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*Murray Bookchin:
:> The Ecology of Freedom
:> Defending the Earth: A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Forman
:> The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Dialectical Naturalism
:> The Politics of Social Ecology - Janet Biehl, w/ Murray Bookchin
:> Toward an Ecological Society
:> Other

:> The Heat is On - Gelbspan
:> Social Ecology After Bookchin - Light, ed.

Peruvian indigenous group wins oil pollution battle

Achuar Indians have now returned home following a two-week protest.

Local residents return to their homes having reached an agreement over oil waste after a 15-day protest.

Protesters from the Achuar Indian communities in the northern Peru forest have won an agreement for an Argentine oil drilling firm to stop dumping toxic waste into the rainforest. The Native Federation of the Corrientes River brought jungle operations of Pluspetrol Norte to a standstill, demanding a clean-up of the harmful waste produced by 30 years of drilling in the area.

India: Villagers lock down iron factory

Jamshedpur: Annoyed by the air pollution caused by Sidhi Vinayak Metacom Limited, a sponge iron unit at Chowka under Seraikela-Kharsawan district, villagers from adjoining areas forcefully closed the company on Friday.

Police said the villagers had staged a dharna* in front of the company’s main gate on December 27, 2005, asking the company to install an electrostatic precipitator to control air pollution caused by the exhaust gas of the plant.

Progress & Nuclear Power:

Progress & Nuclear Power: The Destruction of the Continent and Its Peoples

By Fredy Perlman

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