| At the Golden Gate. San Francisco. April 2018. |
Resistance = rEvolution.
Defining principles from a vital text, Vandana Shiva's Earth Democracy:
1. All species, peoples, and cultures have intrinsic worth.
2. The earth community is a democracy of all life.
3. Diversity in nature and culture must be defended.
4. All beings have a natural right to sustenance.
5. Earth democracy is based on living economies (that is, living ecological systems) and economic democracy.
6. Earth democracy is based on local economies: economies that provide direct subsistence from nature rather than from extractive global markets.
7. Earth democracy is a participatory democracy in which people have knowledge and power to influence actions that effect their lives and livelihood.
8. The human cultures of an earth democracy promote peace and create free spaces for the practice of different faiths and identifies.
9. Cultures in an earth democracy are life nourishing.
10. Earth democracy globalizes peace, care and compassion.
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