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  Press Release in Support of French Anti-GMO Activists – Let’s Destroy GMOs and Cultivate Biodiversity!

  22 October 2008, by La Via Campesina

  (Matola, 22 October 2008)The 600 delegates of Via Campesina gathered in Matola, Mozambique for the Vth Conference of the international peasant movement express their support for the 12 anti-GMO activists who were sentenced today by a court in Bourdeaux (France) to three months in prison with (...)

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  Open letter CPE-COAG / marketing of seeds/ EU legislation

  25 March 2008, by COAG, CPE

  Open letter of the European Farmers Coordination (CPE) and of COAG (Coordinadora de las Organizaciones de Agricultores y Ganaderos – Spain) on the consultation on the European legislation concerning the marketing of seeds.
  Is it really a democratic consultation?
  A private consultancy has been (...)

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  The genetically modified rice should be immediately withdrawn from the greek market

  26 October 2006, by Greek Net for an Alternative Agricultural Policy

  The genetically modified rice should be immediately withdrawn from the greek market
  The country must be declared free area from GMO
  The Protocol on Biosafety must be immediately applied 1. The exposure of illegal import of genetically modified rice in the Greek market, as (...)

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  Free José Bové

  16 October 2005, by Collective

  English presentation of the petition borrowed from Susan George website. For the text of the petition, see the French version of this document (click “translation” on the left side), or the url indicated above.
  José Bové has once more been sentenced to four months in prison for uprooting (...)

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  Inf’OGM : Presentation of our organisation

  21 September 2005, by Inf’OGM

  Self-presentation taken from the association’s website, September 21, 2005.
  I. General presentation
  Inf’OGM is a non-profit organisation, created in 1999 in order to establish a francophone citizen watch on the GMO issue.
  It deals with all GMO related current news in the world, and publishes (...)

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  Defend The Right To Not Eat GMOs

  12 July 2005, by McGIFFEN Steve

  Spectrezine editor Steve McGiffen, who was also adviser to the European Parliament’s United Left Group (GUE/NGL) at the time that the package of laws currently governing the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the EU was adopted, calls for a campaign to (...)

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  “There is no other issue” against the GMOs

  3 February 1998, by BOVÉ José

  Following is a statement by Jose Bove, French farmer and unionist, to a French court during a trial on charges of destroying genetically modified maize. Bove is best known for actions against the McDonaldization of food.
  The strength of our union movement rests on this determination to (...)