Jerry Mander 
Biography
Author, Media Activist from United States
Jerry Mander is an American media activist and author.
He’s Director of the International Forum on Globalization , programme director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology and founder of the first non-profit advertising agency in the United States, Public Interest Communications.
His best known book is “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”(1977); he’s also an author and co-editor of ‘Alternatives to Globalization – A Better World is Possible.’
His latest book , “The Superferry Chronicles” (2008), is about efforts by Hawaiian activists to halt the operation of the Hawaii Superferry.
Videos
Jerry Mander
What’s wrong with economic globalization?
Jerry Mander talks about how the global economic system, established half a century ago at Bretton Woods, is fundamentally unsustainable. He argues that the poor are not benefiting…
Recorded: 24 January 2005
Jerry Mander
What is the impact of agribusiness on the world?
Jerry Mander describes the hugely destructive effects of agribusiness on local economies in developing countries. Agribusiness creates profit maximization by amassing large land…
Recorded: 24 January 2005
Jerry Mander
Who controls the world’s media?
Jerry Mander, formerly President of a major US advertising company, describes the staggering concentration of media ownership in the world today. He talks about how much time is…
Recorded: 24 January 2005
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