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    <title>The Revelation Project - Episodes Tagged with “Ecocide”</title>
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    <description>The Revelation Project is an individual and holistic movement that disrupts the trance of unworthiness and lifts the veils of personal illusion and cultural deception that keep us from remembering our divinity and inherent wholeness. The Revelation Project Podcast explores alternative narratives to traditional patriarchal influences that awaken, liberate and activate awareness. Join us to investigate vulnerable and courageous topics that reveal more magic, wonder, and beauty than we ever thought possible.  Life is a revelation, and what gets revealed gets healed.
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    <itunes:summary>The Revelation Project is an individual and holistic movement that disrupts the trance of unworthiness and lifts the veils of personal illusion and cultural deception that keep us from remembering our divinity and inherent wholeness. The Revelation Project Podcast explores alternative narratives to traditional patriarchal influences that awaken, liberate and activate awareness. Join us to investigate vulnerable and courageous topics that reveal more magic, wonder, and beauty than we ever thought possible.  Life is a revelation, and what gets revealed gets healed.
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  <title>Episode 130: Gina Clover - Our Lady of the Apocalypse</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Monica speaks to Gina Clover about her work; anticapitalism, and ecological re-enchantment.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>Meet Gina Clover.
I adore her for sharing her mind and heart through her substack writing by challenging the dominant narrative in our culture around money, capitalism, and business as usual. 
Basically, she’s not buying it when it comes to consumer culture and the insidious ways that it undermines the fabric of our society.  Join us as we take a deep dive into the disguised gift of a personal apocalypse and how it disrupts the trance as well as the mind virus that infects our culture with the toxic myths of scarcity.  This episode will either piss you off or have you cheering, but either way - your response is welcome. Sometimes we have to get messy and real in order to reveal and heal what’s been ailing us. 
In this episode you’ll hear Gina’s exploration of Capitalism and how it’s intimately tied to other systems of oppression.
Gina’s future vision and her invitation to co-create a better world.
What is animism and how to distinguish it from spirituality + her endeavor to build a community where people can co-create a future, grieve the current reality, and honor what they most value.
The story of her own personal apocalypse and what it taught her.
Why she decided to call her substack “A Girl Has No Brand”
Learn what “collapse-aware” rites of passage mean and how it applies to where we are now.
Hear about what Gina describes as life’s invitations to radicalize.
Why humor, collaboration, and community are the keys to the future.
Gina is an animist witch and rites of passage guide who centers her work around anticapitalism and ecological re-enchantment. She offers radical presence and compassion to those who want to move into the seasonal reality of their lives in full awareness that the world as we’ve known it is disintegrating, bringing a collapse-aware approach to moving into maturity and relational leadership. She believes we break the spell of modernity by doing this work together. Gina is also a plant medicine integration guide who loves to help people bring animist enchantment into their lives. In the secular world, Gina holds an undergraduate degree in Critical Theory from NYU, as well as an MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Writing for Film and Television, and is a professional writer.
She currently lives in a 150-year-old Victorian Church in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she and her partner are creating a sanctuary called “Our Lady of the Apocalypse”, creating a community space for grief, skill-sharing, ritual, beauty, and unlearning, finding our way through the darkness together, awake in the burning forest of the world.
The ways in which the intertwining of capitalism and spirituality is actually at the very heart of the climate crisis and ecocide – the ecological crisis is a deeply “spiritual” crisis arising from the intentional erasure and destruction of ancestral traditions and animist relationships to land and earth– erasure and destruction that was very explicitly in the service of colonial capitalism. So what is needed in the face of these crises is a spiritual response/atonement/reconciliation, but perversely, almost all of what passes for spirituality right now occurs in a deeply capitalist, neoliberal framework that neuters and sublimates all spiritual impulse back into the patterns of hyperindividualism, commodification, consumption, and the society of the spectacle, perpetuating the root causes of the crisis instead of offering a potentially vital response to it.
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    <![CDATA[<p>Meet Gina Clover.</p>

<p>I adore her for sharing her mind and heart through her substack writing by challenging the dominant narrative in our culture around money, capitalism, and business as usual. <br>
Basically, she’s not buying it when it comes to consumer culture and the insidious ways that it undermines the fabric of our society.  Join us as we take a deep dive into the disguised gift of a personal apocalypse and how it disrupts the trance as well as the mind virus that infects our culture with the toxic myths of scarcity.  This episode will either piss you off or have you cheering, but either way - your response is welcome. Sometimes we have to get messy and real in order to reveal and heal what’s been ailing us. </p>

