Racism: A Legacy of Colonial Power
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi warns us of the risks of listening to the same version of a story over and over again. That story we repeatedly hear in history books, (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
RACISM IN THE FORESTS: A PROCESS OF OPPRESSION AT THE SERVICE OF CAPITAL
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A blueprint for environmental racism
In 1969, at the age of 3 my parents were forced to move from the home in which I was born, in a neighbourhood of people of all colours, ethnicity (Read More)
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“Nigger” and “Nature”: Expanding the Concept of Environmental Racism
“Environmental racism” is a concept it’s hard to imagine environmentalism ever having done without. It names a reality that can’t be tackled “before” or “after” environmental campaigning, but has to (Read More)
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“For a change of paradigm”: Interview with Tom Goldtooth from the Indigenous Environmental Network
What is the Indigenous Environmental Network? The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) was born in 1990 in North America of hope, courage and common vision by Indigenous youth, women and elders (Read More)
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Out of the Grid: Resistance to Capitalist Mapping
For many, mapping is an unsuspicious technique that helps us orient ourselves in the world. What is often overlooked is that it matters a little which political agendas are being (Read More)
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Community Mapping: Geo-graphing for Resistance
Geography is associated with the memorization of geographical features (mountains, rivers, valleys, etc.) and the “simple” creation of maps, generally understood to be a true portrayal of reality, and not (Read More)
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The Racist Colonial Roots of Western Forest Conservation: A look into a REDD project in Kenya
It would be both ahistorical and apolitical to not firmly locate the roots of the western concepts of nature conservation to the colonial era. Political ecologist and eco-feminist Dr. Vandana (Read More)
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“Non-human Nature”: an invention that seeks to break societies rooted in forests
Have you ever wondered what the word “nature” means? The colonial roots of this concept and its current dominant use refer to “nature” defined as non-human nature: A collection of (Read More)
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Colombia: Women as Seeds of Mobilization and Resistance
If they touch our blood, they touch the earth If they touch the earth, they touch our blood Motto of the Women of the Xinka Peoples (Guatemala) The development policy (Read More)
TRICKS AND DECEPTION THAT PROMOTE LAND GRABBING
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Rio Tinto’s biodiversity offset in Madagascar: How culture and religion are used to enforce restrictions
In September 2015, Re:Common and WRM investigated one of the most widely advertised biodiversity compensation initiatives in the mining sector, the Rio Tinto biodiversity offset in south-eastern Madagascar. Rio Tinto (Read More)
ACTION ALERTS
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Update on POSCO’s harassments in Odisha India
Despite India’s National Green Tribunal statement on early April affirming that POSCO’s Environmental Clearance is valid only up to 19th July 2017, the case has not been closed and it (Read More)
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The WWF in DRC: Conservation without people
A short film from the Rainforest Foundation UK about forest communities affected by the Tumba Lediima Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shows how the communities living in (Read More)
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Violence broke out in the fields and forests of Brazil
The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) of Brazil released its Notebook on Field Conflicts 2015 last April 15. The research data reveal a terrible reality. Last year there were 50 murders. (Read More)
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Corporate power over territories and people
The recently launched number of the Nyéléni Newsletter for food sovereignty, highlights the importance of the struggle against the growing power transnational corporations are gaining and the negative impact this (Read More)