Global Justice Ecology Project
March Update
Global Justice Media Program
Photo of the Month
This image along with several others by Orin Langelle are part of the exhibition “Visual Natures” at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, Portugal. This research project surveys political, social and cultural forms of collective agency that, over the course of the last one hundred years or so, demonstrate how the transforming human understanding of “nature” – philosophical, biological, economic – informs the ways in which we organise, sustain and govern our communities as an expanding planetary construct, both in concept and practice. The exhibit begins on 30 March and runs through 5 September.
Breaking Green Podcast
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.
Radioactive Fire with Just Moms STL’s Dawn Chapman
In this episode of Breaking Green, we talk with St. Louis, Missouri-based Dawn Chapman, Co-Founder of Just Moms STL. Illegal radioactive waste from the building of the first atomic bomb sits in a landfill with a subterranean fire, adjacent to Dawn’s neighborhood. Dawn Chapman, who was featured in HBO’s Atomic Homefront, tells Breaking Green how the EPA is again delaying removal of the radioactive waste, seven years after agreeing to a new cleanup plan pressured by the community. Dawn and other activists from the region promise more pressure as time runs out for a community they say is besieged with illness and childhood cancers linked to the nearly 50 year old landfill.
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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: International Day of Forests
24 Mar 2022-March 21st celebrated the annual International Day of Forests. This year’s theme, named by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is, “Forests and sustainable production and consumption”–a euphemism meant to excuse increased deforestation and expansion of tree plantations for corporate profit.
Earth Minute: Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
16 Mar 2022-Despite public health and environmental concerns, the EPA has approved the mass release of billions of genetically engineered mosquitoes in California and Florida.
Earth Watch: Phillip Owen on South African Deforestation
24 Mar 2022-Philip Owen is an environmental activist and founding member of GeaSphere, a nonprofit organization registered in South Africa. For more than two decades, GeaSphere has been raising awareness regarding the environmental and social impacts of large scale industrial timber plantations.
Earth Watch: Jaydee Hanson on GM Salmon
17 Mar 2022-Jaydee Hanson is the Policy Director for the Center for Food Safety. His expertise includes emerging technology issues related to nanotechnology, synthetic biology, animal cloning, animal genetic engineering and gene editing.
Global Justice Media News
Associated Press Follows up on Radioactive Fire
22 Mar 2022-GJEP’s podcast, Breaking Green is helping break the story that the US EPA is stalling out on its 2018 commitment to clean up a radioactive landfill that has an underground fire near known radiation contamination. Following up on a February 23rd GJEP press release about the podcast episode, the Associated Press and St. Louis on the Air reported on the shocking story of the radioactive landfill fire.
Celebrate Int’l Women’s Day with Stories of Resistance!
8 Mar 2022-To celebrate International Women’s Day, and in solidarity with women’s struggles around the world, GJEP shared this post from our allies at World Rainforest Movement that “highlights the path forged by feminist struggles, which continue to resist and combat the various and brutal forms of violence against women.”
IPCC Climate Impacts Report Must be a Rallying Cry Against False Solutions
2 Mar 22-The release of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, should be read as a condemnation of false solutions to climate change designed to maintain business as usual in the face of catastrophic impacts from climate change enabled by those false solutions.
Statement on Ukraine from of the Russian Social Ecological Union / Friends of the Earth Russia
26 Feb 22-The Russian Social Ecological Union (RSEU) Council, long-time allies of GJEP, released a statement on the situation in Ukraine calling for measures to be taken to preserve the lives and ensure the safety of civilians, as well as to protect nature, regardless of the development of the military situation.
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, Center for Grassroots Organizing,REDD-Monitor, and Standing Trees VT.
The Center for Grassroots Organizing
The Center was founded to organize diverse mass social movements with space where people from different fields can spend time together, share resources, get creative, and build collaborative strategies.
Their purpose is to build grassroots organizing, education, training, direct action, and other efforts to help unite contemporary social movements into an effective mass movement. Each summer they hold Uprise! Youth Action Camp, an amazing week of teen empowerment, creativity, action and friendship – all while strategizing for our collective future!
To learn more go to grassrootscenter.net
Save the Pine Barrens
On March 1st, Meg Sheehan of Save the Pine Barrens, an organization fiscally sponsored by GJEP, received the Land Stewardship Award from the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions. The Award highlights Sheehan’s lifelong commitment to land and water protection, social justice and Indigenous people. Congratulations Meg!
