Vandana Shiva on Int’l Women’s Day: "Capitalist Patriarchy Has Aggravated Violence Against Women"

I noticed several postings about how being a woman is detrimental to your health in a global context. This is timely for several reasons but the most important one is that yesterday, March 8th, was International (Working) Women's Day. In an attempt to deepen and further the discussion on Women's Rights, Global Health, and global economies, I wanted to highlight an internet article I came across on Democracy Now.

From Democracy Now:
 

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We end our International Women’s Day broadcast with the Indian feminist, activist and thinker Dr. Vandana Shiva. The author of many books, most recently "Making Peace with the Earth," Dr. Shiva discusses the impact on women by what she calls the world’s "violent economic order," and the women-led uproar over sexual violence in India triggered by last year’s brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in Delhi. A world-renowned physicist, Dr. Shiva also addresses the recent U.S. Supreme Court case pitting an Indiana farmer against the agri-giant Monsanto. "The multiple wars against the earth, through the economy, through greed, through capitalist, patriarchal domination, must end, and we have to recognize we are part of the earth," Dr. Shiva says. "The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it’s the next step of peace that we need to create.

Here is the resulting video conversation with Dr. Shiva. If you go to the website you can get the full transcript of the conversation/interview.