Let’s Get This Right: Why We All Need to Stand up for Immigrant Rights Now! By Jason Negrón-Gonzales April 2010 (photo by Marisa Franco, Right to the City Alliance) Events in recent weeks in Arizona should be a cause for concern for all people who seek justice and...
Cochabamba Postscript: Lessons, Reflections & the Road to Cancun By Jason Negrón-Gonzales April 2010 I’m on the plane back to the US flying at 29,000 feet over the Amazon. A green carpet of trees, only interrupted by winding veins of brown rivers, stretches to...
Earth Day takes on New Meaning in Cochabamba By Jason Negrón-Gonzales April 2010 Photo of Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network in the blessing ceremony in Cochabamba. credit: Diana Pei Wu. Today, Earth Day, was the closing day of the first World People’s...
The ABC’s of Climate Negotiations By Jason Negrón-Gonzales Cochabamba, Bolivia April 2010 Here at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, I Just took in a panel on the ABC’s of Climate Negotiations featuring the negotiators...
Day one – “Either capitalism lives and the earth dies, or capitalism dies and the earth lives.” By Jason Negrón-Gonzales Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project April 19, 2010 The CMPCC (Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climático y los...
Dispatch 1: Rumbo a Cochabamba By Jason Negrón-Gonzales, en route to Cochabamba (April 2010) I’m writing from the plane in route to Cochabamba for the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and Rights of the Mother Earth. For those who aren’t familiar with the...