{"id":8495,"date":"2021-01-20T11:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=6946"},"modified":"2021-01-20T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:44:19","slug":"ecoleaks-fracking-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/politics\/ecoleaks-fracking-colonialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with EcoLeaks | The Fight against Fracking, Exploitation &#038; Colonialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>Interview with EcoLeaks | The Fight against Fracking, Exploitation &amp; Colonialism<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>In this episode of The Spark, we interview Esteban Servat, founder of EcoLeaks, about the background, purpose of the organization and his role in the environmental movement. We also talk about the role of the Global North and how it controls and exploits natural resources in Latin America. Finally, we talk about the importance of grassroots movements as well as creating awareness for environmental justice movements.<\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read the transcript of this video:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Interview-with-EcoLeaks-_-The-Fight-against-Fracking-Exploitation-Colonialism.pdf\">Interview with EcoLeaks &#8211; The Fight against Fracking, Exploitation &amp; Colonialism<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO:\u00a0Interview with EcoLeaks | The Fight against Fracking, Exploitation &amp; Colonialism<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with EcoLeaks | The Fight against Fracking, Exploitation &amp; Colonialism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCdcVyhYPCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To watch more of our videos on this topic or with other experts such as Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, Abby Martin, Yanis Varoufakis, Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Jill Stein, Daniel Ellsberg, etc, please visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/acTVismMunich?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT\u00a0ESTEBAN SERVAT<\/h2>\n<p><span><strong>Esteban Servat<\/strong>\u00a0is the founder of EcoLeaks. He is an Argentine-American biologist living in Berlin. He spent nearly a decade working in the Silicon Valley, where he also got his master&#8217;s of Biotechnology. Sick and tired of the world of Silicon Valley, he moved back to Argentina to start a project to create a self-sustainable, multicultural community in Mendoza province. Everything was going well until the government brought fracking to the province. Then he suddenly turned into an activist and created EcoLeaks.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Spark, we interview Esteban Servat, founder of EcoLeaks, about the background, purpose of the organization and his role in the environmental movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-8495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-politics"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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