Archive for February, 2009

Health Freedom Action eAlert: Webinars and Action Items

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Natural Solutions Foundationn
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Health Freedom Action eAlert

February 5, 2009

Welcome! In This Issue:

* eAlert Action: Get Food out of Gov’t, Gov’t Out of Food
* NEW! Health Freedom Webinars!
* NSF Trustee To Speak at Health Freedom Event: 02/08/09
* Read Latest Threat Assessment: Codex and Beyond
* Dr. Rima Recommends: Divest the FDA – Save Food

Don’t forget the video of the day and our Health Freedom Blog, both on our website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

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Reclaiming Food, One Sip At a Time(TM)

Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee
A Little Bit of Heaven in a Cup(TM)
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org

The US Government thinks GMOs and toxic chemicals belong in your morning coffee. We don’t. Natural Solutions Foundation is working to keep your food – and your coffee – clean and unadulterated. That’s part of health freedom. Valley of the Moon Coffee(TM) (www.valleyofthemooncoffee.org) supports sustainable production, tastes incredibly good and helps keep Natural Solutions Foundation at the forefront of the fight for your health and freedoms. Won’t you help us while you sip your morning brew?

Your tax deductible donation of $25 brings you our “thank you”: Simply the best coffee you’ve ever tasted – Shade Grown, without GMOs, Pesticides or Herbicides! Donations in multiples of $25 bring more incomparable “Thank you!” gifts to you or your friends – 1/2 lb of amazing coffee for every $25!

What’s in Valley of the Moon (TM) Shade grown, GMO free, Pesticide Free, Herbicide Free Coffee for you? Simply the best coffee you have ever tasted, a tax deduction for each bag AND your support for health and health freedom. ValleyoftheMoon Coffee is Friendly Food Certified because it is friendly to you, the Consumer, to the Environment, and to the Workers who product it. Visit www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org now and get some of the best coffee you’ve ever tried while you support the Natural Solutions Foundation.

And while you’re at it, consider joining our new Food and Farming Yahoo!Groups forum. Check it out at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/
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Don’t Miss This Special Event: Sunday February 8, 2009

Our own Natural Solutions Foundation Trustee Ralph Fucetola JD will be speaking with other health freedom advocates at a Health Freedom Rally – Hunterdon Central High – 1 PM to 4 PM (84 Route 31, Flemington, NJ, 08822). Join the hundreds of people we expect to be there… if you are in the area, please join us!

Read more…
http://vitaminlawyerhealthfreedom.blogspot.com/2009/01/health-freedom-rally-february-8-2009.html
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Health Freedom Uses the New Media:
Natural Solutions Webinars

INDEX
Introduction
Current Webinars
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Introduction

We — you and us together — are the ‘net roots’ of Health Freedom, providing Natural Solutions to the problems that threaten our health and health freedom. The better informed we are, the more effective we become.

Using the Internet to achieve our goals, we constantly look for ways to share information in the continuing educational campaign that forms a principle thrust of our Health Freedom campaign.

Through our web sites and social networking links, our Health Freedom Action eAlerts and the action items they contain. Through the forums we’ve established on Yahoo!Groups. Through our attendance at Codex and other meetings with the YouTube video reports we’ve posted shortly after each event. Through our Health Freedom Blogs. We use many advanced communications techniques to keep you, our ‘net roots’ in the loop and in front of the crowd.

Based on your feedback and our advisers’ input, we are proud to offer you a new, enhanced outreach program:

The Health Freedom Action Webinars
Current Webinars

‘Webinars’ are unique, online learning and communicating events combining live audio and visual opportunities for a limited number of people with interactive Q&A! Once the live Webinar has taken place, it is archived and becomes available on the Internet.

