Why is it, Miss Manners wonders, that when one is so thoughtful as to include on one's own blog a list of links belonging to one's friends and family, that this consideration is so often both unappreciated and unreturned? Hmm?
Has the concept of reciprocity been entirely devoured by some barbarian meme? She wonders if it has, perhaps, gone the way of handwritten thank-you notes and tasteful hostess gifts. If this is what passes for civilization these days then, frankly, Miss Manners would prefer a grass hut amongst the indigenous on a remote tropical shore.
Sincerely, Miss Manners
(devotely hoping a gentle hint will suffice)
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Garden Girl TV—I'd watch it
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Paradigm Wars
I flaked on attending this reading downtown at Powell's last night: snow was rumored to be imminent…
Best-selling author and cultural critic Jerry Mander has challenged dominant cultural mind-sets in books such as Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred. In Paradigm Wars, he and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global indigenous peoples movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive international roster of contributors to document the momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's surviving indigenous peoples.
Many of the planet's dwindling resources are located on lands inhabited by native communities. Those resources are now the direct target of giant global corporations who desperately need them to fuel their own unsustainable growth. The World Trade Organization and other global structures of trade and finance have written the rules of trade to make life easier for these corporate resource-hunters — accelerating the loss of native lands, autonomy, and rights and creating millions of refugees.
Paradigm Wars is the first major work to comprehensively illuminate this shameful scenario. In firsthand reports by twenty-five indigenous and nonindigenous writers, the book details the devastating impacts of extractive industries and bioprospecting, the degrading of cultural artifacts and languages, even the damage done by some well-meaning conservation groups. The book also highlights how indigenous communities are strongly resisting this onslaught, often with amazing success. Anyone concerned with environmental or social justice will find inspiration in their resistance.
About the Authors
Jerry Mander founded the International Forum on Globalization in 1994. He is a senior fellow at the Public Media Center and has authored or coedited four books.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is an Igorot indigenous activist in the Philippines, director of Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education), and co-president of the International Forum on Globalization.
Best-selling author and cultural critic Jerry Mander has challenged dominant cultural mind-sets in books such as Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred. In Paradigm Wars, he and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global indigenous peoples movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive international roster of contributors to document the momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's surviving indigenous peoples.
Many of the planet's dwindling resources are located on lands inhabited by native communities. Those resources are now the direct target of giant global corporations who desperately need them to fuel their own unsustainable growth. The World Trade Organization and other global structures of trade and finance have written the rules of trade to make life easier for these corporate resource-hunters — accelerating the loss of native lands, autonomy, and rights and creating millions of refugees.
Paradigm Wars is the first major work to comprehensively illuminate this shameful scenario. In firsthand reports by twenty-five indigenous and nonindigenous writers, the book details the devastating impacts of extractive industries and bioprospecting, the degrading of cultural artifacts and languages, even the damage done by some well-meaning conservation groups. The book also highlights how indigenous communities are strongly resisting this onslaught, often with amazing success. Anyone concerned with environmental or social justice will find inspiration in their resistance.
About the Authors
Jerry Mander founded the International Forum on Globalization in 1994. He is a senior fellow at the Public Media Center and has authored or coedited four books.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz is an Igorot indigenous activist in the Philippines, director of Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education), and co-president of the International Forum on Globalization.
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