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I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
