Speaker tour: Monsanto on Trial
Photos and testimony from the battle against global food corporations
Date & Time: Friday 7th October 2016
18.30
Venue: Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Rd
London E1 6LAH
Monsanto’s activities, including land grabbing and rural
livelihood destruction, are powerful triggers to migrate
so very relevant to our understanding of the underlying
causes of migration.
This October, seed and pesticide corporation Monsanto is facing
an international court in The Hague.
While this is just a symbolic people’s court, the witnesses
and judges are real.
Witnesses from across the globe have been called because
they have suffered human rights abuses, threats to their
communities and destruction of their environment.
Come and hear from one of these witnesses, Farida Akhter,
who is touring around the UK before travelling to The Hague
for the tribunal.
Farida is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the
biggest collection of community seed banks in the world.
Global Justice Now has commissioned photo journalist
Jordi Cirera to create a photo exhibition by visiting some
of these witnesses in India and Bangladesh. His photos tell the
stories of farmers who are fighting Monsanto to work out
an alternative model of farming.
Admission Details: Tickets are free but limited,
so book your place now before they run out.
Click to book your ticket on the Global Justice Website
http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/events/speaker-tour-monsanto-trial