Connections
 "The sphere of rock on which we live coalesced from the dust of ancient stars. And between its dynamic surface and the vacuum of space, in a film as thin and vibrant as a spider's web, lies the fragile miracle we call the biosphere. Within this realm, every organism is linked, however tenuously, to every other. Microbe, plant, and mammal, soil dweller and ocean swimmer, all are caught up in the cycling of energy and nutrients from the sun, water, air and earth."Global Justice Ecology Project's mission is to build local, national and international alliances with action to address the ... 7/22/2009 4:43 am Read More |
 In 2004 Global Justice Ecology Project traveled to Chile for meetings with Mapuche organizations fighting the devastating impacts of industrial timber plantations. The outcome of the meetings was the formation of a partnership between GJEP and the Mapuche group Konapewman. In 2005 we returned to the region and toured the coastal areas mentioned in the communique below, which were threatened by effluent from a pulp mill. We completely support the request for support in this communique. Please help if you can. Communique ... 3/04/2010 12:21 pm Read More |
 Mother Nature has announced herself with much force in this part of the planet. What a pity for the victims, for all the suffering that falls mainly on many working people, for the difficulties that the villages and communities in Chile will have, but there is still a great deal of life and opportunities for which we are grateful.NASA says that the earthquake has turned the ... 3/03/2010 3:06 am Read More |
 Esteemed President Lula, We're writing you to express our indignation and urge you to immediately suspend the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam project on the Xingu River in the state of Para due to the tremendous social, environmental, and economic risks posed by this project to the Amazon Region. In July of 2009, you met with representatives of Brazilian civil society and leaders of indigenous communities from the Xingu River ... 3/01/2010 12:19 pm Read More |
| Climate Justice Now! Copenhagen Sign-on Statement Climate Justice Now! Copenhagen Sign-on StatementStatement of Climate Justice Now! on the outcomes of the COP15Organisations are invited to endorse the statementSend an email to Nicola Bullard at n.bullard@focusweb.orgCall for "system change not climate change" unites global movementCorrupt Copenhagen 'accord' exposes gulf between peoples demands and elite interestsThe highly anticipated UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen ended with a fraudulent agreement, engineered by the United States and dropped into the conference at the last moment. The "agreement" was not adopted. Instead, it was "noted" in an absurd parliamentary invention designed to accommodate the United States and permit Ban Ki-moon to ... 12/26/2009 12:26 pm Read More |
| What Really Happened in Copenhagen - By Brian Tokar What Really Happened in Copenhagen?or, "50,000 people went to Denmark and all they got was a lousy 3-pagepolitical agreement"-- Brian TokarDetailed accounts from participants in the recent Copenhagen climatesummit are still coming in, but a few things are already quite clear,even as countries step up the blame game in response to the summit'sdisappointing conclusion.First, the 2 1/2 pages of diplomatic blather that the participatingcountries ultimately consented to "take note" of are completely self-contradictory, and commit no one to any specific actions to addressthe global climate crisis. There isn't even a plan for moving UN-levelnegotiations forward. Friends of the Earth correctly ... 12/26/2009 12:26 pm Read More |
| Follow GJEP in Copenhagen! Global Justice Ecology Project has a team working at the UN Climate Conference (COP-15) in Copenhagen. We will be posting daily blog reports on our activities and progress, along with videos, photos and links to interviews. You can find these on our Climate Connections Blog. Global Justice Ecology Project's New Voices on Climate Change initiative is working with our allies from around the world to promote their voices in the media. For more ... 12/26/2009 12:25 pm Read More |
 Friends,This went out Sunday to several thousand people who signed up to participate in civil disobedience and protest for climate justice at BeyondTalk.net. A public call to action for Nov 30 will come out from Mobilization for Climate Justice and affiliated groups in the next days. NOVEMBER 30th - Global Day ... 12/26/2009 12:25 pm Read More |
 From IndyMedia Ireland Wednesday morning- Eco Activists block main entrance to the climate change conference for one hour Wednesday morning- Eco Activists block main entrance to the climate change conference for one hour Barcelona, Spain--This morning (4 Nov) more than forty activists blocked the entrances to the main halls of the conference centre where the BARCELONA CLIMATE TALKS are taking place. Their action ... 11/04/2009 12:25 pm Read More |
 New Voices on Climate Change GJEP's New Voices on Climate Change Fall tour's next engagement with Indigenous Environmental Network's Jihan Gearon will be at Siena College and Brown University. Her talks are Entitled "Indigenous Community Organizing for Energy and Climate Justice." November 2--Siena College, Loudonville, NY 7 p.m., Key Auditorium Co-sponsored by the Globalization Studies Program and others Free & open to the public Contact: Jean Stern <stern@siena.edu> November 3--Brown University, 135 Angell Street Providence, RI Urban Environmental Lab 12 noon part of the CES Brown Bag Lunch Series At a recent demonstration during the meeting of the G20 in Pittsburgh, Jihan testified, "The land of the Indigenous people in the arctic is literally melting under their feet, disrupting the life ... 11/02/2009 1:24 pm Read More |
 Police use pepper spray against activists at BusinessEurope conference. photo courtesy: Climate Alarm!OUR CLIMATE NOT YOUR BUSINESS!Please find photos of the action hereBrussels, Belgium--For over 1.5 hours, hundreds of corporate lobbyists wishing to attend the annual BusinessEurope conference were prevented from entering the Charlemagne building this morning.The Climate action group Climate Alarm!, consisting of activists from Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany, blocked the main entrance to the conference.Eight activists physically blocked revolving doors and shut side doors with chains. Another group attached loud alarms to balloons which then floated to the ceiling. The group then disrupted the lobby area ... 10/28/2009 11:32 am Read More |
 What: An online video report exploring 350 reasons why "carbon trading" will not work, as well as printed literature distributed at dozens of "350" events around the world. They will be available for download at www.350reasons.org. The activities are part of the "350", an international day of climate action expected to be one of largest days of global political action in history, with over 300 simultaneous events in more than 170 countries. (More information on the international day of action at www.350.org). When: October 24th, 2009. Who: ... 10/23/2009 11:25 am Read More |
 In Finland concerned citizens took part in the E.ON-F.OFF action weekend by hanging a banner near the Helsinki offices of E.ON and Fennovoima. The banner stated a math equation of dirty energy: FENNOVOIMA = E.ON x (NUCLEAR + COAL) = CLIMATE CHAOS While E.ON is busy with coal power in rest of Europe, in Finland it wants to build a nuclear power plant. It is the largest single shareholder of Fennovoima energy company which advertises nuclear power as a solution to climate change. Most Finnish people are against new nuclear power plants, ... 10/22/2009 3:38 pm Read More |
 Press conference in Copenhagen Sunday 18th OctoberMedia team Climate Justice ActionCopenhagen, 16 October 2009Despite four activists from the UK being interrogated under terrorism legislation on their way to Copenhagen, the international network Climate Justice Action (CJA) (1) is meeting this weekend to prepare for mass actions during the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009.After 14 years of ineffectual talks, activists from social movements across the globe are taking the struggle for climate justice to the streets. Planned is a series of events ranging from a mass action to shutdown the harbour of Copenhagen to an action aimed at ... 10/16/2009 12:32 pm Read More |
 We are socio-environmental organizations and movements, male and female workers in family and peasant agriculture, agroextractivists, members of Quilombola (descendants of runaway slaves) communities, women's organizations, urban grassroots organizations, fishermen and women, students, traditional peoples and communities, and native peoples sharing the struggle against deforestation and for environmental justice in the Amazon and in Brazil at large. We gathered at the seminar "Climate and Forest - REDD and market-based mechanisms as a solution for the Amazon?," held in Belem, state of Para, Brazil, on October 2-3, 2009, to analyze proposals for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) for the ... 10/14/2009 3:20 pm Read More |
 Bangkok, 8 October 2009 - If parties agree on a new climate change deal in Copenhagen in December, indigenous peoples might be the main victims of it. Environmental and human rights groups call on policymakers to explicitly recognize indigenous peoples' rights when designing a new climate change agreement."Millions of people worldwide depend on forests for their survival", says Simone Lovera, managing coordinator of the Global Forest Coalition. "Putting a monetary value on forests might lead to land-grabs in areas where property rights are poorly defined and not well protected."Increased awareness that deforestation is a big contributor to global warming has ... 10/09/2009 3:55 pm Read More |
 INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORKPRESS STATEMENTFrom the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change - Bangkok Climate Change Talks 2009, Bangkok, ThailandFor immediate release: October 1, 2009Contacts: Tom Goldtooth, + 1 218 760 0442; Andrew Miller: 087 0460335;Report Calls for the Rejection of REDD in Climate TreatyIndigenous Environmental Network calls for solutions that reduce emissions, protect forests and respect rightsBangkok - Carbon markets should be eliminated from any future plans to tackle global warming, says a leading group of Indigenous Peoples present in Bangkok at the latest round of UN climate negotiations.In a report released today, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)predicts dire ... 10/02/2009 11:44 am Read More |
