Important Breaking News on Arctic Global Warming to be Released on this New Site, Wednesday 25 July 2007! Don't miss it.
The deadline for comments has passed on the URGENT ACTION ALERT!
But your YOUR HELP WILL STILL BE NEEDED. Please watch this site for upcoming alerts regarding:
GE tree giant ArborGen is seeking approval from the USDA for an outdoor field trial of genetically engineered eucalyptus that are allowed to flower and set seeds. The field trial is located in Baldwin County, Alabama in an area prone to extreme wind events that could spread seeds from the eucalyptus for hundreds of miles. Eucalyptus is not native to the US. In other countries, eucalyptus is known to be extremely invasive. There is no way to know how the genetically engineered traits of the eucalyptus (which ArborGen will not reveal) could impact forests and wildlife. This field trial must be stopped.
Thanks to all who sent comments and signed petitons to USDA/APHIS in trying to help us stop this unprecedented threat to the forests of the Southeast!
PRESS RELEASE: Effort Launched to Stop GE Eucalyptus
Global Justice Ecology Project relies heavily on the contributions of individuals like yourself to accomplish our unique and important work: building local, national and international alliances with action to address the root causes of social injustice, economic domination and environmental destruction, such as climate change, while protecting forests and communities from dangerous and unproven genetically engineered trees and monoculture industrial timber plantations. Your support is critical.
Sorry for any inconvenience!
Environmental groups condemn IPCC call for large scale biofuels as a climate disaster in the making
ALERT: Support Environmental Struggle in Aotearoa/NZ
Good Result Achieved on the URGENT BIOFUELS ALERT
New Report: Not Under the Same Sky: Bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
Written by Aziz Choudry. Aziz is a New Zealand activist, researcher and writer. He sits on the board of directors of Global Justice Ecology Project, is a member of GATT Watchdog and is also involved in a collaborative website project opposed to bilateral free trade and investment agreements, www.bilaterals.org.
To download the report, click here
Wanted: Community Organizer (Intern Position)
New Documentary Video
A
Silent Forest: The Growing Threat, Genetically Engineered Trees
narrated by Dr. David Suzuki -- this video discusses threats posed by genetically
engineered trees to our environment and to human health.
First Prize in the 2005 Earth Vision International Environmental Film Festival
in the Forest category (Santa Cruz, CA).
VIEW
VIDEO TRAILER
Order
NowSubtitled in Spanish and ChineseBonus Feature- Preview of World Rainforest Movement's "Green Invasion"
SPECIAL REPORT: Ecological and Social Impacts of Fast Growing Timber Plantations and Genetically Engineered Trees
Recent Actions:
--Forest Activists call for ArborGen to get out of Southern US, Brazil, Chile...
--Boat Protest in Charleston Against Timber Plantations and GE Trees
Nairobi, Kenya:
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Groups Condemn False “Solutions” to Global Warming
Ban GE Trees from Kyoto Protocol RECENT: Brazil: Update: The Minister of Justice is not willing to meet the Tupinikim and Guarani
ARACRUZ CELULOSE PROVOKES AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE
NYC Indymedia reporter killed in Oaxaca Fox Sends in Federal Police story and photos
Action Alert: Help Stop Commercial Bioprospecting in National Parks!
Threat of GE Trees and Growing Reliance on Tree Plantations Jeopardize Endangered Forests Worldwide
STOP Genetically Engineered Trees! Please Tell the UN Convention on Biological Diversity an Immediate International BAN is Needed
TUPINIKIM/GUARANI CONTINUE ACTIONS FOR LAND DEMARCATION
ACTION ALERT: Stop the Destruction of Native Forests, Wildlife Habitat and Indigenous Communities
Plantations, Indigenous Rights and Genetically Engineered Trees
Special Report: Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific & People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty
Bilateral Free Trade and Investment Agreements and the U.S. Corporate Biotech Agenda
By GJEP Board Member Aziz Choudry
International News on Genetically Engineered Trees:
UN Convention Acknowledges Threats Posed by GE Trees Action Alert: Stop Release of 1st Temperate GE Tree (Plum) Protesters Arrested After Disrupting Negroponte in Vermont
-Clashes Over Water Policy in Mexico City -Suri,
Dizi, Mursi, Me'en, Nyangatom threatened by Ethiopian National Park
-What
You Can Do Action Alert
-Follow-up on:
-VIOLENT
POLICE ACTION AGAINST TUPINIKIM and GUARANI
(Brazil)
MORE ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES:
CBD--Countries Call for Global Moratorium Against Genetically Engineered Trees at Convention on Biological Diversity-Brazil
-Intervention from the Women’s Caucus Regarding Transgenic Trees, 22 March 2006
-2nd Intervention from the Women's Caucus Regarding Transgenic Trees, (submission) 28 March 2006
-Briefing Paper on Transgenic Trees
-Briefing Paper #2: GE Trees/Global Warming
-UN FAO Report
on GE Trees
-Genetically
Modified Trees in Chile: A New Forest Conflict
SPECIALS:
-Paul
Wolfowitz: Symbol of A Global Crisis Behind and Beyond Iraq
-Activists
Criticize Carbon Trading As "Privatization of the Atmosphere"
-Iraq
War, Global Warming Induced Hurricanes and World Bank Linked
-GLOBAL
WARming=GLOBAL WAR
-VICTORIA
DECLARATION (Brazil) - The Vitoria Statement in Support of the Struggles
of Local Peoples Against Large-Scale Tree Plantations
-THE
DURBAN GROUP - International Climate Experts Reveal Who Profits, Who
Pays in Climate Crisis
[ view archived events
2005] [ view
archived events 2004]
Global Justice Ecology Project Mission Statement
Global Justice Ecology Project advances global justice and ecological awareness
by identifying issues, creating strategies, organizing campaigns, building alliances
and disseminating photographic images that demonstrate the interconnections
between the social and the ecological, promoting a crucial holistic analysis
to unify and strengthen movements.
