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Engañados en el Invernadero Parte II: Voces de la primera línea de la Resistencia Indígena, más allá de las Falsas Soluciones Climáticas
Miércoles 27 de Octubre
6pm Hora de Nueva York (GMT-4)
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This panel was preceded by Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Examining False Corporate Schemes being advanced through the Paris Agreement. The recording of this event is available here.
This panel features Indigenous organizers from frontline communities that are disproportionately impacted by false solutions to the climate crisis. From Mapuche communities in Chile, to Dine communities in Southwest Turtle Island, climate false solutions such as nuclear power, megadams, fracking, and many more continue to cause displacement and disaster in Indigenous communities worldwide.
Speakers will share stories from the frontlines about their efforts to stop the ongoing impacts of false climate solutions such as nuclear power and toxic waste dumping, mega dams for hydropower that cause displacement and biodiversity loss, land, water, and ocean grabs for industrial agriculture, biofuel production, renewable energy projects, and carbon and biodiversity offsetting, and carbon capture and storage technologies used for enhanced oil recovery.
Climate false solutions such as nuclear power, hydropower, biofuel, fracking and enhanced oil recovery, carbon offsets, carbon capture, biodiversity offsets, and nature based solutions are sold by corporations and NGOs alike as ways to combat climate change that also boost the economy. “Solutions” rooted in growth and profit will not solve the climate crisis and will continue to enact violence on the natural world and on frontline communities across the globe.
This panel will focus on organizations that are contributing to movements for systemic change and climate justice, led by frontline communities and nurtured through processes of resistance, resurgence and decolonization.
This is the second panel of a series that builds on the momentum created by the most recent edition of HOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE (THIRD EDITION): RESIST FALSE SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE. The first panel was Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Examining False Corporate Schemes being advanced through the Paris Agreement. The recording of this event is available here.
The co-created through the contributions of the coalition of organizations that constitute the ClimateFalseSolutions.org collective, listed below.
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Este panel fue precedido por Engañados en el Invernadero: Examinando Esquemas Corporativos Falsos promovidos en el Acuerdo de París. La grabación de este evento está disponible aquí.
Este panel presenta a Organizadores Indígenas de comunidades que se encuentran en la primera línea y se ven afectadas de manera desproporcionada por soluciones falsas a la crisis climática. Desde comunidades Mapuches en Chile hasta comunidades Dine en el suroeste de la Isla Tortuga, falsas soluciones climáticas como la energía nuclear, las mega represas, el fracking y muchas más, continúan causando desplazamientos y desastres en las comunidades indígenas de todo el mundo.
Los oradores compartirán historias desde la primera línea, sobre sus esfuerzos para detener los contínuos impactos de las falsas soluciones climáticas, como la energía nuclear y el vertido de desechos tóxicos, las mega represas para la energía hidroeléctrica que causan desplazamientos y pérdida de biodiversidad, la apropiación de tierras, agua y océanos para la agricultura industrial, la producción de biocombustibles, proyectos de energías renovables y compensación de carbono y biodiversidad, y tecnologías de captura y almacenamiento de carbono utilizadas para mejorar la recuperación del uso del petróleo.
Falsas soluciones para el cambio climático como la energía nuclear, hidroeléctrica, biocombustibles, fracking y la recuperación del petróleo, compensación de carbono, captura de carbono, compensación de biodiversidad y soluciones basadas en la naturaleza, son vendidas por las corporaciones y ONG como formas de combatir el cambio climático que también impulsan la economía. “Soluciones” basadas en el crecimiento y las ganancias no resolverán la crisis climática y continuarán promulgando violencia en el mundo natural y en las comunidades que se encuentran en la primera línea en todo el mundo.
Este panel se enfocará en organizaciones que están contribuyendo con movimientos por un cambio sistémico y de justicia climática, liderados por comunidades que se encuentran en la primera línea y alimentados a través de procesos de resistencia, resurgimiento y descolonización.
