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
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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, speakers and workshops will examine issues ranging from
energy use to tree plantations to the World Bank, the G8, carbon trading, nuclear
power and genetic engineering.
Organizers: The Durban Group for Climate Justice, Sierra Youth, Energy Action,
Indigenous Environment Network, Environmental Justice Climate Change Initiative,
FERN, Transnational Institute, Global Justice Ecology Project, The Corner House,
Sustainable Energy & Economy Network/ Institute for Policy Studies, Chesapeake
Climate Action Network
14-15 November
Vermont
STOP GE Trees Campaign
Steering Committe Mtng
HINESBURG COMMUNITY SOLSTICE-HOLIDAY
PARTY POTLUCK
Monday, December 19 6
- 8 PM
Carpenter-Carse Library
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 while we celebrate the Holiday Season and the Solstice with its return
of lengthening days!
December's movie is "Manufacturing Consent -- Noam Chomsky and the Media" This
month's potluck is at the Carpenter-Carse Library, 69 Ballards Corner Rd. in Hinesburg
between 6 and 8 PM.
Please bring a holiday-inspired dish and/or beverage to share. This is not a meeting;
it's a gathering of concerned citizens!
"Manufacturing Consent" is an immensely accomplished, entertaining examination
of the man and his ideas. An invigorating introduction to one of the least soporific
of American minds. Winner of fifteen international awards.
Watch out for this film. It can make you think.
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible. "Manufacturing Consent" explores
the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political
activist, Noam Chomsky. Through a dynamic collage of biography, archival gems,
imaginative graphics and outrageous illustrations...highlights Chomsky' probing
analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily
news. Features appearances by Bill Moyers and Peter Jennings, William F. Buckley,
Jr., Tom Wolfe and Michel Foucault.
For further information please phone Global Justice Ecology Project at 482.2689
or email info@globaljusticeecology.org.
PAST NOVEMBER EVENTS
International Meeting on Plantations/GE Trees
November
21-25
Vitoria, Espirito Santo (Brazil)
Organized by the World Rainforest Movement
together with the Global Justice Ecology Project and FASE – Espirito Santo (Federation
of Social and Educational Assistance Bodies).
This meeting will be an opportunity for in depth discussions about the
socioeconomic and environmental impacts of large scale tree plantations as well
as on the threats that genetically modified tree plantations pose to forests and
peoples. By organizing the meeting we aim at discussing and elaborating common
strategies for action against the spread of large scale tree plantations and genetically
modified trees.
During the last day of the meeting, Tuesday 25th, a field trip is being organized
to visit communities affected by plantations as well to have a full view of Aracruz’s
huge pulp mill.
info@globaljusticeecology.org
or call (802) 482-2689
PAST OCTOBER EVENTS
50 Years Is Enough Network Speaking Tour
in Vermont October 4th and 5th
Water privatization. Environmental destruction. Corporate greed.
Debt. Low-paying jobs. Unaffordable healthcare. Unsafe food. Forced displacement.
Economic insecurity.
These are challenges we all face.
Meet people from around the world who are struggling against World Bank, the IMF,
U.S. military intervention and the global system that creates these conditions,
that places corporate rights over human rights. Hear about their struggles and
share your strategies.
Speaking in Vermont:
•Victor Geronimo: COMPA/Coordination of Popular, Union, and Drivers Organizations--Dominican
Republic
•Thomas Kocherry: National Fishworkers' Forum, National Alliance of Peoples Movements,
National Centre for Labour of India
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4TH AT
7:00 PM
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT,
BURLINGTON - FLEMING MUSEUM ROOM 101
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5TH
AT 7:00 PM
UNITARIAN CHURCH, 130
MAIN STREET, MONTPELIER
and
Thomas Kocherry speaks:
Thursday, October 6th,
at 1:00 PM
Johnson State College,
Bentley Hall, Room 207
Johnson, VT
The 50 Years Is Enough Network, in cooperation with United for Peace and Justice,
a national anti-war coalition, is bringing speakers from the Global South to universities,
community groups, labor unions, women's organizations, and other venues in the
U.S.
