Global Justice Ecology Project partners with The Sojourner Truth Show at KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles to produce weekly segments on ecological justice.

Every Monday GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann produces an “Earth minute” analysis brief, and each Thursday, we co-produce a 15-minute “Earth Watch” interview with grassroots leaders from across the U.S. and around the world.  We also produce occasional audio podcasts during special events, such as the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit and the UN climate conferences. All of our podcasts are available for use and syndication.

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July 17, 2014 Earth Minute: System Change not Climate Change in Venezuela

See below for transcript.

Transcript

I am recording this week’s Earth Minute from the Venezuelan Island of Margarita. The Venezuelan government has assembled hundreds of organizations from around the Americas and across the world under the theme of “Changing the System, Not the Climate.” The idea of this meeting is to begin to develop justice-based strategies and discussions to inform a peoples’ position at this year’s UN Climate Conference in Lima Peru in December.

“System Change not Climate Change” originally emerged as the demand from civil society organizations protesting the northern-dominated and pro-corporate UN Climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. There UN delegates and observers staged a massive “Reclaim Power” march out that attempted to meet with thousands of activists marching toward the conference. The idea was to come together for a Peoples’ Assembly, where real peoples’ solutions to the climate crisis would be advanced. While that action was met with severe repression and violence from the Danish Police, the powerful concept of “System Change not Climate Change” continues to carry forward.

For the Earth Minute and the Sojourner Truth show, this is Anne Petermann from Global Justice Ecology Project reporting from Venezuela.

Photo: Climate Justice Now! Statement on Climate Change from COP-15, Copenhagen, December 2009. Photo: Neil White/Guardia

Image: noticias24.com via lainfo.es

Earth Watch: Dr. Rachel Smolker on geoengineering in the latest UN climate report

Dr. Rachel Smolker, co-director of Biofuelwatch, discusses the inclusion of dangerous and unproven technologies to suck carbon out of the atmosphere in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

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Earth Watch: US’s first tar sands mine facing opposition in Utah

Melanie Martin, with Peaceful Uprising, discusses growing opposition to tar sands mining in eastern Utah, and the disproportionate impact of Salt Lake City’s oil refineries on communities of color and low-income neighborhoods.

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Earth Watch: Florida Power and Light threatens Seminole nation, panther habitat with plans for Florida’s 2nd biggest power plant

Danny Billie, of the Independent Traditional Seminole nation, discusses Florida Power and Light’s plan to build one of the nation’s largest fossil fuel power plants adjacent to the Big Cypress Seminole reservation and right in the middle of critical panther habitat.

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Earth Watch: Rhetoric vs reality in President Obama’s State of the Union speech

Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, discusses President Obama’s comments on energy and climate change in Wednesday’s State of the Union address.

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Earth Minute: Gas pipeline operated by Keystone XL developer explodes in Canada

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Earth Watch: Wikileaks releases environment chapter of Trans Pacific Partnership, described as “NAFTA on steroids”

Alisa Simmons from Global Trade Watch discusses the environmental risks of the controversial Trans Pacific Partnership, a massive free trade deal under negotiation which would encompass one third of world trade.

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Earth Minute: U.K. gives green light to biodiversity offset project

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Earth Watch: Hundreds of thousands hit by water crisis in wake of West Virginia chemical spill

Johanna de Graffenreid from the Citizen Action for Real Enforcement Campaign in West Virginia discusses the fallout of the January 9th chemical spill which left over 300,000 people without water, and the history of lax regulatory enforcement of extractive industries in WV.

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Earth Minute: World Bank palm oil loans driving land grabs, assassinations in Honduras

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SPECIAL Earth Watch Segment: Tar Sands, GE Trees, and the Langelle Photo project

Clayton Thomas-Muller and Orin Langelle discuss the tar sands, Indigenous resistance to energy extraction, and the role of art and photography in resistance movements in this one hour Sojourner Truth show special.

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Earth Minute: University of Florida bans anti-GE tree activists from campus

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Earth Watch: Geoengineering pushed as “Plan B” for climate crisis, included in int’l climate science assessment

ETC Group’s Jim Thomas discusses the risks of “planet hacking,” or geoengineering, and its inclusion in the latest international climate science assessment after heavy pressure by resource-rich countries like Russia.

