#25-24 Life as Property … part 1
Dr. Vandana Shiva is the founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and of Navdanya, a national movement in India to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seeds. She earned advanced degrees in philosophy of science and nuclear physics in Canada and also studied science policy and management in India. She is renowned worldwide for not only her inspiring analyses and her activism for seed preservation, but also her successful litigation against patenting and privatization of seeds.
Part 1 “Life as Property” With elegant oratory, Dr. Shiva dissects the methods, the motives, and the ecological and economic results of the corporate assault on the mutual relationship between human beings and plants within the web of life.
Credits: Both episodes are from a speech Shiva delivered in 2014, which was sponsored and recorded by community radio KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California. Editor for WINGS was Kellia Ramares-Watson. WINGS series editor is Frieda Werden. The original WINGS programs were archived by Lisa Hayes.