From t-haas at web.de Fri Jan 13 10:28:14 2006 From: t-haas at web.de (Thorsten Haas) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:28:14 +0100 Subject: [Gen-Streitfall] Exklusive Filmvorfuehrung WE FEED THE WORLD am 15. Januar Message-ID: <002f01c61863$63a626a0$bb01000a@Sams> Hallo, anbei eine Einladung zu einer exklusiven Filmvorführung. Zudem gibt es vom 19.-22.April eine Gentechnik- Aktions- Freizeit in der Ökokommune ÖkoLea bei Strausberg. Im Rahmen des Seminars soll es auch einen Ausflug zu dem Genbauern Piepreck (bekannt von der Gendreck-Weg Aktion) geben. Mitplanen oder mitfahren ist noch möglich > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, liebe Freundinnen und Freunde! > > Der Delphi Filmverleih und die Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft laden Sie > herzlich ein zur exklusiven Sondervorführung des Kinofilms > > WE FEED THE WORLD ? ESSEN GLOBAL > von Erwin Wagenhofer > > AM SONNTAG, DEN 15. JANUAR 2006 > > IM DELPHI FILMPALAST, BERLIN > > > Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 17.15 Uhr mit einer Einführung durch den > Regisseur. > > Nach der Vorführung gibt es gegen 19:30 eine kurze DISKUSSION, durch die > Renate Künast führen wird. > > Im Anschluss besteht bei einem UMTRUNK mit regionalen Spezialitäten die > Möglichkeit zu weiteren Gesprächen. > > > DIESE VERANSTALTUNG IST NICHT ÖFFENTLICH > SIE MÜSSEN SICH DESHALB BITTE UNBEDINGT VORHER ANMELDEN > > > Per email an event at entertainmentkombinat.de > Oder per fax an 030 - 2977 2977 > Telefonische Rückfragen bei Saskia Völmel: 030 - 2977 2932 > > Weitere Informationen: www.essen-global.de und www.we-feed-the-world.at > > > HINTERGRUND: > > Der Dokumentarfilm "we feed the world" setzt sich, fast kommentarlos, mit > der bedrückenden Realität der industriellen Landwirtschaft in Europa und > weltweit auseinander. Er befaßt sich nicht mit "Lebensmittelskandalen", > sondern zeigt ganz alltägliche, dennoch schwer erträgliche Bilder, die > nach Veränderung schreien. Wer ihn gesehen hat, will etwas tun, damit es so > nicht weitergeht. > > In Österreich ist er erfolgreichste Dokumentarfilm seit Jahren. Viele > unterschiedliche Initiativen und Organisationen, die Alternativen zum > alltäglichen Wahnsinn der modernen Lebensmittelproduktion und -vernichtung > entwickeln, beteiligen sich dort daran, ihn bekannt und wirksam zu machen. > Sie nutzen ihn erfolgreich, um neue Mitstreiterinnen und Verbündete zu > finden. > > Damit der Film auch Deutschland eine solche Wirkung entfaltet, möchten wir > den Film am 15.Januar aktiven Menschen zeigen, denen zuzutrauen ist, daß > sie bis zum KINOSTART AM 27. APRIL Ideen realisieren, um die Betroffenheit, > die der Film auslöst, in praktische Veränderung und konkretes Engagement > zu wenden. > > Wir würden uns deshalb freuen, wenn Sie dabei sind. Bitte leiten Sie diese > Einladung auch an diese Zielgruppe möglicherweise aktiver Menschen weiter. > Reine Konsumenten sollten sich noch bis zum Kinostart gedulden. > > Deshalb auch der Aufwand mit den persönlichen Einladungen. > > Wir hoffen, am 15. Januar auch jene zu erreichen, die übers Wochenende zum > Auftakt der Grünen Woche oder aus anderem Anlass von ausserhalb nach Berlin > kommen. Die Nachtzüge ab Bahnhof Zoo (3 Minuten Fußweg vom Delphi) werden > nach der Veranstaltung bequem erreicht. > > _______________________________________________ > Aktionsbuendnis Mailingliste > JPBerlin - Politischer Provider > Aktionsbuendnis at listi.jpberlin.de > http://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/aktionsbuendnis -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit HTML-Daten wurde abgetrennt... URL: From kigwa.ww at web.de Mon Jan 30 21:31:37 2006 From: kigwa.ww at web.de (Wolfgang Wiebecke) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:31:37 +0100 Subject: [Gen-Streitfall] Dringende Infos zu GVO-International / Mais-Aktion der Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft / Wie stehen die Planungen zu den GVO-Protesttagen Message-ID: <43DE77A9.8060003@web.de> Hallo zusammen, in den vergangenen Tagen habe ich einige wesentliche Informationen zu Gentechnik und Protest dagegen bekommen, die ich hiermit weiterleite: Dom of Chevreuse aus Frankreich alter.campagne at laposte.net schrieb heute mit dem Betreff "GMO dates: Feb. 1; April 5, 8", dass die Entscheidung der WTO zum Genstreitfall gegen die EU kurz bevorsteht und sandte einen Aktionsbrief aus den USA sowie die Einladung zur Gentechdemo in Wien am 5. 4. mit: (An dieser Stelle überrascht es mich, dass der Bundesdeutsche 3. 