Hey Richard,
thanx a million for posting this, the site is excellent and the Shiva
interview is even more so. We encourage everyone to check it out!
-Susan and Kevin
On Sun, 17 Mar 1996, Richard Twine wrote:
> To ecofeminists and other interested peoples,
> For an interview with Vandana Shiva on the subject of McDonalds and their ecosocial
> exploitative practices, go here:
>
> http://www.mcspotlight.org/people/interviews/vandana_transcript.html
>
> For those of you who can understand computers this interview is available in
>audio-visual.
> For the confused such as myself, the text/pictures version must suffice. To go to
>the
> homepage of the global anti-Mcdonalds campaign simply click on the 'Mcspotlight'
>icon at
> the end of the interview transcript.
>
> Regarding comment on Val Plumwoods movement defining text "Feminism and the
> mastery of nature" 1993, check out the chapter on ecofeminism in the following:
> "Green Political Thought" By Andrew Dobson (2ND EDITION, 1995)
> the assessment is favourable, whilst the question of what happens beyond dualsim? is
> justifiably asked.
> Richard Twine :-) *************************************************
> Dept. Of Sociology * When the axe came into the forest, the * (re:PTSOJ-
> Univ. of essex, uk. * trees said the handle is one of us * A.
>WALKER)
> *************************************************
>
>
>
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Mar 17 16:15:39 1996
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 15:15:28 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: process of ecological consciousness raising
>All of that said, I do not yet require students to do their work on computers
>(although I request it, and hand out my email address). They do need access
>from home before they can do that. Besides, although my campus is convinced
>that computers are more ecologically sound than paper, I'm not so sure
>they're right. My computer is hooked up to an electrical outlet which leads
>to the local nuclear power plant. It is a big plastic piece of work, whose
>innards were probably built by people with little in the way of education,
>pay or benefits (people who probably can't afford to have a computer of their
>own). Your thoughts?
>
>Louisa
I thought the people who built and assembled computers were highly skilled
tecnicians, even overseas.
Betty D
