2005 Past Events
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Spring Meetings of the World Bank and IMF
April 15-17th, 2005 Mobilization
Washington, DC
A Better World Is Not Just Possible, But is Under Construction!
The April 16, 2005 meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will represent the five year anniversary of the first major demonstrations against these institutions in the United States.
The World Bank claims to combat world poverty. The IMF claims to promote global economic stability. For the 60 years of their existence, they have done neither. The World Bank has poured billions into dams, mining, and other projects that have caused immense social and environmental destruction, displacing poor, often indigenous, people from their lands and livelihoods, and destroying fragile ecosystems.
Together, the IMF and World Bank have trapped poor countries in a cycle of unpayable debt. To extract debt repayment from them, they have imposed conditions such as budget caps, user fees for health care, and privatization of water. These policies have impoverished billions. They have also corroded self-determination and corrupted political systems, making governments accountable to foreign creditors rather than their own people.
Instead of building the world that they have promised, the World Bank and IMF have plunged it into a global crisis that is now more urgent than ever.
Over the 60 years of their existence, the IMF and World Bank have shown themselves to be utterly arrogant institutions which completely ignore people's voices worldwide and systematically enrich multinational corporate interests at the expense of nature and of the rest of humanity
Facing the devastating effects of World Bank and IMF Structural Adjustment Policies, people throughout the Global South are working everyday to take back their right rights to water, health, land, a clean environment, and self-determination. Five years after thousands of activists came to Washington DC in the first mass show in the U.S. of dissent and solidarity with the global struggle against the World Bank and IMF, the Mobilization for Global Justice is calling for people to come to Washington DC April 15-17th, 2005 to protest the institutions during their semi-annual spring meetings and to celebrate the other, more just world that is under construction due to the daily resistance of millions of people worldwide!
Contact the Mobilization for Global Justice or mgj@riseup.net
Thurday, April 21, 6-9 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Rd
Hinesburg, VT
HINESBURG COMMUNITY MONTHLY SOCIAL POTLUCK
Thursday, April 21 is the birthday of noted conservationist John Muir and is also the day before Earth Day. If you are concerned about the state of the world, the nation and our community, please join friends and neighbors in an informal setting to enjoy food, talk and a movie.
April's movie "A Silent Forest: The Growing Threat of Genetically Engineered Trees,” is narrated by world-renowned scientist Dr. David Suzuki. Nicknamed "Frankentrees," genetically engineered trees could be the greatest threat to forests and biodiversity in our times. The London Daily Telegraph stated, "Terminator trees, genetically engineered never to flower, could ensure a silent spring in the forests of the future. Such trees will grow faster than before, but will be devoid of the bees, butterflies, birds, and squirrels which depend on pollen, seed and nectar." (This is one of the first showings of the video, which is produced by Hinesburg's Global Justice Ecology Project and California's Earthlinks, Raindancer Films and Three Americas.)
After the potluck, weather permitting, we are planning a celebration for the Earth by planting a ceremonial tree nearby (not genetically engineered!).
This is the fourth Hinesburg Community Social Potluck held this year.
This is not a meeting--it’s a gathering of concerned citizens.
For further information contact info@globaljusticeecology.org
Friday, April 22, 7 pm
North Congregational Church
St. Johnsbury, VT
KYOTO AGREEMENT AND OTHER GLOBAL ISSUES
In this Earth Day program, Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project will speak from their extensive experience as internationally known environmental and political activists.
For further information contact info@globaljusticeecology.org
Will Miller Memorial Service
Sunday, April 24--2pm
Unitarian Universalist Church
Burlington, VT
For further information contact info@globaljusticeecology.org
Thursday April 28, 6-8pm
WATERMAN MEMORIAL LOUNGE
University of Vermont (corner of College and So. Prospect)
Burlington, VT
Women in Activism: Common Threads Around the Globe
free and open to the public
Join four activist women representing struggles for justice around the globe for a discussion about what it means to be women involved in activism in the US and around the world.
Njoki Njeroge Njehu, Executive Director, 50 Years is Enough US Network for Economic Justice
Njoki is a Kenyan national who worked with women's groups and the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya for over a decade. She grew up learning from the work of Kenyan women, especially her mother, Lilian Njehû, a grassroots and community activist. Before joining the 50 Years Is Enough Network she worked at Greenpeace International for three years focusing on the international toxic trade and on biodiversity and oceans issues. She joined the 50 Years Is Enough Network in July 1996 and was named director in October 1998. She presents on economic justice issues all over the world.
She serves on the board of the Quixote Center, Jobs with Justice and Global Justice Ecology Project. She is a founding member of the International Coordinating Council of the World Social Forum and the Africa Social Forum.
Devorah Brous, Founder and Director, BUSTAN
An American-Israeli, Devorah has spent the past 12 years catalyzing buiding and restorative development projects in Israel and occupied Palestine to promote social and environmental justice. Devorah holds masters degrees in Israel Studies and Peace/Conflict Studies, with a concentration in conflict resolution. Her thesis involved actively researching Israeli-Palestinian land claims, as well as the political and strategic impact of environmental policy in the region.
