Note: Last week Pacifica’s KPFK radio station’s tower was damaged by a wind storm in Los Angeles and was off the airwaves for a bit. For the last three years now we have been doing live reports from the UN climate conventions (Copenhagen, Cancun & now Durban) for The Sojourner Truth Show
with Margaret Prescod. After missing a couple of reports from the conference here in Durban, we’re ready to resume. The next segment will be with Teresa Anderson of Gaia Foundation. She is their International Advocacy Officer and works on issues in Africa. She will adsress the attempt here in Durban to expand REDD (the forest carbon offset scheme) to include soils and agriculture and what that means for rural peasants and indigenous peoples in terms of displacement from their communities and lands–a major issue here at COP 17. STAY TUNED-WE WILL POST AS SOON AS WE CAN. Breaking news–phone lines to Durban jammed at the moment. Will re-schedule tomorrow.
-The GJEP Team
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LA’s KPFK Tower Fixed–Coverage resumes from Durban through this week
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Got News….!
One of the tasks GJEP undertakes at the COPs is to wrangle media to capture grassroots events and perspectives. When we get the major media, we’re pleased. When our allies at Indigenous Environmental Network joined local groups to protest at a local Shell Oil refinery yesterday, we wrangled AP, Al Jazeera, and Reuters to come along. Reuters produced this short video.
We haven’t been able to track down the others’ coverage yet (too busy here at the COP!) — so if you see coverage of the events on AP, Al Jazeera or other major outlets, send us a shout! — the GJEP team
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On the Ground Coverage of the UN Climate Conference in Durban Starts Next Week
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project’s Climate Connections blog carries hard-to-find news from around the world on the impacts of, and peoples’ resistance to social and ecological injustice.
We will be blogging daily from the UN Climate Conference and alternative movement activities in Durban, South Africa from 28 November through 10 December 2011. For the latest from the inside negotiations and the outside 99% opposition to the commodification of life, please stay tuned to climate-connections.org.
Additionally for the third year, we are partnering with Margaret Prescod’s “The Sojourner Truth” show on KPFK’s Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, CA with a fifteen minute update (approximate) with people in Durban, Monday through Friday (28 Nov – 10 December). Live at 7 am Pacific (-8 GMT) or listen to the archives. From the halls of injustice to dissent in the streets.
-The GJEP Team
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Oakland’s Ellen Choy on Occupy and Climate Justice on KPFK today
This week on the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK, hear Ellen Choy, climate justice organizer in Oakland, drawing the links between climate justice and the Occupy movement; also hear Jackie de Salvo, Erica Huggins of the Black Panther party, our friend Tina Gerhardt from Honolulu on the new trade agreement in the works for the Asia/Pacific region, and the Pacifica News on the outbreak of police violence against student protests on the UC Berkeley campus last night.
To hear Ellen Choy, follow this link and scroll to minute 49:00:
http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_111110_070010sojourner.MP3
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OAKLAND GENERAL STRIKE TODAY
Video from Al Jazeera about the Oakland Occupation below
NOTE: GJEP stands in solidarity with the Oakland General Strike. Shut it Down. We will provide coverage today, including photos and commentary later in the day from GJEP’s Communication Director, Jeff Conant, who runs GJEP’s Oakland office. Of course that depends on what occurs during the General Strike and Jeff’s access to upload to Climate Connections. Last night GJEP’s Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle did a Non Violent Direct Action training for Occupy Burlington. Occupy Burlington will have a march and rally today in solidarity with the Oakland General Strike. It will be an interesting day. The video below is from Al Jazeera English:
Protesters in Oakland, California are planning to try and shut down the city’s port – the fifth-busiest shipping container port in the United States, in what they are calling a general strike on Wednesday.
The protesters are part of the ‘Occupy’ movement sweeping the world in which people are rallying to stop, amongst other things, corporate greed.
Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds reports from Oakland.
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On KPFK: Race, Migration and the Environment, with Rebecca Poswolsky of the Center for New Community
GJEP’s guest on KPFK’s Sojourner Truth Hour today was Rebecca Poswolsky of the Center for New Community, speaking about how the environmental agenda is hijacked by a xenophobic anti-immigrant agenda. Listen here.
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Satirical Tabloid Mocks Anti-Immigrant Arguments about Population and the Environment
Cross-posted from The Center for New Community in Chicago. Rebecca Poswolsky of the Center for New Community will be GJEP’s guest on KPFK’s Sojourner Truth Hour (90.7 FM) at 7 a.m. PST this Thursday, January 14.
The Center for New Community, a national civil rights organization, released a satirical tabloid today titled, The Borderline. The publication mocks attempts by anti-immigrant groups to lure environmentalists into scapegoating immigrants, challenging the manufactured facts that the anti-immigrant movement uses to promote US population stabilization and control.
“This publication is a must-read for environmentalists who have encountered anti-immigrant messaging in their efforts to address climate change and discussions around population levels,” explains Rebecca Poswolsky, a field organizer with the Center for New Community.
The Borderline features both ironic advertisements spoofing those created by anti-immigrant groups and satirical articles parodying the fear-mongering that so often accompanies debates about the US/Mexico border wall and water scarcity in the Southwest.
The farce only goes so far, though. The section titled, “The Top Ten Reasons Why Immigrants are not to Blame for Environmental Degradation,” takes a serious approach to debunking prevalent myths about immigration. Contemporary anti-immigrant groups focus on unfounded correlations between population, immigration, and damage to ecosystems.
Many among them claim that immigrants are harming the environment by contributing to urban sprawl, congestion, pollution, waste generation, water consumption, land conversion, and a general loss of biodiversity.
The Borderline is designed to expose and dispel such damaging myths, some of which are presently polluting mainstream environmental discussions.
Visit http://www.newcomm.org/ to learn more and to download the mock tabloid.
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Listen to KPFK Earth Segment with South Africa’s Desmond D’Sa
Listen to this week’s segment on the environment on KPFK Los Angeles’ Sojourner Truth Show. Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with Margaret Prescod, host of the Sojourner Truth show on their weekly segment on the environment.
This week’s segment features Desmond D’Sa, chairperson of South Durban Community Environmental Alliance in South Africa, an organization in South Africa’s most industrial zone (indeed, the biggest petrochemical cluster in the entire hemisphere) that has led the charge for environmental justice.
On Monday, June 20, Desmond D’Sa, toured the toxic zone around Richmond, California (where Chevron has a refinery) to discuss how California’s environmental legislation could have global repercussions for those most vulnerable to climate pollution.
Desmond is convening a global day of action for climate justice, and is a lead organizer for events at the next UN COP, which will be in Durban this November.
To listen to the interview with Desmond D’Sa, go to: http://archive.kpfk.org/parchive/mp3/kpfk_110623_070010sojourner.MP3 and forward to minute 46:45.
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