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"The whole experience has been tough, but all the kind and strengthening words and wise thoughts from strangers made it much easier!" (Former Swedish Animal Rights Prisoner)

The Tadcaster GM potato trial has been decontaminated, according to the Sunday Mirror!

the local press reports as following:
early friday morning (june 13, 2008) around 35 persons entered the research area ("Forschungsanstalt Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon ART in Zürich Affoltern") close to zurich and destroyed nearly the whole field trial with genetically modified wheat by scything and trampling the plants.

2nd June 2008
NIAB banner hang
Environmental protestors from Earth First! UK today staged a peaceful protest at the laboratory and offices of the National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB), in Girton, Cambridge. About a dozen activists invaded the site and hung banners from buildings in protest at a trial for genetically modified (GM) potatoes being carried out at the Institute by BASF, a German based company.

This film shows the anti-GM demo at BASF. For the report on what happened, and photos, click here.

Video Film of anti-GM action - video/mp4 5.4M

Nature for people - not for business!
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Grassroots Gathering 2008 benefit flierCall-out for GG 2008, June Bank Holiday weekend 30/05/08 to 01/06/08, Dublin

EF! crossed tools 1As if putting the boot into the genetics industry, filling empty spaces with joy & creativity, and fooling the fossil-heads wasn't enough, people have been busy washing lumps of coal and covering themselves with paint...we kid you not...all in aid of halting the trashing of the planet!

Parliaments have been climbed, airport terminals flash(mobb)ed, fields & various other sites occupied, building stormed & blockaded, pipelines blockaded & destroyed...

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At the crack of dawn, Tuesday, 6th May, after a long night of preparation, Earth First! activists from all across England jumped into two vehicles and speed towards south Manchester, dead set on taking some effective action against the ecologically destructive plans of notorious chemical company BASF. There was no desire for symbolic protest, but simple action that hit hard at the one thing they value the most, their pockets.

German tripod against GM fieldTwo GM fields squatted in Germany
The past couple of weeks saw two successful field squats in Germany preventing the sowing of genetically modified crops.

Click here to join the action, join us on March 19th, 2008.

This Nano-Virtual-Sit-In is being performed on the 5th anniversary of the war on Iraq. We have chosen biotech and nanotech corporations and organizations as our targets, because their science is driven by the war and drives the war.

http://bang.calit2.net/5yearsofwar/

Rabbit with spanner & Earth First!The dates of the EF! Summer Gathering have been changed, to work better with other events happening over the summer such as the Saving Iceland protest camp and the Camp for Climate Action.

The new dates are Wednesday 27th August to Monday 1st September 2008.

This should give us all the space to recover & reflect, and to plot & plan onwards and upwards.

On March 7th - International Women's Day - dozens of Brazilian women occupied a research site of the U.S.-based agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, destroying the greenhouse and experimental plots of genetically-modified (GM) corn.