> I hear ya Lawrence, but it's been happening for years now -
> "biopiracy" patenting of native medicinals in the Amazon for the
> profit of mulitnational pharmaceuticals, a man having a bit of his
> biology patented *by someone else* for medical industry profit he gets
> none of, etc. etc. ad nauseum.
RAFI has renamed itself as ETC ie "action group on Erosion,
Technology and Concentration".
Go to http://www.rafi.org/key_defs.asp and scroll down to "New
Enclosures" under "Concentration" for an update on new mechanisms
for corporate control.