Table of Contents

Complete Table Of Contents

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Introduction

Legacy of Inequality: Colonial Roots

The Global Economy: Colonialism Without Colonies

Poverty and World Wealth

Global Sweatshops

Kids For Sale: Child Labor in the Global Economy

Just Food?

Culture, Consumption and the Environment

Final Words

Resources

Index

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Bill Bigelow teaches social studies at Franklin High School in Portland, Oregon, and is an editor of Rethinking Schools. He is author of Strangers in Their Own Country: A Curriculum on South Africa, and (with Norm Diamond) The Power in Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States. With Bob Peterson he edited Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years. He can be reached at bbpdx@aol.com.

Bob Peterson teaches fifth grade at La Escuela Fratney, a twoway bilingual public school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is a founding editor of Rethinking Schools, and is a frequent writer and speaker. He co-edited (with Bill Bigelow) Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years and (with Michael Charney) Transforming Teacher Unions: Fighting for Better Schools and Social Justice. In 1995 he was selected as Wisconsin Elementary Teacher of the Year. He can be reached at repmilw@aol.com. INTRODUCTION

• Poem: Questions from a Worker Who Reads
  by Bertolt Brecht — 2
• Introduction: Why We Wrote This Book | pdf — 3
• "Is This Book Biased?" — 5
• Rethinking Our Language — 6
• How To Use This Book — 8
• Globalization: A View from Below — 9
  by Jean-Bertrand Aristide
• Globalization Myths — 14
• Planting Seeds of Solidarity — 18
  by Bob Peterson
• Rethinking Development — 29
  by Teddy Goldsmith

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LEGACY OF INEQUALITY: COLONIAL ROOTS

• Poem: Contribution to Our Museum — 32
  by Marge Piercy
• Introduction — 33
• Colonialism: Before and After — 34
  by Stephanie Kempf
• Colonialism: The Building Blocks — 35
  by Susan Gage and Don McNair
• Burning Books and Destroying Peoples — 38
  by Bob Peterson
• 1562: Conquistadores Destroy Native Libraries — 43
  by Eduardo Galeano
• The Coming of the Pink Cheeks — 45
  by Chief Kabongo as told to Richard St. Barbe Baker
• Song of Lawino: A Lament — 50
  by Okot p'Bitek
• A Small Place — 54
  by Jamaica Kincaid
• Poem: Gandhi is Fasting — 55
  by Langston Hughes
• Teaching Ideas — 56

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THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: COLONIALISM WITHOUT COLONIES

• Introduction — 63
• Myths of Underdevelopment — 64
  by Michael Parenti
• Introduction to Inequality Activities — 68
  by Bob Peterson
• Poverty and World Wealth | .pdf — 69
  by Susan Hersh and Bob Peterson
• Building Miniature Houses — 71
  by Bob Peterson
• "The Word is Just" Cartoon — 73
  by Bob Peterson
• Debt and Disaster: Notes on Teaching the Third World Debt Crisis — 75
  by Bill Bigelow
• Who Are the World Bank and IMF? — 77
• Debt: The New Colonialism — 78
  by Jean Somers
• "Structural Adjustment Policies": Innocent Name, Deadly Consequences — 82
• Stories of Debt and Hope — 83
• The Kalinga Women Against the Chico Dam — 89
  by Leticia Bula-at
• The Marshalltezuma Plan — 93
  by Cuaicaipuro Cuautémoc
• Cancel the Debt — 94
• Rethinking "Free Trade" and the World Trade Organization — 95
  by Bill Bigelow
• Dilemmas of Global Trade: Problem Solving — 98
  by Bill Bigelow
• "Ten Benefits of the WTO System" — 100
  by the World Trade Organization
• The WTO: Powerful, Secretive, Bad for Humanity, Bad for the Earth — 103
• Ten Arguments Against the World Trade Organization — 105
• Transnational Capital Auction: A Game of Survival — 108
  by Bill Bigelow
• Ten Chairs of Inequality — 115
  by Polly Kellogg
• "The Marines Have Landed" — 118
  by Bob Peterson,
• Poem: Arguments Against the Bombing — 122
  by Lisa Suhair Majaj
• Teaching Ideas — 123

