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Hillary Clinton Announces Opposition to KXL, Native Leaders Respond
For Immediate Release: September 23, 2015 Contact: A. Gay Kingman, Kingmanwapato@rushmore.com, 605-484-3036 Dallas Goldtooth, ienpipeline@igc.org, 708-515-6185 Paula Antoine, wopila@gwtc.net, 605-828-0740 Faith Spotted Eagle, eagletrax@hotmail.com, 605-481-0416... read moreClimate Study: Ending New Federal Fossil Fuel Leases Would Keep 450 Billion Tons of Carbon Pollution in Ground
WASHINGTON— Ending new fossil fuel leasing on lands and offshore areas controlled by the U.S. government would keep up to 450 billion tons of greenhouse gases from polluting the atmosphere, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by EcoShift on behalf of the... read moreSummer of Our Power
#OurPowerSummer
The Climate Justice Alliance’s Summer of Our Power launched on the Summer Solstice—June 21, 2015—in recognition of our interrelated, interdependent, and complementary relationship with Mother Earth.
In the face of climate crisis, communities on the frontlines of the impacts are also at the forefront of the struggle to create solutions that are healthy and equitable for both people and the planet—what we call a just transition.
Over the course of two months during the summer of 2015, frontline communities will undertake creative movement building projects to build interconnected local strategies and broader public awareness for a just transition away from an economy based on extraction and exploitation.
The Summer of Our Power includes CJA’s new Just Transition Fellowship program; a story-telling project designed to share narratives and uplift our solutions; and as the centerpiece a “quilt relay” in August, through which CJA will create a collective quilt that symbolizes the breadth and depth of frontline community solutions offering real hope in the face of climate devastation. The quilt relay will conclude in solidarity with gulf coast communities at the 10th Anniversary Commemoration of Hurricane Katrina.
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read moreEPA Accidentally Spills Millions of Gallons of Waste Water
I am discouraged and saddened to hear and see pictures of this millions of gallons waste water that was accidentally spilled by EPA turning Cement Creek water orange. It breaks my heart to know that this will have a great impact on all life itself. Denver... read more
Indigenous Rising
- Summer of Our Power#OurPowerSummer The Climate Justice Alliance’s Summer of Our Power launched on the Summer Solstice—June 21, 2015—in recognition of our interrelated, interdependent, and complementary relationship with Mother Earth. In the face of climate crisis, communities on the frontlines of the impacts are also at the forefront of the struggle to create solutions that are healthy and […]
- Tribal Nations Ask President Obama to Reject KXL and Request Emergency Meeting with Department of InteriorFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gay Kingman, Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association, (605) 721-6168 Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, (507) 412-7609 Robert Flying Hawk, Yankton Sioux Chairman, (605) 384-3804 Tribal Nations Ask President Obama to Reject KXL and Request Emergency Meeting with Department of Interior Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association concerned about exclusion of Tribal interests […]
- Leaders of the Paiter Suruí ask that the carbon project with Natura be terminated – new post on REDD-MonitorThe Paiter-Suruí REDD project in Brazil is often held up as a successful indigenous-led REDD project. In December 2014, REDD-Monitor published an English translation of an interview by CIMI(the Indigenous Missionary Council) with Henrique Suruí in which he gives a completely different opinion of the project. The interview was originally published in CIMI’s publication, Porantim. […]
- #NOKXL VIGIL ACROSS TURTLE ISLANDCALL TO ACTION!!! January 13th, 2015 – 7pm Central Time #NOKXL VIGIL ACROSS TURTLE ISLAND!! A coordinated day of action
- IEN Response to Sen. Murkowski’s Comments on Tsimshian “Gavel”FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Response to Senator Murkowski’s Actions and Comments in Senate Meeting on KXL Bill January 9, 2015 - The Indigenous Environmental Network is dismayed by the actions and comments made yesterday by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), in her first day as the new chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources’ Committee. […]
