Check out our special encore presentation of our interview with Human Rights Attorney Steven Donziger recorded in December 2020. We investigate the story of Chevron’s crimes in Ecuador with Mr. Donziger who represented Ecuadorian communities demanding justice in a $9.5 billion decision against them for one of the largest-ever oil disasters.

In this episode, we investigate the story of New York based attorney Steven Donziger who represented Ecuadorian communities demanding justice from Chevron-Texaco for one of the largest-ever oil disasters, where they deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilled 17 million gallons of crude oil, and left hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor. In a historic judgment, Chevron was found liable by Ecuadorian courts and ordered to pay $9.5 billion. 

Chevron says it will never pay. Instead, they launched an extraordinary racketeering and extortion lawsuit against the Ecuadorian and U.S. attorneys, and various consultants alleging they were all lying about Chevron's pollution and that the entire case was "sham litigation." Chevron has turned our guest Steven Donziger into a corporate political prisoner, placed under house arrest, bankrupt, disbarred. 

We look into how Chevron, supported by US federal judges, is using retaliatory attacks against Mr. Donziger and the Ecuadorian Peoples, and how their actions set a dangerous precedent and represent a growing and serious threat to the ability of civil society to hold corporations accountable for their misdeeds around the world. 

Steven Donziger is a New York-based attorney, human rights advocate, and member of the international legal team that won the historic $9.5 billion Ecuador pollution judgment against Chevron. Steven spent 995 days in detention on what was at most a misdemeanor, both in house arrest and prison, after he refused what appears to be an unlawful order to turn over his computer and cell phone to Chevron as he fought to protect the rights and lives of his Indigenous clients, including their right to confidential communications with their own lawyer. He can be reached at the websites https://www.freedonziger.com/

Jessica Aldridge,  Co-Host and Producer of EcoJustice Radio, is an environmental educator, community organizer, and 16-year recycling industry and Zero Waste leader. She is a co-founder of SoCal 350, organizer for ReusableLA, and founded Adventures in Waste. She is a former professor of Recycling and Resource Management at Santa Monica College, and an award recipient of the international 2021 Women in Sustainability Leadership and the 2016 inaugural Waste360, 40 Under 40. In her day job she is the Sustainability and Zero Waste Programs Director for Athens Services.

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Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats
Episode 84

Amazon Defenders Part 2

Defending the Amazon: The Fight for Justice with Steven Donziger

One year ago, a historic agreement was adopted by 196 countries at COP15: the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). What was so special about it? And what happened since then? 

In this second episode, I invite you to lend an ear to Indigenous leaders, to the finance sector and businesses present at the conference. I also share some insights on the (slow) progress and some of the positive developments since the adoption of the GBF. Listen here for part 1: https://soundcloud.com/tune-intotheworld/cop15-part1

Voices featured in this episode:
* Viviana Figueroa / Omaguaca-Kolla, Argentina / international public lawyer, Associate Programme Officer for the Convention on Biological Diversity (2009 - 2018).

* Jennifer Tauli Corpuz / Kankana-ey Igorot, Philippines / Senior Global Policy and Advocacy Lead, Nia Tero

* Ramson Karmushu / Maasai, Kenya / Field and Logistics Officer, Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement and Conflict Transformation (IMPACT)

* Joji Cariño / Ibaloi-Igorot, Philippines / Senior Policy Advisor, Forest Peoples Programme

* A representative from the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation

* Eva Zabey, CEO of Business for Nature

🎵 Live music from a COP15 concert with original songs by Kellylee Evans 'Everything', 'Greenlight' and 'Feel my love' and musicians Steeve Boudreau, Ed Lister and Chris Pond. https://www.kellyleeevans.com/

Others songs by Holizna Co (Ugly Truth, Foggy Headed, Old Age, Chills) and Wax Lyricist (Indulgence) from the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/

Recordings, script and production by Louise Romain.

