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Featured, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Movement Building & Support

Niger Delta communities in ‘great danger’ as month-old oil spill continues

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This article originally appeared in Mongabay. Featured image: Barge transporting oil drums in the Niger Delta. Image by Stakeholder Democracy via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Oil has been spilling from a wellhead in Nigeria’s Bayelsa state for a month now, with the local company responsible unable to contain it. Experts say the scale and duration of the … Continue reading Niger Delta communities in ‘great danger’ as month-old oil spill continues →
Featured, Agriculture, Direct Action, Movement Building & Support, Worker Solidarity, Protests & Symbolic Acts, Repression at Home, Worker Exploitation

‘Victory of Global Significance’: Modi to Repeal Laws That Sparked Year-Long Farmers’ Revolt

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“You Can Kill a Man, but You Can’t Kill an Idea” –  Medgar Evers This article first appeared in Common Dreams. “After a year of strikes—and having faced brutal repression that claimed some 700 lives—India’s farmers are victorious in their struggle.” By KENNY STANCIL Workers’ rights activists around the globe rejoiced on Friday after Indian Prime … Continue reading ‘Victory of Global Significance’: Modi to Repeal Laws That Sparked Year-Long Farmers’ Revolt →
Agriculture, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Indigenous Autonomy, Movement Building & Support, Repression at Home

Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title

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This article originally appeared in Mongabay. Editor’s note: The strong focus on mapping forests mentioned in this article makes one suspicious. Mapping is needed for governments to control “natural ressources” and give concessions to companies to exploit them. It was never needed for indigenous populations, so far as, since they’ve known their landbase for millenia. … Continue reading Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Human Supremacy, Agriculture, Toxification, Repression at Home, Culture of Resistance, Building Alternatives, Indigenous Autonomy, Featured

Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai‘i

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This article first appeared in Yes! magazine. By LIBBY LEONARD There are four things you should know,” says David Fuertes to the youths he mentors. “You should know your origins, because your ancestors have paved the way. You should know your values and connect in those values, because that’s going to drive you to make … Continue reading Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai‘i →
The Problem: Civilization, Colonialism & Conquest, Culture of Resistance, Listening to the Land, Featured, Agriculture, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change

The Problem

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This is an excerpt from the book Bright Green Lies, P. 1-7 By LIERRE KEITH “Once our authoritarian technics consolidates its powers, with the aid of its new forms of mass control, its panoply of tranquilizers and sedatives and aphrodisiacs, could democracy in any form survive? That question is absurd: Life itself will not survive, … Continue reading The Problem →
Featured, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Mining & Drilling, Toxification, Direct Action, Indigenous Autonomy, Property & Material Destruction, Repression at Home

Indigenous Environmental Defenders Shut Down Peruvian Crude Oil Pipeline

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This article originally appeared in Common Dreams. By JULIA CONLEY “Not a single drop of oil is going to come out of the Amazon until the government takes care of us,” said campaigners. Demanding stronger social and environmental support in northern Peru’s Loreto region, about 200 Indigenous protesters on Wednesday announced a strike two days … Continue reading Indigenous Environmental Defenders Shut Down Peruvian Crude Oil Pipeline →
Listening to the Land

A Malagasy Community Wins Global Recognition For Saving Its Lake

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This article was written by Malavika Vyawahare and published on the 18 November 2020 in Mongabay. Malavika describes the work undertaken by a community association to improve the health of the ecosystem of a wetland.  The organization won the Equator Prize in the category “Nature for Water.” A community association charged with managing Lake Andranobe … Continue reading A Malagasy Community Wins Global Recognition For Saving Its Lake →
Indigenous Autonomy, Listening to the Land

Socio-Ecological vs. Socio-Economic

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This piece comes from the Karuk Tribe, a nation located in what is today northern California and Southern Oregon, along the Klamath River. This piece shares Karuk cultural teachings around socio-ecology. We publish this with gratitide to the Karuk Tribal Department of Natural Resources Pikyav Field Institute, which is currently raising funds to support their … Continue reading Socio-Ecological vs. Socio-Economic →
Agriculture, Building Alternatives

What is Permaculture and How Is It Relevant?

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In this video, Boris Forkel explores five different forms of human society: agriculture, horticulture, pastoralism, hunter-gatherer, and industrial culture. By Boris Forkel In this lecture, we will cover a wide range of 10,000 years of agricultural history. Starting with the initial question “how old is human culture” we argue that humans have been living in … Continue reading What is Permaculture and How Is It Relevant? →
The Solution: Resistance, Strategy & Analysis

Can Permaculture Become a Revolutionary Force?

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What would a revolutionary permaculture movement look like? As food shortages begin to sweep the world, the prospect of a Deep Green Resistance—a movement combining relocalization with organized political resistance—grows ever more relevant. Can Permaculture Become a Revolutionary Force? By Max Wilbert As coronavirus unravels global supply chains, wildfires cool in Australia, Arctic ice continues … Continue reading Can Permaculture Become a Revolutionary Force? →