Published on Saturday, April 30, 2011 by GRITtv

Vandana Shiva: Understanding the Corporate Takeover

"The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago," says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine.  "The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy."

Dr. Shiva has been fighting corporate takeover in every area in her native India, combating a nuclear plant one week and patented, genetically modified seeds another. She joins Laura in studio to advise American activists how they can fight the merging of corporations and government here at home and around the world.

Interview with Laura Flanders on GRITtv:
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/04/30