By Jason Negrón-Gonzales I’m on the plane back to the US flying at 29,000 feet over the Amazon. A green carpet of trees, only interrupted by winding veins of brown rivers, stretches to the horizon. From time to time where a larger river appears, a small cluster of buildings sits like a speck on the [...]
By Jason Negrón-Gonzales, en route to Cochabamba I’m writing from the plane in route to Cochabamba for the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and Rights of the Mother Earth. For those who aren’t familiar with the conference, it was proposed by Bolivian president Evo Morales in the aftermath of the COP15 conference in Copenhagen [...]
by Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan, December 18, 2009 (updated 12/21) The Copenhagen round of the UNFCCC 15th Conference of Parties has ended in failure It is essential for the future of life on this planet that we achieve a global pact based on sound science and equity soon. But given that the U.S. and its key allies [...]
PRESS RELEASE * COMUNICADO DE PRENSA For immediate release: December 17, 2009 Contacts: North American Indigenous Delegation Media Liaison +45 5268 5594 Movement Generation Media Liaison +45 2832 8422 (English, español, français, 普通話, portugûes) COPENHAGEN – On the eve of President Obama’s arrival in Copenhagen to attend the fifteenth United Nations Framework Convention on Climate [...]
TAKE ACTION: Please email this letter to President Obama at president@whitehouse.gov on behalf of your organization and CC: letter@movementgeneration.org to let us know your organization has signed on! Dear President Obama, We are here in Copenhagen as the voices of our communities and our organizations that work to protect the rights of low-income communities, indigenous [...]