Tag: philippines

• The Bloody Flow Of Oil…

  here are some of the facts we shared last week: In a rainforest area roughly three times the size of Manhattan, Chevron carved out 350 oil wells, and upon leaving the country in 1992, left behind some 1,000 open-air, unlined waste pits filled with crude and toxic sludge. Many of these pits leak into the water […]

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  November 9, 2011

  everything is EVERYTHING, soil

  bp, canada, canada oil, canadian oil, chevron, crude, indigenous, indigenous peoples, oil, oil industry, oil spills, peak oil, philippines, refinery, resource wars, shell, tar sands

• Transnational to Translocal, Rooting and Recovering

  I’m rejecting all these concepts of “Localism”… localization… everything makes a lot of sense UP TO ONE VERY IMPORTANT POINT:  what about communities that identify transnationally?  immigrant families?  our folks who never really pictured themselves being “here” permanently?  who were forced out, exiled, dreamnt of the “dream” til they realized it was a nightmare, two-stepping […]

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  September 14, 2011

  everything is EVERYTHING, soil

  banana tree, bay area, bay localize, cordilleras, guava, ibaloi, igorot, immigrant communities, immigration, indigenous, indigenous communities, local, local economies, localism, localization, localvore, mango, mango tree, philippines, relocalization, tropical greenhouse