{"id":351,"date":"2016-11-19T23:19:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T23:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/?p=351"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:19","slug":"ben-goloff-15-at-cop-with-sustainus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2016\/11\/19\/ben-goloff-15-at-cop-with-sustainus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Goloff &#8217;15 &#8211; at COP with SustainUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Goloff \u201915, who is in Marrakesh with SustainUS, met with us on Wednesday, 11\/16 to talk about their work, their various COP actions, and efforts to connect with environmental justice activists in Morocco. His colleague Ryan, also part of the conversation, talked about a couple of the EJ issues here, involving a silver mine pollution protest\/shut-down\/multi-year protest settlement\u00a0 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/24\/world\/africa\/on-moroccan-hill-villagers-make-stand-against-a-mine.html?_r=0\">Imider<\/a> and also\u00a0 the loss of fish stock and local livelihoods in Safi due to serious water pollution issues occasioned by companies like OCP Group, a major producer of phosphates and derivatives.\u00a0 Ryan designed a poster for SustainUS protesting the Safi pollution, and SustainUS had an &#8220;action&#8221; (a die-in) in the green zone where OCP was touting its environmental consciousness at COP22.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COP-protest-980x482.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-353\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COP-protest-980x482-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"cop-protest-980x482\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COP-protest-980x482-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COP-protest-980x482-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COP-protest-980x482.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Goloff_SustainUS-e1479391516359.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-334 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Goloff_SustainUS-e1479391516359-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Goloff '15, who is in Marrakesh with SustainUS, met with us on Wednesday, 11\/16 to talk about their work, COP actions, and efforts to connect with environmental justice activists in Morocco. 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His colleague Ryan, also part of the conversation, talked about a couple of the EJ issues here, involving a silver mine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2016\/11\/19\/ben-goloff-15-at-cop-with-sustainus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ben Goloff &#8217;15 &#8211; at COP with SustainUS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}