GM–site destruction / Blockades (UK)

Submitted by orestis on Παρ, 2007-06-22 10:33

GM–site destruction

-Plugin Not Found. June 2003. Fifty people enter the enclosed compound at Jeolotts Hill Research Station owned by Syngenta and take direct action to remove an entire plot of experimental wheat.

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August 2002. When it was revealed that a GM crop, containing an antibiotic resistant marker gene, had been unlawfully released into the countryside, local people took direct action to remove the threat.

-Plugin Not Found. Just a short look at the amazing and inspiring story of the pink castle erected in a GM field in Dorset in April 2002.

Blockades

-Plugin Not Found. Mad cows invade Canada House to highlight attempts to block the Biosafety Protocol.

-Plugin Not Found. 2002. German chemical giant Bayer finds it's Newbury HQ blockaded, a warning by protesters that buying Aventis Cropscience will make them a major target for action for anti-GM campaigners.

-Plugin Not Found. April 2003. Bayer Cropscience offices in Cambridge are blockade in the second such action against Bayer.

-Plugin Not Found. The cow costumes get another airing as protesters target Sainsburys distribution centers to put pressure on them over GM animal feed. A co-ordinated Earth First! action , there were five simultaneous blockades around the countryon the same day.

-Plugin Not Found. Asda gets an early xmas present. Protesters blockade an Asda distribution centre to send a clear message that the supermarkets must source non GM animal feed.