This is another webinar on Indigenous Resistance to Climate False Solutions. This one was co-sponsored by the New School in New York City with the Indigenous Environmental Network as key organizer.
The IEN was founded in 1990 within the United States. They are supporting Indigenous communities and Tribal Governments in the US and abroad in protecting sacred sites, land, water, and air. Tom Goldtooth has served as executive director of the IEN since 1996.
The New School is a private research university in New York City. Its original mission was to serve academic freedom, intellectual inquiry and be a home for progressive thinkers.
This News School sponsored webinar took place during New York City Climate Week on September 21, 2021, in preparation of the Conference of Parties, the COP 26, in Glasgow.
Leonardo Figueroa Helland is Associate Professor and Chair of the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program at the New School.
Ananda Tan is North America coordinator for the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 90 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.
Tom Goldtooth is active on local, national and international levels as an advocate for building healthy and sustainable Indigenous communities based on the foundation of Indigenous traditional knowledge. He has served as executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) since 1996.
The pamphlet Hoodwinked in the Hothouse can be downloaded at https://climatefalsesolutions.org/
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