Note: Interview includes Spanish to English translation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC_4TdZvy8I REPORTING FROM CHILE: On Thursday, March 23rd, the Campaign to STOP GE Trees delegation visited a region outside of Concepción that was hit badly by this summer's...
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Campaign to Stop GE Trees Release Statement of Solidarity Following World Water Day
Mar 24, 2017
The following statement is also published in Spanish and Portuguese below the English Caption: A truck pumps water out of the river. Many communities in the plantations region of Chile must have water trucked in, as the plantations have depleted the water supply....
Listen: World Rainforest Movement’s Elizabeth Díaz on Genetically Engineered Trees
Mar 24, 2017
This week’s Earth Watch guest on the Sojourner Truth Radio show is Elizabeth Díaz of World Rainforest Movement, who is currently on local in Chile with a coalition united against genetically engineered trees. For the past 20 years Elizabeth has been working to support...
On World Water Day, International Speakers Denounce Tree Plantations and GE Trees
Mar 23, 2017
Photo by Orin Langelle. Lucio Cuenca from OLCA gestures to crowd and man disrupting panel. On March 22nd, World Water Day, the international delegation of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, the Landless Workers Movement (MST), CEPEDES* and OLCA** presented at the...
Video: Interviews on the Impacts of the UN’s Pro-Industry Definition of Forests
Mar 23, 2017
(Videos in English and Spanish) Lizzie Diaz of the World Rainforest Movement and Lucio Cuenca from OLCA (the Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales) discuss the impacts of industrial tree plantations and the UN FAO definition of "forests" that includes...
Delegation Delivers Letter to FAO Calling for Change to Misleading ‘Forest’ Definition
Mar 22, 2017
March 21 was the International Day of Forests, declared by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Around the world organizations denounced the FAO for their policies promoting tree plantations and wood based bioenergy. Here in Chile, Global Justice Ecology...
National Meeting Investigates Links Between GE Trees, Plantations and Chile’s Worst Ever Fire Season
Mar 22, 2017
(Video interviews below) Santiago, Chile–Members of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees from around the world are gathered in Chile for two weeks to investigate the impacts of industrial tree plantations and the potential future impacts of genetically...
Global Gathering Takes Aim at Genetically Engineered Trees
Mar 22, 2017
Investigates Links Between GE Trees, Plantations and Chile's Worst Ever Fire Season Media Advisory 22 March 2017 Santiago, Chile–Members of the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees from around the world are gathered in Chile for two weeks to investigate the...
New Animated Video: Why GM Poplar Field Trial is a False Solution
Mar 21, 2017
The video (in English subtitles below) is available in Dutch, French and Spanish at the bottom of the page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBDKXMqDAQo On the UN International Day of Forests, the Belgian action group Field Liberation Movement (FLM) published a new...
Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche Protest Deadly Police Brutality
Mar 20, 2017
Originally published by Telesur.TV: Chile’s Mapuche, who make up roughly 10 percent of its population, are more likely to be killed by police than non-Mapuche people. Dozens of Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche protested police terror in Temuco on Friday, calling on law...