GLOBALIZATION and its Discontents
MSI,
There was a very wonderful hour on DemocracyNOW! on Turkey stuffing day. The politics of food and famine were the topic of a recent speech by Dr. Vandana Shiva.
democracynow.org
Well worth a listen if you've got some time. :)
Also by the Dr. Shiva: "Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit"
Blurb:
About the Author
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award) in 1993. She is author of Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (South End Press, 2000) Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992), and Staying Alive (St. Martin's Press, 1989). Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India's leading physicists.
Book Description
Vandana Shiva, "the world's most prominent radical scientist" (the Guardian), exposes yet another corporate maneuver to convert a critical world resource into a profitable commodity. Using the global water trade as a lens, she highlights the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor as they lose their right to a life-sustaining common good. |