 Pittsburgh, PA--Thousands of protesters took to the streets 25 September 2009 as the G20 wrapped up their meetings here. The march stopped three times to listen to speeches and music while thousands of police and combat trained national guard troops lined the sidewalks. There were no arrests in one of the largest anti-globalization, pro-environment and worker marches since Miami, FL in 2003 when trade ministers met regarding the Free Trade Area of the Americas.photo: Langelle/GJEP ... 9/25/2009 9:45 pm Read More |
 Protesters in Pittsburgh took to the streets on Thursday September 24th in an unpermitted march at the same time that Airforce One was landing at the Pittsburgh airport. Police responded to the march with pepper gas, LRADs (long range acoustic device) and rubber bullets. 60 people were reportedly arrested. Today a large permitted march is scheduled to take place with participants representing a broad array of issues from climate justice to Freeing Tibet. New Voices on Climate Change participant Jihan Gearon, of Indigenous Environmental Network is one of the featured speakers at the march.Photo courtesy: UK Guardian ... 9/25/2009 11:25 am Read More |
 Pittsburgh, PA--Activists unfurled a 30' banner today as International Coal Conference attendees departed for a tour of a carbon capture and sequestration test facility. photo: Sue MasseyFROM THE MOBILIZATION FOR CLIMATE JUSTICEFor Immediate Release 22 September 2009Actions Spreading Across the U.S. Against Corporate-Driven Climate PolicyPittsburgh, PA--As groups protest the Pittsburgh International Coal Conference days before the G-20 arrives in the city, additional actions against U.S. climate policy and the fossil fuels industry took place on both the east ... 9/22/2009 6:07 pm Read More |
 CLIMATE ACTIVISTS SAY CHEVRON AND OTHER CLIMATE POLLUTERS HAVE NO BUSINESS DICTATING CLIMATE POLICYSan Francisco, CA - A broad coalition of organizations from up and down the west coast arrived in force today to deliver a strong message to U.S. lawmakers and polluting corporations that are decimating our prospects of meaningful climate solutions.The protest rally started at at the San Francisco office of Senator Barbara Boxer (1700 Montgomery St., SF), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that will be presenting a Climate and Energy Bill currently in Congress by the end of the week."If Congress wants to ... 9/22/2009 11:40 am Read More |
 photo: APArticle by Stephen LeahyGENEVA, Sep 2 (IPS) - The rapidly warming Arctic region is destabilising Earth's climate in ways science is just beginning to comprehend.The entire world is being affected, and without urgent action to cut emissions, a too-warm Arctic could trigger catastrophic, irreversible climate change, top scientists say in a report released Wednesday in Geneva."It is crucial to know the full consequences of the Arctic warming, and this is an unprecedented review of the latest science," said Martin Sommerkorn, an Arctic researcher and senior climate change advisor to World Wildlife Fund International."Simply put, if we do not keep ... 9/04/2009 6:22 am Read More |
| New Voices on Climate Change Fall 2009 Speaking Tour! This fall Global Justice Ecology Project is teaming up with Global Exchange, Speak Out and the Mobilization for Climate Justice for a fall New Voices on Climate Change tour in the U.S. to enable our New Voices speakers to communicate directly with U.S. audiences about their experiences both with the impacts of climate change and with real, local solutions to the climate crisis. These tours will allow us to not only inform audiences, but to mobilize people to join the U.S. movement for climate justice. Each leg of the tour includes a media outreach strategy to link up our New ... 8/26/2009 5:18 am Read More |
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20 2009 CONTACT: David Meieran, Tel: +1-412-216-9821 3 RIVERS CLIMATE CONVERGENCE TO OPPOSE G20 AND COAL CONFERENCELOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GROUPS CONVERGE TO DEMONSTRATE CITIZEN SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE, ECONOMIC CRISES OPPOSE CLOSED DOOR MEETINGSA Climate Convergence to be held in Pittsburgh to coincide with the International Coal Conference (Sept. ... 8/25/2009 6:03 pm Read More |
 Photo: Langelle/GJEPDear friends,Have you heard enough about climate change? Do you agree that its time for action?Are you ready to join thousands of others in risking arrest to protect people and ecosystems around the globe from the catastrophic impacts of climate chaos?If so, then we are asking you to take a stand.Join the Climate Pledge of Resistance (CPR for the Planet)And pledge to perform nonviolent civil disobedience and risk arrest in order to push politicians to make the right climate change choices.Together, we will create the largest movement for civil disobedience to stop climate ... 8/24/2009 1:44 pm Read More |
 Photos: Protesters near Rostock, Germany blockade a road leading to a meeting of the G-8, the world's eight richest countries, in 2007 (left); While tear gas flies, police in Miami prepare to fire rubber bullets at peaceful demonstrators during a protest against the FTAA in 2003 (right). Photos: Langelle/GJEP G-20 Protests in Pittsburgh: Will Demonstrators' Rights be Protected or Violently Attacked?Does the Obama Administration Believe in the First Amendment?Weeks before President Obama welcomes leaders of the world's 20 richest countries, his Secret Service (SS), is shutting down avenues for nonviolent dissent in the G-20's host city, Pittsburgh.Perhaps Obama has ... 8/21/2009 3:17 am Read More |
 Richmond, CA - Hundreds of Richmond community members joined climate change advocates, public health experts, local government and labor leaders today in a colorful march, protest and non-violent civil disobedience at Chevron's Richmond refinery. After a festival outside the Richmond BART station with music, dancers and speakers, and an hour-long march that wound through the city streets, a mass die-in and nonviolent civil disobedience took place at the refinery gates. Thirteen people were arrested.The actions outside Chevron were organized by a new coalition - The Mobilization for Climate Justice-West - whose goals are to get Chevron to "cap the crude" ... 8/17/2009 1:14 pm Read More |
 The MST in the extreme South of Bahia, in the early morning of 9 August, re-occupied the farm called Putumuju/barrinha in the municipality of Eunapolis. This happened after loosing their member Jose Pacheco da Cruz, 72 years, victim of the traffic, run over on the highway BR-101 where the MST had to construct their tents after being expelled on 22 July from the aforementioned farm where Veracel Celulose plants eucalyptus. Veracel Celulose is the property of Aracruz and Stora Enso ... 8/14/2009 6:13 am Read More |
 Our Alliance of Bay Area groups invite you and your organization to join us for a series of actions and events - starting with a Mass Mobilization at the Chevron Oil Refinery in Richmond on August 15 and leading up to the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen this December.There is a tremendous potential to create a well-organized, creative, and powerful movement - led by communities confronting the biggest corporate polluters, and keep these corporations from interfering with much needed climate solutions both at home and abroad.Stop Chevron - Join the Mobilization for Climate Justice!August 15th, 2009Richmond BART (16th St & ... 7/23/2009 2:06 pm Read More |
 Photo: People prepare banner at morning protest to greet negotiators as they enter UN Climate Talks in Bonn, Germany. Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCFor Immediate Release 8 June 2009Countdown for Survival: Global groups make an urgent call to end deforestation and conserve the world's forests during UN Climate TalksBonn, Germany - A coalition of youth, environmental groups, NGOs, Indigenous Peoples organizations and women's groups delivered a plea to negotiators asking them to ensure a strong climate deal and warning them that they will put our survival at risk if they do not act immediately to halt deforestation and the industrial logging of the ... 6/10/2009 1:37 pm Read More |
| New Book Out: Fightback!: Workplace Justice for Immigrants Book by GJEP Board member Aziz Choudry plus Jill Hanley, Steve Jordan, Eric Shragge & Martha StiegmanDisplacement of people, migration, immigration and the demand for labour are connected to the fundamental restructuring of capitalism and to the reduction of working-class power through legislation to free the market from "state interference." The result is that a large number of immigrant and temporary foreign workers face relentless competition and little in the way of protection in the labour market. Globally and in Canada, immigrant workers are not passive in the face of these conditions: they survive and fight back. This book documents ... 6/05/2009 2:19 pm Read More |
 Job Description: Media/ Campaigns OrganizerGlobal Justice Ecology Project is offering the right individual an incredible opportunity to work as part of the global movement for climate justice, forest protection and indigenous rights in our Hinesburg, Vermont-based office. Position is full-time and will include overall campaign work, communicating nationally and internationally to the public and the media, plus administration and fundraising tasks.The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, have strong people skills and be a self starter who can multi-task in sometimes hectic conditions. Spanish competency highly desirable. Some travel possible. Occasional evenings and weekends.Salaried position pays $500/week plus health ... 5/28/2009 1:09 pm Read More |
