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Frankenfood: Genetically Altered Cuisine
Marc Lappe, Britt Bailey
While cloned sheep and biomedical applications of DNA technology make headlines world-wide, the genetic modification and corporate takeover of our food supply is a quiet revolution. In the U.S., genetically altered foods are exempted from normal FDA and EPA testing of their effects on human health and the environment. Complete labeling is not required. You […]
Restoring the Planet
Frances Moore Lappe
Part of the success of humans as a species can be attributed to the formation of social groups. These groups worked together & provided security & community for its members. Our society has largely become an entity that no longer nourishes the individual. The planet is now exploited & polluted for the financial gain of […]
Living Democracy
Frances Moore Lappe
Democracy is something most of us take for granted. It may be flawed but it is the best thing going. However, signs that all is not well with our venerable system are increasingly evident. Fewer and fewer people bother to vote. Negative opinion of and hostility toward public institutions are constantly rising. Citizens feel disconnected […]
The Newt World Order
Saul Landau
The ascendancy of Newt Gingrich and the ideology he represents is at center stage. The GOP and its Contract with America are reshaping the country. The media talk about a revolution and the sweeping mandate for the right-wing agenda. What mandate? 61% of eligible voters didn’t even turn out in the November ’94 elections. Of […]
Problems of Democratization in the USSR & Eastern Europe
Joanne Landy
Native America: All Our Relations
Winona LaDuke
The United States is the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet. It has been responsible for great acts of compassion and for supporting despots for their perceived temporary value. It has left a trail of broken treaties at home and abroad. The wealth gap increases as workers are exploited and left unemployed, with […]
Activism On & Off the Reservation
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke recounts how she became an activist. She spoke at the UN when she was a teenager and she never looked back. She says, “The launch of my political career was a kind of baptism by fire. I was thrown right into it.” She began working on the Navajo reservation on uranium mining issues, […]
Native American Women & Environmental Struggles
Winona LaDuke
Native American women are in the frontlines of numerous struggles to protect and save the environment. Indian reservations are the sites of much environmental degradation. Native American women lead resistance to mining operations, clearcutting, dam projects and toxic and nuclear waste dumps. Their underfunded and mostly volunteer efforts barely make the news, reflecting the larger […]
Recovering the Land: Native Americans & the Law
Winona LaDuke
Indigenous peoples in the U.S. and around the world are struggling to recover their lands. From the South Pacific to Minnesota to British Columbia in Canada, native activists are mobilizing to reclaim their rights. There are some victories. In March 1997, the government of Argentina returned 300,000 acres to Indians in the northwest region of […]
An Indigenous View of North America
Winona LaDuke
Native peoples are at a crossroads. They possess the experience of sustainabilty based on years of observation and tradition. Yet they find their culture stereotyped and demeaned. Because indigenous peoples have the resources, lands and waters demanded by urban areas thousands of miles away, they are targeted by industrialism’s impulse to dominate nature.
Social Justice, Racism and the Environmental Movement
Winona LaDuke
Robert Frost once wrote, “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” Indigenous peoples of North America might take exception to that. They were on the land millennia before European settlers arrived. The ensuing conquest and devastation drenched the hemisphere in blood. But native peoples survive and endure. Much can be learned from them. […]
From Genocide to Resistance: The Next Five Hundred Years
Winona LaDuke
For the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere, the Columbian Quincentennial was not an occasion for cheering and parades. The arrival of the Italian-born, Spanish explorer initiated massive death and destruction. Yet native peoples survived and persevered. Today they offer a worldview that is singular and inspiring. Recorded at the University of Colorado.

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