Showing posts with label advocacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advocacy. Show all posts
31 March 2012
28 March 2012
“REDD is just a project that the industrial countries use to try to keep their economic benefits”
Interview with Tejo Pramono, La Via Campesina and Elisha Kartini,Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI – Indonesian Farmers Union) at SPI’s office, Jakarta, February 2012
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 27th March 2012
16 March 2012
When the Mining Is Over, a Toxic Mess Remains
The East Kalimantan administration has revealed that 230 degraded coal mining concessions in the province have never been restored by the concession holders, despite their obligation to do so
Tunggadewa Mattangkilang | Jakarta Globe | March 08, 2012
Coal mining at Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC), PT. Bumi Resources in East Kalimantan. Land reclamation efforts in East Kalimantan have been hampered by the central government's reluctance to release jamrek funds. The province is now littered with toxic abandoned mines. (Photo Courtesy of PT. Bumi Resources)
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10 March 2012
Three Ways to Beat Corporate Giants
How do Davids bring down Goliaths? Three tactics that worked
by Jim Shultz | Yes! Magazine | Mar 09, 2012
Photo by watchingfrogsboil
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How Fukushima is leading towards a nuclear-free Japan
Tokyo hopes to restart some reactors, but hardening public attitudes may rule out even modest return to nuclear power
Justin McCurry | guardian.co.uk | 9 March 2012
A Japanese activist takes part in an anti-nuclear protest in Kobe. A recent poll shows that nearly 70% of the public want to reduce or end the use of nuclear power. Photograph: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images
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26 February 2012
Discriminatory Forestry Regulations and REDD projects in Indonesia
Earlier this month, a group of Indonesian and international organisations wrote to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination about the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) project in Papua
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 24th February 2012
19 February 2012
Large Area of New Guinea Stripped of Protection for Agribusiness
More than 400,000 hectares (1 million acres) of land in Indonesian New Guinea — including 350,000 hectares of carbon-storing peatland — was stripped of its protected status to facilitate the expansion of a government-based agribusiness project, according to a new report
e360 digest | 17 Feb 2012
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Making the Forest Sector Transparent
Since October 2008, Global Witness has been working on a project called “Making the Forest Sector Transparent“. The project has recently released its 2011 Annual Transparency Report, looking at the transparency record in seven countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 10th February 2012
09 February 2012
Without women there is no food sovereignty
Systems of food production and consumption have always been socially organized, but their organization has varied historically. In the last few decades, under the impact of neoliberal politics, the logic of capitalism has been imposed upon the ways in which food is produced and consumed (Bello, 2009)
by Esther Vivas | Feb 8 2012 by International Viewpoint in Energy Bulletin | Feb 8 2012
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Less bank-bashing, more action: time to Move Your Money!
A call is going out to every British citizen who wants the financial sector to clean up their act. Move your money from the big banks to local, ethical or mutual alternatives and send them a message in a language they'll understand
by Louis Brooke | Feb 2 2012 by OpenDemocracy in Energy Bulletin | Feb 2 2012
Move Your Money UK campaign video
02 February 2012
Enemies of the State
Almost exactly nine years ago, opposition to the US invasion of Iraq was reaching a fever pitch. On February 15, 2003 millions of people around the world rallied to protest the inexorable march to war, including in over 150 cities in the United States
by Asher Miller | Post Carbon Institute in Energy Bulletin | Feb 1 2012
What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance
These great documentary films have a simple lesson: effective political protest needs good organisation and smart messaging
Naomi Wolf | guardian.co.uk | 31 January 2012
Trailer for Half Revolution, a documentary film about the protests in Egypt, by Omar Shargawi and Karim el-Hakim. Video: YouTube
31 January 2012
Muara Tae’s last stand against big palm oil
The fate of a Dayak community deep in the interior of East Kalimantan demonstrates how Indonesia must safeguard the rights of indigenous people if it is to meet ambitious targets to reduce emissions from deforestation
Environmental Investigation Agency | January 24, 2012
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Can REDD save the forests of Muara Tae in East Kalimantan, Indonesia?
The Dayak Benuaq Indigenous People of Muara Tae in East Kalimantan are defending their last remaining area of forest against two palm oil companies. “This is the last remaining forests that we have and the only land we have to survive. If my forests are gone, our lives will end,” says Pak Singko, a leader of the Dayak Benuaq of Muara Tae
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 26th January 2012
Finance for biodiversity is a “new face for capitalism”: Sign on letter to CBD from Acción Ecológica
“Conserving the planet’s species and habitats is central to sustainable development yet the global decline in biodiversity is accelerating,” says UN Secretary General, Ban-Ki Moon
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 27th January 2012
26 January 2012
New video: “A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests”
A new video by the Global Forest Coalition and the Global Justice Ecology Project is deeply critical of REDD. Much of the criticism focusses on carbon trading, but through interviews with communities in Chiapas, Mexico, the video illustrates the perverse impacts that REDD can have on the ground
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 25th January 2012
A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
The scientist: Jim Hansen risks handcuffs to make his research clear
NASA's chief climate scientist built his career studying Earth's atmosphere and modeling humans' potential impacts on climate. Then he realized that laboratory work was only part of the equation
Interview conducted and condensed by Douglas Fischer | DailyClimate.org | Jan. 24, 2012
23 January 2012
Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable
7 signs the corporatocracy is losing its legitimacy ... and 7 populist tools to help shut it down
by Sarah van Gelder | YES! Magazine | Jan 20, 2012
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A parody of corporate personhood in D.C.
21 January 2012
Why now? What’s next? Naomi Klein on Occupy
Naomi Klein in discussion with Occupy Wall Street activist Yotam Marom
Naomi Klein, Yotam Marom | Red Pepper | January 2012
Greedy Lying Bastards: US filmmaker attacks oil industry
Craig Rosebraugh's new documentary highlights the 'influence, deceit and corruption' of fossil fuel industry
by Leo Hickman | guardian.co.uk | 20 January 2012
Provocative, frank and impossible to ignore. And that's just the title
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