 Ecology and culture at stake say environmentalists, as government plans to exploit rainforest for oil, gas and timber * Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent * guardian.co.uk, Monday 18 May 2009 12.54 BST http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/may/18/peru-army-rainforest-blockadesHuge parts of Peru's rainforest is threatened by its government's deals with several multinationals. Photograph: Paul A Souders/CorbisPeru's army is poised to deploy in the Amazon rainforest to lift blockades across rivers and roads by indigenous people opposed to oil, gas, logging and mining projects.The government has authorised the military to move into remote provinces where a state of emergency has been declared in ... 5/18/2009 11:23 am Read More |
 View from the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage, Alaska, where the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change was held. Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCThe Anchorage Declaration24 April 2009From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchorage, Alaska for the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change. We thank the Ahtna and the Dena'ina Athabascan Peoples in whose lands we gathered.We express our solidarity as Indigenous Peoples living in areas that are the most vulnerable to the impacts and root causes of climate change. We reaffirm the unbreakable and sacred connection ... 5/04/2009 12:20 pm Read More |
 For Immediate Release 25 April 2009Indigenous Peoples from around the World Outraged at the Rapid Escalation of Climate Change and Denounced False SolutionsAnchorage, Alaska--At the first global gathering of Indigenous Peoples on climate change, participants were outraged at the intensifying rate of destruction the climate crisis is having on the Earth and all peoples. Participants reaffirmed that Indigenous Peoples are most impacted by climate change and called for support and funding for Indigenous Peoples to create adaptation and mitigation plans for themselves, based on their own Traditional Knowledge and practices. Indigenous Peoples also took a strong position on emission reduction ... 4/27/2009 1:08 pm Read More |
 Photo Caption: Tom Goodtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network is interviewed by media at the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change in Anchorage, Alaska. Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCThe news articles below come from interviews conducted at the Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change in Anchorage, Alaska. GJEP Co-Director/ Strategist Orin Langelle was sent there by Global Forest Coalition to help do media work with the Indigenous Environmental Network.We have also included the link to the Indigenous Peoples' Guide: ... 4/24/2009 2:53 pm Read More |
 The morning of April 20, 09, the Cliffside Climate Action brought hundreds to Duke Energy's headquarters in Charlotte North Carolina to protest the construction of the new Cliffside coal facility.The latest news is that 44 community members and supporters have been arrested, sending a bold message of urgency around the need to get off coal for the health of our communities and the future of our planet.The Cliffside Climate Action is the latest in the growing wave of civil disobedience demanding that we get our country off dirty energy and ... 4/22/2009 11:37 am Read More |
 114 activists were arrested in a dawn raid on a community centre in Sneinton Dale, Nottingham early on Easter Monday, 13th April 2009. It is believed that the planned target of the protest was the Eon powerstation at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, and Eon has released a statement confirming this. The Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station is the 3rd largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in the UK and has been previously targeted by activists. Based on past Police actions there is a chance that all those arrested might have their homes raided while they are held in custody.This police action is ... 4/22/2009 11:36 am Read More |
 1,500 families of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), occupied a devoluta[1]‚ area of 4,700 hectares in the municipality of Eunápolis, in the state of Bahia. Part of the area is planted with eucalyptus trees from the Veracel Cellulose company. This company possesses more than 20 thousand hectares of eucalyptus plantations in the municipality.The aim of this occupation is to put pressure on the Bahia state government to take over 20 thousand hectares of "devolutas" lands, which are today controlled by the Veracel (owned by Stora Enso and Aracruz Celulose), and ... 4/22/2009 11:35 am Read More |
 No Rights, No REDD!Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCThis month, Global Justice Ecology Project is featuring a photo taken by Orin Langelle during the UN climate meetings in Poznan, Poland in December 2008. Prior to, and during the next major UN meeting on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark this December, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) will be a hotly debated policy item.During the Poznan talks, Indigenous Peoples organizations protested the exclusion of any reference to Indigenous rights or the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from the text of the REDD initiative. The groups issued a ... 4/22/2009 11:34 am Read More |
 New Voices on Climate Change is an innovative initiative of Global Justice Ecology Project, the goal of which is to broaden the climate debate by amplifying the voices of peoples around the world who are already being impacted by climate change. In doing so, the initiative will: 1) Empower peoples and communities already being impacted by climate change by promoting their stories throughout the world. 2) Empower people to become active in the climate movement by humanizing and personalizing climate change, which is otherwise an often daunting, disempowering and abstract problem. The ... 4/22/2009 11:34 am Read More |
 REMINDER - LOCAL EVENT THIS COMING MONDAY! Join GJEP for our next local event Monday April 6th at 7pm co-sponsored by Witness for Peace: ECHOES OF SILENCE Peace. Justice. Beauty. One Planet. One People. Songs of Courage Paul Baker Hernández While a silent Trappist monk, Paul secretly cobbled together a guitar ... 4/22/2009 11:33 am Read More |
 For Immediate Release - 1 April, 2009The Global Forest Coalition, a worldwide network of environmental organizations and Indigenous Peoples Organizations, have publicly rejected the plans of the Prince of Wales to finance rainforest protection with a system of bonds that are to be paid back with funding derived from carbon markets. The Prince launched his idea at a meeting with G20 Heads of State in St. James Palace today."It appears that the Prince has not read any newspapers in the past year," responded Dr. Miguel Lovera, the chairperson of the Global Forest Coalition. "Carbon markets have proven to ... 4/22/2009 11:33 am Read More |
 This 56 page booklet was produced by Food and Water Watch, Red Vida, Transnational Institute, The RPR Network and Other Worlds. (Cover photo: Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project)It was distributed at the 5th World Water Forum held in Istanbul,Turkey 16-22 March 2009. Water Rights activists blasted the World Water Forum as a "Corporate Trade Show to Promote Privatization."The booklet is comprised of individual and collective stories throughout Latin America. The entire booklet can be downloaded at www.globaljusticeecology.org/publications.php?ID.Here is a reprint of the INTRODUCTIONTHE RISE OF WATER ON THE GLOBAL AGENDAIn case after case ... 3/31/2009 9:41 am Read More |
 DEADLINE: March 30, 2009Alaska Native coastal communities need your support. Please submit a comment to the Minerals Management Service by the deadline of March 30, 2009 on the ARCTIC OCEAN MULTI-SALE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT.Please take action to spur Obama's officials to change course in Arctic Ocean away from massive Bush administration leasing and drilling plans.The Interior Department proposes to offer 73 million acres off Alaska for oil and gas development that will endanger Native communities, harm wildlife, and add to global warming.The Arctic Ocean Multi-sale draft EIS proposes to lease the entire 73 million acres, using one EIS for ... 3/30/2009 11:37 am Read More |
 Saturday 28 March, 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the nuclear crisis on the Susquehanna River’s Three Mile Island. The accident was caused supposedly by faulty equipment and bad decisions made during the initial crisis, or, as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission stated, "a combination of personnel error, design deficiencies, and component failures.”The core of the plant melted down partially, according to investigations and cleanup efforts. The Three Mile Island plant stood dangerously close to total meltdown, which could have resulted in a full-scale national disaster. The event led to an overhaul of nuclear power plant safety rules and halted industry ... 3/27/2009 1:55 pm Read More |
 20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lieby Greg PalastMarch 23, 2009"Gail, Please! Stick your hand in it!"The petite Eskimo-Chugach woman gave me that you-dumb-ass-white-boy look."Gail, Gail. STICK YOUR DAMN HAND IN IT!"She stuck it in, under the gravel of the beach at Sleepy Bay, her village's fishing ground. Gail's hand came up dripping with black, sickening goo. It could make you vomit. Oil from the Exxon Valdez. It was already two years after the spill and Exxon had crowed that Mother Nature had happily cleaned up their stinking oil mess for them. It was a lie. But the media wouldn't ... 3/24/2009 10:52 am Read More |
 Global Justice Ecology Project has put in two proposals for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Climate Challenge Contest, and we need your support in order to win a $200,000 grant. Please go to the following links and help Global Justice Ecology Project win a $200,000 grant by voting for both of our submissions. Those submissions with the most votes are more likely to be funded.STOP GE Trees and Agrofuels Campaignhttp://www.justmeans.com/showideadetails?ideaidNew Voices on Climate Change Initiativehttp://www.justmeans.com/competitionidea/7977/promoteidea.htmlSo please vote for both of them and then pass this message along to others and ask them to vote.One proposal concerns our work to ... 3/16/2009 5:11 am Read More |
