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Keywords
Actions and protests
Day
Food
Genetic engineering
Government buildings
Greenpeace activists
KWCI (GPI)
Large group of people
Maize
Outdoors
SAGE (campaign title)
Street theatre actions
Theatrical costumes
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Genetic Engineering Action in front of WTO Headquarters
Greenpeace volunteers dressed as Uncle Sam dump GE maize on other volunteers representing consumers in straitjackets, suffocating their demand for the right to say no to GE food. The activists replaced the insignia of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva with a new sign "World Transgenic Order", denouncing the WTO for promoting corporate interests of the genetic engineering (GE) industry.
In original language:
Gentechnik-Aktion vor der WTO-Hauptsitz
Greenpeace-AktivistInnen haben heute vor dem Hauptsitz der Welthandelsorganisation WTO gegen die Gentech-Zwängerei der USA protestiert. Hintergrund ist die Tagung des WTO-Schiedsgerichtes, das möglicherweise die US-Klage gegen das faktische Gentech-Moratorium der EU traktandiert.
40 Greenpeace-AktivistInnen aus sieben verschiedenen Ländern haben am WTO-Hauptsitz in Genf die Firmenschilder der World Trade Organisation durch «World Transgenic Order» ersetzt. Als Uncle Sams verkleidete AktivistInnen steckten andere mit der Aufschrift «The Right to say no!» in Zwangsjacken und überschütteten sie mit US-«Gentech»Mais. Greenpeace protestiert damit gegen die Gentech-Zwängerei der USA. «Die WTO wird von den USA eingespannt, um KonsumentInnen Gentech-Food aufzuzwingen. Die Absicht der US-Beschwerde ist eine Unterminierung von legitimen, demokratisch beschlossenen Gesetzgebungen zum Schutz vor möglichen negativen Auswirkungen genmanipulierter Organismen (GMO). Die USA wollen der Welt damit drohen, dass jede gesetzliche Regulierung von GMO Handelssanktionen nach sich ziehen kann», sagt Greenpeace-Gentech-Experte Bruno Heinzer.
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Unique identifier:
GP01T4I
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
21/07/2003
Locations:
Europe, East Europe, Alpine Countries
,
Geneva
,
Switzerland
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Ex-Press / David Adair
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Genetic Engineering Action at the WTO Headquarters in Geneva Switzerland
Forty Greenpeace activists from seven different countries have protested today in front of the headquarters of the World Trade Organization during a WTO meeting. The protest is against the fact that genetic engineering is forced upon consumers by the U.S.
Greenpeace volunteers dressed as Uncle Sam dump GE maize on other volunteers representing consumers in straitjackets, suffocating their demand for the right to say no to GE food. The activists replaced the insignia of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) headquarters in Geneva with a new sign "World Transgenic Order", denouncing the WTO for promoting corporate interests of the genetic engineering (GE) industry. "The WTO is used by the U.S. to force GE food upon consumers. The intention of the U.S. complaint is an undermining of legitimate, democratically adopted laws to protect people against possible adverse effects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)", says Greenpeace genetic engineering expert Bruno Heinzer.
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