Visit www.tuneintotheworld.com to learn more about my work.

Sources:
- International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity: https://iifb-indigenous.org/2023/11/13/agenda-item-7-joint-programme-of-work-on-the-links-between-biological-and-culturaldiversity-review-and-update-of-the-four-adopted-traditional-knowledge-indicators/

- Finance for Biodiversity Foundation: https://www.financeforbiodiversity.org/celebrating-10-new-finance-for-biodiversity-pledge-signatories-on-the-one-year-anniversary-of-the-gbf/
https://www.financeforbiodiversity.org/ffb-foundation-launched-the-nature-target-setting-framework-for-asset-managers-and-asset-owners/

- UNEP report: https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/global-annual-finance-flows-7-trillion-fueling-climate-biodiversity

- 2023 report, World Benchmarking Alliance: https://www.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/publication/nature/

To go deeper:
- About the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF): https://www.cbd.int/gbf/

- One year anniversary KMGBF: https://www.cbd.int/article/one-year-kmgbf

- Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures: https://tnfd.global/

At the heart of COP15 - Part 2

First we share a report from Yurok country, in the Pacific Northwest. The largest dam removal in U.S. history has entered a critical phase, with the lowering of dammed reservoirs on the Klamath River, with members of the Yurok Tribe leading the effort. We use this as an example of why Indigenous people must be leading the efforts of conservation, which is the basis of the Land Back movement discussed in this show.


We also include a brief report on the Northern California Hoopa Tribe’s relation to water from ABC10 in Northern California, featuring Merv George of the Hoopa Tribe.


Then we air an interview from 2023 of Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, on how radical imagination is required to forge a new, and also perhaps ancient way out of the injustices and destruction inherent in settler colonialism with the Land Back Movement.

In the third segment, we air an excerpt from 'Restoring The River with the Yurok, Hupa and Karuk' from KCET's Tending Nature, Season 2, Episode 3 [https://youtu.be/8kZac1ZCtcE?si=NTvrPPX2uycf-y46]. It features Rosie Clyburn the Yurok Tribe Heritage Preservation Officer, Bob McConnel, of the Yurok Tribe and Executive Director of the Cultural Fire Management Council, Charley Reed, Karuk-Yurok-Hupa fisherman, and Tiana Williams, a Yurok Condor Biologist.


Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy is the Co-Director of the Cal Poly Humboldt Native American Studies Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute. Her book: We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies received “Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies,” at the 2019 Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference. She is also the volunteer Executive Director of the Native Women's Collective [http://www.nativewomenscollective.org/], a nonprofit organization that supports the continued revitalization of Native American arts and culture. She is Hupa, Karuk, and Yurok and is enrolled in the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth.

MORE INFO

“Tending Nature: Indigenous Land Stewardship.” KCET documentary film series. https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-nature/special/indigenous-land-stewardship
Episode 19: Decolonizing Water Part I Water Talk Podcast https://www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/episode-19
”Reviving Relationships with Our Foodways: A History of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in California and Beyond" by Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy and Dr. Kaitlin Reed (co-directors of the FSL). https://cooperationhumboldt.com/food-guide-2021/


Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ 
Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ 
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Executive Producer: Jack Eidt
Hosted by Carry Kim 
Intro By: Jessica Aldridge
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Indigenized Futures & the Land Back Movement with Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy

Today's podcast episode is the recording of my LIVE Q&A event on YouTube with some of my favorite Indigenous rights advocates talking about the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision on the constitutionality of the federal government's C-92 Indigenous Child & Family legislation.

Joining me to answer all of the viewers questions were Dr. Cindy Blackstock (Gitksan), Mary Teegee (Gitksan & Carrier) and Naiomi Metallic (Mi'kmaq). They are all experts in Indigenous child and family issues.

