A little glimmer of hope of breaking the chains of corporatism, from Vandana Shiva:

[marmar]

"Over the past decade we have been gaining ground. And when I say "we", I mean ordinary people committed to the welfare of all humanity. All people irrespective of gender and class and race and religion. All species on the planet. We managed to take the biggest government and one of the largest chemical companies to court on the case of Neem and win a case against them. W.R. Grace and the US government's patent on Neem was revoked by a case we brought along with the Greens of the European Parliament and the International Organic Agricultural Movement. We won because we worked together.
We have overturned nearly 99% of the basmati patent of Ricetek. Again, because we worked as a worldwide coalition, old women in Texas, scientists in India, activists sitting in Vancouver, a little basmati action group. We stopped the 3rd World being viewed as the pirate and we showed the corporations were the pirate.
Look how little it took for Gandhi to work against the salt laws of the British where the British decided the way they would make their armies and police forces bigger is just tax the salt. And all that Gandhi did was walk to the beach, pick up the salt and say, "Nature gives it for free. We need it. We've always made it. We will violate your laws. We will continue to make salt".
We've had a similar commitment for the last decade in India. That any law that makes it illegal to save seed is a law not worth following. We will violate it because saving seed is a duty to the earth and to future generations. We thought it would really be symbolic. It is more than symbolic. It is becoming a survival option. Farmers who grow their own seeds, save their own seeds, don't buy pesticides, have three-fold more incomes than farmers who are locked into the chemical treadmill, depending on Monsanto and Cargill. We have managed to created alternatives that work for people.

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Fifteen corporations would like to control the conditions of our lives, and millions of people are saying, "Not only do we not need you, we can do it better. We are going to create systems that nourish the earth and nourish human beings". And these are not marginal experiments. They are the mainstay of large numbers of communities across the world. That is where the future lies."

[zeemike]

1. Sending this to the greatest page

Because this is so impotratn...and yet most people don't even know how much Frankinfood that they eat every day.
We play a dangerous game when we give the right of a corporation to corner the food market and sell us food that is ladened with chemicals for the sake of profit.

[Nothing Without Hope]

2. Thanks for this. Is there a link to more of the quotation? n/t

[pnorman]

4. The only link that Google was able to locate,

was this same DU thread!

I really hate to "scold" my fellow DUers, but neglecting to cite a source is, IMO, "bad manners". I, for one, function in some pretty "adversarial" venues,and NEED a source or a working link. I imagine I'm not alone on this.

pnorman

[marmar]

6. The quotes are from the movie "The Corporation"

Search "IMDB" and "The Corporation" and quotes

[pnorman]

12. Got it now. Thanks!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/quotes

I have that DVD, and I think I'll view it again.

pnorman

[glitch]

3. Thank you for posting some good news! God Bless Vandana Shiva! K & R nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. More about V. Shiva's Organization..

She is one of the leaders of the International Forum on Globalization,
(along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement.
Here is site link:
http://www.ifg.org/about.htm

I deeply respect her work and willingness to speak out.

Jerry Mander, btw, wrote a great book called Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977) ISBN 0-688-08274-2. Great read.

[femrap]

5. I love her....thanks for

some good news. Monsanto is a crime against humanity.

[Kaleko]

8. We have to become conscious of our power

to support each other while starving the Beast in whatever way we can.

The internet is our greatest tool. And our best weapon is common sense.

[Hekate]

9. Has Dr. Shiva won the Nobel Prize yet? She is a phenomenon. nt

[donheld]

10. I do love Vandana!

[leftstreet]

11. K&R

[rhett o rick]

13. You mention "15 corporations would like to control the conditions of our lives,"

I imagine it is more but what are the 15 you refer to.

There is a list of the top ten worst corporations: http://www.alternet.org/workplace/108321/the_10_worst_corporations_of_2008/?page=entire

[marmar]

14. I posted a quote from Vandana Shiva. You'd have to ask her.

:think:

[Reterr]

15. Tut too late to rec.eom

[barbtries]

16. that must be where the future lies

thank you for posting.