The Hidden Story of a Notorious Guatemalan Nickel Mine

by Sandra Cuffe / The Intercept CRISTÓBAL POP VIVIDLY remembers when the lake suddenly turned red. Indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ fishermen depend on Lake Izabal, Guatemala’s largest lake, for their livelihoods, and Pop had just been elected president of the local fishers guild when […]

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Six machines sabotaged in defense of the Atlanta Forest

from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest To Reeves Young: You will have noticed by now that several of your machines have ceased to function, their arteries corroded from within. Last week, we sabotaged six Earth-destroying machines——including two large excavators and a bulldozer——at […]

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