NEWS
Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Leaders Demand Climate and Racial Justice
More than 50 indigenous and Afro-descendant representatives of the Black and Indigenous Liberation Movement (BILM) call on the States of the Americas to address climate change from a differentiated, non-discriminatory justice perspective that addresses historical...
Approval of Deep Sea Mining Test Despite Concerns
Editor's Note: Deep sea mining is being pursued on the pretext of a transition towards a "cleaner" source of energy. This transition is being hailed as "the solution" to all environmental problems by the majority of the environmental movement. The irony of "the...
Damming Mekong: What It Means for Fishing Communities?
Editor's Note: Development projects have always destroyed local ways of living and nonhuman communities. Numerous examples attest to that. The government of Cambodia need not look very far. The Lower Sesan 2 dam it built despite resistance has collectively been...
ACTION
Eco-Terrorist or Water Protector? Jessica Reznicek Appeals Terrorism Charges
Oral arguments for a federal appeal in the high profile case of environmental activist Jessica Reznicek will be heard by the 8th circuit court of appeal on May 13. In a defining moment for the climate justice movement and for all civil rights, the court will decide...
How to Organize: The Spectrum of Allies
Editor's note: The following conceptual tool is designed to help community organizers to categorize community groups, businesses, government bodies, and individuals along a "spectrum of allies." This exercise teaches a fundamental tenet of community organizing: that...
How to Build a Coalition
Editor's note: The ability to work with others who we may disagree is fundamental to organizing in a socially fractured, multi-polar world. But doing so is difficult, distasteful, and increasingly rare in our filter-bubble modern experience, where people we disagree...
ANALYSIS
Dumping Nuclear Waste in the Pacific
Editor's note: The 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, triggered by an earthquake and a tsunami, was one of the worst nuclear accidents of the twenty-first century to date. Nevertheless, worse ones might come in the future. In the quest for energy to fuel the machine,...
Renewable Energy Isn’t Replacing Fossil Fuel Energy
Editor's note: It is true that wind and heat from the sun are renewable but the devices used to capture that energy are not. Creating such devices only adds on to a non-existing carbon budget. Richard Heinberg, the author of the following article, is an advocate for...
Social Movements in Defense of Our Territories Are Our Hope
Editor's Note: The mainstream environmental movement has been co-opted not only into believing that renewables can save the planet, but also in the tactics used to accomplish that. A lot of the movement uses advocacy as the one and only strategy against systems of...
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