Diary Of An Eco Outlaw

Author : Diane Wilson
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603583824

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Diary of an Eco-Outlaw by Diane Wilson Pdf

Diane Wilson is an activist, shrimper, and all around hell-raiser whose first book, An Unreasonable Woman, told of her battle to save her bay in Seadrift, Texas. Back then, she was an accidental activist who worked with whistleblowers, organized protests, and eventually sunk her own boat to stop the plastic-manufacturing giant Formosa from releasing dangerous chemicals into water she shrimped in, grew up on, and loved. But, it turns out, the fight against Formosa was just the beginning. In Diary of an Eco-Outlaw, Diane writes about what happened as she began to fight injustice not just in Seadrift, but around the world-taking on Union Carbide for its failure to compensate those injured in the Bhopal disaster, cofounding the women's antiwar group Code Pink to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, attempting a citizens arrest of Dick Cheney, famously covering herself with fake oil and demanding the arrest of then BP CEO Tony Hayward as he testified before Congress, and otherwise becoming a world-class activist against corporate injustice, war, and environmental crimes. As George Bernard Shaw once said, "all progress depends on unreasonable women." And in the Diary of an Eco-Outlaw, the eminently unreasonable Wilson delivers a no-holds-barred account of how she-a fourth-generation shrimper, former boat captain, and mother of five-took a turn at midlife, unable to stand by quietly as she witnessed abuses of people and the environment. Since then, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes-and generally gotten herself in all manner of trouble. All worth it, says Wilson. Jailed more than 50 times for civil disobedience, Wilson has stood up for environmental justice, and peace, around the world-a fact that has earned her many kudos from environmentalists and peace activists alike, and that has forced progress where progress was hard to come by.

Author : Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781984880130

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The Fishermen and the Dragon by Kirk Wallace Johnson Pdf

A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster—a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman’s relentless battle for environmental justice. By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers before them were being poisoned by nearby petrochemical plants, oil spills, pesticides, and concrete. But as their nets came up light, the white shrimpers could only see one culprit: the small but growing number of newly resettled Vietnamese refugees who had recently started fishing. Turf was claimed. Guns were flashed. Threats were made. After a white crabber was killed by a young Vietnamese refugee in self-defense, the situation became a tinderbox primed to explode, and the Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan saw an opportunity to stoke the fishermen’s rage and prejudices. At a massive Klan rally near Galveston Bay one night in 1981, he strode over to an old boat graffitied with the words U.S.S. VIET CONG, torch in hand, and issued a ninety-day deadline for the refugees to leave or else “it’s going to be a helluva lot more violent than Vietnam!” The white fishermen roared as the boat burned, convinced that if they could drive these newcomers from the coast, everything would return to normal. A shocking campaign of violence ensued, marked by burning crosses, conspiracy theories, death threats, torched boats, and heavily armed Klansmen patrolling Galveston Bay. The Vietnamese were on the brink of fleeing, until a charismatic leader in their community, a highly decorated colonel, convinced them to stand their ground by entrusting their fate with the Constitution. Drawing upon a trove of never-before-published material, including FBI and ATF records, unprecedented access to case files, and scores of firsthand interviews with Klansmen, shrimpers, law enforcement, environmental activists, lawyers, perpetrators and victims, Johnson uncovers secrets and secures confessions to crimes that went unsolved for more than forty years. This explosive investigation of a forgotten story, years in the making, ultimately leads Johnson to the doorstep of the one woman who could see clearly enough to recognize the true threat to the bays—and who now represents the fishermen’s last hope.