<ul>
<li>In this episode you’ll hear Gina’s exploration of Capitalism and how it’s intimately tied to other systems of oppression.</li>
<li>Gina&#8217;s future vision and her invitation to co-create a better world.</li>
<li>What is animism and how to distinguish it from spirituality + her endeavor to build a community where people can co-create a future, grieve the current reality, and honor what they most value.</li>
<li>The story of her own personal apocalypse and what it taught her.</li>
<li>Why she decided to call her substack “A Girl Has No Brand”</li>
<li>Learn what “collapse-aware” rites of passage mean and how it applies to where we are now.</li>
<li>Hear about what Gina describes as life&#8217;s invitations to radicalize.
Why humor, collaboration, and community are the keys to the future.</li>
</ul>

<p>Gina is an animist witch and rites of passage guide who centers her work around anticapitalism and ecological re-enchantment. She offers radical presence and compassion to those who want to move into the seasonal reality of their lives in full awareness that the world as we’ve known it is disintegrating, bringing a collapse-aware approach to moving into maturity and relational leadership. She believes we break the spell of modernity by doing this work together. Gina is also a plant medicine integration guide who loves to help people bring animist enchantment into their lives. In the secular world, Gina holds an undergraduate degree in Critical Theory from NYU, as well as an MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Writing for Film and Television, and is a professional writer.</p>

<p>She currently lives in a 150-year-old Victorian Church in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she and her partner are creating a sanctuary called “Our Lady of the Apocalypse”, creating a community space for grief, skill-sharing, ritual, beauty, and unlearning, finding our way through the darkness together, awake in the burning forest of the world.</p>

<p>The ways in which the intertwining of capitalism and spirituality is actually at the very heart of the climate crisis and ecocide – the ecological crisis is a deeply “spiritual” crisis arising from the intentional erasure and destruction of ancestral traditions and animist relationships to land and earth– erasure and destruction that was very explicitly in the service of colonial capitalism. So what is needed in the face of these crises is a spiritual response/atonement/reconciliation, but perversely, almost all of what passes for spirituality right now occurs in a deeply capitalist, neoliberal framework that neuters and sublimates all spiritual impulse back into the patterns of hyperindividualism, commodification, consumption, and the society of the spectacle, perpetuating the root causes of the crisis instead of offering a potentially vital response to it.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Website: enchantment.church" rel="nofollow" href="http://enchantment.church/">Website: enchantment.church</a></li><li><a title="Substack : a girl has no brand" rel="nofollow" href="https://agirlhasnobrand.substack.com/">Substack : a girl has no brand</a></li><li><a title="The Problem with B Corp ‘Conscious Capitalism’ | Dame Magazine" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/05/13/the-problem-with-b-corp-conscious-capitalism/">The Problem with B Corp ‘Conscious Capitalism’ | Dame Magazine</a></li><li><a title="TRP: Bergen Hyde - From Wounded Maiden to Cherishing Mother: An Archetypal Rite of Passage for Women" rel="nofollow" href="https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/105">TRP: Bergen Hyde - From Wounded Maiden to Cherishing Mother: An Archetypal Rite of Passage for Women</a></li><li><a title="Book: Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World: Levy, Paul, Dossey M.D., Larry: 9781644114100: Books - Amazon" rel="nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3adPOBM">Book: Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World: Levy, Paul, Dossey M.D., Larry: 9781644114100: Books - Amazon</a></li><li><a title="anthropocene.church" rel="nofollow" href="https://anthropocene.church/">anthropocene.church</a></li></ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>Meet Gina Clover.</p>

<p>I adore her for sharing her mind and heart through her substack writing by challenging the dominant narrative in our culture around money, capitalism, and business as usual. <br>
Basically, she’s not buying it when it comes to consumer culture and the insidious ways that it undermines the fabric of our society.  Join us as we take a deep dive into the disguised gift of a personal apocalypse and how it disrupts the trance as well as the mind virus that infects our culture with the toxic myths of scarcity.  This episode will either piss you off or have you cheering, but either way - your response is welcome. Sometimes we have to get messy and real in order to reveal and heal what’s been ailing us. </p>

