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Commentary Shiva: EARTH DEMOCRACY THRIVES IN NANDIGRAM

Commentary, May, 08 2007 Vandana2 Shiva
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Nandigram a little known corner of Bengal, near the mouth of the Ganges river suddenly entered the nations consciousness in early 2007.

Commentary Shiva: India needs her small farmers For food security, livelihood security, peace and democracy

Commentary, April, 06 2007 Vandana2 Shiva
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India is a land of small farmers, with 650 million of her 1 billion people living on the land and 80 per cent farmers owning less than 2 ha of land. In other words, the land provides livelihood security for 65 per cent of the people, and the smal...

Commentary Shiva: From Corporate Land Grab to Land Sovereignty (Bhu Swaraj)

Commentary, February, 02 2007 Vandana2 Shiva
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"There is a sacred tie between the tiller and the land. Any attempt to snap the relationship is bound to face opposition".

Commentary Shiva: Coke Pepsi and the Politics of Food Safety

Commentary, September, 06 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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In a democracy, a ban on harmful products and activities is an expression of citizens' freedoms and rights. Bans protect citizens from hazards to health and the environment. That is why smoking has been banned in public places. That is why ozone-d...

Commentary Shiva: Corporate Rule = Facism

Commentary, August, 10 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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Terror in Dadri - "Urja" Nagar (Power City) become "Ujar Nagar" (City of Devastation)

Commentary Shiva: End of Cheap Oil, The Global Energy Crisis and Climate Change

Commentary, June, 26 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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The increase in oil prices has led to protests, which have moved to the center stage of Indian politics, displacing the protests against reservations in medical and engineering colleges.

Commentary Shiva: The US Ð India Nuclear Agreement

Commentary, April, 21 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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India, a civilisation built on renewable energy and biodiversity economies is currently at a cross roads - will she continue on its renewable energy path based on biodiversity, and energy equity, or will she follow the non-sustainable energy path ...

Commentary Shiva: The US – India Nuclear Agreement

Commentary, April, 21 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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India, a civilisation built on renewable energy and biodiversity economies is currently at a cross roads - will she continue on its renewable energy path based on biodiversity, and energy equity, or will she follow the non-sustainable energy path ...

Commentary Shiva: Wheat Imports: Will India Reverse To A Ship To Mouth Existence?

Commentary, February, 18 2006 Vandana2 Shiva
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On February 2, 2006, a mere two months before the rabi harvest of wheat, the government announced duty-free import of five lakh tonnes of wheat. The justification is the bringing down of retail prices, which have been rising over the last few mont...

Commentary Shiva: Beyond the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong

Commentary, December, 26 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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Hong Kong will go down in history with Seattle and Cancun, both in terms of people's resistance in the streets and the resistance of developing countries within. Total failure of the WTO Doha round was averted by the fig leaf of withdrawal of expo...

Commentary Shiva: Trade Liberalisation Is Not Development

Commentary, December, 10 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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It is an irony of our times that WTO and fair trade are now being presented as "development". The enlargement of free markets for global corporations in agriculture, services, and industrial products through the Doha Round is being referred to as ...

Commentary Shiva: India's Water Future

Commentary, November, 03 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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The World Bank has recently (25.06.05) released a draft report on ÒIndiaÕs Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent FutureÓ

Commentary Shiva: Terrorism, Agriculture and U.S India Cooperation

Commentary, August, 10 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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Terrorism and Agriculture are among the issues raised in the Joint India - U.S statement issued on 18th July 2005 during Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh's meeting with President Bush. As the statement declares, the two leaders resolved -

Commentary Shiva: Water Privatisation And Water Wars

Commentary, July, 14 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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1. Will Muradnagar be the next Tonk?

Commentary Shiva: The Polarised World Of Globalisation

Commentary, May, 28 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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(A response to Friedman's Flat earth hypothesis)

Commentary Shiva: How To End Poverty: Making Poverty History And The History Of Poverty

Commentary, May, 15 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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The cover story of the Time Magazine of March 14, 2005 was dedicated to the theme, "How to End Poverty". It was based on an essay by Jeffrey Sacks "The End of Poverty", from his book with the same title. The photos accompanying the essay are homel...