 This month, Global Justice Ecology Project is showcasing a photo from Orin Langelle's recent trip to an Ayoreo community in the Chaco region of Paraguay. Langelle, by invitation of the community, traveled with Dr. Miguel Lovera, chairperson of Global Forest Coalition. Lovera also also works with the group Iniciativa Amotocodie. The photos Langelle took were called "Sharing the Eye" with ... 3/10/2009 3:13 am Read More |
 Friends of the Earth International is excited to announce our fourth annual photo competition. This international photo competition will gather photos from around the world on the theme of "Biodiversity Lost, Biodiversity Preserved". The best shots will be featured in a series of materials we will launch in conjunction with the 2010 UN International Year of Biodiversity, including a calendar and an international photo exhibition.Information about this photo competition can be found through this link www.foei.org/en/get-involved/photo/fourth-annual-photo-competitionPRESS RELEASE: biodiversity photo competition starts today ... 3/03/2009 12:06 pm Read More |
 Please join Global Justice Ecology Project for a rousing presentation on the effects of nuclear power to human health. The talk will be given by Dr. Winfrid Eisenberg, a German pediatrician and "a recognized authority on the issues of the hazards of nuclear energy for children, nuclear disarmament, and implications for human rights. He has participated in many public forums raising the awareness of the risks associated with the use of nuclear energy." The presentation will take place at Champlain Valley ... 2/23/2009 12:57 pm Read More |
 The February 2009 issue of Z Magazine's "About this issue," commented on the good and bad news in the current issue. One of the examples was:Not so good news was the recent UN Climate Conference in Poland which, as Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle report, failed to "avert an ever-worsening climate crisis." On the positive side, alliances such as Climate Justice Now! are determined to continue the fight for "radical change."The article Z refers to:UN Climate ConventionZ Magazine February 2009By Anne Petermann and Orin Langellewww.zmag.org/zmag/viewArticle/20445The UN ... 2/23/2009 11:22 am Read More |
 An Indigenous Peoples' protest at an impromptu press conference on 30 January during the World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil. They were protesting incursions into their territory that are disrupting their way of life and introducing new and deadly diseases.photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCBélém, Brazil, 1 February 2009CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW!Declaración en español debajoNo to neoliberal illusions, yes to people's solutions!For centuries, productivism and industrial capitalism have been destroyingour cultures, exploiting our labour and poisoning our environment.Now, with the climate crisis, the Earth is saying "enough", "ya basta"!Once again, the people who created the problem are telling us that theyalso have the solutions: ... 2/23/2009 11:18 am Read More |
 Boats ferry World Social Forum participants to different venues in Belém, Brazil.photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCMedia Advisory January 29, 2009Expert Speakers Directory Available at World Social Forum:Worldwide media resource for climate change, Indigenous Peoples, & forest issuesBelém, Brazil-As the World Social Forum gets underway, thousands of representatives from a wide array of social groups and organizations have arrived in Belém, among them experts on forests and climate change [1]. Representatives from the Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project's New Voices on Climate Change initiative are available for interviews. Global Justice Ecology Project launched New Voices on Climate Change immediately ... 2/23/2009 11:22 am Read More |
 Photo by Lou Dematteis/Spectral QOn the opening day of the World Social Forum in Belem Brazil, more than a thousand indigenous peoples from around the world send an urgent message to save the Amazon. For a full description of the action, please visit the Rainforest Action Network blog. ... 1/27/2009 4:15 pm Read More |
 "Biofuels Make Hunger" banner hung at Convention on Biological Diversity in Bonn, Germany. Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCFor Immediate Release January 15, 2009United States--A diverse alliance of organizations published an open letter [1] today in the U.S. and internationally warning of the dangers of industrially produced biofuels (called agrofuels by critics). The letter explains why large-scale industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so-called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community-based land rights and will worsen climate change. With the new Obama Administration slated to take office Tuesday, ... 3/12/2009 12:13 pm Read More |
| January Hinesburg Community Social Potluck Wednesday, January 23rd at 6:00 p.m.Carpenter-Carse Library69 Ballards Corner RoadHinesburg, VTThis month's topic: Global Warming ReportThree Hinesburg residents traveled to Bali, Indonesia for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in December. See their photos, and hear their report back from the international climate negotiations and learn what is being done in Vermont to fight global warming, including a "March for Another World" in Burlington on January 26th.To learn more about the January 26th mobilization please go to: www.WSF2008VT.BLOGSPOT.comPlease bring a dish to share and a beverage of your choice to the potluck and join us every month through ... 1/07/2008 3:21 am Read More |
 The Mapuche authorities and Chilean organizations of Quilaco and Santa Barbara of the Bío Bío River region request that the government and businesses respect the ICHR accord that allowed for the building of the Ralco dam and prohibited further building of hydroelectric dams in the region, and in which the Chilean State establishes a commitment to respect the Mapuche Pewenche Territories… Original Source (en español): Ecoceanos NewsSantiago de Chile, 26th of November 2008 – This Wednesday, Mapuche Pewenche authorities of the Bío Bío River met with the Environmental Minister, Ana Lya Uriarte, explaining their opposition to the construction ... 1/16/2009 10:12 am Read More |
| German Geo-engineers Show Iron Will to Defy Global UN Moratorium ETC Group - News Release January 8, 2009www.etcgroup.orgA controversial climate-engineering expedition - flying the Germanflag - set sail from South Africa, in defiance of a United Nationsagreement signed by 191 nations and brokered by Germany last May. Inresponse, civil society groups are calling on governments and the UNto take action.The RV Polarstern, a German research vessel owned by the AlfredWegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research of Bremerhaven,Germany, left Cape Town on 7th January 2009 to begin a large scale geo-engineering experiment known as LOHAFEX. The LOHAFEX voyage, approvedby the Indian and German governments according to Dr. Victor Smetacek,co-Chief Scientist ... 1/16/2009 10:11 am Read More |
| November Hinesburg Community Social Potluck Hinesburg Community Monthly Social PotluckThursday, November 15th at 6pmThis Month's Potluck will discuss:Biofuels: Blessing or Curse?Hinesburg resident and Global Justice Ecology Project Research Biologist and Biofuels Specialist, Rachel Smolker will present on the social and environmental impacts of replacing fossil fuels with biofuels (also called agrofuels). She will also speak about work being done around the world on the issue of biofuels, from Indonesia to Brazil to the U.S.Rachel is preparing a report on biofuels to be released at this year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia in December. The report will be co-produced by Global ... 11/07/2007 1:04 pm Read More |
| Carbon Karma: The Perfect Last Minute Gift Polar bear issues warning at end of march during the European Social Forum in Malmo, Sweden, September 2008. Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCTired of Cheap, Toxic Junk from China? Then try Carbon Karma: The Perfect Last Minute Holiday GiftBy Sandy KlausHinesburg, Vermont--Let's face it, if you run an earth-destroying corporation, your Carbon Karma is bad. What you deserve is a lump of fossil fuel in your Christmas stocking. But if you're like the rest of us, you can instantly improve your Carbon Karma, as well as that of your family and friends, by giving the gift of a donation to an organization ... 1/16/2009 10:09 am Read More |
 Global Justice Ecology Project announces a Gala Reception for new Photo Exhibit.Exhibit: Corporate Globalization vs. Global Justice: Part II The Struggle Continues. Photographs by Orin Langelle. When: Saturday, October 13, 7:30 pm.Where: The Plainfield Community Center, Plainfield, VT.Featured Guest Speaker: Simone Lovera, Managing Coordinator, Global Forest CoalitionPiano: Jerome LipaniPoetry: Alexis Smith will read a poem by Grace PaleyRefreshments will be served and is free and open to the public.The exhibit features a selection of photographs from the summer of 2004 to the present, including photographs from Vermont, Latin America, the Democratic and Republican National Conventions of 2004, G8 protests in ... 10/01/2007 12:46 pm Read More |
| Climate Justice Now! Network: Radical New Agenda Urgently Needed MEDIA RELEASE Friday 12 December 2008Poznan, Poland - Members of the Climate Justice Now! Network -representing over 160 organisations fighting for climate justice -issued today (Friday 12 December) a joint statement calling for a radical change in direction to put climate justice and people's rights at the centre of the UNFCCC negotiations.The statement asserts that: "Solutions to the climate crisis will not come from industrialised countries and big business. Effective and enduring solutions will come from those who have protected the environment - Indigenous Peoples, women, peasant and family farmers, fisherfolk, forest dependent communities, youth and ... 1/16/2009 10:09 am Read More |