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Earth Minute: Ongoing anti-fracking standoff in Mi’kmaq territory, New Brunswick

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Earth Watch: Flood damage to Colorado oil and gas infrastructure threatens major public health hazard

A major health disaster faces Colorado made worse from overturned tanks storing fracking chemicals mixed in with flood waters. Merrily Mazza of East Boulder County United discusses the dangers posed by leaking tanks and pipelines in Weld County.

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Earth Minute: Ongoing direct actions target UK fracking test site

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Earth Watch: Keith McHenry, cofounder of Food Not Bombs

Keith McHenry, cofounder of the Food Not Bombs movement, discusses the history of Food Not Bombs and state repression against himself and other volunteers over the years.

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Earth Minute: Honduras hosts ‘sustainable’ palm oil convention, despite related human rights abuses

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Earth Minute: Maasai community violently evicted for World Bank-funded geothermal project

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Earth Watch: Mathew Louis-Rosenburg on Fearless Summer, MTR in southern Appalachia

Mathew Louis-Rosenberg is an organizer in southern West Virginia with Coal River Mountain Watch and the RAMPS Campaign (Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival).  He is also a convener of the Extreme Energy Extraction Collaborative, a new national effort to network folks fighting on the front lines of battles around energy extraction.

Mathew discusses Fearless Summer, an initiative launched out of the first Extreme Energy Extraction Summit this February, as well as the social and environmental crisis in Appalachia caused by mountaintop-removal coal mining.

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Earth Minute: US Navy jets drop bombs on Great Barrier Reef

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Earth Watch interview: Clayton Thomas-Muller on Quebec oil disaster, Tar Sands Healing Walk, Sovereignty Summer

Clayton Thomas-Muller co-director of the Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign discusses the oil rail disaster that left scores dead in Quebec, the Tar Sands healing walk and Sovereignty summer.

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Quebec oil spill highlights dangers of ‘fracked’ oil from Bakken Shale

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: La Via Campesina international gathering ends, rejecting capitalism, and promoting agroecology, solidarity

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan on the launch of the Our Power Campaign

Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, from Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project and the Climate Justice Alliance, discusses the launch of the Our Power Campaign.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: RoundUp herbicide contaminating people and the environment

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Wahleah Johns on Peabody Coal and Black Mesa Water Coalition

Wahleah Johns, Solar Project Manager of Black Mesa Water Coalition talks about the fight to stop Peabody Coal’s mining and water use on Black Mesa, and for a just transition to community-led solutions to the climate crisis.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Major protests against genetically engineered trees at biotech industry conference

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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 Earth Minute: Biomass plants under fire in California

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Jeff Conant on REDD forest offsets and California’s carbon market

Jeff Conant, International Forests Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, discusses the dangers of including REDD forest offsets in California’s Global Warming Solutions Act.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Atmospheric C02 emissions approaching 400ppm, social movements demand reductions to 300ppm

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Dustin White on the struggle to stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia

Dustin White, an organizer from Boone County, West Virginia, discusses recent actions targeting the EPA’s failure to address the grave impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining on rural communities.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Dangerous and unlabeled GMO apples expected to hit supermarkets this year

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: First Nation challenging Shell tar sands expansion denied hearing in Canadian Supreme Court, vows to join Idle No More direct action campaign

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Freda Huson on First Nations resistance to proposed pipelines in so-called British Columbia

Freda Huson of the Unist’ot’en Clan discusses a resistance camp on sovereign Indigenous territory in the path of proposed fracking and tar sands pipelines across so-called British Columbia.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: World Social Forum in Tunisia ends with declaration denouncing capitalism, patriarchy, and the “green economy”

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: On the ground with Cindy Wiesner at the World Social Forum in Tunisia

Cindy Wiesner, Director of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, joins us from the World Social Forum in Tunisia, happening from March 26-30th.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Asian social movements call for end to neoliberalism

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Rue on tar sands resistance and environmental racism in Houston’s East End

Rue, independent media maker and queer environmental justice activist, talks about their organizing work with the Tar Sands Blockade, including the actual tree blockade in rural East Texas and environmental justice work in Houston’s toxic East End, as well as the necessity of bringing the struggles of frontline communities to the center of the environmental movement.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Anne Petermann on the USDA’s latest steps to legalize Genetically Engineered trees

Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, discusses major new developments in the fight to stop Genetically Engineered (GE) trees, including the USDA’s recent steps towards deregulating GE freeze-tolerant eucalyptus trees.  If approved, these trees would be planted across vast swathes of the US Southeast, leading to devastating impacts on wildlife, forests, and communities.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: The ecological and human cost of the Iraq war

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Challenges raised for California’s biomass incinerators

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Dr. Rachel Smolker of Biofuelwatch on Obama’s State of the Union Address

Dr. Rachel Smolker, Co-director of Biofuelwatch, weighs in on President Obama’s proposals on climate change in his State of the Union Address.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Ananda Lee Tan on grassroots and Indigenous resistance to proposed pipelines through British Columbia, Coast Salish Territories

This week’s Earth Watch features Ananda Lee Tan, U.S. & Canada Program Coordinator with the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.  Ananda discusses the grassroots and Indigenous resistance to proposed pipelines that would carry tar sands and fracked gas across First Nations territory, to the coast of British Columbia, Coast Salish Territories.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allen Adam on the possibility of Idle No More tar sands blockades in Alberta

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Two-part special on KPFK features GJEP and Indigenous Environmental Network

Global Justice Ecology Project teamed up with the Sojourner Truth show in LA for a series of events in late-November, 2012, including the following above one-hour in-studio interview featuring Clayton Thomas-Muller, Tar Sands Co-Director with the Indigenous Environmental Network, Orin Langelle, Board Chair for Global Justice Ecology Project, and Anne Petermann, GJEP Executive Director.  They discussed the link between Hurricane Sandy, climate change, social justice and extreme energy.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute and Earth Watch interview: Anne Petermann on the UN COP18 climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar

Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project on what, if anything, came out of the UNFCCC COP18 climate negotiations in Doha.  Earth Minute below.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Dorothy Grace Guerrero on the UN COP18 climate negotiations in Qatar

Dorothy Grace Guerrero, Climate & Environmental Justice Program Coordinator with Focus on the Global South, discusses the ongoing climate negotiations in Doha, globalization, and social movement for ecological justice.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes every Tuesday and Earth Watch interviews every Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Why Doha is not where climate justice will happen

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Tom B.K. Goldtooth on the re-election of President Obama

Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Executive Director of Indigenous Environmental Network, discusses the re-election of President Obama, climate change and the work ahead.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: WW4 Report’s Bill Weinberg on Hurricane Sandy

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Kandi Mossett on the struggle to stop a new refinery on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota

Kandi Mossett, organizer with Indigenous Environmental Network and citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation, discusses the impacts of fossil fuel extraction on her community, and their struggle to stop a new refinery on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Hurricane Sandy and global climate change

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Eriel Deranger on the Indigenous tar sands campaign

Eriel Deranger of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation talks about the ongoing efforts to stop the mining of tar sand deposits in Alberta, Canada and the environmental damage such exploitation has wreaked on the region’s indigenous communities.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation launches legal challenge against Shell Oil tar sands expansion

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: US Court of Appeals dismisses Alaska village claim over greenhouse gas emissions

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor on secret Cold War chemical tests in St. Louis

Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor, Sociology Professor at St. Louis Community College in St. Louis, Missouri, discusses recently obtained documents exposing secret Cold War-era chemical studies conducted on poor, minority neighborhoods in St. Louis and their connections with the Manhattan Atomic Bomb Project.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Amid opposition, governors meet in Chiapas to discuss REDD+

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Kathleen Logan Smith of Missouri Coalition for the Environment

Interview begins at 7:06: http://archive.org/details/Sojournertruthradio092012

Kathleen Logan Smith, Executive Director of Missouri Coalition for the Environment, discusses Occupy Monsanto in St. Louis and the week of actions targeting Monsanto on the first anniversary of Occupy Wall St.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Ron Seifert, Ramsey Sprague of Tar Sands Blockade discusses resistance to the Keystone XL pipeline 

Ron Seifert and Ramsey Sprague discuss the ongoing Tar Sands Blockade along the Keystone XL pipeline in east Texas.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: BP Sponsors the Olympics (and tar sands and oil spills…)

Well, BP is at it again, they are sponsors of the Olympics now underway in London. And they are pouring millions if not billions of dollars into extraction of tar sands, one of the most polluting forms of fossil fuels on the planet. Our guest is Emily Coats with the UK Tar Sands Network.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: Hydro electric power is not clean or renewable

