GJEP Co-directors to Speak at Johnson State College April 26th

Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann, Co-Directors of Global Justice Ecology Project will speak about the work of GJEP at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont Tuesday, April 26th at 4pm at the Stearns Performance Space at the Student Center.

Orin will show slides from his recent trip to the village of Amador Hernandez in the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico.  He will discuss the resistance of Indigenous communities there to false solutions to climate change such as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation).

Elders in the Village of Amador Hernandez in Chiapas, Mexico. Photo: Langelle/GJEP-GFC

Anne will additionally speak about the organization’s work with the climate justice movement internationally.