“Ecofeminists have moved from protesting outside the halls of power to becoming elected legislators writing and passing the environmental protection frameworks that they campaigned for and that our planet desperately needs.”
Loren Legarda, deputy speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, has pushed through a slew of laws on the environment.
Grandits was the director of Europahaus, a nonprofit campaigning to protect the rainforests, when the Austrian Green Party asked her to join their slate of candidates. The Austrian Green Party emerged from two successful activist campaigns — to shut down a planned nuclear power plant, and to protect an ancient forest from destruction for a hydro-power plant. “We students sat in protest for days in the December cold, and we succeeded,” she says. “Today the forest is a national park.
South Asia remains an exception, with no headway by Green Parties in a political system of entrenched left to right party politics. Ecofeminists such as Vandana Shiva, a fellow WEDO board member of Abzug’s, have not crossed over into legislative politics. Women legislators including, in Pakistan, Sen.
The undisputed master of taking laws across the finish line is Rep. Loren Legarda, deputy speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines and former chair of the Senate Committees on Finance, Climate Change, and Foreign Relations. Legarda is a former national news anchor who produced documentaries on endangered species and award-winning programs on polluted lakes and oceans.
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