Sponsored in Vermont by Peace & Justice Center, Vermont Livable Wage Campaign,
Vermont Workers' Center, International Socialist Organization, School of Americas
Watch Vermont, United Electrical Workers - District 2, Global Justice Ecology
Project, Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series (pending), Vermont Says NO
to War Committee.
These speakers will discuss the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF),
and the links between economic and military violence ˆ as exemplified by the recent
appointment of Paul Wolfowitz, a key architect of the invasion and occupation
of Iraq, to the presidency of the World Bank. They will talk the current model
of globalization and what that means for people in their community and what they're
doing to resist that model.
Global Justice Ecology Project with GE
Free Maine will present the new documentary video
A Silent Forest: The Growing Threat, Genetically Engineered Trees
narrated by Dr. David Suzuki. Read more
on this tour with the release "BAN DEMANDED ON RELEASE OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED
TREES INTO THE ENVIRONMENT--Tour and Film to Highlight the Threats GE Trees Pose
to Maine's Forests, Land Owners, and Orchardists." Global Justice Ecology Project's
co-directors, Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle, will speak after the film showings:
•October 10; Monday; New School; Kennebunkport, Route 1; 7pm; For More info contact
GE Free Maine at (207)244-0908 or via email at info@gefreemaine.org
•October 11; Tuesday; Bates College, Lewiston; 430 at Pettengil, room G65 (its
also known as Keck Classroom) 4pm; For More info contact GE Free Maine at (207)244-0908
or via email at info@gefreemaine.org
•October 11; Tuesday; Peoples Free Space, 144 Cumberland Ave, Portland; 7pm; For
More info contact GE Free Maine at (207)244-0908 or via email at info@gefreemaine.org
•October 12; Wednesday; Morris Farms, Wiscasset; 6pm; For More info contact GE
Free Maine at (207)244-0908 or via email at info@gefreemaine.org
•October 13; Thursday; Unity College, Unity; 1pm. For More info contact GE Free
Maine at(207)244-0908 or via email at jhughes@unity.edu or info@gefreemaine.org
•October 13; Thursday; College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor; in the Great Hall
of Turrets; 7pm ; For More info contact GE Free Maine at (207)244-0908 or via
email at info@gefreemaine.org
•October 14; Friday; University of Maine at Orono; Bangor Lounge in the Memorial
Union from 2:00 - 3:30pm; The event is part of a larger, weekend long event, called
Art, Music, & Ecopeace —Convergence 2005, sponsored by ESTIA, UMaine’s Peace Studies
Progam, and various student groups on campus. For more information contact Bill
William_Giordano@ umit.maine.edu.
•October 14; Friday; Blue Hill Town Hall; 7pm; For More info contact GE Free Maine
at (207)244-0908 or via email at info@gefreemaine.org
•October 15; Saturday; University of Maine at Farmington; Roberts Learning Center
Building Room 023; 1 pm; More info contact GE Free Maine at (207)244-0908 or via
email at info@gefreemaine.org
PAST SEPTEMBER EVENTS
HINESBURG (VT) COMMUNITY
MONTHLY SOCIAL POTLUCK
September 1 - 6 PM
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Rd
Hinesburg, VT
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.
September's movie is Arlington West.
After viewing Arlington West there will
be a discussion concerning the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
This month's potluck is at the Carpenter-Carse Library, 69 Ballards Corner Rd.
in Hinesburg and starts at 6 PM. This is not a meeting; it's a gathering of concerned
citizens! This is the eighth Hinesburg Community Social Potluck held this year.
Please bring a dish to share and a beverage.