Global Justice Ecology Project has three programs:
*
Connecting Global Justice and Ecology Program
* Grassroots
Social Change Photography Program
* Genetically
Engineered Trees Program
These programs have the following common objectives:
1) promote an ecological analysis within the global justice movement, examining
the role resources play in social and environmental conflicts;
2) advance a deeper understanding of economic globalization within the environmental
movement, increasing its effectiveness by addressing the root economic causes;
3) create alliances between environmental, labor, peace and global justice activists
and groups to magnify their power.
Become a
member of Global Justice Ecology Project
Upcoming Events
March Events:
from March 6 thru...
Select Photographs from Corporate Globalization vs. Global Justice by Orin Langelle are on Display:
Good Times Cafe
Route 116
Hinesburg, VT
(802)482-4444
Hinesburg Community Monthly Social Potluck
Thursday, March 15, 6 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library, Ballards Corner Road
Hinesburg, VT
The March potluck will discuss:
Global Warming: The international response to this global threat
Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann, Co-Directors of Global Justice Ecology Project will speak about their experiences with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as well as their work with grassroots movements around the world that are coming together to address global warming.
Please bring a dish to share and a beverage of your choice
For more information call 482-2689 or write info@globaljusticeecology.org
April Events:
Hinesburg Community Monthly Social Potluck
Thursday, April 12 at 6pm
Carpenter-Carse Library, Ballards Corner Road
Hinesburg, VT
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant: Relicense it or Shut it Down
Hattie
Nestel and others from the Citizens Awareness Network will speak about
the campaign to stop the relicensing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear
power plant.
For more information call 482-2689 or email info@globaljusticeecology.org
Past February Events:
ALERT--DUE TO THE WEATHER, THE FEBRUARY 15 HINESBURG COMMUNUNITY POTLUCK HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR APRIL
Hinesburg Community Monthly Social Potluck
Thursday, February 15 at 6pm
Carpenter-Carse Library, Ballards Corner Road
Hinesburg, VT
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant: Relicense it or Shut it Down
Hattie
Nestel and others from the Citizens Awareness Network will speak about
the campaign to stop the relicensing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear
power plant.
For more information call 482-2689 or email info@globaljusticeecology.org
Past January Events:
Hinesburg Community Monthly Social Potluck
Thursday, January 18 at 6pm
Carpenter-Carse Library, Ballards Corner Road
Hinesburg, VT
This Month's potluck will discuss:
Global Warming: What It Means & What Can Be Done
David Blittersdorf of NRG Systems will speak on alternative energy options.
Global Justice Ecology Project Co-Director Anne Petermann will speak about the organization's recent work at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Nairobi, Kenya.
Please bring a dish to share and a beverage of your choice
For more information call 482-2689 or email info@globaljusticeecology.org
World Social Forum 2007
20-25 January
Nairobi, Kenya
The 7th edition of the World Social Forum brings the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Europe and all corners of the African continent converge in Nairobi, Kenya for five days of cultural resistance and celebration.
Panels, workshops, symposia, processions, film nights and much much more; including participation by Global Justice Ecology Project.
GJEP Co-director will be a speaker in a workshop organized by the Global Forest Coalition, the Indigenous Information Network and the Pacific Indigenous Peoples Environmental Coalition.
