:59:16
Over the past decade
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we have been
gaining ground.
:59:21
And when I say we
:59:22
I mean ordinary
people committed
:59:25
to the welfare
of all humanity.
:59:28
All people irrespective
of gender and class
:59:30
and race
and religion.
:59:32
All species
on the planet.
:59:34
We managed to take
the biggest government
:59:37
and one of the largest
chemical companies to court
:59:40
on the case of Neemand
win a case against them.
:59:45
W. R. Grace and the U. S.
governments patent on Neem
:59:48
was revoked by a case
we brought
:59:50
along with the greens
of European parliament
:59:53
and the international
organic agriculture movement.
:59:55
We won because we
worked together.
1:00:02
We have overturned
nearly 99 percent
1:00:05
of the basmati patent
of Ricetek.
1:00:07
Again because we worked
as a world wide coalition
1:00:11
old women in Texas
scientists in India
1:00:14
activists sitting
in Vancouver
1:00:16
a little basmati
action group.
1:00:19
We stopped the third world
being viewed as the pirate
1:00:23
and we showed the corporations
were the pirate.
1:00:32
Look how little
it took for Gandhi
1:00:35
to work against the salt
laws of the British
1:00:37
where the British decided
1:00:39
the way they would
make their armies
1:00:41
and police forces bigger
1:00:42
is just
tax the salt.
1:00:44
And all that Gandhi did
was walk to the beach
1:00:46
pick up
the salt and say
1:00:49
nature gives it
for free.
1:00:50
Wanted it.
Weve always made it.
1:00:52
We will violate
your laws.
1:00:53
We will continue
to make salt.
1:00:55
Weve had a similar
commitment for
1:00:58
the last decade in India.
1:00:58
That any law that makes
it illegal to save seed