New Video Reveals Global Resistance to Forest-Carbon Projects and Documents Critical Perspectives on REDD (video y boletín en español debajo) A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests (Instructions for requesting a DVD of the new REDD video, which includes two bonus features, can be found here.) Global Forest Coalition and [...]
Read more...Dec 14, 2010
This film was made during a participatory video facilitator training in Ifugao, Philippines. The trainee facilitators, representing 15 distinct indigenous communities from 8 different countries, created this short film exploring their perspectives and shared positions on the controversial subject of the REDD programme. For more information about participatory video, please visit the InsightShare website – [...]
Read more...Dec 13, 2010
Here is an amazing video made by one of our photographers, Allan Lissner, who was in Cancun with us! This is a rough cut video, but shows some of the actions and members of our delegation!! Check out his website for other photos and information on his work! Go to: http://allan.lissner.net/ source: http://redroadcancun.com/?p=1656
Read more...Dec 12, 2010
Here are some videos our allies have put together on some of the issues here in Cancun! Great stuff! The group is called The Glass Bead Collective. Here is a message from one of their members, stormy: Hello from Cancun on Saturday morning!! We started putting out short videos near the end of COP16 juxtaposing [...]
Read more...Dec 12, 2010
UNFCCC Gone Wild: Cancún Edition Yesterday, the UNFCCC shut down: Civil society, youth organizations, indigenous peoples, jourmalists Not only did they pull permitted actions at the last minute this week, they confiscated badges of people expressing their analyses of the Climate Change Negotiations, they confiscated badges of people filming and photographing UN security abuses. Finally, [...]
Read more...Longtime activist Nnimmo Bassey has been awarded the 2010 Right Livelihood Award for “revealing the full ecological and human horrors of oil production” by multinational corporations in Nigeria and for his leadership in advocating environmental justice and human rights throughout the world. During his speech, Bassey blasted rich nations for their efforts to use carbon [...]
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