GM PROTESTERS BLOCKADE BAYER ON DAY OF WALL STREET LAUNCH 

January 29, 2002, CBG/Coalition against BAYER-dangers, Media Release 
 
Anti-genetic modification (GM) protesters blockaded the UK headquarters of German 
chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer on the day the company floats on the New 
York Stock Exchange. Bayer are being targeted for their ongoing takeover of 
Aventis CropScience, the company behind most of the UK's controversial GM crop trials. 

...Around 60 protesters blocked entrances to the carparks at Bayer's Newbury 
headquarters using a scaffold tripod and a human chain of people padlocked together, 
and hung banners outside the building to highlight Bayer´s recently acquired status 
of Europe's biggest GM research company. After a blockade of the site lasting six 
hours, activists left peacefully, of their own accord, without arrest and having 
made their point. The Wall Street launch is important for Bayer as the company is 
attempting to raise capital to fund the Aventis CropScience takeover and its 
internal restructuring.