There is a distinction between extracting non-renewable natural resources for basic human uses and extracting non-renewable natural resources for mere ambition. Such is the case of gold, a resource that continues to mined not because anyone needs it, but because investors and consumers demand it. This is one of the most striking messages transmitted by … Continue reading
For its third consecutive year, McGill’s lower field was crowded with students, staff, and community members, coming together to witness an inclusive, colourful pow-wow that would launch Indigenous Awareness Week. From September 23rd to 27th, McGill was host to various events such as numerous informational talks by professionals in their fields, interactive workshops in making dream-catchers, … Continue reading
Indigenous communities in Latin America have suffered an especially oppressive history of dispossession and exploitation. Only the source of oppression has changed: if ‘indios’ were once enslaved to ‘latifundistas’, they are still today mistreated and kept from their own subsistence by multinational companies (MNCs). We have entered an era of ‘natural resource wars’, fueled by … Continue reading
ALEX BADDUKE In October 2011, African Barrick Gold (ABG) began construction on a 14-kilometre long concrete wall that will stretch around its North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania. The mine has been the source of tension within the community. The wall is an attempt at keeping local Tanzanians from entering the mine lands and searching … Continue reading
“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.” – William Bernbach, co-founder of international advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach. “Miss Representation,” a film by Jennifer Siebel Newsom that premiered at … Continue reading
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