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By tracing U.S. involvement in South African political and economic
development since the late 1800s, this book analyzes U.S. corporate
and government motives for maintaining the political status quo in
South Africa. In recent decades, according to the author, U.S.
policy toward South Africa has grown more contradictory:
Endeavoring to protect the United States's reputation on the
question of race, government officials denounce apartheid, yet
Washington remains the main force blocking an international
response to South African policies. As the situation in South
Africa continues to polarize, the U.S. is increasingly isolated in
its position of verbally condemning yet materially supporting South
Africa's white minority regime--a regime confronting the distinct
possibility of civil war.
From uncovering major retailers' links to sweatshop abuses and
revealing the deception of American tobacco companies, to
questioning corporations' ties to repressive dictators, shaming
food processors into selling dolphin-safe tuna and demanding that
businesses stop destroying old growth forests, citizens have become
far more aggressive in directly challenging corporate behavior.
Written by two activists who are constantly in the eye of this
storm, Insurrection charts the growth of this dissatisfaction and
gives us a glimpse of where this movement might be heading.
By tracing U.S. involvement in South African political and economic
development since the late 1800s, this book analyzes U.S. corporate
and government motives for maintaining the political status quo in
South Africa. In recent decades, according to the author, U.S.
policy toward South Africa has grown more contradictory:
Endeavoring to protect the United States's reputation on the
question of race, government officials denounce apartheid, yet
Washington remains the main force blocking an international
response to South African policies. As the situation in South
Africa continues to polarize, the U.S. is increasingly isolated in
its position of verbally condemning yet materially supporting South
Africa's white minority regime--a regime confronting the distinct
possibility of civil war.
Contents: 1. Corporate Power Vs. People Power: A History of Anti-Corporate Struggles in America 2. "Would You Let Your Sister Work There?": The Struggle Against Sweatshops 3. Saving Flipper: The Fight For Dolphin-Safe Tuna 4. Citizen Diplomacy Vs. Corporate Profits: Defending Human Rights in Burma 5. Up In Smoke: Tobacco Profits Vs. Public Health 6. Trading Democracy: The Struggle Over Rule-Making in the Global Economy
After centuries of economic activity based on extraction,
exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental
threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources
are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more
sustainable practices? Building the Green Economy</> shows
how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken
action to protect their food and water, clean up their
neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely
victories over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and
unexamined routines dramatize the opportunities and challenges
facing the local green economy movement. Drawing on their extensive
experience at Global Exchange and elsewhere, the authors also: Lay
out strategies for a more successful green movement Describe how
communities have protected their victories from legal and political
challenges Provide key resources for local activists Include
conversations with Rocky Anderson, Lois Gibbs, Anuradha Mittal,
David Morris, Michael Shuman, and other activists and leaders.
Each year, Green Festivals across the nation draw over 100,000
people to theirparty with a purpose. The Green Festival Reader:
Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change presents the addresses of the
foremost thinkers and activists at these popular events. From a
green New Deal to healthy homes and community empowerment, The
Green Festival Reader covers the most urgent and inspiring topics
in today's environmental movement.
The Green Festivals now draw over 100,000 visitors every year in
four U.S. cities. This book collects the most memorable talks from
all four festivals on the most urgent social issues of the day. In
addition to inspiring addresses by Alice Walker, Paul Hawken, Bill
McKibben, Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower, and Thom Hartmann, the Green
Festival Reader includes how-to features on greening your
workplace, neighborhood, school, and business.
After centuries of economic activity based on extraction,
exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental
threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources
are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more
sustainable practices?"Building the Green Economy shows how
community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken
action to protect their food and water, clean up their
neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely
victories over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and
unexamined routines dramatize the opportunities and challenges
facing the local green economy movement.Drawing on their extensive
experience at Global Exchange and elsewhere, the authors also: Lay
out strategies for a more successful green movementDescribe how
communities have protected their victories from legal and political
challengesProvide key resources for local activistsInclude
conversations with Rocky Anderson, Lois Gibbs, Anuradha Mittal,
David Morris, Michael Shuman, and other activists and leaders."
Diverse collection of articles includes eyewitness reports,
interviews, and political and economic analyses dealing with the
1994 elections, the impeachment of President Collor, the subculture
of abandoned street children, changes in Amazonia, and popular
protest--Handbook of Latin American Studie
This volume is an account of all aspects of Irish folk life. The
reader i s invited to call on people in their homes, to listen to
their tales and gossip and to taste their food and drink, to admire
their pots and pans and agricultural implements, to meet a water
diviner, to join a faction fight, to hurry to a wedding and to bow
down in remembrance of the dead.
This volume describes how the round of the year, with its cycle of
festivals and seasonal work, was observed in the Ireland of
yesterday. We follow the rhythm of the year from New Year to
Easter, May Day to Harvest and Christmas along the chain of
highdays and feastdays, St Brighid's Day, The Borrowed Days,
Midsummer, St Swithin's Day, Lunasa, The Pattern Day, Samhain,
Martinmas and Christmas. fishing boat - belief and usage - feasting
and merrymaking. Picturesque customs are revealed - some forgotten,
some forbidden, some still familiar, such as 'the making of St
Brighid's cross - marriage divinations - watching the dancing of
the sun on a hilltop on Easter morning - going to the Skelligs -
cock-throwing - bullbaiting - herring processions - the swimming of
the horses on Lunasa - and many others. A multi-coloured tapestry.
years experience of research into Irish folk tradition. Irish
Country People, Folktales of the Irish Countryside and The Pleasant
Land of Ireland
The special magic of the Irish imagination shines forth in these
fourteen authentic folktales. These tales are filled with the
mystery and adventure of a land of lonely country roads and
isolated farms, humble cottages and lordly castles, rolling fields
and tractless bogs. They tell of ghosts and giants, of strange
happenings and wondrous deeds, of fairies and witches and of fools
and kings. Above all in these stories there is a sense of the full
wonder of a world where the marvellous and the unexpected can
always happen, and nothing is ever quite as it seems.
This text examines the links between hunger and race. It looks at
the contemporary and historical reasons why hunger is concentrated
among coloured people, both domestically and globally. The 11
essays presented are written from sociological, political,
geographical and economic perspectives.
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