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These Are Days for Seeds of Freedom to Rise Up
These Are Days for Seeds of Freedom to Rise Up
Date: 10/3/2012 10:13:06 AM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 1226 times
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Organize actions in your area for Seed Freedom! See IDEAS FOR ACTIONS below.
Add your actions to the Seed Freedom Calendar: http://seedfreedom.in/events/community/add
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Website: http://seedfreedom.in/
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Seed is the source of life and the first link in the food chain. Control over seed means a control over our lives, our food and our freedom. Corporations like Monsanto have created a seed emergency -- an emergency through patents on seeds, seed monopolies, biopiracy, genetic engineering and creation of non-renewable sterile seeds. Seed monopolies have pushed 250,000 farmers to commit suicide in India. After contaminating farmer's seeds and crops, Monsanto sues farmers "for stealing their gene", putting the polluter pays principle on its head, and making it the polluter gets paid principle.
Many of us have created contemporary movements to respond to the seed emergency. The global campaign on Seed Freedom intends to give strength to these existing movements. It aims to ‘connect the dots’ of the many voices around the globe to add strength to the movement to keep seed free.
From 2nd October (Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary), to 16th October (World Food Day) we are planning intensive actions to create a global citizens’ response on the issue of Seed Freedom that we hope will act as a wake up call for citizens and governments. Gandhi had said, “as long as the superstition that unjust laws must be obeyed exist, so will slavery exist”. Humanity and diverse species on the Earth are being pushed into a new form of seed slavery. In the spirit of Gandhi, we therefore call for a civil disobedience against unjust laws. We look forward to planning common strategies and actions together as the campaign for Seed Freedom becomes stronger and louder.
Vandana Shiva
Are you a one of the Seeds of Peace?
Know them Now.
Sow Them Now.
Seeds of Peace!
Stephen LongFellow Fiske
from the Song Seeds of Peace
Please add your events and actions to our Fortnight Calendar: http://seedfreedom.in/events/community/add
IDEAS FOR ACTIONS
• Join the Global Alliance for Seed Freedom - sign the Seed Freedom Declaration: http://seedfreedom.in/declaration/
(English - other languages to follow)
• Invite others to join and sign the Declaration
• Start a seed bank - save your own non GMO/patented seeds: http://seedfreedom.in/act/seedbank/
• Organise Seed Swaps of non GMO/patented seeds, “deregistered” farmer’s varieties
• Organise a ‘Seed Bombing’ event – Google!
• Become a seed defender: http://seedfreedom.in/act/become-a-seed-defender/
• Declare a Seed Freedom Zone within your home, institution, village or municipality, which does not recognise patent on seed: http://seedfreedom.in/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Seed-Kit.pdf
• Organise a screening of the Seeds of Freedom film: http://seedsoffreedom.info/support-us/hold-a-screening/
(Available in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Please email info@gaianet.org if you can translate it into your own language)
• Start or join a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) initiative
• Commit to buying fresh, local, organic non-GMO/processed food from farmers’ markets
• Commit to growing your own organic non GMO/patented food and encourage others to do the same
• Organise a dinner, lunch or picnic with your family, friends, community or institution sourcing ingredients from farmers who are saving and using organic seeds (non GMO/patented) creating awareness and understanding on the links between seed, food and health
• Organise a workshop/conference to create awareness about the links between Seed Freedom and food freedom
• Organize protests, marches and gatherings at offices of seed multinationals, patent offices and local government bodies
• Write letters and submit petitions to local institutions, local communities and local municipalities to make them aware of the importance of Seed Freedom for the future of their people and their environment. Get their support to declare "Seed Freedom Zones"
• Send a petition to your regional and national parliament to undo laws that violate seed freedom
• Write to Patent Offices insisting that they stop granting patents on seed
• Write to WTO insisting the completion of the mandatory review of the TRIPS article 27.3b which forces patents on life forms. Ask them to revoke Intellectual Property Rights on seeds
• Write to President Obama insisting he stop using the White House to bully countries on behalf of Monsanto, destroying their seed sovereignty through GMOs and patents
• Contribute your art and your voice - post seed related photos, videos, artwork, articles and blogs to the Seed Freedom Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/savetheseed
INVITE your friends to join this page - invite button top right of page.
Website: http://seedfreedom.in/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/occupytheseed
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/savetheseed
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/occupytheseed
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