3. nicht erwähnt wird!) Dear All, In case you wouldn't already know about what follows, could you please forward asap these three important pieces of information through your european activists networks? I notably thought of the "GMO-free Regions Conference" participants mailing list (Benny, Harmut). Thank you! Best regards, Dom of Chevreuse ------------ 1/ As you know, there will be a EU-conference in Vienna from April 4th to 6th on co-existence and Austrian NGOs and the Green farmers association are organising a no-to-gmo event (see 1st attachment). The conference will not only be a national event but a European conference and we want to demonstrate that not only Austrian people are opposed to gmo but also others are fighting for gmo-free-regions. Therefore we would like to have anti-gmo-activists and farmers from other countries to come to Austria and join us. I would be very grateful if you could circulate this call throughout your network. I hope that we can mobilize a lot of people from all over Europe to join our event and make a forceful contribution to a GMO-opposition week. (Astrid of Vienna) 2/ Through leaking news, we may be informed THIS week of the WTO decision concerning the USA-EU dispute on GMO trading. A statement of joint organizations of your respective countries could be prepared for a quick reaction to this. A joint european Press Release would be even more efficient, although difficult to set up in such a short amount of time. As an example of what could be done asap, the attached DRAFT will be finalized into a Press Release to be issued by several joint US organizations, as soon as the WTO decision is known (shortly after the 1st of February). (Dom) 3/ A Press Release announcing the Joint International GMOpposition Day (JIGMOD) will be issued beginning of February, presented as an international response to the WTO decision, following the possible related national statements (see 2/). It will contain every anti-GMO event until the 8th of April (i.e.: the 5th of April March, 1/), together with the list of partners (countries and organizations) registered at that time. Before being published, it will be reviewed by international partners. More on: http://altercampagne.free.fr/ (Dom) - - - - - Hier nun die Texte der Anhänge: March for GMO-free regions 5th April 2006 NGO-March towards the EU-Conference "The Freedom of Choice", 4-6.April in Vienna 23rd January 2005 Background: During the Austrian EU-Presidency in the fist six month of 2006 crucial decision for setting the course in the field of genetic engineering (co-existence within the EU, WTO-judgement) will be taken. The EU-conference on "genetically modified, conventional and organic crops", ironically called "The Freedom of Choice" will take place in Vienna from the 4th to the 6th of April 2006. It is envisaged as a conference of experts and politicians aiming at building the frame for coexistence. Reports of the EC-Commission as well as the different member states will be presented at this occasion. As there is a limited number of participants, only very few selected NGOs have been accredited. The NGO-understanding of "Freedom of choice" is different to that of the EU-Commission: Coexistence of GMO and GMO-free agriculture does not work on a small scale level, neither biologically nor economically. There is widespread public concern, that conventional and organically grown crops are successively contaminated by GMO. Therefore the NGOs demand a legal framework, that enables local or regional authorities to declare their territories as GMO-free regions. The "March of GMO-free Regions" is planned as a big action, supported by many NGOs and individuals, to visualize the European-wide resistance against GMO. It is aimed to be a European-wide signal, by offering tangible and easy-to-understand-symbols to the international media as well as through the involvement of active NGOs from the whole Europe. NGOs, politicians, farmers and citizens of the different European countries will march towards the conference, under the banners and signs with the name of their region, country, city or village. They will carry local agricultural products, sometimes their local traditional clothing, symbols against genetic engineering and of our campaign against GMO. The action is organised by a broad network of environmental NGOs, farmers associations and other organisations in Austria together with international NGOs and regional movements against GMO. As we want to symbolize the European regions, we very much rely on NGOs and individuals from all over Europe to take part in this action, whose success could be crucial for the future of GMO-free agriculture in Europe. The NGO´s objectives: Our central demand is our interpretation of the "Freedom of Choice": The Right to declare regions as GMO-free We support the Petition "GMO-free regions and local areas" addressed to the EC-commission, which is already agreed upon, translated in many languages and supported by many provinces, local communities and individual. See: www.gmofree-europe.org We will present the "Vienna Declaration" to the Conference, a brief document with our position towards coexistence and our understanding of GMO-free-region.: The ,,March for GMO free Regions" The day of the "March for GMO-free regions" is the 5th of April, as this is the day, when the EU-conference will be opened by Commissioner Fischer-Boel, Austrian minister Josef Pröll