Call for Pitches: Community impacts of the F-35 bombers, at home & abroad
We're looking for journalists in the US & around the world to contribute stories about local impacts of the F-35 warplanes.
Writing in the face of catastrophe
Racism, which orders and classifies bodies, is the son of colonialism, as machismo is of the patriarchy and classism of capitalism.
Wet’suwet’en solidarity: “This movement wouldn’t exist without everything that preceded it”
Interview with Kwakwaka’wakw artist and writer Gord Hill on ongoing uprisings across Canada in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs.
Wet’suwet’en blockades: No more business as usual in Canada
Indigenous land defenders and their supporters are upholding the appropriate law in Canada: Wet’suwet’en law.
Unionization + Decriminalization + Feminist Education = The Red Feminist Horizon
Sex work decriminalization and unionization must happen simultaneously so that the changes benefit sex workers and not just bosses.
Bolivia: Contribution of Indigenous people to fighting climate change hanging by a thread
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Earth’s forests oxygenate the atmosphere and store vast quantities of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO₂). But research suggests that the health of these vast ecosystems in large part depends on the work of indigenous people.
Indigenous territories and protected areas cover 52% of the Amazon forest and store 58% of its carbon. A recent study found that these areas had the lowest net loss of carbon between 2003 and 2016, with 90% of net emissions coming from outside these protected lands.