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GLOBAL SWEATSHOPS

• Poem: Woman — 126
  by Andrea Townsend
• Introduction — 127
• The Lives Behind the Labels — 128
  by Bill Bigelow
• Poem: The Stitching Shed — 133
  by Tho Dong
• Global Sweatshops: "Making a Difference" Project — 139
  by Bill Bigelow
• Clothes, Toys, and the World: Where Are Things Made? — 140
• "A Trade Unionist Must Leave Her Fear Behind" — 142
  by Yesenia Bonilla
• The Story of a Maquiladora Worker — 146
  by Omar Gil; interview by David Bacon
• Poem: So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs from Americans — 149
• by Jimmy Santiago Baca
• What Happened to Carmelita — 150
  by Naomi Klein
• Just Do What? - Facts About Nike — 151
• Poem: Two Young Women — 152
  by Deidre Barry
• Nike Code of Conduct — 153
• Stepping Out — 155
  by Bill Fletcher, Jr.
• Poem: Psalm for Distribution — 156
  by Jack Agüeros
• Sweatshop Math — 157
  by Bob Peterson
• Sweatshops Are Us — 162
  by JoAnn Lum
• Made in the U.S.A. — 164
  by Helen Zia
• Poem: My Mother Who Came from China, Where She Never Saw Snow — 169
  by Laureen Mar
• T-Shirts for Justice — 170
  by Arlen Benjamin-Gomez
• Sweating the Small Stuff — 171
  by Maria Sweeney
• The People v. Global Sweatshops — 177
  by Renée Bald and Amanda Weber-Welch
• Teaching Ideas — 186

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KIDS FOR SALE: CHILD LABOR IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

• Poem: God to Hungry Child — 190
  by Langston Hughes
• Introduction — 191
• Everywhere on Earth — 192
  by Eduardo Galeano
• Rethinking Child Labor — 194
  by Beatrice Newbery
• Child Labor: Pain and Resistance — 200
  by Bob Peterson
• Child Labor is Cheap - and Deadly: The Testimony of Augustino Nieves — 204
• Fight for Child Workers! — 206
  by Peadar Cremin
• Declaration of the Rights of the Child — 208
• Sawai's Story — 210
• Lewis Hine's Photographs — 212
• Poem: The Night Before Christmas — 214
• A Child's View of Exploitation — 215
  by Augusto Boal
• Fitting It All In - Student Clubs as an Option — 216
  by Bob Peterson
• Teaching Ideas — 217

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JUST FOOD?

• Poem: Federico's Ghost — 222
  by Martín Espada
• Introduction — 223
• Stealing Nature's Harvest — 224
  by Vandana Shiva
• "We Will Reduce Your Fields to Ashes" — 228
  An Open Letter from Indian Farmers
• The Parable of the Golden Snail — 230
  by Peter Rosset
• Genetically Engineered Foods: Changing the Nature of Nature — 232
  by Martin Teitel and Kimberly Wilson
• Nature is Not for Sale — 235
  by Indigenous Peoples Organizations
• The Mystery of the Yellow Bean — 236
  by Sandy Tolan
• Tomasito's Tour: A Guide to America's Food. — 240
• Hunger Myths — 241
  by Food First
• Just a Cup of Coffee? — 243
  by Alan Thein Durning
• Facing the Farm Crisis — 245
  by Steven Gorelick
• Relocalization, Not Globalization — 248
  by Vandana Shiva
• Cebolleros — 250
  by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Poem: The United Fruit Company — 255
  by Pablo Neruda
• Teaching Ideas — 256

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CULTURE, CONSUMPTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• Introduction — 261
• Global Warming: The Environmental Issue from Hell — 263
  by Bill McKibben
• Oil, Rainforests and Indigenous Cultures: A Role Play — 268
  by Bill Bigelow
• Mexican Peasant-Ecologists Fight to Preserve Forests — 280
• Ecological Footprints — 283
  by David Holtzman
• Water, Water Everywhere? — 284
  by the Turning Point Project, et al
• Capitalism and the Environment: The Thingamabob Game — 287
  by Bill Bigelow
• TV and the Cloning of Culture — 292
  by Jerry Mander & Charlene Spretnak
• No TV Week - Critical Media Literacy — 296
  by Bob Peterson
• The Masks of Global Exploitation — 300
  by Bill Bigelow
• Critical Global Math Literacy — 306
  by Bob Peterson
• Rethinking Primitive Cultures: Ancient Futures and Learning from Ladakh — 308
  by Bill Bigelow
• Teaching Ideas — 316

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FINAL WORDS

• Poem: The Low Road — 320
  by Marge Piercy
• Prayers for a Dignified Life — 321
  by Subcomandante Marcos
• Human Rights for a New Millennium — 323
  by Eduardo Galeano
• Kids Can Be Activists or Bystanders — 325
  by Craig Kielburger
• A Revolution of Values — 327
  by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Defeating Despair — 329
  by Bill Bigelow
• Sheltering Hope — 339
  by Eduardo Galeano
• To Open a Crack in History — 342
  by Katharine Ainger
• Terrorism and Globalization — 346
  by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
• Teaching Ideas — 349

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• Songs With A Global Conscience
  by Bob Peterson — 352
• Videos With A Global Conscience
  by Bill Bigelow — 356
• Books and Curricula for Global Justice — 370
• Journals for Global Justice — 380
• Organizations and Websites for Global Justice — 382

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