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The New Resource Wars*

Native Struggles Against Multinational Corporations

Al Gedicks




Aboriginal and environmental coalitions fighting against corporate greed and environmental racism is mirrored in hundreds of struggles all over the world, from James Bay to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. This new book documents these struggles and explores the underlying motivations and social forces.

Good for individuals and groups working for justice and the environment.
United Church Observer

NATIVE STUDIES
250 pages, index

Paperback ISBN: 1-551640-00-7 $19.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-551640-01-5 $48.99

Prices are in Canadian dollars in Canada and in US dollars elsewhere

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@TITLE = THE NEW RESOURCE WARS @SUBTITLE = Native Struggles Against Multinational Corporations @AUTHOR = AL GEDICKS @BULLET1 = From James Bay to the Ecuadorian Rainforest, inspiring stories of aboriginal struggles against corporate greed and environmental racism. @BULLET = Like the coalitions fighting, Al Gedicks' storytelling has its own quiet power. @BULLET2 = Includes discussions on Native sovereignty and ecological renewal. @FPARA = Aboriginal and environmental coalitions fighting against corporate greed and environmental racism is mirrored in hundreds of struggles all over the world, from James Bay, Quebec to the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. This new book documents these struggles and explores the underlying motivations and social forces that propel them. It concludes with a discussion of Native treaty rights and the next stage of the environmental movement. An environmental activist, film producer, and professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, Al Gedicks has served as the director of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council, COACT Research, and the Centre for Alternative Mining Development Policy. His articles have appeared in various anthologies and have been published in The Insurgent Sociologist, The Progressive, Dollars & Sense, Science for the People, and the Review of Radical Political Economies.