(To donate to the STOP GE Trees Campaign, please enter "GE Trees" into the "designation" box.)

Global Justice Ecology Project has numerous activities going on right now for which your support is essential.  Several of these are below to give you a sense of the depth and breadth or our work for environmental and social justice.

• We attend events around the world where we both present on the issues of global warming, biofuels and genetically engineered trees and meet with our allied organizations to create action plans.

• Co-Director Orin Langelle participates in and documents protests around the world against economic domination and unfair free trade agreements.  He brings back powerful images of the global struggles for a fair and just world.  You can view these in our photo gallery

• We support the efforts of our partner groups in Latin America for indigenous rights and forest protection.   They are mobilizing in response to the rising threats of industrial tree plantations, biofuels and genetically engineered trees, which will escalate rainforest and temperate forest destruction, and displace forest-dependent indigenous peoples.  In particular, Brazil, Chile and Argentina are on the front lines of this struggle.

• We work with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity for a global ban on GE trees—to help end this menace once and for all!  We're closing in on this goal and with your support we can make it happen.

• We meet with European and Latin American biofuels activists to develop a coordinated international strategy for confronting the menace of large-scale industrial biofuel plantations.   If you'd like more details, click here to download our leaflet on biofuels entitled, "From Meals to Wheels."

• We organize national and international strategy meetings for the STOP GE Trees Campaign.   We  bring together key scientists, experts and organizations from around the world to gear up our campaign to stop industry's plans to develop GE tree plantations.

• We are campaigning to stop the deployment of genetically engineered eucalyptus plantations in the U.S. South.  Eucalyptus are not native to the US and the release of this highly invasive species into Southern regions will cause serious ecological and social problems.

• We are producing a major report on the biofuels threat jointly with our partner organizations Global Forest Coalition and World Rainforest Movement.

But we need your support!  (If donating to the STOP GE Trees Campaign, please earmark your contribution under "designation").

The increasing urgency of both the genetically engineered trees issue and now the biofuels issue means we are now working twice as hard.  Your support is needed to help us expand our program work in response to the rising urgency of the issues.

Our partners in Latin America and around the Global South are counting on us to provide them with cutting edge information on the threats they are facing, and to help connect them with social movements around the world facing similar threats.  We cannot let them down.

Our success literally depends on the support of individuals like you.

Because our work is always on the cutting edge—identifying new or emerging threats such as biofuels—funding from traditional sources can be difficult to find.  This means we are heavily dependent on support from individuals like you who understand how important this cutting edge work is.

Last year only 37% of our funding came from foundations, while over 50% came from individuals like you.

Please send a contribution today and help us reach our goal of an ecologically and socially just world.

We're counting on you.


Sincerely,

Anne E. Petermann & Orin Langelle
Co-Directors

P.S.  Don't forget about our monthly supporter program—you can contribute every month automatically by credit card.

Top right: Cover of Z Magazine depicting an event from the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya in January 2007. Photo: Langelle/GJEP