Kosmos was delighted to attend the recent EDGE Funders Alliance Conference in Baltimore. The following text is from a presentation by Heike Loeschmann of the Heinrich Boell Foundation on Transformational Change.

“What’s going on is a double-enclosure: a massive privatization and commodification of the physical world – the atmosphere, land, forests, genes, life forms, and more – and a massive privatization and commodification of economic decision making and democracy themselves.

The enclosure of nature is alarming in itself, but the enclosure of democracy may be even more troubling because it is the only means that we have to stop the first enclosure. We have to mobilize against a systematic shut down of democratic accountability, participation and transparency.” – Heike Loeschmann