among others. The participants will arrive from the different regions of Europe and meet at 8 o´clock at "Praterstern" in Vienna, a place close to the conference venue, easy to be reached by metro, local trains or buses. From Praterstern we will march towards the Congress centre, a colourful march of people from Regions in Europe that declare themselves as GMO-free. They will carry signs with the name of their region (country, city, village), local agricultural symbols and maybe local traditional clothing, typical peasant products or symbols of campaign against GMO (eg banners). The march will be accompanied by tractors and agricultural machines. At the conference venue there will be will be a stage for speeches from representatives of GMO-free Regions and from organisations fighting GMO. Multilingual moderation and translation will be organised. A cultural program with cabaret and music will warm our hearts, while organic farmers will supply us with GMO-free food. We will address the delegates to the conference and the European media, that will cover the conference. There will be a media briefing the day before and we will also comment on the results. Travel arrangements: Travel arrangements will have to be organised individually by the delegations from the regions and organisations. The organisation in Vienna will provide you with information on cheap accommodations facilities, on how to get to the site and with a set of useful contacts. Support and organisation: The Conference is organised by a platform of NGOs, already including Greenpeace, FoE, Attac, Global2000, farmers associations, Greens and many regional organisations opposing GMO. The platform is supposed to grow quickly and we are approaching the Austrian provinces, that have declared themselves as GMO-free. We are looking for support by the growing number of entrepreneurs offering GMO-free food. Our organisation office is supposed to start its work soon At the moment we are contacting the regions for participation in the march and have already had contacts to NGOs in Germany, Hungary, Italy, France, Poland, and others. What we need from NGOs, regions, individuals all across Europe: ·Please let us know, if and how many people from your region you are expecting to come? ·How you are going to travel? ·Who is the contact person in your organisation/ country/ region? ·Do you propose a cultural contribution and/ or a speech to the program? Contact: Michael Johann, Green farmers association Austria mobile: ++43/ 664/ 2668548, email: michael.johann at aon.at - - - - - und Gene Altered Foods Will Remain a Losing Proposition for U.S. Farmers, Despite WTO Decision A Joint Statement on the Forthcoming WTO Decision in the U.S.--E.U. Gene Food Dispute Early in 2006, the World Trade Organization (WTO) is expected to rule on a Bush Administration challenge to European delays in approving new varieties of genetically engineered (GE) foods and on EU member state bans on certain GE varieties. In anticipation of this ruling, the undersigned U.S. organizations condemn the Bush Administration's aggressive tactics in attempting to force-feed unwanted gene altered varieties to consumers around the world. The Bush Administration claims that European Union delays in granting new GE crop approvals has resulted in lost markets for American farmers. But clearly consumers' preference for non-GE food, and not regulatory issues, are the true engine of the market collapse for American crops. Even before new GE approvals began to slow in the late 1990's, the advent of GE corn resulted in a drop of U.S. corn sales to Europe of more than 50%. Consumers in Europe or elsewhere cannot be forced to buy and eat food that they do not want. Since the United States has no real hope of boosting sales of GE foods to unwilling Europeans, the WTO suit is clearly an effort to chill other nations from pursuing any regulations on GE foods. But increasing scientific study is showing the necessity of rules to guard against the public health and environmental hazards associated with these inadequately tested foods. We support global regulations of GE foods, mandatory labeling, and the right to restrict where GE crops are grown. We support right of nations to regulate GE foods for the welfare of the public and the environment. We note that even in the United States, many counties and states have enacted or are developing regulations of these products in the absence of leadership from the federal government. Regardless of the outcome of the WTO case, consumers in Europe and in much of the world will continue to prefer non-GE food. Indeed a WTO ruling in favor of the United States is sure to generate even more hostility against GE foods. Ultimately American farmers will suffer the most as the Bush Administration's arrogant stance on GE food increasingly alienates our food trading partners. South Korea was once the number two buyer of U.S. corn but now buys non-GE corn elsewhere, and China looks to Brazil for