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Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss

This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Papua New Guineans and Canada’s First Nations people against industrial threats on their health, livelihoods and cultural survival.

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Conservation Song: A History of Peasant-State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860–2000

Mulwafu, Wapulumuka Oliver

Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.

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Multimedia | journal

Earth First! 27, no. 3

Earth First! 27, no. 3 features essays on the topics of animal testing, the Miami Superbowl protests, resistance and repression in Oaxaca, Mexico, nickel mining in Guatemala, and the role and place of sexuality within the environmental movement.

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Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World

Boudia, Soraya, and Nathalie Jas

Powerless Science? looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.

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Earth First! 27, no. 5

Earth First! 27, no. 5 features topics such as the true bioregional way, New York City’s community gardens, the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, unsustainable activism, and a safe traveling culture for activists.

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Earth First! Journal 22, no. 6

Earth First! Journal 22, no. 6 features news from the fight of Colombia’s indigenous U’wa people against Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and Judi Bari’s court success against the FBI; additionally the environmental significance of J.R.R. Tolkiens Lord of the Rings is analyzed, and accounts from an ELF activist are presented.

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Earth First! 25, no. 5

In Earth First! 25, no. 5 Turtle problematizes seal hunt in Canada, Sam and Sprocket refer to the dangers of cellphone communication, and Ron Huber explores the history of Earth First! treehuggers.

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