KEYSTONE XL RESISTANCE RIDE AND MARCH EXPECTED TO BRING HUNDREDS TO PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA, TO PROTEST PIPELINE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Friday, July 24, 2015 CONTACT: Sabrina King, Dakota Rural Action: (605) 9390527 Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network: (507) 4127609 Pierre, SD – On Sunday, July 26, over 60 native and nonnative horseback riders will... read moreDakota Artist Commissioned to Make Star Quilt for President Took Liberty in Embroidering “NOKXL” Into Design
... read more#NoKXL Protest Rally During President Obama’s Visit to South Dakota
For Immediate Release May 8th, 2015 #NoKXL Protest Rally During President Obama’s Visit to South Dakota Tribal Citizens Ask Obama to Protect Mother Earth and Reject KXL Contacts: Dallas Goldtooth, 507-412-7609; ienpipeline@igc.org Aldo Seoane,... read more
Corporate Greenwash in Tuscany
IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference Denounced for Promoting GMO Trees Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York (8 June 2015, 0:00 GMT) – From 8 to 12 June, Florence, Italy will be the host city for the International Union of... read more14th Session of The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Indigenous Environmental Network, MADRE, CICA (Consejo Indígena de Central America), CAOI, ECUANARI, Chief Oren Lyons-Haudenosaunee, Indigenous Information Network, Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism, Consejo Indio Exterior, Comisión Júridica de los... read moreUrge CTNBio to REJECT GE Trees – NOW
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Hillary Clinton Announces Opposition to KXL, Native Leaders Respond
For Immediate Release: September 23, 2015 Contact: A. Gay Kingman, Kingmanwapato@rushmore.com, 605-484-3036 Dallas Goldtooth, ienpipeline@igc.org, 708-515-6185 Paula Antoine, wopila@gwtc.net, 605-828-0740 Faith Spotted Eagle, eagletrax@hotmail.com, 605-481-0416... read moreEPA Accidentally Spills Millions of Gallons of Waste Water
I am discouraged and saddened to hear and see pictures of this millions of gallons waste water that was accidentally spilled by EPA turning Cement Creek water orange. It breaks my heart to know that this will have a great impact on all life itself. Denver... read moreFirst Nation concerned Nexen oil pipeline spill highlights dangers of poorly regulated industry and violations of Treaty
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE First Nation concerned Nexen oil pipeline spill highlights dangers of poorly regulated industry and violations of Treaty July 17, 2015 – Fort McMurray, AB – On Wednesday of this week Fort McMurray’s oil sands hit a new milestone, it is now... read more‘Shell No!’ Indigenous activists to confront Shell to end Arctic drilling at shareholder meetings in Netherlands and London
Photos and media interviews available Suzanne Dhaliwal +447772694327 @notarsands suzanne@no-tar-sands.org The delegation will attend the Shell Annual General Meeting at the Hague on Tuesday, May 19th, 9:00am GMT at the Circustheater, Circusstraat 4, 2586 CW The... read moreNRC RULING GIVES VICTORY TO MINE OPPONENTS
JOINT PRESS RELEASE FROM CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE, OWE AKU/BRING BACK THE WAY, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WATER, AND DAKOTA RURAL ACTION April 30, 2015 Contact: Jeffrey Parsons, Attorney 303-823-5738 Lilias Jarding, Ph.D., 605-787-2872 (Clean Water Alliance) Debra White... read more
Bioneers National Conference Keynote Speaker Tom Goldtooth Articulates Native Vision
Voices from the Spirit! Bioneers National Conference Keynote Speaker Tom Goldtooth Articulates Native Vision Terri Hansen 10/24/13 Dakota/Diné Elder Tom B.K. Goldtooth, the executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, seemed surprised as the large... read moreCaribou protection promises made and broken by Alberta’s Conservative Government since 1977 to Feb. 2013
Since 1929 it was recognized that Alberta’s caribou would soon need some protection and that their range was becoming limited. (Alberta Forestry Lands and Wildlife. 1986. Woodland Caribou Provincial Restoration Plan. 74pp.) Since then many promises have been... read moreRights of Mother Earth: Restoring Indigenous Life Ways of Responsibility and Respect
International Indigenous Conference APRIL 4 – 6, 2012 at Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence Kansas WATCH VIDEO FROM THE CONFERENCE BELOW THE ARTICLE Introduction: In April 2010, a historical moment occurred. More than 32,000 people, including... read moreWorld People’s Conference on Climate Change
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger. If global warming increases by more than 2 degrees Celsius, a situation that the “Copenhagen Accord” could lead... read more
Grassroots leaders from social movements across Asia tie their scarves together at the declaration of the SMAA hemispheric alliance.
