UK Indymedia | Leeds Bradford Ecology Newswire Archive

Statement from Mutatoes.org and campaigners against Hull’s GM potato trials

24-04-2007 23:58

On Saturday, over 250 people from around the country attended a rally in Hull in a powerful and vibrant display of resistance to the reintroduction of GM crops to the UK.

Mutatoes Rally - GM Spuds-U-Hate

22-04-2007 22:35

Campaigners from Brighton, Cambridge, Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester and elsewhere rallied on Saturday 21st April 2007 against the planting of GM potatoes in a BASF trial near Hull.

Protestors plant GM trial site with organic potatoes. (press release)

22-04-2007 18:09

People from all over the country are currently planting organic potatoes in the field proposed as a GM potato trial site outside Hull. It is hoped that the donation of safe spuds will prevent the planting of the controversial crop, which threatens the livelihoods of local borage growers and organic farmers.

Anna Lock explained;
“If you want to eat good safe potatoes, you have to plant good safe potatoes. By planting organic potatoes in this field today, the field will be rendered unsuitable for the GM trial. Scientific experiments need controllable variables, tiny organic seed potatoes hidden deep in the ground are a variable controlled only by nature. These seed potatoes will grow and BASF’s experiment will no longer be possible on this site.”

Non GM Potatoes planted at Hedon test site

21-04-2007 14:24

Protesters are planting non-GM potatoes in the field near Hull where BASF intend to trial their GM potato variety. About 100 protesters are spread across the large (several acre) field, with two mounted police and 2 foot police standing by watching - not even filming, for once.

Update: 2 cops on off road motorcycles have entered the field.

The Mutatoes Are Coming !!!

16-04-2007 23:40

Everything you ever wanted to know about Frankenspuds, but were afriad to ask.

@ rampART (www.rampart.co.nr) this Tuesday (17th), 8pm
16 rampart street, london E1 2LA

Films and discussion on GM crops trials in the UK and the previously sucessful campaign to stop them. Plus update on the biotech industries latest attempts to push this shit down our throats.

This month a controversial experimental genetically modified potato crop is due to be planted in the UK by the German chemical giant BASF (offshoot of the infamous AG Farben). The trials are the first GM crops to enter British soil in nearly 3 years, after public opposition forced a u-turn in government and corporate plans for patented crops.

The potato trials are a poorly disguised test of public opposition, so to make sure that opposition is adequately expressed, a national rally is taking place on Sat 21st April. Come along, learn about the history of the anti-GM campaign and find out about transport from London. For more info, contact

rally@mutatoes.org (0113 262 9365) or check out the website www.mutatoes.org

Cambridge GM Crop Trial Location Published

16-04-2007 12:13

Defra have published the 6 figure grid reference for the GM Potato trial site near Cambridge.

It is: TL430627

Climate Chaos Cafe

09-04-2007 16:52

WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL 7pm
‘NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS...
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL’
a response to Channel 4’s Great Global
Warming Swindle by Leeds University
scientist Dr Simon Lewis

GM Crop Trials - Protest

09-04-2007 09:21

The first GM Crop Trials in years are getting underway in Cambridge. This is widely being viewed as a test of public opinion and if we let these trials go ahead with little or no opposition, more GM trials, and eventually commercial growing will be here before we know it. Please come along and support this protest and keep an eye on our (currently very basic) website -

http://www.cambridgeaction.net/gmconcern

I bike MCR bicycle festival and exhibition

23-03-2007 09:50

I bike MCR is an exhibition and festival to celebrate the bicycle, taking place from Friday 30th March to Friday 20th April. It is a grassroots festival that has been organised by cyclists for cyclists. This is the first one but we hope to make it an annual event.

Grrrl bicycle ride

16-03-2007 20:20

Wednesday 11th April
Women's/ Girl's Only Ride meet 7pm at The Basement for a nice social ride on mostly off road routes ending with a beer in a pub!

Weekend of eco practical workshops Common Place 28-29 April

14-03-2007 12:10

LIFE BEYOND OIL
Building future solutions in Leeds
A weekend of practical workshops, debates and fi lms
tackling peak energy and climate change

Manchester Bicycle Exhibition

14-03-2007 08:25

Manchester Bicycle Exhibition. An exhibition of film, photography and sculpture to celebrate the bicycle over car culture. The Basement, 24 Lever St, Manchester M2 (01612371832) Open Tues- Sat 12-6pm, March 30th-April 20th, Free Entry.

documentary: Reclaim Power - voices from the camp for climate action 2006

03-03-2007 18:18

In the summer of 2006, 600 people convinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Climate Action in the shadow of one of the biggest C02 emitters in Europe: Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire / UK. Cine Rebelde produced a documentary film about the camp.

Critical Mass and Fundraising Gig This Friday

21-02-2007 20:59

Friday 23rd February. Meet at 6pm as usual by the central library for a bike ride round our city then to Rampant Lion for benefit gig

Leeds Critical Mass a success

27-01-2007 13:29

45 people rode around Leeds for just under an hour last night, with no police interventions. The largest ride for some years, its hoped that this is the beginning of reversal in the downward trend of recent times.

Bloody report from Ballinaboy/ Rossport, Ireland

19-01-2007 15:13

Report from today, friday of the ongoing protests at Ballinaboy, Mayo. Usual Garda violence etc.

Manchester Bicycle Exhibition

05-01-2007 18:12

Manchester Bicycle Exhibition will be taking place from Friday 30th March to Friday 20th April at The Basement, 24 Lever Street Manchester M1.

LBIA & Vivisection Exports

01-01-2007 21:47

In 2007, we are focusing on the export network of B&K Universal in an aim to cut off
their foreign market. Clients abroad make up approximately 50% of the breeder's
custom and if they were unable to deal with them, B&K Universal would have to close
down. More info can be found at

http://www.narn-online.com/2007

Sabotaged promised as government test public resolve on GM

01-12-2006 12:57

Protesters have pledged to take direct action to sabotage genetically modified crop trials that the government has today given the go ahead for. These trials will be the first GM trials to take place in this country for several years after a sucessful campaign of resistance. The new trial is widely regarded as a test of public resolve before further attempts to introduce genetically modified organisms on a commercial scale to a unwilling public...