Apr 20, 2021 | Featured, GE American Chestnut, No GE Trees News, Social Media News
Anne Petermann is the Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. She has been working on issues related to protecting forests and defending the rights of Indigenous peoples since 1990 and co-founded the first global campaign against genetically engineered...
Oct 20, 2020 | Featured, Forests, GE American Chestnut, GMOs, Press Releases, Pressroom, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
For Immediate Release: 10/20/2020 Public Comment on Darling 58 American Chestnut Closes Groups Across North America Oppose Release of Genetically Engineered Trees New York- On Oct. 19th the initial public comment period by the United States Department of Agriculture...
Oct 15, 2020 | Featured, Forests, GMOs, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Woman with the Organization of Rural Women Workers protests Monsanto’s GMO seeds during a march in Curitiba, Brazil. Photo: Petermann (2006) Note: For decades, rural women around the world have been on the front lines of the battles to stop the toxic and deadly...
Sep 24, 2020 | all other, Climate Justice, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Photo: Sharratt/The Campaign to Stop GE Trees (Seneca/Welsh) Brenda Jo has been involved with Indigenous and environmental issues for over 25 years. Beginning in the early 1990s working with WV State agencies on NAGPRA, opposition to mountaintop/strip coal mining...
Sep 16, 2020 | Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Featured, Forests, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Wildfires & Genetically Engineered Trees Around the world historic and deadly wildfires are occuring. Poor forest management and industrial tree plantations, along with climate change are creating apocalyptic...
