It’s official. Monsanto has been invited to participate in the International Monsanto Tribunal, a citizens’ tribunal which will take place October 15-16 in The Hague.

Unfortunately, the invitation, sent in the form of a registered letter from the Tribunal judges to Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant, went back to the post office boomerang-style. Because no one would sign for it.

That won’t keep us from trying. This week, we announced to the international media that Monsanto has been invited to submit written testimony at the citizens’ tribunal and also to send legal representation.

Will Monsanto show up to defend itself? Or hide out?

We don’t know yet. But this much we do know. The evidence against Monsanto is mounting.

Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled against Monsanto’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a coffee farmer who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma seven years after she started using Monsanto’s Roundup on her farm.

Also this month, the city of Portland, Ore., became the eighth American city to file a lawsuit against Monsanto for favoring “profits over ecological and human health” when they contaminated (and refused to clean up) the city’s environment with carcinogenic PCBs.

And just this week, about 20 people who believe Monsanto’s Roundup is responsible for their cancer filed a motion to combine their cases against the agribusiness giant in order to streamline the discovery process. They’re asking that the case be heard in Illinois, which happens to be the largest producer of soybeans, that are “sprayed with glyphosate containing herbicides more than any other crop with 122,473,987 pounds applied to soybeans in 2014.”

Monsanto has finagled its way out of lawsuits in the past. But the Biotech Bully’s luck may be running out.

Either way, with or without written or oral testimony from Monsanto, the citizens of the world will hold Monsanto accountable in October.

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