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Watch interview: Innu Opposition to Quebec’s Plan Nord

 This week, Keith Brunner of Gears of Change discusses the Plan Nord, a massive development plan for northern Quebec that includes dams, mines and other industrial development.  He also discusses the opposition to this plan by the Innu People who live in the region, and a delegation of Innu that are coming to Burlington, VT to protest the New England Governors’ conference, where Quebec’s Premier will also attend.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: climate change driving water conflicts between India and Pakistan

Earth Watch interview: Ohio residents blockade fracking site

Ohio residents blockaded an injection well in a protest against hydro-fracking. The Reverend Monica Beasley Martin of Youngstown Ohio fills us in.  Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Minute: China seeks to remove Nomad People from their land

Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and Earth Watch interview each Thursday.

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Earth Audio Podcast: Jihan Gearon of Black Mesa Water Coalition on KPFK Sojourner Truth Show, July 12, 2012

In this week’s Earth Segment on KPFK Pacifica radio’s Sojourner Truth show, Jihan Gearon of Black Mesa Water Coalition speaks about the Navajo Nation’s rejection of Arizona’s proposed Colorado River water settlement.

To listen to our download the podcast, click here. 

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Earth Audio Podcast: Paul Quintos of Ibon International on KPFK Sojourner Truth Show, June 22, 2012

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Earth Audio Podcast: Sacajawea “Saki” Hall on KPFK Sojourner Truth Show, June 21, 2012

Interview with Sacajawea “Saki” Hall, the membership coordinator at the US Human Rights Network, in Rio de Janeiro with the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, on KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show, June 21, 2012. Global Justice Ecology Project partners with Margaret Prescod and the Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes every Tuesday and Earth Segment interviews every Thursday–as well as daily interviews during international gatherings such as the Peoples’ Summit in Rio.

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Earth Audio Podcast: Ta’kaia Blaney and Jeff Conant on KPFK Sojourner Truth Show

Interview with Ta’kaia Blaney, 11-year-old indigenous activist from the Sliammon nation, and Jeff Conant of Global Justice Ecology Project on KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show, June 20, 2012.

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Achim Steiner of UNEP and Pat Mooney of the ETC Group at the Rio+20 Peoples’ Summit

At a panel session on Saturday, June 16 at the Peoples’ Summit, Pat Mooney of the Canadian technology watchdog organization ETC Group challenges UN Environment Program Director Achim Steiner’s concept of the green economy. Mooney says the model would hand control of the world’s biomass over to the same corporations and financial institutions responsible for the current ecological and financial chaos. 

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Interview with Lucia Ortiz, Coordinator, Friends of the Earth Brazil and member of the Organizing Committee of the Rio+20 Peoples’ Summit, on KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show, June 19, 2012.

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At a UN side event, Angél Furlan of the World Lutheran Foundation compares the “green economy” to a man crashing his car into a house and demanding that the home owner pay for the reparations– and fix the house according to the culprit’s specifications.

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Indigenous Peoples’ press conference to denounce the negative impacts of REDD

Marifel, of the Asia-Pacific Indigenous Youth Network speaks. Photo: Petermann/GJEP Indigenous Peoples held a press conference to denounce the negative impacts of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) the opening activities of the People’s Summit, Friday, 15 June, 2012. Audio and photo by Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project. To download or listen to the interview, click on the link below: Marifel of the Asia-Pacific Indigenous Youth Network Speaks on REDD ____________________________________________________

Global Justice Ecology Project Executive Director Anne Petermann reports from Rio on the Rio+20 Earth Summit for Pacifica’s KPFK Sojourner Truth show

14 June, 2012 Today as the official negotiations continue in preparation for the upcoming Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development–also known as the Rio+20 Earth Summit–KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show interviewed Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) Executive Director Anne Petermann, who is on the ground in Rio about the Rio+20 summit, which starts on 20 June, as well as the alternative Peoples’ Summit, which starts on 15 June. To download or listen to the 15 minute interview, click here: Rio+20 interview with GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann on KPFK Global Justice Ecology Project will be in Rio to report on and campaign around both the official UN meetings and the alternative Peoples’ Summmit, from 15 June to 23 June. Stay tuned to this blog for daily news and reports. Beginning Tuesday, 19 June GJEP will be partnering with the Sojourner Truth show to provide daily interviews on the events in Rio.