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FoE Mozambique activist Jeremias Vunjanhe is finally granted entry to Brazil for Rio+20. FoE Brazil
FoEI at the Rio Peope’s Summit plenary on Defending the Commons against Commercialisation. FoE Brazil.
The Spanish version of this Interlinkages will be sent out soon. Thanks to Ronnie Hall for editing and designing this issue. Questions? Contact comms@foei.org
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Welcome to the March-June 2012 edition of FoEI's electronic update Interlinkages.
contents
foe groups argentina, australia, austria, bangladesh, belgium, belgium (flanders & brussels), brazil, cameroon, canada, chile, colombia, costa rica, croatia, curaçao, cyprus, czech republic, denmark, el salvador, england/wales/northern ireland, estonia, finland, france, georgia, germany, ghana, grenada, guatemala, haiti, honduras, hungary, indonesia, ireland, italy, japan, latvia, liberia, lithuania, luxembourg, macedonia (former yugoslav republic of), malawi, malaysia, mali, malta, mauritius, mexico, mozambique, nepal, netherlands, new zealand, nigeria, norway, palestine, papua new guinea, paraguay, peru, philippines, poland, scotland, sierra leone, slovakia, south africa, south korea, spain, sri lanka, sweden, swaziland, switzerland, tanzania, timo-leste, togo, tunisia, uganda, ukraine, united states, uruguay
foe affiliates cee bankwatch, corporate europe observatory, corpwatch, earthlife africa, foe middle east, international rivers, mineral policy institute, peace boat, rainforest action network, world information service on energy
action alerts
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international campaigns
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member & affiliate groups
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secretariat, excom & chair
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communications
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announcements
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news from friends
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calendar
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campaign list serves
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foei contact list
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foei member groups
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foei affiliate groups
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Five-years. Susi in Germany, Young FoE Europe.
action alerts Your help needed to protect Colombian activists FoE ATALC is concerned about the serious situation facing Colombian community leaders and academics, including those belonging to FoE Colombia/CENSAT. On 8 June, Felix Manuel Banguero, a member of the Regional Coordination Team for Black Communities development (PCN), the Pilamo Community Council, was arrested and subsequently indicted on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. Similarly, at the beginning of July, the Regional Office of Huila opened a criminal investigation into the distinguished professor Miller Dussan, concerning “the irregular nature of the behaviour of professor Dussan Miller” in the demonstrations that have been held against the Quimbo hydroelectric project. In addition, on 7 July, the home and workplace of Hildebrando Vélez Galeano was raided. Vélez Galeano, is an environmentalist, professor, and member of PCN Palenke Alto Cauca, and was director of FoE Colombia and International Coordinator of FoEI’s Climate Justice and Energy Programme in 2009 and 2010. Since 17 February 2011, when Sandra Viviana Cuellar went missing, both his and his daughter’s houses have been simultaneously attacked on two occasions. Computers with information, primarily concerning the search for Sandra Viviana have been stolen, along with papers about their academic research and documents relating to their social struggles. Show your solidarity by writing a letter to the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest against this treatment of Colombia’s community leaders and academics - you can find more information about ATALC’s call to the Colombian government, and an address to write to here: http://www.foei.org/en/blog/grave-situation-of-community-leaders-and-academics-in-colombia Paraguay: Correa released, but coup opens door to GM and extractives Tensions have been running high in Paraguay for some time as those with commercial interests, especially in the soy industry, have tried to crush the reformist government of Fernando Lugo, because of his government’s efforts to promote land reform and curb the worst excesses of corporations and the extractive industry. On 15 June police moved in to evict landless campesinos from land dubiously acquired from the state by a former and long-time Colorado Party (right wing) senator, Blas Riquelme. A gunfight broke out and at least 17 people were killed, including six police. Miguel Correa, a twenty-year old participant in FoE Paraguay/Sobrevivencia’s community project was arrested by police for involvement in the killings, despite having been nowhere near the event at the time. He was still in prison weeks later, although he has now been released as a result of an international outcry, including by means of an action coordinated by FoE EWNI, and support from Amnesty International: http://www.foe.co.uk/news/demand_justice_for_miguel_36422.html Following the gun battle, President Lugo, who was elected as a champion of the poor, was impeached by the Senate and replaced by Frederico Franco – although other Latin American heads of state have refused to recognise the new president and have questioned the constitutionality of the process: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/06/201262383641605671.html Key Lugo ministers were also removed from office, including Environment Minister Oscar Rivas, and Miguel Lovera, head of Plant and Seed service SENAVE (responsible, amongst other things, for issuing licences for GM crops). Both are associated with FoE Paraguay. Lovera was replaced by Jaime Ayala, president of Pacific Agrosciences, an agrochemical company. This was almost immediately followed by the approved release of GM cotton Bollgard-BT, and an announcement that four new GM maize varieties, and one new GM soy variety were
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about to be approved: http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/economia/transgenicos--en-la-recta-final-422004.html A wave of other permissions for extractive projects was also announced, including negotiations with RTZ on a new aluminium smelter: http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/542132-El-Gobierno-negociará-con-Rio-Tinto-sobre-una-tarifa-de-USD-60-MW/h You can read an opinion piece by Oxfam International’s Executive Director declaring President Lugo “the latest victim of Paraguay’s ‘soy war’” here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/opinion/paraguaysdestructive-soy-boom.html?_r=2 Contact: coordina@sobrevivencia.org.py
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Insist Shell provides emergency clean up fund This petition calls on Shell to take responsibility for the devastation it has wrought in the Niger Delta, and provide a US$1billion emergency clean up fund. The target for signatures is 75,000 people and it’s nearly been reached. Your signature could make all the difference. Sign here: http://sumofus.org/campaigns/shell-cleanup/ Find out more at http://www.worsethanbad.org, a campaign website launched by FoE Netherlands.
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Logo of FoEI’s new Reclaim the UN from Corporate Capture campaign. FoEI.
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EJRN/corporates: challenging corporate capture of the UN On 5 June, World Environment Day, FoEI turned the spotlight on to the influence that big business currently wields at the UN, urging the institution to limit multinational corporations’ excessive influence in its decision-making processes. FoEI launched an online public petition asking UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to take the steps needed to reclaim the UN from corporate capture. 422 civil society organisations representing millions of people around the world signed in support. Download FoEI’s new publication, ‘Reclaim The UN from Corporate Capture’: http://www.foei.org/en/resources/publications/pdfs/2012/reclaim-the-un-from-corporate-capture/view Read the statement: http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/end-un-corporate-capture View the list of signatories: http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/signatories-end-un-corporate-capture-statement-22-june-2012 Contact: Paul de Clerck, FoEI Corporates Campaign Coordinator, paul@milieudefensie.nl or Lucia Ortiz, FoEI EJRN Programme Coordinator, lucia@natbrasil.org.br Rio+20: big business interests more important than future of the planet The subsequent Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro underscored just how tight big business’s grip on the UN agenda actually is. Twenty years after the last Earth Summit in Rio, which launched conventions to tackle climate change, biodiversity and desertification, we now face a situation in which world leaders are prepared to sell out people and the planet to protect corporate interests. The Rio+20 ‘The Future We Want’ declaration fell way short of the action needed to tackle the planetary crisis we face, and did not include any of the real solutions demanded by the alternative People’s Summit. FoEI was a key player in this latter summit, an alternative space where over 200 civil society groupings worked together for nine days generating real and equitable solutions to tackle the crisis we face. To view the actions rejecting the final declaration from Rio+20 see this video: http://www.foei.org/en/blog/videosit-in-and-walk-out-at-the-entrance-of-the-rio-20-summit You can find the final version of the People’s Summit declaration here: http://cupuladospovos.