GJEP Job Opening!  ( 07/24/2008  11:10:24 )
Job Description: Media/ Campaigns Organizer

Global Justice Ecology Project is looking for a qualified individual to work in our Hinesburg, Vermont-based office.  Position will include working on our established and growing national/international media program as well as supporting our campaigns on climate change, forest protection and indigenous rights.  Some administrative tasks and fundraising will be required.

All applicants need to be excellent communicators, have strong people to people skills (in person and over the phone) and be self starters who can multi-task in sometimes hectic conditions.  Spanish competency a necessity.  Some travel.

Position will be ...  For more click here 

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VIA CAMPESINA Position Paper Regarding Agrofuels  ( 07/01/2008  12:10:23 )
Presented to the media on June 24th, 2008 in Jakarta during the International Conference on Peasant Rights. "Right to grow, right to feed, right to eat"

[Note: At the May 2008 UN Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties, Global Justice Ecology Project worked together ...  For more click here 

UN CBD Fails to Protect Forests from Genetically Engineered Trees  ( 06/16/2008  01:03:13 )
Bonn, Germany—Under heavy pressure from Brazil, Canada, Colombia, New Zealand and Australia, the Convention on Biological Diversity's Ninth Conference of the Parties failed to pass a moratorium on the release of genetically engineered trees into the environment despite support for a global ban endorsed by hundreds ...  For more click here 

GJEP/ STOP GE Trees Campaign Interventions at UN Biodiversity Convention  ( 06/16/2008  01:02:54 )
The following five interventions were made by Co-Director Anne Petermann to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity's Ninth Conference of the Parties in support of a global ban on GE trees. The final intervention was never read since the President of the COP would not allow Petermann ...  For more click here 

Activists Symbolically Cut Frankentrees to Save Forests and Demand Ban on GE Trees  ( 06/16/2008  01:02:24 )

For more photos from the action, go to http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/gallery.php?catID

Bonn, Germany--Activists today stepped up their campaign for a ban on genetically engineered trees when they symbolically cut Genetically Engineered frankentrees that attempted to invade a tree planting ceremony outside of the meeting of the ...  For more click here