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Dorset GM protest photos

19-08-2002 14:23

14 anti-GM activists were arrested for trying to remove an illegal GM crop.

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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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GM trials cancelled!

15-08-2002 23:13

The governments GM trials have been abandoned after major GM contamination was revealed. Parties to celebrate will be held on existing trial sites around the country.

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Movie - GM dumped at DEFRA

02-08-2002 09:34

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The mainstream media pretty much ignored it, 200 people from all over the country, 17 trial sites trashed, and dozens and dozens of stinking bags of GM plants dumped on DEFRAs door step. See the video...

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GM Crop Trashed In Wivenhoe

01-08-2002 12:14

12 local campaigners have last night decontaminated a field of GM maize in wivenhoe. Arond 12:30 last night the group started a night of direct action which resulted in a large proportion of the farm scale trial destroyed and the governments GM policy in taters

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GMO Catch 22

31-07-2002 19:30

How the Biotech corporations, the World Bank, charities and governmental organisations contrive to continue the suffering of the starving and destitute of the poorest nations, and would have us believe we're offering aid

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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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Press release: Direct activists will deliver barrow-loads of GM crops that have

24-07-2002 10:32

At 8.30 a.m. this morning at a press conference in Oxford, direct activists said that they will be delivering wheel barrows full of GM crops from trial sites around Britain to the Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural (DEFRA) in Smiths Square, London at 2 p.m.[1] The activists are responding to the Governments call for a public consultation into the commercial growing of GM crops in Britain following GM crop trials[2].

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Anti-GM convoy heads to London

22-07-2002 22:27

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)

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Stop GM Crop Commercialisation

22-07-2002 15:46

We are nearing the end of the GM farm scale crop trials which have been contaminating our countryside during the last three years. As the government announce a public consultation on the commercialisation of GM crops in Britain, let¹s tell them what we think!
This event may well be more fun than it sounds!!!!!!

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GM maize destroyed in cheshire!

21-07-2002 07:15

Genetically modified maize damaged in cheshire.
Nine people arrested and charged with criminal damage.

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Danger if GM Digested.

17-07-2002 19:37

Research has identified a bacterium's transformation from a harmless gut homebody to a menacing invader.

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Surprise surprise : GM genes digested !

17-07-2002 12:52

"Industry, science and government advisers have always played down the risk of this happening and here, at the very first attempt by scientists to look for it, they find it," said Adrian Bebb, GM foods campaigner.

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Report from Essex GM crops protest

08-07-2002 19:37

Report from Essex GM crops protest
Local protesters stage carnival and March against GM crops.

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bayerhazard.com

08-07-2002 10:41

Updated website focusing on Bayer Cropscience whose crops are being grown on over 85% of GM field trials planted in the UK in 2002

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GM Crops - Tony Blair's "Poll Tax"?

07-07-2002 22:11

Genetically modified (GM) crops and food are threatening to become Tony Blair’s "poll-tax" - with some ministers reportedly warning him that any attempt to impose the commercialisation of GM crops would lead to "civil unrest".