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NO RIGHT FOR CONTAMINATION
Global Ban on GM trees
http://elonmerkki.net/forestforum
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Dear friends
This is now the final and closing message from the Global ban on GM
trees petition campaign.
Great thanks for all supporters and let's keep campaigning for GM tree
free world to continue!
We visited in Montreal UN Biosafety meeting as an campaigner for Global
Ban on GM trees but I was working there also behalf of our
Northern
documentary group Signs of Life - Elonmerkki.net
Here are our video-reports produced on materials taped there,
activities inside and outside the conference.
The most important and effective you could do to help all of us
campaigners to break the wall of silence is: Please inform all TV and
radio-stations in your country about these materials.
Actually there were no TV cameras or journalists following the hot
discussions concerning GMO control.
So, this is unique material which should be interesting for many
stations.
If you cannot promote the video reportage personally but know some
suitable channel for the work, please contact us. This
issue becomes
more actual every day: Is there any relevant control on GMOs or not and
who want the un-control and why? Who sabotaged the UN
biosafety
meeting and how?
We can also send the material on DVD for those who want to support to
pay the bills of the campaign.
Our side event in the meeting was a success. Great thanks for Anne
Peterman and Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher for their excellent
contributions. Also thanks for Anne, video team and David Zuzuki
for
the preview of the interesting video: Silent forests.
I warmly
recommend to get that
video as a tool to stop GM trees in your country!
There was also discussion on the possibilities to arrange for some NGO
activities concerning the risks due to GM trees during the Brazil
meeting. The preparatory working group is chaired by Anne
Petermann --
Anne Petermann Co-Director Global Justice Ecology Project
P.O. Box 412 Hinesburg, VT 05461
+1-802-482-2689 ph/fax
+1-802-578-0477
mobile
globalecology@gmavt.net
<http://kulma.net/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=globalecology%40gmavt.net>>
http://www.globaljusticeecology.org
Please dont hesitate to take contact to Anne if you are interested to
join the STOP GE TREES e-mail forum and /or acting as national contact
person in this resistance network. Let's give all support by our
activity to Anne's coordinating work for success.
Thanks for your support .
I hope to hear your voice in Stop GE trees forum.
Hannu Hyvönen
campaigner and documentarist
Finland
+358408317733
pc We are seeking also promoters for our latest document: Last
yoik in
Sami forest which deals with the extremely hot forest battle in
the
indigenous Sami peoples' area in Northern Lappland.
We believe that the most northern and largest European pine tree
wildernesses will be saved if this document sreads around the world
Look at the two trailers:
the short one:
http://www.elonmerkki.net/last_yoik_trailer.wmv
http://www.elonmerkki.net/last_yoik_trailer.rm
http://www.elonmerkki.net/last_yoik_triler.avi
The longer one:
http://elonmerkki.net/samiforests/last_joikh_trailer.3ivx.mov
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UN MEETING ON BIOSAFETY
Montreal 29th May to 3th June
- videoarchive on the events
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The meeting started with electiricity when Canada, the host of the
conference, denied to give a visa to the Dr. Tewolde, Ethiopian
delegate who is known as one of the leaders of developing countries in
these biosafety negotiations. Finally Dr. Tewolde got the visum and was
welcomed also by all the environmental organisations who were arranging
their opening ceremonies outside the conference office. Look at the
clips of the openings outside and inside of the biosafety meeting.
http://elonmerkki.net/openings.mp4
But why Canada tried to frustrate Dr. Tewolde, what was behind that
conflict? In this 20 minutes interview Dr Tewolde gives some answers
and a glance on global biosafety and biodiversity politics.
http://elonmerkki.net/tewolde.mp4
One of the main issues in this meeting was the identification and
labelling of living genetically modified organisms and specially under
the discussion were the questions around seeds. Environmental and
agricultural non-governemental organisations presented their worries
and examples of contamination during several side events.
http://elonmerkki.net/seeds.mp4
While the national and international mechanisms to control are still
too weak to prevent the contamination, activities in many countries to
create GM free zones are increased. These movements were celebrating
their victories in a side event in Montreal:
http://elonmerkki.net/gm-free-zones.mp4
But besides the control for such GE crops as canola and soya there is
also need to control the transboundary movement of other species of
living organisms such as microbes, fishes and trees, which are
genetically modified.
Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher was speaking about the special risks and
problems on GM trees in the side event arranged by People´s
Biosafety
Association and the Union of Ecoforestry.
http://elonmerkki.net/gm-trees.mp.4
Most of the countries who have signed the Cartagena biosafety protocoll
would like to have strict rules for the control of transboundary
movement s
of genetically modified organisms, but there was also some two
countries who were able block this process. Environmental organisations
expressed their frustration. Clips from the demonstration and comments
by Juan Lopez, Biosafety Coordinator of Friends of Earth International
and Li Lin Lim, researcher from Third World Network.
http://elonmerkki.net/montreal-un-biosafety.mp4
These and other materials documentated in the meeting are available in
full resolution versions for TV- and radio broadcastings and in low
resolution versions for the free use by civil society.
For more information, pleace contact the producers: elonmerkki AT
kulma.net
Signs of Life - Elonmerkki.net
Mediacooperative
Elonmerkki.net is an environmentally orientated network of freelancer
documentarists, graphisists and photographers in Finland. In our
archives you can find lots of materials on forests, farming and
gardening, genetic engineering, seed saving activities, indigenious
people´s issues, ecobuildings etc.
Signs of Life: http://elonmerkki.net, elonmerkki AT
kulma.net
ECOTERRA Intl.