Indigenous Peoples
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...
Carbon Colonialism and REDD: Reflections on Resistance
Carbon Colonialism and REDD: Reflections on Resistance Amador Hernandez Ten Years Later CounterPunch 3o Apr 2021 Steve Taylor Ten years after a trip by a documentary team assembled by Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) to the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico,...
Earth Watch: Jennifer Wickham On Wet’suwet’en Resistance
GJEP partners with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute on Wednesday and an Earth Watch interview on Thursday. Jen is a member of Cas Yikh (Grizzly Bear House) in the Gidimt’en (Bear/Wolf) Clan of the Wet’suwet’en...
Earth Minute: Indigenous Activist Murdered In Honduras
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Indigenous Activist Murdered In Honduras Another Indigenous activist has reportedly been killed this week in Honduras. Cerros Escalante was an anti-dam activist and part of the Honduras’ Lenca Indigenous community....