Here is the link to the court decision:
https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/20264/1/document.do

Link to the original YouTube LIVE Q&A session:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGKSD0uEL10&t=44s

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Naiomi on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naiomi.metallic

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SCC Decision on Federal Indigenous Child Legislation

On The LatinNews Podcast this week, we look at what is being done to resolve the long standing conflict between the Chilean government and the Mapuche indigenous people, inhabitants of parts of south-central Chile, who have suffered from a policy of "pacification" which resulted in a tragic history of exterminations and displacement. 

Tracing its roots back to the time of Chile's independence from Spain in 1810, the Mapuche conflict has evolved over time and there is now an increase in violent acts as militant Mapuche groups seek greater recognition and rights to ancestral lands. 

The magnitude of the challenge is not lost on President Boric who launched a commission in 2023 to find a solution. So, how can Chile address this long standing historical debt to the Mapuche? 

Joining us on the podcast is Dr Pablo Policzer, Associate Professor of Political Science and former director of the Latin American Research Centre at the University of Calgary in Canada who provides us with contexts from the very beginning of the conflict to the current day.

Chile's Long Standing Historical Debt

My guest today, Osprey Orielle Lake, speaks clearly about the limits and possibilities of this moment on our planet. In this conversation, we talk about how dominant culture needs to shift in order for us to respond more intelligently to what the Earth is communicating to us. We also discuss women’s role in this work, Indigenous leadership, and exciting possibilities happening in the climate justice movement.  

About Osprey: Osprey Orielle Lake is the founder of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), an organization whose mission is to protect and defend the planet, particularly through the work of women who have typically been unheard and undervalued by policymakers. Her book, The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis, casts a wide net that embraces global Indigenous perspectives and modern science to discuss topics such as humanity’s origin, society’s relationship to nature, and the imperative need to halt and reverse climate change.  

To connect with Osprey, visit: 
https://ospreyoriellelake.earth/ 
https://www.wecaninternational.org/   

If you enjoyed this episode, please help get it to others by subscribing, rating the show, or sharing it with a friend! You can also pitch in to support the show once or monthly at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/meganleatherman   

Other resources mentioned: 
Composting Capitalism: https://awildnewwork.com/composting-capitalism  Living the Seasons Journal: https://awildnewwork.com/shop/living-the-seasons-a-journal-for-surviving-capitalism-and-bringing-the-medicine-of-autumn-into-your-life

130. Worldviews, Women, and Reckoning, with Osprey Orielle Lake

In this episode of Reclaiming Our Roots, we dive into the foundations of Indigenous sovereignty across Turtle Island, from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy's democratic governance to the resilience of the Métis Resistance. Host Mr. B, connects these historical movements to the modern-day creation of Nunavut in 1999—a landmark in Inuit self-governance. Highlighting voices like Mary Simon and Sheila Watt-Cloutier, we explore the legacy of traditional knowledge, the Inuit fight for land rights, and the journey toward meaningful sovereignty. Join us to understand how these histories shape the ongoing struggle for Indigenous self-determination today.

Episode 1.2 - Métis Resistance  The Creation of Nunavut

In this episode of Reclaiming Our Roots, host Mr. B examines the Wet'suwet'en Nation's resistance against the Coastal GasLink pipeline, highlighting the ongoing fight for Indigenous sovereignty. We explore the critical importance of consent in governance, the impact of colonial practices, and the broader implications for climate justice. Through powerful testimonies, we reveal the vital role Indigenous Peoples play as defenders of their land and culture, urging listeners to reflect on their responsibility in advocating for Indigenous rights and self-determination.

Episode 1.4 - Wet'suwet'en

In this episode of Reclaiming Our Roots, host Mr. B delves into the critical role of the Canadian legal system in shaping Indigenous sovereignty. We explore landmark cases like Delgamuukw, Tsilhqot'in, and Daniels, discussing how these rulings have affirmed Indigenous rights while also highlighting their limitations within a colonial framework. Despite significant legal victories, Indigenous sovereignty remains conditional, as the state retains ultimate authority over land and governance. As we reflect on these challenges, we emphasize the need for a shift toward rebuilding traditional governance systems and continuing the fight for true self-determination.

