Posted on 28-10-2003
Anti-GE
Camp Wellington
About 70 protesters have set up a makeshift canvas encampment
of about 30
tents outside Parliament to protest against genetic engineering
(GE) in New
Zealand.
Campaign spokesman George Darroch said protesters from Nelson
to Auckland
had come to Wellington for the protest, set to last until the
GE moratorium
is lifted on Wednesday.
While he realised it was too late to force a change of heart
on the
moratorium, the protest was a way of signalling to the Government
that they
had not given up the fight, Mr Darroch said. "We are here to
say this is
not over. It's a turning point that marks the end of one phase
and the
beginning of another."
Protesters were advocating a "people's moratorium" -- encouraging
the
public to boycott genetically modified organisms.
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