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The Water Defenders
Winner of the 2021 Duke University Juan Mendez Award Named one of The Progressive’s “Favorite Books of 2021” and one of the “Best of Books 2021” by Foreign Affairs The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country’s main water source At a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations—from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the Philippines, to the Gualcarque River in Honduras—The Water Defenders tells the inspirational story of a community that took on an international mining corporation at seemingly in...
Proceedings of the XV Ibero-American Congress of Mechanical Engineering
This open access book shows some of the highlights presented at the XV Ibero-American Congress of Mechanical Engineering. The papers explore the forefront of Mechanical Engineering, containing research into fluid mechanics, energy systems, tribology, materials science, robotics, mechatronics, biomechanics, instrumentation, thermodynamics, and mechanical sustainability.
Breaking Ground
Natural resource extraction, once promoted by international lenders and governing elites as a promising development strategy, is beginning to hit a wall. After decades of landscape gutting and community resistance, mine developers and their allies are facing new challenges. The outcomes of the anti-mining pushback have varied, as increasing payments, episodic repression, and international pressures have deflected some opposition. But operational space has been narrowing in the extractive sector, as evidenced by the growing adoption of mining bans, moratoria, suspensions, and standoffs. This book tells the story of how that happened. In Breaking Ground, Rose J. Spalding examines mining confli...
Defender el agua
Si tuvieras que elegir, ¿cambiarías el agua por ríos de oro? Hace más de 20 años, las corporaciones mineras le plantearon este dilema a la gente de El Salvador, bajo la promesa de que la industria de los metales preciosos sería sinónimo de progreso. Pero la "minería verde" sólo trajo consigo cuencas y manantiales envenenados, así como la persecución de quienes se levantaron contra el despojo y la destrucción. Robin Broad y John Cavanagh narran aquí el improbable triunfo de quienes en El Salvador decidieron defender el agua y formaron un movimiento de resistencia popular que hizo frente a la muerte y la corrupción mediante el ingenio político y la creatividad de las organizacio...
Country reports on human rights practices
The idea of human rights begins with a fundamental commitment to the dignity that is the birthright of every man, woman and child. Progress in advancing human rights begins with the facts. And for the last 34 years, the United States has produced the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, providing the most comprehensive record available of the condition of human rights around the world. These reports are an essential tool—for activists who courageously struggle to protect rights in communities around the world; for journalists and scholars who document rights violations and who report on the work of those who champion the vulnerable; and for governments, including our own, as they work to craft strategies to encourage protection of the human rights of more individuals in more places. Joint Committee Print. S. Prt. 112-40.
Ending the Fossil Fuel Era
A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside.A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle technology, a carbon market, or lifestyle change. This book shows that it is now possible to take the first step toward the post-fossil fuel ...
Movimentos da Dança Carioca - Companhias e grupos de 1936 a 2013
Atravessando estilos e períodos, o livro trata da criação coreográfica na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, de 1936 até 2013. O rico material iconográfico se associa ao registro da trajetória de artistas e produtores que, por períodos variados, acreditaram no trabalho coletivo, investiram na partilha e experimentaram o formato do grupo e da companhia de dança como o principal caminho para trazer à luz suas inquietações.Além de importante registro, Movimentos da Dança Carioca levanta questões centrais sobre a historiografia da dança e chega em momento oportuno, reforçando a necessidade da existência de políticas públicas capazes de garantir a perenidade dos grupos e das companhias de dança que tanto impulsionaram a criação artística da cidade do Rio de Janeiro nestes quase cem anos.Movimentos da Dança Carioca foi contemplado no Concurso FADA da Secretaria Municipal de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro de 2012 e se dirige a um amplo público interessado em dança – desde artistas, pesquisadores, estudantes, profissionais, a amantes da dança e administradores de políticas públicas. Edição Jauá com KBR.
Ecomartyrdom in the Americas
"A new assessment of the theological concept of martyrdom in light of those in Latin America who have given their lives while protecting the earth from those who threaten it"--
