See below for info on how to attend your local march / protest!
Jack Blood and Friends will be speaking at the Georgia State Capitol today. Jack is speaking @ 3PM EST about the TPP and its not so secret collusion with Monsanto to control the world’s food and consumption! The LIVE STREAM of the GA event will be here: http://new.livestream.com/JamesFromTheInternet/events/2352490
March Against Monsanto Atlanta
October 12, 2013 ‘March Against Monsanto: World Food Day’ planned for Georgia Capitol 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Atlanta, Georgia. (October 12, 2013) – March Against Monsanto has announced that on Saturday, October 12, millions of activists around the world will “March Against Monsanto.” Currently, marches are being planned on six continents, in over 52 countries, totaling events in over 500 cities. In the US, marches are slated to occur in 47 states.
The Atlanta Rally will occur from 1-4 PM Eastern at the Georgia Capitol building. This World Food Day event will kick off the Right to Know GMO Georgia state labeling legislative effort. A number of speakers are scheduled to appear. Musician and health activist, Aviva will sing songs from her new album. Roswell Farmers Market owner Shannon Gowland, Minister Derrick Grayson, filmmaker and sustainable farmer Ebrima Ba, Chef Boyan, Yesterday’s Kitchen for Today’s Marsha Thadison, and Food Supply Rescue Coalition’s Jaye Crawford will speak at the event.
Over 2,000 people are expected to attend the Atlanta event.
Tami Monroe Canal, founder of March Against Monsanto (MAM), says she was inspired to start the movement to protect her two daughters. “I feel Monsanto threatens their generation’s health, fertility and longevity. I couldn’t sit by idly, waiting for someone else to do something.”
An organizer for the march in Atlanta, Sherrie Penn, spoke about the importance of labeling. “Monsanto must be stopped. They cannot be allowed to control the world’s food supply. Every person has the right to know what they are eating. It is the most basic human right. I am involved because someone has to do something, and we must stand together in this effort.”
The March Against Monsanto World Food Day Atlanta event is organized in collaboration with Georgia Activists, the Food Supply Rescue Coalition, and Moms Across America March to Label GMOs in Georgia. Sponsors include Oogave and Free and Equal.
Official website: www.marchagainstmonsantoatl.org
March Against Monsanto
October 12, 2013 ‘March Against Monsanto’ planned for over 50 countries
SEATTLE, WA. (October 12, 2013) – On Oct. 12, millions of activists from around the world will once again March Against Monsanto, calling for the permanent boycott of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and other harmful agro-chemicals. Currently, marches will occur on six continents, in 52 countries,with events in over 400 cities. In the US, solidarity marches are slated to occur in 47 states. A comprehensive list of marches can be accessed at www.march-against-monsanto.com.
Tami Monroe Canal, founder of March Against Monsanto (MAM), was inspired to start the movement to protect her two daughters. “Monsanto’s predatory business and corporate agricultural practices threatens their generation’s health, fertility and longevity. MAM supports a sustainable food production system. We must act now to stop GMOs and harmful pesticides.”
GMOs are not adequately monitored to ensure public safety. Long term, independent, peer reviewed studies were not conducted before GMOs were introduced for human or animal consumption. In the USA, the revolving door between Monsanto employees, government positions, and regulatory authorities has led to key Monsanto figures occupying positions of power at the FDA and EPA. Monsanto has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to obstruct all labeling attempts; they also suppress any research containing results not in their favor. The scientifically established health risks include, but are not limited to: organ damage, sterility, infant mortality, birth defects, auto-immune conditions, allergies and increased cancer risks. GMOs have been partially banned by Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Madeira, New Zealand, Peru, South America, Russia, France, Switzerland and Costa Rico, and are currently labelled in 62 countries. Despite this, factory farm animals throughout the world are still fed GMOs.
Roberta Gogos, organizer for Athens, Greece, addressed the importance of the marches in austerity-impacted Europe. “Monsanto is working very hard to overturn EU regulation on obligatory labeling where enforcement is already lax. Greece is in a precarious position right now, and Greece’s farmers are positioned to follow the same perilous fate as farmers in countries such as Colombia and Mexico.”
Josh Castro, organizer for Quito, Ecuador’s march observes, “Ecuador is such a beautiful place, with the richest biodiversity in the world. We will not allow this Garden of Eden to be compromised by the destructive practices of multinational corporations like Monsanto. Biotechnology is not the solution to world hunger. Agroecology is. Monsanto’s harmful practices are causing soil infertility, mono-cropping, loss of biodiversity, habitat destruction, and contributing to beehive collapse. GMO crops cross pollenate with traditional crops, risking peasant farmers’ livelihood.”
In India, more than 250,000 farmers have committed suicide after Monsanto’s Bt cotton seeds did not perform as promised. Farmers, left in desperate poverty, are opting to free their families of debt by drinking Monsanto pesticide, thereby ending their lives. Many farmers in other countries are also stripped of their livelihood as a result of false promises, seed patenting and meticulous legal action on the part of Monsanto and other big-ag interests. In many parts of Africa, farmers and their communities are left to choose between starving or eating GMOs.
An “Open Letter from World Scientists to All Governments Concerning Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs),” http://www.i-sis.org.uk/list.php, signed by 828 scientists from 84 countries, detailed concern regarding GMOs coupled with a call for immediate 5 year suspension of GMO crops in order to conduct “a comprehensive public enquiry of agriculture and food security for all.”
Supporting links:
The World according to Monsanto
http://covvha.net/?p=613
Total Disinformation Awareness: Monsanto Suppresses Research On GMO Crops
http://bit.ly/1351Fal
Anniversary of a Whistleblowing Hero
http://huff.to/9NJ0lp
GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans
http://bit.ly/11RB8wL
Data Pool of MAM:
http://on.fb.me/17bX7QP
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