Category Archives: New Voices in the News
Earth Day Nativism
Cross-posted from The Center for New Community. By Rebecca Poswolsky April 27th, 2012 – While many Earth Day events this past week focused on climate justice, sustainability and protecting the environment, some continue to take this week as an opportunity to … Continue reading
Filed under New Voices in the News, Political Repression, politics
BREAKING NEWS: Native Americans Protest Keystone XL From A Cage
Activists compelled to stay in enclosure miles from President’s pro-oil event This comes to Climate Connections straight from the source: Native Americans gathering in Cushing, Oklahoma for a Thursday protest of President Obama’s anticipated words of praise for the Keystone … Continue reading
Filed under Energy, Indigenous Peoples, New Voices in the News, Tar Sands
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
BREAKING NEWS: Protesters Pack Wisconsin State Capitol to Oppose Mining Bill
Protesters, led by a Native American flash mob, are packing the Wisconsin State Capitol right now to oppose a strip mining bill that woul ddestroy pristine watersheds. Watch live here: Live-stream from Indian Country TV. — GJEP Cross-posted from The … Continue reading
Filed under Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, New Voices in the News, Videos, Water
“This is not the democracy that we fought for:” An Interview with Ricado Jacobs, South African member of La Via Campesina
This is the second of three interviews I conducted with members of the Via Campesina delegation during United Nations COP17 in Durban, South Africa recently. The first interview, with Alberto Gomez of UNORCA, Mexico, is here. – Jeff Conant, for … Continue reading
“Our Struggle is for the Permanence of Agriculture”: Interview with Alberto Gomez of La Via Campesina, Durban South Africa
At COP17 in Durban, as at COP16 in Cancún previously, Global Justice Ecology Project worked closely with La Via Campesina, the world’s largest movement of peasant farmers. As part of our collaboration, I was asked to help document the movement, … Continue reading
Communitive Organizing: Local is Global
Joaquin Quetzal Sanchez is an organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a friend, comrade and office-mate in GJEP’s Oakland office. On returning from Durban, South Africa just now, I discovered Joaquin’s note in my in-box. Among other … Continue reading
Corporate Clown Cast Out of Climate Circus
CODE of CONDUCT CONSERVED; ELITES ELATED as CLIMATE COLLAPSES! After a press event held by Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) at COP17 in Durban, South Africa today, one of the panelists, Kevin Buckland, was ejected from the Summit. His offence? … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Media, New Voices in the News, UNFCCC
Earth Minute: Daily Live Interviews from the UN Climate Talks in Durban, South Africa
Global Justice Ecology Project partners with Margaret Prescod’s Sojourner Truth show on KPFK–Pacifica Los Angeles radio show for a weekly Earth Minute on Tuesdays and a weekly 12 minute Environment Segment every Thursday. This week’s Earth Minute discusses the connection between the … Continue reading
