Sharing the earth : an international environmental justice reader /
"The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts--poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist statements, and group-authored visions--illuminates Environmental Justice as a concept and a movement worldwide in a way that is accessible to stu...
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Athens, Georgia :
University of Georgia Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Elizabeth Ammons and Modhumita Roy
- Iktomi and the Muskrat / Traditional Lakota story
- Dove and Jackal / Traditional Xhosa Story
- Those who would take over the earth / Lao Tzu
- How America was discovered / Handsome Lake
- A declaration from the poor oppressed people of England / Diggers and levellers
- 1840 letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson / George Ripley
- Speech of Lord Ashley to the parliament June 1842 / Lord Ashley
- Slavery days as related by Snovey Jackson / WPA Slave narrative
- from Das capital / Karl Marx
- Huckleberries / Henry David Thoreau
- Balai / Rabindranath Tagore
- Song of the blantyre explosion / Scottish workers
- John of God, the water carrier / Maria Cristina Mena
- Po' Shady / Charles W. Chesnutt
- Charity and social justice / Jane Addams
- The smuggling of tie Co / Sui Sin Ear
- From men of maize / Miguel Angel Asturias
- One night with the fugitives / Sol T. Plaatje
- Part two Speaking up-Speaking out
- Graciella ; Love Canal ; shadow in stone ; assaults and invasions / Janice Mirikitani
- The rubbish dump / steve chimombo
- Napalm / Quan Barry
- From untouchable / Mulk Raj Anand
- Froms ways of dying / Zakes Mda
- Left / Nikky Finney
- An eight year old agricultural worker / Rigoberta Menchu
- 1. / Mark nowak
- Iron child / mo Yan
- Multinational companies / Abdul Rasheed Na'Allah
- The linkage between patenting of life forms, genetic engineering and food security / wangari maathai
- Wiwi / witi Ihimaera
- Sort by day, burn by night / rita Wong
- The man with the hole in his face / Namwali Serpell
- Black women and the wilderness/ Evelyn C. white
- for the record / Adrienne Rich
- from the king of trees / Ah Cheng.
- [TOC continued] #24 / jayanta Mahapatra
- Deadly radiation blues ; endangered species list blues / Jayne Cortez
- Dying back ; endangered species list blues / Jayne Cortez
- Dying back ; when earth becomes an "it" / Marilou Awiakta
- from a small place / Jamaica kincaid
- Western civilization / Agostinho Neto
- Hanging clothes in the sun / Cheryl Savageau
- Bringing forth new life / Sadako Kurihara
- No ordinary sun / Hone Tuwhere
- Stuff: chickens and bombs ; That's the place indians talk about ; to change life in a good way / Simon Ortiz
- Wolf Blue / Alex Smith
- Every traveler has one vermont poem / Audre Lorde
- very few specimens-but a lot of bull / P. Sainath
- Into the suburban wild / Jeffrey Myers-- Thieves of light / Martin Espada
- From late victorian holocausts / Mike Davis
- Boat ceremony / Ishimure Michiko
- El Cementerio, Villa El Salvador, Peru / Julia Lisella
- Letter from Mama dot / Fred D'aguiar
- What holds the water, what holds the light / Linda Hogan
- What I learned in Grenada / Tanya Shirley
- Apple ; Speed / Roger Sedarat
- interstate 93 / EJ class collective, 2013
- Part three A world to win
- The universal declaration of human rights / United Nations
- Principles of environmental justice / People of color environmental leadership summit
- The greater common good / Arundhati Roy
- Bread and roses / Lawrence women workers
- Whose earth is it, anyway? /James H. Cone
- Grandmother Ishtoua teaches ; wisdoms of the corn / Marilou Awiakta
- earth democracy in action / Vandana Shiva
- Ogoni! Ogoni! ; To mandy Garner ; Summing up: defence statement / ken Saro Wiwa
- Nobel peace prize lecture, 2004 / Wangari maathai
- stop whining, start winning ; sustaining radicalism ; what are we waiting for? / Michael Albert.