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Moderator’s Note:  This important petition was posted by La Jicarita, An Online Magazine of Environmental Politics from New Mexico on July 1. It is addressed to Robert G. Frank as the President of the University of New Mexico and concerns the case of Associate Professor David Correia who is being threatened with termination for his involvement in peaceful activism as part of a widening social movement in Albuquerque against police brutality and racial profiling. Professor Correia is the author of a widely praised book Properties of Violence (University of Geirgia Press, 2013) dealing with the slippery politics of property law and New Mexico land grants. Professor Correia has several noteworthy publications and is quickly developing a solid reputation as a world-class scholar with important contributions to environmental history, political ecology, and legal (property) history – particularly as applied to the convoluted history of New Mexico land grants. I urge all my followers an...

Criticisms by scientists, civil society, and indigenous farmers dismissed NO REPLY TO FAO AND CBD INQUIRIES Devon G. Peña |   Las Colonias de San Pablo, CO | July 6, 2014 While Mexico is a party to the international treaty known as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and a signatory to the Cartegena Protocol (which is fully enforceable), the federal government is so far ignoring both court rulings against Monsanto and other corporations and the advice of its own and other scientific committees actively advising the international bodies concerned with enforcing the CBD’s biosafety regulations.  The reinstalled PRI presidency occupied by  Enrique Peña Nieto is unsurprisingly acting the usual arrogant way and ignoring science and the rule of law. This past week, we received correspondence from scientist-advocates attending CDB-SBSTTA 18 in Montreal, Canada reporting these concerns. Article 25 of the CBD “establishes an open-ended intergovernmental sc...