Category Archives: Independent Media
Muara Tae Videoblog: The death of a forest in Indonesia
Courtesy: Environmental Investigation Agency March 2, 2012 It’s the colours and the sounds that are most striking. We had spent two days walking through lush, verdant forest – the last ancestral forests of Muara Tae. The close, varied greens teeming with … Continue reading
Assaulted photographer accuses UN of cover-up
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project board chair and photojournalist Orin Langelle is continuing his pursual of justice and accountability from the UN regarding the irresponsible actions of their security guards during the climate convention in Durban, South Africa. UN security … Continue reading
Filed under Climate Change, Durban/COP-17, Independent Media, Media
Another witness of UN security violence to photographer during Durban Climate Convention
Note: This official statement below, from Kevin Buckland, was sent to the UN today regarding Orin Langelle’s Formal Complaint Against UN Security and the response Langelle received from the UN’s John Hay, UN Media Relations Officer. [See the response from the UN … Continue reading
Documentary filmaker Josh Fox, director of “Gasland,” arrested yesterday for filming Congressional subcommittee hearing on fracking (video)
Note: We have been running stories on Climate Connections for the past few weeks about how authorities are stopping people from documenting activities that the public has the right to know. The 1% are very afraid of the truth. They … Continue reading
Filed under Energy, Hydrofracking, Independent Media, Media, Political Repression, Videos
Journalists under Constant Threat in Honduras
Note: This post describes yet another instance of repression against a journalist. We have been running several such posts lately. Not only is Climate Connections a news blog that makes the links between both the impacts and the drivers of … Continue reading
Filed under Independent Media, Latin America, Media, politics
Another Wild Weekend in Oakland: Occupy 2012 is Here
Special report by Jeff Conant, Global Justice Ecology Project, from the streets in Oakland January 29, Oakland CA – What began as a plan to occupy a vacant city building, with the stated intention of transforming it into a community … Continue reading
Trial Begins For Dutch Cove Guardian Erwin Vermeulen in Taiji, Japan
Video of dolphin slaughter below article Note: Whether one likes the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and their allies or not, here is another case of a photographer stopped for trying to document reality. That reality was the slaughter of dolphins. … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Independent Media, politics, Videos
The ‘wind rush’: Green energy blows trouble into Mexico
A few months ago, I received a call from a reporter at the Christian Science Monitor, who’d been referred to me, he said, because of my experience in Mexico, and because I’ve been working, with Global Justice Ecology Project, on … Continue reading
The War Against Peasant Farmers Heats Up in Honduras
A Climate Connections Exclusive Report The Bajo Aguán Region of Honduras competes with the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Colombia for the site with the most egregious violations of human rights, land rights, and ecological justice that often accompany biofuel … Continue reading
Homeland Security monitors journalists
Note: This article is cross-posted from the RT. The states it is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news. -The GJEP Team Published: 07 January, 2012 Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get … Continue reading
Filed under Independent Media, Media, Political Repression, politics
