Mandisa Amber, M.A., M.F.A.ARCHAEOMYTHOLOGY. JULY 16TH, 2015

Morning Pages

Current Events

• FOOD – Record Descriptions

• Industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops. The methods of industrial agriculture are technoscientific, economic, and political. They include innovation in agricultural machinery and farming methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, the application of patent protection to genetic information, and global trade. (Wikipedia)

• Chemical addiction, ever increasing costs

• No crop rotation, Heavy use of fertilizer

• Animals in buildings, dosed with meds, antibiotics

• Destruction of soil. Water wasted & toxic runoff

• Health risks to farmers, consumers, animals and the environment

Theatre of the Oppressed

• Localization – having discernment on what we should bring in and out of our economy with extreme concerns for the environment

• “Globalization is taking us back to the most primitive of capital accumilation.To the most gross of colonialism and colonization where land, forests and rivers are appropriated. This is not the future.” Vandana Shiva – film .

• Organic Agriculture can produce more food and address the issues of food security, and food availability – Vandana Shiva.

• Shiva advocates against the prevalent "patriarchal logic of exclusion," claiming that a woman-focused system would change the current system in an extremely positive manner.[21]

• Challenges the Western idea that man has domination and mastery over nature and compares this to the ways that patriarchy has sought to dominate women.

• Women are the first to loose if damage occurs on the earth and in the environment.

Author, Ecologist, Philosopher, Eco-Feminist, Environmental Activist.

1981, Social Economic and Ecological Impact of Social Forestry in

1988, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Survival in India,

1991, Ecology and the Politics of Survival: Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India,

1992, The Violence of the Green Revolution: Ecological degradation and political conflict in Punjab,

1992, Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives (editor); Zed Press, United Kingdom

1993, Women, Ecology and Health: Rebuilding Connections (editor), Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Kali for Women, New Delhi

1993, Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology and Agriculture, Zed Press, New Delhi

1993, Ecofeminism, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva,

1994, Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide, Earthscan, London, 1995, Biopolitics (with Ingunn Moser), Zed Books, United Kingdom

1997, Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts,

2000, Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2000, Tomorrow's Biodiversity, Thames and Hudson, London, ISBN 0-500-28239-0

2001, Patents, Myths and Reality, Penguin India

2002, Water Wars; Privatization, Pollution, and Profit, South End Press, Cambridge Massachusetts

2005, India Divided, Seven Stories Press,

2005, Globalization's New Wars: Seed, Water and Life Forms Women Unlimited, New Delhi, ISBN 81-88965-17-0

2005, Breakfast of Biodiversity: the Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction, ISBN 0-935028-96-X

2005, Earth Democracy; Justice, Sustainability, and Peace, South End Press, ISBN 0-89608-745-X

2007, Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed, editor, South End Press ISBN 978-0-89608-777-4

2007, Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological and Third World Perspective, author, Paradigm Publishers ISBN 978-1-59451-204-9

2008, Soil Not Oil, South End Press ISBN 978-0-89608-782-8

2010, Staying Alive, South End Press ISBN 978-0-89608-793-4

Books by Vandana Shiva

Let the seed be exhaustless. (prayer)

Seeds are to be shared, renewed, multiplied.

New patent laws

Stands up against Monsanto and other big companies that are introducing genetically modified seeds and terminator seeds.

Global Food Crisis

• A genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.

• Examples are insects, plants, fish, and mammals and micro-organisms such as bacteria and yeast.

• Increase in food allergies have been linked to GMO’s.

• GMO seeds must be used with GMO fertilizer.

• 4 things to watch out for (• Energy constraints • Climage change• Water use and availability• Ecological degradation

• Heirloom plants are an old cultivar that is "still maintained by gardeners and farmers".[1]

• These may have been commonly grown during earlier periods in human history, but are not used in modern large-scale agriculture.

• In some parts of the world, notably the European Union, it is illegal to sell seeds of cultivars that are not listed as approved for sale

Suggested Films• One Water• Deconstructing Supper: Is Your Food Safe?• The Future of Food• The Corporation• Dirt! The Movie• THRIVE: What on Earth Will it Take? and This is What

Democracy Looks Like • "Ganga from the ground up" a documentary on water

issues in the river Ganges,• Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo• Irena Salina's documentary Flow: For Love of Water • On the topic of genetically modified crops, she was

featured in the documentary "Fed up!:Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives"

• The World According to Monsanto, • Queen of the Sun

Class Discussion

• What is your connection to the earth and your environment?

• Do you have a garden? • Do you know where your

food comes from? • What are your thoughts

on our food system in this country, and what are your concerns with the way we give and take from our land?

Americanah Reading Groups

Group 1 – Ch 24 – 28Group 2 – Ch 29 – 33Group 3 – Ch 34 - 39

“I change myself, I change the world.”

― Gloria E. Anzaldúa• Developed the concepts of spiritual

activism and nepantleras to describe the ways contemporary social actors can combine spirituality with politics to enact revolutionary change.

• Nepantla, Nahuatl word for the space in between: a dynamic place of transformation -- between mind and heart, between what we are and what we become, among each other, between straight and queer, mestizas and Indians, mestizas and whites, mestiza Indians and Latinas; spiritual borders, physical ones, crossing back and forth in mestizaje- mixture, complexities, multiple identities and ways of being to create "a geography of selves.”