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Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing
Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forests Standing recently screened at Webster University in St. Louis, MO and just received first fest selection for Environmental Film Festival at Yale University in New Haven, CT. The Film Festival runs from March 31- April 2, 2022. GJEP’s Orin Langelle and Steve Taylor both participated in the Shawnee Forest actions in the 90s and Langelle’s photos from the actions were used in illustrating the film. Additionally Taylor helped edit the sound for Shawnee Showdown and both are doing media work for the film. Watch the trailer for Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forests Standing.
Breaking Green Podcast: Season 2 Now Streaming!
Produced by Global Justice Ecology Project, Breaking Green is a podcast that talks with activists and experts to examine the intertwined issues of social, ecological and economic injustice. Breaking Green also explores some of the more outrageous proposals to address climate and environmental crises that are falsely being sold as green.
People’s Uprising in Chile with Alejandra Parra
In the newest episode of Breaking Green, we talk with long-time Chilean activist, Alejandra Parra about the incredible outcomes following the People’s Uprising in Chile in 2019, including the re-writing of the country’s repressive Pinochet-era constitution. She shares her hopes of recognizing environmental, social and economic reforms in the new Chilean constitution that is being writing by a historically diverse Constitutional Assembly and being led by a Mapuche woman.
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Earth Radio
GJEP’s Earth Radio segments, the Earth Minute and the Earth Watch Interview, happen each week in partnership with Margaret Prescod’s nationally syndicated Sojourner Truth Radio show on Pacifica Radio’s flagship station, KPFK in Los Angeles.
You can find all radio segments here: https://globaljusticeecology.org/earth-radio/
Earth Minute: Gulf of Mexico Ruling on Petroleum Sale
2 Feb 2022-An 80 million acre oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico was invalidated after a federal judge ruled the auction did not properly analyze the impacts on climate change. The decision casts uncertainty over the future of U.S. federal offshore drilling.
27 Jan 2022-The USDA now requires genetically engineered or GMO foods to be labelled as “bioengineered foods.” QR codes and options to text or call for more information are now considered acceptable forms of identification, which may lead to consumers missing the label altogether.
Earth Watch: Dawn Chapman on the Westlake Landfill Superfund Site
4 Feb 2022-Dawn Chapman runs the non-profit organization “Just Moms STL, working in tandem with co-founder Karen Nickel. The organization is an advocacy group formed with the goal of raising awareness and community engagement regarding the nearby West Lake Landfill Superfund site. Living mere miles from the landfill, Dawn became engaged in this effort in 2013 after contacting the MO Dept of Natural Resources regarding pungent odors.
Earth Watch: Naomi Wagner on the fight for Jackson State Forest
28 Jan 2022-Naomi Wagner is a retired blue collar worker, writer, gardener, mechanic, homesteader, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She is a nonviolence trainer and media coordinator for Redwood Nation Earth First! Naomi is currently involved in the Campaign to Save Jackson Demonstration State Forest, a 50,000 acre tract of mixed redwood forest in her own backyard in Mendocino County.
Organizational Spotlight
When GJEP identifies a group or organization whose non-for-profit work closely aligns with our mission, we may support their important work by becoming a fiscal sponsor. This helps them minimize bureaucracy so they can focus on their crucial work for ecological and social justice, forest protection and/or human rights. GJEP fiscally sponsors BiofuelWatch, Vermont Street Medics, Save the Pine Barrens, NH PANTHER, A Center for Grassroots Organizing, REDD-Monitor, and Standing Trees VT.
Save the Pine Barrens
Save the Pine Barrens is a network of groups and individuals taking action to ensure a livable future in our region. That means clean water, healthy ecosystems and forests that support the world-class biodiversity at our doorsteps. We are advocates for accountability and transparency as a route to raise awareness and educate the community about what it takes to make change happen.
“Also known as Pitch Pine/Scrub Oak Barrens, pine barrens are a globally rare habitat type, with Massachusetts supporting the third largest example in the world (behind New Jersey and Long Island). Protection of barrens habitat will also help protect the recharge area for the largest groundwater reserve in the state [of Massachusetts].”
27 Jan 2022-An industrial sand mining operation on Route 44 and the PineGate Renewables “dual-use” solar project’s use of cancer causing arsenic-treated wood poles in cranberry bogs both violate the law, according to two new lawsuits filed against the Town of Carver’s Carver Earth Removal Committee and Conservation Commission.
