Photo Essay: Mexico Celebrates World Day Against Chemical Giant Monsanto Andalusia Knoll - Upside Down World
go to original June 17, 2013

Autonomy is Sown! A nutrition group from the “Escuela de Cultura Popular de los Martires de ’68” displays posters celebrating the autonomy of indigenous Zapatista communities for whom corn is an essential crop.



“Mexico is on the verge of becoming the first country to allow its basic grain, Corn, to be produced with GMO seeds that are the property of transnational companies like Monsanto.”



Urban Farmers transported their crops via bike emphasizing the importance of sustainable agriculture without GMO seeds.



Corn husks usually serve as wrappers for one of Mexican’s most popular street foods, tamales.  In the anti-Monsanto march husks served as adornment for all kinds of costumes.



A group of enthusiastic dancers stripped down to the basics - Corn. Jubilantly celebrating the crop they took to the street in front of the Alameda.

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Andalusia Knoll is a multimedia journalist, educator, organizer and print maker based in Mexico City. Her work has been featured by Free Speech Radio News, Democracy Now!, NACLA and teleSUR. For the past decade she has collaborated with independent media groups to highlight immigrant workers struggles, Latin American communities resistance to resource exploitation and U.S. movements against the prison industrial complex and deportation machine. You can follow her on twitter @Andalalucha or check out her tumblr

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