I'm going to help organize my local 'march against monsanto' this month with the group who set it up.
What I'm doing right now is designing flyers- I'm going to make 5 different ones, with different art and a different message, and post them around the cities. I'm also going to try to get local businesses to promote it and hang flyers up.
I was thinking about making signs to give to people at the event who don't have any.
And maybe talking to people on the street, canvasser-style, to build some support and get people to come.
Does anyone have any other ideas? I have about a month to organize and I want to personally draw in as many people as possible. Any advice is greatly appriciated.
who WAS #1?2013-05-09T17:10:59Z
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Find out if any of your State, County or local legislators are supporters of Monsanto and put heat on them via the posters. Design a Hall of Shame. Did your Congressperson vote for the (so-called) Monsanto Protection law Obama signed (or will sign, I'm not sure).
You might do a newspaper article about some local farming family that was sued by Monsanto.
Monsanto has those "franken-gene" crops where their plant scientists have spliced genes from another species into the grain crop, such as starfish genes. Some of these plant varieties were designed to withstand overall spraying of Roundup (which is poisonous glypsophate manufactured by Monsanto) so that the farmers can kill weeds easily. Monsanto was allowed to patent their new grain seed.
The trouble is, a nearby farm with old fashioned natural grain will, over time, end up with some of Monsanto's patented genetic code in the their saved seed, due to pollen transfer. Monsanto then sweeps in with inspectors, and if they find any of their genetic code in the neighbor's crop, will then take that farmer to court for stealing their patented variety, bringing all the power of a multinational team of lawyers against a Mom-and-Pop operation. People have lost family farms that were bought by their great-grandfathers and farmed every year the same way, saving seed and planting again.
If enough people understand that there is now something wrong with the "Round-up Ready" grain and that Monsanto is using mob tactics to scare farmers into buying seed from them, maybe something will change.