patents

Ownership “rights” over all life forms, from genes to whole organisms are being handed over to private corporations. . Biodiversity is being reduced to genetic information and being patented so fast that most patent applications are purely speculative. A patent is a form of monopoly right to profit from a product for a fixed term. …

mayday 2000

Less than a year ago, on June the 18th, financial centres on every continent were rocked by people resisting the devastation of their lives by a bankrupt economic system. Five months later on November the 30th, as the legislators of global capitalism  the WTO (World Trade Organisation) tried to meet in Seattle, tens of thousands shut down …