by DGR News Service | Dec 13, 2021 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Human Supremacy, The Problem: Civilization, The Solution: Resistance
This story first appeared in Mongabay. By Maxwell Radwin Women in a rural part of El Salvador are leading an effort to stop urban development that could result in deforestation and loss of access to water. The Ciudad Valle El Ángel project involves the construction of...
by DGR News Service | Dec 8, 2021 | Building Alternatives, Culture of Resistance, Defensive Violence, Direct Action, Indigenous Autonomy, Indirect Action, Mining & Drilling, Repression at Home, The Problem: Civilization, The Solution: Resistance
This story was first published in Mongabay. By Sandra Cuffe In the midst of a long conflict and recent protest over a nickel mine in El Estor, in eastern Guatemala, police have carried out more than 40 raids and 60 arrests, and the government has declared a 30-day...
by DGR News Service | Dec 11, 2020 | Climate Change, Mining & Drilling, Toxification
Shale Must Fall: Global day of climate actions uniting sites of extraction in the Global South and beyond with their counterparts of consumption in the Global North. Friday Dec. 11th, on the eve of the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, a diverse group of...
by DGR News Service | Jul 31, 2020 | Repression at Home, The Problem: Civilization
This piece consists of excerpts from two articles. In the first one, Ashoka Mukpo discusses the report by Global Witness on the killings of environmental defenders in 2019. In the second article, Leilani Chavez describes the threats posed on environmental defenders by...
by DGR News Service | Jul 26, 2020 | Indigenous Autonomy
The CoViD-19 pandemic is impacting Indigenous peoples across the Americas who are already living under ongoing colonization, have poor access to health care, and suffer disproportionately from pre-existing conditions that compromise the immune system. by Laura Hobson...
