MANCHESTER: Monsanto on Trial

11 October 2016

Speaker Tour: Monsanto on Trial

Photos and testimony from the battle against global food corporations

Date & Time: Tuesday 11th October 2016

18:30

Venue: University of Manchester Students' Union

Oxford Rd

Manchester

M13 9PR

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.