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New Trial Begins Against Copenhagen Climate Activists

Note: Stine and Tannie are good friends of Global Justice Ecology Project.  We got to know them through the year and a half of organizing meetings under the “Climate Justice Action” umbrella in preparation for “Reclaim Power” action at the … Continue reading

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Global Justice Ecology Project’s 2009 Annual Report is now online.

Global Justice Ecology Project’s 2009 Annual Report is now online.  You can find the link to download the 10 page by clicking here. What You Will Find in Our 2009 Annual Report: • GJEP’s Climate Justice Program: Accomplishments at the … Continue reading

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The Missing Delegate at Cancún: Indigenous Peoples

Cross-posted from National Geographic Forest set-asides are at the heart of the United Nations’ climate negotiations, but a Native American restoration specialist says it will get the wrong people out of the woods. As nearly 200 delegates gather at the Conference of … Continue reading

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Call for “System Change not Climate Change” Unites Global Movement

Climate Justice Now! Statement on Climate Change from COP-15, Copenhagen, December 2009 Corrupt Copenhagen ‘accord’ exposes gulf between peoples demands and elite political interests The highly anticipated UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen ended with a fraudulent agreement, engineered by … Continue reading

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Call for Solidarity actions with the accused COP15 activists

Two of the most recent additions to Global Justice Ecology Project’s New Voices on Climate Change program, Stine Gry Jonassen and Tannie Nyboe were arrested preemptively during the UN climate conference in Copenhagen last December (COP15) and were detained for … Continue reading

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Civil Society excluded from Interim REDD+ Partnership meeting in Brasilia

Cross posted from REDD Monitor By Chris Lang, 15th July 2010 On 14-15 July 2010, a meeting of the Interim REDD+ Partnership took place in Brasilia. The co-chairs of the Partnership sent an invitation dated 6 July 2010 (pdf file … Continue reading

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Democracy: A Challenge for the New Executive Secretary

Outgoing United Nations Framework Convention on Clim ate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer recently summarized his attachment to consensus-building by noting that “democracy is time-consuming and can be frustrating, but it builds a stronger future.” Where will incoming … Continue reading

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From New Voices Speaker Ben Powless: The road from Copenhagen to Cochabamba passes through the Amazon – Part I

Published on rabble.ca (http://rabble.ca) The road from Copenhagen to Cochabamba passes through the Amazon – Part I By Ben Powless Created Apr 14 2010 – 1:21pm Soon thousands will meet in Cochabamba to talk climate justice. It is the voices … Continue reading

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Copenhagen Report Back with Anne Petermann

Listen to Executive Director, Anne Petermann, give a 28 minute report-back on Copenhagen in a radio interview with Kellia Ramares from Broadcaster at Large: Challenging the Assumptions We Live By, which is also being broadcast through the Women’s International News … Continue reading

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Petition!

Stine and Tannie are out, but they are still charged for shouting Push on the 16th of December. Sign this petition to show that there were many of us shouting push on that day. If Stine and Tannie are charged, … Continue reading

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