Protect Or Plunder

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 1842771094

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Protect Or Plunder? by Vandana Shiva Pdf

The kinds of ideas, technologies, identification of genes, even manipulations of life forms that can be owned and exploited for profit by giant corporations is a vital issue for our times. The author argues that this Western-inspired, unprecedented widening of intellectual property concepts does not in fact stimulate human creativity and the generation of kowledge. Instead, it is being exploited by transnational corporations to increase their profits at the expense of the health of ordinary people and of the age-old knowledge and independence of the world's farmers. Intellectual protection is being transformed into corporate plunder. Little wonder popular feeling runs so high against the WTO that polices this new intellectual order, and the pharmaceutical, biotech and other corporations that benefit from it.

Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605095608

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Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann Pdf

"Hartmann tells a startling story of the rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights as corporations use the Fourteenth Amendment to further their own agendas"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Apollo N. Makubuya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527525962

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Protection, Patronage, or Plunder? British Machinations and (B)uganda’s Struggle for Independence by Apollo N. Makubuya Pdf

In the scramble for Africa, Britain took a lion’s share of the continent. It occupied and controlled vast territories, including the Uganda Protectorate – which it ruled for 68 years. Early administrators in the region encountered the progressive kingdom of Buganda, which they incorporated into the British Empire. Under the guise of protection, indirect rule and patronage, Britain overran, plundered and disempowered the kingdom’s traditional institutions. On liquidation of the Empire, Buganda was coaxed into a problematic political order largely dictated from London. Today, 56 years after independence, the kingdom struggles to rediscover itself within Uganda’s fragile politics. Based on newly de-classified records, this book reconstructs a history of the machinations underpinning British imperial interests in (B)Uganda and the personalities who embodied colonial rule. It addresses Anglo-Uganda relations, demonstrating how Uganda’s politics reflects its colonial past, and the forces shaping its future. It is a far-reaching examination of British rule in (B)uganda, questioning whether it was designed for protection, for patronage or for plunder.

Author : Matthew Rimmer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781781955901

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Indigenous Intellectual Property by Matthew Rimmer Pdf

Taking an interdisciplinary approach unmatched by any other book on this topic, this thoughtful Handbook considers the international struggle to provide for proper and just protection of Indigenous intellectual property (IP). In light of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2007, expert contributors assess the legal and policy controversies over Indigenous knowledge in the fields of international law, copyright law, trademark law, patent law, trade secrets law, and cultural heritage. The overarching discussion examines national developments in Indigenous IP in the United States, Canada, South Africa, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia. The Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the historical origins of conflict over Indigenous knowledge, and examines new challenges to Indigenous IP from emerging developments in information technology, biotechnology, and climate change. Practitioners and scholars in the field of IP will learn a great deal from this Handbook about the issues and challenges that surround just protection of a variety of forms of IP for Indigenous communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Books
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089267983

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The Monthly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guy Standing
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780241396339

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Plunder of the Commons by Guy Standing Pdf

'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian Eno We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off for private events and our national art galleries are sponsored by banks and oil companies. This plunder deprives us all of our common rights, recognized as far back as the Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest of 1217, to share fairly and equitably in our public wealth. Guy Standing leads us through a new appraisal of the commons, stemming from the medieval concept of common land reserved in ancient law from marauding barons, to his modern reappraisal of the resources we all hold in common - a brilliant new synthesis that crystallises quite how much public wealth has been redirected to the 1% in recent decades through the state-approved exploitation of everything from our land to our state housing, health and benefit systems, to our justice system, schools, newspapers and even the air we breathe. Plunder of the Commons proposes a charter for a new form of commoning, of remembering, guarding and sharing that which belongs to us all, to slash inequality and soothe our current political instability.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433081796405

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Documents Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States with Other Countries During the Years from 1809 to 1898 by Anonim Pdf

A collected set of congressional documents of the 11th to the 55th Congress, messages of the Presidents of the United States, and correspondence of the State Dept. Many of these pamphlets have been catalogued separately under their respective headings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555039840

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index to the reports of committees of the house of representatives for the first and second of the forty fifty congrees by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Mexican-American Border Region
ISBN : NYPL:33433081773610

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...Report and Accompanying Documents of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the Relation of the United States with Mexico ... by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121690163

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Journal of Theology for Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Carlile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Free thought
ISBN : OXFORD:N12636566

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The Republican..: January 4th to May 17th, 1822 by Richard Carlile Pdf

Author : Sheldon Krimsky,Peter Shorett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : UOM:39015060655381

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Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age by Sheldon Krimsky,Peter Shorett Pdf

The authors in this book, with their carefully reasoned calls for a genetic bill of rights, seem to me to be making a powerful conservative argument, and proposing amendments far more sensible, human, and rational than the zealotry promoted by men like More. They are assuming there is great value in human beings as we have known them, in plants and food crops as we have slowly and within clear boundaries develop them over millennia, in the relationship between human being and the natural world.

Author : Henry J. Philpott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600002477

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Free trade vs. protection; or, A tariff for revenue only vs. a tariff for spoils only by Henry J. Philpott Pdf

Author : Annie Wood Besant
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781447484318

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Avataras - Four Lectures Delivered at the Twenty-Fourth Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 by Annie Wood Besant Pdf

This classic book contains four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the theosophical society at Adyar, Amdras, December 1899, and would make an excellent addition to the bookshelf of anyone with an intrerest in the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849649286

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Making Peace with the Earth by Vandana Shiva Pdf

Making Peace with the Earth outlines how a paradigm shift to earth-centred politics and economics is our only chance of survival and how collective resistance to corporate exploitation can open the way to a new environmentalism."--pub. desc.