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Declaracion_final_ESP.pdf (Spanish) http://cupuladospovos.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FinalDeclaration-ENG.pdf (English) To read FoEI’s final opinion of the Earth Summit go to: http://www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2012/rio-20-summit-condemned-as-sell-out-of-people-and-the-planet (English) and http://www.foei.org/es/media/archive/2012/cumbre-rio-20-condenada-por-vender-la-gente-y-elplaneta?set_language=es (Spanish) Rio+20: fisherfolk murdered in Rio for environmental struggles It seems paradoxical that just days after the end of Rio+20 - a summit supposed to find solutions to environmental conflicts - two fishermen from Rio were murdered. On Friday 22 June, activists of Associação de Homens e Mulheres do Mar (AHOMAR), Almir Nogueira de Amorim and João Luiz Telles Penetra (Pituca) disappeared. Their bodies were found days later with indications that they had been murdered. Real World Radio interviewed AHOMAR’s chair, Alexandre Anderson de Souza, about the murder of the two fishermen and the situation suffered by the fishing communities in Bahía de Guanabara in recent years. It is a story of loss of common goods, and threats and persecution, but also of struggle and resistance. 5
You can read more and listen to the interview here: http://radiomundoreal.fm/5717-rio-death?lang=en (English) http://radiomundoreal.fm/5716-rio-muerte?lang=es (Spanish) Rio+20/RMOG: FoE Mozambique campaigner refused entry to Brazil Jeremias Vunjanhe, a journalist and member of FoE Mozambique/Justiçia Ambiental, was denied entry to Brazil where he was planning to attend the Rio+20 summit and the parallel People’s Summit. As a mining activist he was scheduled to participate in the People’s Summit to expose the negative impacts of Brazilian mining corporation Vale, at the third International Meeting of People Affected by Vale. Justiçia Ambiental and Vunjanhe have supported hundreds of Mozambican families that have been resettled by Vale in the Moatize district of Mozambique, and Vale has failed to comply with the promises made when the works began. Vale was one of the official sponsors of Rio+20. You can find out more at Real World Radio: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5598-illegal-practices?lang=en (English) http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5596-asi-no-vale (Spanish)
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FS: Demanding food sovereignty at FAO summit FoEI’s Food Sovereignty programme participated in the 3rd Special Conference for Food Sovereignty, Rights and Life, organised by the International Committee for Food Sovereignty - Regional Coordination Latin America and the Caribbean (IPC-LAC) on 22-25 March, and the 32nd Regional Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 26-30 March. Both were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The civil society organisations united around a declaration questioning the industrial, intensive, large scale, concentration model, which is aimed at the export of raw materials and led by transnational companies. They also rejected the FAO’s definition of forests, which encourages land grabbing to expand monoculture plantations. And while they recognised the FAO voluntary guidelines on the ‘Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the context of National Food Security’ as a step in the right direction, they rejected the report ‘Land Market Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean’. Drafted by FAO-LAC, this report states that the issue of land grabbing is restricted to just two countries, Argentina and Brazil. On 29 March, a delegation of the IPC, which included Martín Drago on behalf of FoEI, met with FAO Director Jose Grazziano to address a range of issues. A Real World Radio team was also present at the meetings, covering the activities and gathering testimonies of the members of the social organisations, social movements and indigenous peoples present. FoEI’s Food Sovereignty Program coordinators would like to know if member groups from other regions have participated in or are interested in participating in regional processes involving the FAO and their policies. You can read - and listen to - the civil society declaration here: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5335por-un-presente-y-futuro-sin?lang=es (in Spanish) And read more here: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5326-real-solution (in English) For a more detailed report please contact: Martín Drago, FoEI FS Programme Coordinator, martin.drago@redes.org.uy RMOG: building the movement against mining in Mesoamerica ATALC members in the Central American region have joined forces with other organisations in the area to form a coordinated and concerted campaign against extractive mining, the Movimiento Mesoamericano contra el Modelo Extractivo Minero (the Middle America Movement Against the Extractive Mining Model) also known as ‘Movimiento M4’. One of their key strategies at present is the campaign against GoldCorp, which demands the closure of the Marlin Mine in Guatemala. To find out more and to keep abreast of news about anti-mining campaigns in the region go to: http://www.movimientom4.org/ Contact: Gustavo Castro, FoE Mexico/Otros Mundos, guscastro@otrosmundoschiapas.org Meeting of all FoEI programmes in Brazil From 25-28 June a FoE International Programmes Meeting took place in Vassouras, Brazil. The aim of the meeting was to bring together people from across the FoEI federation who are coordinating and steering FoEI's programmes (including campaigns and cross-programme projects) for four days of reflection on their work and to develop proposals for priorities, strategies and plans for the coming years. This was an important opportunity to evaluate jointly the work we have been doing together during the past few years, take lessons learned on board, take stock of the changing context in which we work, and consider our priorities for moving forward. People engaged in the international programmes are now following up on the work done at the meeting to develop programme workplans for the coming year. More information on the strategies and activities that FoEI’s programmes will be focusing on in the coming period will be shared with the federation at the upcoming Biennial General Meeting in El Salvador this November. 6
CJE: coordinators and steering group meet The CJE Coordinators, Steering Group members and programmes and communications representatives from the FoEI IS met for four days in London at the end of April, to discuss the regional feedback on the strategy options paper, and make progress on developing and refining the draft strategy, and on positioning. The meeting involved two types of positioning discussions: further work to agree a position on a global temperature target, and early exploration of positioning issues around effort-sharing for global emissions cuts and negative emissions technology. Contact: Sarah-Jayne Clifton, FoE EWNI, and Dipti Bhatnagar, FoE Mozambique, CJE Programme Coorinators, on sarah.clifton@foe.co.uk and dipti@foei.org respectively.
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CJE: new co-coordinator from Mozambique Following a recruitment process in February-March the FoEI Excom appointed Dipti Bhatnagar of JA!/FoE Mozambique to the position of coordinator of the FoEI Climate Justice and Energy (CJE) programme. Dipti has more than ten years experience working with grassroots movements on issues of social and environmental justice in India, the United States and in Mozambique. Dipti will be jointly coordinating the CJE program with Sarah-Jayne Clifton of FoE EWNI. If you'd like to reach Dipti, her e-mail is: dipti@foei.org In addition, Jose Eloseguí from FoE Uruguay and Tatiana Roa from FoE Columbia have taken over as the ATALC representatives on the CJE Steering Group. CJE/F&B: update on coordination arrangements for FoEI REDD work In the interests of clarity over responsibilities, and taking into account that FoEI’s work on REDD focuses on supporting grassroots struggles and the rights of communities in relation to forests and forest governance - both areas of work that are being driven forward by the F&B programme – it has been agreed that it makes sense for the Forests and Biodiversity programme to lead FoEI work on REDD. The Climate Justice & Energy and other programmes will feed in as and when appropriate. For those of you active in the CJE programme who are interested in REDD work, please note that there is a specific FoEI REDD working group for information-sharing and campaigning plans, with its own e-list. To sign-up to this e-list, or if you have any questions about or would like to get involved in the work on REDD, please contact: Isaac Rojas, FoEI Forests & Biodiversity Programme Coordinator, isaac@coecoceiba.org
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Keystone XL petition action. FoE US.
