Global Justice Ecology Project

October 27, 2026, Yerevan – Alarmed that buffalo, jaguars, orangutans and even whales are being converted into offsets to greenwash oil and mining companies, Indigenous Peoples and civil society demand that the United Nations immediately stop monetizing their sacred animals and nature as “natural capital” for carbon and biodiversity markets because it will contribute to their extinction.

On Sunday, October 25, 2026 Brazilians choose between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who finished narrowly ahead in the first round. For Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), whose communities are featured in this episode of Field Notes, the stakes are concrete. They remember what happened the last time a Bolsonaro was in power.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War Protest the Nixon Administration at the 1972 RNC

GE Trees at the 2026 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 17) Yerevan, Armenia, 19 – 30 October 2026 GJEP is part of the CBD Alliance, a network of civil society organizations who have a common interest in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).  Who is the CBD Alliance? The CBD Alliance exists to enhance the cooperation […]

The Siege on Kanehsata:ke (the Oka Crisis) was a 78-day standoff in 1990, sparked by plans to expand a golf course onto sacred Mohawk land in Kanehsatà:ke. The crisis exposed Canada’s deep-rooted colonialism and became a defining moment in the Indigenous land rights movement.

At the 2026 New Moon Mycology Summit in September, participants held a protest against plans by the SilvaBio Corporation to genetically engineer fungus resistant chestnut trees using “AI-assisted mass-cloning” in order to manufacture and sell one million or more per year.

COUNTERPUNCH: Trump’s USDA Gambles America’s Forests on a Defective GMO Chestnut Tree Dr. Donald Davis October 2 2026: In support of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, Dr. Donald Davis published an article in Counterpunch on the USDA decision to approve the world’s first ever genetically engineered plant designed explicitly for release and self-spread in […]

On January 1, 1994, the day NAFTA took effect, the Indigenous Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) rose up in Chiapas demanding land, autonomy, dignity and democracy for Indigenous peoples.

In 1994, residents, squatters, and activists came together to stop the M11 link road in East London. Under the rallying cry “Homes Not Roads,” they defended communities threatened by the demolition of hundreds of houses. Protesters occupied homes and blocked demolitions, facing arrests and evictions. Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP

After the USDA deregulated the GE American chestnut for release, we asked the question regulators keep sidestepping: what does “safety” even mean when a tree can live for centuries, spread pollen for miles, and reproduce in ecosystems we cannot control?