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The New Resource Wars
Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations
Al Gedicks; Winona LaDuke (Foreword)
Pages: 272ISBN: 0-89608-462-0
Format: paper
Release Date: 1993-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
In the northwoods of Wisconsin, Kennecott Copper Corporation is pressuring Native Americans for the right to construct an environmentally destructive open-pit copper mine on treaty lands of the Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. Opposing the mine's construction is a coalition of Chippewa traditionalists and Wisconsin environmentalists. This native and envionmentalist struggle against corporate greed and environmental racism is mirrored in hundreds of similar struggles all over the world, from James Bay, Quebec and Malaysia to the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Gedicks documents these struggles and explores the underlying motivations and social forces that propel them.
"Gedicks skillfully written book helps us to understand how these struggles have taken place, why, and what we can do in the future. He tells these stories not as a journalist, or even an interested bystander, but rather as an integral part of many battles over mining and energy development in North America."—Winona LaDuke (from the foreword)
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Praise
"[R]ewarding to read...his tight focus on struggles by native peoples and environmentalists against multinational corporations allows him to tell...a coherent story."—The Progressive
"Useful
to all people concerned with sustaining life on this planet."
—The Circle: News from a Native American Perspective
"Written
from the trenches of the struggle....Well-documented and thorough."
—NAPRA Trade Journal
"Gedicks' voice is
clear and compassionate.... This book does a fine job of displaying the connections
between racism and environmental destruction, and of exploring possible ways
that environmental and Native activists can work together."
—Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
"A useful guide for
anyone interested in land use decision-making and the legal tools used to influence
those decisions."
—Wisconsin Environmental Law Journal
"New Resource Wars draws on Gedicks' unique experience in running the Center for an Alternative Mining Development Policy. It comprises a definitive documentation of the battles against corporate power in Wisconsin, and its legislative poodles, over th...