 Poznan statement from the Climate Justice Now! alliancePhoto: Langelle/GJEP-GFC The Poznan statement was released today at a press conference during during the UN climate meeting in Poznan, Poland. Press conference participants were Alicia Munoz Toledo, Anamuri, Via Campesina, Chile; Ana Filippini, World Rainforest Movement, Gender CC, Uruguay and Ben Powless, Indigenous Environmental Network. Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project, Global Forest Coalition, moderated the panel and made opening and closing statements. (Note: Ana, Ben and Anne are in the GJEP New Voices on Climate Change initiative.)The Poznan statement:12 December 2008Members of Climate Justice Now! - a worldwide alliance of more ... 12/19/2008 3:37 am Read More |
| Tribute to Grace Paley Join Vermont Poets in a Tribute to Grace PaleyContact: Merry Gangemi 802.456.1630 <mgangemi@vtlink.net> Sunday October 7, 3-5 pmVermont College ChapelMontpelier, VT with:Galway KinnellDavid BudbillSusan ThomasBarbara SorensonJim SchleyGeof HewitttMajor JacksonEllen Bryant VoigtCora BrooksJody Gladdingand others ... 10/01/2007 11:43 am Read More |
 Protest Manifests as Indigenous Rights are opposed by U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand at UN Climate Conference. Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCPoznan, Poland-- 9 December 2008 We, the undersigned representatives of indigenous peoples, local communities and non-governmental organizations monitoring the progress of negotiations in Poznan are outraged that the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand opposed the inclusion of recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in a decision on REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) drafted today by government delegates at the UN Climate Conference.These four countries (often known as the 'CANZUS Group') want to include ... 12/19/2008 3:35 am Read More |
| October Hinesburg Community Social Potluck The 4th Season begins Thursday, October 11th at 6pmThis Month's Potluck will discuss:It's Not Just Iraq--It's the American EmpireJoin journalists Benjamin Dangl and April Howard to discuss this important issue.Benjamin Dangl works as an independent journalist throughout Latin America, writing for publications such as Z Magazine, The Nation, and The Progressive. He is editor of TowardFreedom.com, a progressive perspective on world events, and UpsideDownWorld.org, an online magazine covering activism and politics in Latin America. Benjamin won a 2007 Project Censored Award for his coverage of U.S. military operations in Paraguay. Benjamin also is the author of the newly released book, ... 11/07/2007 12:57 pm Read More |
 Climate Justice Now! demanded on the streets of Poznan, Poland where the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is being held. This demonstration was part of the Global Day of Action against climate change on Saturday 6 December, 2008. Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCPoznan, Poland--Saturday 6 December 2008 marked the Global Day of Action against Climate Change. Over 90 countries participated in actions internationally. In Poznan officials from around the world have gathered to hammer out a roadmap to a post-Kyoto climate agreement, which intends to be finalized next year in Copenhagen. This agreement will determine global climate policy after the Kyoto agreement ... 8/12/2009 3:26 am Read More |
| Free Trade & The Rural Crisis: A Panel Discussion A discussion with international farmer leaders on agraculture and trade policy issues affecting farmers around the world, as well as our local food systems will take place Friday, September 14th, 2007 from 3:30-5:00 at the University of Vermont Campus Billings MLK Lounge (downstairs). ... 9/21/2007 12:09 pm Read More |
 Fortune-teller predicts profits from deforestation for UN delegate.Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFCFor Immediate Release - Friday 5 December -Joint release: Global Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society and Global Justice Ecology ProjectUN Climate Deal Could Pay for Forest DestructionCarbon Karma Fortune-telling Action Foretells REDD ProfitsPoznan, Poland--Global Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society, Global Justice Ecology Project and concerned youth highlighted the risks associated with the implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in a "REDD fortune-telling" action today at the UN Climate conference here. In its current form, they argue, REDD could derail the Climate Convention and undermine a post-2012 Climate agreement.In ... 12/05/2008 1:43 pm Read More |
| October World Bank and Global Warming Mobilization This October 21-23 economic globalization activists will be joining with climate change activists to oppose the global warming-inducing policies of the World Bank during their fall meetings in Washington, DC.The World Bank promotes projects including large dams, logging and fossil fuel development that exacerbate global warming.If you would like to be contacted regarding this and other global warming actions, reply to info@globaljusticeecology.org ... 7/26/2007 4:48 am Read More |
| Hinesburg Residents to Explore Sustainability and the Local Foods Movement For Immediate Release - December 2, 2008 - Hinesburg, VT--An evening of discussing and eating local food will begin with a film called "Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate?" at the Carpenter-Carse Library in Hinesburg on Thursday, December 4th at 7pm. Following the film, local foods expert Bill Schubart will lead a discussion and help attendees take a closer look into what people in the town of Hinesburg eat and what the future of food could look like in Vermont. Apples and cheeses from the Hinesburg area to taste and pair will ... 12/05/2008 12:06 pm Read More |
 Poznan, Poland - As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is underway, Global Justice Ecology Project is launching New Voices on Climate Change, a new initiative, the goal of which is to broaden the climate debate by amplifying the voices of peoples around the world who are already being impacted by climate change. This is an effort to bring in people that have historically been mostly excluded from climate discussions: especially Indigenous Peoples, women, and non-corporate interests. New Voices participant, Hubertus Samangun, of ICTI - Ikatan Cendekiawan Tanimbar Indonesia, states: "As an Indigenous person, I know that ... 12/05/2008 12:06 pm Read More |
 Press Release from Rising Tide North America - 1 December , 2008 - Washington, DC-As the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change opened today in Poznan, Poland, grassroots climate activists took over the Washington DC office of Environmental Defense. The activists stated that they had targeted ED, one of the largest environmental organizations in the world, because of the organization's key role in promoting the discredited approach of carbon trading as a solution to climate change. Dr. Rachel Smolker of Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition read a statement, which ... 12/05/2008 12:05 pm Read More |
| GJEP Biofuels Workshop at Solarfest in Tinmouth, V On Saturday July 14th, Rachel Smolker and Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project will be presenting the workshop "Biofuels and Sustainable Development" at this year's Solarfest at Forget-Me-Not Farm in Tinmouth, Vermont. For more information on Solarfest, go to http://www.solarfest.org/ ... 7/26/2007 3:02 am Read More |
 Activists from the Copenhagen based climate activist group KlimaX climbed onto the front of the conference site Bella Centret and threw out banners. The site is symbolic in the way that its the actual site of the COP15 summit exactly one year from now."We need a humane solution to the climate crisis." Says Sini Østergaard from KlimaX "We cannot stand by and watch while the rich countries buy CO2 quotas from the poor countries. We have take action now."The activists brought banners, music, cookies and tea while the security people and diplomats attending a conference watched ... 12/04/2008 12:26 pm Read More |
| Agrofuels European Tour Over June 25-29, 2007 Global Justice Ecology Project Co-Director Orin Langelle will be speaking at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium as well as the Dutch Parliament in The Hague, Netherlands on the issue of GE trees and agrofuels, as part of a major agrofuels tour organized by Global Forest Coalition. The tour includes the participation of impacted peoples from all over the world testifying about the social and ecological impacts of the large-scale production of agrofuels in their countries.The tour winds up at a meeting of a subsidiary body of the United Nations Convention ... 7/26/2007 3:01 am Read More |
| June 2007 G-8 Protests, Rostock, Germany GJEP Co-Director Orin Langelle will be attending the alternative forum and the protests against the G-8 in Rostock, Germany, June 6-8, 2007.He will be presenting on the social and ecological impacts of biofuels at the alternative forum and will be photographing the blockades and protests against the G-8. ... 7/26/2007 3:05 am Read More |
 How's Your Carbon Karma?? Worried about your carbon footprint? Want to improve your "Carbon Karma"? If you are the CEO of an earth destroying corporation, your Carbon Karma is disastrously bad and the only way for you to get good Carbon Karma is to cease your planet-destroying ways. As soon as possible, please. But for the rest of us:If you want good Carbon Karma, don't invest in dicey "carbon offsets," that have no proven value in fighting climate change. (Such as those promoted by companies like Sustainable Carbon Atmospheric Management—SCAM*)Instead, improve your Carbon Karma by investing in organizations that are ... 12/19/2008 3:38 am Read More |
| A Call to Climate Action A Call to Climate Action - ENGLISH / ESPAÑOL We stand at a crossroads. The facts are clear. Global climate change, caused by human activities, is happening, threatening the lives and livelihoods of billions of people and the existence of millions of species. Social movements, environmental groups, and scientists from all over the world are calling for urgent and radical action on climate change.On the 30th of November, 2009 the governments of the world will come to Copenhagen for the fifteenth UN Climate Conference (COP-15). This will be the biggest summit on climate change ever to have taken ... 12/04/2008 12:26 pm Read More |
