The Eco-Solidarity Project has two main goals: to build links between ecological struggle and the struggles against Empire and for peace, justice and community; and to help mobilize the kind of solidarity the world most demands of the United States-that we stop putting the rest of the planet in peril. We in the US consume some 25% of the world’s energy resources, produce one third of the world’s solid waste and produce more carbon dioxide emissions per person than any other country (18.6 tons per person in 2010). We maintain a military machine that spends almost as much as the combined military costs of every other country on Earth. Our war machine and its allies are the biggest sources of ecological destruction on the planet. Our job is to reverse the economics and politics of war and corporate greed and bring ecological consciousness and participatory democracy home. For more information send an email to James@afgj.org
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We stand in solidarity with rural and urban communities of the global North and South who are exposed to the hazards of climate change; ecological degradation and contamination; and land and resource grabs. We believe in food, resource and climate justice rooted in sustainability and democracy. We call on activists, concerned citizens, farmers, indigenous peoples and environmentalists to join us in Chicago in non-violent protest of the closed-door NATO and G8 summits and to participate in an open, civil society discussion of the G8’s environmental impacts and community-based alternatives. Read more…
Nos solidarizamos con comunidades rurales y urbanas del Norte y del Sur quienes están expuestos a los peligros del cambio climático; degradación ecológica y contaminación, al desalojo de sus tierras y a la usurpación de sus recursos. Creemos en la justicia alimentaria, en la justicia en el uso de los recursos y en la responsabilidad frente al cambio climático, basado en la sustentabilidad y la democracia. Hacemos un llamado a los activistas, ciudadanos, agricultores, indígenas y ecologistas a unirse, en Chicago, a una protesta no violenta contra las cumbres a puerta cerrada de la NATO y del G8. Los invitamos a participar en una discusión abierta, de la sociedad civil, sobre los impactos ambientales del G8 y sobre las alternativas comunitarias. Lee más…
Today’s claim of carbon-free nuclear power is a lie. As the quality of available uranium goes down, ever more fossil fuels must be used to mine it, mill it, and enrich it for power plants. And the carbon cost of physically isolating radioactive reactor waste from the environment for tens of thousands of years simply cannot be calculated. It’s never been done, but it’s a carbon cost already laid on future generations. Read more…
