Resource Rebels
Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations
Gedick, Al
Publisher: South End Press
Year Published: 2001
Pages: 250pp ISBN: 0896086402
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX11789
Like canaries in a mine, native peoples throughout the globe are facing extinction due to the greed of mining and oil companies. Building a multi-racial, transnational movement to drastically limit resource extraction and creating an new environmental ethic is the best hope: these stories show how it's being done.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction: A World out of Balance
Chapter 1: Scouring the Globe
Chapter 2: Big Oil, the Environment and Human Rights
Chapter 3: West Papua: The Freeport/Rio Campaign
Chapter 4: A Multiracial Anti-Mining Movement
Chapter 5: Silencing the Voice of the People: How Mining Companies Subvert Local Opposition
Chapter 6: The Military, Trade and Strategies for Sustainability
Bibliography
Index
Subject Headings