Environmental Justice or Environmental Markets 2: Biofuels, a disaster in the making
21 January--afternoon session
The (very tentative) program is as follows:
Facilitator: Lucy Mulenkei, IIN, Kenya
Other speakers include:
- Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition, presenting the joint alert on biofuels
- Nnimmo Bassey, Eraction, Nigeria, on biofuels in Africa
- Longgena Ginting, FoEI, on the impacts of palmoil in Indonesia and the role of IFIs
- Esperanza Martinez, Oilwatch, Ecuador, on the relationship between fossil fuels and biofuels
- representative of Via Campesina on the impacts of biofuels on food sovereignty
- Oscar Rivas, Sobrevivencia, Paraguay, on impacts of soy production
- Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project, USA, on genetically modified trees and biofuels and the role of industry
- video messages from Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch, UK, and Nina Holland, Corporate Europe Observatory
Global Forest Coalition is also organizing an open workshop on biopiracy in the morning of the 21st.
Look here for further details!
Past December Events:
Global Justice Ecology Project's 2006 Solstice Holiday Party
Thursday, December 21, 7 pm
Global Justice Ecology Project office
10600 Rte 116
Hinesburg, VT
Global Justice Ecology Project cordially invites you to attend our 2006 Solstice Holiday Party. Come meet and get to know the people behind this hard-working organization.
Please bring a beverage of your choice.
Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
RSVP's appreciated.
Please call Anne at 802.482.2689 or email globalecology@gmavt.net to RSVP, for directions or for other information.
Past November Events:
GLOBALIZATION, IMMIGRATION AND WAR
Thursday, November 2, 7pm
Billings Student Center, North Lounge, UVM
Burlington, VT
The Links Between Immigration, U.S. Policy in Latin America, Corporate Globalization and the Iraq War
Nativo Lopez, President, Mexican American Political Association; Director, Hermandad Mexicana LatinoAmericana
Sameer Dossani, Director, 50 Years Is Enough Network
Free and open to the public
presented by: Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series
For event info contact Anne Petermann @ (802) 482-2689 or info@globaljusticeecology.org
Sponsored by Global Justice Ecology Project, Vermont Refugee Assistance, Immigration Rights Vermont, the International Socialist Organization, UVM Departments of English, Economics and Sociology and Green Mountain Forum
HINESBURG COMMUNITY POTLUCK
Thursday, November 9, 6:00-8:00 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library, 69 Ballards Corner Road
Hinesburg, VT
Please join friends and neighbors in an informal setting to enjoy food and a talk.
Jen Berger, the Peace and Human Rights Organizer at the Peace and Justice Center in Burlington will present the film "Sir, No Sir" and will speak about on-going anti-war and social justice work in Chittenden County and Vermont.
Please Bring a Dish and a Beverage to Share!
Also: The December Potluck will be a holiday season celebration.
Please join us every month through next Spring for the Hinesburg Community Potlucks. This season will feature films and speakers on peace, the environment, corporate globalization and community sustainability.
This is not a meeting - it is a gathering of Concerned Citizens
For further information please contact:
Global Justice Ecology Project
P.O. Box 412
Hinesburg, VT 05461 U.S.
482.2689
info@globaljusticeecology.org
Directions to
the Library: Take Rte 116 south from So. Burlington After 6 or so
miles you will come to a stop light just before the village of
Hinesburg. This is the junction with Ballards Corner Road. Turn left
here and take an immediate left between the bank and the gas station.
The library is right next to the gas station. The potluck is in the
community room which is to the left of the library's main doors.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
6 - 17 November
Nairobi, Kenya
PAST September & October Events:
MAJOR INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES AND INDUSTRIAL TREE PLANTATIONS OCTOBER 10-13, 2006, CHARLESTON, SC
JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
Major actions are being planned to oppose this conference. Join the STOP GE Trees Campaign, Global Justice Ecology Project, Dogwood Alliance and ForestEthics in standing up against the social and environmental destruction caused by GE trees and industrial tree plantations:
Roadshow on Plantations and GE Trees September 17-22
Featuring speakers from Dogwood Alliance, the STOP GE Trees Campaign,
ForestEthics and Global Justice Ecology Project on the looming threat
to the forests and communities of the U.S. South, Chile and Brazil from
GE trees and industrial tree plantations and what you can do to stop it.
• Sunday, September 17 at 7pm roadshow kickoff in Asheville, NC
UNC-Ashveville, Highsmith Room 104, Student Union
• Tuesday, September 19 at 5pm event in Charlotte, NC
UNC-Charlotte, Fretwell Building room #124, downstairs
• Wednesday, September 20 at 7pm event in Savannah, GA
Coastal Georgia Center, room 111, 305 Fahm Street next to the Savannah visitors center
• Thursday, September 21 at 4:30 event in Conway, SC
Coastal Carolina University, Wall Building room 308
• Friday, September 22 at 6:30pm roadshow finale in Carrboro, NC
Open Eye Café, 101 South Greensboro St
Contact: STOP GE Trees Campaign: info@stopgetrees.org
ForestEthics: kim@forestethics.org
Dogwood Alliance: eva@dogwoodalliance.org
Tree Plantations Are Not
Forests
Public Forum on GE Trees and Industrial Tree Plantations
October 8-9, College of Charleston, SC
This forum will feature experts from across the U.S. and Chile
who will lead discussions on the social and environmental threats and
dangers of and growing resistance to plantations and GE trees,
especially in the Global South, with a focus on Chile and Brazil.
