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action day global agriculture: illuminated Peaceful Rally for Food Sovereignty

(Michael Kömm) After the rioting on the eve of Sunday was peaceful as a day of action on global agriculture, had prepared a Action network Global Agriculture from various organizations of "BUKO campaign against biopiracy" to the attac-agricultural network. And international networks, such as Via and Confederation Paysanne Campesiana were involved. Morning, about 5,000 activists launched after a kick-off rally of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Rostock in the city, demanding the right to take agriculture and nutrition. The march was accompanied by several farm groups, clowns and puppets of the self-made large NGO network justice now! . For the musical accompaniment caused a samba group and "Klaus der Geiger" with his live band.

Those who wished could attend after a rally with various stations. The topics: G8 and global agriculture, food sovereignty and how they can be produced: through land reform, rejecting the use of genetic engineering, protection from dumping and fair rights for workers. There were two stations is the question of animal rights, where the factory farms (the so-called animal production) and their impact on the environment and humans, but animal experiments were discussed. Outside the rally was also a McDonalds visited by a group of clowns and a short time of about 200 demonstrators occupied. A further protest action in front of a Lidl supermarket was announced on Monday to protest against wage dumping both employees as well as producers.

The 15 km route of the rally for the final rally, the participants mastered by bike, skates or on foot. The rally took place on the edge of a field rather than in large-Lüsewitz. Actually it was planned to "liberate" the field of its genetically modified crops - which in practice means that the uprooting of the plants. Several hundred police officers prevented this, however (see photo by Christoph Müller), so that the demonstrators withdrew empty-handed. The Alliance understood this action at the same time, contributing to networking and preparing for the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP9) in Bonn in May 2008. There