Jerry Mander - Globalization and Indigenous Cultures

Complete video at: http://www.fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=533

Author and social critic Jerry Mander discusses how the cultural concepts of indigenous peoples endure despite globalization, and speculates on the benefits of adapting these ideas to modern life.

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In this spirited book, Jerry Mander partners with the celebrated indigenous leader Victoria Tauli-Corpuz to gather powerful firsthand reports on a momentous collision of worldviews that pits the forces of economic globalization against the Earth's indigenous peoples. With many of the planet's remaining natural resources on indigenous lands, traditional practices of biodiversity preservation have, ironically, made these lands targets for global corporations seeking the last forests, genetic and plant materials, oil, and minerals to feed their unsustainable growth. Corporate invaders often employ military force, as well as harsh pressures from the World Bank, IMF, and WTO. But native peoples refuse to be victims; their stories of resistance and growing success are gathered here by twenty-five writers to describe the impacts.

Jerry Mander is founder of the International Forum on Globalization. His books include "In the Absence of the Sacred" and "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television" - Cody's Books

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[sauticml]

@zaitss - no joke intended...that would be rude and disrespectful...not my goal. I heard he had passed on a while back.  I HOPE I heard wrong. His perspective is important to hear either way.

[zaitss]

@sauticml I cannot find any info that Jerry Mander is dead!

Is that a joke? Cos I can't find it funny!

[sauticml]

@zaitss - Ashe! We are all the products of indigenous peoples and would do well to remember that and move forward living those traditions in whatever new way we will or must.

[sauticml]

@zaitss - I meant that Jerry Mander is dead. In my tradition, ritual and grief is necessary to truly empower and Ancestor, to fully send them to the realm of the Ancestors. My statement suggested that he may not have been Ancestralized, as we call it.

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[zaitss]

@zmitregnistegra WE ARE ALL INDIGENOUS (but forgotten a long time ago!)

[zaitss]

@sauticml your comment let me confused...coul you explain?

[sauticml]

@jj55ss44 : It interests me why you might have spent so much time to listen to his "stupid spoutings".  I'd love to hear why....and what it was that he said that struck such a deep chord in you that you would express what seems like anger. Clearly there is something here to contend with that resonates within you.

[sauticml]

@zaitss : He is in the realm of the Ancestors right now.....or waiting to get fully sent.