Peoples Summit 2019 Monday 2 to Saturday 7 December, University of Santiago de Chile Global Justice Ecology Project and Biofuelwatch attended and presented at this important event, planned when the COP25 UN Climate Summit was still scheduled to… Read More

At the Cumbre de los Pueblos.  Photo: Petermann/GJEP Anne Petermann reported live on Sojourner Truth on December 3, 2019. The GJEP team is on the ground in Chile and have been reporting on ongoing protests in Chile and… Read More

Women in Temuco, Chile denounce police violence against women (25 Nov 2019).  Photo: Langelle / photolangelle.org Chilean anti-rape anthem becomes international feminist phenomenon A Rapist in Your Path performed by women at mass protests across Latin America and… Read More

Photo: Hughes Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch December 5, 2019 Meanwhile, back in Chile… As COP25 proceeds in Madrid, the presiding nation leads a police raid on a public university. Late yesterday the Carabineros de Chile raided the Universidad de la… Read More

Photo: Anne Petermann What is behind state violence in Chile? The brutal crackdown on protesters and repression of indigenous people has its roots in violent state militarism. Al Jazeera December 4, 2019 Rodrigo Espinoza-Troncoso and Michael Wilson-Becerril In… Read More

Chile is on the front lines of the “green energy revolution” which is driving social and ecological crises on the lands, mountains, deserts and rivers of the country. Photo: courtesy WRM These excellent articles from World Rainforest Movement… Read More

Mapuche men block entrance to Liempi Colipi, a Mapuche community occupying 1500 ha of ancestral lands begun two weeks ago. They were attacked by the police twice, with some members injured and others hospitalized. Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP  … Read More

Graphic for COP25 looks to normalize highly irregular dynamic of Chile remaining as “president” of the meeting, even as human rights violations continue to occur from military and police violence being used to repress an increasingly volatile social… Read More

In April 2018, Mapuche Longo (leader) Alberto Curamil [looking back at the courtroom] was arrested on trumped up charges after he successfully stopped two hydro-electric dams. In 2019 he was awarded the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize. As COP25… Read More

GJEP-Biofuelwatch-RADA team in Mapuche territory films interview in post below.  Photo: Langelle/ photolangelle.org Near Curacautin, Wallmapu (28 November 2019) – On U.S. “Thanksgiving” Day (known now as the National Day of Mourning) Indigenous Mapuche in Chile occupying their… Read More