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Chaia Heller of the Vermont Based Institute for Social Ecology
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Chaia Heller spoke at the Universalist Unitarian Church and laid it out. Avoiding the short-sided view that by
labeling, regulating or outlawing the particular technological industry known as Bio-Tech, we are not solving the
problem. She outlined the idea that through biotech, and other information -based economies that started up in the
US after WWII, we have created a world where corporations have found ways to profit from every aspect of
human life, turning us into consumers, not citizens. She called for not only the end of BioTech but a blossoming of
citizen based democracy movement in this country that takes the power back from the corporations and puts it into
every citizen and every communitites life. Shaping this vision further, she acknowledged that for this democracy to
flourish, it must have a global consciousness. Noting that there are small pockets of citizen dem,ocracy left in the
UUS, in town councils, meeting halls and social movements throughout the US, she sharpened this vision further.