Native peoples throughout the globe are facing extinction due to the greed of mining and oil companies. As the energy crisis intensifies, their plight sounds the alarm to all those concerned about the prospect of global warming, genocide, and eco-disaster
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ATTENTION BROADCASTERS: Please Read The Following On The Air BEFORE Broadcasting!! "Native peoples throughout the globe are facing extinction due to the greed of mining and oil companies. As the energy crisis intensifies, their plight sounds the alarm to all those concerned about the prospect of global warming, genocide, and eco-disasters. Al Gedicks is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, and a longtime activist in environmental and Native solidarity movements in the upper Midwest. He is executive director of the Wisconsin Resources Protection Council and director of the Center for Alternative Mining Development Policy. Al Gedicks is the author of The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations (1993) and more recently Resource Rebels (2001). Resource Rebels traces the development of multiracial, transnational movements in the US, Asia, Africa and Latin America that are countering resource extraction and providing direction for environmentalists and anticapitalists alike. Al Gedicks was recently interviewed on Free Radio Santa Cruz on the program Roots and Culture with Max Boycoff and Alan Graves.