A grassroots movement is a type of social movement that emerges from the local level and comes together due to a pressing issue the community feels needs to be changed or improved— the movement could spread nationally or globally, but a grassroots movement is perpetuated by the action of the individual and not the endorsement of large corporations or political actors.
Started in 2013, a grassroots movement called March Against Monsanto (MAM) has come together and is held annually on the global scale in response to the business practices of the historical and now transnational corporation, Monsanto.
MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO this year on SATURDAY MAY 23rd, 2015 →→→ Check this spreadsheet for global locations
Monsanto is a current day transnational company (TNC) that was originally established in 1901 by a self-educated chemist, John Francis Queeny, who named the chemical company,Monsanto Chemical Works to honor his wife, Olga Mendez Monsanto. Commencement of business, and a shift to production of industrial products occurred around 1929 when Monsanto bought shares of American and Australian chemical companies on the New York Stock Exchange— just a month later the stock market crashed and Monsanto emerged being renamed the Monsanto Chemical Company.
The Monsanto Chemical Company’s business commenced in Georgia in 1935 with the production of the chemical sweetener saccharin— this was sold to Coca-Cola which then too was a growing company in Georgia and marked the beginning of the long and controversial history Monsanto has on planet Earth.
In the 1940’s Monsanto became “one of the world’s major producer of rubber, followed by plastics and synthetic fibers” [Robin, 12]. The nature of a chemical company innately produces much environmental degradation— these rubber and plastic factories in Anniston, Alabama were estimated to pollute from 1929-1971, sixty-thousand pounds ofPCBs emitted into atmosphere and 1.8 million pounds dumped into waterways.
Today, the environmental protection agency has finally publicly named Monsanto as the perpetrator, and taken steps to help clean up this problem by deeming Aniston, Alabama a superfund site.
Started in 2013, a grassroots movement called March Against Monsanto (MAM) has come together and is held annually on the global scale in response to the business practices of the historical and now transnational corporation, Monsanto.
MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO this year on SATURDAY MAY 23rd, 2015 →→→ Check this spreadsheet for global locations
Monsanto is a current day transnational company (TNC) that was originally established in 1901 by a self-educated chemist, John Francis Queeny, who named the chemical company,Monsanto Chemical Works to honor his wife, Olga Mendez Monsanto. Commencement of business, and a shift to production of industrial products occurred around 1929 when Monsanto bought shares of American and Australian chemical companies on the New York Stock Exchange— just a month later the stock market crashed and Monsanto emerged being renamed the Monsanto Chemical Company.
The Monsanto Chemical Company’s business commenced in Georgia in 1935 with the production of the chemical sweetener saccharin— this was sold to Coca-Cola which then too was a growing company in Georgia and marked the beginning of the long and controversial history Monsanto has on planet Earth.
In the 1940’s Monsanto became “one of the world’s major producer of rubber, followed by plastics and synthetic fibers” [Robin, 12]. The nature of a chemical company innately produces much environmental degradation— these rubber and plastic factories in Anniston, Alabama were estimated to pollute from 1929-1971, sixty-thousand pounds ofPCBs emitted into atmosphere and 1.8 million pounds dumped into waterways.
Today, the environmental protection agency has finally publicly named Monsanto as the perpetrator, and taken steps to help clean up this problem by deeming Aniston, Alabama a superfund site.