“The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.” WellsKindDifferentWholeTodayResponsibilityDemocracyRightsSeeingCapitalismResourcesAbsolutesPropertyScalesAccountabilitySustainabilityPhasesExpansionInconsistentAbsolute Freedom Author:Vandana Shiva
“If every person has the right to defend - even by force - his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force - for the same reason - cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.” IfsMenPersonsReasonUseUsedIndividualForceCommonLibertySupportRightsGroupsProtectPropertyIndividualityOrganize Author:Frederic Bastiat
“One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.” IndividualCommonRightsMovementNeededProtectDiversityIntellectualFoundationPropertyInventionHeritageConventionsIndigenousProperty RightsIntellectual PropertyIndigenous PeopleJurisprudence Author:Vandana Shiva
“For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.” IdeasRightsDiversityIntellectualPropertyResistanceDevelopingRegimesMonopolySaying NoProperty RightsPatentsContinuationBiodiversityIntellectual PropertySatyagrahaCooperating Author:Vandana Shiva