Nnimmo Bassey at the opening said:
“Being an ambassador to this Tribunal is like
being an ambassador to mother Earth. If mother
Earth could speak, Monsanto ought to be in jail
long before now. Food is a celebration, it is culture,
it is life. This is a struggle not against one multinational corporation, it is a struggle for life, it is a
struggle for liberty. A struggle to stop big companies from colonizing our food systems, colonizing
our agriculture, holding mother Earth as a slave
for their profits.”
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and videos have already been posted. You can also
see them if you have no Facebook yourself. In the
coming weeks we will continue to release short
interviews of the witnesses, experts and lawyers, as
well as the speakers in the People’s Assembly. We
will also add all of this to our website, including all
the hearings of the Tribunal and the written testimonies in different languages. Please be patient, we
will keep you informed!
The judges are now thoroughly reviewing the
evidence from legal briefs and witness testimonies
to answer the six questions posed in the Tribunal’s
terms of reference. They will then present a legal
advisory opinion, hopefully soon but if necessary
next spring: we will supply logistic support, but the
timing is up to them.
As Judge Tulkens said:
“We will try to deliver the legal opinion before
December 10th, the International Day of human
Rights. It will be addressed to Monsanto and to
the United Nations. From this legal opinion, other
jurisdictions can be involved and more judges
will step in. We, as the judges [at the Monsanto
Tribunal] have seen, heard, noted and deliberated.
Chances are that the international law will take
into consideration new issues such as the ones
related to ecocide."
We would like to thank you and all the volunteers
for your amazing support. This would not have
been possible without you. Stay tuned, follow us on
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to sign their support. Together we will put an end
to the era of poisoning and exploiting the world
and move onward to a system where we work with
nature instead of waging a war against it.
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