The world was shocked to see more than 50,000 people converge on Seattle in November 1999 to protest the policies of an institution called the World Trade Organization. Pundits and ordinary citizens wondered, who are these people, what are they so angry about, and what do they want? In their analysis of a growing movement, Kevin Danaher and Jason Mark answer those questions by showing how the Seattle protests and subsequent mass demonstrations against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are the dramatic result of a full decade of growing agitation over corporate sponsored...

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices?

Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories--over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined...

This volume is an account of all aspects of Irish folk life. The reader i s invited to call on people in their homes, to listen to their tales and gossip and to taste their food and drink, to admire their pots and pans and agricultural implements, to meet a water diviner, to join a faction fight, to hurry to a wedding and to bow down in remembrance of the dead.