Contact: STOP GE Trees Campaign: info@stopgetrees.org
ForestEthics: kim@forestethics.org
Dogwood Alliance: eva@dogwoodalliance.org
Plan to stick around until the 14th for some fun actions surrounding the Industry Conference!
Charleston, SC
The industry conference “Forest Management with Fast Growing
Plantations” is being co-hosted by the International Union of Forest
Research Organizations, U.S. Forest Service, North Carolina State
University and ArborGen. ArborGen is joint research venture comprised
of International Paper, MeadWestvaco and New Zealand’s Rubicon and is
the world’s leader in GE trees research and development.
The development and expansion of non-native industrial tree plantations
has been so heavily subsidized by national governments--especially
Chile's government--that they are literally discriminating against
native and natural forests. In the process, these governments are also
displacing poverty stricken rural and indigenous communities,
destroying their water resources and contaminating their air with toxic
chemicals all for the sake of rich foreign markets in places like the
U.S., Europe and Asia.
Introducing genetically engineered (GE) trees into monoculture
plantations will inevitably and irreversibly destroy wildlife,
contaminate water and soils, worsen global warming and cause social,
cultural and health impacts on rural and forest dwelling indigenous and
non-indigenous communities.
Join us in STANDING UP for native forests, wildlife and indigenous communities!
Contact: STOP GE Trees Campaign: info@stopgetrees.org
ForestEthics: kim@forestethics.org
Dogwood Alliance: eva@dogwoodalliance.org
MORE OCTOBER EVENTS:
Hinesburg Community Potluck
October 19th, Thursday, 6:30-8:30 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Road, Hinesburg, VT
The 3rd Season Begins October 19th!
Please join friends and neighbors in an informal setting to enjoy food and a talk.
Robin Lloyd Returns...
Don't Miss October's Potluck - Burlington resident Robin Lloyd returns to join us for a discussion about the School of Americas (SOA) and her incarceration after her arrest last Fall for peacefully protesting the SOA in Georgia against the human rights abuses committed by their graduates. Last February Robin spoke to a packed house at the Hinesburg potluck prior to her going to jail. She served a 3 month sentence in Danbury, CT. Robin will relate her experiences in prison and speak of her ongoing commitment to shut down the SOA.
Date: Thursday, October 19, 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Carpenter-Carse Library, 69 Ballards Corner Road, Hinesburg
Please Bring a Dish and a Beverage to Share!
Also: the November Potluck (date and time TBA) will feature the documentary film, "Sir, No Sir!" and will be presented by Jen Berger from the Peace and Justice Center in Burlington.
Please join us every month through next Spring for the Hinesburg Community Potlucks. This season will feature films and speakers on peace, the environment, corporate globalization and community sustainability.
This is not a meeting - it is a gathering of Concerned Citizens
For further information please contact:
Global Justice Ecology Project
P.O. Box 412
Hinesburg, VT 05461 U.S.
+1.802.482.2689
info@globaljusticeecology.org
PAST AUGUST EVENTS:
Climate Action Camp
August 26 - September 4, 2006
England
The climate camp is an open process so you can still get involved in organising it.
“The future is not yet written, inaction is the tragedy.”
Climate
change is happening now and is set to get much worse. Governments and
corporations dream of growth without end, economy without limits. When
the answer to ecological crisis is nuclear power you know there’s a
problem. There is a growing grassroots movement that fundamentally
challenges the fossil fuel economy.The camp will be a place for this
movement to get together. It will be a place for new people, people who
have never been ‘political’ before but who want move beyond concern
into activity. It will be a place for experienced activists: old and
young, cynical and hopeful. We all need courage, the guts to step
beyond the comfort of our concern or the borders of our group. Climate
change casts a long shadow over the future. But we believe this time
can be an opportunity, a moment when people come together and say
'enough'.
August 26- Sept 4th - Book your holidays now!
PAST JULY EVENTS:
MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM 2006
Milwaukee, WI :: July 6-9, 2006
608.262.1420
GJEP Co-Director Orin Langelle will show "A Silent Forest: The Growing Threat, Genetically Engineered Trees" (UWM Cinema, Saturday 10:45am-12:15pm)
and will present a photographic powerpoint from the 4th World Water
Forum and the International Forum in Defence of Water held in Mexico
City this past March in Grassroots Struggle against Water Privatization: fight against corporate water bottling companies (Friday 1:45pm-3:15pm); with Arlene and Hiroshi Kanno (CCN), Donald Roy (MCWC) and Dave Dempsey (MN).
