Eco-justice
This collection contains materials from movements, organizations and activists interested in creating a more equitable distribution of environmental benefits and burdens and promoting systems and policies of sustainability and resource management.
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Changing Planet: the Great Debate or a Planet in Crisis
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: KP 246AFormat: Cass AProducers: Ralph Steiner, Berry ScottProgram: Changing PlanetCollection: Eco-justice
Side A of the tape includes talks with two climate scientists who discuss the serious changes affecting the Earth which could lead to disastrous consequences. Topics include the green house effect, water toxins, energy consumption and waste (including their politics) in and between first world and developing countries, overpopulation of mass consumers, deforestation leading to less bio diversity the human ignorance and greed that caused these problems and allows them to continue, and potential ways to create "leaner, more efficient" person to help counter continued effects.
Mission to Planet Earth
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: KP 246BFormat: Cass BProducers: Charles BloomerProgram: Human FutureCollection: Eco-justice
Side B of the tape discusses the use of space technology to help solves Earth's environmental problems. The proposed Mission to Planet Earth is an international and interdisciplinary approach to "monitor the Earth's health" creating models of Earth's systems from individual to global layers to understand their interaction and help make more accurate prediction of the effects humans have on the planet.
Global Climate Change
Live debate with Climate experts, Dr. Peter Glick of The Pacific Institute for Development Environment and Security and Dr. Ken Watt of U.C. Davis. Brief interview with Appolo Astonaught Russel L. Schweickart and lengthy interview with Biologist Dr. Lynn Margulis who codeveloped of modern version of Gaia Hypothesis.
World Trade Watch: Corporate Globalization
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: KP 279BFormat: Cass BProducers: National Radio Project, Corporate Watch, Insitute for Public AccuracyCollection: Eco-justice
Recorded before the WTO Summit in Seattle in 1999. Speakers Norman Soloman and Julie Light moderate brief interviews and clips from a number of activists who have are critical of the WTO and the dissolution of trade barriers. Arif Jamal, a Sudanese scholar and activist, speaks about farmers and agriculture. Colin Raja, a Malaysian national in the US, discusses inflation and Malaysian economic collapse. Kevin Danaher, author of 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank, discusses who gets representation at the summit. Paige Fischer of the Pacific Environment and Resource Center speaks about the timber lawsuit against US trade representatives and the Department of Commerce that her organization filed. Peter Rosset, executive director of Food First, Oakland, presents the problem of access to food that has manifested because of free trade and deregulation. There is also a clip from Renato Ruggiero, former director general of the WTO.
Meridel Le Sueur & Judi Bari
Date: 4/20/1994Call Number: KP 390Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: Morning ShowCollection: Eco-justice
People oppose proposed tire burning by the Kaiser Cement company. An obituary of author Meridel Le Sueur.
Judi Bari talks about her case against the FBI. Also a discussion of US foreign weapons trade and Lockheed Martin.
Judi Bari interview
Leading environmental Redwood Summer activist, on the lawsuit against the FBI and police actions in wake of the bombing of the car in which she and Darryl Cherney were riding. She discusses in detail closing of fist round of discovery, after nearly 2 years and 3 failures of FBI to throw out the case.
Toxic Links Coalition demonstration
At Senator Feinstein's office against her signing on to a plan to roll back food safety laws related to pesticides. Chants in background, with detailed interview of spokeswoman Joan Clayburgh.
Anti-Nuclear Actuality
Brief interviews with people involved in antinuclear activities, including Jackie Cabasso, executive director of Western States Legal Foundation.
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