Global Justice Ecology Project partners with the Sojourner Truth show for a weekly “Earth Segment” every Thursday. On this week’s segment: Ohio residents blockaded an injection well in a protest against hydro-fracking. The Reverend Monica Beasley Martin of Youngstown Ohio fills us in.
Also, in another direct action against fracking, Earth First! shuts down site:
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Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with KPFK Pacifica’s Sojourner Truth show for weekly Earth Minutes which are written and recorded by GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann and air every Tuesday.
This week’s Earth Minute discusses a plan by the Chinese government to remove over one million nomad people from nearly one billion acres of land in order to free up the land for development.
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China’s government recently announced a new plan to “resettle” Inner Mongolia’s last remaining nomad populations by 2015. This would free up nearly a billion acres of grassland in China for development projects, including highways, rail lines, mines and power plants.
Traditional Mongol herders are protesting this plan that would resettle over one million people, and accuse authorities of illegally taking away their grazing lands and extinguishing their traditional culture. China’s actions violate their rights under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
In early June, thugs hired by land-grabbers clashed with traditional herders who were tending livestock on some of their last grazing lands. Many herders were beaten and two women were hospitalized with serious injuries.
China’s Five-Year settlement plan not only impacts Mongolia’s nomads, but would also affect remaining nomadic populations in Tibet.
Land grabs such as these are increasing globally as countries and companies covet the territories of Indigenous and rural peoples for land-intensive projects such as biofuel plantations and hydroelectric dams.
For the Earth Minute and the Sojourner Truth show, this is Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project.
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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.
Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show for Earth Segment interviews every Thursday.
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This action alert comes to us from our colleagues at the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. – GJEP
The Clean Development Mechanism, the carbon market arm of the Kyoto Protocol, has been issuing carbon credits to landfills and incinerators on the belief that they reduce greenhouse gas emissions from waste. In fact, incinerators and landfills generate significant greenhouse gas emissions and undermine alternatives, such as recycling and composting, that genuinely reduce emissions. When incinerators and landfills replace recycling, not only does the environment suffer but millions of informal sector recyclers are thrown out of work and further impoverished.
The CDM now has an opportunity to stop this crazy practice. At its next meeting, from 16-20 July 2012, the Executive Board will re-consider the rules that apply to landfills and incinerators. Now is the time for them to clearly say: no more support for incinerators and landfills!
Please use this link to send a message to the CDM Executive Board: http://tinyurl.com/6vq5ueh
For more information, check out GAIA’s complete report on the Clean Development Mechanism here.
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Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show every Tuesday for an Earth Minute and every Thursday for an Earth Segment interview with front line activists from around the world.
This week’s Earth minute focuses on the extreme weather that has been taking its toll on the US and asks what we can do about it.
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Increasing numbers of people across the US experienced the impacts of extreme weather last week–from the immense wildfires devouring Colorado, to the heatwave that broke 4000 records across the country, to the wild and freakish derecho storms that left millions without electricity.
The National Weather Service is warning that dryness and drought will continue to increase both in extent and intensity across much of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, the Corn Belt region, the middle and lower Mississippi Valley, and much of the Great Plains.
These impacts were predicted by climate scientists. That they are now real should be enough to shove our collective consciousness into high gear to find real and just solutions to the climate crisis.
That there will be a great shift in the way humans live on this planet is not in question. The question is, will we be proactive in developing a new way to live in harmony with the earth, or will we do nothing, and hope that our children can survive on a decimated planet?
For the Earth Minute and the Sojourner Truth show, this is Anne Petermann from Global Justice Ecology Project.
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In this week’s Earth Segment on KPFK Pacifica radio’s Sojourner Truth show, Dr. Miguel Lovera, former National Secretary for Plant Safety of Paraguay discusses the recent Paraguay coup, the link to the expansion of GMO soy plantations and the logging of the Gran Chaco forest, home to the Ayoreo indigenous people.
Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show for Earth Segment interviews every Thursday.
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To view Orin Langelle’s photo essay of the Ayoreo in the Chaco, click here
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Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show every Tuesday for an Earth Minute and every Thursday for an Earth Segment interview with front line activists from around the world.
This week’s Earth minute focuses on the coup in Paraguay and its impacts on the great forest of the Gran Chaco ecosystem, including the Ayoreo People, some of whom represent the last uncontacted tribes in the Americas.
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To view Orin Langelle’s photo essay of the Ayoreo in the Gran Chaco, click here
The text from this week’s Earth Minute is below:
Two weeks ago in Paraguay, elected left-wing President Fernando Lugo was ousted through a “Parliamentary coup.”
The UK Guardian likened the upheaval to the removal of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. “A progressive but imperfect leftwing leader ousted by rightwing forces determined to halt policies that threaten their business interests.
As always, the underlying politics revolve around land. In this case, Paraguay’s Gran Chaco–a vast expanse of grasslands, forests and cactus that borders Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. Home to some of the last uncontacted tribes in the Americas, the great forest of the Gran Chaco is being rapidly eaten away by the expansion of beef cattle ranches–with ten percent of the forest lost in the last 5 years.
These forests are home to the indigenous Ayoreo people, who, after decades of oppression, have been trying to recover both their culture and land rights. Now, like Indigenous Peoples worldwide, the Ayoreo and their lands are threatened by the insatiable appetites of the global market.
For the Earth Minute and the Sojourner Truth show, this is Anne Petermann from Global Justice Ecology Project.
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What will happen to the Indigenous Peoples?
Photographs by Orin Langelle/GJEP-GFC
In the Ayoreo settlement of Campo Lorro, Chaco, Paraguay
Paraguay’s right-wing coup that ousted Fernando Lugo’s government two weeks ago hardly made North American news. Typical. And how many people care anyway about that small landlocked nation?
Although the photos in this essay were taken in 2009, they show a community and a people struggling for survival.
To me the coup is personal, because I traveled to Paraguay in January of 2009. I have friends there. GJEP is the North American Focal Point for Global Forest Coalition which has their southern hemisphere office there. I had the opportunity to tour Asuncion, the nation’s Capitol, and see where the poor live several hundred meters from the national government buildings. I traveled on long back roads surrounded by immense GMO soybean fields controlled by agribusiness (the soy mafia) and I visited and photographed the Ayoreo indigenous community of Campo Lorro (Parrot Field) in the Chaco region.
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