Jerry Mander - Globalization and Indigenous Cultures

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Author and social critic Jerry Mander discusses how the cultural concepts of indigenous peoples endure despite globalization, and speculates on the benefits of adapting these ideas to modern life.

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In this spirited book, Jerry Mander partners with the celebrated indigenous leader Victoria Tauli-Corpuz to gather powerful firsthand reports on a momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's indigenous peoples. With many of the planet's remaining natural resources on indigenous lands, traditional practices of biodiversity preservation have, ironically, made these lands targets for global corporations seeking the last forests, genetic and plant materials, oil, and minerals to feed their unsustainable growth. Corporate invaders often employ military force, as well as harsh pressures from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. But native peoples refuse to be victims; their stories of resistance and growing success are gathered here by twenty-five writers to describe the impacts.

Jerry Mander is founder of the International Forum on Globalization. His books include "In the Absence of the Sacred" and "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" - Cody's Books

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Uploaded: January 8, 2007 at 11:50 am
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Luislopetomaniatico (October 23, 2008 at 7:30 am)
MSG me on M.S.N. ID is in my profile. lets do something tonight!

18-F-Cam - MSG me on M.S.N. ID is in my profile. qE
chinasucksforever (October 16, 2008 at 3:42 am)
Globalization = New Communism.
mikezephyr (September 26, 2008 at 7:07 pm)
seems like everyone in this culture should re-evaluate civilization now. and then promptly proceed to dismantle dominator society.
bendymind (July 31, 2008 at 3:04 pm)
How about writing your book and making it available online?
boogiebuddy01 (July 31, 2008 at 7:04 pm)
good idea and also in audiobook form
underdog3 (August 9, 2008 at 6:35 am)
Yeah hemp would be a better resource for making paper.

My book is available online, check my profile for a link, no audiobook yet.
dbrauer43 (June 11, 2008 at 11:49 am)
Also, as stated in Jerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, books can be read and understood in conjunction with the mental capacity of the reader. The Internet just shoves things in front of your face, but with books you can go at your own speed and overall learn better due to the fact that you can go at your own pace.
underdog3 (June 12, 2008 at 7:44 am)
technically you can go at your own pace on-line but I would almost always prefer a book.
bendymind (July 31, 2008 at 3:05 pm)
Me too. We should make the paper out of hemp though.
underdog3 (June 5, 2008 at 5:42 am)
What part?