Indigenous peoples are approximately 5% of the world’s population, manage at least 25% of the world’s land surfaces, 40% of the world’s protected areas, and steward about 80% of the world’s biodiversity. Each year Indigenous peoples from scores of different nations and cultures across Mother Earth convene at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) in the settler colonial city, state, and nation-state New York City, New York, United States. 

On today’s program, we here from the panelists who participated in UNPFII side event titled “Indigenous Peoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions” on 4/20/2023. The panel focuses on Indigenous Peoples resisting land grabs driven by extractive industries, human rights violations, and Indigenous environmental defenders resisting false solutions known as: carbon markets, cap and trade, emission trading, carbon offsets, environmental and ecological services and the rebranding of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to earth-based solutions. The UNPFII side event was sponsored and organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN).

Guests: 
Tom Goldtooth (Dine’/Lakota Nations), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and moderator. 
Panelist speakers are (in order): 
Tamra Gilbertson, Policy Advisor and Education Coordinator for the IEN;
Shyrlene Oliveira da Silva Huni Kui; 
Thomas Joseph (Hoopa Nation), Carbon Policy Educator with IEN, and 
Alberto Saldamando (Xicano/Zapoteca), Lawyer Advocate with IEN.  

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American Indian Airwaves is an all-volunteer collective and Native American public affairs program that broadcast weekly on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles, CA, Thursdays, from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

Indigenous Peoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes

Today on American Indian Airwaves (AIA), listeners will hear from the Climate Justice Organizer of the Pueblo Action Alliance, an Indigenous women and femme-led grassroots organization, which has been actively building both a community and a movement to resist false solutions being pushed across New Mexico and on Pueblo lands.

In collaboration with the New Mexico No False Solutions Coalition, they successfully defeated eight state legislative bills promoting false solutions—including those advancing carbon capture, hydrogen, brackish and reclaimed water projects, and the reclassification of natural gas as renewable energy. The PAA’s intent is to keep this coalition growing and continue building power across the state. With this year’s turnout, Pueblo Action Alliance—alongside the No False Solutions Coalition—is setting the bar and offering a blueprint for how to build, empower, and uplift communities to defend the sacred from carbon colonialism. Listeners will hear this and more about the various successful campaigns of the PAA in defending the sacred in a “just transition”. 

Guest:
•	Alicia Gallegos, (Laguna Pueblo & Acoma Pueblo Nations), Climate Justice Organizer of the Pueblo Action Alliance (PAA). 

Archived programs can be heard on Soundcloud at: https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp

American Indian Airwaves streams on over ten podcasting platforms such as Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Audible, Backtracks.fm, Gaana, Google Podcast, Fyyd, iHeart Media, Mixcloud, Player.fm, Podbay.fm, Podcast Republic, SoundCloud, Spotify, Tunein, YouTube, and more.


Defending Mother Earth, No False Solutions, & Uplifting Indigenous Communities and Nations

American Indian Airwaves (AIA), an Indigenous public affairs radio porgram and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio program within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories. Also, AIA broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org).  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacr


American Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studios and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 on KPFK in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein.

American Indian Airwaves operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship and no underwriters.

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