Just Forests’ resource is a positive step towards building knowledge and action to counteract fossil fuel companies’ greenwashing activities to improve their image. The strongest parts of the report are the sections focusing on Texaco owner Chevron’s brutal environmental and human rights abuses in Ecuador, and the criminalisation and mistreatment of those trying to hold them to account.
(You can view Sian Cowman’s review of SpoArts wash by clicking on this link)
Global Education As Activism with Colm Regan – Reimagining Development
Colm Regan is the former head of global / development education in the Irish development agency Trócaire and founder of the NGO, 80:20: Educating & Acting for a Better World. He has extensive experience of policy, advocacy, campaigning and education for social justice in the global North and South. Colm regards global education as explicitly political and rooted in social change. He discusses his “boots on the ground” approach to global education based on decades of activism.
Getting to Grips with GREENWASHING through Global Citizenship Education (GCE)
IDEA Webinar – Getting to Grips with Greenwashing.
On 30 April 2024, the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA), as part of their Webinar Series, hosted: ‘Getting to Grips with Greenwashing’ – exploring contemporary crises and issues through Global Citizenship Education (GCE) session. A number of speakers made presentations. This was a very poorly attended webinar. IDEA members now need to ask themselves the following questions:
1. Why they continue to turn a blind eye to the blanant conflict-of-interest at Unicef Ireland
2. Why they continue to ignore the sponsorship of fossil fuel corporation Texaco, in schools and sports in Ireland
3. Why they refuse to speak up in support of human rights defender Steven Donziger – the New York Attorney who won a landmark victory on behalf of 30,000 small farmers who have had their livelihoods destroyed by Texaco’s criminal acts in the Ecuadorian Rainforests.
The Irish leg of the Pardon Donziger Global Campaign gains momentum as Just Forests delivers support letters from Irish Lawyers and MEPs to Claire Cronin, US Ambassador to Ireland.
