Women's Earth Alliance
Women United for a Thriving Planet
Women's Earth Alliance enhances the leadership of women as environmental stewards. We are a global network of women and men who support the activists, mothers, entrepreneurs, educators and stewards who have taken a stand for the long-term health of our communities and who have made this pivotal endeavor their life’s work. Women's Earth Alliance works in ...learn more
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Created: Sep 14, 2007
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
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Global Justice for Animals and the Environment exists to provide an uncompromising voice for animals in the fight against pro-corporate free trade agreements and related neoliberal economic policies that compromise the interests, nonhuman animals, and damage the environment. We also work in solidarity with and in support of the rights of indigenous communities in their struggles to defend the earth from the exploitative practices of extractive industries.
Nationally and locally, we work to build alliances between animal advocates and other sectors of the global justice movement—more commonly referred to as the “anti-globalization movement.”
Our research team provides animal and environmental advocacy groups, members of Congress, and the broader global justice movement with in-depth analyses of the threat to animals posed by proposed trade agreements.
As advocates, we mobilize local, national, and international animal advocacy groups to pressure elected officials to oppose anti-animal, anti-environmental free trade agreements—and to hold them accountable when they vote against animals and the planet.To provide activists with the tools they need for effective grassroots lobbying efforts on free trade agreements, we develop resource kits for animal and environmental advocacy groups
To demonstrate that responsible animal and environmental advocacy organizations stand united against NAFTA-style free trade agreements, we draft “sign-on letters”, circulate them to animal and environmental advocacy organizations to endorse, and fax them to every member of Congress.In 2005, we sent a letter to Congress in opposition to the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement—with the endorsement of 103 animal advocacy and environmental organizations.
Working with the media, we inform the public that pro-corporate trade agreements endanger animals and the planet, and that people who care about animals and the environment must demand that their legislators oppose them.
Global Justice for Animals and the Environment is a 100% volunteer-run project.With a background in animal and environmental advocacy, anti-globalization activism, and political action, we have the contacts, the experience, and the knowledge to give animals and the planet a fighting chance in the battle for global justice.
