Law students don't have much time to give Earth Day its due, but in case you're kicking back, we're embedding a livestream to the People's Climate Conference beginning in Bolivia this week:
And if you want to get some more info about it, this Indypendent article has some more info about it and events that are going on in NY in response.
Further, Democracy Now is broadcasting from Bolivia all week and I just watched Monday's episode. Quite stimulating.
Pool Party too!
Showing posts with label cuny law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cuny law. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
UPROSE bus tour
At the Law Review Panel:
back in February, Elizabeth Yeampierre talked about the work of UPROSE and the video shows the bus they use for the EJ Bus Tour. Here's a media spot from a REALLY awesome project, Brooklyn Independent Television, with a piece about it.
Can we take that tour sometime soon?
back in February, Elizabeth Yeampierre talked about the work of UPROSE and the video shows the bus they use for the EJ Bus Tour. Here's a media spot from a REALLY awesome project, Brooklyn Independent Television, with a piece about it.
Can we take that tour sometime soon?
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
community focus needed for a real 'break'
The Indypendent » Greenpeace Indirectly Pits Itself Against Indonesian Farm Workers
The Indypendent Blog posted this brief article about the effects of Greenpeace's recent big campaign against Nestle. Greenpeace has really started to nail down how to wage a successful campaign with cutting viral videos and aggressive pushes against well-known corporations. It's the kinda stuff that makes environmentalists go "oo yeah, you get 'em Greenpeace". And it seems that the campaign is having rapid success, but not without a drawback, pushback from Indonesian palm oil farmers.
At CUNY Law we speak often about organizing and advocacy and the role of the law within that, and I think this issue raises these questions on a big scale. Specifically - how can large environmental groups wage effective campaigns without sacrificing community needs? Can this be done on a large scale or is a smaller community focus required to preserve the lives of workers when one corporation holds all the economic power in a region? Are viral video campaigns inherently exploitive?
And so on.
At the International Law Society's event a few weeks ago "Blood and Capital: Holding Corporations Accountable for Human Rights Violations" we did see some great legal work utilizing the Alient Tort Statute that seems to allow for this type of work. Is there a way that Greenpeace and the other gigantic environmental groups can integrate some of CCR's and EarthRights strategies?
Much to consider, and it's important for all of us to consider these questions in our summer work and beyond.
Regardless, here is the somewhat stomach turning Greenpeace video, in case you haven't seen it.
The Indypendent Blog posted this brief article about the effects of Greenpeace's recent big campaign against Nestle. Greenpeace has really started to nail down how to wage a successful campaign with cutting viral videos and aggressive pushes against well-known corporations. It's the kinda stuff that makes environmentalists go "oo yeah, you get 'em Greenpeace". And it seems that the campaign is having rapid success, but not without a drawback, pushback from Indonesian palm oil farmers.
At CUNY Law we speak often about organizing and advocacy and the role of the law within that, and I think this issue raises these questions on a big scale. Specifically - how can large environmental groups wage effective campaigns without sacrificing community needs? Can this be done on a large scale or is a smaller community focus required to preserve the lives of workers when one corporation holds all the economic power in a region? Are viral video campaigns inherently exploitive?
And so on.
At the International Law Society's event a few weeks ago "Blood and Capital: Holding Corporations Accountable for Human Rights Violations" we did see some great legal work utilizing the Alient Tort Statute that seems to allow for this type of work. Is there a way that Greenpeace and the other gigantic environmental groups can integrate some of CCR's and EarthRights strategies?
Much to consider, and it's important for all of us to consider these questions in our summer work and beyond.
Regardless, here is the somewhat stomach turning Greenpeace video, in case you haven't seen it.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Bottled Water blows.
I know I'm a little behind posting this, but Appleseeds probably are too wrapped up in studies to have spent 8 minutes on this yet.
Annie Leonard is using Youtube really really well.
Anecdotally, I do notice that CUNY students seem to use a their own bottles of tab or coffee or tea more than plastic bottles. Any thoughts?
Perhaps we can stream this at our Freecycle event?
BeeTeeDubs, this is the scariest part, around 4:55 onward.
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