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Antibiotic Resistance Is Fertile

30-08-2002 20:31

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Video of the attempt to decontaminate an illegal crop of antibiotic resistant GM oilseed rape from a field in Dorset on 18th August.

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Bayer in GM Crop Contamination Scandals

26-08-2002 13:28

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.

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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

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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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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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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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New GM trials announced

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.

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ENERGY=BIOMASS

05-05-2001 10:46

Fossil energy supports both our human population growth and our manic 'consumer' lifestyles

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PR GIANT WITH DODGY REPUTATION TO LINK WITH LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

29-03-2001 11:25

Leeds Students Campaign against PR Company Involvement in the College
Burson-Marsteller is the world's largest PR network, whose past and present clients include fascist Argentina, Nicolae Ceaucescu, Monsanto, MacDonalds and the World Bank. Now they plan to get involved in running Leeds Metropolitan University