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"[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 the past fifteen years ... a key text."
—Higher Values: the Minewatch Bulletin (London)

"Rhetorical in the best tradition of the word...It gives practical examples of strategies that worked. Altogether, a successful teach-in."
—Contemporary Sociology

"Highly recommended."
—alt.books.review

"Gedicks' case study adds the moral and legal weight of Native treaty rights and academic expert testimony.... [A] valuable resource for others faced with corproate imperialism. Which is to say, all of us."
—The Workbook

"Exhaustive."
—Toward Freedom

"Gedicks' book is a challenge to those who think the old can coexist with a renewed regime of wide-scale mining in the North Woods."
—Western Historical Quarterly

"By integrating research, advocacy, and reporting effectively, Gedicks creates a framework for managing and planning social action that other scholar-activists can turn to their own purposes."
—Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy