Vandana Shiva discusses the corporatization of the rural economy in India and the efforts to resist it. "I have recognized that civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy. Gandhi's idea of swadeshi, that society should put its own resources and its local capacities to use to meet its needs as a basic element of freedom, the economic pillar of political freedom, is becoming increasingly relevant."

Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is an internationally renowned voice for sustainable development and social justice. A physicist, scholar, political activist and feminist, she is Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi . She's the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the alternative Nobel Prize. Author of many books, her latest are "Earth Democracy" and "Soil Not Oil."