September 25th 2019
Hear John Peck from Family Farm Defenders, Karen Pickett from Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters and Anne Petermann from Global Justice Ecology Project talk about the Resurgence: 2019 North American Forest and Climate Movement Convergence.
We’re Back…And not everyone is happy to see us!
September 28th 2019-The photo above is a driver of a logging truck who tried to pursuade Orin not to take a photo…he failed. Read more in Orin Langelle’s recent photo essay titled: Return to the Shawnee.
YOUTUBE FEATURE OF CONVERGENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER CHERI FOYTLIN
Public officials in Louisiana have criminalized protest. The men and women fighting the Bayou Bridge pipeline are finding new ways to stand up to the oil and gas industry.
PRESS RELEASE: Langelle’s “Portraits of Struggle and the Drivers of Climate Chaos” Exhibit at Forest and Climate Convergence this October –
This is Orin Langelle's Convergence outreach video. Orin has been a Concerned Photographer and activist for over 50 years documenting the struggles and triumphs of communities impacted by environmental destruction, economic domination and social injustice. Listen as Langelle explains why he is going to the Resurgence: 2019 North American Forest and Climate Movement Convergence.
Interview 3.21.19
3.21.19- The first national announcement of The Resurgence: 2019 North American Forest & Climate Movement Convergence was the following interview on Pacifica’s flagship station, KPFK, in Los Angeles, CA. BJ McManama, an Indigenous woman from the Indigenous Environmental Network, spoke with Margaret Prescod, host of The Sojourner Truth Show, syndicated nationally on the Pacifica network. The announcement for the Convergence was made on the International Day of Forests, 21 March 2019.
This is the 10th year anniversary of Global Justice Ecology Project and The Sojourner Truth Show partnering for the Earth Watch segment since the 2009 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. https://soundcloud.com/sojournertruthradio/earth-watch-brenda-jo-mcmanama?in=sojournertruthradio/sets/march-21-2019
Latest Edition of the Heartwood promotes the Convergence!
24 May 2019 KPFA Terra Verde Radio Interview
Convergence Coordinating Committee members Orin Langelle and Anne Petermann are joined by long-time forest activist Karen Pickett on Judi Bari Day to talk about the convergence and Judi Bari’s legacy of bringing together diverse groups to save forests.
19 March 2019 WDBX Carbondale Community Radio- Interview on Photojournalism and Activism (https://www.globaljusticenews.com/interviews)
Activists oppose Shawnee National Forest plan that calls for commercial timber sales of oaks, hickories
September 29th 2019- Molly Parker of the Southern reviews the historical and present day fight to save the Shawnee Forest.
08.22.19 Webinar on the Convergence
This is a webinar for The Resurgence: 2019 North American Forest and Climate Movement Convergence. We will get oriented with what the Convergence is, what needs drove it to exist, what to expect in the lead up to it and upon arrival.
Eostar/Spring 2019 Earth First! Journal
Orin Langelle and John Wallace published an article on the history of defending the Shawnee forest. Click on the image to read the full article. To see our call to action in the EF! Newswire visit: here.
Registration is open!
Groups Release Call to Action for North American Forest & Climate Movement
Radical transformation needed to change the economic and political systems
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR PRESS: For Immediate Release August 14th 2019
September 19th 2019
Sherrie Anne Andre, discusses the detention of migrants and the connections it has with climate change and the retaliation they and others have faced in fighting ICE. Sherrie Anne Andre is co-founder of The FANG Collective and also a part of the Tooth and Nail Collective, which will be providing the meals for the Convergence!
Why we can’t just #PlantATree
September 28th 2019- Activist and Author Eleanor Goldfield exposes the critical and sinsiter details behind the mass tree plantation fad sweeping the globe.
08.28.19 Interview: Anne Petermann on Act Out!
A look at the understory of the Amazon fires and the long history of colonialist destruction. If we want to protect the forest, we have to protect the people, and look to them for solutions outside the confines of a system that continues to wreak havoc on all living things.
To listen to the full interview click here.
7.18.19
Earth Watch: Alex Cohen On Nuclear Waste & North American Climate and Forest Convergence
Alex Cohen, organizer from St. Louis, Missouri, discussed the radioactive landfill that is burning in the Missouri river floodplain. He also discusses the Resurgence: North American Forest and Climate Movement Convergence and the history of struggle in the Shawnee National Forest where the event will take place in October.
09.09.19 : GJEPS Langelle and Forest Defender John Wallace Report on History of Resistance in the Shawnee National Forest.
By photolangelle on May 3, 2019
One month and thirty years ago, activist John Wallace and I walked together through a clearcut in southern Illinois’ Shawnee National Forest. I suppose it was destined to happen a few more times and the last time just happened on May 2, 2019. It was not a pretty sight. – Orin Langelle
Anne Petermann Slams False Solutions and Promotes the Convergence
on Redacted Tonight
