Events during the period leading up to the JIGMOD include :

o February 24: Conference of the European GM-free regions, in Krakow, Poland.
o March 3: National demonstrations against GM crops in several cities of Germany
o April 5: March for GMO-free regions, during the GMO European Conference held in in Vienna, Austria.
o April 6: National Call-In Day to the Congress, in support of the "Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act”, USA
o April 8: Joint International GMOpposition Day, Earth
JIGMOD Agenda
Month
Local Teams
Coordination Team
October 2005
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International Survey concerning a possible project
of International GMO Opposition Day in Spring 2006
November 2005
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Choice of the date, based on the survey result.

Call for Participation
December 2005
Districts' teams in the making

Contact of potential actors of the "D" Day
(lecturers, politicians, artists, ...)


Internal promotion (activists' networks)

Brainstorming on the "peasant / native seeds" promotion

Brainstorming on tools to be provided to the local teams

Writing of the scientists' letter.
January 2006
Teams in the making

Contact of potential actors of the 8th of April

Finding a location and specify a content
for the "Information Site"

Preparation of the international video-conference

Circulating and completing the Scientists' letter
for collecting signatures

Choice of the "peasant seeds" type of promotion
February 2006

New teams in the making
(see January)

Invitation of the elect

Ordering of banners, sticks,...

Setting of a Press Release

Posters frameworks and adjustable Press Releases
downloadable through the website

Preparation of the common tools'-kit
March 2006

Advertising Campaign

Mapping of the Information Site

Sending off local Press Release

Reception of the kit

Sending off the common tools'-kit (banner, leaflets, peasant seeds...)

Full International Program ready:
(inter)National advertising Campaign

Sending off Press Releases
8 April 2006
Management of the attractions / exhibition stalls / video-conference / movies / ...

Following of the event
April 2006

Sending off petitions
to the coordination team

Sending off photos, reports
to the coordination team

Demonstrations in Chicago,
Brussels, ...
Centralizing the petitions, the scientists' letter,
to be used during the demonstrations

Updating the website with material sent by the local teams