“Such a new, green economy needs to be guided by the leadership and knowledge of those most burdened by pollution, poverty and other forms of institutional violence waged by the corporations causing this global ecological crisis.”. That takes time, expertise and resources - and we're up against a constant tide of misinformation and distorted coverage.
It brings to light that Indigenous liberation is climate justice. Indigenous peoples should be empowered to develop and implement restorative practices according to their own customs and traditions. Click here to view and download IEN’s FULL assessment of the main problems it sees in the current language of the Green New Deal. But the resolution itself focuses on the tenets of a progressive policy platform as much as it does on climate change. In November 2019, Climate Justice Alliance participated in the roll out of the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act with Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and climate and housing activists. According to the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), the GND, as is, “will leave incentives by industries and governments to continue causing harms to Indigenous communities.” Before endorsing, IEN calls for a clear commitment to keep fossil fuels in the ground; rejecting carbon pricing schemes; strengthening the language on Indigenous peoples; and stopping, not prolonging, our current exploitative and abusive economic and political systems. Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance, Anti-Indigenous racism in Canadian health care is deeply systematic, Core truths not addressed in federal agencies’ Record of Decision on dam operations on lower Snake River and mainstem Columbia River, Native led statewide political action committee that is working to build Native political power across the state, Missing and Murdered Indigenous People cases a top priority for U.S. Attorney’s Office and Department of Justice, "Indian Country COVID-19 Response and Update" hearing will be livestreamed today at 1 p.m.
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© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Get a discounted print subscription today. This is why Indigenous environmental activists are so severely criminalized and targeted for assassination in response to our organizing throughout the world — we are always in the way. The resolution states a goal of: obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of indigenous peoples for all decisions that affect indigenous peoples and their traditional territories, honoring all treaties and agreements with indigenous peoples, and protecting and enforcing the sovereignty and land rights of indigenous peoples; The call for “free, prior, and informed consent” is no little thing. In the United States, Indigenous caretakers have been the most confrontational arm of the environmental movement by blocking the construction of oil pipelines.
But Pick-Sloan didn’t happen in a vacuum; it was part of a broader national energy infrastructure development plan. What did begin there was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s successful bid for Congress, and an Indigenous-led movement that galvanized the popular forces behind the Green […]. Green New Deal intention applauded, but falls short in protecting Indigenous communities. Asheninka Mino, a medicine man from the Indigenous community of Asheninka in Peru, repeated these words as we walked through the mountains of Mora, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the project’s reliance on privatization has undermined these goals. Subscribe in print today!
Lauren Gambino in Washington, Thu 7 Feb 2019 12.18 GMT To overcome these challenges, Europe needs a new growth strategy that will transform the Union into a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy, where Indigenous history provides a useful guide on the pitfalls of “new deals.” The first New Deal — or the Indian New Deal, as it was known — had mixed results.
We’re Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary. What follows is the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) Press Statement: “While we applaud the Green New Deal resolution for its intention and scope, we remain concerned that unless some changes are made, the resolution will leave the door open to incentives and critical loopholes to be used by industries and governments to continue causing harm to Tribes and Indigenous communities. The groups’ letter calls for a thoughtful phaseout of fossil fuel production, a transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, complete decarbonization of the transportation system, use of the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, a just transition to a new green economy and the adherence to treaties upholding Indigenous rights when pursuing these actions. In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized the National Industrial Recovery Act, and with it an Army Corps of Engineers project to construct the Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River, providing employment for ten thousand white workers to pull Montana’s economy out of the gutter.
With this resolution, Representative Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey have begun a critical process to change the national conversation in regards to addressing the climate crisis at hand.
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Such legislation has little chance of becoming law as long as Republicans control the Senate and Trump is president. The Democratic congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, who is the co-chair of the House progressive caucus and a sponsor of the legislation, said the resolution defined the scale and scope of what must be done to combat global warming. “The issue is that accumulation-based societies don’t like the answers we come up with because they are not quick technological fixes, they are not easy,” Anishnaabeg intellectual Leanne Betasamosake Simpson said in a recent interview. Download IEN GND Talking Points-Word Doc, Indigenous Principles of Just Transition
From sea level rise to loss of land to food insecurities, Indigenous frontline communities and Tribal nations are already experiencing the direct impacts of climate change, and we are encouraged to see these congressional leaders take charge to help Indigenous communities and Tribal nations protect their homelands, rights, sacred sites, waters, air, and bodies from further destruction. (Photo: Light Brigading/Flickr/cc), Except where otherwise noted, articles on this website are licensed under a, IC is a publication of the Center for World Indigenous Studies (, A ‘Red Deal’: Why Indigenous Communities Belong at the Center of Climate Action, Sweetgrass Protocols for Culturally Responsible Journalism.
As Dina Gilio-Whitaker from the Colville Confederated Tribes argues in her book As Long as the Grass Grows, settler state conservation policies stem from “protecting” slivers of nature by killing and removing Indigenous peoples from the land to create nature reserves, national and state parks, and “public lands.” Under Trump’s administration, millions of acres of this land have been opened for oil and gas extraction, threatening Indigenous sacred sites and surrounding communities. The best forms of environmental policy come from the bottom up. Perhaps liberal-minded readers of that era thought it was clever word play, the posturing of a Red Power militant — attention-grabbing sloganeering, but not a serious political demand. Elsewhere it was an engineered nightmare. Consent is a recognition of our self-determination over our lands, our air, our water, and our bodies.”.
And, according to a June 2019 intelligence briefing that Trump tried to suppress, the State Department cautions that, because of climate change, “local problems” in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Southeast Asia make these regions especially vulnerable for unrest that “could spill over with global consequences.” The goal, then, is containment. One of its goals is “to promote justice and equity by stopping current, preventing future, and repairing historic oppression of indigenous peoples, communities of color, migrant communities, deindustrialized communities, depopulated rural communities, the poor, low-income workers, women, the elderly, the unhoused, people with disabilities, and youth”. Others argue that seizing the assets of fossil fuel companies and reallocating money and resources away from state institutions directly contributing to climate change and social inequality must also be part of the agenda. The resolution text comes as Donald Trump frequently questions the science that shows humans burning fossil fuels are causing temperatures to rise and exacerbate extreme weather. The US military, with nearly 800 bases worldwide in more than seventy countries and territories, plays no positive role in the world, even at half its capacity. The invaders pulverized buffalo skulls into fertilizer for their plots — the sacred animals slaughtered by the millions to near extinction to starve Indigenous peoples off the land.