In addition to discussing the U.S. occupation of Iraq this month, we will also
talk about the upcoming VT Says NO to WAR statewide conference that will be held
in Burlington, September 9th through 11th. On a national level, major anti-war
groups have called for a mobilization in Washington, DC, September 24th through
26th. Buses to DC will be leaving from various locations in VT.
info@globaljusticeecology.org
or call (802) 482-2689
War, Corporate
Globalization and the Environment
An anti-authoritarian
perspective
September
6 - 7:30 PM
Black
Sheep Books/Langdon Street Café
4 Langdon Street
Montpelier, VT (free!)
Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle will
examine the links between war, corporate globalization and ecological devastation.
U.S. military violence, such as the war in Iraq and economic violence pushed by
entities such as the World Bank, WTO, and "free trade" agendas, are two sides
of the same coin of capitalism.
Corporate globalization requires poor countries to put policies in place
that benefit large corporations and investors at the expense of the people and
the planet. When economic pressure alone is insufficient, military force is often
used to protect the interests of corporations and their profits.
As Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York
Times Magazine (March 1999), "The hidden hand of the market will never
work without the hidden fist--McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas,
the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon
Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine
Corps."
As oil and other valuable resources diminish, while global warming intensifies,
conflicts over these dwindling resources will escalate further while pushing Earth's
life support systems to the brink of collapse.
Petermann and Langelle will also discuss the upcoming statewide "VT Says
NO to WAR" conference in Burlington, September 9-11 and the national mobilization
in Washington, DC later in September.
VT Says
NO to WAR
State-wide Conference for Peace and Against
War, Occupation & Empire
September 9 – 10 University of Vermont
Burlington, VT
FEATURING:
Michael Parenti, Political analyst, lecturer, author The
Terrorism Trap, and Superpariotism
Dennis Brutus, Poet, teacher, former South
African political prisoner
Ahmed Shawki, Editor International
Socialist Review
Bread & Puppet Theater
David Cline, National President, Veterans For Peace
Elaine Hagopian, Syrian-American sociologist, professor
emeritus Simmons College
Victor Paredes, brother of conscientious
objector Pablo Paredes
Monique Dols, Coordinating Committee Representative,
Campus Anti-War Network
Jerry Colby, President, National Writers Union, member of U.S. Labor Against
War
Joseph Turcotte, Member of Iraq Veterans Against the War
Krishna Ahooja Patel, International President,
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Nilda Medina-Diaz, nominated for the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2005
Wanda Colon, organizer against the U.S. Navy presence in Vieques, Puerto
Rico
SPONSORED BY:
Peace & Justice Center
Green Mountain Veterans for Peace
Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series
North Country Coalition for Justice and Peace
Military Families Speak Out
International Socialist Organization
UVM Students Against War
Johnson State Anti-War Coalition
Global Justice Ecology Project
American Friends Service Committee
Vermont Green Party
PeaceVermont
Alternatives to Recruitment
Brattleboro Area Peace & Justice Group
Green Mountain Forum
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Endorsers:
VT School of the Americas Watch
VT Labor Against War
Democracy for VT
Mercy Peace & Justice Committee, VT
For more information, or contact
Global Justice Ecology Project 802-482-2689
Peace & Justice Center 802-863-2345
International Socialist Organization 802-864-9678
MEDIA: Craig Chevrier 802-598-7269
septemberACTION.org
From September
23-26, tens of thousands of anti-war and global justice activists will
flock to Washington, DC for the largest
mobilization since last year's RNC protests. SeptemberAction.org
will serve as an information clearinghouse for that weekend. Read our call to
action. On this website you
can find or post local and national groups participating in the mobilization,
a calendar of events, legal information, posters, materials, and housing and transportation
resources.
Ride Boards: SeptemberAction
UFPJ
Housing Board
MORE INFO FOLLOWS:
Confront Economic Violence
and Corporate Capitalism during the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings
September 23-25
Washington DC
Call for DIRECT ACTION!
September 23rd to 25th 2005, the weekend of the World Bank and International Monetary
Fund's annual meetings, holds great importance for millions around the world.
