Tag: Grabs

Environmental Disasters and Land Grabs As Crimes Against Humanity


Free Download Laura Westra, "Environmental Disasters and Land Grabs As Crimes Against Humanity "
English | ISBN: 1536131776 | 2018 | 321 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Increasingly people in every continent of the world are becoming aware of the grave consequences of the current environmental problems, from climate change to unsustainable agricultural growth durations. These consequences include dangerous, environmentally caused results that affect our health and the health of our children, as well as our social well-being and our very basic rights. This book raises a radical question: Can environmental disasters and land grab crimes, in fact, be seen as crimes against humanity? That approach is defended through a number of present legal documents and through existing and novel arguments. With this in mind, who is responsible for the present situation, and who should be held accountable for both damages and harm towards those parties affected? The main problems concern holding governments (who minimally permit, but often promote many of the practices of legal and natural persons) responsible for initiating and supporting the activities that ensure their economic benefit, which is leading to the present impasse. The authors discuss how such individuals can be held accountable singly and collectively for the harms they impose on all life.

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The Scandal of Cal Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley [Audiobook]


Free Download The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN7H34KL | 2023 | 8 hours and 43 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 252 MB
Author: Tony Platt
Narrator: Jonathan Yen

The University of California, Berkeley-widely known as "Cal"-is admired worldwide as a bastion of innovation and a hub for progressive thought. Far less known are the university’s roots in plunder, warfare, and the promotion of white supremacy. As Tony Platt shows in The Scandal of Cal, these original sins sit at the center of UC Berkeley’s history. Platt looks unflinchingly at the university’s desecration of graves and large-scale hoarding of Indigenous remains. He tracks its role in developing the racist pseudoscience of eugenics in the early twentieth century. He sheds light on the school’s complicity with the military-industrial complex and its incubation of unprecedented violence through the Manhattan Project. And he underscores its deliberate and continued evasions about its own wrongdoings, which echo in the institution’s decision-making up to the present day. This book, above all, illuminates Cal’s culpability in some of the cruelest chapters of US history and sounds a clarion call for the university to undertake a thorough and earnest reckoning with its past.

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