Publications
 The following book was edited in part by Global Justice Ecology Project board member, Dr. Aziz Choudry. Learning from the Ground Up Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production Edited by Aziz Choudry and Dip Kapoor The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked. This book contends that some of the most radical critiques and understandings about dominant ideologies and power structures, and visions of social change, have emerged from those spaces. Written by authors working closely with diverse social movements, NGOs, and popular mobilizations in the Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, ... 8/17/2010 10:59 am Read More |
 Jeff Conant, Global Justice Ecoloy Project's new Media Coordinator, is a writer, educator, and social justice activist with a focus on international development and ecology. As the coordinator and lead author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008), he spent most of a decade collaborating with grassroots development initiatives in many countries to develop popular education materials addressed to the needs of under-resourced communities. Conant represented Global Justice Ecology Project as our Grassroots Media Liaison in Cochabamba, Bolivia this April during the People’s Global Summit on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. Jeff helped us with ... 8/17/2010 11:13 am Read More |
 By Brian Tokar From Communalism Press in Porsgrunn, Norway (cover photo by Global Justice Ecology Project’s Orin Langelle taken in Copenhagen at the 2009 UN Climate Talks) Available now from Amazon.com To be distributed by AK Press in the US and UK. List Price: $14.95. Bulk discounts are available via http://www.communalism.net. The outlook of Climate Justice offers a renewed grassroots response to the climate crisis. This emerging movement is rooted in land-based and urban communities around the world that are already experiencing the impacts of global climate disruptions. Climate Justice highlights the social justice and human rights dimensions of the crisis, while challenging corporate-driven false solutions, and using creative direct action to press for real, systemic changes. Toward Climate Justice explains the ... 8/19/2010 2:56 pm Read More |
| Fighting FTAs, Educating for Action: The Challenges of Building Resistance to Bilateral Free Trade Agreements The following article was written by Global Justice Ecology Project board member, Dr. Aziz Choudry. Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences JAPSS VOL 2, SPECIAL ISSUENO. 1, AUGUST 2010 Globalization, Development and Education in Africa and Asia/Pacific: Critical Perspectives Guest Editor: Dr. Dip Kapoor, University of Alberta, Canadahttp://www.japss.org/japssaugust2010.html Click here to download the PDF ... 8/16/2010 1:57 pm Read More |
| Wood-based Bioenergy: The Green Lie This new report from Global Justice Ecology Project, Global Forest Coalition and BiofuelWatch shows that increased support for the burning of wood to produce energy (bioenergy) is triggering increased logging and expansion of industrial tree plantations in the U.S., Ghana, the Congo, Brazil and West Papua. U.S. plans for large-scale expansion of bioenergy and the U.S. Climate Bill promotion of biochar [3], combined with the recent USDA approval of a large-scale release of GE trees in the U.S. South, threaten to devastate forests and communities. Click the link below to read more. Wood-based Bioenergy: The Green Lie.pdf ... 6/21/2010 11:07 am Read More |
| GJEP on What Really Happened in Copenhagen Global Justice Ecology Project attended the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in December along with allies from all around the world. Global Justice Ecology Project Executive Director Anne Petermann and Co-Director/Strategist Orin Langelle report in this month's issue of Z Magazine (linked below) what happened in Copenhagen and what it means for the future of climate change activism in the U.S. and worldwide. Also included is a link to a 28 minute radio interview of ... 2/17/2010 3:12 am Read More |
| Annual Report 2008 Download our 2008 Annual Report for a description of this past year's endeavours and accomplishments. If you would like us to mail you the printed version of the report, simply contact us with your name and address. 2008 Annual Report.pdf ... 1/18/2010 1:31 pm Read More |
 19th January 2010 While REDD proponents and critics often provide lists of conditions that should be met before REDD can go ahead, they rarely conclude that REDD should not go ahead if these conditions are not met. As Simone Lovera explains in "REDD Realities" many of the conditions are ... 1/22/2010 12:58 pm Read More |
 Download Global Justice Ecology Project's 8 page booklet "Climate Change: Crisis and Challenge" with the PDF below: GJEP climate change statement.pdf ... 7/22/2009 4:41 am Read More |
| GE Trees, Cellulosic Biofuels & Destruction of Forest Biodiversity To download a PDF of the Global Justice Ecology Project article on the dangers of genetically engineered trees and cellulosic agrofuels (unsustainably produced biofuels) click the icon below: GE Trees= Cell Eth-comp.pdf ... 7/22/2009 4:36 am Read More |
| Changing the Flow: Water Movements in Latin America This 56 page booklet was produced by Food and Water Watch, Red Vida, Transnational Institute, The RPR Network and Other Worlds. (Cover photo: Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project)It was distributed at the 5th World Water Forum held in Istanbul,Turkey 16-22 March 2009. Water Rights activists blasted the World Water Forum as a "Corporate Trade Show to Promote Privatization."The booklet is comprised of individual and collective stories throughout Latin America. The entire booklet can be downloaded below: ChangingTheFlow-3.pdf ... 4/21/2009 8:50 am Read More |
 This booklet, published by Rising Tide North America gives analysis and critique on the false solutions to climate change being promoted. RT_Booklet.pdf ... 4/21/2009 8:57 am Read More |
 UN Climate ConventionBy Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle(from the February edition of Z Magazine)The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) once again failed to take concrete steps to avert the ever-worsening climate crisis at its 14th Conference of the Parties (COP-14), held December 1-12 in Poznan, Poland. This failure has been widely denounced by social movements, climate justice groups, and indigenous peoples organizations that have already begun to organize a mass mobilization around the next Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, scheduled for December 2009.The day before the Poznan meetings began, activists ... 8/13/2009 4:33 am Read More |
 One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for IndustryBiodiversity loses at UN convention on biodiversityBy Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle(from the July 2008 edition of Z Magazine)The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the escalating biodiversity crisis, which is manifesting in the extinctions of hundreds of species every day and which threatens the existence of entire races of people.The CBD was thought to be one of the more approachable ... 8/13/2009 4:34 am Read More |
 Below is Global Justice Ecology Project's fiscal year 2007 Annual Report. 2007AnnualReportWeb.pdf ... 3/26/2009 2:57 pm Read More |
 The True Cost of Agrofuels: Food, Forests and the Climate. The report, co-produced by Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition (GFC), details the impacts of the large-scale production of agrofuels on forests and indigenous peoples around the world. agrofuels_report5:16comp.pdf ... 3/26/2009 3:11 am Read More |
 Global Justice Ecology Project board member Aziz Choudry published this article on Toward Freedom on 20 August, 2008.To read the article, please click here. ... 3/26/2009 3:16 am Read More |
 A leaflet on the problems with agrofuels (unsustainable biofuels). GJEP-biofuels-comp.pdf ... 3/26/2009 3:07 am Read More |
 Below please find English, Spanish and French versions of the analysis document produced jointly by organizations involved in the effort to stop the release of genetically engineered trees through the UN Biodiversity Convention in Bonn, Germany 19-30 May 2008. Joint_analysis_GET_Bonn.pdf CBD joint analysis spanish.pdf CBD joint letter french_bonn.pdf ... 3/26/2009 2:39 pm Read More |
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