PRE-REGISTER
Information on costs and other logistics
TRACKS
Some
of the sessions have been organized into "tracks" to help build their
networks and communities over the course of the weekend:
* Anti-Racism
* Democracy
* Health Care
* Immigrant Rights
* Media
* Reproductive Rights
Each
track contains sessions, workshops, films and plenaries that can each
"stand alone," but the tracks have been designed as coherent,
chronological series so that participants will leave the forum equipped
to organize around each issue.
See all the tracks
For the whole program
Plus
CONCERTS
SPOKEN WORD AND SLAM POETRY
RETREATS & CAUCUSES
CHILDCARE & CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES
Childcare
will be provided for children between the ages of two and eleven during
all of the formal workshop sessions at NO CHARGE
5th annual Vermont Activist Skills Share
Friday July 21--Sunday July 23
Wheelock Mountain Farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom
3
days of workshops and dialogue focused on building effective
organizations, combating oppressions, and cultivating personal and
community sustainability!
(GJEP Co-Directors Anne Petermann and
Orin Langelle will participate in discussions concerning organizing,
the anti-war movement and fundraising.)
*Workshops
include: Theatre of the Oppressed, Food Preservation: Fermentation and
Canning, Grant Writing, Creating Caring Communities, Non-Violent
Communication, Carpentry...
*Discussions include: Collectives,
Popular Education, Building Social Movements in VT, Dealing with
Despair, Social Service and Social Change, Solar and Wind Power,
Confronting Racism, Mental Health in our Organizing...
*Please
check out the tentative schedule on line and we encourage you to check
it regularly as all times and workshops are subject to change.
Suggested
donation of $10-15 p/day (free for children), which includes 3 meals
p/day and helps cover costs of skill share. No one will be turned away
for lack of $.
For More information and directions to Wheelock Farm go to: http://www.vtactivistskillshare.org or 802-533-2296
Climate Justice Strategy Meeting
Minas Gerais, Brasil
24-26 July 2006
The
Centro de Agricultura Alternativa, The Comissão Pastoral da Terra, The
Sociedade da Terra Redonda of Rio Pardo, and The Alert Against the
Green Desert Network in coordination with the Durban Group for Climate
Justice are convening the 3rd International Strategy Meeting on Climate
Justice to be held in Minas Gerais, Brasil, 24-26 July 2006 together
with field visits in the region from 27-30 July.
Agenda topics
are expected to include: Local Struggles, Regional Updates, Building
Alternatives, What happened to the Market?, Grassroots Movement
Building, and Strategies for Working with other NGOs.
The
Strategy Meeting will begin in Montes Claros on 24 July at 10:00am and
continue through 26 July. Site visits will be arranged to Clean
Development Mechanism projects in Minas Gerais, Bahia and Espírito
Santo together with regional solidarity meetings with Green Desert
Network grassroots movements from the 27-30 July.
Please write to brasil06@carbontradewatch.org for more information.
For more information on The Green Desert Movement see: www.desertoverde.org. For more information on the Durban Group for Climate Justice and/or the Durban Declaration see: www.sinkswatch.org, www.carbontradewatch.org.
PAST MAY EVENTS:
Community Organizing One Day Workshop
Saturday, May 20th, 10:30am – 4:30pm
Location: Kellogg Hubbard Library, Hayes Room
Main Floor, 135 Main Street ~ Montpelier, VT
Free & Open to the Public, donations appreciated
Space is limited, so please reserve early!
RSVP by calling (802) 482-2689 or email us at info@globaljusticecology.org
Please bring bag lunch, beverages & snacks provided
Participants will learn & develop tools to:
Develop media campaigns
Facilitate group strategy sessions
Empower communities through outreach
Develop strategies for successful organizing initiatives
Build meaningful and effective movements for social change
Building A Sustainable Vermont Through Community Action
This workshop was made possible by the Vermont Community Foundation through its Sustainable Future Fund
"Corporate Globalization vs. Global Justice"
Photographic Exhibit by Orin Langelle
Opening May 25th, Thursday, 6-8:30pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Road, Hinesburg, VT
Please join us for a memorable night of photography that combines environmental advocacy with social change. This exhibit documents indigenous communities that are both suffering from and resisting economic, environmental and social injustices in Nicaragua's North Atlantic Autonomous Region; Chiapas, Mexico, and James Bay, Quebec. The exhibit also documents resistance to the economic policies that are exacerbating the conditions of injustice for indigenous peoples in the Americas. It includes protests in Cancún, Mexico against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in September, 2003; in Miami, Florida against the Free Trade Area of the Americas in November, 2003; in Washington, DC against the World Bank in April, 2000; and in Sacramento, California against a WTO-related meeting of agricultural ministers in June, 2003.
