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'Seeds, Soil, and the Tyranny of Corporate Power': A Message of Hope for 2015
'Seeds, Soil, and the Tyranny of Corporate Power': A Message of Hope for 2015
1/1/2015
It has been declared 'the International Year of the Soil,' but the year ahead, according to Dr. Vandana Shiva, will also see key developments in the global fight to overthrow corporate power with true democracy
Dr. Shiva says that within 'the soil lies the answer to the problems oil has created' and that 'organic gardens of hope everywhere' and 'farms that grow real food' can be a powerful enough force to help upend the march of globalized neoliberalism that is taking the planet towards the brink of destruction. (Image: Magnus Franklin/flickr/cc)
Last year, the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization officially declared that 2015 would be celebrated as the International Year of the Soil citing the threat to one of the key ingredients to the planet's food and farming systems posed by "expanding cities, deforestation, unsustainable land use, pollution, overgrazing and climate change."
Though many recognize the FAO declaration as a largely symbolic gesture, many advocates of organic food and sustainable agricultural are planning to seize the designation as a way to push forth their message that the health of the planet's soil should not be relegated as a metaphorical issue, but rather one that should be at the very heart of serious conversations and policy changes humanity must begin in order to transform its economic systems, its democracies, the way it generates power, and the way it feeds itself.
Summarizing the issues at stake and the fight ahead, one of the world's most prominent advocates for democracy and organic agriculture, Dr. Vandana Shiva, an Indian activist and founder of the seed-saving organization Navdayna, has posted an impassioned New Years message to those battling on behalf of food sovereignty, economic egalitarianism, agroecology, climate action, and social justice.
In the video posted to the website of Seed Freedom, Shiva applauded all those who have stood up for the the rights of people and Mother Earth against the greed and disregard perpetrated by corporate power and the neoliberal economic model which is ravaging economies, human rights, and the planet's ability to sustain life....
...The challenge of fighting for true democracy, according to Shiva, "is going to be the single biggest challenge throughout 2015."...
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/01/seeds-soil-and-tyranny-corporate-power-message-hope-2015
1/1/2015
It has been declared 'the International Year of the Soil,' but the year ahead, according to Dr. Vandana Shiva, will also see key developments in the global fight to overthrow corporate power with true democracy
Dr. Shiva says that within 'the soil lies the answer to the problems oil has created' and that 'organic gardens of hope everywhere' and 'farms that grow real food' can be a powerful enough force to help upend the march of globalized neoliberalism that is taking the planet towards the brink of destruction. (Image: Magnus Franklin/flickr/cc)
Last year, the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization officially declared that 2015 would be celebrated as the International Year of the Soil citing the threat to one of the key ingredients to the planet's food and farming systems posed by "expanding cities, deforestation, unsustainable land use, pollution, overgrazing and climate change."
Though many recognize the FAO declaration as a largely symbolic gesture, many advocates of organic food and sustainable agricultural are planning to seize the designation as a way to push forth their message that the health of the planet's soil should not be relegated as a metaphorical issue, but rather one that should be at the very heart of serious conversations and policy changes humanity must begin in order to transform its economic systems, its democracies, the way it generates power, and the way it feeds itself.
Summarizing the issues at stake and the fight ahead, one of the world's most prominent advocates for democracy and organic agriculture, Dr. Vandana Shiva, an Indian activist and founder of the seed-saving organization Navdayna, has posted an impassioned New Years message to those battling on behalf of food sovereignty, economic egalitarianism, agroecology, climate action, and social justice.
In the video posted to the website of Seed Freedom, Shiva applauded all those who have stood up for the the rights of people and Mother Earth against the greed and disregard perpetrated by corporate power and the neoliberal economic model which is ravaging economies, human rights, and the planet's ability to sustain life....
...The challenge of fighting for true democracy, according to Shiva, "is going to be the single biggest challenge throughout 2015."...
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/01/seeds-soil-and-tyranny-corporate-power-message-hope-2015
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tried growing container crops this year. Unfortunately, I have a cat who mistook my planters for litter boxes & it was pretty much a bust. 
Will try again next summer, with chicken wire around the edges or something. 
Anyways, I'm envious that you grow your own, and surprised too. Thanks for the reminder that we too often put situations and people in categories, forgetting the multi-facetedness of life. Thanks for sharing that.
