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In 2013, GJEP worked with community organizers in the Delevan-Grider neighborhood on Buffalo’s East Side to support efforts to bring a supermarket to the neighborhood.
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GJEP Statement on the Recent White Supremacist Terror Attack in Buffalo, NY

19 May 2022-GJEP is headquartered in Buffalo, NY, with our main office there until 2020, and another office in Auburn, NY, home to one of the victims. We are simultaneously heartbroken, horrified and devastated by the murders carried out by a self-described white supremacist on Buffalo’s East Side on Saturday, May 14th. Buffalo is one of the most racist and segregated cities in the US. The East Side, where the shooting occurred, is predominantly black. It is deliberately cut off from the rest of Buffalo by a six lane, below ground highway called the Kensington Expressway. Read the full statement here.

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Judi Bari Day

24 May 2022-This year on Judi Bari Day we also honored and remembered legendary civil rights attorney Dennis Cunningham—the lawyer who won a historic Constitutional rights case against the FBI and Oakland Police Department for their anti-investigation of the bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney on May 24, 1990, and their violations of Judi and Darryl’s civil rights when they were arrested for the attempt on their own lives.

Open World Meeting with the International Institute of Buffalo 

12 May 2022-GJEP’s Assistant Director, Theresa Church and Press Secretary, Steve Taylor  met with a delegation from Kazakhstan to discuss the work of Global Justice Ecology Project regarding the dangerous impacts of proposed false solutions to climate change. The meeting was part of the Open World Leadership Program funded by the U.S. Library of Congress. The meeting was facilitated by the International Institute of Buffalo.

Virtual Panel on Shawnee Showdown Keep the Forest Standing

11 May 2022-GJEP and Standing Trees Vermont co-hosted a virtual screening of the documentary Shawnee Showdown Keep the Forest Standing. Following the film, a panel was held with special guests Cade Bursell, the filmmaker, John Wallace, one of the activists who fought to save the Shawnee Forest and Zack Porter, Executive Director of Standing Trees to discuss the Shawnee Forest, including the proposal to create a new national park and climate preserve.

GJEP’s Response to Biden’s Earth Day Executive Order on US Forests and Climate

2 May 2022-On 22 April 2022 (Earth Day), US President Biden issued an Executive Order to “Strengthen America’s Forests, Boost Wildfire Resilience, and Combat Global Deforestation,” which purports to “expand his administration’s historic and bold efforts to tackle the climate crisis, make our nation more resilient to extreme weather and strengthen local economies.” GJEP responded denouncing the order for “doubling down commitment to business-as-usual programs and policies.”

Breaking Green Podcast

Global Justice Ecology Project’s Breaking Green podcast talks with activists and experts to examine the intertwined issues of social, ecological and economic injustice. Breaking Green also explores some of the more outrageous proposals to address climate and environmental crises that are falsely being sold as green.

The American Chestnut: An Environmental History and a Cautionary Tale

In this episode of Breaking Green, we speak with Dr. Donald Davis, author of The American Chestnut: An Environmental History, an exhaustive book that explores how the American chestnut tree has shaped history, as well as the cultural and environmental significance of the once ubiquitous tree.

Davis calls the story of the American chestnut a cautionary tale of unintended consequences, and criticizes plans to conduct a massive and irreversible experiment by releasing genetically engineered American chestnuts into the wild.

A founding member of the Georgia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation, Davis served as its president from 2005 to 2006. He is currently employed by the Harvard Forest as a research scholar and lives in Washington DC.

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Organizational Spotlight

When GJEP identifies a group or organization whose non-for-profit work closely aligns with our mission, we may support their important work by becoming a fiscal sponsor. This helps them minimize bureaucracy so they can focus on their crucial work for ecological and social justice, forest protection and/or human rights. GJEP fiscally sponsors BiofuelWatch, Vermont Street Medics, Save the Pine Barrens, NH PANTHER, Center for Grassroots Organizing, Standing Trees VT and Shawnee Forest Defense.

Standing Trees Vermont

Standing Trees Vermont works to protect, preserve and restore forests on Vermont’s federal and state public lands.

Standing Trees Vermont envisions a future where forests on Vermont’s federal and state public lands are allowed to grow free from active management and logging. The forests will be free to continue recovering from decades of logging and other detrimental activities. The forests will be allowed to grow strong and old. The forests will be allowed to re-wild.

By allowing the forests on federal and state lands to grow unfettered by active management and logging, they will slowly return to their natural state. As such, they will provide the maximum benefits to plants and animals that depend on them for a healthy environment. By allowing the forests to grow, they will absorb the most carbon, provide the most oxygen, absorb the most particulates, efficiently provide the cleanest water, and protect against extreme weather events.

To learn more go to standingtrees.org.

One of the many memorials remembering the ten people killed by a white supremacist at the Tops supermarket on Buffalo’s East Side. Photo: Harper Bishop

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