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Police spread missinformation for biotech scum

20-08-2002 15:21

Police correct earlier 'mistake' regarding whether GM protesters had targetted the correct crop for decontamination.

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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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Convoy - Messages to DEFRA

31-07-2002 15:25

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.

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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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Pink Castle Protesters Charged

03-06-2002 12:10

Unwilling to take a police caution, the Littlemoor Four were charged with Aggrevated Trespass (Sec 68, CJA 94) when they appeared at Weymouth police station this sunday.

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Latest news from Castle

16-05-2002 14:06

Four people arrested under Section 68 - aggrivated tresspass.
All taken to weymouth police station.
Other people looked on to another tractor not arrested because it was still on somebody elses field.

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Pink castle needs help!! Planting started

16-05-2002 12:07

GM now being planted at occupied trial site in Dorset.
Six tractors and thirty police. Some protesters locked on.
Pink castle not yet evicted. More poeople needed.
Please come down. Please pass the word.
PHONE 07773 640159 or 07790 306111

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Boots withdraws GM-contaminated product from sale and implements GM-free policy

09-05-2002 17:43

Boots the Chemists, the UK pharmacist and retailer, has withdrawn from sale the last of its food products which contained Genetically Modified (GM) soya.

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Why did the chicken cross the road?

08-05-2002 16:26

Why did the chicken cross the road?
On Tuesday 7th, people dressed as chickens took to the fields to demonstrate their concerns about the safety of GMO's. The free ranging chicks decended on one of the trial sites that has recently been planted with the GM maize variety known as Chardon LL (or T25).

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Pink castle occupation continues

05-05-2002 19:45

11 days into the occupation of a proposed GM field in Dorset and the pink castle is still going strong. Photos and video available.

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GM crop squat 'pink castle' video

29-04-2002 18:13

Video and photos from the dorset crop squat.
Come to the castle - stop the crop.

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GM Action-Pink Castle in Dorset update

26-04-2002 20:31

The Prettiest GM Action continues in Dorset!

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Pink Castles in Dorest GM test site

25-04-2002 15:29

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

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UK Supermarkets United in Continued Opposition to GM Foods and Ingredients

06-01-2002 23:18

UK Supermarkets United in Continued Opposition to GM Foods and Ingredients

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Leeds Mayday Protests

01-05-2001 17:35

the Leeds Mayday protest - the tour of shame!

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GM animal feed protestors shut Sainsbury's depots

22-02-2001 17:08

GM animal feed protestors shut Sainsbury's depots
This morning (22 Feb 2001) at approximately 10:30am protestors have begun blockading Sainsbury's regional distribution centres around the country, preventing them from supplying Sainsbury's supermarkets with GM-fed animal produce because of their failure to follow recent moves by other supermarket chains in announcing a date by which all own-brand animal products will be from animals raised on a GM free diet. These images comes from the protest at Basingstoke - where 4 people were eventually arrested, having locked-on underneath a lorry, blocking the access to the depot.