This year, the Mobilization
for Global Justice, a Washington DC-based activist group, will join our allies
in the global South, Europe, and the U.S. as well as with those in the anti-war
community to demand an end to the international system that uses economic and
military might to extract resources and serve corporate interests. We envision
a world with true development, democracy, and security, and where economic policy
serves the interests of the people. We call for creative direct actions on the
weekend of September 23rd to 25th - all the action you can muster to shake the
pillars of empire to their rotten and festering core - and work towards another
possible world.
End
the War on Iraq! Massive Mobilization
Sept. 24-26
Washington, D.C.
Hold Bush & Congress Accountable for the Deaths,
the Destruction, the Lies, and the Toll on Our Communities
Three Days of Action for Peace and Justice in Washington, D.C.
Sat., 9/24 - Massive March, Rally & Festival
Sun., 9/25 - Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training
Mon., 9/26 - Grassroots Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
PAST AUGUST EVENTS
Skill
Share
August 12-14
WheelockK Farm
West Wheelock, VT
Vermont organizers and activists working for social justice and
an ecologically sound future, are creating a space for skill building, strategizing,
and networking, and making time for important discussions reflecting on the past,
assessing the present, and building successful strategies and tactics for our
movements in the Green Mountain State.
The organizers invite you to join with them in a three-day retreat to rejoice,
relax, recharge, and reinvigorate ourselves and our struggle.
Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle will do a civil
disobedience/direct action training, Saturday, August 14 (2:45 - 6 PM).
There will be no HINESBURG (VT) COMMUNITY MONTHLY
SOCIAL POTLUCK
this August
info@globaljusticeecology.org
or call (802) 482-2689
PAST JULY EVENTS
G8 International Day of
Action on the Root Causes of Climate Change
East Coast Convergence
July 8th, Monroe Park
-- Richmond, VA
"On July 8th as the rulers of the eight most powerful nations meet in
Scotland to decide our fates, communities around the world will take to
the streets to fight back against the fossil fuels industry‚s devastation
of our Earth and its people.
"No longer can we stand by as our air is polluted, our water poisoned, our
mountains destroyed, and our communities terrorized by these careless
corporate thugs.
"On this day, in conjunction with Venezuelan communities fighting coal
mines in their country, the people of Appalachia and folks from all across
the east coast will descend on Richmond, VA to confront one of the most
ruthless coal companies in the US, Massey Energy Co, which has been
systematically destroying the mountains and people of Southern Appalachia
through a form of mining called mountaintop removal (MTR)."
East
Coast Convergence
BLACK SHEEP
BOOKS presents:
An Interactive Discussion
of the Events Surrounding the Zapatista Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandon
Wednesday, July 13, Noon
- 1 P.M.
4 Langdon Street
Montpelier, VT (free!)
with Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project
On New Year's Day 1994, the day NAFTA went into effect, the world awoke to an
indigenous uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. The famous words "Ya Basta" (Enough!)
proclaimed by the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacíon Nacional, EZLN or Zapatistas
for short, captured the hearts and minds of millions of people around the world.
Now eleven and a half years into the revolution, the Zapatistas have issued the
Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandon after they issued a Red Alert (only the
third Red Alert since 1994) and held a consulta (consultation) in all Zapatista
communities in Chiapas. The Zapatistas are calling for a new leftist consciousness
not motivated by self-interest but by
the spirit of leftist militants "who were not stopped by violence, jail or death,
and much less of dollar bills."
The Zapatistas have been an inspiration globally for all peoples struggling for
justice and liberation. Since 1994, the Zapatistas have rejected and defied the
Mexican government, instead setting up their own system of governance throughout
their autonomous territory. And in the Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandon,
the Zapatistas say to all who resist neoliberalism and injustice throughout the
world "that you are not alone."
The Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandon reaffirms the standing principles
of no secret pacts with national or international military-political forces, continuing
to obey the Zapatista community base and its civilian authority, and refraining
from offensive military action.
