Category Archives: Chiapas
Campign for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Chiapas, Mexico Presses On
by Jessica Davies, 11 May 2012 Cross-Posted from UpsideDownWorld May 15 to 22 marks “the Week of Global Struggle for the Liberation of Alberto Patishtán Gómez and Francisco Sántiz López: bringing down the prison walls”, which was called by the … Continue reading
Forum in San Cristóbal to Demand the Freedom of Indigenous Prisoners
NOTE: It’s been awhile since we’ve published news from Chiapas on Climate Connections, but today we bring an update about an upcoming forum on political prisoners there. What’s the climate connection? Aside from our belief that an injury to one … Continue reading
Filed under Chiapas, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Political Repression
Mexico: Chiapas indigenous protest hydro-electric dams, electric rates
Cross-Posted from WW4 Report About 1,000 indigenous people and campesinos held a march in Huixtán in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas on Feb. 25 to protest the high rates the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) charges, to oppose the construction … Continue reading
Filed under Chiapas, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Latin America, Water
Video: A Darker Shade of Green–New GJEP/ GFC Video on REDD Released
New Video Reveals Global Resistance to Forest-Carbon Projects and Documents Critical Perspectives on REDD (video y boletín en español debajo) A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests (Instructions for requesting a DVD of the new REDD … Continue reading
DVD Release from Global Justice Ecology Project: A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
View the 3 minute trailer below En Español debajo Over the course of a year, Global Justice Ecology Project has documented the impacts of and resistance to REDD, in Cancun and Chiapas, Mexico, in Acre, Brazil, and among environmental justice … Continue reading
Mexico can’t see the wood for the trees
Note: This article arose out of the heated debates on REDD (the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme) at the UN Climate Conference in Cancun, Mexico in 2010. GJEP actively campaigned against REDD there and supported the important … Continue reading
Amador Hernández Thanks GJEP for Medical Support
Back in November, GJEP received a request from the community of Amador Hernández, Chiapas, to help them collect funds to bring a shipment of supplies from Mexico City. The request came in the wake of our work uncovering the Mexican … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Chiapas, Climate Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America
2011 Top Ten Articles on Climate Connections
Note: The following are the top ten articles from Climate Connections from 2011 according to those the number of views each received. Several of these are original articles/photos from GJEP’s Jeff Conant, Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle, and were also published … Continue reading
Filed under Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Forests and Climate Change, Posts from Anne Petermann, Posts from Jeff Conant, Pollution, Photo Essays by Orin Langelle, Biodiversity, Latin America, REDD, Energy, Carbon Trading, UNFCCC, False Solutions to Climate Change, Durban/COP-17, Corporate Globalization, Chiapas, Nuclear power, natural disasters
Reminder: Urgent Support Needed to Bring Medical Supplies to Amador Hernández, Chiapas
Note: Since we first sent out this appeal last week, we have raised $525 toward our goal of $750. Please help us raise the last $225 to reach the goal needed to send these medical supplies to the remote Indigenous … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Chiapas, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Indigenous Peoples, Land Grabs, Latin America
GMO Mosquitos and the Wipeout Gene
Note: Oh great. Nothing could EVER go wrong with releasing GMO mosquitoes… –The GJEP Team Cross-Posted from Scientific American A new breed of genetically modified mosquitoes carries a gene that cripples its own offspring. They could crush native mosquito populations and … Continue reading
Filed under Biodiversity, Chiapas, Climate Change, Genetic Engineering, Latin America
