Jerry Mander

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Jerry Mander is an American activist and author, best known for his 1977 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. His most recent book, The Superferry Chronicles, is about efforts by Hawaiian activists to halt the operation of the Hawaii Superferry.

Mander worked in advertising for 15 years, including five as partner and president of Freeman, Mander & Gossage in San Francisco. Mander worked with the noted environmentalist, David Brower, managing the Sierra Club's advertising campaigns to prevent the construction of dams in the Grand Canyon, to establish Redwood National Park, and to stop the U.S. Supersonic Transport (SST) project. In 1971 he founded the first non-profit advertising agency in the United States, Public Interest Communications.

Mander is currently the director of the International Forum on Globalization, and the program director for Megatechnology and Globalization at the Foundation for Deep Ecology.

Notwithstanding its resemblance to the term "gerrymander", "Jerry Mander" is his real name, not a pseudonym; he was born to Harry and Eva Mander.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Great International Paper Airplane Book, with George Dippel and Howard Gossage (1971) ISBN 0-671-21129-3
• Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977) ISBN 0-688-08274-2
• In the Absence of the Sacred (1991) ISBN 0-87156-509-9
• The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local, with Edward Goldsmith (1996) ISBN 0-87156-865-9.
• Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible, Contributor, with the International Forum on Globalization Alternatives Task Force (2004) ISBN 1576753034, ISBN 9781576753033.
• Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization, with Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (2006) ISBN 1-57805-132-0
• The Superferry Chronicles: Hawaii’s Uprising Against Militarism, Commercialism, and the Desecration of the Earth, with Koohan Paik, Koa Books (2008) ISBN 978-0-9773338-8-2

[edit] External links

• Bad Magic: The Failure of Technology - An Interview with Jerry Mander by Catherine Ingram (from "The Sun" magazine)
• The Perils of Globalization - An Interview with Jerry Mander by Scott London (from the radio series "Insight & Outlook")
• Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television - A Book Review
• The Homogenization of Global Consciousness: Media, Telecommunications and Culture, an Article by Jerry Mander at Lapis Magazine Online
• On "Paradigm Wars" - A Talk by Jerry Mander, November 28, 2006 (video)
• The Foundation for Deep Ecology