Bringing awareness about genetically modified food, and what we need to do about them, to the press,public and politicians. Using the City Hall steps as a platform gives a nice background, but everyone needed to go through metal detectors and police scrutiny to get into the plaza, which I’m sure discouraged any passers-by from hearing what they had to say. No sound system was allowed, and extremely noisy road work was going on right at the gate. Many women spoke but I only got usable footage from the louder speakers, the men. I think the organizers were mainly aiming this event at the media, but I did not see a professional news crew there, only fellow bloggers and documentarians and maybe some print.
In the video: Mitchel Cohen, Green Party organizer in Brooklyn speaks on food used as a weapon of war, and Bob Klein of the Safe and Healthy School Food Coalition says “Don’t buy GMO.”
This was one of many events that took place yesterday on this issue. organicconsumers.org/monsanto

Monsanto and GMO cheerleaders in the US government.

• Michael R. Taylor former Monsanto VP, the deputy commissioner for foods at the FDA
• Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack’s supporter of GMO pharmaceutical corn, presently the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
• Islam Siddiqui, US Agricultural Trade Representative.
• Rajiv Shah, head of USAID
• Dr Roger Beachy, Director of the
• National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
• Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Justice, has previously ruled in favor of Monsanto.
• Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice – former lawyer for Monsanto.

Shot from outside the gate on Park Row.

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