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Africa: FoE Africa drafts strong declaration at regional meeting FoE Africa held its Annual General Assembly 9-12 May in Accra, in Ghana. Representatives of FoE groups from Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tunisia and Uganda attended. They demanded respect for the right to land in Africa, as well as food and energy sovereignty. In a concluding declaration they stated that climate change, the push for natural resources of the region, gas and oil extraction, land grabbing, forest and biodiversity degradation and the imposition of genetically modified food are some of the main challenges faced by the continent. They also demanded equity and justice principles at Rio+20, due to take place in June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. To read more: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/5496-africa-united To download the declaration: http://www.nape.or.ug/lib/FOE_%20Africa_Statement_2012.pdf For more information contact: George Awudi, FoE Ghana, geobrigkwa@yahoo.com Australia: spectacular victory for community in coal seam gas struggle There has been steadily growing momentum and support for the call for a moratorium on coal seam gas extraction, pending a full state inquiry into the likely impacts of the industry in Victoria. The most recent victory occurred when councillors from South Gippsland Shire unanimously supported a motion calling for a moratorium on CSG after a spirited community campaign. More than 130 community members packed the Council meeting to listen to the debate. The Council joins those from Bass Coast, Colac/Otwa, Port Phillip and Yarra in opposing CSG operation pending a full inquiry. You can read more here: http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=node/1124 and here: http://www.melbourne.foe.org.au/?q=node/1164 Contact: Cam Walker, FoE Australia, cam.walker@foe.org.au Australia: 500 people protesting at Olympic Dam uranium mine Jim Green is the national anti nuclear campaigner for FoE Australia. Check out his video report from the ‘Lizards Revenge’ protest at Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It-qr8lnurY&feature=youtu.be Europe: Young FoEE’s fifth birthday This summer Young FoE Europe is celebrating being five years old. The Young FoEE network officially started in June 2007 after a group of young activists from national Young FoE and FoE groups came together to initiate youth cooperation across the Europe region. To mark the birthday they asked Young FoE groups across Europe to plant five trees, as well as celebrating by having a small party and sharing a cake on the 27 June.They collected some beautiful pictures which can be seen at: www.youngfoee.org and made a special photo gallery of all the trees that have been planted: http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngfoee Contact: Sophie Manson, Young FoE Europe, Sophie.manson@foeeurope.org France: new campaign on the ‘financialisation of nature’ On 5 June, World Environment Day, and two weeks before the opening of the UN summit in Rio, FoE France launched a new campaign to denounce the dangers associated with the financialisation of nature. In a booklet "Nature is not for sale!"(available in French, English and Spanish), they explain what the issues at stake are, and what the social and environmental impacts of the ‘green economy’ are. To download the leaflet (in English, French and Spanish) and for more information: http://www.amisdelaterre.org/Campagne-La-nature-n-est-pas-a.html
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Together with their European partners they also made a short animated film: http://www.amisdelaterre.org/Une-video-pour-comprendre-la.html (French) http://vimeo.com/43398910 (English) http://vimeo.com/44407434 (Spanish) http://vimeo.com/44485947 (German) Contact: Juliette Renaud, FoE France, juliette.renaud@amisdelaterre.org Germany: pushing for a 30% CO2 reduction goal FoE Germany/BUND, along with six other German environmental and development NGOs, organised a series of protests, press conferences, and meetings with politicians in Germany to encourage Chancellor Merkel to ‘get to work’ on climate change and put pressure on other EU member states to support a 30% CO2 reduction goal. FoEE joined up with the European counterparts of participating German NGOs to organise a protest in Brussels. The campaign garnered attention in the press, most notably in Poland, the country currently blocking talks on the issue. The campaign helped strengthen ties between NGOs and received positive attention from the Chancellor’s Office. Contact: Monika Falkenberg, FoE Germany/BUND, Monika.Falkenberg@bund.net
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Hungary: government scores badly on environmental policies 42 environmental NGOs in Hungary assessed the government’s environmental performance at its midterm point. The preparation of the 32-page evaluation document was led by FoE Hungary. The overall environmental performance was rated at 1.89 (on a 1-5 scale), which shows how bad it is! The most problematic areas are energy and climate, and environmental governance issues. For more information (in Hungarian only): http://www.mtvsz.hu/zold_szervezetek_ertekeltek_a_kormany_felidei_munkajat Contact: Istvan Farkas, FoE Hungary/MTVSZ, ifarkas@mtvsz.hu Web address for photos: http://www.mtvsz.hu/kormanyertekeles_felidoben Japan: responding to the Fukushima nuclear disaster A year after the nuclear disaster, high levels of radiation continue to threaten people in Fukushima, especially residents of the Watari District in Fukushima City. They have been faced with a difficult choice: either to evacuate by bearing evacuation-related expenses themselves or to stay in the district fearing radiation exposure. To solve this difficult situation, Watari residents and supportive NGOs mobilised a civic movement to hold the government and nuclear company TEPCO responsible for compensating voluntary evacuees. Together with Citizens Against the Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants, FoE Japan also published an English language booklet "Citizen's Movement for Establishing the Rights to Evacuate: Watari, Fukushima and Beyond.” You can download the booklet at: http://www.foejapan.org/en/news/120308.html FoE Japan also launched the Poka-Poka Project in January 2012. Thanks to generous donations from across Japan and overseas, they have been able to help children, pregnant women, and their family members - more than 1,600 people in total between January and March - stay in Tsuchiyu Hot Springs to spend time away from their severely contaminated home areas. The second term of the Poka-Poka Project began in early May 2012. The Project is also offering seminars on radiological protection, and political developments regarding compensation and long-term evacuation programmes. For details, please visit: http://www.foejapan.org/en/news/120419.html Contact: Eri Watanabe, FoE Japan: info@foejapan.org Liberia: major success on ArcellorMittal corruption case! FoE Liberia scored a major victory with respect to the ongoing ArcellorMittal corruption campaign, when the Government of Liberia welcomed a report from FoE Liberia/Sustainable Development Initiative (SDI), which claimed that over US$300,000 had been mis-managed by officials. The government is now going to conduct its own audit of Liberia’s Social Development Fund with a view to redressing the matter. You can read more here: http://www.micat.gov.lr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=315:government-to-auditsocial-development-fund-the-government-of-liberia-says-it-will-soon-begin-an-audit-of-the-socialdevelopment-fund-for-counties-a-civil-society-organization-sustainable-development-initiative-sdirecently-released-a-report-claim&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=111 Contact: Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor, FoE Liberia, ssiakor@sdiliberia.org
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Netherlands: launch of ‘worsethanbad.org’ How much worse does the biggest oil disaster in the world have to get before the offender starts cleaning up? Apparently even worse than it is now, because Shell has still taken no action. FoE Netherlands/Milieudefensie believes this is unacceptable and has started an international campaign to bring attention to the oil disaster in Nigeria. Its new 'Worse than Bad' campaign, launched in May, shows the suffering that the Dutch oil concern has been causing in the Niger Delta for decades and asks site visitors to support FoE in its struggle against the Dutch multinational. Many ways to do so are shown on worsethanbad.org. For those who want to know the facts, there is also a 'Timeline of Shell's oil pollution in the Niger Delta', filled with unique documents and photos. For more information, contact: Geert Ritsema, FoE Netherlands, geert.ritsema@milieudefensie.nl
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Switzerland: urban sprawl campaign scores two successes FoE Switzerland recently achieved two important victories in its campaign again urban sprawl and for sustainable land use. The Swiss parliament has introduced new legal provisions that will stop the expansion of land that can be built on for 20 years. In addition, the people of Switzerland have decided, through a referendum, to stop the unrestricted development of tourism. Municipalities will have to make sure that less than 20% of the houses in their area are second homes. This is a clear signal that people want to stop the destruction of nature for the profit of a few. Contact: Bertrand Sansonnens, FoE Switzerland/Pro Natura, Bertrand.sansonnens@pronatura.ch Uruguay: examining foreign investment and sovereignty Together with Sustainable Uruguay, FoE Uruguay/REDES organised an event on 7 June, on “Investment and sovereignty in Uruguay and the regional context”, with the participation of Ec.Jorge Notaro and Kintto Lucas (Ex Vice Chancellor of Ecuador). Contact: Sebastian Valdomir, FoE Uruguay, sebastian@redes.org.uy
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interlinkages march-june 2012 Residues of the smoke emitted by TKCSA, which invades the homes of residents in the community. FoE Brazil.
secretariat, excom and chair Make sure you are sure about BGM dates! The dates for the BGM were changed earlier in the year, so make sure you have the correct dates in your diary. November 3 and 4: ExCom meeting in El Salvador November 5 and 6: BGM pre-conference in El Salvador, on Climate Change, Social Movements and Territories November 7: Regional meetings in El Salvador November 8-11: BGM in El Salvador November 12: solidarity visit in Central America The BGM will also see the election of a new FoEI Chair and ExCom. Contact the IS team working on the BGM: Loreto (logistics) loreto@foei.org and Wieke Wagenaar (finance) finance@foei.org David Hirsch has started as FoEI’s International Coordinator Dave has taken up his post as FoEI’s International Coordinator and relocated to Amsterdam. You can contact him on: dave@foei.org ExCom discussion about financial crisis and critique of capitalism The ExCom’s March meeting began with a discussion of the current global context and what it means for FoEI. Many nations are facing debt crises and increased austerity measures, which are hurting the poor in particular, as the gap between the very rich and everyone else increases. We are seeing increased militarisation around resources, and attacks on activists. FoEI sees this for what it is: power is concentrated in the hands of corporations and nature has been turned into a commodity. The situation in the world presents an opportunity for FoEI, because there is now a more open critique of capitalism happening. This means that we need to develop our analysis further and embed it more into our work. We need to provide local answers and find a way to communicate them on the national and international scale. We need to create new tactical alliances, including with unions. And we need to clarify our position in the world: in some places, we are known only as environmental advocates and our social justice message is lost. By pushing us into the ‘green box’ our opponents are able to marginalise us. We need to look at how we communicate and what messages we are sending. Contact: Nnimmo Bassey, FoEI Chair, nnimmo@eraction.org Young FoE Europe at FoEI ExCom meeting Sophie Manson from Young FoEE attended the March ExCom to share information about the structure and activities of the youth organisation. The ExCom is interested in integrating Young FoEE more into the federation, including the possibility of having a youth delegation attend FoEI's BGM in November in El Salvador. The ExCom believes that youth programmes should be encouraged and developed by all regions, if possible, with the IS playing a supporting or facilitating role. Contact: Sophie Manson, Young FoEE, sophie.manson@foeeurope.org
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Solidarity visits in 2012 FoEI has successfully raised funding to help the member groups when they are under threat and for solidarity visits and activities. After discussing the conditions faced by many of our member groups the ExCom has prioritised a trip to one or more Central American countries, after the BGM. The staff of the IS will also work to develop a rapid response mechanism for when our member groups are threatened. They envision a system to help the impacted group send letters, contact embassies and address other urgent needs. Currently, if groups are threatened and need urgent help, they should contact their regional structures. Regional ExCom members can take a request to the IS. With respect to the process, contact: David Hirsch, FoEI International Coordinator, dave@foei.org
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Welcome to FoEI’s new Web and E-Communications Editor! Denis Burke joined the International Secretariat as the new Web and E-Communications Editor at the beginning of July. He has worked in media and communications with several organisations including the World AIDS Campaign. Denis is from Ireland and has lived in Amsterdam for several years. Outside of work he enjoys acting, reading and travelling. He says he’s delighted to be part of the team at Friends of the Earth! You can contact Denis on: denis@foei.org
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Young FoE Europe planting five trees in the Netherlands for their fifth birthday, June 2012. Koen glotzbach.
