Anti GMO demo in Poland

Anti GMO March Across Europe and solidarity demonstrations in Poland

A 1,000 kilometre march from Berlin to Brussles to highlight the demand for a world-wide ban of GMO reached Brussles on 30th July. This sparked off a whole series of solidarity demonstrations in Poland which Fundacja ICPPC coordinated.

Symbolic support-protests sprung up in 17 cities in different Provinces of Poland, where co-ordinators – who they had trained at their eco-centre in Styszow – and members of the Coalition for a GMO Free Poland were very active.

Media followed and recorded marches to town halls where petitions were handed in demanding that Poland support a general ban of GMO across Europe, also putting pressure on the Polish government to ban the GM maize MON 810 and not to sell-out to the biotech industry and European Union.

Jadwiga Lopata and Julian Rose staged a protest in Krakow with other local activists. In temperatures of plus 32% centigrade a lively march set off to the town hall attracting considerable interest en route. Krakow is the seat of a number of biotechnology institutes that have a strong influence on government policy, but the board of the town council signed Krakow up to being a “GMO Free Zone” in 2005.

More photos from Krakow on: http://icppc.freshsite.pl/projekt/?page_id=419