Kayakas!

[This is a guest-post by Hope Shand of the ETC Group. -Ed.] Patents, globalization and social injustice are the stuff of public protest across the world. This week, however, a drawn-out battle against corporate monopoly will come to a head – not in the streets – but in an arcane technical hearing at the European Patent Office. ETC Group, an international civil society organization, and environmental group Greenpeace (supported by 19 other civil society organizations worldwide) will be in Munich pursuing a13-year legal battle against Monsanto over the humble soybean. Patents, exclusive legal monopol…