Jamie Love, Andrew Kimbrell

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ralph talks to intellectual property activist, Jamie Love, about his historic, yet unsung, efforts to get affordable, life-saving AIDS drugs to Africa and other underdeveloped areas of the globe. And the head of the Center for Food Safety, Andrew Kimbrell completely takes apart all the arguments in favor of GMO foods and dangerous herbicides.

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0:00.0	From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,
0:03.6	it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.6	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.6	You've been sitting great to long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrove and David Feldman unfortunately
0:19.9	he's not with us today. He'll be back next week. But we do have the Man of the hour the reason we're all here to begin with
0:25.0	Mr Ralph Nader is here and later in the show we're going to be talking
0:29.0	about what I know is one of David's favorite subjects
0:32.0	which is too bad he's not here it's food.
0:34.0	We're going to be talking with Andrew Kimbrel, the executive director of the Center for Food Safety.
0:39.0	As always we will also hear from the corporate crime reporter Russell Mokiber, but first we are going to be talking about knowledge where to get it, how to keep it, and how to use it.
0:51.0	Which brings us to our first guest. James Love, in my opinion, is one of the unsung heroes of the consumer movement or any movement for that matter.
1:00.0	He is an intellectual property rights activist, which sounds pretty abstract and wonky, but he, along with the current president of public citizen, Rob Weisman, were an instrumental part of the coalition to bring affordable AIDS drugs to Africa and other underdeveloped nations back in the late 1990s and early 2000s,
1:19.0	probably saving millions of lives, which of course is not abstract and wonky it's very real.
1:25.0	Now Mr Love is the director of a nonprofit called Knowledge Ecology International,
1:30.0	KEEI, an organization that searches for new ways to manage knowledge resources.
1:36.7	In 2006, KEEI received a MacArthur Award for creative and effective institutions for its work on intellectual property rights, and in 2013 Mr. Love received the
1:47.1	EFF Pioneer War for his work on a UN treaty on copyright exceptions for persons who are blind or have other disabilities.
1:56.4	Mr Love has been an expert in several compulsory licensing cases and is an advocate of
2:01.1	de-linking R&D costs, research and development costs from drug prices.
2:06.3	It's an honor to welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour, James Love.
2:09.3	Hello, Mr. Love?
2:11.3	Well, it's an honor to be on a show with you and with Ralph Nader.
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