Here are some of the initial Webinars you are invited to attend on the Internet. (details below):

1. Valley of the Moon Eco Community: Free – 02/12/09
2. Considerations for CAM Practitioners: $99 – 02/26/09
3. Protecting your IRA – Sustainable Living: $49 – 03/07/09

Webinar updates: https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=2002

The Webinars are live, interactive learning experiences where you’ll hear us, see slides and be able to ask questions. Here are the first few that we have planned; please check back often for updates.

Index

1. The Valley of the Moon Eco Community

Presenters: Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.), Rima E. Laibow, MD
Live Webinar: February 12, 2009 – 8 PM EST
Tuition: Complimentary

Register for Webinar at:
http://vital-connection.com/health-freedom-action-webinar/

If you are interested in sustainable living, thinking about where to go and wondering what the Natural Solutions Foundation Eco Demonstration project might offer you, this seminar is for you. Dr. Rima and General Bert will take you on a guided tour of the concept, the history and the reality of the Valley of the Moon. This seminar is built around 72 beautiful slides; Gen Bert and Dr. Rima take you on an eye-opening tour; you can see the possibilities.

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2. Ethical and Legal Considerations for Advanced HealthCare (‘CAM’) Practitioners

Presenter: Ralph Fucetola JD
Live Webinar: Thursday, February 26, 2009 – 8 PM EST
Tuition: $99.99

Register: http://vital-connection.com/ethical-legal-considerations-course-february-26th-2009/

This seminar is intended for Natural (sometimes called ‘CAM’) health practitioners in every area of practice. With the State and Federal Government agencies determined to stamp out all non-pharmaceutical-focused treatments, if you are an advanced health practitioner, you need accurate, up to the minute information on

* Standard Operating Procedures
* Disclaimers
* Disclosures
* Informed Consent
* Risks to Private Practitioners
* Practical advise on structuring your practice
to protect yourself and your client/patients
* Forbidden words
* How to present what you do and why you do it
* Waivers

Common sense, talent and experience may make you a great practitioner, but it takes legal information and careful strategic communication to keep you out of trouble and in practice. Join us for this essential course. Tuition includes a $30 tax deductible donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation and an information-filled eBook with practical forms to use. The information in the eBook would require several hours of legal retainer time to produce.

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3. Protect your IRA/401 Retirement Funds, Achieve Sustainable Living and Support Health Freedom – All At the Same Time!

Presenters: Natural Solutions Foundation Trustees Rima E. Laibow, MD, Ralph Fucetola, JD
Live Webinar: Thursday, March 7, 2009 – 8 PM EST
Tuition: $49.99

Register for Webinar: page to be posted.
Check the Webinar link at
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=2002

Off-shore placement of retirement funds may not be available for much longer. In fact, your retirement funds are being eyed by the cash-starved US government. At the same time, your health freedom and access to clean food and dietary supplements is under more attack than at any time in the past. Retirement funds can support the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSoltutionsFoundation.org, in Panama while the Valley of the Moon helps to protect your health freedoms and reclaim the production of food.

This is more than a win-win relationship. It is a must-win relationship for both you and health freedom. Join us to learn more and find out what others are doing to protect their health and their wealth. Tuition includes a $15 tax deductible Donation to the Natural Solutions Foundation and a free eBook you can share with others to help them get the picture, too.

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And please email us at dr.laibow@gmail.com with ‘Webinar’ in the Subject Line with any questions or suggestions for more Webinars!

For updates of the Webinars: https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=2002

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FDA
“Fraud and Death Administration”
Taking Back Food from the Government

It’s really simple, you know. If enough people demand it, the government will behave itself. We saw that a couple years ago when 598,000 of us sought to tell the FDA to leave our natural remedies alone… and the infamous anti-CAM guidance remains in limbo to this day. It comes down to taking simple actions to make sure the agencies, Congress, the President and other decision makers get your message loud and clear. Now that Health Freedom made it among the Top Ten social issues on Change.org and Change.gov, we are ready to push even harder.

