'Occupy the Seed!' Vandana's Call for Seed Freedom + Free Seed Saving eBook

Sebastian von Holstein |

Sunday, 26th August 2012

Following on from the Occupy movements that have taken the world by storm, Dr. Vandana Shiva has planned a two-week campaign named the Seed Freedom Fortnight of Action, also known as 'Occupy the Seed'. To help launch the campaign we offer a free vegetable seed saving guide eBook.

image from www.consciousagriculture.org

(thanks to Ami)

Creating Awareness for Seed Freedom

The campaign is symbolically set to begin on Mahatma Ghandi's birth date on October 2, through to October 16th. It will seek to improve awareness of the growing threat that patented seeds pose on both our crop diversity and personal freedoms. It will also act to improve our relationship with a universal food supply that humanity has grown to take for granted.

In a video entitled Seed Freedom, Vandana Shiva states that while "farmers [continue to] have their seeds in their hands, there will never be poverty, never be hunger." However, large corporations such as Monsanto have created what she refers to as a "seed emergency", preventing farmers from accessing and controlling their own supply of seeds, by genetically modifying, patenting and then circulating 'sterile' seeds. Farmers who continue to grow seeds traditionally often suffer from cross contamination and run the risk of being sued by Monsanto, under the pretence that they have stolen 'modified genes.'

CHANCE OF FLARES: Sunspot AR1560 has more than quadrupled in size since August 30th, and now the fast growing active region is directly facing our planet: movie. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of M-class solar fares during the next 48 hours. Solar Flare alerts: text, phone.

MAGNIFICENT ERUPTION: A filament of magnetism curling around the sun's southeastern limb erupted on August 31st, producing a coronal mass ejection (CME), a C8-class solar flare, and one of the most beautiful movies ever recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

The explosion hurled a CME away from the sun traveling faster than 500 km/s (1.1 million mph). The cloud, shown here, is not heading directly toward Earth, but it will deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of strong polar geomagnetic storms when the cloud arrives on Sept. 3rd.

Beloved Ones,

This is a time to stay connected within as the changes take place within your physical structures and in the World around you. There are many things occurring that will not make sense and which can distract you from your purpose and it is important to stay grounded each day. You have long been the forerunners of the changes now taking place and have already experienced most of the changes within yourselves and now you will observe this in others around you. The greatest change takes place in consciousness. There continues to be a greater acceptance of the possibilities that Humankind is made of greater stuff than was previously thought and this in turn will create changes in the structures of society. Many new ideas and solutions will flow to the surface into tangible manifestation that will bring benevolent changes to all.