Award winning writer joins Action Day team


Internationally renowned writer and environmental campaigner George Monbiot 
is to speak at the National Day of Action organised by the GM Free Wales 
Campaign, which will take place on Saturday 14 July.

Announcing the news today, Euro MP Jill Evans, who is chairing the GM Free 
Wales Campaign public seminar 'GM on Trial' at Connah's Quay Civic Hall, 
starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday 14 July, said:

"I am delighted that such a well-respected writer and campaigner as George 
Monbiot has agreed to speak on Saturday.

"There has been a tremendous amount of interest in the Action Day and this 
will certainly add to it. We expect a good turnout."

George Monbiot has been named by the Evening Standard as one of the 
twenty-five most influential people in Britain.

He is the author of the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon 
Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a column for the Guardian and is 
Honorary Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Keele, and 
Visiting Professor at the Department of East London.

In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award 
for outstanding environmental achievement. He has also won a National 
Screenwriting Prize for his screenplay The Norwegian, a Sony Award for radio 
production and the OneWorld National Press Award.

From 1993 to 1995, he was a Visiting Fellow at Green College, Oxford and from 
1999 to 2000 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy, 
University of Bristol.

Jill Evans, European Leader of Plaid Cymru the Party of Wales, added:

"George Monbiot will be speaking about 'the corporate influence' and will be 
joining scientists and environmentalists on the platform, together people 
involved in the successful Pembrokeshire campaign."

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11 July 2001

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