Environmental Justice
Chilean Anti-Dam Land Defender Murdered
"Javiera Rojas remembered as ‘an emblematic activist who was dedicated to the process of resistance’" By Charis McGowan, The Guardian, 2 December 2021 Excerpts from the article: Environmental activists in Chile have called for justice after a 42-year-old land defender...
Earth Minute: Pride Month 2021
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Pride Month 2021 June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month, marked by the annviersary of the 1969 Stonewall riot led by Black and Latinx trans and gender non-confirming individuals against...
February 2021 Update From Global Justice Ecology Project
Global Justice Ecology Project February Update Please support our work for social & ecological justice with a secure gift today! Photo of the Month World Social Forum Celebrates 20 Years Since the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil twenty...
Earth Watch: Tom Goldtooth On Keystone XL & Biden’s Environmental Policies
Tom Goldtooth (Dine’ and Dakota) is the Executive Director of Indigenous Environmental Network. Since the late 1980’s, Tom has been involved with environmental related issues and programs working within tribal governments in developing indigenous-based environmental...
Release: Bezos’ Earth Fund is an Unnatural Disaster
For Immediate Release Dec. 10, 2020 Contact: Tel- 202-455-8665 olivia@climatejusticealliance.org Bezos’ Earth Fund is an Unnatural Disaster An Avalanche...
Earth Minute: 2020 Elections
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: 2020 Elections The future of our health, the environment, and our country has been placed into the hands of Joe Biden, who is set to become the 46th president of the United States, alongside the first woman, and...
Chile Uprising for Land & Freedom
After the popular uprising began in October the following two Indigenous Mapuche communities, Liempi Colipi and Quilape López, began an re-occupation of their territorial land in southern Chile. Photolangelle.org https://photolangelle.org/2020/08/8375/ (2019) Chile...
GJEP Mourns the Death of South African Environmental Activist
The Killing of Somkhele Environmental Activist, Fikile Ntshangase Save Our Mfolozi Wilderness Campaign 23 October 2020 “I refused to sign. I cannot sell out my people. And if need be, I will die for my people.” Tragically, grandmother Fikile Ntshangase’s words became...
Earth Minute: Censorship Of Indigenous & Environmental Justice Organizations
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Censorship Of Indigenous & Environmental Justice Organizations Over the weekend Facebook suspended hundreds of social media accounts belonging to Indigenous, environmental and social justice organizations. The...
GJEP’s Guide to International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations
Burned eucalyptus plantation in the community Manquo in Florida, in the zone of the wildfires near Concepción, Chile Monday, 21 September marks the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations. Global Justice Ecology Project has compiled a list...