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FoEI publishes new corporate capture report Twenty years after the first Rio Earth Summit there are real concerns about the increasing influence of major corporations and business lobby groups within the UN. FoEI aims to challenge this corporate capture with a new campaign launched in June, and the publication of a report, ‘Reclaim the UN from Corporate Capture’. Download the report: http://www.foei.org/en/resources/publications/pdfs/2012/reclaim-the-un-from-corporatecapture/view (English) http://www.foei.org/es/resources/publicaciones/pdfs-por-ano/2012/liberemos-a-la-onu-de-la-cooptacionempresarial/view (Spanish) Check out the new FoE Europe website The new FoE Europe website is a place to keep up-to-date with news from FoEE’s campaigns in Brussels and from all the groups in the European region. The new site is a platform where all European groups can share news, successes and campaign developments. Young FoE Europe also have a new site: www.youngfoee.org, which celebrates who they are, what they do and why they do it. If you have comments you can leave them on FoEE’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/FoEEurope If you spot anything that ought to be changed then please send this feedback direct to Francesca Gater, FoE Europe, francesca.gater@foeeurope.org They would also really appreciate it if you would help them promote the new site by sharing it with your friends, supporters, and networks. Finally, they would like to say a massive ‘thank you’ to everyone who has helped with the new website project, especially Gina in Hungary, Job in Netherlands, Martin in Malta, Marci in Hungary, Chris in the UK, and Phil at FoEI, who all gave them fantastic support. Real World Radio reports on Rio+20 During the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Real World Radio (RWR) team has worked around the clock to cover the alternative Peoples' Summit, record protests in the streets of Rio, and document the views of a whole host of people, including FoE campaigners. Check out the features section at the RWR website: http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/hacia-rio-20#pagination_articles_ultimas Australia: new reports on pesticides in Melbourne and Tasmania FoE has released two reports investigating risks associated with pesticides in drinking water in Melbourne and Tasmania. The first focuses on the Sugarloaf Reservoir, Melbourne's only reservoir, which is supplied from the Yarra River, downstream of one of Australia's most intensively farmed (and sprayed) regions. Sugarloaf supplies drinking water to over 1.5 million Melbournians living in the north and west of the city. The herbicides Atrazine and Simazine were both detected above European Guideline levels and above levels which have been determined to impact on hormones. You can find the report here: http://foe.org.au/articles/2012-06-12/pesticides-and-melbournes-drinking-waternew-report-released With respect to Tasmania, FoE Australia found that the major concern appears to be relatively high levels of chlo-
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rine disinfection by-products from four communities in Southern Tasmania. Check here for the report and release: http://foe.org.au/articles/2012-06-04/pesticides-and-drinkingwater-tasmania Contact: Cam Walker, FoE Australia, cam.walker@foe.org.au
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Protesters challenge unsustainable biomass outside Holyrood. Maverick Photo Agency, FoE Scotland.
announcements Don’t forget to submit MSF applications by 19 August! FoEI has secured funding to support a number of member group projects in 2013. This funding is administered through the Membership Support Fund (MSF). The call for proposals is open to associate and full member groups from the Africa, APac and ATALC regions. Member groups in non-DAC recipient countries cannot apply for this fund except for legal support. Member groups with outstanding financial obligations to FoEI are not eligible. To check if your group is up-to-date with its FoEI membership fees and reporting obligations please inquire at the secretariat by sending a message to msf@foei.org. The budget for project proposals should not exceed €10,000. If the budget does exceed €10,000 the applicant group needs to have secured co-funding for the project. You will see that the format is different from last year. Please choose which category is the most relevant for your work and then fill in the appropriate application. Please do not use forms from previous years! The categories are: - Development and promotion of alternatives - Defending rights and livelihoods - Challenging corporate power - Legal support to protect environmental justice defenders at the community level Completed application and budget forms need to be received by 19 August and sent to msf@foei.org For further information you can also contact: Nina Ascoly, FoEI IS Programmes Facilitator, nina@foei.org Send in your proposals for Pinocchio awards FoE France is preparing for its annual Pinocchio Sustainable Development Awards in November. The award is intended to illustrate and denounce the negative impacts of those French companies that claim to support sustainable development but act to undermine it. Companies can be nominated in the following categories: - ‘Greener than green’ – for the most misleading communications campaign - ‘One for all, all for me’ – for the most aggressive resource-grabbing policy - ‘Dirty hands, pocket full’ – for the most successful in terms of lobbying and lack of transparency They are currently looking for interesting case studies. The companies much be French and primarily involved in the extractive industry. Send in your ideas! Contact: Romain Porcheron, FoE France, romain.porcheron@amisdelaterre.org Kate Horner moves to EIA Congratulations to Kate Horner from FoE US, who announced in May that she was moving on to a new post, as Director of Forest Programmes at the Environmental Investigation Agency. She hopes to continue working with many of you on the forest work that you have already collaborated on over the last few years. She counts you all as close friends and hopes to see you regularly! Her personal email is: hornerkate@gmail.com. New staff at FoE Chile/CODEFF FoE Chile has a new president, Rudolf Thomann, and a new Executive Director, Mr José Miguel Torrico. You can contact them on thometch@gmail.com and jmtorrico@hotmail.com respectively.
