Why Indigenous Land Defenders Face Repression
From Ecuador to North Dakota, British Columbia to New Zealand, the backlash against Indigenous-led environmental protest is always particularly harsh, infused with colonialist entitlement to land, wat...
10 Okt 202328min
Guyana Gas-to-Energy Project: Who Really Benefits?
A new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) looks at the details of Guyana's planned "Gas to Energy" project and finds mostly benefits for ExxonMobil and more d...
9 Okt 202326min
Joanna Smith on "Conspiring Against the United States" with Finger paint
In April 2023, Joanna Oltman Smith walked into the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. with fellow activist Tim Martin, and smeared water-soluble kids' finger paint on the glass display case containi...
3 Okt 202349min
Living with Loss: Climate Damage in Nigeria
Climate activists warn about the future—but for many communities, climate loss is already routine. Mo Isu from Inherited looks at the cycle of loss and rebuilding in the rural Niger Delta region of Ni...
26 Sep 202331min
How Think Tanks Paved the Way to Criminalize Climate Protest
Climate activists warn about the future—but for many communities, climate loss is already routine. Mo Isu from Inherited looks at the cycle of loss and rebuilding in the rural Niger Delta region of Ni...
19 Sep 202343min
Vietnam's Tax Evasion Charges Are Used to Jail Climate Activists
President Biden made his first trip to Vietnam as President this week, with the intention of "upgrading" diplomatic relations between the United States and Vietnam. Not on the agenda? Vietnam's move t...
11 Sep 202321min
Australia’s State-by-State Crackdown on Climate Protest
Since Queensland passed the "Dangerous Attachment Devices" law in 2019 in response to anti-coal protests, Australian states have rapidly adopted similar measures targeting climate activism. See omnys...
5 Sep 202328min
The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech
There's a lot of discourse happening about free speech in the context of "cancel culture", but precious little coverage of the global push to criminalize protest, particularly environmental and climat...
29 Aug 202332min
