Environmentalist Vandana Shiva is talking in central London next Monday, February 20 - a talk that is sure to be of interest to GreenNet readers. Full details below:
EARTH DEMOCRACY
We need once more to feel at home on the earth and with each other. We need a new paradigm, which allows us to move from the dominant culture of violence, destruction and death to a culture of non-violence, creative peace and life. This evening, Vandana Shiva will introduce the concepts of the Earth Democracy movement, which she founded in India. Based on the three sovereignties of food, water and seed, Earth Democracy is shaped by the diverse practices of people reclaiming their livelihoods, freedom, dignity and peace. It provides an alternative worldview of economics, politics and culture in which we are connected to each other through love and compassion, and in which ecological responsibility and economic justice replace greed, consumerism and competition as objectives of human life.
Vandana Shiva PhD is a physicist, environmental activist, feminist and founder of Navdanya, a national movement in India to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources. Through her books Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest and Water Wars, Dr Shiva has made visible the social, economic and ecological costs of corporate-led globalisation. Time magazine has described her as 'an environmental hero' and in 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Monday 20 February 2006; 7pm-8.30pm; Alternatives, St James's Church, 197 Piccadilly W1J 9LL; tel 020 7287 6711; www.alternatives.org.uk
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