<ul>
<li>In this episode you’ll hear Gina’s exploration of Capitalism and how it’s intimately tied to other systems of oppression.</li>
<li>Gina&#8217;s future vision and her invitation to co-create a better world.</li>
<li>What is animism and how to distinguish it from spirituality + her endeavor to build a community where people can co-create a future, grieve the current reality, and honor what they most value.</li>
<li>The story of her own personal apocalypse and what it taught her.</li>
<li>Why she decided to call her substack “A Girl Has No Brand”</li>
<li>Learn what “collapse-aware” rites of passage mean and how it applies to where we are now.</li>
<li>Hear about what Gina describes as life&#8217;s invitations to radicalize.
Why humor, collaboration, and community are the keys to the future.</li>
</ul>

<p>Gina is an animist witch and rites of passage guide who centers her work around anticapitalism and ecological re-enchantment. She offers radical presence and compassion to those who want to move into the seasonal reality of their lives in full awareness that the world as we’ve known it is disintegrating, bringing a collapse-aware approach to moving into maturity and relational leadership. She believes we break the spell of modernity by doing this work together. Gina is also a plant medicine integration guide who loves to help people bring animist enchantment into their lives. In the secular world, Gina holds an undergraduate degree in Critical Theory from NYU, as well as an MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in Writing for Film and Television, and is a professional writer.</p>

<p>She currently lives in a 150-year-old Victorian Church in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she and her partner are creating a sanctuary called “Our Lady of the Apocalypse”, creating a community space for grief, skill-sharing, ritual, beauty, and unlearning, finding our way through the darkness together, awake in the burning forest of the world.</p>

<p>The ways in which the intertwining of capitalism and spirituality is actually at the very heart of the climate crisis and ecocide – the ecological crisis is a deeply “spiritual” crisis arising from the intentional erasure and destruction of ancestral traditions and animist relationships to land and earth– erasure and destruction that was very explicitly in the service of colonial capitalism. So what is needed in the face of these crises is a spiritual response/atonement/reconciliation, but perversely, almost all of what passes for spirituality right now occurs in a deeply capitalist, neoliberal framework that neuters and sublimates all spiritual impulse back into the patterns of hyperindividualism, commodification, consumption, and the society of the spectacle, perpetuating the root causes of the crisis instead of offering a potentially vital response to it.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Website: enchantment.church" rel="nofollow" href="http://enchantment.church/">Website: enchantment.church</a></li><li><a title="Substack : a girl has no brand" rel="nofollow" href="https://agirlhasnobrand.substack.com/">Substack : a girl has no brand</a></li><li><a title="The Problem with B Corp ‘Conscious Capitalism’ | Dame Magazine" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.damemagazine.com/2022/05/13/the-problem-with-b-corp-conscious-capitalism/">The Problem with B Corp ‘Conscious Capitalism’ | Dame Magazine</a></li><li><a title="TRP: Bergen Hyde - From Wounded Maiden to Cherishing Mother: An Archetypal Rite of Passage for Women" rel="nofollow" href="https://revelationproject.fireside.fm/105">TRP: Bergen Hyde - From Wounded Maiden to Cherishing Mother: An Archetypal Rite of Passage for Women</a></li><li><a title="Book: Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World: Levy, Paul, Dossey M.D., Larry: 9781644114100: Books - Amazon" rel="nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/3adPOBM">Book: Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus That Plagues Our World: Levy, Paul, Dossey M.D., Larry: 9781644114100: Books - Amazon</a></li><li><a title="anthropocene.church" rel="nofollow" href="https://anthropocene.church/">anthropocene.church</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <title>Episode 36: Jojo Mehta: Stop Ecocide</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
  <author>Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC</author>
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  <description>If damaging our environment were made an actual crime at the international level, then corporations, private interest groups, and individuals could be held accountable. We would therefore drastically reduce the incidence of mass damage and destruction of ecosystems that is currently taking place globally. Jojo calls this harm ecocide and right now, in most of the world, it is legally permitted. But it’s possible to change the rules and it’s high time we did. Listen in as Jojo and I talk about her work to make the destruction and plundering of nature an international crime at the International Criminal Court. 
With degrees from Oxford and London Universities and a background in communication, entrepreneurship, and on-the-ground environmental activism, Jojo Mehta has a unique reputation for “getting things done,” and likes nothing better than working to unusual parameters. She is a natural leader as well as a compelling public speaker and advocate. Alongside barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, Jojo co-founded the Stop Ecocide campaign in 2017 to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. Since Polly’s death in 2019 she has co-ordinated the growing international team engaged in this highly focused mission and is Chair of the Board of the Stop Ecocide Foundation (https://www.stopecocide.earth/) in the Netherlands, which now manages the campaign. Jojo is a key spokeswoman for Stop Ecocide and has contributed to law conferences, environmental summits, festivals, and climate rallies as well as podcasts, interviews, and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from Extinction Rebellion to the BBC World Service and from the Ecologist to the New York Times.
Show Notes:  
* Jojo's team works with international criminal lawyers, researchers, and diplomats to amend International Criminal Law.
* Greta Thunberg was awarded the first Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity and donates €100K to the Stop Ecocide Foundation.
* ECOCIDE, committed over decades, has created the climate and ecological emergency that we now face.  
* The biggest combined threat to biodiversity and climate on the planet is deforestation (https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-deforestation-affecting-global-water-cycles-climate-change), especially of tropical rainforests that harbor the richest ecosystems and actively moderate the global climate.
* Jojo first recognized her personal desire to get involved at a deeper level when she realized that even her 5-year-old daughter could feel the devastating impact of pollution, deforestation, and fracking. She decided to get involved in a deeper way, which led to meeting Polly Higgins.
* Climate and ecological emergency is the result of many years of these harmful industrial activities. Most of the risks have been known for decades by the companies choosing to continue these practices. The responsibility lies with decisions made at the top of industry, finance, and government.  
* As citizens, we can and must take responsibility for what we eat and buy, but ordinary citizens do not make those high-level investment and policy decisions. Ordinary citizens cannot, therefore, be blamed for ecocide.   
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    <![CDATA[<p>If damaging our environment were made an actual crime at the international level, then corporations, private interest groups, and individuals could be held accountable. We would therefore drastically reduce the incidence of mass damage and destruction of ecosystems that is currently taking place globally. Jojo calls this harm ecocide and right now, in most of the world, it is legally permitted. But it’s possible to change the rules and it’s high time we did. Listen in as Jojo and I talk about her work to make the destruction and plundering of nature an international crime at the International Criminal Court. </p>