That’s where these Health Freedom Action eAlerts make a difference. Please take these actions:

1. Right to Use ~ Right to Choose
Use Nano Silver, Retain the Right to Choose Nano Silver
Questionable “Consumer Organizations” Petition EPA to Ban Nano Silver – Deadline extended to March 20th.

Tell EPA Not to Ban Nano Silver of Any Type http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405

Defending Nano Silver
https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=1773

Good work! Your vigorous response to the approaching deadline caught the attention of the EPA. So many of your responded that the deadline was extended by 2 months. Now, Mighty Mouse Warriors, keep on clicking! And remember to tell your entire contact list that health freedom is under attack – again!

Ask them to take action here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/112/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26405

2. DIVEST THE FDA – and all government agencies of their often misused power to deny us access to wholesome nutrition and natural remedies.

Protect Food from FDA/USDA Regulation!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26314

3. Please consider joining our new Food and Farming Yahoo!Groups forum. Check it out at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/

Satyagraha (Non-cooperation) and Monsanto

Here is the link to an important article by Linn Cohen-Cole about how farmers in India are reclaiming their rights: https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=1991
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The General’s Communiqué
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army, Ret.)

Health Freedom is gaining new allies. Earlier this week Dr. Rima and I had some preliminary meetings with The City of Knowledge Foundation in Panama, seeking additional support for the International Decade of Nutrition’s Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project. In about 2 weeks we are being flown to Europe for a very special presentation that must remain quiet for now… We’ll be posting YouTube videos from that event, however, so check our YouTube channel often: http://youtube.com/naturalsolutions.

You see, Europe is already in the process of losing most of its supplements and all of its high potency ones. We in the US still enjoy access to them, but the FDA is gearing up to bring us into “HARMonziation” with the Codex Vitamin and Mineral Guideline just like Europe where the European Food Supplements Directive will make advanced health through high potency, varied nutritional supplements a criminal activity.

Natural treatments of all sorts are being seriously restricted there and the EU’s 27 countries met secretly not long ago to force GMO “franken foods” on a strongly unwilling population despite laws and objections. It’s a case of “follow the money – and you’ll find the genocidalists along with the bankers!” But Europe is waking up and Dr. Rima and I are making this trip to help that happen. We’ll keep you posted, of course.

After that, we’ll be filming some documentary footage and doing interviews and, I am happy to tell you, sneaking away for a few days of very, very much needed R&R. We’ll keep you posted on that, too.

One of the Principles of War is “Surprise”. You never want to be surprised and you always want the enemy to be surprised. That’s why it is so important for our side to disseminate high quality information. So if you did not have a chance to read my last communiqué on the current health freedom threat status, I urge you to do so now. Here’s the link to this very important message.
Estimate of Situation: Current Threat Assessment: Codex and Beyond…

https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?p=1969
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Dr. Rima Recommends

Change.org continues to promote Health Freedom as one of its Top Ten Ideas for Change! We can help them by clicking onto their site, taking a look at the videos we’ve posted and commenting on them. Thanks!

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/health_freedom

Divest the FDA!
While We’re At It, Divest the USDA, Too!

Action Step:
Protect Food from FDA/USDA Regulation!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26314

It’s pretty ho-hum no-news that the FDA is failing miserably at every aspect of its mandate.

~Mercury in high fructose corn syrup (which is usually made from genetically modified “Franken Corn” ~MSG, a known neurological and pancreatic poison (of the excitotoxin class) in vaccines, kids food (and adults food, too) ~Melamine OK in baby’s formulas and the general food supply despite the fact that it can be lethal to babies and there was no safe level until the FDA unscientifically declared that there was ~Irradiated just-about-everything-including-salad-greens ~Antibiotics so widely used that antibiotic resistant (“flesh eating” staph shows up in pork and other foods, industrially genetically modified plants growing next to natural ones and contaminating them forever, ~Salmonella laced peanut butter ~Down graded organic foods to make Big Agribiz as happy as Big Pharma ~Conflicts of interest so blatant that the government no longer tries to deal wth them, ~Cattle producers forbidden to test their cattle for “mad cow” disease because they might find it, ~Sweeteners that can cause blindness, MS and brain damage, ~Acrylamide in snack foods, ~Dangerous unlabeled GMOs passed off as “equivalent” so consumers won’t ask, don’t know, ~Veterinary drugs and pesticides permitted in food despite known hazards, ~Viruses sprayed on foods, ~Cloned meat and milk, and on and on and on.

