The Jeff Farias Show

Tuesday, February 17 2009

by jeff farias on Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:06 pm

We spoke with Wolfgang Kaleck, General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights e.V. (ECCHR, long-time president (2000-2008) of the progressive Republican Lawyer’s Association (RAV) and former vice-president and general secretary of European Democratic Lawyers (see http://www.aed-eda.com), has been working in the field of national and international human rights for the past ten years. He has worked closely with Amnesty International, CCR and Human Rights Watch on cases regarding Germans disappeared in Argentina, the detainees in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and the former Uzbek Minister of the Interior. Together with CCR he filed two lawsuits in Germany against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking members of the US administration and military for gross violations of international law in regard to human rights abuses in Abu Ghraib. Although the suits were dismissed by courts of first instance, they stimulated positive discussions in Germany and elsewhere about command responsibility and the modern-day significance of the Nuremberg precedents.

At 6 PM Safwan Javed, Wide Mouth Mason drummer responds to the introduction of the controversial Canadian DMCA. We discuss issues of copyright laws that treat artists fairly and allows the consumer and other artists fair usage. http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2 … er_doj.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOBLExSiaDY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOCyJDDTWxA

We also spoke with Dr Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including: ‘Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization’ (South End Press, 2001), ‘Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge’ (South End Press, 1997), ‘Monocultures of the Mind’ (Zed, 1993), ‘The Violence of the Green Revolution’ (Zed, 1992), and ‘Staying Alive’ (St. Martin’s Press, 1989). Dr. Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne, 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). The founder of Navdanya (”nine seeds”), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India.” http://www.Navdanya.org

To learn more about Percy Schmeiser’s story go to http://www.percyschmeiser.com/

friend of the show Krista shared this Check out this place down in Tucson. They’re right on 4th ave, the main drag there in Tucson. I have yet to visit because I can’t afford a road trip at this time, but there is a lot of info on this site about native Az seeds, they show you how to save seeds etc. http://www.nativeseeds.org/about/contact

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