Orin Langelle is the co-Director of Global Justice Ecology Project in Hinesburg. He is also a professional photographer having received his training from the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, and a degree in Media Studies from Webster University.
Opens May 25th and will be on display through June 9th.
Beverages & Snacks will be provided.
For further information info@globaljusticeecology.org / 802-482-2689
PAST APRIL EVENTS:
1st Annual Local Foods & Sustainable Agriculture Conference:
Making the Global Connection
April 8, Noon-9 PM
Blue Hill Consolidated School
Blue Hill, Maine
Presented by GE Free Maine, the Independent Food Project, WERU and the Good Life Center
In conjunction with the Joint International GMO Opposition Day and National Nutrition Week, GE Free Maine, the Independent Food Project, WERU and the Good Life Center are proud to present the Local Foods & Sustainable Agriculture: Making the Global Connection Conference at the Blue Hill Consolidated School in Blue Hill an all day event starting at noon on April 8th.
Partial List of Speakers:
Dr. Doreen Stabinsky -- Professor of Global Environmental Politics and International Studies College of the Atlantic and Greenpeace International's Science Advisor on GMO's
Brian Tokar -- author of Redesigning Life and Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger
Zoe Weil -- Institute for Humane Education
Jen Schroth -- Carding Brook Farm, Brooklin
Heather Albert-Knopp -- Healthy Acadia, Hancock County Farm to School Project and Jane Freeman -- Healthy Peninsula Project
Jim Amaral -- Borealis Breads
Leslie Cummins -- Five Star Nursery
Jim Cook -- Crown O' Maine Organic Cooperative
Linda McKee -- farmer and former chair of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee in the Maine Legislature
Logan Perkins, Jacob Mentlik, and Maia Campoamor -- Winter Cache Project
Jane McCloskey -- East Penobscot Bay Environmental Alliance
Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle -- Stop GE Trees Campaign and the Global Justice Ecology Project
Noli Hoye -- Genetic Engineering Action Network, GMO Free Hawaii.
. . . . .More to be announced!
Speakers joining us via video conferencing include:
Dr. Vandana Shiva -- Author of Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
Percy Schmeiser -- Canadian Farmer Sued by Monsanto
Dr. Ignacio Chapela -- UC Berkley Researcher
Craig Winters -- The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Food
Dr. Arpad Pusztaï -- Scientist and Researcher, UK
Anuradha Mittal -- Oakland Institute, Food First
José Bové -- Farmer Activist and author.
Carmelo Ruiz Marrero -- Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety
Dr. Michael Hansen -- Research Associate with the Consumer Policy Institute
Jeffrey Smith -- Author of Seeds of Deception
. . . . a special guest to be announced from Mexico.
. . . . .More to be announced!
Registration is $5 to $50 sliding scale donation. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Folks are invited to stop in any time during the day or evening.
Please visit http://www.gefreemaine.org for links to register for the event and download a poster.
STOP THE MILITARY FROM RECRUITING
Counter-recruitment Action Alert
Saturday, April 8th 10am to noon
Williston/Taft Corners recruitment station
setup begins at 9am
Sponsored by Burlington Says No to War
For more information or to sponsor call 802-324-1359
Plantations, Indigenous Rights, and Genetically Engineered Trees!
THURSDAY, April 13th, 2006
School of Community and Public Affairs Concordia
2149 MacKay Street. [metro Guy-Concordia]
Montreal, Quebec
Doors 6:30 pm
Free admission, donations appreciated.
CKUT's Community News Collective presents a film screening and presentation about the threat of Genetically Engineered Trees on nature and communities.
Featuring the film 'A Silent Forest: The Growing Threat, Genetically Engineered Trees' narrated by Dr. David Suzuki. This video discusses threats posed by genetically engineered trees to our environment and to human health. They have the potential to impact wildlife as well as rural and indigenous communities that depend on intact forests for their food, shelter, water, livelihood and cultural practices.
Also, a presentation with environmental justice activists Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann from the Global Justice Ecology Project. They will speak about the STOP GE Trees Campaign and about their solidarity work with the Mapuche people and indigenous groups in Brazil.
This event is endorsed & supported by the following groups & organizations:
Sierra Youth Coalition * Sustainable Concordia * Urban Ecology Centre.
Hinesburg Community Potluck
April 19th, Wednesday, 6-8:30 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Road, Hinesburg, VT
Concerned about the state of the world, the nation and our community?
Join friends and neighbors in an informal setting with guest speaker Jeanne Fossani
Please Bring a Dish & Beverage to Share!
Don’t Miss April’s Film: ‘Birdsong & Coffee: A Wake Up Call’
Coffee is the second most-traded commodity on earth next to oil. . . .
