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Recycled Minds

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recycled minds - rethink, respect, reform

Added on: Aug 22nd, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: recycledminds
Listed in: News & Media Activism
Tags: politics news food activism green indigenous

Recent Posts

Death-Dealing: Giroux\'s Zombie Politics

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 15:34 in politics, poverty, consumerism, u.s., being human, corporate issues

In seeking to understand the contradictory, regressive, oftentimes nonsensical, sometimes outright false, skewed perception of the impact of big corporations and their non-values on people -- both those who are "othered" and those who traditionally a...
Healing History\'s Wounds: Health Care and the U.S.\'s Indigenous

Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 17:30 in health, poverty, u.s., anthropology, indigenous issues

Health care reform means many things to many different people -- to the indigenous people of the U.S., the issue is perhaps even more weighted. An article recently published on Truthout by Frank Joseph Smecker lays out the ugly truth behind the Nativ...
Biopiracy in Africa

Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 22:34 in science, anthropology, indigenous issues

Biopiracy has been a part of human history for centuries. Columbus is rumored to have brought sugar cane to the Americas on his second voyage. Rubber tree seedlings were smuggled out of Brazil and retooled to maximize yield in Southeast Asia. Great s...
10 Things (+1) to Reduce Incarceration

Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 11:33 in politics, education, food, poverty, u.s., drugwar

Always watchful for alternatives to the "out-of-sight, out-of-mind," "eye-for-an-eye" indifference toward the prison system and those trapped in it, I recently came across law professor Paul Butler's list of ten things the everyday person can do to r...
Book Review: The Wayfinders by Wade Davis

Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 13:10 in world, book review, green issues, anthropology, indigenous issues

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World. Wade Davis. Toronto, ON: House of Anansi Press, 2009. 262pp. In a time when the topic of climate change continues to make headlines while remaining a hotly debated subject (Nguyen...
Yanomami Fighting Gold Miners

Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 10:46 in video, globalization, green issues, latin america, anthropology, indigenous issues

It's all about the gold. There has been another invasion of Yanomami lands in the Brazilian Amazon, and this one is looking the same as the last. In the 1980s, there was a similar gold-rush to the Yanomami lands, and they took up arms to fight it. Th...