| Time to Shape Up or Step Aside Environmental Defense Fund - Statement from Dr. Rachel Smolker Time to Shape up or Step Aside: Environmental Defense Fund Must StopAdvocating for Market Based Approaches to Climate Change and HaltCorporate Greenwashing.From the Daughter of EDF Founder, Robert E. SmolkerAuthor Dr. Rachel Smolker is with Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest CoalitionMy name is Rachel Smolker. When I was a child, growing up on Long Island,my father, Robert E Smolker, along with Charlie Wurster, Dennis Pulestonand Art Cooley, used to sit around in the living room sipping their beersand discuss environmental issues. My father, an ornithologist, wasobserving the thinning ... 11/25/2008 4:34 am Read More |
| Action Alert! Guarani Community Violently Evicted for GMO Soy Plantation In northern Argentina, indigenous people belonging to a Guaraní community in the province of Jujuy have been violently evicted from their lands. Their houses and farms have been destroyed by bulldozers and the animals on which the community depends for their livelihood have been killed and possessions been burnt. The attack was led by a soya entrepreneur who wants to appropriate the land for soya. The community has returned to their land, but are under constant threat of further violence and the provincial administration is denying them their constitutional rights to the land. Please click here to take part in ... 9/03/2008 12:38 pm Read More |
| Making a Killing: Article by GJEP Board Member MAKING A KILLING: THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND IMPACTS ON THE THIRD WORLDwritten by Aziz Choudry, Professor, McGill University and GJEP Board memberAugust 20, 2008 and published in Toward Freedom.To read the article, click here ... 8/21/2008 5:14 am Read More |
 Join us Friday, September 5th 2008 at 5pm at the GJEP office (10600 Rte 116, Hinesburg--the yellow office building between the town hall and the Hinesburg Community Church. Directions below article). Meet us on the balcony for food, drinks, music and a slide show of co-Director Orin Langelle's photos depicting five years of Global Justice Ecology Project accomplishments! Meet the hardworking and world-traveling GJEP staff and our Board of Directors, who will be coming from as far away as Kenya. Global Justice Ecology Project Turns FiveBy Sara Armstrong, Campaigns and Office AssistantAs a fairly new employee at Global Justice ... 9/03/2008 12:39 pm Read More |
 Landloss threat ends as African Parks withdraws from EthiopiaAfrican Parks Foundation (now known as African Parks Network) of the Netherlands has announced it will withdraw from its lease of the Omo and Nech Sar National Parks, Ethiopia, by October, 2008. Human rights organizations had voiced concern that African Park's plans to manage the Omo National Park would have evicted tribal people from their ancestral land, or caused them to lose access to vital agricultural and grazing land. Seven tribes, the Suri, Dizi, Me'en, Nyangatom, Kwegu, Bodi, and Mursi, live in or use the land designated as the Omo ... 8/07/2008 6:15 am Read More |
| GJEP Job Opening! Job Description: Media/ Campaigns OrganizerGlobal 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 part-time to start and will become full-time. Liveable ... 8/07/2008 6:15 am Read More |
 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 with Via Campesina on the issue of agrofuels and their impacts on small farmers and the environment. During the CBD COP, Via Campesina announced that they were launching a new campaign against GE trees due to industry's promotion of GE trees as a new source for so-called 'second generation' cellulosic agrofuels. Below ... 7/01/2008 2:10 pm Read More |
 For more photos from the protests, click hereThis afternoon activists from all over the world have hung a banner, banged on teacups and handed out messages by Via Campesina during the official celebrations of Biodiversity Day at the 9th Conference of Parties (COP-9) of the UN convention on Biodiversity. They did so at the end of a message by UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon read by the Programme Officer of the Secretariat of the CBD to the distinguished delegates of the Convention.The banners read "No Agrodiversity Without Farmers" and "Nature for People, Not for business." The written message was ... 5/23/2008 6:19 am Read More |
 Polluting Chilean Pulp Mill Profits from Global Warming CreditsPlease sign on below to protest this travesty in solidarity with Mapuche communities!Celulosa Arauco y Constitución S.A.(CELCO/Arauco) is a Chilean forestry company that belongs to a powerful Chilean holding. This company has caused several ecological disasters, is planning to build a new sewage pipeline in an area with environments of high conservation value and is jeopardizing Mapuche Indigenous people?s livelihoods in the South of Chile. In addition, forestry activities have caused loss of native forest in Chile.CELCO has a partnership with the Swedish-Finish company Stora Enso and it is also ... 4/30/2008 2:42 pm Read More |
| Fighting Free Trade Agreements: Growing Resistance to Bilaterals Fighting FTAS: the growing resistance to bilateral free trade and investment agreementsCheck out and download the online version of "Fighting FTAs: the growing resistance to bilateral free trade and investment agreements", a collaborative publication released by bilaterals.org, BIOTHAI and GRAIN in February 2008 at www.fightingftas.org."Fighting FTAs" provides a big picture of what today's frenzy over free trade agreements (FTAs) means, and an insight into some of the struggles being waged by social movements fighting back. The publication is available in English, Spanish, French and Thai.Hardly a day goes by without news of some FTA hitting the headlines. Global talks at ... 4/29/2008 1:03 pm Read More |
 Indigenous Environmental Network and members of its Native grassroots delegation attending the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City held a protest/rally on the morning of Friday, April 25th, in front of the offices of Sithe Global Power, LLC to protest the company's plans to build a coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Reservation.United Nations, New York City--A delegation of indigenous peoples from around the United States and Canada are demanding immediate action to address climate chaos and crisis. Twenty-two youth, women, elders and tribal ... 4/25/2008 1:30 pm Read More |
 For Immediate Release Thursday 17 April 2008 (International Day of Peasant's Struggle) Asunción, Paraguay--One week before the third meeting of the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina [1], the Global Forest Coalition, a worldwide coalition of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Indigenous Peoples Organizations [2], have published an open call to NGOs to withdraw themselves from the RTRS process [3]. The Coalition states that by supporting the roundtable, NGOs are legitimizing the expansion of large-scale soy monocultures that lead to massive deforestation, pesticide contamination, rural depopulation, malnutrition and violent land conflicts. It calls upon NGOs ... 4/25/2008 1:16 pm Read More |
| 'Cap and trade' climate scheme won't work in US either, warn European environmental groups 16 April. For immediate release. With George Bush today expected to outline options for a 'cap and trade' scheme to tackle US greenhouse gas emissions, European environmental groups warned that a similar policy in the European Union has been a 'total failure'.European emissions have risen in the three years during which the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which accounts for the vast majority of trades in the world carbon market, has been in operation.Heavy industry lobbying has led to an over-allocation of the free pollution permits issued by the scheme, allowing large polluters to generate billions in windfall profits ... 4/17/2008 11:09 am Read More |
| UK Protests call for Biofuel Targets to be Scrapped 16 April 2008 joint press release by Biofuelwatch and Global Forest CoalitionLondon-There were demonstrations in London yesterday and groups across the UK also protested against the introduction of mandatory biofuel blending. Outside Downing Street speakers from Friends of the Earth, Global Forest Coalition, GM Freeze, Campaign against Climate Change and Biofuelwatch condemned the government's decision to go ahead with it's biofuel policy against overwhelming evidence of catastrophic impacts on climate, communities, biodiversity and food security. Other protests were held outside the constituency offices of Ruth Kelley, Secretary of State for Transport, and Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for the Environment. ... 4/17/2008 11:05 am Read More |
 For Immediate Release 11 April 2008Groups Condemn Biofuels as "False Solution" During Brazil's President Lula Tour of the Netherlands and Czech Republic(Joint Release from Global Forest Coalition and Corporate Europe Observatory) The Netherlands--Criticism is mounting denouncing Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's visit this week to the Netherlands and the Czech Republic on a tour focused on promoting ethanol and other biofuels. The Brazilian president is visiting The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam and will meet with Dutch Queen Beatrix and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.Although Brazilian presidential spokesman Marcelo Baumbach said that Lula will tell European leaders that bio-fuels are ... 4/11/2008 1:36 pm Read More |
 Corporate vs. Popular Solutions to the Climate CrisisClimate Change: Crisis and OpportunityPresentation by Anne Petermann, GJEP Co-Director15 March 2008, New York CityGlobal warming is humanity's greatest challenge. As such, we must tackle this issue on several fronts. We must build opposition to the corporate-controlled false solutions to climate change that dominates the media, in order to open space for discussion of real solutions. We must make climate justice a core part of our work. We must make broad and visionary alliances with allied movements around the world, and we must begin the fundamental transformation of society that will ... 3/17/2008 11:34 am Read More |
