Indigenous Peoples
Barney Bush Presente!
Shawnee/Cayuga activist and poet Barney Bush gives the keynote speech at the Forest & Climate Convergence in the Shawnee National Forest in October 2019. Barney Bush Poet/Activist/Educator from Global Justice Ecology Project on Vimeo. Barney Bush 1946 – 2021 As...
New Paper Addresses “Nature Based Solutions” and the Biodiversity and Climate Crises
"Nature-based Solutions" and the Biodiversity and Climate Crises from Third World Network “Nature-based solutions” (NbS) have been defined as “actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems that address societal challenges…”. The...
IPCC Report is Reality Check; But False Solutions Must be Rejected
IPCC Report is Reality Check; But False Solutions Must be Rejected By Anne Petermann, Executive Director, GJEP 9 August 2021--Today, on the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, the UN Intergovernmental Report on Climate Change (IPCC) released a press...
New Net Zero Briefing From Amazon Watch
The Amazon Rainforest-Sized Loophole in Net Zero Amazon Watch July 2021 Trading forest protection for continued greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) presents a false and dangerous "solution" to the climate crisis. Instead, emissions must be drastically reduced, forests must...
First Nation’s court victory sets precedent for equitable compensation
First Nation’s court victory sets precedent for equitable compensation National Observer 21 July 2021 John Woodside More than 90 years after the Lac Seul First Nation’s reserve land was flooded to build a hydroelectric dam, Chief Clifford Bull says his people may...
¡Berta Caceres Presente!
Note: More than five years after we first reported on the assassination of Berta Caceres, an ally in our work to defend the rights and lands of Indigenous Peoples in Central America, finally some justice has been won with the conviction of the man who masterminded her...
Fears for Chilean Indigenous Leader’s Safety After Police Shooting
Note--In late 2019, GJEP's Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann were in Chile with Gary Hughes of Biofuelwatch and Alejandra Parra of RADA to document and support the peoples' uprising there. While in Temuco, Chile following work to document a Mapuche reoccupation of...
The True Costs of Hydro Quebec
Note: Thirty years ago, in 1991, GJEP Co-founders Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle joined the Vermont coalition effort to stop the megadam-age caused by Hydro Quebec's plans to dam up all of the major rivers running into James Bay. This included a 1993 documentary...
Letter in Defense of the Amazon and Mother Earth, Against the Invasion of Capital, Extreme Violence and Green Scams
Indigenous Amazonian men at the World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil in 2009. Photolangelle.org Letter in Defense of the Amazon and Mother Earth, Against the Invasion of Capital, Extreme Violence and Green Scams World Rainforest Movement 10 June 2021 Summary of the...
10 Years Later: GJEP Looks Back on Trip to Amador Hernandez
Revisiting a Darker Shade of Green 10 Years After Amador Hernandez Ten years after a trip by a documentary team assembled by Global Justice Ecology Project to the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, GJEP is highlighting the resulting films and releasing a new audio...