The documentary explores the coffee crisis and its devastating effects on migratory songbirds, rainforest ecosystems, and 25 million coffee growers worldwide. Discuss how we as coffee consumers can address the environmental & fair-trade aspects of this crisis.
Jeanne Fossani served as subject-matter expert and field coordinator for the film. She works as a consultant at the intersection of ecology, economics, and human community with a special expertise in extending song-bird habitat in the coffee-producing regions of Latin America.
For further information please contact: Global Justice Ecology Project, 802-482-2689
People's Health Inspection of the IMF and World Bank
April 21, Noon
IMF Headquarters
19th and H Sts NW
Washington, DC
Cosponsored by 50 Years Is Enough Network, Africa Action, Jubilee USA Network, Mobilization for Global Justice, Stop HIV/AIDS in India Initiative
Join health inspectors from the People's Department of Health as they present the IMF and World Bank with an order to close. Citing numerous serious violations - including the promotion of policies such as health care privatization, budget caps, and foreign debt repayment - that have devastated the quality, availability, and accessibility of health care in impoverished countries around the world, health department inspectors have declared the IMF and World Bank a public health hazard.
Contact: Hope Chu, 50 Years Is Enough Network: +1 202 463 2265/+1 303 667 6613
Morrigan Phillips, Mobilization for Global Justice: +1 202 258 1822
Nicaragua Network National Leadershp Meeting
April 21-23, 2006
Washington Seminar Center
204 Fourth St., SE
Washington, DC
Featured Nicaraguan speaker is Elvin Castellon, an environmentalist and director of FEDICAMP. FEDICAMP confronts the serious issue that many Nicaraguan rivers are drying up, leaving many communities desperate for potable water. Castillon speaks on the 22nd between 1:45 and 3:45 pm.
Orin Langelle will present the video "A Silent Forest: The Growing Threat, Genetically Engineered Trees" on Sunday the 23rd between 1 and 2 pm.
On Friday evening Langelle also will present a photographic powerpoint essay on last month's international water meetings in Mexico City. (TENTATIVE)
For further info, please call Nica Net 202-544-9355
Major Mobilization
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2006
NEW YORK CITY
A war based on lies
Spying, corruption and attacks on civil liberties
Katrina survivors abandoned by government
MARCH FOR PEACE, JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY
End the war in Iraq -
Bring all our troops home now!
The times are urgent and we must act.
Climate Crisis Coalition National Strategy Meeting
April 30th, 2006 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
1199/SEIU
310 W. 43rd St.
New York, NY
Building the National Movement to Stop Global Warming
Unchecked, global warming will cause more human suffering and destroy more natural ecosystems than anything we‚ve ever seen before. Climate stabilization demands a powerful social movement to overcome political and corporate inertia and catalyze the clean energy revolution we need in order to avoid unimaginable change to human and natural systems.
A day of panel discussions, workshops and brainstorming. Some of the pioneers of the movement will lead discussions on ways to mobilize your community and provide insight on how to take on the tougher issues, such as nuclear power and carbon taxes.
Join Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network; Ibrahim Abdil-Mu‚id Ramey, Fellowship of Reconciliation; Kim Teplitsky, Energy Action; Mike Tidwell, Chesapeake Climate Action Network; Peggy Shepard, WEACT; Tom Kelley, KyotoUSA (Mayor‚s Climate Agreement); Dave Hamilton, Sierra Club; Ted Glick, Climate Crisis Coalition; Josh Tulkin, Chesapeake Climate Action Network; Tom Stokes, Climate Crisis Coalition; Adrienne Maree Brown, League of Young Voters; Susan Heitker, Oil Change International; Cecil D. Corbin-Mark, WEACT; Fr. Paul Mayer, Climate Crisis Coalition; Bracken Hendricks, Apollo Alliance; Michael Dorsey, Durban Group; Charles Komanoff, Komanoff Energy Associates; Ross Gelbspan, author of The Heat is On and many more!
PAST MARCH
EVENTS:
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
13 - 17 March 2006
Curitiba, Brazil
Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Hinesburg Community Potluck
Wednesday, March 15 6-8:30 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library; 69 Ballards Corner Road, Hinesburg
Concerned about the state of the World and Our Community? Please join friends and neighbors in an informal setting to enjoy food, talk and a movie!
Bring a Dish and a Beverage to Share!
March's Movie: 'The Fourth World War,' an inspirational movie that captures the spirit of resistance through the voices and images of the men and women from the front lines of global struggles in Mexico, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, New York and Iraq. It is the untold human story of these people who oppose being annihilated in the current global conflict.
for more info Kelly Stoddard kellys@globaljusticeecology.org Community Organizer/ Global Justice Ecology Project +1.802.482.2689 ph/fax
International Forum in the Defense of Water
March 15-19
Mexico City, Mexico
As part of the Rallies in the Defense of Water, COMDA, together with international organizations, is organizing the International Forum in the Defense of Water
From the 17th to the 19th of March in the Sindicato de Telefonistas de la República Mexicana (Villalongín 50, Col. Cuauhtémoc). Free admission.