Commentary Shiva: Wto, Patents On Lifeforms And Amendments In India's Patent Law

Commentary, April, 13 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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On 26th of December, the day of the tsunami, the Government of India introduced a Patent Ordinance which we named the tsunami law, since it threatens to tear down the entire fabric of food security and health security we had built carefully and de...

Commentary Shiva: Tsunami Teachings: Reflections for the New Year

Commentary, January, 23 2005 Vandana2 Shiva
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Gaia could not have picked a more appropriate time and place to send us a message of her hidden powers, and the message that we are Indians and Indonesians, Sri Lankans and Swedes, Thai's and Maldivians only secondarily - we are first and foremost...

Commentary Shiva: Water Tariff Increase: Rushing Towards Water Privatisation

Commentary, December, 18 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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The Delhi Governments announcement of a seven to tenfold increase in water tariffs overnight is meant to facilitate privatization in violation of every democratic norm and human rights principle.

Commentary Shiva: Terra Madre: A Celebration Of Living Economies

Commentary, November, 26 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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In a world dominated by fear and fragmentation, dispensability and despair a magical gathering of food communities Ð Terra Madre Ð took place in Turin, Italy, from 20-22 October 2004. Slow Food, the movement that has put the culture of growing and...

Commentary Shiva: An Attack On PeopleÕs Movements

Commentary, November, 05 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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Ten years of WTO and five years since the victory of civil society and the Third World in Seattle is a good time to pause and reflect on the debate on globalisation.

Commentary Shiva: An Attack On People’s Movements

Commentary, November, 05 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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Ten years of WTO and five years since the victory of civil society and the Third World in Seattle is a good time to pause and reflect on the debate on globalisation.

Commentary Shiva: Who Won, Who Lost: The Victory of the Agribusiness in the WTO Framework Agreement

Commentary, August, 26 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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On 16th August, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath informed the Rajya Sabha that India had made significant gains in the recently negotiated Framework Agreement in Geneva on the Doha Work Programme.

Commentary Shiva: Wto Negotiations And The Betrayal Of The Doha Mandate

Commentary, July, 29 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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The General Council of the WTO is to meet on 27-29 July 2004 to pick up the negotiations that broke down in Cancun on the Doha Mandate.

Commentary Shiva: The Indian Elections 2004: The Vote Against Corporate Globalisation

Commentary, June, 19 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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The world is stunned by the results of the Indian elections, both because of how the ruling BJP was wiped out at the polls in spite of its "India Shining" Campaign and its exclusivist "Hindutva" plank, but also because the majority of voters of th...

Commentary Shiva: Building Water Democracy : People's victory against Coca-Cola in Plachimada

Commentary, May, 13 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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Two years ago, adivasi women in a small hamlet, Plachimada, in Palghat, Kerala started a movement against Coca-Cola. Today, the Coca-Cola plant in Plachimada has been shut down. The victory of the Plachimada movement is major step in reversing cor...

Commentary Shiva: Wheat Biopiracy

Commentary, April, 24 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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WILL "GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD" BECOME A PRAYER TO MONSANTO?

Commentary Shiva: The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation

Commentary, February, 19 2004 Vandana2 Shiva
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The Indian peasantry, the largest body of surviving small farmers in the world, today faces a crisis of extinction.

Commentary Shiva: Towards A People Centred Fair Trade Agreement On Agriculture

Commentary, December, 24 2003 Vandana2 Shiva
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The collapse of the Cancun W.T.O. Ministerial was to a large extent due to the blatant unfairness of the rules of the Agreement on Agriculture which is killing farmers, killing biodiversity, killing fair and just distribution and killing food secu...

Commentary Shiva: River Linking Project

Commentary, November, 19 2003 Vandana2 Shiva
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The Indian river linking project of Rs. 560,000 crore ($200b) has now been elevated to the level of a creation myth by referring to it as "Amrit Kranti", invoking the imagery of Sagar Manthan - the creation story of Indian mythology in which the g...

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