Author : Danielle Poe
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438455716

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Maternal Activism by Danielle Poe Pdf

Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society. Maternal Activism tells the stories of women who refused to ignore injustice even though many people urged them to stop their activism by claiming it would harm their children. Molly Rush, Michele Naar-Obed, Cindy Sheehan, and Diane Wilson recognized that the potential well-being of their children relates to the damage done by US militarism and environmental destruction. These women’s stories illustrate feminist ethical theory and contemporary theory from peace studies. By examining their context for addressing injustice and the theoretical supports for their action, this book demonstrates that issues of injustice overlap such that critiques of nuclear weapons lead to critiques of war and militarism, which lead to critiques of environmental destruction. “The unique strength of this book is that in sharing the stories of these four mothers it brings to the forefront what it means to live maternal activism in the many dimensions of women’s lives: activist, partner, mother, friend, etc., and does so with acute and sensitive awareness of the complexities and tensions of doing so.” — Andrea O’Reilly, editor of Feminist Mothering

Author : Bruce E. Levine
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781603583763

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Get Up, Stand Up by Bruce E. Levine Pdf

Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose recent US wars and Wall Street bailouts, yet most remain passive and appear resigned to powerlessness. In Get Up, Stand Up, Bruce Levine offers an original and convincing explanation for this passivity. Many Americans are deeply demoralized by decades of oppressive elitism, and they have lost confidence that genuine democracy is possible. Drawing on phenomena such as learned helplessness, the abuse syndrome, and other psychological principles and techniques for pacifying a population, Levine explains how major US institutions have created fatalism. When such fatalism and defeatism set in, truths about social and economic injustices are not enough to set people free. However, the situation is not truly hopeless. History tells us that for democratic movements to get off the ground, individuals must recover self-respect, and a people must regain collective confidence that they can succeed at eliminating top-down controls. Get Up, Stand Up describes how we can recover dignity, confidence, and the energy to do battle. That achievement fills in the missing piece that, until now, has undermined so many efforts to energize genuine democracy. Get Up, Stand Up details those strategies and tactics that oppressed peoples have successfully employed to gain power. We the People can unite, gain strength, wisely do battle, and wrest power away from the ruling corporate-government partnership (the "corporatocracy"). Get Up, Stand Up explains how.

Author : Sue Ann Alderson
Publisher : Tradewind Books
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781896580470

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Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer by Sue Ann Alderson Pdf

The Eco-Diary of Kiran Singer chronicles one child's encounter with the Camosun Bog and the Crazy Boggers who are working to protect and restore it.

Author : Sara R. Rinfret,Michelle C. Pautz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031175039

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US Environmental Policy in Action by Sara R. Rinfret,Michelle C. Pautz Pdf

US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, partisanship and polarization, and escalating debates about federal/state relations. With a continued focus on the front lines of environmental policy, Rinfret and Pautz take into account the major changes in the practice of US environmental policy during the Trump and Biden administrations. Providing real-life examples of how environmental policy works rather than solely discussing how congressional action produces environmental laws, this third edition of US Environmental Policy in Action offers a practical approach to understanding contemporary American environmental policy.

Author : Benjamin Watson
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781603586016

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The Chelsea Green Reader by Benjamin Watson Pdf

Chelsea Green, the Vermont-based independent publisher, has always had a nose for authors and subjects that are way ahead of the cultural curve, as is evident in this new anthology celebrating the company's first thirty years in publishing. The more than one hundred books represented in this collection reflect the many distinct areas in which we have published–from literature and memoirs to progressive politics, to highly practical books on green building, organic gardening and farming, food and health, and related subjects–all of which reflect our underlying philosophy: "The politics and practice of sustainable living."The Chelsea Green Reader offers a glimpse into our wide-ranging list of books and authors and to the important ideas that they express. Interesting and worth reading in their own right, the individual passages when taken as a whole trace the evolution of a highly successful small publisher–something that is almost an oxymoron in these days of corporate buyouts and multinational book groups. From the beginning, Chelsea Green's books were nationally recognized, garnering positive reviews, accolades, and awards. We've published fourNew York Times bestsellers, and our books have set the standard for in-depth, how-to books that remain relevant years–often decades–beyond their original publication date. "Chelsea Green was born from a single seed: the beauty of craft. Craft in writing and editing, in a story well told, or a thesis superbly expressed," writes cofounder and publisher emeritus Ian Baldwin in the book's foreword. Today, craft continues to inform all aspects of our work–design, illustration, production, sales, promotion, and beyond. It has even informed our business model: In 2012, Chelsea Green became an employee-owned company. With the rise of the Internet, new media platforms, and a constantly shifting bookselling landscape, the future of publishing is anything but predictable. But if Chelsea Green's books prove anything, it is that, despite these challenges, there remains a hunger for new and important ideas and authors, and for the permanence and craftsmanship of the printed word. Today our ongoing mission is stronger than ever, as we launch into our next thirty years of publishing excellence.

