams-Ge.org: Email In, Fax In and Phone In Day: 28th of May (Tommorow)

56 windows broken in "goodbye" Bayer action

another Bayer Stay Out Action

2 more Bayer actions

GM testing failures.

GREENPEACE STATEMENT ON DEMISE OF GM CROP

BAYER PULLS OUT OF BRITAIN

PHONE BLOCKADE

Undercover Lawyer Exposed At Animal Rights Meeting

gm findings - latest

GM MAIZE COMMERCIALISED: Decision revealed today

Callout to International Mobilization Against the FTAA/bFTA's for April 17

GREENPEACE COWS INVADE SAINSBURYS FLAGSHIP STORE

VIRTUAL SIT-IN OF BAYER

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