How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property - Couverture souple

Price, Ben G.

 
9781523097630: How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1523097639 ISBN 13 : 9781523097630
Editeur : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

This book examines how antidemocratic forces in the U.S. have evolved through history to repress communities and destroy the environment.

Ben Price reveals how corporate and state interests are systematically cracking down on social movements to insure corporate supremacy in the United States. Combining an illuminating analysis of history with his experience as a leader of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, he demonstrates how a legal paradigm that facilitated slavery and the fossil fuel economy remains an antidemocratic force in the country to this day.

Price identifies key counterrevolutions in U.S. history that squelched the transformative potential of the Civil War and American Revolution, and traces the roots of colonial and imperial systems of control. He links them to modern “free trade” agreements and other structures used to supersede modern democracy.

Crucially, Price shares insight into how social movements can plant seeds of a new legal system that makes the liberty, civil rights and dignity of humans and ecosystems its ultimate purpose. In fact, he introduces the reader to people who are doing just that.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ben G. Price is the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund's national organizing director, with fifteen years of experience organizing communities and coordinating organizers across the country to challenge state and federal legalization of corporate assaults against people and their environments. He pioneered Rights of Nature legislation in the United States and assisted scores of communities to enact rights-protecting laws.

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Éditeur
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1523097639
ISBN 13 
9781523097630
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
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