In the more inevitable clashes between miners – with their millions to spend on PR, community "consultation" and lobbying - and the custodians, outcomes are too often predictable: minerals are extracted and subsequently divided communities ignored; custodians are denied ongoing access to country while the land and waterways are ecologically damaged.
There are many instances in South America which have provided inspiration for the anti-globalisation movement – the Zapatista organisation of autonomous municipalities is the best known example, where people control their local area and production through democratic communities, ignoring local councils entirely or requiring these councils to recognise them as the real power.
And, as I explained in an interview with Brian Beutler earlier this summer, that is just a fraction of the ways the Obama administration and the intelligence communities ignored and even thwarted our attempts to consult the public on these surveillance programs before they were reauthorized.
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In addition, maps were commonly restricted strictly to boundaries of local communities, ignoring major features (such as fresh volcanic cones) that were in the territory of "next door" villages.
His football had sanctity of purpose beyond the fripperies of the modern game, where multimillionaire players purport to be martyrs and owners with no conception of community ignore a century or more of tradition, and rename clubs on a whim.
But because it happens out of sight in the mountains in ethnic minority states, the international community ignores what is going on.
"Neither the government nor the international community were prepared for a disaster of this level, but it helped open up our eyes about a reality that the Haitian state and the international community ignored.
WASHINGTON — A Congressional hearing on Thursday addressing homegrown Islamic terrorism offered divergent portraits of Muslims in America: one as law-abiding people who are unfairly made targets, the other as a community ignoring radicalization among its own and failing to confront what one witness called "this cancer that's within".
Meanwhile many of Mr. Bush's natural allies in the corporate community, ignoring his indifference to global warming, have taken unilateral steps to control emissions of greenhouse gases, partly for environmental reasons and partly because the efficiencies required to achieve such reductions make sound business sense.
