This collection of essays by Third World activists highlights two major world changes which, they argue, have been neglected by Freire and his many followers: the Third World grass-roots cultural resistance to economic globalization, and the ecological crisis

'It is not a case of governments and companies putting royalties and profits before people; instead it is as though people don't matter at all …'In Mine-Field, Paul Cleary counts the true cost of Australia's mineral addiction.Whether it be coal-seam gas, LNG or coal mega-mines, a resources rush...