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Photos from Bio-Diesel Expo banner demo

18-10-2007 21:53

gates were closed as soon as we arrived
During the bio-fuels expo at Newark Showground there were sucessful direct action and banner protests. Some photos of the banner protest are below.

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Campaigner in Court After Final GM Crop Trashing

16-10-2007 21:38

Campaigner Martin Shaw, 43, will be in Cambridge Magistrate's Court at 10 a.m. wednesday morning facing charges of criminal damage. He was arrested while trying to destroy a GM test crop.
This was the only crop of GM potatoes being grown in the UK by chemicals giant BASF. The crop was destroyed subsequently, by persons unknown at night-time.

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2004 Reclaim the Commons video

08-10-2007 06:19

3 days in San Francisco

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Biofuelwatch talk at the Sumac Centre, Nottingham

27-09-2007 13:59

Audio
The Biofuelwatch talk at the Sumac Centre served as an introduction to the issues surrounding biofuels. There followed a discussion of possible protest options for the Biofuels Media Ltd conference.

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Movimento Verde Eufémia mows first GM Field in South Portugal

26-08-2007 16:23

The Mowing
On the 17th of August the “Movimento Verde Eufémia” went into action of civil disobedience, targeting the first transgenic field in the Algarve GMO Free Zone in South Portugal. 65 mowers entered the field and were able to mow a hectare of GM corn in less than 20 minutes. The action received support from a parade of an extra 60 people.

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New Earth First! Action Update OUT NOW!

09-08-2007 16:28

The printed EF! Action Update is back again! After a bit of a lull a new editorial collective is in place and ready to roll. We have just produced a summer edition in time for the Camp for Climate Action, where you can pick up printed copies.

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Foot in Mouth : Porton Down - as biosecure as Pirbright

09-08-2007 10:26

News-Medical.Net reports that the two Pirbright labs have the same level of security as the germ warfare defence establishment at Porton Down on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.

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Brazil, Paraná: Syngenta's GMO alert!

01-08-2007 12:36

The farm is located in the band of ecological protection of the National Park of Iguaçu. "In case that it begins again to be used as field of tests toward research with GMOS, it will demonstrate that the Swiss company really wants to make, at Paraná, what it would never make in the Swiss city of Basel, headquarters of the company" affirmed Silveira.

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GM killed my planet.... rampART tonight

26-07-2007 10:51

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

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Teddy bears Picnic

17-07-2007 17:36

Video
5 minute video of protest picnic and demonstration against t the GM Potato trials taking place in Girton, Cambridgeshire July 2007.

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Anticivilization gathering 2007

16-07-2007 18:29

First draft of Programme for the 07 Anticivilization gathering

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GM Crop Trashing in Local Press

09-07-2007 18:05

The local paper in Cambridge has run an article on the crop trashing which happened just outside the city over the weekend.

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Protesters decontaminate the UK's last remaining GM potato trial.

07-07-2007 11:21

During the night of Friday 6th July, a group of activists converged on Britain's last remaining GM trial site just outside Cambridge. They scaled the security fences and destroyed the crop of genetically modified potatoes.

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More pics from the picnic

04-07-2007 21:20

Laurel and Hardy were on hand to provide some entertainment
A few more pictures from the anti-GM spuds demo last Sunday, mainly for entertainment value.

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GM protester court news

03-07-2007 18:15

Two protesters were in court this morning having been arrested on Sunday during protests at the site of the UK's only GM trial - potatoes.

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Agrofuels - time for a reality check

03-07-2007 14:36

The rush for ‘biofuels’ is already causing serious damage. Far from being sustainable, the spread of what are more accurately called ‘agrofuels’ – liquid fuels produced from biomass grown in large-scale monocultures – is compromising biodiversity and fuelling human rights violations. The argument that these ‘biofuels’ will mitigate climate change is unproven – indeed, the destruction of rainforests, peatlands and other ecosystems to make way for agrofuel plantations will accelerate global warming.

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GM Potato Protesters in Court in Cambridge

02-07-2007 10:07

Two people were arrested yesterday at the GM Potato Protest in between Histon and Girton. They will be appearing at Cambridge Magistrates Court, which is now at 43 Hauxton Road, Trumpington, at 9:30 tomorrow (Tuesday 3rd July) morning.

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Cambridge GM potato field picnic

02-07-2007 00:26

Video Menace in the graveyard at the start point
Not entirely successful action against genetically modified potato crop. Well the picnic right next to the site was successful but the crop remains intact and is nearly ready for lifting.

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Arrested! anti-GM protest pics

01-07-2007 22:32

who says the young arn't interested in politics
Sunday July 1st. Anti-GM campaigns take protest direct to test site in Girton near Cambridge. One protester is arrested scaling the fence erected to protect the GM potato crop and another is arrested later on for alleged criminal damage.