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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 16h

.@GretaThunberg's full video is 🔥🔥🔥 "We have truth, morality, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity, as well as basic f****** common sense on our side. The war criminals have hate, l...

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 19h

On this episode of Breaking Green we speak with GJEP’s Executive Director Anne Petermann about the human rights delegation to Chile organized by GJEP last October.

LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE: globaljusticeecology.org/mapuche-stru...

#Mapuche #Wallmapu #Chile #PoliticalPrisoners

Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 2d

VIA BREAKING GREEN: When Arctic Climate “Solutions” Become Colonial Experiments with Panganga Pungowiyi

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 15d

New: Genetically Modifying Nature is Not Conservation by Genewatch UK concludes that genetically modifying nature is not conservation and risks undermining the very concept of conservation in itself... because the consequences are unpredictable and irreversible. www.genewatch.org/uploads/f03c...

Sickly genetically engineered D54 GE American chestnut seedling in a black pot, with curling brown leaves.

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 15d

Article in #Geoengineering Monitor by @biofuelwatch.bsky.social and @gfc-forest.bsky.social for the Int'l Day Against Tree Plantations.

So-called "Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)" (aka geoengineering) is being used to greenwash destructive Industrial eucalyptus plantations, esp in Latin America.

Carbon Dioxide Removal Narrative is Greenwashing Monoculture Tree Plantations - Geoengineering Monitor

Guest article by Gary Hughes, Biofuelwatch, and Oli Munnion, Global Forest Coalition

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · 20d

In our new Field Notes, Orin Langelle tells the story of his photo of a mass WTO protest in Cancún, 2003, just after South Korean farmer Lee Kyung-Hae fatally stabbed himself. His message: “WTO Kills Farmers.” @gfc-forest.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social
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Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · Sep 4

🚨 #NewResourceAlert
📢 HOME Alliance launches the Solar Geoengineering Toolkit!
☀️ Blocking the sun will not solve the climate crisis.
🧵 A thread ⬇️

#HandsOffMotherEarth

@cjaourpower.bsky.social @solargeoeng.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @ciel.org @etcgroup.bsky.social @gcdcj.bsky.social

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Sep 5

Field Notes Episode 5: The most dangerous time for journalists -This episode is dedicated to the 200+ journalists that died documenting the reality they were witnessing. langellephoto.org/field-notes-... @cjaourpower.bsky.social @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social @thunberggreta.bsky.social

Cornell capa, an older man in a suit with white hair blowing in the wind stands in front of a stately brick building in Manhattan

Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Sep 3

Andy Mahler, valiant defender of America’s backwoods, lived in and learned from the forests he spent much of his life fighting to protect. He was a visionary, whose capacity for empathy was matched only by his steely refusal to compromise. @foeus.bsky.social

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Aug 31

NewsNation puts the spotlight back on research that St. Louis was part of a radiological weapons testing program that exposed a vulnerable population without informed or prior consent.

In 2012 GJEP was one of the first to report on Martino-Taylor’s research.

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Did the government poison a city? Inside the Army’s secret tests in St. Louis

In the 1950s and ’60s, the U.S. Army sprayed zinc cadmium sulfide — a compound containing cadmium, a known carcinogen — in the city of St. Louis.

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Aug 26

In this @kpfa.org interview, @annegjep.bsky.social, Executive Director of GJEP discusses huge public opposition to the D54 #GMO American chestnut tree, which is genetically unstable, unproven with irreversible ecological risks if released into wild forests.
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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Aug 22

New Field Notes from @langellephoto.bsky.social In episode 4 Langelle tells the story behind a photo he captured of Young Republicans at the 1972 RNC–where anti-war protesters, journalists, and Abbie Hoffman unexpectedly crossed paths with establishment insiders.
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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Aug 22

New Breaking Green podcast! Shem Livai, of the Marshall Islands, speaks about the dual threats from U.S. nuclear testing and impacts of climate change, and the urgent struggle for justice, survival and against cultural erasure.

Listen at: globaljusticeecology.org/marshall-isl...

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Aug 20

Moving Beyond Protest: "Protests have been on the rise since the mid 2010’s with the last six years recording some of the largest in recent times ... Americans are coming out in greater and greater numbers to show their dissent. But to what effect?"
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“Flush with newfound confidence and authority, Mr. Netanyahu seemed finally to have gained the political capital he needed to override opposition from his far-right government allies to reach a truce in Gaza.” – The New York Times, August 5, 2025, p. 1, “With Fate in His Hands, Netanyahu Fumbles It.” The New York Times, over More

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎙 New from Field Notes! In 1993, @langellephoto.bsky.social traveled to Cree territory to document Hydro-Quebec’s devastating dam projects. He witnessed sacred sites submerged, whitefish gone, caribou drowned—and a community fighting back.

