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"Knock Knock" by Daniel Beaty

The Unique Properties of Water

The Seed Keepers (The Palestinian Poem)

Burn our land
burn our dreams
pour acid onto our songs
cover with sawdust
the blood of our massacred people
muffle with your technology
the screams of all that is free,
wild and indigenous.
Destroy
Destroy
our grass and soil
raze to the ground
every farm and every village
our ancestors had built
every tree, every home
every book, every law
and all the equity and harmony.
Flatten with your bombs
every valley; erase with your edits
our past,
our literature; our metaphor
Denude the forests
and the earth
till no insect,
no bird
no word
can find a place to hide.
Do that and more.
I do not fear your tyranny
I do not despair ever
for I guard one seed
a little live seed
that I shall safeguard
and plant again.

Piracy through Patent

Through patents and generic engineering, new colonies are being carved out. The land, the forests, the rivers, the oceans, and the atmosphere have all been colonized, eroded, and polluted. Capital now has to look for new colonies to invade and exploit for its further accumulation. These new colonies are, in my view, the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals. Resistance to biopiracy is a resistance to the ultimate colonization of life itself - of the future of evolution as well as the future of non-western traditions of relating to and knowing nature. It is a struggle to protect the freedom of diverse species to evolve. It is a struggle to protect the freedom of diverse cultures to evolve. It is a struggle to conserve both culture and biological diversity.

Vandana Shiva. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge,5.(South End Press, 1971)

Are We Really So Rational?

"We gull ourselves into thinking that our action are guided by rational thoughts. But in truth we are not the authors of our own lives. Rather, our lives are written for us by our circumstances: by our place, our time, our culture, by the accident of our birth."

Naffine, Ngaire, Law's meaning of Life: Philosophy, Religion, Darwin and the Legal Person (Oxford & Portland,Hart Publishing, 2009)

Fruits & Vegetables: Pesticide Contaminated or Organic?

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Never Sick Again

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