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Acting director in place at FoE Scotland Stan Blackley, FoE Scotland’s previous Chief Executive, left the organisation in May. FoE Scotland then decided to take the opportunity to consider the best structure for the organisation to move forward, so Davina Shiell is now Interim Operational Director. Her role is mainly to manage the organisation’s staff, finances, and campaigns and to focus on fundraising. Contact: Davina Shiell, FoE Scotland, dshiell@foe-scotland.org.uk
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11,000 Nigerians sue Shell in London Courts On 23 March 2012, six months after Shell admitted liability following two massive oil spills in the Niger Delta, law firm Leigh Day & Co served formal legal proceedings on the oil giant in the High Court in London for compensation on behalf of over 11,000 Nigerians after negotiations broke down the previous week. This is the first time Shell or any oil company has faced claims in the UK from a community from the developing world for environmental damage caused by its oil extraction operations. Read more: http://www.leighday.co.uk/News/2012/March-2012/11,000-Nigerians-sue-Shell-inLondon-Courts
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Brutal murders of anti-mining activists in Mexico and the Philippines Anti-mining activists continue to be brutally repressed in countries such as Mexico and the Philippines. On March 5, 2012, Jimmy Liguyon, an indigenous leader and human rights advocate, was killed by suspected paramilitary forces and the Philippines Army. Liguyon was a local government official who staunchly opposed the entry of mining companies in his province. Liguyon is the ninth anti-mining activist killed since July 2010, under the repressive Aquino government. In Mexico, social and environmental activist Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez was also killed, on 15 March, in an ambush by suspected paramilitary agents of a mining company. Two of his companions during the ambush, Rosalinda Dionicio Sánchez and Andres Vésquez Sánchez, were also seriously wounded. Sanchez was the second anti-mining activist killed in Mexico this year for opposition to mining operations in Oaxaca. On 19 January, community activist Bernardo Méndez Vásquez also died from bullet wounds when the municipal government ordered the police to fire at people protesting against the Fortuna Silver mining project. Contact: kalikasan.pne@gmail.com Cambodian forest campaigner killed Chut Wutty was the director of the Natural Resource Protection Group and one of Cambodia’s leading campaigners against illegal logging and land grabs. He was shot dead by military police on 25 April. He was guiding two journalists from the Cambodia Daily to investigate illegal logging in the Cardamom Mountains in Koh Kong province. Chut Wutty had taken the journalists to look at the Stung Atay dam in Pursat province. The dam is being built by China National Heavy Machinery, in an area that was until recently dense forest. The company that has the contract to clear the reservoir area, MDS Import Export, has, according to Chut Wutty, been illegally logging outside the reservoir area and inside the Central Cardamom Protected Forest. To read more go to: http://www.redd-monitor.org/2012/04/27/environmental-activist-chut-wutty-shotdead-in-cambodia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reddmonitor+%28REDD-Monitor%29 Introducing Critical Information Collective A new organisation, Critical Information Collective (CIC), has been set up by Ronnie Hall and Joseph Zacune (ex-programme coordinators with FoEI). CIC aims to be a resource for you all, providing social movements, NGOs and communities campaigning against corporate globalisation with a single ‘one stop shop’ of incisive, political and campaign-oriented analysis, images and tools – as well as more visibility for our collective effort to challenge the prevailing economic paradigm. It covers a broad range of critical issues related to corporate-led globalisation, including agrofuels, climate change, deforestation, food, GMOs, land, mining, poverty, rights, and trade and investment. You can visit CIC here: http://www.criticalcollective.org/ You should find it easy to find publications, including by putting the name of the topic, the publication, or the author or the organisation into the search engine. It is also easy to move between the English and Spanish parts of the site. You can also follow CIC on twitter, @cic-info, if you want to be notified when new materials are uploaded to the site. Contact Ronnie Hall or Joe Zacune at: info@criticalcollective.org Research mediation programme To stimulate knowledge sharing between Wageningen University and civil society organisations worldwide, and to enhance the learning effect of internships and thesis assignments of students of Wageningen UR, OtherWise have designed a Research Mediation Programme (RMP). They aim to share academic knowledge in such a way that it can be made applicable to the practical needs of civil society organisations working at the grass-roots level. To this end they will (1) mediate and facilitate thesis and internship assignments as part of practically-oriented research projects; and (2) challenge, stimulate and facilitate 17
students to make academic knowledge useful in practice. To read more: http://www.st-otherwise.org/research-mediation-programme/rmp-in-wageningen/ Contact: Margriet Goris, margriet.goris@wur.nl New ‘Age of Yasuní’ video game and app Oilwatch has created a video game called ‘Age of Yasuní’ in which they present the conflict that original peoples have with petroleum activity in a range of cases (Yasuní, in the Amazon, the Niger Delta of Africa, Southeast Asia, Alaska, and the North Sea). If you can prevent the construction of the oil well you win, but if you can’t get the oil companies out of your territory, you lose. The game is simple, appropriate for all ages and for a broad public with little knowledge of these issues. The game is already in the iTunes Appstore and on Google Play and they will soon release a PC and Linux version on Oilwatch websites. There is a free version and a paid one (US$0.99 or the equivalent in Euros). Proceeds from the paid version will support community-led efforts around the world to keep oil and gas developments off their lands. Paid versions - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/age-of-yasuni-full/id509942480?mt=8 and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cocos2dx.aoyfull Free versions - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/age-of-yasuni-lite/id507396178?mt=8 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cocos2dx.aoylite&feature=search_result ?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5jb2NvczJkeC5hb3lsaXRlIl0 Contact: Esperanza Martínez, Oilwatch, esperanza@oilwatch.org
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30 August-5 September UNFCCC intersessional Bangkok
3-4 November FoEI ExCom meeting El Salvador 5-6 November Climate Change, Social Movements and Territories FoEI BGM Pre-Conference El Salvador 8-11 November FoEI BGM El Salvador 12 November FoEI solidarity visit Central America
September 3-7 September Second Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change Hanoi, Vietnam 6 September IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012 Jeju, Republic of Korea October 1-5 October Biosafety Protocol COP/MOP 6, and Fair on National Experiences with the Implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Hyderabad, India
