Is it fascism or not?, reflections on freedom within the environmental struggle

by Moisés Flores Baca In my History of Filmmaking class this past Fall term we got the opportunity to look at various films that are considered propagandistic, including a few by the famous german filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who worked during Hitler’s regime being one of his favorite people. When we think of the Nazi regime […]

COA’s booth at Youth and Future Generations action day.

by Moisés Flores Baca Today is the Youth and Future Generations day and the YOUNGO, or Youth Constituency, is organizing a big series of various events to make the youth’s voices be heard. One of these events will be the “Market of our Futures” at which the different NGO’s that form the constituency will present […]

The irony behind having the Climate Change negotiations be in Cancun.

by Moisés Flores Baca “Cancun is the best example of ecosystems predation…” reads the first line of the cartoon above, published today by the left-wing newspaper “LaJornada”, “The fact that it is the place where the environmental summit meant to save the planet is happening there seems to be a joke”, reads the line in […]

Canada on the spotlight on the first day of the Climate Negotiations in Cancun

by Moisés Flores Baca One of the side events that receives the most attention during Climate Change Conferences (since 1999) is the “Fossil of the Day” awards organized by the Climate Action Network (CAN). The award is given to the worst-performing country of the previous day. Yesterday Canada was the proud receiver of this award, […]

Class of 2013

<- Back to Alumni  Anjali Appadurai / Anjali’s blogs Lisa Bjerke / Lisa’s blogs Mariana Calderon / Mariana’s blogs Moises Flores Baca / Moises’s blogs Jane Nurse / Jane’s blogs Graham Reeder / Graham’s blogs Trudi Zundel / Trudi’s blogs **************************** Graham Reeder back to top What are you up to now? I’m currently on a Watson Fellowship, looking at how […]