Rostock, Global Agricultural day of action

Video Rush of the anti GM March, 03/06/2007; part of the G8 protests — for full cov­er­age, see indymedia.org.uk

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Rostock agriculture demo 2Rostock agriculture demo 1Rostock agriculture demo 3Video Rush of the anti GM March, 03/06/2007; part of the G8 protests — for full cov­er­age, see indymedia.org.uk

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Ros­tock Sun­day. Glob­al Agri­cul­tur­al day of action.

Despite its claims to the con­trary the G8 has done bug­ger all to alle­vi­ate star­va­tion in the world. In fact the num­ber of peo­ple starv­ing in the world is now at an all time high. Sun­day was the day nom­i­nat­ed to draw atten­tion to all things unfair in the world of agri­cul­ture so a rov­ing demo toured the town to tack­le the issues

It has to be said that fol­low­ing Sat­ur­days car­nage this decid­ed­ly fluffy affair was a wel­come assign­ment. There was a band on a float which sound­ed like a cross between Orbital and the Lev­ellers, also a Sam­ba band and oth­er assort­ed drum­mers and musi­cians. As well as the usu­al activists sev­er­al farm­ers from Ger­many and around the world were in atten­dance rais­ing aware­ness about every­thing from GM crops and live­stock to exploita­tion, pol­lu­tion and cor­rupt sub­si­dies.

One port of call was Lidl whose crimes include low pay, non recog­ni­tion of unions, pro­mot­ing GM and sell­ing shit food. Speech­es were made here and at sev­er­al oth­er loca­tions.

Despite the obvi­ous fact that this demo was going to be less con­fronta­tion­al than a sit-in by the Hare Krish­nas, two hun­dred cops in full riot gear were in atten­dance. This gives the impres­sion that their Polic­ing is not what you would describe as ‘intel­li­gence led’. With noth­ing else to do they kept them­selves occu­pied by search­ing any­one under the age of 30 who was wear­ing an item of black cloth­ing. No arrests were made.

The demo fin­ished with more speech­es in the square with plen­ty of inter­est­ing facts and fig­ures. One exam­ple is that milk pro­duc­ing EU cows are sub­sidised for two dol­lars a day. Mean­while starv­ing Africans? One dol­lar a day!