Category Archives: politics
Sign on: Stand with the First Vermonters! Support Tribal Forests
The Abenaki people of Vermont suffer from extreme poverty and have no land to call their own. Their culture is at risk of disappearing forever unless we act now. The Sierra Club has partnered with the Abenaki people and other groups … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, politics
House bill calls for White House biodefense advisor
Cross-posted from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy By Robert Roos, News Editor, CIDRAP May 10, 2012 (CIDRAP News) – A bill headed for the floor of the US House calls for appointing a special White House advisor … Continue reading
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Petro Plutocracy: Oil Tycoons Force Firing of EPA Fracking Enforcer
Cross-Posted from EcoWatch Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Last week, the world got a preview of America’s new post Citizens United petro plutocracy with the oil lords flexing their political muscles like oil soaked body builders pumped up on a steroid drip of … Continue reading
Mexico legislation underlines transformation in global warming debate
Cross-Posted from Reuters . –Rt Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, is President of Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE) and former UK Secretary of State for the Environment, and Rt Hon John Prescott, Lord Prescott, is a Member of GLOBE, and former UK Deputy … Continue reading
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
April Photo of the Month: Kent State Massacre Protests in 1972
Orin Langelle is co-founder of Global Justice Ecology Project and Board Chair. He has been shooting photos of the movement for social change for forty years. Langelle’s first professional photo assignment (St. Louis Outlaw) was covering the 1972 Republican National … Continue reading
KPFK Earth Segment: Jihan Gearon, Director of Black Mesa Water Coalition, on proposed Arizona legislation that will have drastic effects on native lands and the region
Global Justice Ecology Project partners with Margaret Prescod and the Sojourner Truth show at KPFK Pacifica in Los Angeles for weekly Earth Segments and weekly Earth Minutes. This week’s Earth Segment features Jihan Gearon, Director of Black Mesa Water Coalition, on a … Continue reading
Filed under Indigenous Peoples, KPFK, politics, Water
Action Alert! Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Spruce Mine!
From our allies at I Love Mountains: We won a major victory for Appalachia last year when the Environmental Protection Agency decided to veto the Spruce Mine in West Virginia — one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed. … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Mountaintop Removal, politics
Video: Political Prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal Gives First Interview Since Death Sentence Commuted
Note: GJEP co-Founders Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle helped organize 5 days of militant protest at the National Governors’ Association convention in Burlington, VT in August 1995 to stop then-Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge from signing the death warrant for former … Continue reading
Filed under Actions, Climate Change, Political Repression, politics, Videos
Critical Information Collective Offers Resources for Advancing Movement for Justice
Note: The following post regards a new organization, Critical information Collective, set up by our friends Joe Zacune and Ronnie Hall (both ex-campaign coordinators with Friends of the Earth International). This initiative will be a very useful and powerful resource and … Continue reading
