After writing a honest report exposing corruption in Indian Science, Shiva was fired, evicted, threatened, and forced to flee India via Nepal. Nature India commissioned him to write “Innovation Demands Freedom,” which was published. Later the PM Office of India threatened the Nature India Editor, forcing it to be pulled…
At MIT’s 142nd Commencement, Shiva protested the War in Iraq with a sign “US OUT OF IRAQ” as he was awarded his degree. He had made the sign using posterboard and carried the sign under his gown. He was upset that no “eminent” speaker said anything about the War, while…
Email provided a new vehicle for grassroots political organizing. EchoMail, another of Shiva’s inventions, enabled small and large non-profits and organizations to mobilize using email. In fact, the George Bush for President in 2000 used EchoMail’s capabilities for grassroots mobilization.
The WWW provided a revolutionary opportunity for artists. Shiva created Arts-Online, a pioneering social entrepreneur experiment to enable artists and arts organizations to go direct. Thousands of artists and organizations were on-boarded.
MIT administration “honored” MLK’s legacy, while on campus instituting segregationist policies against poor whites and blacks. Shiva led the February 10 Coalition to expose this hypocrisy on the occasion of the MLK event.