Este panel procede sobre la base de la más reciente edición del reporte HOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE (TERCERA EDICIÓN): RESISTIENDO LAS SOLUCIONES FALSAS AL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO, co-creado a través de las contribuciones de la coalición de organizaciones que constituyen el colectivo ClimateFalseSolutions.org, listadas abajo.
• Biofuelwatch
• Energy Justice Network
• Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
• ETC Group
• Global Justice Ecology Project
• Indigenous Climate Action
• Indigenous Environmental Network
• La Via Campesina
• Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project
• Mt. Diablo Rising Tide
• Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
• North American Megadam Resistance Alliance
• Nuclear Information and Resource Service
• Shaping Change Collaborative
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Speakers:
Kandi White, Indigenous Environmental Network
Leona Morgan, Diné No Nukes
Rubén Sánchez Curihentro, Observatorio Cuidadano
Lucien Wabanonik, Anishnaabeg Nation and Algonquin
Mindahi Bastida, Minga Indígena and The Fountain
Moderators: Shehla Arif, Engineering Social Justice and Peace; Gopal Dayaneni, Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project; & Leo Figueroa Helland, Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment.
Presented by the Milano School of Policy, Management, Environment at the Schools of Public Engagement and the coalition of organizations that constitute the ClimateFalseSolutions.Org, including the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Just Transition Alliance, the Global Justice Ecology Project, and Biofuelwatch, with the support and collaboration of the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program of the Milano School, the Indigeneity, Decolonization & Just Sustainabilities Initiative of the Tishman Environment and Design Center, and Amazon Watch.
Presentado por la la coalición de organizaciones que constituyen el colectivo ClimateFalseSolutions.org, incluyendo Indigenous Environmental Network, Just Transition Alliance, Global Justice Ecology Project, y Biofuelwatch, con el apoyo y colaboración del programa de posgrado en Política Ambiental y Sustentabilidad (Milano School), la Iniciativa de Indigeneidad, Descolonización y Justicia Ambiental (Tishman Environment and Design Center), y Amazon Watch.
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Kandi White (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara – North Dakota) of the Indigenous
Environmental Network (IEN) has emerged as a leading voice in the fight to bring
visibility to the impact that climate change and environmental injustice are having on Indigenous communities across North America.
After completing her Master’s Degree in Environmental Management, she
began her work with the IEN as Tribal Campus Climate Challenge Coordinator, engaging with more than 30 tribal colleges to instate community based environmental programs, discuss issues of socio-ecologic injustice, and connect indigenous youth with green jobs.
She currently serves as the IEN’s Native Energy & Climate Campaign Organizer,
focusing at present on creating awareness about the environmentally & socially
devastating effects of hydraulic fracturing on tribal lands.
Her local work is complemented by international advocacy work, including participation in several UN Forums and a testimony before the U.S. Congress on the climate issue and its links to issues of health, identity, and well being on tribal lands.
Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz is the Sacred Sites Ceremonialist for the Center for Sacred Studies and the Director of the Original Nations Program of the Fountain and until July 2020 has been the Director of the Original Caretakers Program, Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (2017- ) and General Coordinator of the Otomi-Toltec Regional Council in Mexico, a caretaker of the philosophy and traditions of the Otomi-Toltec peoples, and has been an Otomi-Toltec Ritual Ceremony Officer since 1988. Born in Tultepec, Lerma, Mexico, he holds a Doctorate of Rural Development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Mexico. He has written on the relationship between the State and Indigenous Peoples, intercultural education, collective intellectual property rights and associated traditional knowledge, among other topics.
Mindahi holds a doctorate in Rural Development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM, 2010), University Medal of Merit; M.A. Political Science, Carleton University, Canada, 1996, Pass with Distinction; Bachelor: Tourism, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico (UAEMEX, 1991).