<p>With degrees from Oxford and London Universities and a background in communication, entrepreneurship, and on-the-ground environmental activism, Jojo Mehta has a unique reputation for “getting things done,” and likes nothing better than working to unusual parameters. She is a natural leader as well as a compelling public speaker and advocate. Alongside barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, Jojo co-founded the Stop Ecocide campaign in 2017 to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. Since Polly’s death in 2019 she has co-ordinated the growing international team engaged in this highly focused mission and is Chair of the Board of the <a href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/" rel="nofollow">Stop Ecocide Foundation</a> in the Netherlands, which now manages the campaign. Jojo is a key spokeswoman for Stop Ecocide and has contributed to law conferences, environmental summits, festivals, and climate rallies as well as podcasts, interviews, and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from Extinction Rebellion to the BBC World Service and from the Ecologist to the New York Times.</p>

<p><strong>Show Notes:</strong>  </p>

<ul>
<li>Jojo&#39;s team works with international criminal lawyers, researchers, and diplomats to amend International Criminal Law.</li>
<li>Greta Thunberg was awarded the first Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity and donates €100K to the Stop Ecocide Foundation.</li>
<li>ECOCIDE, committed over decades, has created the climate and ecological emergency that we now face.<br></li>
<li>The biggest combined threat to biodiversity and climate on the planet is <a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-deforestation-affecting-global-water-cycles-climate-change" rel="nofollow">deforestation</a>, especially of tropical rainforests that harbor the richest ecosystems and actively moderate the global climate.</li>
<li>Jojo first recognized her personal desire to get involved at a deeper level when she realized that even her 5-year-old daughter could feel the devastating impact of pollution, deforestation, and fracking. She decided to get involved in a deeper way, which led to meeting Polly Higgins.</li>
<li>Climate and ecological emergency is the result of many years of these harmful industrial activities. Most of the risks have been known for decades by the companies choosing to continue these practices. The responsibility lies with decisions made at the top of industry, finance, and government.<br></li>
<li>As citizens, we can and must take responsibility for what we eat and buy, but ordinary citizens do not make those high-level investment and policy decisions. Ordinary citizens cannot, therefore, be blamed for ecocide.<br></li>
</ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Stop Ecocide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/">Stop Ecocide</a></li><li><a title="Join now — Stop Ecocide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/become">Join now — Stop Ecocide</a></li><li><a title="Book: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things: Michael Braungart, William McDonough" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0865475873/revelationpro-20">Book: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things: Michael Braungart, William McDonough</a></li><li><a title="Podcasts — Stop Ecocide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/podcasts">Podcasts — Stop Ecocide</a></li><li><a title="Media Videos — Stop Ecocide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/media-videos">Media Videos — Stop Ecocide</a></li><li><a title="Facebook: Stop Ecocide International" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/EcocideLaw/">Facebook: Stop Ecocide International</a></li><li><a title="Instagram • Stop Ecocide International (@ecocidelaw)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/ecocidelaw/">Instagram • Stop Ecocide International (@ecocidelaw)</a></li><li><a title="LinkedIn - Jojo Mehta" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jojo-mehta/">LinkedIn - Jojo Mehta</a></li></ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>If damaging our environment were made an actual crime at the international level, then corporations, private interest groups, and individuals could be held accountable. We would therefore drastically reduce the incidence of mass damage and destruction of ecosystems that is currently taking place globally. Jojo calls this harm ecocide and right now, in most of the world, it is legally permitted. But it’s possible to change the rules and it’s high time we did. Listen in as Jojo and I talk about her work to make the destruction and plundering of nature an international crime at the International Criminal Court. </p>

