The Demonstration
For biological diversity – regional, fair and GMO-free!
Since May 12th representatives from more than 190 countries around the world have been guests in Germany, negotiating about species extinction and genetic engineering, the control of seeds, over protected areas and agricultural diversity. These are questions of survival.
We were more than 6000 people on Whit Monday, the 12th of May, to demonstrate at the site of the negotiations:
- for the human right to adequate, diverse and healthy food – against the misuse of agriculture for agro-fuel, and other raw materials for international speculation;
- for the right of consumers and farmers to decide – against genetic experiments with our food and our environment;
- for the free exchange of seeds and agricultural know-how – against patents on life forms and bio-piracy;
- for the preservation of regional diversity – against agro-industrial monocultures and the worldwide death of farmers;
- for biological diversity – regional, fair and GMO-free!
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Demonstration Programme
10:00 Music
11:00 - 11:40 
Maya Graf (Moderation), National Councillor, Switzerland: Welcome
11:05 Dorothee Lindenkamp, peasant woman, Germany
11:10 Ibolya Tamás és Gedó, European Seeds Network, Hungary
11:20 Vieira Gentil Couto, La Via Campesina, Landless Workers Movement (MST), Brazil
11:30 Percy Schmeiser, farmer sued by Monsanto, Canada
11:45 Demonstration starts – 12:00 Hotel Maritim, CBD Negociations venue
12:00 - 13:00 Maya Graf (Moderation), National Councillor, Switzerland
12:05 Ulrich Kelber, Social Democratic Party, Member of Parliament, Germany
12:10 Hubert Weiger, BUND (Friends of the Earth), Germany
Read the speech of Prof. Dr. Hubert Weiger
12:15 Claudia Warning, VENRO, Germany
12:20 Music
12:25 Lamine Biaye, Association Sénégalaise de Producteurs de Semences Paysannes, Sénégal and Mamadou Lamine Coulibaly, CNOP Mali
12:35 Nicolas Supiot, Réseau Semences Paysannes, France
12:45 Music
13:00 F.-W. Graefe zu Baringdorf, The Greens & AbL, Member of the European Parliament, Germany
13:15 – Back to Rheinaue
13:30 Benny Haerlin (Moderation), Save our Seeds, Germany
13:35 Susanne Mähne, Liberators of fields, Germany
13:40 Farida Akhter, Ubinig, Bangladesh
13:50 Vandana Shiva, Navdanya Seed Movement, India
14:00 Benny Haerlin, Member of the UN International Agricultural Assessment, IAASTD
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