| Christian Parenti to Speak on Climate Wars April 8 Please join Global Justice Ecology Project for this important eventThe Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series presentsClimate Wars: The Violent Geography of Global WarmingWill drought, flood and famine lead to a new dark age?Or will the crisis of climate change be met with rational and progressive economic policies?April 8, 2008 7pmUVM Davis Center, Sugar Maple Ballroom, 4th floorBurlington, VT(Park by the water tower off East Avenue)Christian Parenti will draw on his experience as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, China and his recent experience as an unembedded reporter in Iraq and Afghanistan. He will explore these questions, combining his on ... 3/07/2008 1:30 pm Read More |
 CANCELLED: DUE TO WEATHERCheck back for the rescheduled opening!Global Justice Ecology Project is hosting an opening for our new photo exhibit this Friday in BurlingtonCorporate Globalization vs. Global Justice: Part II, The Struggle Continuesfeaturing photos by Orin LangelleOn display from February 1st through April 27th, 2008Photo Exhibit Opening Reception: Friday, February 1st, 5-8pm at the ArtPath Gallery (in the Wing Building, by the King Street Ferry Dock in Burlington--directions below). Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served.Corporate Globalization vs. Global Justice: Part II, The Struggle Continues features a selection of photographs of global resistance from the summer of 2004 to ... 2/01/2008 4:25 am Read More |
 Global Justice Ecology Project and the Institute for Social Ecology hosted Jutta Kill of the England-based FERN and Larry Lohmann of the England-based The Corner House for four events over January 26th to the 28th in Burlington, Middlebury and Montpelier, Vermont. Lohmann and Kill both spoke about the role of carbon trading and carbon offsets in deepening the climate crisis and in deflecting resources away from real solutions to global warming. GJEP co-Director Anne Petermann also gave a powerpoint on the outcomes of the UN Climate Convention that took place ... 1/28/2008 3:09 am Read More |
 March Toward a Better World(part of a global day of action--download poster at bottom of article)Saturday, January 26, Burlington, VT 2:30Starting from the UVM Davis Center to Downtown BurlingtonMarch to Unite the common themes of:• Troops Home Now!• Health Care is a Right• Climate Justice Now!Many Struggles, One Movement!Social movements from around the world have called for an international mobilization on January 26, 2008. We call on Vermont organizations to be part of this international struggle against war, racism, sexism and corporate rule which produce violence, exploitation, poverty, hunger and ecological disaster and deprive people of human rights. We believe ... 1/24/2008 4:02 am Read More |
| Global Warming Panel: Burlington, VT 1/26 4-6pm FOLLOWING THE MARCH: 4-6pm on Saturday, January 26GLOBAL WARMING PANELfeaturing international climate justice activists from Europe:• Larry Lohmann, The Corner House, author of Carbon Trading: a Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatization and Power• Jutta Kill, FERN, activist working on climate change and protection of forests and forest peoples' rightsContois Auditorium, Burlington City Hall (corner of Church and Main Streets, Burlington)(Snacks and Beverages will be served)Larry Lohmann has worked since 1997with the Corner House, a research and solidarity organization based in the UK (http: www.thecornerhouse.org.uk). During the 1980s he lived and worked in Thailand, teaching and working ... 1/24/2008 4:02 am Read More |
 For Immediate Release 14 December 2007 Bali Forest Outcomes Trample Indigenous Peoples' & Local Communities' RightsFalse "Solutions" to Climate Change Condemned at the UNFCCC Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia-As the UN Framework Convention onClimate Change ends, Global Forest Coalition [1] expresses greatconcern that market-based mechanisms promoted here do not give enoughguarantees to indigenous peoples and forest dependent peoples toensure their rights. Global Forest Coalition's Managing Coordinator, Simone Lovera stated,"The outcomes of the forest negotiations here in Bali do not includeany guarantee that the rights of Indigenous ... 1/09/2008 11:54 am Read More |
 For Immediate Release 11 December, 2007Groups Protest World BankSay Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Threatens Forests and Indigenous PeoplesNusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia--A very diverse group of non-governmentalorganizations, indigenous peoples organizations and social movementsstaged a protest today outside of a press conference where World BankPresident and former US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick announced the launch of the World Bank‚s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility."This Facility is merely the World Bank up to their old tricks," stated Anne Petermann, Co-Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. "They've packaged up their ... 1/09/2008 11:53 am Read More |
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7 December 2007Indigenous Peoples Protest UNFCCCIndigenous Peoples shut out of Climate Change NegotiationsNusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia- Indigenous peoples representing regions from around the world protested outside the climate negotiations today wearing symbolic gags that read UNFCCC, the acronym of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, symbolizing their systematic exclusion from the UN meeting.Yesterday a delegation of indigenous peoples was forcibly barred from entering the meeting between UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer and civil society representatives, despite the fact that the indigenous delegation was invited to attend. This act is representative of the systematic exclusion ... 1/09/2008 11:53 am Read More |
| GJEP and GFC Launch Major New Report on Biofuels For Immediate Release December 5, 2007Vermont Organization Launches Major New Report on Biofuels (Agrofuels) at UN Climate Conference in IndonesiaContacts:Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project, +62-813-389-18-437 (on site in Bali)Dr. Rachel Smolker, Global Justice Ecology Project, 802-482-2689 (arrives back in Vermont this Friday)Photos available--contact Orin Langelle <mailto:langelle@globaljusticeecology.org>langelle@globaljusticeecology.orgBali, Indonesia--Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP), based in Hinesburg, VT held a press conference on Tuesday, December 4, launching a major new report entitled The True Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forests and the Climate. The report, co-produced by Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition (GFC), details the impacts of ... 1/09/2008 11:53 am Read More |
 For immediate release29 November 2007No time left for false solutions:Stop commercialising carbon, cut emissions at source!Global Justice Ecology Project and the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] are present in Bali, Indonesia, for the 13th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, 3rd-14th December, with a team of campaigners from around the world, including Indigenous Peoples' representatives, to expose the false 'solutions' - agrofuels [2] and carbon markets - being promoted by many governments and companies.It is now increasingly recognised that these failing solutions are also having devastating impacts on the world's 854 million chronically hungry people, [3] 1.6 billion forest-dependent ... 1/09/2008 11:53 am Read More |
 PRESS RELEASE EMBARGO UNTIL 12:00 AM GMT17 NOVEMBER 2007In reaction to today's launch of the synthesis report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in Spain, the Global Forest Coalition, a worldwide coalition of NGOs and Indigenous Peoples' Organisations, called upon governments to reject so-called 'biofuels' and other false solutions to climate change like carbon trading. It is now becoming clear that these solutions may in fact make climate change worse, not better, and that they have many other serious social and environmental impacts. (1) The IPCC report again highlights that climate change is already having devastating impacts ... 1/09/2008 11:53 am Read More |
 Thursday, November 15th at 6pmThis Month's Potluck will discuss:Biofuels: Blessing or Curse?Hinesburg resident and Global Justice Ecology Project Research Biologist and Biofuels Specialist, Rachel Smolker will present on the social and environmental impacts of replacing fossil fuels with biofuels (also called agrofuels). She will also speak about work being done around the world on the issue of biofuels, from Indonesia to Brazil to the U.S.Rachel is preparing a report on biofuels to be released at this year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia in December. The report will be co-produced by Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) ... 1/09/2008 11:52 am Read More |
 MST Activist Killed, Letters Could Help Bring Those Responsible to Justice [Note from GJEP: Brazil may be the first country after China to commercially release GE trees. The dangers of Brazil's open arms policy to genetic engineering companies is demonstrated by the murder of an MST activist who was occupying a field of GE crops. Please take action.] On October 21 at 1:30 p.m., a Via Campesina encampment located at Syngenta's 127-hectare farm used for field trials of genetically modified crops in Santa Tereza do Oeste, in Parana, ... 1/09/2008 11:52 am Read More |
 New Zealand Government Is Not Fit to Sit on UN Human Rights CouncilBy Aziz ChoudryThe New Zealand Government must be stopped. At home and abroad. On 14 September this year, the New Zealand government and three othergovernments (Canada, USA and Australia) shared the dubious distinctionas the only states to vote against the adoption of the United NationsDeclaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. On Friday, itannounced its candidacy for the United Nations (UN) Human RightsCouncil, for the period 2009-2012. The announcement came at the end ofa shocking week where Maori sovereignty campaigners,environmentalists, and other activists ... 1/09/2008 11:52 am Read More |