Thanks to the FDA, the “Fraud and Death Agency”, and the USDA, the “” agency, the US diet is not life sustaining: it is disease and death inducing. Our diet, thanks to these agencies, is literally killing us. Why? Because the regulators work for, and owe their allegiance – and their financial well-being, to the regulated industries.

Enough!

Congressional report after Congressional report, Hearing after Hearing makes it clear that the agencies charged with protecting our food can no more do that than the EPA can clean up and protect our environment. Again and again Congress affirms that the agencies have failed and then “solves” the problem by acting like the lunatic who, unsuccessful at a problem, does the same thing again, making the problem worse, not better.

Enough!

Congress take note: throwing money at the FDA and USDA and giving them more authority does not solve the problem. We have 80 years of proof that this strategy just makes things worse.

Enough!

Yes, the only answer is to take food regulatory authority away from these death dealing agencies and give it back to the States where popular pressure and control is far more meaningful. How to do that? By the same kind of pressure that made Congress do a 180º reversal of direction in 1994. Instead of voting to ban all nutrients (are you noticing a pattern here?) they responded to the millions of letters from Americans from all walks of life and passed legislation treating nutrients as foods which, as such, should not be regulated as if they were drugs. That legislation is called the Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act (DSHEA) and public pressure in its favor is the ONLY reason that we have access to dietary supplements at all.

The lesson is clear. It is public pressure, like the 2×4 the apocryphal farmer used to get the mule’s attention, which drives enlightened public policy, NOT politicians and certainly not the lobbyists they routinely bow to.

The FDA does a poor enough job “regulating” dangerous and deadly drugs. There is no way an agency so pervasively corrupt and inept can change its ways and suddenly become the custodian of health and healthy foods when those very foods are the chief economic competitor of the drugs whose approval supplies the lion’s share of the operating budget of the FDA through “Users Fees”. The conflict of interest is so monumental that it fairly takes your breath away.

Enough!

Drugs are not the very core of life. Food is.

During 2009, the Natural Solutions Foundation will be creating and pursuing a campaign to take back our food from the inept and corrupt hands of the US Government (which also means getting the FDA and USDA out of Codex, by the way). We are going to be asking for your help in dissemination and for action steps.

Ready to get the government out of food and get food out of the government? Click here – http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26314 – to tell your Congressmen and women that the drug makers can have the FDA to play with, but we want the FDA and USDA out of the food regulation business.

And remember to click here – https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=189 – to make your tax deductible donation to this vitally important campaign. All us us who eat are in this together, you know. And we need your help to set the table to serve up the dish known as health freedom, with clean, unadulterated food as the main course!

By the Way, While you still can get it, get some great Nano silver here:

www.nutronix.com/naturalsolutions

Go to Products and then scroll down to Silver Solutions (bottom of left side menu).

Nano silver has a very long shelf life, years really, so you can safely lay in your supply NOW!

General Bert told you that we speakers at an important conference in Europe. Make no mistake: we never, but never, leave home without silver. We believe that it is one of the most important reasons that we virtually never get sick and if we do, get better very, very quickly.

Please share this information with your friends and contacts and ask them to help protect food and freedom, too. Let them know that they can get their very free subscription to the Health Freedom Action eAlerts at https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/?page_id=187.