Leona Morgan co-founded and works with the Nuclear Issues Study Group and Diné No Nukes, which contributes to the Haul No! initiative and Radiation Monitoring Project. She collaborates nationally with many groups to address the entire nuclear fuel chain in the U.S. and is part of the international campaign Don’t Nuke The Climate that focuses on nuclear energy as a global climate issue. Leona is from the Navajo Nation and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Rubén Sánchez Curihentro is a native of Huilio, a Mapuche community of Freire in the Araucanía Region. He worked as a researcher in the Institute of Indigenous Studies of the University of the Frontier (UFRO), and since 1997 he has participated in diverse research projects in the socio-demographics and territorial areas. He has studied informatics and programming.
Shehla Arif is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Mount Union. Her current research and teaching focus on reclaiming the goals of liberal education by emphasizing social and ecological dimensions of engineering work. She aims at supporting diversity and promoting sustainability by foregrounding the societal impacts of Engineering practice and thus preparing compassionate engineers who care about the well-being of fellow human beings, other life forms, and the planet.
She is the lead editor of the International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace. Her contributions range from creating novel Fluid Dynamics experiments to applying liberative pedagogies to teaching ThermalFluids Sciences. She obtained Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, IL, U.S.A followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship in Earth Sciences at McGill University, Canada. Her Master’s in Mechanical Engineering is from Bucknell University, PA, U.S.A. She obtained B.E. from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
Gopal Dayaneni has been involved in fighting for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice through organizing & campaigning, teaching, writing, speaking, and direct action since the late 1980s.
Gopal is a trainer with the Ruckus Society and serves on the boards of The Center for Story-based Strategy, The Working World, ETCgroup.org (The Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Corporate Concentration), and Occidental Arts and Ecology Center. He is also on the advisory board of the Catalyst Project. Gopal is also Adjunct Faculty for the Masters in Urban Sustainability program at Antioch University, Los Angeles, where he teaches Ecological Systems Thinking and supports the overall program. Gopal works at the intersection of ecology, economy, and empire.
Leonardo Figueroa Helland works at the intersection of diverse critical paradigms to study how indigenous knowledge combines with various transformative approaches to address environmental challenges, climate crises and social injustices. His research triangulates political ecology, global studies, complex ecologism, world-systems ecology, ecofeminism, and intersectionality with indigenous and decolonial studies to articulate systemic alternatives that embody social, environmental, climate, and global justice. His writings address themes like global environmental politics and policy, indigeneity and decolonization, coloniality and ecological imperialism, gendered economies and socioecological reproduction, posthumanism and biocultural diversity, agroecology and sustainable food systems, social movements and prefigurative politics, energy geopolitics and energy transitions, and global migrations.
Before coming to The New School, he chaired the Department of Politics, Justice & Global Studies at Westminster College (Salt Lake City, Utah), where he also taught in the MA in Community Leadership, the Environmental Studies program, and the Honors College. While at Westminster, he launched the Global Studies program and its annual conference on “Global Crises, Global Change”. He is also co-convener for the Latin American Observatory of the Humanities for the Environment.
His latest writings can be found in the Journal of World Systems Research, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, the volume on Social Movements and World-System Transformation, and the forthcoming volume on Anarchist Political Ecology. His current projects include a manuscript on Indigeneity and Planetary Politics, an edited volume with Dr. Abigail Perez Aguilera on Indigenous Ecologies.
Lucien Wabanonik is an elected member of his community of Lac Simon. He still fluently speaks the language of his People and is living by his culture. He was placed at a very young age at a boarding school and survived the 2 years he spent in that facility. When coming back to his family, he was raised in his culture and identity and values of his people.
In the past years, he occupied positions in his nation such as Grand chief of his nation regrouping seventh communities. He also has been a chief and director general of his community in Lac Simon. Lucien was one of the representatives accompanying the regional chief speaking in the United Nations for the First Nations from Quebec, Canada. He is also a negotiator for his nation in one major file (protection of the moose). And right now, he is the spokesperson for the coalition regrouping 5 communities and 3 different nations fighting against Hydro-Quebec and the provincial government of Quebec.
Read more about Lucien Wabanonik: My people were robbed, ignored by Hydro-Quebec, Quebec government.