17-11-2003 13:17
Contributors wanted for GM film
Contributors are being sought for a film about the last six or seven years worth of campaigning against the introduction of genetically modified crops. If you have video footage of demonstrations, protests, office occupations or direct action, please let us know. We are also seeking people who have a specific personal involvement in the campaign in some way and are willing to be interviewed for the film.
10-11-2003 16:18
Farmers, campaigners and consumers travelled from all over the UK to converge on London on the 13th October to express their opposition to the governments plans to allow the commerciallisation of genetically modified crops.
In the days running up to the event, 'pilgrims' traveled from as far afield as Wales, Cornwall and Scotland and visited significant 'bio-threat' locations such as Cambridge, Newbury, Weymouth and Oxford.
Video of Tractors & Trollies
Farmers, campaigners and consumers travelled from all over the UK to converge on London on the 13th October to express their opposition to the governments plans to allow the commerciallisation of genetically modified crops. In the days running up to the event, 'pilgrims' traveled from as far afield as Wales, Cornwall and Scotland and visited significant 'bio-threat' locations such as Cambridge, Newbury, Weymouth and Oxford.
11-10-2003 10:30
GENETIC MODIFICATION - FOOD FACTS REVEALED
The following article is intended to give a brief introduction to this hot topic. While much of the GM controversy at present is centred on 'environmental' concerns, and with good reason, there is an equally important question to GM food crops: whether they are safe to eat or not. If they were safe and wholesome, then 'cross-contamination' from GM crops might be slightly less of a serious problem. The article does not detail the obvious hazards of growing GM crops which create pharmaceuticals (causing problems in the US), nor the complex changes to EU regulations now in the pipeline but still widely regarded as dysfunctional.
09-10-2003 19:08
Jonny Barton reaches Sheffield
Jonny Barton reached the steps of Sheffield Town Hall at 6.15 pm Thursday, October 9th.
03-10-2003 16:34
Anti-GM activists cycle through to Sheffield en-route for London event.
Anti-GM bike pilgrimage comes through Sheffield
Anti-GM activists cycle through to Sheffield en-route for London event.
30-09-2003 00:33
Jonny states:
My reasons for doing this green pilgrimage are several:
I am publicly showing my support for a sustainable and GM-Free Britain along with many in Scotland and the rest of the British Isles who want the same,whether or not they are travelling to London like me;
I am joining in the national mass rally in London on the 13th of October but on the way am visiting communities and public places to raise awareness of the Green Gloves Pledge to take direct action if the GM crops are legalised this year in the UK;
Thirdly this journey is a celebration of the success of the anti-GM campaign by ordinary people in Britain.
Tractors and Trolleys against GM: Jonnys cycling tour from Munlochy to London
Jonny is cycling from Munlochy to London pulling a coffin on a trailer. This is to represent the death of consumer choice should GM crops be grown in this country. Please come along to give him a good send-off and accompany him by bicycle to Inverness, where they are due to depart from Inverness High Street at 1pm.Jonny states:
My reasons for doing this green pilgrimage are several:
I am publicly showing my support for a sustainable and GM-Free Britain along with many in Scotland and the rest of the British Isles who want the same,whether or not they are travelling to London like me;
I am joining in the national mass rally in London on the 13th of October but on the way am visiting communities and public places to raise awareness of the Green Gloves Pledge to take direct action if the GM crops are legalised this year in the UK;
Thirdly this journey is a celebration of the success of the anti-GM campaign by ordinary people in Britain.
28-09-2003 17:23
Bayer back out of GM trials
Bayer beginning to back out of GM?
18-07-2003 16:22
On 7th of june, the second "Frock On" Festival took place in Glasgow.
See:
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/2003/06/273081.html and
http://www.frockon.org for more info.
At this event several campaigns were having stalls and handing out information.
Here is an interview with an anti-gm protester.
Anti-gm audio interview from FrockOn festival, Glasgow, 7th of june 2003
On 7th of june, the second "Frock On" Festival took place in Glasgow. See:
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/2003/06/273081.html and http://www.frockon.org for more info. At this event several campaigns were having stalls and handing out information.
Here is an interview with an anti-gm protester.
08-06-2003 12:32
Friarton 4 GM Protestors Freed
Friarton 4 GM crop protestors go free.
19-05-2003 17:44
Protesters destroy last Scottish GM-crop field
Protesters destroy last Scottish GM-crop field
29-03-2003 09:01
GM protest trio win their appeal
A LEADING environmentalist has won an appeal against a criminal conviction for his part in a GM crop protest. Mark Ballard, 31, the national secretary of the Scottish Green Party and a Scottish Parliament candidate, was fined £125 after a trial in 2001.
25-11-2002 17:45
Biotechnology Newswire Nov 25
The following stories and events were posted to the www.neRAGE.org on the biotechnology newswire over the last 7 days. You too can post, comment, and search for some of the latest information on biotechnology. Stop by, add your stories, read, add events to our calendar and more!
13-11-2002 19:18
Scots say no to GMO
Bayer CropScience introduce Frankenstein food tests to the delicate eco-balance of the pristine Black Isle.
31-07-2002 16:25
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.
Convoy - Messages to DEFRA
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.
24-07-2002 11:32
Press release: Direct activists will deliver barrow-loads of GM crops that have
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].
08-05-2002 10:37
Scottish parliament could of stopped GM trials
Finnie had power to stop GM trials, say protestors
26-03-2002 20:29
Munlochy GM vigil in Scottish Parliament
On Wednesday 27 March the Munlochy GM vigil petition, calling for an end to GM trials, will be presented in the Scottish Parliament.
01-09-2001 19:01
Eleven arrests as protest over GM rocks Highlands
Campaigners lie down in front of tractor But GM planting goes ahead on the Black Isle, North Scotland...
16-04-2001 14:16
by the US corporate giants of genetic modification
such as Monsanto are being pushed into Scotland's
schools by Scottish Enterprise, with the
enthusiastic backing of the schools watchdog HM
Inspectorate of Education.
Fury at pro-GM school magazines
MORE than 140,000 glossy brochures sponsoredby the US corporate giants of genetic modification
such as Monsanto are being pushed into Scotland's
schools by Scottish Enterprise, with the
enthusiastic backing of the schools watchdog HM
Inspectorate of Education.
