this is absolutely amazing for the past few months i've penned donating full time hours to this global movement and to see this kind of turnout is really amazing it's really inspiring so i am one of the several international co written by users and i just want to report some of the latest numbers there are actually events on six continents and over fifty countries  we were starting to live with new york city a little earlier and and about fifteen minutes we're going to be sky thing live with montreal came back in canada so this whole movement it started out as a facebook page created by a soccer mom and shortly thereafter i got in touch with her and because i had a little bit of experience organizing and so i landed by efforts logistically and shortly thereafter several other people came on board to help and really try to push it to its full potential and  we've gotten help from a very diverse group of activists internationally we have a large kiss collective hoping us libertarians we have soccer vileness we have progressive liberals we have a political mothers who just don't want their kids to eat poison and also i just want to say that i think the answer to taking down monsanto is grabbing them by the ankles and pulling it down which means it happens on the grass roots  s with people the food and water washes are really great organization to get involved with to keep things going and finally i just want to thank the people who have made this seattle march out here are so thank you our next speaker is from the washington fair trade coalition she is executive director her name is christian based and yeah come on out there you are you by everyone is crazy here so i am so i was in washington fairtrade coalition where a group of sixty five belabored social justice environmental faith student organizations and fairtrade business is here in washington state working for an equitable global trading policy and we represent tens of thousands of eaters community members and workers who are done with the corporate takeover of our colombia but through mexico central america south america africa and asia they're expanding their markets they are hurting family farms i think moment monsanto is trying to introduce g m o seeds in mexico her they're taking to the streets hunger strange happened earlier this year to try to keep g m o seeds out of mexico and our elected officials the same ones who take money from monsanto for their election own stock in mind santo agree with them and allow them to move forward on these trade agreements after decades of evidence that they cause economic destabilization and forced people to migrate to the us because they have no other choice mandatory and you know we're done with that in its eighteenth round negotiations and we know farmers are not at the table negotiating those workers are not the table community members and we know that it will expand corporations rights to challenge labor and environmental laws because they see those as barriers to trade yes corporations get to see who country is because they think their environmental laws and public health and safety  a barrier to their profit the rights so we're faced with the trans pacific partnership and corporations want this agreement signed by the end of this year all right so this is what you can do to exit support and to go away knowing you are empowered and you can do something you need to reach out to your members of congress representatives senators and say represent we the people not  to not philip morris not wal mart not the big pharmaceutical companies and we need you to vote no on fast track and vote yes for workers yes for farmers and you asked for ea thank you so much and that was awesome i'm also an app that's just come out called by car i don't know if you guys have heard about it but it's not up on android yet but that's also another way we can take our food back and decide what our dollar every single day we can vote  out there that say this current generation will not be outliving their parents we should all be out in the streets screaming about that with monsanto can take away our children it can take away other family members as it poisons them slowly with they can the goals that it puts in our food so today i really feel this is our lorax moment this is our moment where we have to speak for the trees we have to speak for the farms and we have to speak for the children this story goes on and on for years to sell this sad tale of lies and green from farm to seed monsanto and their g m crops are harming people and the earth that we need recently the lorax took a visit to check on the damage caused by monsanto and their g e crops and this is what happened the lorax said nothing just gave the farms a glance just gave the farm a very sad sad backward glance as he lifted himself by the seat of his pants and i'll never forget the grim look on his face when he heisted himself and took leave of the farm through the hole in the smog without leaving a trace and all the lorax left here in the field was a small pile of rocks with one word less whatever that meant well i just couldn't guess but now now that you're here the word of the rock seems perfectly clear unless someone like you who all of you cares a whole lot nothing is going to get better it's not so go take your knowledge and passion act on your intentions create change it is going to take all of us all of us that are here to care and tell other people why to stop eating g m o food you are in charge of inoculating the public against the lies of monsanto you are in charge of reclaiming consumers rights you are in charge of protecting the children and the environment we live in a personal ban on g m o food is what everyone food and water watch and fairtrade coalition has been a huge help and so are when we opened up this facebook page we had thirty four hundred people sign on saying that they were coming to this event so it's just amazing that this is happening not only in seattle but everywhere so all interesting next week his name is barry and he is an urban homesteader and biodynamic educator you want to come on not try to do a little bit as channel wendell berry if i want to turn into a farmer that's what i would turn to and right now the first thing i would say for you is it all turns on affection that's the title of his talk for the jefferson award from the national endowment for the humanities last year and you should read that as state's online it all turns on affection and in that found in our capitalist world in our socialist world which is kind of faded away it's a model of control trying to control nature the agrarian model is more in the biological logic than ecological logic one of affection one of place and living in nature and internet interview to that award he has the phrase fifth the farming to the farm to the farming to the farmer and that really biodynamic ideal the idea that you use as few imports as possible you take the resources of a farm and you fit the livestock cropping all to those resources you don't bring imports from outside you rely on the sun and the energy it brings and the cycling of enterprises and then in the farm itself now what's prominent today is the industrial model where you treat farming like a factory like a manufacturing process you bring in inputs and you have outputs they were sold as commodities it's a profit driven it's not health driven now you can't just take monsanto away monsanto is just filling the whole way the prominent model today is that industrial model they're just an input company the technology itself i also happen to be a biologist i understand the genetics well enough to know that it's beyond our control at cytoplasm of a cell as like an ecology you know we can't control the can take away the technique by itself there are techniques of smart breeding knowing that genomics of plants can help us to breed better so it's a double edged sword but if you really know the biology you know we can't control it now if we're not if we can't just take months out to away we've got to change this input model the only way we're going to change that model is if we start to respect the farm we start to respect the ecology of the farm boy because that means the stewardship of the household the word because all of us have households not just farmers we need more farmers all you young folks out there and older folks not just support the farms that exist and buyer gannett products some organic farms are industrial model they're practically like you know a farm that uses g m o they bring in imports but outputs we need something higher than that to have that we're going to need a lot more farmers a lot more labor we're going to need to respect labor not just on farms but and we need ourselves who aren't going to be farmers the few of us left i hope to have our own urban households to be producers to what extent we can so that that stands in our minds as a model for how do we make decisions and what we buy and what we do we need to reclaim domesticity that's a phrase of shannon hayes in her book radical homemaker so that's two things today you've got it all turns on affection and radical homemaker emotion and haze so that our diets our way of life matches the farm rather than our diet and way of life is cokes and whatnot and we have to have farms with g m o has to grow the corn you know to make the syrup we are offering here we are what we eat but we also eat what we are so if we are that industrial model we'll meet that conifers now david korten this industrial model is based on the contemporary predominant philosophy david korten referred to he's an austrian model is working for we need to educate the world so that we see that there's more than that