News In Brief...
* USA ELF ! A Delta & Pine Land Co. warehouse in Visalia, California storing massive quantities of Monsanto transgenic cotton seed was torched on Feb 20th . Also tree spiking and survey stake pulling was reported in the Hardesty Wilderness Area in the Umpqua National Forest.
* A noise demo was held at Wakefield prison on Feb 25th in support of framed prisoner Mark Barnsley. Another is planned soon see diary.
* Direct Action Network (DAN) North East captured a Nexus Care Bus in Dec to highlight how unfair that form of transport is for disabled people. Police had to use bolt cutters to drag two Danners out, but one was handcuffed under the bus, out of the bolt-cutters reach. 0191 482 4425.
* Leafleting and picketing took place at a GAP store in Norwich on Mar 10th , highlighting the low pay and abysmal conditions in GAP’s factories.
* On Dec 4th 5 Yorkshire anti-GE activist were found guilty of criminal damage to an Aventis oil seed rape trial and each ordered to pay £300 costs. However the Liverpool magistrate expressed sympathy with the activists and refused to award Aventis compensation. Sfgordon@hotmail.com
* A new website documenting the campaign against the Newbury bypass www.geocities.com/newburybypass is now online. The road is open but locals remain active, campaigning against vodaphone and other in-fill developments. 07000 206 181 also www.newburyproject.org.uk
* Bosnia recently rejected US ‘aid’, in the form of 40,000 tons of GM corn for animal feed, due to fears of health risks. rjvint@globalnet.co.uk
* The John Lewis Partnership announced it was ending the killing of pheasants by staff on its shooting estate in Hampshire after protests had taken place up & down the country.
* New European laws will open the floodgates to GM food and crops. A new directive, backed by the Government, ends a 3-year moratorium on granting licences for their commercial development thus making it illegal to ban commercial planting unless serious and justified concerns over impacts can be demonstrated. The effect of new laws is not likely to be felt for 2 years. Source: Observer Feb 11th .