Global Justice Ecology Project

"Things will settle down eventually. Of course, they will. But we don’t know who among us will survive to see that day. The rich will breathe easier. The poor will not. For now, among the sick and dying, there is a vestige of democracy. The rich have been felled, too. Hospitals are begging for oxygen. Some have started bring-your-own-oxygen schemes. The oxygen crisis has led to intense, unseemly battles between states, with political parties trying to deflect blame from themselves."

"The 1971 May Day Protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. These began on Monday morning, May 3rd, and ended on May 5th. More than 12,000 people were arrested, the largest mass arrest in U.S. history."

It has been 10 years since GJEP traveled to the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico and released the film, A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests. Check out our new interview with Orin Langelle, one of the photojournalists that travelled to the region to document the threatened relocation of the Indigenous people of Amador Hernandez. You can also find a link to the film, as well as an accompanying photo essay from Langelle Photography.

"The story of Amador Hernandez that was featured in A Darker Shade of Green serves as an example of how the commodification of life and the placing of a price on ecosystems fails to address the root causes of the current climate crisis, and further threatens Indigenous peoples who are already often suffering most from climate change."