Thanks!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Copyright 2009

Satyagraha (Non-cooperation) and Monsanto

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

The Foundation has established a new Yahoo!Groups forum about food and farming. Please join it at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natural-solutions-food-and-farming/

Here’s a powerful article about how farmers in India are reclaiming their rights, in the tradition of Ghandi. Our thanks to Linn Cohen-Cole who is a tireless fighter for freedom.

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From www.opednews.com :
February 3, 2009 at 22:15:44

The multiple ways Monsanto is putting normal seeds out of reach
by Linn Cohen-Cole

People say if farmers don’t want problems from Monsanto, just don’t
buy their GMO seeds.

Not so simple. Where are farmers supposed to get normal seed these
days? How are they supposed to avoid contamination of their fields
from GM-crops? How are they supposed to stop Monsanto detectives from trespassing or Monsanto from using helicopters to fly over spying on them?

Monsanto contaminates the fields, trespasses onto the land taking
samples and if they find any GMO plants growing there (or say they
have), they then sue, saying they own the crop. It’s a way to make
money since farmers can’t fight back and court and they settle because they have no choice.

And they have done and are doing a bucket load of things to keep
farmers and everyone else from having any access at all to buying,
collecting, and saving of NORMAL seeds.

1. They’ve bought up the seed companies across the Midwest.

2. They’ve written Monsanto seed laws and gotten legislators to put
them through, that make cleaning, collecting and storing of seeds so
onerous in terms of fees and paperwork and testing and tracking every
variety and being subject to fines, that having normal seed becomes
almost impossible (an NAIS approach to wiping out normal seeds). Does your state have such a seed law? Before they existed, farmers just collected the seeds and put them in sacks in the shed and used them the next year, sharing whatever they wished with friends and
neighbors, selling some if they wanted. That’s been killed.

In Illinois which has such a seed law, Madigan, the Speaker of the
House, his staff is Monsanto lobbyists.

3. Monsanto is pushing anti-democracy laws (Vilsack’s brainchild,
actually) that remove community’ control over their own counties so
farmers and citizens can’t block the planting of GMO crops even if
they can contaminate other crops. So if you don’t want a GM-crop that grows industrial chemicals or drugs or a rice growing with human DNA in it, in your area and mixing with your crops, tough luck.

Check the map of just where the Monsanto/Vilsack laws are and see if
your state is still a democracy or is Monsanto’s. A farmer in Illinois
told me he heard that Bush had pushed through some regulation that
made this true in every state. People need to check on that.

4. For sure there are Monsanto regulations buried in the FDA right now
that make a farmer’s seed cleaning equipment illegal (another way to
leave nothing but GM-seeds) because it’s now considered a “source of
seed contamination.” Farmer can still seed clean but the equipment now has to be certified and a farmer said it would require a million to a
million and half dollar building and equipment … for EACH line of
seed. Seed storage facilities are also listed (another million?) and
harvesting and transport equipment. And manure. Something that can
contaminate seed. Notice that chemical fertilizers and pesticides are
not mentioned.

You could eat manure and be okay (a little grossed out but okay). Try
that with pesticides and fertilizers. Indian farmers have. Their top
choice for how to commit suicide to escape the debt they have been
left in is to drink Monsanto pesticides.

5. Monsanto is picking off seed cleaners across the Midwest. In Pilot
Grove, Missouri , in Indiana (Maurice Parr ), and now in southern
Illinois (Steve Hixon). And they are using US marshals and state
troopers and county police to show up in three cars to serve the poor
farmers who had used Hixon as their seed cleaner, telling them that he
or their neighbors turned them in, so across that 6 county areas, no
one talking to neighbors and people are living in fear and those
farming communities are falling apart from the suspicion Monsanto
sowed. Hixon’s office got broken into and he thinks someone put a
GPS tracking device on his equipment and that’s how Monsanto found
between 200-400 customers in very scattered and remote areas, and
threatened them all and destroyed his business within 2 days.