 Hinesburg, VT--Since September 2003, Global Justice Ecology Project has organized community trainings, produced photographic exhibits, co-organized a major anti-war conference in Burlington, and hosted monthly community potlucks in Hinesburg. Internationally, Global Justice Ecology Project organizes against the genetic engineering of trees, working with the United Nations as well as indigenous peoples' organizations and other groups around the world. This week GJEP is organizing two special events: 1) Journalists Ben Dangl and April Howard will present It's Not Just Iraq--It's the American Empire, at the Hinesburg Community Social Potluck, Thursday, October 11th, 6 pm at Hinesburg's Carpenter-Carse Library. Ben Dangl writes ... 1/09/2008 11:52 am Read More |
 On October 4th, at the International Commons, St. Michael's College (Winooski, VT), GJEP supporter Robin Lloyd received this prestigious award.Robin Lloyd was arrested for nonviolent protest at the "School for Assassins" at Ft. Benning, Georgia in the fall of 2005 and served a three-month prison sentence at the Danbury, Federal Correctional Institution in CT.Robin Lloyd, a Burlington, VT activist with the Burlington Peace Coalition (forerunner for the Peace and Justice Center), founder of the Peace on Earth Store (now the Peace & Justice Store), filmmaker, writer, world traveler, member of Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), recently returned ... 1/09/2008 11:50 am Read More |
 On September 29th aboard the Northern Lights Boat the Peace & Justice Center honored Ed Everts by presenting him an award in his name for his lifetime achievements in social justice and activism. Ed Everts was recognized and rewarded by the Vermont community at the Peace & Justice Center's benefit cruise where there was dancing and a live auction. Ed filmed and produced over 15 years of public access television and continues to agitate through becoming a member and avid supporter of the Peace & Justice Center as well as the Green Mountain Veterans for Peace.Photo: Langelle/Global Justice ... 1/09/2008 11:49 am Read More |
 21 September: International Day against Monoculture Tree PlantationsIn 2004, September 21st was declared as International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations by a number of organizations throughout the world. On this day, people in every continent carry out actions to generate awareness on the impacts of large scale tree monocultures on local communities and their environments.Be they eucalyptus, pines, acacias, gmelinas, oil palm or other types of monoculture tree plantations, they are all mostly aimed at feeding northern consumers with growing volumes of raw materials extracted in southern countries at a huge social and environmental cost.Wasteful consumption patterns in the north ... 1/09/2008 11:48 am Read More |
 PRESS RELEASE September 17, 2007Forest Stewardship Council at a crossroad: Veracel timber certification would be yet another disaster for FSCThe wood-pulp producing company Veracel has applied for FSC certification of its tree plantations in the Brazilian state of Bahia and the evaluation process is being carried out by the international certification firm SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance). Veracel, a joint venture between Swedish-Finnish Stora Enso and Norwegian-Brazilian Aracruz Cellulose exports almost all the pulp produced in Brazil to overseas markets, where ... 1/09/2008 11:48 am Read More |
 You can help! Please send support today![Note: Global Justice Ecology Project Co-Director Orin Langelle was co-Coordinator and co-Founder of ACERCA, an organization that did extensive work in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) of Nicaragua, working with the local indigenous communities to protect the disappearing rainforest there. Langelle led several delegations to the region including the first environmental justice delegation after Hurricane Mitch. We encourage you to send whatever support you can.] click here to send support. From Nicaragua Network: At 5:45am local time on Sept. 4, Hurricane Felix hit the Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) of Nicaragua as a category ... 9/10/2007 6:02 am Read More |
 From the New York Times, August 23, 2007Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, DiesBy MARGALIT FOXGrace Paley, the celebrated writer and social activist whose short stories explored in precise, pungent and tragicomic style the struggles of ordinary women muddling through everyday lives, died on Wednesday at her home in Thetford Hill, Vt. She was 84 and also had an apartment in Manhattan.Ms. Paley had been ill with breast cancer for some time, her literary agent, Elaine Markson, said yesterday.Ms. Paley's output was modest, some four dozen stories in three volumes: "The Little Disturbances of Man" (Doubleday, 1959); "Enormous Changes at the ... 8/23/2007 7:03 am Read More |
 (graphic: "Agrofuel, The Road to Destruction")Sign-on: Moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuelsOrganisations and individuals around the world are extremely concerned about the way the EU is rushing into agrofuels and the signals this sends to the rest of the world to race into agrofuel production. The impacts are already serious worldwide. Millions of hectares are being designated for agrofuel production and export in Africa, Asia and South America. Indigenous peoples and local communities are being expelled from their land or forced into agrofuel production, ... 1/09/2008 11:47 am Read More |
 Update on the Mapuche Struggle Against Plantations in ChileRecently logging companies have become more aggressive as they have continued to push their way into Mapuche traditional territory. As a result, a bitter clash has arisen, whereby some Mapuche have been labeled "terrorists" by the Chilean government for defending their homeland. As Hector Llaitul, a Mapuche member, noted in a recent Center for International Policy Report "The Mininco Company along with one of our main adversaries, the hydroelectric company ENDESA, have changed their policy. It's no longer just the use of violence. They are diversifying the repression: they study the areas ... 8/13/2007 1:43 pm Read More |
 The Blob will only be contained, "As long as the Arctic stays cold."Okay, so The Blob isn't real (we hope!),But there are plenty of other disasters about to be unleashed by Global Warming that are all too real. You've heard of most of them by now—mass extinction of species, increase in infectious disease, droughts, hurricanes, floods, and displacement of billions of people due to sea level rise.But there are some even more serious threats out there—and these are threats that we do have the power to stop. To find out more, click here.Read our press release about global warming and ... 7/26/2007 3:57 am Read More |
| Press Release: Global Warming Will Release The Blob For Immediate Release: July 25, 2007Contact: STOP the BLOB Campaign: <stoptheblob@gmail.com> Global Justice Ecology Project: +1.802.482.2689GLOBAL WARMING WILL RELEASE THE BLOB!ARCTIC CIRCLE--There is a terrible new threat being posed by Global Warming. This time it comes in the form of a monster from outer space known only as The Blob. Exactly 50 years ago in July 1957 this formless terror crashed to Earth in a meteor in the rural town of Downington, Pennsylvania. In the span of only a few hours The Blob killed and devoured more than 50 people, growing from the size of a softball to ... 7/26/2007 3:57 am Read More |
 Global Justice Ecology Project joined the Global Forest Coalition in January of 2007 as their North American Focal Point.GJEP and the Global Forest Coalition will be working together toward a ban on genetically engineered trees, and an end to the promotion of monoculture tree plantations and tree-based biofuels as false solutions to global warming. For more on Global Forest Coalition, click hereTop Right: Global Justice Ecology Project participates in a Global Forest Coalition workshop on Carbon Trading in Namanga, Kenya. Photo by Petermann/ GJEP ... 8/13/2007 1:35 pm Read More |
 Global Justice Ecology Project Raises Question of Biofuels at U.S. Social ForumATLANTA, GA, June 27-July 1, 2007--The First ever U.S. Social Forum, with the slogan "Another World Is Possible, Another U.S. is Necessary," was held with thousands of people from all across the U.S. and around the world attending.Two workshops organized by Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) and a third by Grassroots International addressed the social and environmental impacts of biofuels. The first workshop, "Large Scale Biofuels: False Solutions to Climate Change" was a collaborative presentation by Global Justice Ecology Project, Dogwood Alliance and Rainforest Action Network that focused on ... 8/13/2007 1:37 pm Read More |
 Community Action Trainings: Global Justice Ecology Project continues to organize Community Action Trainings around Vermont. These full day trainings give people skills in community organizing, working with the media and organizing campaigns. The goal of these trainings is to encourage and promote grassroots community organizing and provide participants the skills to organize active and strategic campaigns throughout the state that will help engage and empower Vermont's diverse constituencies in mapping out a sustainable future for Vermont. We work collaboratively with environmental and social justice groups to organize these events.Monthly Community Organizing Potlucks: In January 2005 Global Justice Ecology Project began ... 7/24/2007 4:57 am Read More |
News on our Programs
Chile Earthquake: Organizations Call for Solidarity
3/04/2010 12:21 pm
Chile Earthquake: Locations and centers for help and support
3/03/2010 3:06 am
Press Releases
Good Vibrations Announces New Donation Partner
3/10/2010 11:40 am
Invasive GE Eucalyptus Threatens Southern Forests & Water
2/11/2010 4:18 am
Publications
GJEP on What Really Happened in Copenhagen
2/17/2010 3:12 am
Annual Report 2008
1/18/2010 1:31 pm
  |
|
 |
|
| Global Justice Ecology Project Home Office PO Box 412 Hinesburg, VT 05461 +1.802.482.2689 info@globaljusticeecology.org |
West Coast Desk Ecology Center, Suite F 2530 San Pablo Avenue Berkeley, CA 94702 USA +1.415.336.6590 |
South American Desk c/o Amigos da Terra Brasil Rua Carlos Trein Filho, 7 CEP 90450-120 Porto Alegre , RS Brasil Tel/fax +55.51.33328884 |
