Through imposing laws related to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) & patents on seed which deny farmers and gardner the right to save and share seed, our diversity, freedoms and right to health are being criminalised.
Higher laws that flow from the laws of the Earth, reaffirmed by the laws of our humanity, compel us to question and resist the imposition of laws based on uniformity as an instrument of control being forced upon our diversity as peoples, cultures and the other species, which we have a duty to protect and defend.
We do not recognise any laws, created by corporate interests, that interfere in our duty to save and share good seed so that the generations to come are as fortunate as we have been in receiving these gifts of diversity and nourishment.
We will not obey, or recognise any law that criminalises our time-tested seeds.
This is our Seed Satyagraha
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Read more: Download Seed Satyagraha Booklet
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Read and Sign the Seed Satyagraha Pledge
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Read and share: The Law of the Seed
Index: — In Focus — Videos — News — Events and Actions — Related Campaigns
In Focus
Tell Montana Legislators to Vote NO on SB 155!
By Kristina Hubbard – Organic Seed Alliance, 16 February 2017
A win for seed diversity in California
Pesticide Action Network, 11 October 2016
France: the “Biodiversity” Law represents a victory for biodiversity cultivated seeds – July 2016
Ecuador Grassroots Launch Fight Against GMO Seed Firms
Telesur, 20 July 2016
Ecuador – Seeds and Food Sovereignty at Risk – July 2016
Read and share the Declaration of
Civil Disobedience against AB2470, The California Seed Law September/October 2015
Watch Dr Vandana Shiva’s Video Message & Keynote Speech from the Heirloom Expo – September 2015
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News
Rogue companies must be stopped from taking over India’s rich biodiversity
By Dr Vandana Shiva – The Indian Express, 4 June 2016
Clash of civilisations: India’s ancient love for nature is losing out to modern disregard for it
By Dr Vandana Shiva – Scroll.in, 31 May 2016
Seeds, Biodiversity and IPRs
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 26 May 2016
Seeds of suicide
by Dr Vandana Shiva – The Asian Age, 19 May 2016
Denmark Interprets EU Seed Laws in Support of Seed Saving
Credits: information source: Signe Voltelen, composed by Jodi Koberinski – 17 March 2016
Message for California Seed Freedom Rally , 4th Jan 2016 from Dr Vandana Shiva
By Dr Vandana Shiva, 4 January 2016
National Heirloom Festival: Hope to End Seed Slavery
By Julie Ann Finemann – Huffington Post, 17 December 2015–
Indigenous Mayans Win Stunning Repeal of Hated ‘Monsanto Law’
By Alex Pietrowski — Walking Times, 19 October 2015
News TAGS: SEED LAW
Events and Actions
Seed Freedom Rally
Sacramento, California – 4 January 2016
Seeds of Dissent March
Santa Monica CA, USA – 3 October 2015
The 2015 National Heirloom Exposition – The World’s Pure Food Fair
Santa Rosa, California, USA – 8 – 10 September 2015
SOS Save Our Seeds March & Rally
San Francisco, California, USA – 6 September 2015
Soil Not Oil International Conference
Richmond, California, USA – 4 – 5 September 2015
Seed Freedom Day against California AB2470
Finley, California, USA – 1st July 2015
Related Campaigns
Sarson Satyagraha – Civil Disobedience against GMO Mustard
Call To Action for Living Seed and Living Soil – 2015
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