So, after demanding that seed cleaners somehow be able to tell one
seed from another (or be sued to kingdom come) or corrupting
legislatures to put in laws about labeling of seeds that are so
onerous no one can cope with them, what is Monsanto’s attitude about labeling their own stuff? You guessed it – they’re out there pushing laws against ANY labeling of their own GM-food and animals and of any exports to other countries. Why?

We know and they know why.

As Norman Braksick, the president of Asgrow Seed Co. (now owned by
Monsanto) predicted in the Kansas City Star (3/7/94) seven years ago, “If you put a label on a genetically engineered food, you might as
well put a skull and crossbones on it.”

And they’ve sued dairy farmers for telling the truth about their milk
being rBGH-free, though rBGH is associated with an increased risk of
breast, colon and prostate cancers.

I just heard that some seed dealers urge farmers to buy the seed under the seed dealer’s name, telling the farmers it helps the dealer get a discount on seed to buy a lot under their own name. Then Monsanto sues the poor farmer for buying their seed without a contract and extorts huge sums from them.

Here’s a youtube video that is worth your time. Vandana Shiva is one
of the leading anti-Monsanto people in the world. In this video, she
says (and this video is old), Monsanto had sued 1500 farmers whose
fields had simply been contaminated by GM-crops. Listen to all the
ways Monsanto goes after farmers.

Do you know the story of Gandhi in India and how the British had salt
laws that taxed salt? The British claimed it as theirs. Gandhi had
what was called a Salt Satyagraha, in which people were asked to break the laws and march to the sea and collect the salt without paying the British. A kind of Boston tea party, I guess.

Thousands of people marched 240 miles to the ocean where the British
were waiting. As people moved forward to collect the salt, the British
soldiers clubbed them but the people kept coming. The non-violent
protest exposed the British behavior which was so revolting to the
world that it helped end British control in India.

Vandana Shiva has started a Seed Satyagraha – nonviolent
non-cooperation around seed laws – has gotten millions of farmers to
sign a pledge to break those laws.

American farmers and cattlemen might appreciate what Gandhi fought for and what Shiva is bringing back and how much it is about what we are all so angry about – loss of basic freedoms.

The Seed Satyagraha is the name for the nonviolent, noncooperative
movement that Dr. Shiva has organized to stand against seed
monopolies. According to Dr. Shiva, the name was inspired by Gandhi’s
famous walk to the Dandi Beach, where he picked up salt and said,

“You can’t monopolize this which we need for life.” But it’s not just the
noncooperation aspect of the movement that is influenced by Gandhi.
The creative side saving seeds, trading seeds, farming without
corporate dependence-–without their chemicals, without their seed.

“All this is talked about in the language that Gandhi left us as a
legacy. We work with three key concepts.”

“(One) Swadeshi…which means the capacity to do your own
thing–produce your own food, produce your own goods….”

“(Two) Swaraj–to govern yourself. And we fight on three
fronts-–water, food, and seed. JalSwaraj is water independence–water freedom and water sovereignty. Anna Swaraj is food freedom, food sovereignty. And Bija Swaraj is seed freedom and seed sovereignty. Swa means self–that which rises from the self and is very, very much a deep notion of freedom.

“I believe that these concepts, which are deep, deep, deep in Indian
civilization, Gandhi resurrected them to fight for freedom. They are
very important for today’s world because so far what we’ve had is
centralized state rule, giving way now to centralized corporate
control, and we need a third alternate. That third alternate is, in
part, citizens being able to tell their state, ‘This is what your
function is. This is what your obligations are,’ and being able to
have their states act on corporations to say, ‘This is something you
cannot do.'”

“(Three) Satyagraha, non-cooperation, basically saying, ‘We will do
our thing and any law that tries to say that (our freedom) is illegal…
we will have to not cooperate with it. We will defend our freedoms to
have access to water, access to seed, access to food, access to
medicine.'”

Copyright 2009 – Linn Cohen-Cole