WE NEED TO DO MORE THAN JUST WHAT IS RIGHT, WE NEED TO JOIN TOGETHER TO RIGHT WHAT IS WRONG.-LEONARD PELTIER

I am in this world to change the world. I have been working in the pursuit of social and political justice since I was 14. My focus in life changed after I saw the amazing documentary by Michael Winterbottom called Road to Guantanamo. I began work closely with many human rights organizations like, Amnesty International, Code Pink, Act Against Torture, the American Indian Movement, and the Afghan Friends Network. I am currently an intern at the International Forum on Globalization* in San Francisco. In 2006, I contended with 3 other people twice my age for the title of legislative coordinator of Amnesty International’s Northern California chapter. Now I am working on a few Native/Indigenous initiatives that are very important to me and my community.

I come from a family full of activists and amazing people who have inspired me to be a part of the positive changes in this world. 

AHO

Gemma

you can find me at Take it Global too:  http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/GemmaPHG

*my job includes the following:
Student Internship - International Forum on Globalization (IFG) San Francisco, www.ifg.org 
Indigenous Program 

Intern will work 4-8 hours/week primarily with Claire Greensfelder, Development and Communications Director of the IFG in the planning and production of a series of events to be held in April and May 2008 in and around the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York City during the annual meeting of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). 

The IFG, in collaboration with the Tebtebba Foundation (an international indigenous policy and advocacy organization based in the Philippines) will be organizing educational events for governmental and non-governmental delegates who will be attending the UNPFII as well as for the general public. The issues to be covered will include: 

1) The ramifications of the final passage of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples this past September 13th, 2007 in the UN General Assembly. 

2) The impacts of Climate Change and other Resource Crises (Peak Oil, Resource Depletion (including water and soil) and Species Extinction) on Indigenous Peoples and their communities. 

3) How non-indigenous organizations can support public education about and the loca, regional, national and international implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 

The internship includes: 

- training in grant research and grant writing 
- training in public relations and media outreach 
- training in development of issue education for non-governmental leadership 
- training in the workings of the UN system and international policy development 
- training in the administration and basic operating systems of a policy and advocacy international non-governmental organization (IFG) 
- other organizational tasks as necessary 
-- Claire Greensfelder 
Director of Development & Communications 
Coordinator, IFG Working Groups on Climate & Energy