Join Orin Langelle, Co-director of the Global Justice Ecology Project based in
Hinesburg, for this noontime discussion about the current Zapatista situation.
Orin is also the coordinator of the STOP Genetically Engineered Trees Campaign,
an alliance of thirteen groups in the United States and Canada. A longtime activist,
Orin got his start as a rabble-rouser during the Vietnam War and continues to
fight against injustice. He cofounded Native Forest Network and ACERCA (Action
for Community and Ecology in the Regions of Central America). He has traveled
and led delegations to Chiapas many times, and helped organize the filming of
"Lacandona, the Zapatistas, and Rainforest of Chiapas, Mexico." Orin is also a
photojournalist whose Corporate
Globalization vs. Global Justice Guerrilla Photo Exhibit traveled widely across
the United States last year.
BLACK SHEEP BOOKS
4 Langdon Street, Montpelier
(802) 225-8906
Hours: Tues-Wed 11-7, Thurs-Sat 11-9, and Sun 11-6
HINESBURG COMMUNITY MONTHLY SOCIAL POTLUCK
July 19 6 pm til...
Bar-b-que at Lake Iroquois Beach
Hinesburg-Williston, VT
info@globaljusticeecology.org
or call (802) 482-2689
Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism Anniversary Conference
Ecology,
Imperialism and the Contradictions of Capitalism
July 22-24
York University, Toronto, Ontario
Saturday, July 23, session 3 9:30 - 11 AM
World Order, Imperialism, and Global Ecological
Politics I
Capitalist Globalization, Development, and Ecology
(Unfortunately Orin Langelle and Anne
Petermann are unable to attend the conference.)
John Gulick and Harwood Schaffer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Soybeans and the Sino-Brazilian Socio-Ecological Division of Labour
Orin Langelle (Global Justice Ecology Project, Hinesburg)
Corporate Globalization’s Destruction of Earth’s Life Support System
Anne Petermann (Global Justice Ecology Project, Hinesburg)
Global Warming, Carbon Trade, and Genetically Engineered Trees
Michael Goldman (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis)
The World Bank and the Making of “Green Neoliberalism”
Past JUNE EVENTS
Reclaim the Commons/BioDemocracy Mobilization
June 18 - 21
Philadelphia, PA
From June 19 to 22, 2005, the Earth's largest consortium of biotechnology
corporations -- the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) -- is holding
its annual international convention in downtown Philadelphia. Join us to say
NO to their agenda of genetically engineered (GE) agriculture, medicine for
profit and bioweapons proliferation!
Activists in Philadelphia and throughout the East Coast are hard at work
mobilizing a diverse smorgasbord of activities to challenge the biotech industry
with our own vision of peaceful, sustainable and GE-free grassroots democracy.
In this update, we'll give you a taste of the mouth-watering menu of events
that you can expect to enjoy if you join us in Philadelphia this June ...BIODEMOCRACY
FESTIVAL, BIODEMOCRACY TEACH-IN, SUMMER SOLSTICE DAY OF ACTION, FOOD NOT BOMBS
25th ANNIVERSARY GATHERING, GREEN AND BLACK URBAN GATHERING, ANIMAL RIGHTS CONFERENCE
and more!
For more info: www.reclaimthecommons.net
and www.biodev.org
HINESBURG COMMUNITY MONTHLY SOCIAL POTLUCK
Wednesday, June 22, 7-9 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Rd
Hinesburg, VT
Past MAY EVENTS
HINESBURG COMMUNITY MONTHLY SOCIAL POTLUCK
Thursday, May 12, 6-9 pm
Carpenter-Carse Library
69 Ballards Corner Rd
Hinesburg, VT
United Nations Forum on Forests
May 16-27
New York, New York
Conference & Meeting of the Parties to the Cartegena
Protocol
May 30-June 3
Montreal, Canada
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