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Jerry Brown Announces Satellite Plan as Youth Protest His Environmental Policies

I n closing remarks at the Global Climate Action Summi in San Francisco on September 15 , California Governor Jerry Brown announced before business , government and NGO leaders that the State of California is teaming up with San Francisco-based Earth imaging company Planet Labs ( Planet ) to develop and eventually launch a pollutant-tracking satellite . “ The satellite will track climate changecausing pollutants with unprecedented precision and help the world dramatically reduce these destructive emissions ,” according to Brown . “ With science still under attack and the climate threat growing , we ’ re launching our own damn satellite ,” said Governor Brown , whose administration over the past seven years has overseen the approval of 21,000 new oil drilling permits in California , including 238 offshore wells in state waters under existing leases in Los Angeles and Ventura counties between 2012 and 2016 . In addition , the same governor has relentlessly promoted the construction of the Delta Tunnels , considered by opponents to be the most environmentally destructive public works project in California history . The construction of the 35-mile long tunnels would hasten the extinction of Sacramento River spring and winter run Chinook salmon , Central Valley steelhead , Delta and longfin smelt and other fish species , as well as devastate the salmon and steelhead runs on the Trinity and Klamath rivers . “ This groundbreaking initiative will help governments , businesses and landowners pinpoint – and stop – destructive emissions with unprecedented precision , on a scale that ’ s never been done before ,” said Brown . Planet , founded by ex-NASA scientists in 2010 , operates the world ’ s largest constellation of satellites in history . However , a group of grassroots indigenous and frontline youth weren ’ t impressed , disrupting the global climate action summit by singing a song to Brown . They demanded no new oil and gas expansion and keeping fossil fuels in the ground , pointing out that is his “ last chance to phase out fossil fuels and be a real climate leader that doesn ’ t promote false solutions .” They sang , “ Jerry Brown . It ’ s your last chance , keep it in the ground .” They also sang , “ Climate champions don ’ t permit oil and gas , Jerry Brown , keep it in the ground , climate champions don ’ t poison communities .” They were quickly escorted out by

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Jerry Brown ’ s security detail . Singer and musicians Dave Matthews , who was playing music at the time , responded , “ They need to work on their harmonies , but it is a good message .” Niria Alicia , an organizer for Green Action and the Run4Salmon , commented on the protest . “ Today my sister Isabella Zizi and I were reminded that our power as young indigenous women of color are a threat to the colonial climate agendas our governments are pushing forward ,” she stated . “ Jerry Brown sent a dozen of his biggest buffest tallest security who forcefully picked us up and removed us from the space with the intent of silencing our voices . Jerry Brown , this is your LAST CHANCE to do the right thing and be a true climate leader !” ” All of these oil and gas projects need water ,” added Niria Alicia . “ The intensive extraction of fossil fuel threatens our rivers and threatens the salmon and other fish that live in them . The same water is used to frack in the backyards of indigenous migrant farmworkers . We need to keep the water in our rivers and the oil in the ground , if we are to have the chance at a future .” Isabelle Zizi of Idle No More SF Bay , who was one of the three women escorted out before the disruption by four other youth took place , said , “ Before our disruption , we were singled out and physically escorted by big security guards ‘ having backpacks were not permitted into the summit .’ While we were leaving , we noticed other participants had backpacks the same size if not bigger than ours ; that ’ s how we figured out we were targeted . “ “ Little did they know , a group of youth who are with the Browns Last Chance coalition disrupted the event with a song as they detained us . Our demands were that indigenous leadership needs to be acknowledged and followed , no to carbon marketing , no fossil fuels , keep it in the ground , no REDD +. To Jerry Brown , you are not a real climate leader , this is your last chance to phase out of fossil fuels and be on the right side of history ,” she stated . “ It was not okay for them to single out indigenous women out of everyone who was sitting in that space and put embarrassment and shame to our faces . It is not okay for these so called ‘ climate leaders ’ to profit off of our climate and Mother Earth ’ s sources . We should have not been the ones to be escorted out nor should our stories and truth be silenced anymore ,” Zizi said . Regarding Brown ’ s call for launching a climate satellite , Zizi stated , “ I felt it ’ s a joke to have this satellite to find out more statistics on climate change when during the Global Climate Action Summit ,

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Two days before , hundreds of front line and indigenous communities blockaded the streets and entrances to Moscone Center after conducting a march from Jesse Square . A large delegation of indigenous leaders from the Amazon , who are being driven off their land by Jerry Brown ’ s carbon trading polices , attended the direct action , as well as participating in actions and forums starting with the Rise for Climate , Jobs and Justice march of 30,000 people in San Francisco on September 8 . Chief Ninawa Huni Kui travelled from the Amazon Rainforest of Acre , Brazil to the Global Climate Action Summit to tell Jerry Brown : “ No REDD .” “ Carbon trading is the same colonialism we ’ ve been fighting for centuries . They used to kill us with bullets ; now they create laws and policies ,” said Chief Ninawa in Portuguese . REDD , according to the United Nations , stands for “ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation .” But members of the Global Alliance Against REDD , a project of the Indigenous Environmental Network , say what REDD really means is “ Reaping profits from Evictions , land grabs , Deforestation and Destruction of biodiversity .” “ We are here for life and we want to save nature and expose the truth ,” said Kaku Viteri , from the Sarayaucu People in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest , before hundreds gathered at the protest outside the Moscone Center . “ It is very important in this action today that we unite forces ,

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create alliances and speak as one voice for life itself .” In contrast with indigenous and front line communities ’ strong opposition to the cap-and-trade and REDD policies , Catherine Reheis Boyd , President of the Western States Petroleum Association and former Chair of the Marine Life Protection Act ( MLPA ) Initiative to create “ marine protected areas ” in Southern California , praised “ market based programs ” in a tweet . “ Opening Day at @ gcas2018 begins with an international panel emphasizing that market-based programs are key to successful GHG reductions . We agree ,” said Reheis-Boyd . The Western States Petroleum Association ( WSPA ) is not a household name in California , but it should be . It ’ s the trade association for the oil industry and the largest and most powerful corporate lobbying organization in the state . If you want to know the industries , organizations and people that control California , WSPA and Big Oil are right at the top of the list .

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