<p>With degrees from Oxford and London Universities and a background in communication, entrepreneurship, and on-the-ground environmental activism, Jojo Mehta has a unique reputation for “getting things done,” and likes nothing better than working to unusual parameters. She is a natural leader as well as a compelling public speaker and advocate. Alongside barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, Jojo co-founded the Stop Ecocide campaign in 2017 to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. Since Polly’s death in 2019 she has co-ordinated the growing international team engaged in this highly focused mission and is Chair of the Board of the <a href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/" rel="nofollow">Stop Ecocide Foundation</a> in the Netherlands, which now manages the campaign. Jojo is a key spokeswoman for Stop Ecocide and has contributed to law conferences, environmental summits, festivals, and climate rallies as well as podcasts, interviews, and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from Extinction Rebellion to the BBC World Service and from the Ecologist to the New York Times.</p>

<p><strong>Show Notes:</strong>  </p>

<ul>
<li>Jojo&#39;s team works with international criminal lawyers, researchers, and diplomats to amend International Criminal Law.</li>
<li>Greta Thunberg was awarded the first Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity and donates €100K to the Stop Ecocide Foundation.</li>
<li>ECOCIDE, committed over decades, has created the climate and ecological emergency that we now face.<br></li>
<li>The biggest combined threat to biodiversity and climate on the planet is <a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-deforestation-affecting-global-water-cycles-climate-change" rel="nofollow">deforestation</a>, especially of tropical rainforests that harbor the richest ecosystems and actively moderate the global climate.</li>
<li>Jojo first recognized her personal desire to get involved at a deeper level when she realized that even her 5-year-old daughter could feel the devastating impact of pollution, deforestation, and fracking. She decided to get involved in a deeper way, which led to meeting Polly Higgins.</li>
<li>Climate and ecological emergency is the result of many years of these harmful industrial activities. Most of the risks have been known for decades by the companies choosing to continue these practices. The responsibility lies with decisions made at the top of industry, finance, and government.<br></li>
<li>As citizens, we can and must take responsibility for what we eat and buy, but ordinary citizens do not make those high-level investment and policy decisions. Ordinary citizens cannot, therefore, be blamed for ecocide.<br></li>
</ul><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a title="Stop Ecocide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/">Stop Ecocide</a></li><li><a title="Join now — Stop Ecocide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/become">Join now — Stop Ecocide</a></li><li><a title="Book: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things: Michael Braungart, William McDonough" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0865475873/revelationpro-20">Book: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things: Michael Braungart, William McDonough</a></li><li><a title="Podcasts — Stop Ecocide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/podcasts">Podcasts — Stop Ecocide</a></li><li><a title="Media Videos — Stop Ecocide" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/media-videos">Media Videos — Stop Ecocide</a></li><li><a title="Facebook: Stop Ecocide International" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/EcocideLaw/">Facebook: Stop Ecocide International</a></li><li><a title="Instagram • Stop Ecocide International (@ecocidelaw)" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/ecocidelaw/">Instagram • Stop Ecocide International (@ecocidelaw)</a></li><li><a title="LinkedIn - Jojo Mehta" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jojo-mehta/">LinkedIn - Jojo Mehta</a></li></ul>]]>
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