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6-7 November Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum Istanbul, Turkey 26 November-7 December UNFCCC COP 18 Doha, Qatar
8-19 October COP 11, Convention on Biological Diversity Hyderabad, India 16 October World Food Day (focus on Agricultural Cooperatives) Rome, Italy 21-23 October Pre-COP 18 Ministerial Meeting (UNFCCC) Seoul, Republic of Korea 22-24 October World Energy Forum Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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foe europe listserves To subscribe to or find out more information about FoE Europe’s listserves please send a message with your contact details to Stine Nielsen at stine.nielsen@foeeurope.org.
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foei secretariat Address for mail: PO Box 19199 1000 GD Amsterdam The Netherlands Visiting address: Nieuwe Looiersstraat 31 3rd floor, 1017 VA, Amsterdam Tel 31 20 622 1369 Fax 31 20 639 2181 E-mail foei@foei.org http://www.foei.org international coordinator David Hirsch, dave@foei.org international secretariat management team communications coordinator Maarten van den Berg, maarten@foei.org finance and personnel manager Wieke Wagenaar, finance@foei.org international membership development coordinator Erick Burke, erick@foei.org international programmes facilitator Nina Ascoly nina@foei.org media coordinator Niccolo Sarno, media@foei.org office manager Pauline Vincenten, pauline@foei.org project officer and fundraising assistant Marta Zogbi, marta@foei.org resource mobilisation coordinator Paige Shipman, paige@foei.org technical support facilitator Joukje Kolff, joukje@foei.org web coordinator Phil Lee, phil@foei.org international programmes and membership assistant Elise Le Guil, elise@foei.org bookeekper Grace Nijbroek, grace@foei.org foei ombudspeople Otto Sieber, Switzerland Thuli Makama, Swaziland foe international executive committee Chair: Nnimmo Bassey, Nigeria Vice Chair: Karin Nansen,Uruguay Treasurer: Jagoda Munic, Croatia Ricardo Navarro, FoE El Salvador Hemantha Withanage, FoE Sri Lanka Elaine Gilligan, FoE England, Wales and Northern Ireland Meena Raman, FoE Malaysia Bobby Peek, FoE South Africa David Hirsch, FoE United States
foe africa consultative board Bobby Peek (South Africa) bobby@groundwork.org.za Thuli Makama (Swaziland) thuli.makama@gmail.com Nnimmo Bassey (Nigeria) nnimmo@eraction.org Noble Wadzah (Ghana) kowadzah9@yahoo.com
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secretariat George Awudi (Ghana) geobrigkwa@yahoo.com foe apac majelis Hemantha Withanage (Sri Lanka) Theiva Lingam (Malaysia) Derec Davies (Australia) Jeong Kim (South Korea) Prakash Sharma (Nepal) convenor Hemantha Withanage (Sri Lanka) hemantha@ejustice.lk foe europe executive committee Andy Atkins/Elaine Gilligan (EWNI) Oisin Coghlan (Ireland)/Ellie Cijvat (Sweden) Georgina Gal (Hungary)/Bertrand Sansonnens (Switzerland) Lawrence Sudlow/Liliane Spendeler (Spain) Hester Schoute/Hans Berkhuizen (Netherlands) secretariat Magda Stoczkiewicz Mundo-B Building, Rue d'Edimbourg 26 1050 Bruxelles, BELGIUM Tel 32 2 893 1000 / Fax 32 2 893 1035 E-mail info@foeeurope.org http://www.foeeurope.org foe latin america and caribbean excom Isaac Rojas (Costa Rica) isaac@coecoceiba.org Karin Nansen (Uruguay) urusust@redes.org.uy LĂşcia OrtĂz (Brazil) lucia@natbrasil.org.br secretariat Mario Godinez (Guatemala) tzikin.mario@gmail.com
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international activities programmes and campaigns economic justice: resisting neoliberalism programme Lucia Ortiz, Brazil, lucia@natbrasil.org.br Steering group: Hemantha Withanage, APAC hemantha@ejustice.lk Bobby Peek, Africa, bobby@groundwork.org.za Grace Garcia Munoz, ATALC, graciagarcimunoz@gmail.com Karen Orenstein, US, KOrenstein@foe.org
corporates campaign Paul de Clerck, Netherlands, paul@milieudefensie.nl
forests & biodiversity programme Isaac Rojas, Costa Rica, isaac@coecoceiba.org Steering group: Shamila Ariffin, APAC, shamila73@yahoo.com David Mutsitsa Kureeba, Africa, kureebamd@yahoo.com Eduardo Sanchez, ATALC, educacion@amigos.org.ar Bertrand Sansonnens, Europe, bertrand.sansonnens@pronatura.ch Kate Horner, US, KHorner@foe.org
food sovereignty programme Martín Drago, Uruguay, martin.drago@redes.org.uy Kirtana Chandrasekaran, EWNI (also represents Europe) kirtana.chandrasekaran@foe.co.uk Steering group: Mariann Bassey, Africa, annybassi@yahoo.com Claudia Germonimo, ATALC, cjeronimog@gmail.com Eric Hoffman, US, EHoffman@foe.org Demetrio Carvalho, APAC, maulapa@yahoo.com David Sanchez, Europe, omg@tierra.org
climate justice and energy programme Sarah-Jayne Clifton, EWNI, sarah.clifton@foe.co.uk Dipti Bhatnagar, Mozambique, dipti@foei.org
resistance to mining, oil & gas Romel de Vera, LRC/FoE Philippines meldevera@gmail.com Steering group: Reinford Mwangonde, Africa, reinm@cfjmalawi.org Geert Ritsema, Europe, geert.ritsema@milieudefensie.nl Gustavo Castro, ATALC, guscastro@otrosmundoschiapas.org
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agrofuels campaign Steering group: Damien Ase, APAC, dase@celcor.org.pg Michal Rosenoer, US, mrosenoer@foe.org Kenneth Richter, Europe, kenneth.richter@foe.co.uk Elias Diaz Pena/Simone Lovera, ATALC, ambiental@sobrevivencia.org.py Mariann Bassey and Daniel Ribeiro, Africa, annybassi@yahoo.com, daniel@ja.org.mz
cross-programme projects land rights, land grabbing and unsustainable consumption Kirtana Chandrasekaran, EWNI, kirtana.chandrasekaran@foe.co.uk, Romel de Vera, LRC/FoE Philippines meldevera@gmail.com
climate and biodiversity finance Isaac Rojas, Costa Rica, isaac@coecoceiba.org Sarah-Jayne Clifton, EWNI, sarah.clifton@foe.co.uk
transformation Sarah-Jayne Clifton, EWNI, sarah.clifton@foe.co.uk Martín Drago, Uruguay, martin.drago@redes.org.uy
corporate capture of un institutions and governments Lucia Ortiz, Brazil, lucia@natbrasil.org.br Paul de Clerck, Netherlands, paul@milieudefensie.nl
Steering group: FoE Korea/FoE Nepal - names to be confirmed Jose Elosegui and Tatiana Roa, ATALC, jelosegui@gmail.com and totuma07@yahoo.com Geoffrey Kamese and Siziwe Khanyile, Africa, kamese@nape.org.uy and siziwe@groundwork.org.za Susi Schebarth and Asad Rehman, Europe, susann.scherbarth@foeeurope.org and asad.rehman@foe.co.uk Karen Orenstein, US, korenstein@foe.org
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Argentina Amigos de la Tierra [Eduardo Sánchez] Av. Córdoba 5051 C1414BAI, Buenos Aires ARGENTINA Tel 5411 4773 5947 amigosdelatierra@amigos.org.ar
www.amigos.org.ar Australia Friends of the Earth [International Liaison Office: Derec Davies and Marisol Salinas] PO Box 222 3065 Fitzroy AUSTRALIA Tel 61 39 419 8700 Fax 61 39 416 2081 ilo@foe.org.au www.foe.org.au Austria Global 2000 [Christina Hirschbeck] Neustiftgasse 36 A-1070 Vienna AUSTRIA Tel 43 1 812 57 300 Fax 43 1 812 57 28 office@global2000.at www.global2000.at Bangladesh BELA [Syeda Rizwana Hasan] House no. 15/A Road no. 3 Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1205 BANGLADESH Tel 880 2 861428 Fax 880 2 8612957 bela@bangla.net www.belabangla.org Belgium Les Amis de la Terre [Ezio Gandin] Mundo Namur - 98, rue Nanon 5000 Namur BELGICA Tel 32 81 390639 Fax 32 81 390638 contact@amisdelaterre.be
www.amisdelaterre.be Brazil Nucleo Amigos da Terra [Lucia Ortiz Childs] The CASANAT Rua Olavo Bilac 192 CEP 90040-310 Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul Brazil 90040-310 Tel 55 51 3332 8884 Fax 55 51 3332 8884 natbrasil@natbrasil.org.br www.natbrasil.org.br lucia@natbrasil.org.br