Kenya preparing for REDD in the Embobut Forest and forcing Sengwer People “into extinction”
January 31, 2014 Last year the Government of Kenya was getting “ready” for REDD in the Embobut Forest, now it is violently evicting the Sengwer People and forcing them “into extinction.” According to Survival International, “as many as a thousand... read moreStatement on the UN Climate Conference in Warsaw by Tom Goldtooth
Statement on the UN Climate Conference in Warsaw by Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director, Indigenous Environmental Network by Global Justice Ecology Project | November 12, 2013 · 3:16 pm The United Nations climate meetings involve the big powers of the United... read moreClimate Summit: Don’t turn farmers into ‘climate smart’ carbon traders!
Published on Thursday, 07 November 2013 20:26 Media release of La Vía Campesina | GRAIN | ETC Group 7 November 2013. Farmers produce food, not carbon. Yet, if some of the governments and corporate lobbies negotiating at the UN climate change conference to be... read morePress Statement: Tom Goldtooth – Behind the backs of the People of California
San Francisco, Oct. 17 – Governor Jerry Brown of California was slated to receive the Blue Green Alliance’s Right Stuff award for environmentalism in San Francisco this evening but did not show up perhaps because he knew it was going to be protested.... read moreIndigenous Peoples’ Organizations and NGOs Opposing REDD Request Meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown
We, the undersigned [and aforementioned] Indigenous peoples organizations, environmental justice and environmental non-governmental organizations, urge you not to include forest carbon offsets known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest... read more NO-REDD
- Durban Declaration on REDD: “Stop the disastrous REDD+ experiment”Yesterday, activists in Durban, South Africa launched the Durban Declaration on REDD. The Declaration opposes REDD, and rejects the “commodification, privatisation and plunder of Nature”. The Declaration was launched at an event organised under the Civil Society Alternative Programme, which runs parallel to the World Forestry Congress, also taking place this week in Durban. Renowned […]
- Africans to UN and loggers: Hands off our forests!FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Durban, Sept.8, 2015 – Loggers and the United Nations want to grab African forests for REDD+, which promotes monoculture plantations and genetically modified trees and violates human rights, denounced the No REDD in Africa Network at the World Forestry Congress held in Durban, South Africa. “Hands off Africa! Loggers go home! No […]
- Call to Action to reject REDD and extractive industriesOriginally posted on Aug 10, 2015 in World Rainforest Movement Once again, the world’s governments will meet at the end of this year within the United Nations convention framework to supposedly deal with the real and tangible problem of climate change. However, the agenda of the climate negotiations – mainly driven by governments of industrialized […]
- What do the criticism of the Pope’s encyclical by carbon market and REDD proponents reveal?Originally posted on Aug 10, 2015. In World Forest Movement The new Pope Francis’ “Laudato Sí” encyclical addressing the ecological crisis, particularly the climate crisis, has been much discussed in the last month. It is uncommon to see so many organizations and individuals discussing a papal encyclical. Although it did not take into account important […]
- Pope rejects carbon tradingIn his recent encyclical “Laudato Si,” the Pope urges action on climate change and specifically criticizes the sale of “carbon credits.” The Earth “is protesting for the wrong that we are doing to her, because of the irresponsible use and abuse of the goods that God has placed on her. We have grown up thinking that […]
Regaining Food Sovereignty: Neyaab Nimamoomin Mewinzha Gaa-inajigeyang
Regaining Food Sovereignty explores the state of food systems in some Northern Minnesota Native communities; examining the relationship between history, health, tradition, culture and food. By reclaiming and revitalizing knowledge and practices around tradition,... read moreThe Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
By MICHAEL MOSS New York Times On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. Nestlé was in attendance, as were... read more© Indigenous Environmental Network ~ All Rights Reserved ~ 2015-16
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