Episode 1.5 - The Role of Legal Systems in Indigenous Sovereignty

Every four/five years, each UN Member State undergoes a review of its human rights record, known as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). In 2024, it was the turn of Aotearoa New Zealand to report on its progress and receive recommendations. On this show, recorded in collaboration with Plains FM's ACTivate, Lisa Woods (Movement Building and Advocacy Director at Amnesty International New Zealand) discusses some of the issues raised in the UPR.  

2024-11-20 New Zealand's 2024 UPR (Universal Periodic Review)

In this episode of Reclaiming Our Roots, host Mr. B delves into the profound connection between Indigenous land and sovereignty. Guided by the teachings of Anishinaabe scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and her work Land as Pedagogy, Mr. B explores how land serves as both a foundation and teacher of Indigenous governance, challenging colonial concepts of land ownership. This episode unpacks the inseparable link between land, identity, and self-determination, illuminating why land reclamation remains vital to Indigenous sovereignty and cultural survival today.

Episode 1.7 - Land as Teacher

Discover how language and storytelling empower Indigenous sovereignty in this episode of Reclaiming Our Roots. Explore the resilience of Indigenous communities in revitalizing languages, the impact of colonization on cultural identity, and the power of stories to challenge stereotypes and reclaim narratives. Reflect with us on the profound role of words and stories in honoring the past and shaping a sovereign future.

Episode 2 - Language as Sovereignty: Stories, Resilience, and Reclamation

Maasai blues with Live Boom Bap
vocals: Lengai Loita, Baraka Kanunga & Maasai Warriors
production/live drum machine: Mutamassik

They Scared of Us - Wao Wanatuogopa

first ever Maasai Amapiano?
vocals: Lengai Loita. Maasai Warrior
production: Mutamassik
lyrics about displacement of one of the greatest Indigenous tribes of the world
Recorded at Shooting Star Studio/G.G.S.S., Tanzania
thank you: Steve Maduro

Orkiyoi - The Cry

I'm an anthropologist, an imagination activist, a campaigner for multispecies justice and Indigenous rights, a podcast producer and a spoken word artist.

I create immersive sound journeys that bring together authentic stories from the frontlines of climate action, sounds from nature and atmospheric recordings. My show 'Circle of Voices' gathers stories of resilience and resistance in times of collapse and crisis, through human and more-than-human voices. It is an invitation to dream deeper into possible and desirable futures, while engaging with themes of socio-political and environmental justice.

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EcoJustice Radio presents environmental and climate stories from a social justice frame, featuring voices not necessarily heard on mainstream media.

Our purpose is to amplify community voices, broaden the reach of grassroots-based movements, and inspire action. We investigate solutions for social, environmental, and climate issues with an eye to advance human health, steward wild landscapes, and solve the climate crisis across the USA and the world.

Featured weekly on KPFK Los Angeles and KPFT Houston, and found on all major podcast apps. We are nationally syndicated through the Pacifica Network and PRX and heard on public radio stations across the US and downloaded in over 25 countries.

Co-hosts Jack Eidt, Carry Kim, and Jessica Aldridge present a broad range of perspectives: land defenders and water protectors; Indigenous leaders, front/fenceline community spokespeople; youth organizers; ecosystem and land stewards; regenerative farmers and permaculture specialists; spiritual and faith leaders; environmental health advocates and practitioners; documentary filmmakers; climate scientists; and political decision makers.

EcoJustice Radio [http://EcoJusticeRadio.org] is produced by SoCal350.org since 2017. 

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Join award-winning host Pam Palmater, Mi’kmaw lawyer, author & activist, as she shares the stories of Indigenous warriors and activists on the front lines of protecting Indigenous lands, peoples, and cultures.

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