Cameroon Centre for Environment and Development [Samuel Nguiffo] PO Box 3430 Yaounde CAMEROON Tel 237 222 38 57/ 996 57 98 Fax 237 222 38 59 www.cedcameroun.org Canada FoE/Les Amis de la Terre [Beatrice Olivastri] 260 St. Patrickstreet., Suite 300 K1N 5K5 Ottawa, Ontario CANADA Tel 1 613 241 0085 Fax 1 613 241 7998 foe@foecanada.org www.foecanada.org Chile CODEFF [Jenia Joffre] Ernesto Reyes 035, Providencia Santiago CHILE Tel 56 2 7772534 Fax 56 2 2691978 administra@codeff.cl presidencia@codeff.cl www.codeff.cl Colombia Censat Agua Viva [Tatiana Roa Avendaño] Diagonal 24 No 27A-42 Bogota DC COLOMBIA Tel 57 1 244 24 65 / 244 05 81 / 337 77 09 Fax 57 1 2442465 / 2440581 / 3377709 infogeneral@censat.org administracion@censat.org coordinacion@censat.org www.censat.org Costa Rica Asociacion Comunidades Ecologistas la Ceiba / Amigos de la Tierra / COECOCEIBA [Isaac Rojas] Partado 12423 1000 San Jose COSTA RICA Tel 2 506 223 3925 Fax 2 506 223 3925 gavitza@ice.co.cr www.coecoceiba.org Croatia Zelena Akcija / Green Action [Jagoda Munic] Frankopanska 1 pp. 952 1000 Zagreb CROATIA Tel 385 99 4813 096 Fax 385 1 4813 096 zelena-akcija@zg.htnet.hr www.zelena-akcija.hr
Curaçao Amigu di Tera [Lloyd Narain] PO Box 4688 Willemstad CURAÇAO narain@interneeds.net www.amiguditera.com Cyprus Friends of the Earth [Savvas Zotos] PO Box 53411 3302 Limassol CYPRUS Tel 357 25 347042 Fax 357 25 347043 foecyprus@yahoo.com. www.foecyprus.weebly.com Czech Republic Hnutí Duha [Vojtech Kotecky] Pratele Zeme CR Udolni 33 602 00 Brno CZECH REPUBLIC Tel 420 5 4521 4431 Fax 420 5 4521 4429 vojtech.kotecky@hnutiduha.cz www.hnutiduha.cz Denmark NOAH [Kim Ejlertsen] Norrebrogade 39/1 2200 Kobenhavn N DENMARK Tel 45 3536 1212 Fax 45 3536 1217 kimejler@post7.tele.dk noah@noah.dk www.noah.dk El Salvador Centro Salvadoreo de Tecnologa Apropiada [Ricardo Navarro] Apartado 3065 San Salvador EL SALVADOR Tel 503 2213 140 Fax 503 2220 0479 cesta@cesta-foe.org.sv www.cesta-foe.org England, Wales & Northern Ireland Friends of the Earth [Contact Mike Childs] 26-28 Underwood Street N1 7JQ London UNITED KINGDOM Tel 44 207 490 1555 Fax 44 207 490 0881 mike.childs@foe.co.uk www.foe.co.uk Estonia Eesti Roheline Liikumine [Jaanus Valja] Tiigi 8-24 51003 Tartu ESTONIA Tel 372 7 422532 Fax 372 7 422084 info@roheline.ee www.roheline.ee
Finland Suomen Maan ystävät ry [Soile Koskinen] Kirkkotie 6-10 20540 Turku FINLAND Tel 358 45 886 3958 Fax 358 2 237 1670 toimisto@maanystavat.fi www.maanystavat.fi
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Flanders and Brussels Friends of the Earth Vlaanderen & Brussel / FoE Flanders and Brussels [David Heller] Maria Hendrikaplein 5 9000 Gent BELGIUM Tel 32 9 242 87 52 Fax 32 9 242 8751 contact@motherearth.org www.motherearth.org France Les Amis de la Terre [Martine Laplante] 2 B Rue Jules Ferry 93100 Montreuil FRANCE Tel 33 1 48 51 3222 Fax 33 1 48 519512 france@amisdelaterre.org www.amisdelaterre.org Georgia The Greens Movement of Georgia [Mrs Ketevan Kiria] 10a Nutsubidze str. 0177, Tbilisi GEORGIA Tel/fax: 995 32 386978 info@greens.ge www.greens.ge Germany BUND/FoE Germany [Antje von Broock] Am Koellnischen Park 1 10179 Berlin GERMANY Tel 49 30 27 58 64 0 Fax 49 30 27 58 64 40 antje.vonbroock@bund.net www.bund.net Ghana Friends of the Earth [Theo Anderson] Private Mail Bag General Post Office Accra GHANA Tel +233-21030-512312 Fax 233 21 512 313 foe@foeghana.org geobrigkwa@yahoo.com
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Grenada Friends of the Earth [Joseph Antoine] PO Box 521 Lucas Street St. George's GRENADA, WEST INDIES Tel 1 473 440 7192 Fax 1 473 440 7192
Ireland Friends of the Earth [Oisin Coghlan] 9 Upper Mount Street Dublin 2 IRELAND Tel 353 1 639 4652 oisin@foe.ie www.foe.ie
Guatemala CEIBA Km. 56.5 Carretera Interamericana Casa 1-265, Aldea Buena Vista Chimaltenango GUATEMALA Tel 502 7839 60 33 Fax 502 7839 1033 ceibauno@gmail.com www.ceibaguate.org
Italy Amici della Terra [Laura Radiconcini] Via di Torre Argentina, 18 00186 Rome ITALY Tel 39 06 6875308 / 6868289 Fax 39 06 683 08610 info@amicidellaterra.it www.amicidellaterra.it
Haiti Haiti Survie [Aldrin Calixte] Delmas 65, Rue Durandis #2 Port-au-prince HAITI Tel 509 2137973 Fax 2210172 hsurvie@yahoo.com Honduras Movimiento Madre Tierra [Juan Almendares] PO Box 2035 Tegucigalpa HONDURAS Tel 504 232 4204 Fax 504 235 3387 almendarez.bonilla@gmail.com
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Hungary Magyar Termeszetvedok Szovetsege [Istvan Farkas] PO Box 123 Ulloi u 91/b, III/21 H-1091 Budapest HUNGARY Tel 36 1 216 7297 Fax 36 1 216 7295 info@mtvsz.hu www.mtvsz.hu Indonesia WALHI [Muhammad Teguh Surya] Jl. Tegal Parang Utara No. 14 12790 Jakarta Selatan INDONESIA Tel 62 21 794 1672 Fax 62 21 794 1673 walhi@walhi.or.id www.walhi.or.id
Japan Friends of the Earth [Randal Helten] 1F 3-30-8 Ikebukuro *Toshima-ku* 171-0014 Tokyo JAPAN Tel 81 3 6907 7217 Fax 81 3 6907 7219 info@foejapan.org www.foejapan.org Latvia Latvijas Zemes draugi [Janis Ulme] Margrietas iela 16-3, Zemes Draugi c/o VIF LV-1966 Riga LATVIA Tel 37127225112 E-pasts: info@vak.lv janis.ulme@zemesdraugi.lv http://www.zemesdraugi.lv/lv/ Liberia Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) [Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor] P. O. Box 5678, Duarzohn Village, Robertsfield Highway Margibi County, LIBERIA Tel 231 77 089947/ 206702 ssiakor@sdiliberia.org www.sdiliberia.org Lithuania Lietuvos Zaliuju Judejimas [Renata Perlibaite] I. Kanto 6 P.O. Box 160, 44002 Kaunas LITHUANIA Tel 370 37 324241 Fax 370 37 324201 zalieji@zalieji.lt www.zalieji.lt Luxembourg Mouvement Ecologique 6, Rue Vauban 2663 LUXEMBOURG Tel 352 439 0301 Fax 352 43903043 meco@oeko.lu www.oekozenter.lu
Macedonia, f.y.r. of Dvizenje na Ekologistite na Makedonija/DEM [Ruska Miceva] ul. "Vasil Gjorgov" BB, Baraka 6, 1000 Skopje MACEDONIA, F.Y.R. OF Tel 389 2 3 220 518 Fax 389 23 128 075 dem@dem.org.mk www.dem.org.mk Malawi Citizens For Justice(CFJ) [Reinford Mwangonde] email: reinm@cfjmalawi.org Falls Estate, Sector 1, Plot #574, Lilongwe, Malawi Postal: Post Dot Net, Box X100 Crossroad, Lilongwe, MALAWI Tel 265 (0)1 727828 265 (0)1 727822 Cell 265 (0) 99 9 678 031 265 (0) 88 4 376 359 remwa1@yahoo.com www.cfjmalawi.org Malaysia Sahabat Alam Malaysia/SAM [Meenakshi Raman] 21 Lintang Delima 15 11700 Penang MALAYSIA Tel 60 4659 6930 Fax 60 4659 6931 sam_inquiry@yahoo.com www.foe-malaysia.org Mali GUAMINA [Souleymane Dembele] Hamdallaye Rue 42 Porte no. 232 B.P. 2744 Bamako MALI Tel 223-225910 Fax 223-293134 guamina@buroticservices.net.ml
dembele_z@yahoo.fr www.promali.org/guamina Malta Moviment ghall-Ambjent [Martin Galea De Giovanni] PO Box 13 CMR 1000 Valletta MALTA Tel 356 21342269 Fax 356 21342269 info@foemalta.org www.foemalta.org Mauritius Maudesco [Rajen Awotar] 63 Avenue Hirondelles Sodnac, Quartre Bornes MAURITIUS Tel 230 467 2565 Fax 230 424 8500 maudesco@intnet.mu
MexicoOtros Mundos [Gustavo Castro Soto] Calle Francisco I. Madero num. 49 Barrio Guadalupe C.P. 29230 San Cristóbal de las Casas Chiapas, MEXICO Telephone 0052 (967) 631 6643 guscastro@otrosmundoschiapas.org www.otrosmundoschiapas.org
