Wednesday, 23 October 2002, 3:22 pm Press Release: Arena
Jose Bove's New Zealand tour cancelled
The New Zealand
tour early next month of French hero and anti-free-trade and
GM activist Jose Bove, has been cancelled due to on-going
court appearances, Leigh Cookson, spokesperson for ARENA
(Action Research and Education Network of Aotearoa) said
yesterday.
Bove was scheduled to visit Auckland,
Whanganui, Wellington and Christchurch during a 6-day tour.
His interests were directed to agricultural practices that
only benefit foreign farm markets, TNC's and monopoly
agribusiness.
During the 1970's, Bove, a French sheep
farmer in the Larzac region successfully led the resistance
against the government's intention to build a large military
base in the area, and subsequently, as a member of
Confederation Paysanne, the national French grassroots
farmer's union, he was involved in a number of attacks on
GMO crops and storage facilities.
Protesting again in 1999
at American GM incursion into French food, Bove helped to
publicly and non-violently dismantle a McDonald's Restaurant
in Millau in 1999. He has since been involved in court
action and appeals, on occasion winning some recognition and
support from the courts.
Ms Cookson says she hopes New
Zealand will be able to welcome Jose Bove sometime in the
future. Further information about the effects of
globalisation on and in New Zealand is available by
contacting ARENA at www.arena.org.nz
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