How Three Women Turned into Environmental Defenders in India
Mildred, Meena, and Rose Xaxa: These women fight for their own communities’ land, forests and water. In the process, they clash against the might of the state and often risk their lives.
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Mildred, Meena, and Rose Xaxa: These women fight for their own communities’ land, forests and water. In the process, they clash against the might of the state and often risk their lives.
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who risked life in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, spent the rest of his life warning us about the possibility of nuclear war and how to avert it.
Over the past several weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been getting a taste of what it’s like to operate a business in a part of the world where unions still have formidable power.
In its blistering November 3 report, the UN Human Rights Committee documented how little the U.S. has done to challenge the systemic, wide-ranging racism that continues to infuse every aspect of its society.
Developments on the African continent, in particular in some Sahel countries, run completely counter to the plans that Western regimes have long nurtured both for the region itself and for the entire continent.
This year, Grenada commemorates both 50 years as an independent nation and 40 years since the violent implosion of the People’s Revolutionary Government and subsequent U.S. invasion.
Knowing Noam, I might echo what Bob Dylan had to say about Dave Van Ronk: “No puppet strings on him, ever. He was big, sky-high, and I looked up to him. He came from the land of giants.”
Pan-Africanism is back. Considered in isolation, it risks becoming an empty signifier. But alongside Marxism, it becomes one of the most powerful tools for liberation that African and Afrodiasporic people have at their disposal.
On the tumultuous political and legal history of India’s Constituent Assembly.
On PROINPA, a grassroots campesino organization in Venezuela promoting food sovereignty, endogenous seed production, and an agroecological transition.
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