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Mozambique Justica Ambiental [Anabela A. Lemos] Rua Marconi #110 1 andar, Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE Tel 258 21 496668 Fax 258 21 496668 ja@ja.org.mz anabela.ja.mz@gmail.com www.ja.org.mz Nepal Pro-Public [Prakash Sharma] PO BOX 14307 Gautam Budha Marga Kathmandu NEPAL Tel 977-1-268023 Fax 977-1-268022 info@propublic.org www.propublic.org Netherlands Milieudefensie [Contact Mia Liesenmeijer] Postbus 19199 1000 GD Amsterdam NETHERLANDS Tel 31-20-5507300 Fax 31-20-5507310 mia.liesenmeijer@milieudefensie.nl www.milieudefensie.nl New Zealand Friends of the Earth [John Whyte] PO Box 5599 Wellesley Street 1 Auckland NEW ZEALAND Tel 64 9 3609149 Fax 64 9 3609149 foenz@kcbbs.gen.nz Nigeria Environmental Rights Action [Nnimmo Bassey] PO Box 10577 Ugbowo 214 Uselu -Lagos Road Benin City NIGERIA Tel 234 52 880619 Fax 234 52 600165 Cell +234 803 727 4395 eraction@eraction.org www.eraction.org
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Norway Norges Naturvernforbund [Jan Thomas Odegaard] Postal address: Grensen 9 B, 0159 Oslo, Norway Visiting address: Miljohuset G9 i Grensen 9 B, Oslo Tel 47 23 10 96 10 Fax 47 23 10 96 11 naturvern@naturvern.no www.naturvern.no Palestine PENGON [Abeer Al Butmeh] PO Box 565 PARC Building Ramallah PALESTINE Tel 972 2 6565890/87 Fax 972 2 5857688 outreach@pengon.org www.pengon.org Papua New Guinea Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights / CELCOR [Damien Ase] PO BOX 4373 Boroko, National Capital District PAPUA NEW GUINEA Tel 675 323 4509 Fax 675 311 2106 info@celcor.org.pg Paraguay Sobrevivencia [Oscar Rivas] Casilla de Correos 1380 Asuncion PARAGUAY Tel 595 21 480 182/ 595 21 425 716 Fax 595 21 480 182/ 595 21 425 716 coordina@sobrevivencia.org.py
www.sobrevivencia.org.py Peru LABOR [Edwin Guzmán] Urb. Magisterial K-12 Ilo PERU Tel 51 53 481816 / 481208 Fax 51 54 781208 edwing@labor.org.pe www.labor.org.pe Philippines Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center [Jocelyn Matias Villanueva] 24 Malingap Street Teachers' Village Quezon City PHILIPPINES 1101 Tel 632 928 1372/632 436 1101 Fax 632 9207172 lrcksk@lrcksk.org www.lrcksk.org
Poland Polski Klub Ekologiczny/PKE [Maria Staniszewska] Ziemowita str. 1 44-100 Gliwice POLAND Tel/Fax: 48 32231 8591 mw.staniszewska@gmail.co m or biuro@zgpke.most.org.pl www.polskiklubekologiczny.org Scotland Friends of the Earth [Fiona Brown] Thorn House 5 Rose Street Edinburgh EH2 2PR SCOTLAND (U.K.) Tel: 44 131 243 2700 Fax: 44131 243 2725 reception@foe-scotland.org.uk info@foe-scotland.org.uk www.foe-scotland.org.uk Sierra Leone Friends of the Earth [Abubakar Sesay] P.M. Bag 950 33 Robert Street Freetown SIERRA LEONE Tel 232-76-837647 Fax 232-22-226577 foesl@sierratel.sl Slovakia Friends of the EarthCEPA [Juraj Zamkovsky]Ponicka Huta 65 976 33 Poniky SLOVAKIA Tel 421 48 4193718 Fax 421 48 4193718 cepa@foe.sk www.priateliazeme.sk/cepa South Africa GroundWork [Bobby Peek] P.O. Box 2375 Pietermaritzburg 3200 South Africa Tel 27 33 342 5662 Fax 27 33 342 5665 team@groundwork.org.za www.groundwork.org.za South Korea Korea Federation for Environmental Movements [Ms Hyun ji Kim] NuHa-Dong 251 Jongno-gu 110-806 Seoul KOREA Tel 82-2-735-7000 Fax 82-2-730-1240 arqus@kfem.or.kr http://english.kfem.or.kr/
Spain Amigos de la Tierra [Elena Bonilla] C/Cadarso 16, Bajo E, 28008 Madrid, SPAIN Tel 34-91-306-9900 Fax 34-91-313-4893 gerencia@tierra.org www.tierra.org Sri Lanka Centre For Environmental Justice [Hemantha Withanage] 20A, Kuruppu Road, Colombo 08, SRI LANKA Tel 941 1268 3282 Fax 941 1268 3282 info@ejustice.lk hemanthaw@eureka.lk www.ejustice.lk Swaziland Yonge Nawe [Thuli Makama] PO Box 2061 Mbabane Swaziland Tel 268 404 7701 Fax 268 404 1394 yonawe@realnet.co.sz www.yongenawe.com Sweden Miljoforbundet Jordens Vanner [Ankin Ljungman] Box 7048 S-402 31 Göteborg SWEDEN Tel 46 31 12 1808 Fax 46 31 12 1817 info@mjv.se www.mjv.se Switzerland Pro Natura [Bertrand Sansonnens] Dornacherstrasse 192 4053 Basel SWITZERLAND Tel 41 61 317 9191 Fax 41 61 317 9266 mailbox@pronatura.ch www.pronatura.ch Tanzania Lawyer's Environmental Action Team (LEAT) [Tundu A. M. Lissu] Mikocheni B, Mazingira Street, P.O. Box 12605, Dar-es-Salaam, TANZANIA Tel 255-22-2780859 Fax 255-22-2780859 info@leattz.org www.leat.or.tz
Timor-Leste Haburas Foundation [Demetrio do Amaral de Carvalho] Rua Celestino da Silva Farol Dili TIMOR-LESTE, PO Box 390 Tel: (670) 3310103, 670 7232851 haburaslorosae@yahoo.com, maulapa@yahoo.com www.haburasfoundation.org
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Togo Les Amis de la Terre [Mensah Franco Todzro] BP 20190 Lomé TOGO Tel 228 2221731 Fax 228 2221732 adt-togo@amiterre.tg www.amiterre.tg Tunisia Association Tunisienne pour la Protection de la Nature et de l'Environnement/ATPNE [Ayachi Abrougui] 12 Rue Tantaoui El Jawhari El Omrane 1005 Tunis TUNISIA Tel 216 71959081 Fax 216 71959295 ayachia@atpne.org
Uganda National Assciation of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) [Mr Muramuzi Frank] National Association of Professional Environmentalists P.O. Box 29909, Kampala Block 265, Plot No. 7138 Entebbe Road, Zana, Tel: +256 (0) 414 534453; 530181 napeuganda@yahoo.com fmuramuzi@nape.org.ug www.nape.org.ug
Ukraine Zelenyi Svit [Yuri Samoylenko] Kontraktova Square 4 Kiev 04070 UKRAINE Tel: 380 56 7781301 Fax: 380 56 7781301 yuri.samoylenko@zelenysvit.or g.ua www.zelenysvit.org.ua
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United States Friends of the Earth [Karen Orenstein] 1100 15th Street NW 11th Floor Washington, DC 20005 Tel: +1 202-783-7400 Fax: +1 202-783-0444 korenstein@foe.org foe@foe.org www.foe.org
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Uruguay REDES [Karin Nansen] San Jose 1423 11200 Montevideo URUGUAY Tel: 598 2 908 2730 Fax: 598 2 902 2355 redes@redes.org.uy www.redes.org.uy
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CEE Bankwatch Network Na Rozcesti 6 Prague 9, 190 00 CZECH REPUBLIC Tel 420 2 74 81 65 71 Fax 420 2 74 81 65 71 main@bankwatch.org www.bankwatch.org
Peace Boat 2F, 3-14-3 Takadanobaba Shinjuku-ku 169-0075 Tokyo JAPAN Tel 00-81-333638047 Fax 00-81-333637562 pbglobal@peaceboat.gr.jp www.peaceboat.org
Corporate Europe Observatory Rue d’Edimbourg 26 1050 Brussels BELGIUM tel: +32 (0)2 893 0930 ceo@corporateeurope.org www.corporateeurope.org
Rainforest Action Network 221 Pine Street, Suite 500 San Francisco, CA 94104 USA Tel 1 415 398 4404 Fax 1 415 398 2732 rainforest@ran.org www.ran.org
CorpWatch 2958 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 USA Tel: +1-415-641-1633 pratap@corpwatch.org www.corpwatch.org Blue Planet Project/Council of Canadians 700-170 Laurier Street West, Ottawa Ontario ON K1P 5V5 CANADA Tel: 1 613 233 2773 Fax 1 613.233.6776 anil@canadians.org www.canadians.org
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World Information Service on Energy PO Box 59636, Ketelhuisplein 43 1040 LC Amsterdam NETHERLANDS Tel 31-20-6126368 Fax 31-20-6892179 wiseamster@antenna.nl www.antenna.nl/wise/
Earthlife Africa c/o Earthlife e Thekwini PO Box 18722, 4014 Dalbridge SOUTH AFRICA Tel 27 826521533 Fax 27 11 339 4584 bryan@earthlife.org.za www.earthlife.org.za/ Ecopeace/ FoE Middle East PO Box 840252 - Amman JORDAN 11181 Tel 962-6-5866602/3 Fax 962-6-5866604 info@foeme.org www.foeme.org International Rivers 2150 Allston Way, Suite 300 Berkeley, CA 94704-1378 USA Tel: +1 510 848 1155 Fax: +1 510 848 1008 info@internationalrivers.org http://www.internationalrivers.org Mineral Policy Institute PO Box 6043 Girrawheen Perth WA 6064 AUSTRALIA Phone/Fax: +61 [0]8 9343 0151 Media/Urgent: 0450 901 714 mpi@mpi.org.au www.mpi.org.au
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