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18 January 2019
To be an ecological society we have to stop the whole habit of living despite nature. We must take our pleasure and inspiration in seasonality and ecological particularity.
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To be an ecological society we have to stop the whole habit of living despite nature. We must take our pleasure and inspiration in seasonality and ecological particularity.
Lecture to “Plants and the Environment” course, University of Sydney, 7 October 2014.
“Composting and growing carrots is a nice start, but we need to get rid of the growth economy, make the global economic system work to meet needs, and replace capitalism with a different economic system that works for people. Most Green people are stuck at the level of compost heaps, which don’t have a chance of saving us. We don’t want to be a society full of compost heaps heading for disaster. Growing carrots locally is just the first step to changing the economy.”
Alana has studied one of the many vibrant alternatives to this juggernaut, the movement for food sovereignty, conceived and led by La Vía Campesina. Vía Campesina is typical of contemporary social movements in its recognition of the common interests of first and third world farmers, smallholders and laborers, producers and consumers and in its recognition of the centrality of women, indigenous people and culture to forming truly liberatory alternatives.
As a budding Australian, I learned this week that right-wierdo Tony Abbott’s budget cuts are spurious. The agenda of the cuts is to eliminate the
Amory Starr Luis A. Fernandez Christian Scholl 2011: New York University Press Don’t mind the press’ stupid title, the proper one is: Out of Order:
I started teaching a course on this topic in 1995. At that time, the concept was so extremely uninteresting (both to the political economists and
‘A guidebook helps those who search. In a time of “infinite war”, when we confront the infinite stupidity, lies and arrogance of power, we search
biotech lecture © amory starr 2005 three kinds of biotechnology biotech crops biotech pharmaceuticals bio-prospecting/biopiracy/biopatenting four kinds of biotech crops increased nutrition/shelf life/freeze tolerant/consistent size/ease
amory starr “Get Rid of Them All & Become a Zapatista: Autonomy in the Anti-Globalization Movement” Critical Sociology mini-conference, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 13
documentary film by Activist Media Project, 2004. 60 minutes. this is what free trade looks like the NAFTA fraud in México, the failure of the
s/r home | issues | authors | 33 contents Synthesis/Regeneration 33 (Winter 2004) Sunstroke in Cancún: WTO Can’t Take the Heat by
hunted in miami, “the model for homeland defense” amory starr 29 November, 2003 (a shorter version was printed as “Free trade in the Americas: the
In 2005, LA Sound Posse, asked me to record my lectures on globalization. The audio is available at Radio4All.
Cancún, México 5th WTO Ministerial 2003 daily reports 10-14 September audio reports “Sunstroke in Cancún” Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought 33: 1, 35-6.
this lecture is an introduction to what i call “critical globalization studies”, which reflects the work of an international group of scholars, primarily economists and
j23 sacramento 2003 action report/fieldnotes amory starr three months before the cancun WTO ministerial, at which third world resistance to biotech is a huge stumbling
Amory Starr roundtable on “directions for the anti-corporate globalization movement” with Bernard Cassen (President of ATTAC, France), Gerald Horne (U of Noth Carolina), Dennis Brutus
“the international context of anti-globalization: key concepts” Amory Starr Arizona State University, Phoenix Department of Justice Studies 2.15.02 It’s really a pleasure to
Report from F2 manifestations against the World Economic Forum Meetings, New York City (January 31-Feb 3, 2002) The Divas for Democracy, an affinity group including
naming the enemy, before seattle: an autochthonous book review WorldReview, 5:1 (2002): 14-16. other peoples’ reviews… The bulk of the research for Naming the Enemy
updates from the dcS29 crew Friday in DC: DC seems quite normal to us, we have not seen significant police or military presence at all.
naming the “anti-“ Amory Starr confronts globalization by Michelle French Features Editor The Manitoban, 26 September 2001. Amory Starr is an activist and professor of
The Manifestation Québec City, Friday & Saturday April 20 & 21, 2001 It’s a bit hard to figure out what happened in Québec City, even
Whose FTAA? Rocky Mountain Bullhorn, 1 April 2001 Amory Starr Why can’t we leave all the complicated economics to the professionals? Because these agreements affect
Visions of a Post-Corporate Society at Parkland Institute, November 2000 I just came from the streets and it’s hard to make the transition. So help
What happened to DAN in LA?: speculative notes I am an activist from the anti-globalization movement and am also an anti-racist activist. I spent Aug
Confronting Globalization for Communities Confronting Capitalist Globalization University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 14-16 April, 2000 14 April, 7 pm, Corwin Pavilion. Hello. I’m very
Subject: urgent: report from seattle (fwd) Dear Friends, I just returned from a week in Seattle with 20 students. Members of our group were all
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