non-GE soy. While Europe and much of the rest of the world, including Australia, Japan, Korea, China and several other countries have mandatory safety assessment rules for approval of GE food, and mandatory labeling to insure consumer choice, in the U.S. deregulated GE foods are sold without labels to unwitting Americans. The Bush Administration should stop threatening free choice and food safety through contentious international trade disputes, and instead start working to provide Americans with the same protections for safe food choices that European and other governments around the world have established. In a similar WTO case, the U.S. prevailed against Europe's ban on hormone-treated U.S. beef. Yet while the U.S. "won" the beef-hormone dispute in 1999, Europe has still not opened its markets to U.S. beef. The beef hormone and GE food cases show that in a global market, the U.S. will have more success selling its agricultural products by focusing on providing food that global consumers want to buy, rather than trying to shove whatever farmers produce down foreign throats regardless of consumer demand. We regret the course the Administration has taken in pursuing this global food fight, and suggest that the interests of Monsanto and other GE crop producers should no longer dictate our policies on food trade or food production. Instead, policy should be aimed toward providing Americans and our export customers with the kind of safe, healthy, sustainably-produced food that they want to eat. Regardless of the outcome of the decision of the U.S. case at the WTO, the global battle over GE food will only end when the Administration learns the basic economic lesson, "the customer is always right." Center for Food Safety Washington, DC Consumers Policy Institute, Consumers Union Yonkers, NY Organic Consumers Association Little Marais, MN Oakland Institute Oakland, CA Western Organization of Resource Councils Billings, MT Institute for Social Ecology Plainfield, VT Occidental Arts & Ecology Center Occidental, CA Friends of the Earth USA Washington, DC Food & Water Watch Washington, DC Partnership for the Land and Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples Shepherdstown, WV Sustainable Living Systems/Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Corvallis, MT *********************** coordination at genet-info.org berichtete heute (wie auch andere) von einem Treffen bezüglich Terminator-Technologie in Granada, Spanien, demzufolge für die Terminatortechnologie die Weichen noch intensiver gestellt wurden, hier nur der Beginn des Textes: RE: Moratorium on Terminator Technology reaffirmed, but with qualifications The fourth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity met in Granada, Spain from 23-27 January. On the final day of the meeting, the Working Group finalized its recommendation on GURTs (popularly known as Terminator Technologies), which will be forwarded to the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), to be held in March 2006. ************************** Ähnlich lautet es bei GMWatch: 1.UN Meeting Undermines Moratorium on Terminator: Goal to Approve Terminator is Now Clear January 28, 2006 http://www.banterminator.org/news_updates/news_updates/un_meeting_undermines_moratorium_on_terminator_goal_to_approve_terminator_is_now_clear ETC Group Ban Terminator Campaign News Release 27 January 2006 http://www.etcgroup.org http://www.banterminator.org Granada's Grim Sowers Plow up Moratorium on Terminator, Clear the Path for its Approval at UN Terminator Opponents Prepare for Battle at COP8 in Curitiba, Brazil March 20-31, 2006 ********************** In diesem Sinn will ich nun doch auch - wenn auch verspätet - auf die schöne, bei der Grünen Woche gestartete Aktion hinweisen, die der DNR weitergeleitet hat mit dem Link http://www.telepolis.de/r4/artikel/21/21819/1.html demzufolge die Möglichkeit besteht, auf eigenem Land (ab 1/2 m²) die freie Maissorte Bantam zu säen, erhältlich bei der Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft, um damit Auskunftsrechte bei Behörden bezüglich GVO-Anbau bekommen und auf Schadensersatz klagen zu können. (Hierauf weist auch der Informationsdienst Gentechnik hin.) ********************* LAST NOT LEAST LIEGEN MIR BIS HEUTE NOCH KEINE INFORMATIONEN ZUR PLANUNG DES 3. 3. UND DES 8. 4. IN DEUTSCHLAND VOR. NUR EIN TELEFONISCHER HINWEIS HAT MICH ERREICHT, DASS AM 7. 4. EINE KOMPETENTE INITIATIVE MONSANTO IN DÜSSELDORF BESUCHEN WILL, JEDOCH OHNE NÄHERE INFOS. (VIELLEICHT SIND MAL WIEDER MAILS VERLOREN GEGANGEN???) ICH BITTE DRINGEND UM ENTSPRECHENDE HINWEISE UND GGF. INFORMATIONEN, DA DIE AKTIVEN IN WUPPERTAL (WIE WOHL AUCH IN ZAHLREICHEN ANDEREN STÄDTEN) SICH BESTENFALLS EINER AKTION ANSCHLIESSEN, JEDOCH AUFGRUND DER KONZENTRATION AUF ANDERE THEMEN (BOLKESTEINRICHTLINIE ETC.) KEINE EIGENE INITIATIVE ERGREIFEN KÖNNTEN! Mit friedlichem Gruß Wolfgang Wiebecke Dr. Wolfgang Wiebecke Agrargruppe von attac-Wtal Meckelstr. 9 42285 Wuppertal Tel/FAX: 0202-6480966