Can the world's most important rain forest be saved?
Public Meeting, February 6
Our History is the Future
The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Resistance
The Dakota Access Pipeline fight continues the long history of struggle against colonial settler genocide and ecological vandalism.
Rainforest Resistance
Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope
“We are protecting our land and the life on it. We have to preserve this life for our children’s future.”
Challenge filed
Amazonian community’s lands destroyed for ‘sustainable’ palm oil
With 7,000 hectares of forests destroyed, community leaders and members have faced multiple attempts on their lives, threats and intimidation.
respect traditional owners
End human rights abuses in forest conservation
“The National Park model of excluding indigenous peoples and local communities is fundamentally flawed. We have witnessed countless examples of human rights abuses in conservation projects.”
Book Review
Indigenous sovereignty and socialism in Canada
A Marxist perspective on the mass Indigenous movement that is in the vanguard of the fight for climate justice in Canada
Book Review
Hugo Blanco on the indigenous struggle for land in Peru
"I have taken the term 'Indian' as the title of the book. It is the pejorative term used against us. The whip they use to hit our faces. I have picked up the whip. I find it more appropriate than using terms that soften or diminish the oppression...
Sengwer people attacked
Conservation as genocide: REDD versus Indigenous rights in Kenya
Neo-colonial ‘developmentalist’ forces with a green sheen are evicting and murdering people in the guise of conservation and climate change mitigation
Tramples Indigenous rights
Site C Dam: BC NDP fails major environmental test
The government's decision to build the dam makes it abundantly clear that the struggle to defend indigenous rights and the environment must be built outside of parliament
Fighting Back
To win climate justice we must hit Trump where it hurts
South African activist Patrick Bond says we need to generate international solidarity for climate justice by imposing popular sanctions against Trump and US corporations.
U.S. labor brass to pipeline protestors: Drop Dead!
Conservative AFL-CIO leaders support the Dakota Access pipeline, oppose the Standing Rock Sioux campaign to protect land, people and water.
Stop the Pipeline!
Enbridge Mercenaries Attack Native American Protesters
Video: Democracy Now! reports from protests against pipeline that would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield
Stop Enbridge
First nation chiefs deposed for supporting pipeline
“When you are a hereditary chief leader you have responsibilities to your clan and you have to consult. They didn’t do that. Everything was a big secret up till now. At the end of the day, they are crawling into bed with Enbridge."
Movement Building
Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaigns
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against...
INTERNATIONAL JOINT STATEMENT
Condemn the murder of Honduran indigenous leader!
Berta Cáceres was a firm defender of small farmers and indigenous peoples’ rights and an inspiring social activist, both at regional and continental level, in defense of social and environmental justice, She was murdered in her home on March 3, by...
‘Buen vivir’ and the dilemmas of the Latin American left
Atilio Boron: "What has emerged in Latin American politics is more than a debate over development, growth or the environment; it is a profound controversy over the course of civilization itself."