Cargill's attempt to secure a stranglehold on the Indian grain market led to fifty thousand peasant farmers taking apart a Cargill's building brick by brick. Ten million farmers of the Karnataka State Farmers' Association are supporting the torching of Monsanto's test sites in India. There is opposition to mining and logging from Brazil to the Far East, opposition to oil drilling in Africa and South America, and to dams and quarries on indigenous peoples' lands. 11 buses bringing hundreds of protesters including Indian peasant farmers, Zapatistas, Colombian and Nepali human rights activists fighting against debt, unfair trade, economic globalisation and GM foods. The caravan will come to a halt on 18 June in Cologne, where there will be a laughing protest against the globalising agenda of the G8 summit.
Global power leads to global revolt.
Jay Griffiths 's book about time, Pip Pip , will appear later this year.