[CitizensTruth] Save the date - Small farm activist Vandana Shiva to appear in Joliet October 27

[Geri Perry]

Mark your calendar:

WHAT: "Sustainability and the Global Food Crisis"
WHO: Vandana Shiva
WHERE:University of St. Francis, 500 Wilcox St. Joliet, IL.
WHEN: October 27, 7:30pm to @ 9pm

FREE Admission
For questions: (815) 740-3496 or see: 
https://myusf.stfrancis.edu/portal/public/calendar/calendarEntryDetail.jsp?calendarEntryId=16447 


Vandana Shiva will speak on "Sustainability and the Global Food Crisis" 
as well as discuss her newest book, Soil Not Oil. Presentation includes 
time for Q & A.

Shiva is a small farm activist, winner of the 1993 "Alternative" Nobel 
Peace prize, and author. Before becoming an activist, she was one of 
India ’s leading physicists. She holds a master’s degree in the 
philosophy of science and a Ph.D. in particle physics. I have not read 
Shiva's new book, but I highly recommend her "Stolen Harvest: The 
HighJacking of the Global Food Supply".

I did find a review of her new book here: 
http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=51807

PERTINENT EXCERPT from that review:

The basic message in “Soil not Oil” is that globalization and big 
corporations are ruining agriculture and creating poverty by imposing 
immense farms on the world that rely on pesticides, machines that guzzle 
oil and monoculture crops. Shiva argues that we should revert to small, 
organic farms that grow diverse crops and use human and animal power. 
The benefits are many: jobs, healthy and plentiful food, preserving the 
soil rather than depleting it and kicking our addiction to fossil fuels. 
Best of all, this helps the poor of the world.