Author : Madeleine M. Kunin
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603582919

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The New Feminist Agenda by Madeleine M. Kunin Pdf

Looks at the current state of women's rights in the United States, highlighting the difficulty of juggling career and family, and focusing on the gap between American women and women in other nations around the world.

Author : Brendan F.D. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134265138

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Ecological Modernisation and Japan by Brendan F.D. Barrett Pdf

In the 1990s, Japan gradually began to turn green and started to experiment with more participatory forms of environmental governance. Ecological Modernisation and Japan explores this transformation and looks at Japan as a case for ecological modernisation while contextualising the discussion within its unique history and recent discussions about globalisation and sustainability. It makes a significant contribution to the ecological modernisation debate by unpacking the Japanese environmental experience.

Author : Texas. Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Legislative journals
ISBN : UOM:39015068359663

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Journal by Texas. Legislature. Senate Pdf

Some vols. have appendices consisting of reports of various state offices.

Author : Steven A. Wolf
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1574441043

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Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization by Steven A. Wolf Pdf

The respective roles of public and private sector institutions engaged in development and dissemination of agricultural information are currently undergoing dramatic change. Enhanced incentives, new technologies, and changes in industrial organization are spurring private investment. Simultaneously, political and economic conditions are constraining public agencies' participation in the current information boom. Privatization of Information and Agricultural Industrialization identifies the basis and implications of the ongoing shift from public to private sector control of agricultural information. Privatization of information raises meaningful social, economic, and environmental concerns deserving of immediate attention by analysts, advocates, policy makers, and those with a direct economic stake in agriculture. The objectives of the book are to:

Author : Lawrence E. Likar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798216077183

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Eco-Warriors, Nihilistic Terrorists, and the Environment by Lawrence E. Likar Pdf

The first book to thoroughly address the topic, this volume examines the ideologies, tactics, and goals of environmental terrorists and offers a security planning methodology to defend against their attacks. To counter eco-terrorism, we must understand why it occurs. Eco-Warriors, Nihilistic Terrorists, and the Environment is a comprehensive examination of the vulnerability of the natural environment, of its nexus with the strategic goals of terrorists, and of a security-planning methodology that can prevent or ameliorate environmentally linked attacks. The first book to comprehensively address the prevention of environmentally focused terrorism, this work looks at the environment and the private and government facilities that impact it as assets to be protected. Focusing on the capability of lone-wolf terrorists and small, self-radicalizing cells to commit effective violent acts, security expert Lawrence E. Likar furnishes personality and operational profiles of both nihilistic and eco-warrior terrorists, showcasing an essential component of the behavioral-science-based, security-planning methodology he promotes. Most critically, the book addresses the gap in current security-planning methodology and literature, and it reveals novel intelligence-gathering techniques, operational procedures, and countermeasures designed to defend against attacks.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062163691

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Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law by Anonim Pdf

Author : Green Nature Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1707003661

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Recyclist Eco Environmental Activist by Green Nature Publishing Pdf

Gift for teachers, students, environmentalists, environmental activists, citizens, progressives, democrats, leftists, socialists, democratic socialist, social democrat, green party. 120 pages 6x9 inches dot grid cream colored pages matte cover soft cover

Author : Green Nature Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1679311328

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Recyclist Eco Environmental Activist by Green Nature Publishing Pdf

Gift for teachers, students, environmentalists, environmental activists, citizens, progressives, democrats, leftists, socialists, democratic socialist, social democrat, green party. 120 pages 6x9 inches lined white paper matte cover soft cover