🎧 Listen: langellephoto.org/field-notes-...

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · Jul 31

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A Textbook Case Of How Tax Policy Fuels Obscene Wealth Accumulation - PopularResistance.Org

The recent wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez in Venice set off quite the furor over tax avoidance. An enormous banner in the Piazza San Marco put the matter plainly: “If you can rent Venice for...

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 29

170,000+ Demand USDA Reject Release of GMO American Chestnut Into Wild Forests

“The ethics of SUNY-ESF’s plan to collaborate with a for-profit company to make money from the sale of these defective trees is also extremely troubling.” @gmwatch.bsky.social @gmofreeusa.bsky.social bit.ly/45iEYn8

cartoon reddish colored squirrel with big eyes and a bushy tail holding a sign that says "Stop GE Trees"

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 24

NEW! From GJEP co-founder and award-winning photographer Orin Langelle

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🎥 Field Notes is Orin’s new video series, offering unseen insight behind each photograph. This image from 1995 is more than history—it’s a call to understand how resistance shapes the present.

[Field Notes] Episode 2: Militant protests in Vermont - Langelle Photography

Field Notes Episode 2: Militant protests in Vermont We invite you to join us for Field Notes, a new video series featuring award-winning photojournalist and documentary photographer Orin Langelle, co-...

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 23

ACT TODAY!: Stop Brazil allowing corporations to issue own permits for destructive projects in the #Amazon jungle! Tell President Lula to VETO this “devastation bill” now! #ClimateJustice rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @ran.org @xrglobal.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu

#petition Brazil: President Lula, use your veto – stop the “devastation bill”!

With Bill PL 2.159/2021, the Brazilian parliament aims to drastically weaken environmental and rainforest protections. In the future, corporations would be able to issue their own environmental permit...

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 21

‼️LAST DAY to ACT‼️ Comment to USDA to reject the defective #GMO chestnut created by ESF w/ American Chestnut Foundation. Release of this damaged GE tree into forests could derail the return of wild American chestnuts. SIGN stopgetrees.org/stop-ge-trees/ @gmofreeusa.bsky.social @gmwatch.bsky.social

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 18

Lonco Juan Pichún, a traditional Mapuche authority and leader of the Temulemu community, appeared before the UN Human Rights Commission, denouncing discrimination by Chile, a day before his arrest, following the death of his father, Lonco Pascual Pichún. araucaniadiario.cl/contenido/29...

Lonco Juan Pichún había denunciado a Chile ante la ONU un día antes de su detención

La autoridad tradicional de la comunidad de Temulemu supuestamente habría sido coautor de un atentado incendiario al predio de un parlamentario de derecha.

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 18

Arrest of Lonco Juan Pichun: Another chapter in the repression of a historic #Mapuche family
In Wallmapu, Chile July 18, 2025 @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social @indigenousinfonet.bsky.social @ienearth.bsky.social @survivalinternational.org @xrglobal.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social

Detención del lonco Juan Pichun: un capítulo más de la represión a histórica familia Mapuche | Resumen.cl

La reciente detención del Lonko Juan Pichun ha vuelto a encender las alarmas sobre la persistente criminalización del pueblo Mapuche en...

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 18

If you are unfamiliar with the great work of Hands off Mother Earth and their efforts to raise the red flags about Geoengineering schemes designed to enable the "business as usual" that is driving us over the cliff, check them out: @homealliance.bsky.social

Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) Alliance @handsoffmotherearth.org · Jul 18

🌍 African Leadership Rejects Solar Geoengineering at #AMCEN20
As the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment ends, climate justice movements celebrate African governments’ leadership in rejecting dangerous solar geoengineering technologies
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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 14

They Gutted Public Lands in the Reconciliation Bill – And No One’s Talking About It
Congress' Big Bad Bill ransacks our public lands, forcing the Forest Service and BLM to vastly increase the cut off our lands year over year or break the law. @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social

They Gutted Public Lands in the Reconciliation Bill – And No One’s Talking About It

While the headlines were on Mike Lee, Congress passed a bill that ransacks our public lands. Here’s the only complete breakdown of what’s in it.

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Global Justice Ecology Project @gjep123.bsky.social · Jul 10

From GJEP Co-founder Orin Langelle: interviews about some of his most iconic photos from 50 years of documenting peoples' uprisings and struggles around the world @xrglobal.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @pjournalismnews.bsky.social @annegjep.bsky.social

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[Field Notes] Episode 1: War is Terrorism - Langelle Photography

Field Notes Episode 1: War is Terrorism We invite you to join us for Field Notes, a new video series featuring award-winning photojournalist and documentary photographer Orin Langelle, co-founder of G...

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