- "An enemy of indigenous peoples": the case
of Loren Miller, COICA, the Inter-American Foundation and the ayahuasca
plant.
Indigenous groups are planning a legal battle against the patent claims of a U.S. pharmaceutical corporation on an Amazonian plant, ayahuasca, the main ingredient in an indigenous ceremonial drink. Charging that the patent was improperly issued, indigenous groups plan to challenge the claim at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, ......
- Supermarkets Nationwide Participating in Fair Trade Month
OAKLAND, Calif. - TransFair USA, an independent, third-party certifier of Fair Trade products, Friday kicked off its first annual Fair Trade Month celebration, a month-long event that includes participation by hundreds of supermarkets.
- The new, new property
IMAGE TABLE 2 IMAGE TABLE 4 Introduction Surveying the history of property from his vantage point a century ago, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon observed famously, "Property is theft!"1 The premise of this Article is to wonder whether a future Proudhon will review the distribution of resources in the new, new world of ......
- Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in
the Klondike. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
Charlene Porsild, Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998) SCHOLARS have been largely content to consign gold rushes to the realm of television mini-series, small-town museums, and two-bit narratives of harrowing hardship and plucky upward mobility. This is unfortunate. The rushes that drew ......
- De-chartering Unocal.
Calling unocal "A dangerous scofflaw corporation," a coalition of 30 citizens' groups in September petitioned the Attorney General of California to begin charter revocation proceedings against Union Oil Company of California (Unocal). The 127-page petition argues that Unocal has engaged in corporate lawbreaking, was responsible for the 1969 oil blowout ......
- Ten Steps to Building an Affordable, Reliable Unified Communications Infrastructure.
Educational Webinar from AVST Addresses the Migration to Unified Messaging for the Higher Education Market FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. -- Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) has teamed with Campus Technology to offer IT decision-makers in the higher education marketplace a new educational webinar that addresses the migration from legacy ......
- Who Will Tell My Brother?
By Marlene Carvell. Hyperion Books for Children, 2002. In August 2005, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced its intention to prohibit the use of Indian imagery, symbols, and names by colleges and universities participating in sport championships it sponsored, because it understood them to be "hostile and abusive" to ......