Note: This episode of Making Contact is based upon the Global Justice Ecology Project DVD “A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests,” produced earlier this year.
To order a copy of the DVD, which includes two bonus features, email: info@globaljusticeecology.org
To listen to the Making Contact episode, click the link below:
Saving or Selling the Planet? REDD, Climate Change and Indigenous Lands | National Radio Project.
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Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Climate & Environmental Justice Program Coordinator with Focus on the Global South, discusses the ongoing climate negotiations in Doha, globalization, and social movement for ecological justice.
Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes every Tuesday and Earth Watch interviews every Thursday.
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Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.
This week’s Earth Minute addresses the UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar, and why many climate justice organizations have decided not to attend this year’s climate conference, and are organizing with social movements and communities instead.
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Note: Most people who are paying attention have pretty meager hopes for success in Doha. In the interview below, Patrick Bond explains why Doha will certainly be one of many failures in the history of the UNFCCC ‘Conference of Polluters’. From corporate influence to bribery and bullying by the US and World Bank, the odds are stacked against anyone hoping for real climate solutions this time around. As Bond-a longtime friend and colleague of GJEP-alludes to in the interview, real solutions are going to come from the ability of social movements to overcome corporate tyranny.
-The GJEP Team
By Busani Bafana, November 27, 2012. Source: Inter Press Service
Professor Patrick Bond
There is no political will among rich nations to find funding for developing countries experiencing the brunt of changes in global weather patterns, and the current climate change conference will fail to do so, according to Professor Patrick Bond, a leading thinker and analyst on climate change issues.
“The elites continue to discredit themselves at every opportunity. The only solution is to turn away from these destructive conferences and avoid giving the elites any legitimacy, and instead, to analyse and build the world climate justice movement and its alternatives,” Bond, a political economist and also the director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa, told IPS.
As the 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) began in Doha, Qatar on Monday Nov. 26, Bond described past COPs as “conferences of polluters”. He believes COP18 will be no different.
“Qatar is an entirely appropriate host country for the next failed climate conference. On grounds of gender, race, class and social equity, environment, civil society voice and democracy, it’s a feudal zone, and the Arab world’s best mass media, Doha-based Al Jazeera, can’t tell the truth at home,” said the professor and author of the book, “Politics of Climate Justice”.
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Note: Jeff Conant is the former Communications Director for Global Justice Ecology Project. In March of 2011, he and Orin Langelle, then Co-Director of GJEP, went to Amador Hernandez in Chiapas, Mexico to investigate the threatened forced relocation of the community and its relation to REDD+ and the California-Chiapas-Acre, Brazil climate deal.
–The GJEP Team
By Jeff Conant, November 13 2012. Source: Yes! Magazine
Photo: Jeff Conant
“We are not responsible for climate change—it’s the big industries that are,” said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador Hernández in the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas. “So why should we be held responsible, and even punished for it?”
Abelardo was one of dozens of villagers who had traveled to the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas to protest an international policy meeting on climate change and forest conservation. At a high-end conference center, representatives from the state of California and from states and provinces around the world were working out mechanisms intended to mitigate climate change by protecting tropical forests. The group was called the Governor’s Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), and California’s interest was in using forest preservation in Chiapas as a carbon offset—a means for meeting climate change goals under the state’s 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act.
Such an agreement among subnational governments is unprecedented, and California officials view it as an important way for the world’s eighth largest economy to help the developing world. But judging from the reaction on the streets of San Cristóbal, Mexican peasants see it differently. The lush, mountainous state of Chiapas has a long history of human rights abuses, and the Mexican government has forcibly evicted indigenous families from their lands in the name of environmental protection. To indigenous peasants in the Lacandon jungle, the pending agreement has all the hallmarks of a land grab.
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Event will be livestreamed at: http://twitcam.livestream.com/user/sotrueradio
Global Justice Ecology Project is proud to team up with KPFK Radio for a Teach-In on the environment focusing on Tar Sands, the Keystone XL Pipeline, climate change, GMO trees and deforestation, their impact on local communities North and South, and how indigenous and other communities are fighting back. And, the inter-relationship of economic, racial, social and ecological justice.
KPFK will welcome to Southern California Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada and the Indigenous Environmental Network; the Global Justice Ecology Project’s Executive Director Anne Peterman and movement photographer Orin Langelle.
There will be music and a presentation of photos from Chiapas, Mexico. All are welcome.
Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada, is an activist for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. With his roots in the inner city of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, Clayton began his work as a community organizer. Now based out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Clayton is involved in many initiatives to support the building of an inclusive movement for energy and climate justice. He serves on the boards ofGlobal Justice Ecology Project, Canadian based Raven Trust and Navajo Nation based, Black Mesa Water Coalition. Recognized by Utne Magazine as one of the top 30 under 30 activists in the United States and as a “Climate Hero 2009” by Yes Magazine, Clayton is the Tar Sands Campaign Director for theIndigenous Environmental Network. He works with grassroots indigenous communities to defend against the largest and most destructive industrial project in the history of mankind.
Orin Langelle is the Board Chair of Global Justice Ecology Project and a concerned photojournalist, whose photography spans four decades. Beginning in 1991, Langelle has worked in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples from Canada to Chile. He has supported efforts to protect Indigneous Peoples’ forests and ancestral lands from logging and industrial development through strategic campaigns, photojournalism, media outreach and direct action. Langelle has also led successful campaigns in defense of forests on public lands in the US. He interned at the International Center of Photography with Cornell Capa, brother to famed war photographer and Magnum Photo Agency co-founder Robert Capa. His concerned photography began in 1972 and his award-winning photos have appeared on book and magazine covers, in major newspapers and in exhibitions from San Francisco to Copenhagen.
Anne Petermann is the Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, and the Coordinator of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees. She is also the North American Focal Point for the Global Forest Coalition. An activist since 1989, she has presented at UN and other international fora around the world on issues relating to forest protection, indigenous peoples rights, climate justice, and is a global expert on the social and ecological dangers of genetically engineered trees. In 2000, she won the Wild Nature Award for Environmental Activist of the Year.
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Note: Global Justice Ecology Project Executive Director Anne Petermann, Board Chair Orin Langelle, and Board Member Clayton Thomas-Muller are on the ground in Los Angeles today for a special one hour nationally-aired episode of the Sojourner Truth show.
-The GJEP Team
GJEP executive director Anne Petermann, GJEP board chair and photojournalist Orin Langelle, and GJEP board member and Indigenous Environmental Network’s Tar Sands Campaigner Clayton Thomas-Muller join Sojourner Truth for a special Earth Watch. They discuss the interlinkages between climate change, indigenous rights, tar sands, genetically engineered trees, and the global struggle for climate justice.
Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes every Tuesday and Earth Watch interviews every Thursday.
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Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Executive Director of Indigenous Environmental Network, discusses the re-election of President Obama, climate change and the work ahead. Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes every Tuesday and Earth Watch interviews every Thursday.
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