On the 15th as a pre-forum event the Symposium on Best Practice in Public Water Delivery & the potential of Public-Public-Partnerships will take place organized by the Transnational Institute, Corporate Europe Observatory and COMDA, among others. This will take place in the Auditorio No.3 de la Unidad de Congresos del Centro Médico (Av. Cuauhtemoc No.330 Col. Doctores)
4th WORLD WATER FORUM
March 16-22, 2006
Mexico City, Mexico
Call Center (7:00 am to 11:00 pm, GMT-6:00) 01 800 9675393 (only from Mexico)
+52 55 54 88 04 84 (international) callcenter@vilsa.com.mx
March 18
Anti-War Rally
Rutland, VT
Convention on Biological Diversity
20 - 31 March 2006
Curitiba, Brazil
Eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
PAST FEBRUARY EVENTS:
VERMONT SAYS NO TO WAR
MARCH & RALLY
AT THE STATEHOUSE
FEBRUARY 11, 2006
v 1pm - Gather at the Montpelier City Hall
v 1:30pm - March to the State House
v 2pm - Rally at the State House
Bring All of the Troops Home Now
Take Care of Them When They Return
Speakers to Include
Pablo Paredes: GI Resister
Andrew Sapp: Iraq Veterans Against the War
Nancy Brown: VT MFSO
Brian Walsh: NEA
UVM Students Against War
Mark Hage: Vermonters for a Just Peace
Sue Lucus: UNAP / Copley nurse
Robin Lloyd: Women's Int'l League for Peace & Freedom
Paul Fleckenstein: VT Says No to War
Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans for Peace
HINESBURG COMMUNITY POTLUCK
Thursday, February 23rd,
6-8:30 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Road
Hinesburg, VT
Please join friends and neighbors in an informal setting to enjoy food, talk and
a movie!
Don't Miss February's Potluck - Burlington resident Robin Lloyd will join us for
a discussion about the School of Americas (SOA) and her arrest last Fall for peacefully
protesting the SOA in Georgia against the human rights abuses committed by their
graduates. She will begin serving a 3 month sentence in March.
Movie: School of Americas Documentary
Bring a Dish and a Beverage to Share
This is not a meeting - it is a gathering of Concerned Citizens
for more info contact Kelly Stoddard
kellys@globaljusticeecology.org
or call (802) 482-2689
PAST
JANUARY EVENTS:
Vermont Says No to War Press Conference
January 2, 2006
10:00 PM
Capitol Plaza Hotel
Montpelier, VT
Bring
all the Troops Home Now!
And
Take Care of Them When They Get Here
Hinesburg Community Potluck
Thursday, January 26th, 6-8pm
Carpenter-Carse Library; 69 Ballards Corner
Road, Hinesburg
A gathering of friends and neighbors in an informal setting to enjoy food,
talk and a movie!
Please Bring a Dish & Beverage to Share
January's Movie:
Howard Zinn: You
Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train
The film documents the life and times of the
historian, activist and author of the best selling classic A People's History
of the United States - an eye opening history of the US from the perspective of
the disenfranchised. Featuring rare archival materials, interviews with Howard
Zinn as well as colleagues and friends including Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman,
Tom Hayden and Alice Walker. The film captures the essence of this activist and
thinker who has been a catalyst for progressive change for more than 60 years;
informing and inspiring generations of those who struggle for social and economic
justice with hope.
"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly
romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of
cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness... And if we do
act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future.
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think
human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself
a marvelous victory." - Howard Zinn
for more info Kelly Stoddard kellys@globaljusticeecology.org
Community Organizer/ Global Justice Ecology Project +1.802.482.2689 ph/fax
PAST DECEMBER EVENTS
United Nations
Climate Change Conference
28 November to 9 December
Montreal, Canada
UNFCCC COP 11
Follow Climate Justice Activists:
CLIMATE JUSTICE CONVERGENCE
CENTRE: MONTREAL
2070 Rue Clark (near Sherbrooke
and St.Laurent)
4 Blocks Northwest of
the Palais de Congres
27 th November -8 th December
2005
CLIMATE, OIL & RESISTANCE
Hear the voices of those directly affected by climate change, the oil and coal
industry and carbon trading.
The Climate Justice Convergence Centre is a space where the voices of those struggling
against oil and coal extraction, refineries, pollution 'offset' projects, a destabilized
climate, oil wars and all the other effects of fossil fuel dependence can be heard.
Photo-exhibitions, films, |
