by Tamara Pearson / Truthout Around 300 Mexican National Guards and state security forces violently evicted Indigenous environmental activists from their community center in Puebla this week, on the morning of February 15. The community center had been a foreign-owned water bottling […]
from Defend the Atlanta Forest They say Atlanta is a city in a forest. What happens when cops, developers, and Hollywood team up to decimate some of the very woods the city claims to treasure? In the last year, a widespread and […]
from CKPG Today BRITISH COLUMBIA— Mounties in Houston, B.C. are investigating a violent incident that left Coastal Gaslink (CGL) workers “shaken.” It happened shortly after midnight this morning (Feb.17) on the Marten Forest Service Road. “It was reported approximately 20 people, some […]
From It’s Going Down Below we publish two translated communiques from the Indigenous Binnizá community of Puente Madera, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, who are engaged in a struggle in defense of their communal lands against the construction of an industrial […]
by Alleen Brown / The Intercept THE FLOODING IN Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was underwater. At the Cross City Correctional […]
by Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams While celebrating a U.S. judge’s Thursday decision to restore federal protections that the Trump administration had stripped from the gray wolf, wildlife advocates and experts also demanded action to save wolves that won’t be protected by the legal triumph. Calling the […]
from MTL Counter-Info On the night of February 6th, 2022 in Montreal (Tio’Tia:Ke), non-Indigenous allies demonstrated their solidarity with the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. The instigators of this action are responding to a call by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs to #ShutdownCanada […]
by Jake Johnson / Common Dreams Fresh U.S. government data spotlighting the rapid growth of atmospheric methane concentrations in recent years has scientists increasingly concerned that the human-caused climate crisis has triggered a vicious feedback loop, potentially resulting in unstoppable planetary warming. Research published in […]
from Indigenous Environmental Network Indigenous women and their allies disrupted Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt’s State of the State with banners carrying messages uplifting tribal sovereignty, the Covid pandemic, environmental concerns, and the wrongful imprisonment of Julius Jones. Inside the Capitol, two Indigenous women from […]
From Enough 14 Wuppertal, Germany: I arrived in the stormy weather with pouring rain and I was delighted that nonetheless some people came to o the forest. In the pavillion I saw a few wreaths and some banner. One banner said: “Missing […]