BUSTAN is a partnership of Jewish and Arab eco-builders, architects, academics, and farmers promoting social and environmental justice and fair allocation of resources in Israel/Palestine. It cultivates sustainable models to effect change by combining advocacy and in-depth political analysis with strategic action and utilizes the principles of permaculture and non-violent direct action across ethnic divides.
Lesley Adams, Outreach Coordinator, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center
Lesley directs the outreach programs of the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center (KS Wild). KS Wild works to protect and restore the outstanding biological diversity of the Klamath-Siskiyou and south Cascadian Ecoregions of southwest Oregon and northwest California. Through its campaign work, KS Wild strives to protect wild areas and vital biological diversity.
Lesley is also a Board member of the Ashland-based Lomakatsi Restoration Project and the Vermont-based Global Justice Ecology Project.
Anne Petermann, Co-Director, Global Justice Ecology Project
Anne Petermann co-founded Native Forest Network's Eastern North American Resource Center in 1993, coordinating it until 2003.
She is currently the co-director of Global Justice Ecology Project. She also coordinates the organization's Genetically Engineered Trees Program. She co-wrote and edited a 24 page report on GE trees in July, 2001. She also facilitates an international alliance of organizations working to ban the genetic engineering of trees.
In 2004 she presented the GE trees issue at the United Nations Forum on Forests in Geneva, Switzerland and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In October, 2004 she presented at international meetings on Carbon Trade, Industrial Tree Plantations and GE Trees in Durban, South Africa, and is a founding member of The Durban Group.
In 2000, she won the Wild Nature Award for Environmental Activist of the Year.
For further information contact info@globaljusticeecology.org
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Stop GE Trees Campaign Strategy Session
March 1st - 2nd
Eugene, Oregon
(Orin Langelle is the interim coordinator of the Campaign which consists of the Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, Dogwood Alliance, Polaris Institute, WildLaw, Institute for Social Ecology Biotechnology Project, ForestEthics, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Forest Stewards Guild, Northwest Resistance Against Genetic Engineering and GE Free Maine.)
The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
Thursday, March 3rd - Sunday, March 6th, 2005
University of Oregon School of Law
Eugene, Oregon
The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) is the premier annual gathering for environmentalists worldwide, and is distinguished as the oldest and largest of its kind.
Global Justice Ecology Project will be involved in these workshops:
Friday, March 4 9 am - 10:15 am
Genetically Engineered Trees
(Room--Law 282)
2005 will be the make or break year for the campaign to stop genetically engineered trees. China has admitted to planting GE trees in commercial plantations - the first country to do so. More plans are being developed. Get involved in the campaign to stop these deadly franken-trees.
Karen Ganey, Northwest Forest Activist
Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project
Dr. Neil Carmen, Sierra Club
Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project
Friday, March 4 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Global Warming, the World Bank, and Genetically Engineered Trees
(Room--Law 282)
The United Nations and World Bank promote genetically engineered trees as a "solution" to global warming, and ignore the real impacts these trees will have on forests and communities, and how they may worsen global warming.
Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project
Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project
(Other Speakers To Be Announced)
Saturday, March 5 4 pm 5:15 pm
War, Corporate Globalization and the Environment
(Room Ben Linder EMU)
This panel will discuss how social movements can increase their effectiveness by linking together to create a movement for change that addresses the roots of our issues.
Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project
Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project
Karen Pickett, Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment
Leslie Adams, Forest Defense Activist
PLUS the new documentary video (tentative)--
A Silent Forest:
The Growing Threat of Genetically Engineered Trees
Narrated by Dr. David Suzuki
HINESBURG COMMUNITY MONTHLY SOCIAL POTLUCK
Monday, March 21, 5-8 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Rd
Hinesburg, VT
CONCERNED ABOUT THE STATE OF THE WORLD, THE NATION AND OUR COMMUNITY?
Get together with neighbors in an informal setting to enjoy food, talk and a movie. This month's video is "An Evening with Arundhati Roy." Arundhati Roy is an author of the Booker Prize novel The God of Small Things, Power Politics, plus The Cost of Living, The Checkbook & the Cruise Missile, and The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire.
This is not a meeting--it's a gathering of concerned citizens.
For further information contact info@globaljusticeecology.org
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United
for Peace and Justice
2nd National Assembly
February 19-21, 2005 St. Louis, MO
On the weekend of February 19 - 21, 2005 UFPJ convenes in the nation's heartland at the 2nd National Assembly of United for Peace and Justice. Delegates from the almost 1,000 member groups of UFPJ will gather in St. Louis, Missouri to set a course for the next eighteen months.
HINESBURG COMMUNITY MONTHLY SOCIAL POTLUCK
Wednesday, February 23, 5-8 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Rd
Hinesburg, VT
CONCERNED ABOUT THE STATE OF THE WORLD, THE NATION AND OUR COMMUNITY?
Get together with neighbors in an informal setting to enjoy food, talk and a movie. The movie is Suzuki Speaks with Dr. David Suzuki - Fast paced and cements the idea that we as people are the environment rather than the environment being some commodity up for sale!
This is not a meeting--it's a gathering of concerned citizens.
For further information contact info@globaljusticeecology.org
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A Call for Anti-War Actions in Washington, DC, January 20, 2005
Find out more information about actions at http://www.counter-inaugural.org or http://www.dawndc.net