Direct Action for Climate Justice: Confronting False Solutions to Climate Change
Over August 9-12, fifty participants and trainers gathered in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom for a Climate Justice Direct Action Training Camp. The camp, organized by Red Clover Climate Justice and...
View ArticleThe Need for Clear Demands at the Peoples’ Climate March
Climate Action vs. Climate Justice: the Need for Clear Demands at the Peoples’ Climate March in New York CityIn New York City on September 21st, a major climate march is planned. It will take place two...
View ArticleActivists Arrested at ArborGen GE Tree Headquarters
A new organizing initiative called “GE Trees Fall” launched with a four day GE trees action training camp [1] outside of Asheville North Carolina, over September 24th to the 27th. Following the camp,...
View ArticleInterview: Photojournalist Orin Langelle on the story behind his End of the...
Orin Langelle has been documenting the movement for social and ecological justice for more than 40 years. He currently directs the ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery in Buffalo, NY. The gallery is currently...
View ArticleOn the Election: Don't Mourn, Organize!
While surprised by the turn of the election last night, I was not shocked. Horrified, but not shocked.The pundits had all but declared Hillary the winner in the days leading up to the election, but a...
View ArticleBlog from Chile: Tree Plantations Save the Day! (or not...)
Anne Petermann is the Coordinator of the International Campaign to STOP GE Trees. She is attending (and spying on) the week-long Tree Biotechnology conference of the International Union of Forest...
View ArticlePortugal's Eucalyptus Wildfires: A Result of a Timber Industry Run Amok
Harbinger of Threats from Proposed Eucalyptus Plantations in the USBy Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology ProjectThe wildfires in Portugal over the last week have been called...
View ArticleViolating the Sacred: GMO Chestnuts for the Holidays?
By BJ McManama, Indigenous Environmental Network with Anne Petermann and Ruddy Turnstone, Global Justice Ecology Project“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” We don’t...
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