WHA T P EOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT

PARADIGM WARS

“A superb overview of the numerous ways the so-called free-marketeers are arranging the rules of global
commerce to undermine indigenous rights in a headlong rush to exploit our planet.”
 Brent Blackwelder, president, Friends of the Earth U.S.

“… a vital and powerful contribution honoring Indigenous People and their extraordinary efforts to
reclaim the birthright of all life—to live in and honor connection to the Planet and to each other.
 Julia Butterfly Hill, author of The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree

“This invaluable volume throws open a wide window on the indigenous world’s tenacious endurance and
vigorous counterattacks against domination and destruction.”
 Ernest Callenbach, author of Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging

“The detailed documentation of indigenous struggles in this eloquent book, together with inspiring
examples of native resistance, is essential reading for everyone concerned about the future of humanity.”
 Fritjof Capra, author of The Tao of Physics and The Web of Life

“IFG continues its intellectual and moral leadership in resisting the destruction of real local communities
in the name of a fictitious global community of corporations.”
 Herman Daly, author of The Common Good and Professor, School of Public Affairs.
University of Maryland

“This book is a valuable collaboration in our efforts to expose both the continued threats to the rights of
indigenous peoples and their resistance against the aggressions of corporate globalization.”
 Tom Goldtooth, executive director, Indigenous Environmental Network

“ With incisive reporting on everything from the dangers of ecotourism to corporate patenting of ancient
medicinal plants, this important anthology should be required reading.”
 Adam Hochschild, publisher of Mother Jones and author of King Leopold’s Ghost

“The world’s surviving indigenous communities are living repositories of knowledge of human possibility
essential to the turn we humans must make…Paradigm Wars tells with stunning clarity and authority the
story of the struggle and its implications.”
 David C. Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Great
Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
“Provocative, challenging, inspiring and stimulating all at the same time. Paradigm Wars is a timely
reminder that it is not too late to change direction.”
 Satish Kumar, director, Schumacher College, U.K.

“This book is essential and accessible to grassroots community activists as it is to policy makers at the
international level, and should be required reading for every concerned citizen of the world.”
 Malcolm Margolin, author of The Ohlone Way

“Thank you for this book, showing the true reality of indigenous struggles against globalization invading
our communities. This book helps us make our case on behalf of our own ways and culture, and against
domination by big corporations and the state.”
 De Silvia Marino, Association of Indigenous Artisans of La Paz, Bolivia

“This book is an eloquent presentation of some of the things presently in great danger. All of them have
to do with local culture and vision, rather than with abstraction and extraction. All of them are
irreplaceable.”
 W.S. Merwin, author of The Carrier of Ladders and The Ends of the Earth

“…Paradigm Wars includes background, basics, current affairs…Anyone professing concern for ecology
or justice best read and heed this book.”
 Stephanie Mills, author of Turning Away From Technology

“Paradigm Wars achieves the seemingly impossible. It upends our vision so we can see the world from a
fresh angle, and through stories it brings us the rising voices of our planet’s most longstanding cultures.”
 Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Hope’s Edge

“This book has become our bible. We use it in our communities to explain what’s happening and to
discuss why and how indigenous peoples must address globalization.”
 Pelpina Sahureka, Maluka spokesperson, Moluccas Islands

“Paradigm Wars brilliantly illustrates that the thousands of self-sufficient indigenous cultures that still
miraculously survive on this earth are in the crosshairs of the globalization juggernaut. Everyone should
read this book.”
 Tom Turner, Earthjustice and author of Justice On Earth