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 ... posted: 07/24/2008 11:10:24 Read More |
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About the Connections Program and the Philosophy Behind it
Global Justice Ecology Project's Connections Program addresses issues that lie at the root of social injustice, ecological destruction and economic oppression.The success of economic globalization requires unlimited growth a never-ending increase in the transformation of resources into capital. How does this translate on a finite planet? A World Wildlife Fund report found that one-third of the Earth's natural wealth was lost from 1970 to 1995. The Smithsonian estimates ...posted: 06/16/2008 01:00:21 Read More |
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VIA CAMPESINA Position Paper Regarding Agrofuels
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 ...posted: 07/01/2008 12:10:23 Read More |
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VIA CAMPESINA JOINS BIODIVERSITY DAY CELEBRATIONS
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 ...posted: 05/23/2008 04:19:20 Read More |
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Sign on Against Polluting Pulp Mill in Chile
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. ...posted: 04/30/2008 12:42:51 Read More |
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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. ... posted: 04/29/2008 11:03:12 Read More |
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Indigenous Representatives Protest Plans for Coal-Fired Power Plant on Navajo Lands
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 ...posted: 04/25/2008 11:30:24 Read More |
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Coalition calls on NGOs to withdraw support for Responsible Soy
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 ...posted: 04/25/2008 11:16:02 Read More |
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'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 ... posted: 04/17/2008 09:09:24 Read More |
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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. ... posted: 04/17/2008 09:05:13 Read More |
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Groups Condemn Biofuels
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 ...posted: 04/11/2008 11:36:14 Read More |
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GJEP Presentation on Global Warming at Left Forum
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 ...posted: 03/17/2008 09:34:43 Read More |
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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 ... posted: 03/07/2008 11:30:44 Read More |
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GJEP Hosts New Photo Exhibit Opening Friday, February 1st
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 ...posted: 02/01/2008 02:25:37 Read More |
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GJEP Global Warming Panel--Part of International Week of Action
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 ...posted: 01/28/2008 01:09:13 Read More |
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Vermont Call to Action: March on January 26 Burlington
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 ...posted: 01/24/2008 02:02:46 Read More |
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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, ... posted: 01/24/2008 02:02:37 Read More |
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What's missing from the climate talks? Justice!
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:54:09 Read More |
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Groups Protest World Bank Launch of Forest Carbon Partnership
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:53:58 Read More |
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Indigenous Peoples Protest UNFCCC
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:53:48 Read More |
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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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:53:38 Read More |
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UNFCCC: No False Solutions to Climate Change!
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:53:28 Read More |
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Governments must reject ‘Biofuels’ and other False Solutions to Climate Change
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, ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:53:16 Read More |
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November Hinesburg Community Potluck
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:52:59 Read More |
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URGENT ACTION ALERT!
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:52:49 Read More |
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A Highly Unsuitable Candidate:
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:52:40 Read More |
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Global Justice Ecology Projects Kicks Off Fourth Year of Educational Vermont Events
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:52:22 Read More |
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Long time activist Robin Lloyd Received the Cesar Chavez Peace and Justice Award
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:50:03 Read More |
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Ed Everts Honored By Vermont Community
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:49:27 Read More |
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International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:48:59 Read More |
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Veracel Certification, Another Disaster For FSC?
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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:48:05 Read More |
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Hurricane Felix Devastates Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast
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 ...posted: 09/10/2007 04:02:20 Read More |
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In Loving Memory of Grace Paley, Global Justice Ecology Project Friend & Supporter
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 ...posted: 08/23/2007 05:03:18 Read More |
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Please Sign Call For Biofuels Moratorium
(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 ...posted: 01/09/2008 09:47:35 Read More |
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Repression Against Mapuche in Chile by Logging Companies Deepens
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, ...posted: 08/13/2007 11:43:52 Read More |
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GLOBAL WARMING WILL RELEASE THE BLOB!
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 ...posted: 07/26/2007 01:57:37 Read More |
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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. ... posted: 07/26/2007 01:57:26 Read More |
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GJEP Joins Global Forest Coalition
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 ...posted: 08/13/2007 11:35:43 Read More |
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Global Justice Ecology Project at the U.S. Social Forum
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 ...posted: 08/13/2007 11:37:00 Read More |
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Community Organizing
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 ...posted: 07/24/2007 02:57:18 Read More |
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