Jun 19, 2020 | Featured, Latin America, Political Repression & Murder, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Videos
In commemoration of Juneteenth, and the abolition of state-sactioned slavery, but not racism in the United States, GJEP posts this very informative video from Gary Younge. In the video, Younge comments on the latest uprisings across the US and the world following the...
Jun 15, 2020 | COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News, Latin America, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
HOSPITAL’S COVID-19 POLICY SEPARATED NATIVE AMERICAN MOTHERS FROM THEIR NEWBORNS (14 JUNE 2020) Truthout: Albuquerque, New Mexico — A prominent women’s hospital here has separated some Native American women from their newly born babies, the result of a practice...
May 1, 2020 | all other, COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforest, Social Media News
COVID-19 UNDERSCORES WHY WE NEED TO MAKE MAY DAY RADICAL AGAIN (1 MAY 2020) Truthout: Millions of Americans have lost their jobs and health care in the midst of the pandemic lockdown and people are, reasonably, looking for someone or something to blame for their...
Mar 23, 2019 | Climate Justice, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News
On this week’s Earth Minute, GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann discusses the inherent racism and colonialism of big conservation groups promote the idea that “nature” should be separated from humans. Transcript of the Earth Minute: Protecting forests is...
Mar 12, 2019 | Brazil, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
From the article: “It seems that conservation and developmental projects (mega dams, mines, fossil fuel extraction, industrial monocultures, etc.) are, in a way, two sides of the same coin. Top-down impositions over communal territories determined by outsiders,...