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.
KPFK Sojourner Truth Earth Minute: World Social Forum in Tunisia closes with declaration denouncing capitalism, patriarchy, and the “green economy”
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NicaNet climate change delegation to Nicaragua: June 10-21, 2013
Note: I’ve travelled many times to Nicaragua, including the first environmental justice delegation after the 1998 Hurricane Mitch. One of our findings from that delegation was that Hurricane Mitch’s devastation was exacerbated by climate change. I’ve worked with Nicaragua Network and the head of this delegation, Paul Baker-Hernandez, over two decades now. I’ve stayed with Paul and his family in Managua and I’ve traveled overland from the Pacific to the Atlantic Coast with Paul. I’m looking forward to hearing the report back and the findings. And if you go, ask Paul to sing “Comandante Che Guevara.”
-Orin Langelle for the GJEP Team
Nicaragua Network Announces:
Delegation to Nicaragua!
Climate Change, Water, and Sustainability
June 10 – 21, 2013
$950 (all lodging, meals, and in-country travel)
At the crossroads between North and South America, Nicaragua is astonishingly bio-diverse and is a regional leader in terms of energy from renewable resources. It is also on the frontline of climate change, suffering increasingly from desertification, flooding and crop devastation. And, this little country is also profoundly engaged in two projects that could re-shape the world.
The first, Hugo Chavez’s great legacy, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our Americas, ALBA, is an international trading system based on justice, cooperation and caring for the Earth – a ready-functioning alternative to the dog-eat-dog depredations of catastrophic consumerism.
The second, a vast trans-isthmus canal, will bring post-Panamax behemoths plowing up the very heart of Lake Cocibolca (Lake Nicaragua), one of largest fresh water lakes in the world. For the Sandinista government, ALBA and the canal are vital to development; for others, the canal is absolute catastrophe.
This is an historic moment, for Nicaragua and for the planet. Nicaragua is also on the frontline of climate change, responding with imaginative people-based initiatives to increasing desertification,flooding and crop devastation.
Join us to visit communities developing local creative responses to climate change: cooking gas from dung, cleansing grey water, making dried-up rivers live again. And discuss with regular folks, experts and government officials the burning questions: ‘Whither the regional integration of ALBA now that Chavez is gone?’ and ‘The Grand Canal: Development or Disaster?’ ”
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KPFK Sojourner Truth Earth Watch: On the ground at the World Social Forum in Tunisia with Cindy Wiesner
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 KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes every Tuesday and Earth Watch interviews every Thursday.
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KPFK Sojourner Truth 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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Pablo Salon: How to overcome the climate crisis?
By Pablo Salon, March 15, 2013. Source: Climate Space 2013
There is no single answer, no single campaign nor single approach.
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids catastrophe, we need to:
- Leave more than two-thirds of the fossil fuel reserves under the soil;
- Stop the exploitation of tar sands, shale gas and coal;
- Support small, local, peasant and indigenous community farming while we dismantle big agribusiness that deforests and heats the planet;
- Promote local production and consumption of products, reducing the free trade of goods that send millions of tons of CO2 while they travel around the world;
- Stop extractive industries from further destroying nature and contaminating our atmosphere and our land;
- Increase significantly public transport to reduce the unsustainable “car way of life”;
- Reduce the emissions of warfare by promoting genuine peace and dismantling the military and war industry and infrastructure.
In other words we need to come out of the endless growth paradigm that is the basis of the capitalist system, and seek for a new kind of society that is grounded on care for each other and nature. A society that seeks happiness for all and not profit for a few. A society based on a different concept of prosperity and well-being. A bio-society for life that includes humans and nature.
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KPFK Sojourner Truth Earth Watch: Rue on the Tar Sands Blockade and environmental racism in Houston’s East End
This week’s Earth Watch features Rue, a writer, independent media and film maker, and queer radical social and environmental justice activist. Rue 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 importance of bridging extraction resistance movements and necessity of bringing the struggles of frontline communities to the center of the environmental movement.
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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KPFK Sojourner Truth Earth Watch: Anne Petermann on the USDA’s latest steps to legalize Genetically Engineered trees
This week’s Earth Watch features Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. Anne 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, which if approved, 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 KPFK’s Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes every Tuesday and Earth Watch interviews every Thursday.
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KPFK Sojourner Truth 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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