First Belgian meeting of Field Liberation Movement

More info: http://ovl.indymedia.org/news/2010/09/30708.php


Première rencontre belge des Faucheurs Volontaires

Sept 16th 2010, in front of the European Parliament.

Press Release
Movement of Voluntary Field Liberators
 
Today, at the same time as the conference on European GMO free regions at the EU parliament building, a workshop by the Faucheurs Volontairs (Voluntary Field Liberators) took place outside, on the Place du Luxembourg, under the watchful eye of the police.
 
Some sixty people participated, among whom representatives of Voluntary Reapers from different countries, as wel as the Mnister of the Environment for the Brussels region, Evelyne Huytenbroek, who took part in the theoretical and practical training in 'liberating fields' from Genetically Modified crops.
 
This Thursday September 16th at 11h30, corn was planted in the green on the Place du Luxembourg to be harvested by activists wearing protective clothing. Before the practical instructions, field liberators from France, Portugal, Germany, Spain, France, Belgium Holland and Wales explicitly expressed the importance of taking direct non-violent action against the invasion of GM crops in Europe.
 
In fact, the goal of the workshop was to encourage direct action against GM crops in Europe and to share techniques specially adapted to clear fields of GM crops. In spite of strong public resistance against GM food, the EU is actually opening the door to GM crops, giving in to pressure from big biotech multinationals like Monsanto.
 
A field manual was distributed amongst the participants and passers-by hich also served to stimulate people to start new field liberation affinity groups. The manual revealed the location of fields with GM crops in Belgium. Todays' action corresponds with the Greenpeace statement yesterday, exposing the contamination of a conventional corn crop close to Ghent with genes from a nearby GM corn (Mon 810) field experiment, which is authorised and conducted by the regional Flemish authority.
 
Todays' workshop finished with Minister Huytenbroek handling the scythe to chop down the GMO corn (pictures). Finally even the police took part in the exercise, although they had previously surrounded the activists and asked for their ID.
 
Unlike what the industry would like politicians to believe, GM crops do not reduce world hunger and don't help in dealing with climate change. On the contrary, GMO's are at the heart of an agro-industrial system that destroys the livelihood of millions of people and increases use of pesticides, depletion of soils, water pollution and loss of biodiversity.
 
The biotechnology industry aims to dominate the entire food chain. Also in Europe, no independent scientific research of the safety of GM food is being conducted. Meanwhile GM crops in the fields  are  contaminating non-GMO and organic crops.




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[6095jimmy]

Abash the devil stood and witnessed how wicked goodness can be/ stand together as one human race and one world equal for all races. Get it? Life is a gift and there will always be good and evil right and wrong takers and givers of life? I love this world and I know their are more people that are good than evil. I dream of a world united without MONEY and FEAR. Instead a world of peace and love where we can be civilized because it's the right thing to do. I hate no-one I just resent their hate:(

[6095jimmy]

Good wake up world LOVE AND PEACE THAT S ALL YOU NEED NOT MONEY<ECONOMY AND LIES IT S time to give back to the MOTHER mother nature thank you god bless the good always and with that spoken and beleived by enough and then this happens REVOLUTION FREE TRADE OF GOODS AND SERVICES BETTER REGULATIONS MORE RIGHTS FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS FUCK THE RACE CARD THING AND THEN NORMAL LIFE BEGINS PEACE MONEY CAUSES MORE HARM THAN GOOD LOOK into history and all conflicts are fought over land and money resources?

[ValkyriumBE]

Your English? Y u no good???

[Fetanq]

Leer fatsoenlijk engels alvorens dergelijke toespraken in het engels te houden

"Iemand van ons gaat voor 6 maand de gevangenis in". Wat een aanmoediging!

Wetenschap is er voor de vooruitgang van onze aarde en de mensheid! Het zijn apen zoals jullie die alle vooruitgang van de wereld boycotten.

Ik hoop dat jullie allemaal sterven aan kanker!

[SintJanGors]

Een bende mongolen die niet weten waarover ze het hebben, overal samenzweringen zien door de weed en daarom maar wat keet schoppen, echt achterlijk. En dan nog beweren dat ze willen debatteren? Debatteren doe je niet NA een ultimatum te stellen zoals "doe je aardappelen weg of wij doen het", wat je dan nog kan krijgen is een boete, celstraf en een gesloten deur in je neus.

[SintJanGors]

Bende achterlijke hippies, ze hebben gelijk dat GGO's een gevaar KUNNEN zijn, maar omdat GGO maïs in zijn onderzoeksfase infertiliteit veroorzaakt bij muizen betekent nog niet dat de onderzoekers gaan zeggen "voila, klaar, eten maar". En om dan dingen te gaan vernielen zoals in Wetteren is al helemaal ongehoord

[IAmBecauseYouAreToo]

Idioten, weet dat de maatschappij jullie NIET steunt. En net zoals kleine kinderen die hun zin niet krijgen, wat doen jullie: wild rondtrappen, dingen vernielen en dan wat zitten huilen. Ik hoop zo erg dat jullie vervolgd worden!

[RawstarK]

De debielen zijn die, die kritiek geven zonder te weten wat GMO eigenlijk is!!!

[soulonarrival666]

Idioten, Als jullie die dingen niet goedkeuren is jullie zaak, eet of gebruik ze dan ook niet. Maar laat anderen de keuzen dat WEL te doen.

[Bevilos83]

retards!!!