Aired on July 21st, 2010. Anne discusses a variety of topics including GE trees, wood-based bioenergy and false solutions to climate change.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Interview with Anne Petermann on Vancouver Co-op Radio
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This week’s Earth Minute Podcast on “Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod”
This week’s Earth Minute discusses the San Francisco Peaks, a mountain range sacred to more than 13 tribes in the Southwest United States are threatened by a recent USDA decision that would allow the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort to use reclaimed sewage water for snowmaking.
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New book: Toward Climate Justice: Perspectives on the Climate Crisis & Social Change
By Brian Tokar
From Communalism Press in Porsgrunn, Norway
(cover photo by Global Justice Ecology Project’s Orin Langelle taken in Copenhagen at the 2009 UN Climate Talks)
Available now from Amazon.com
To be distributed by AK Press in the US and UK.
List Price: $14.95. Bulk discounts are available via http://www.communalism.net.
The outlook of Climate Justice offers a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that are already experiencing the impacts of global climate disruptions. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, while challenging corporate-driven false solutions, and using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes.
Toward Climate Justice explains the case for Climate Justice, challenges the myths underlying carbon markets and other false solutions, including the emergence of new nuclear and biofuel technologies. The book also dissects the events that shaped the diplomatic failure of the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit.
Drawing on more than three decades of political engagement with energy and climate issues, Brian Tokar shows how the perspective of social ecology can point the way toward a radically ecological reconstruction of society, in contrast to the grim, apocalyptic visions that underlie much of today’s popular climate activism.
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Brian Tokar is a long-time activist and author, and the current Director of the Institute for Social Ecology, based in Plainfield, Vermont. He is the author of The Green Alternative and Earth for Sale, editor of two books on the politics of biotechnology, Redesigning Life? and Gene Traders, and lectures widely on a variety of environmental and political topics.
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Contents:
Introduction, by Eirik Eiglad
(editor of Communalism: A Social Ecology Journal)
Global Warming and the Struggle for Justice
Toward a Movement for Climate Justice
Beyond the Copenhagen Climate Summit
On Utopian Aspirations in the Climate Movement
Social Ecology and the Future of Ecological Movements
Global Warming and the Struggle for Justice
Toward a Movement for Climate Justice
Beyond the Copenhagen Climate Summit
On Utopian Aspirations in the Climate Movement
Social Ecology and the Future of Ecological Movements
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Margaret Prescod, host of Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica takes mic from LAPD chief
YouTube video of Margaret Prescod, host of the Sojourner Truth show on
KPFK Pacifica in Los Angeles taking the microphone at a press conference
with the LA Police Department.
Global Justice Ecology Project first teamed up with Margaret and the
Sojourner Truth show during the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen
last December. GJEP provided daily guests for 15 minute interviews
live from Copenhagen. Since then, Global Justice Ecology Project
partners with Margaret and the Sojourner Truth show for weekly 12 to
15 minute interviews every Thursday that address the most pressing
ecological justice issues of our day with guests from around the
world. GJEP also partners with the Sojourner Truth show for a weekly
Earth Minute, which airs every Tuesday.
In a not widely reported incident, at the press conference called by
police and elected officials to announce the arrest of the “Grim
Sleeper” suspect, a reporter asked to hear from Margaret Prescod, who
founded the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders in 1985, as
well as to hear from some other family members. LAPD Chief Beck
responded and was ready to go to the next question when Prescod took
the mike and introduced herself to the crowd, much to the surprise of
all officials present and to the delight of family and community
members who quite liked what she had to say. This is the footage that
was NOT shown on network TV, also the LAT left out mention of
Prescod’s intervention in their coverage of the incident.
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Nicola Bullard on KPFK Los Angeles’ Sojourner Truth show
Nicola Bullard from Focus on the Global South talks about the international climate justice movement right after minute 37:31 (it’s very fast to download and then it’s easy to go to that time) on the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Click here to listen to the show
This interview is part of a weekly segment on the environment on KPFK. The segment airs every Thursday and is created through a partnership between Global Justice Ecology Project and Margaret Prescod’s Sojourner Truth show.
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This week’s Earth Minute on KPFK
This week’s Earth Minute discusses Monsanto and how they are using the aftermath of earthquake to get Haitian farmers hooked on their seeds and chemicals. The peasants have declared that they will burn these seeds calling them a “very strong attack on small agriculture, farmers, biodiversity and local creole seed varieties”. They are then instead demanding food sovereignty and the right to define their own agricultural policies to grow healthy food for the local market and to grow in a way that respects the environment and mother earth. Something Monsanto knows nothing about.
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Tune in tomorrow morning to KPFK’s “Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod” featuring Monique Harden, co-director and attorney of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR)
Tomorrow morning at 10am EST/7am PST, Margaret Prescod will interview Monique Harden of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Click here for the link to listen live on KPFK
On behalf of African Americans living in the historic community of Mossville, Louisiana, Ms. Harden and AEHR legal staff filed the first ever human rights petition that seeks fundamental change of the United States environmental regulatory system. The Mossville human rights/ environmental justice case is currently pending with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, AEHR is spearheading training workshops and advocacy efforts aimed at establishing recovery as a legal right, not an empty promise, in accordance with the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. Ms. Harden has coordinated international coalitions advocating for human rights.
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The Earth Minute on KPFK’s Sojourner Truth Radio Show
Click the link below to listen to this week’s Earth Minute with Anne Petermann. This week’s topic is the impacts of the “savage capitalism” model promoted by the G20.
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