Earth First! Journal 16, no. 6
Keywords:
activism, journalism, conservation, deforestation, indigenious peoples, mining, nonviolent resistance, political ecology, wildernessAbstract
Paloma, Jim Flynn, Ross Freeman, and Craig Beneville, eds., Earth First! Journal 16, no. 6 (20 June 1996). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7018.
In this issue of Earth First! Journal Ben Manski reports on the protests against the mining company Exxon Corporation, Sherman Bamford puts focus on the Appalachian wilderness, and George Wuerthner reflects on the mythology regarding Indians.
"There is an Indian Curtain that exists among most of the environmental media, no different than the Iron Curtain that once silenced criticism of the old Soviet Union regime. There is an unwritten code or mythology that permeates the environmental movement that suppresses any critical examination of the behavior of Indigenous people with regards to environmental issues. […] Indians are no different in their behavior than any other people. Indeed, it is racist to suggest otherwise."
— George Wuerthner
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