Making the connections: resource extraction, prostitution, poverty, climate change, and human rights

Making the connections: resource extraction, prostitution, poverty, climate change, and human rights

by | Dec 20, 2021 | Alienation & Mental Health, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Colonialism & Conquest, Male Violence, Mining & Drilling, People of Color & Anti-racism, Prostitution, Repression at Home, Toxification, Women & Radical Feminism, Worker Exploitation

Editor’s note: This article has been published in The International Journal of Human Rights. Unfortunaltly we don’t have the rights to publish the whole article which is behind a paywall, but we are publishing the extract and some quotes. Featured image: The surface...
On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft

On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft

by | Aug 30, 2021 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Colonialism & Conquest, Education, Indigenous Autonomy, Lobbying, Movement Building & Support, People of Color & Anti-racism, Repression at Home, Toxification, White Supremacy

Ana Villa has fearlessly confronted agribusiness multinationals and armed groups that have tried to take over the land where rural communities and Indigenous people live in the Colombian plains. She risks her life fighting for the rights of vulnerable communities in...
AUGUST 23-26: Water protectors to gather at Minnesota State Capitol in ceremony to stop Line 3 pipeline Hundreds of supporters to rally on Wednesday, August 25th

AUGUST 23-26: Water protectors to gather at Minnesota State Capitol in ceremony to stop Line 3 pipeline Hundreds of supporters to rally on Wednesday, August 25th

by | Aug 24, 2021 | Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change, Colonialism & Conquest, Indigenous Autonomy, Mining & Drilling, Movement Building & Support, People of Color & Anti-racism, Protests & Symbolic Acts, Toxification

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES CONTACT: media@resistline3.org or 406-552-8764 Jennifer K. Falcon, jennifer@ienearth.org, 218-760- 9958 (St Paul)- Indigenous water protectors and allies will gather at the Minnesota State Capitol in late August for Treaties Not Tar Sands. From...
Army Corps Orders Full Environmental Review of Formosa Plastics’ Controversial Louisiana Plant

Army Corps Orders Full Environmental Review of Formosa Plastics’ Controversial Louisiana Plant

by | Aug 23, 2021 | Education, Lobbying, Movement Building & Support, People of Color & Anti-racism, Protests & Symbolic Acts, Repression at Home, Toxification, White Supremacy

The Center for Biological Diversity For Immediate Release, August 18, 2021 Contact: Julie Teel Simmonds, Center for Biological Diversity, (619) 990-2999, jteelsimmonds@biologicaldiversity.org Sharon Lavigne, RISE St. James, (225) 206-0900, sharonclavigne@gmail.com...