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Standing Rock protest

Tribes Nationwide Cheer DAPL Shutdown

By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project

FT. YATES, North Dakota — Tribal leaders and constituents across Lakota Territory and elsewhere welcomed a hard-won court order on July 6 to shut off the oil flow in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) within 30 days. “Today is a historic day for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the many people who have supported us in the fight against the pipeline,” said Mike Faith, chair of the tribe headquartered at Ft. Yates. “This pipeline should have never been built here. We told them that from the beginning.” His tribe, followed by the Cheyenne River, Yankton, and Oglala Sioux tribes, sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for breaking federal laws and glossing over the devastating consequences of a potential oil spill in the Missouri River’s Oahe Reservoir when permitting the pipeline crossing upstream from drinking water supply intakes here in 2016. Chair Harold Frazier of the Cheyenne River Sioux...

  • July 10, 2020
Severn Cullis-Suzuki

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 6 Severn Cullis-Suzuki

By Vicki Robin, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Resilience.org

July 9, 2020 In today’s episode, Severn Cullis-Suzuki gives her perspective that spans from addressing the UN at age 12 through to her life-long activism for environment and indigenous rights. Her insights include: The serendipity that led to speaking at the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992 and the impact of this message that went viral. The disconnect between what we value as individuals and what our society upholds. The care of earth and its natural systems as fundamental to indigenous values. The opportunity within this current moment of global humility for mainstream society to learn from ancient cultures who’ve survived and can show us the way. Transcript Vicki Robin: Hi, I'm Vicki Robin. In partnership with the Post Carbon Institute, I'm hosting short to the point conversations with diverse cultural scouts asking each one the same question: What could possibly go right? The invitation is to see through these wise...

  • July 9, 2020
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Black & Indigenous People's Garden

Prolonged Uprising is the New Normal

By Jade Begay, YES! magazine

In my humble opinion, if these are our goals, we must get used to and comfortable with people being in dedicated, committed, and prolonged uprising. In fact, I believe that’s what this “new normal” is, and I hope that these protests go well into November and beyond until we see accountability and real, tangible actions taken by cities, states, and the country to abolish racism and white supremacy.

  • July 9, 2020
Sand patterns

The Art of Critique

By Anne B. Ryan, Feasta

Critique has been the subject of volumes of philosophical and scholarly work, so my purpose here is to consider some aspects of a critique that is congruent with the philosophy and practice of Enough, and putting care at the centre of all our decision-making.

  • July 8, 2020
Rice farming

Food Sovereignty Now and Beyond COVID-19

By Éric Darier, Greenpeace

The food system was broken long before coronavirus came along. The current crisis has exposed the fault-lines and renewed urgency to tackle root causes. This means asking hard questions and digging deeper for solutions.

  • July 8, 2020
Blind spot

Turning Toward Our Blind Spot: Seeing the Shadow as a Source for Transformation

By Otto Scharmer, Presencing Institute

We are living in a moment of tectonic shift in society. Something changed when we all watched the same images — 8 minutes and 46 seconds — the killing of George Floyd. During that unbearable experience, something broke down and broke open in our hearts, in how we relate to one another, and in how we want to live together.

  • July 8, 2020
Goat

CSA Start Up – Ready, Set, Go!

By Jackie Bridgen, Oxford Real Farming Conference

I passionately believe in the concept of Community Supported Agriculture. I wanted to do it again, but this time, with real, genuine community involvement. Only where were we going to start?

  • July 7, 2020
food shipments

No Time for Justice?! – Food Policy and Emergency Thinking in the Brexit Moment

By Chris Maughan, Colin Anderson, Moya Kneafsey, Agroecology Now!

Imagine a process in which food and farming policies were designed with social justice as the central tenet. What would such a process look like? Whose voices would be heard, and whose interests would be represented? What questions would need to be asked and how would we know that social justice had been addressed?

  • July 6, 2020
We Are BS3

We Believe in High Streets

By Christian Shanahan, Going for Gold

Enter #WeAreLocals, a platform to deliver a sense of place for local businesses to showcase their products and services to the local community and beyond. A virtual high street that, in essence, will help ensure that—when you are able to go more freely to your local high street or town centre in the future—there’s still somewhere to go.

  • July 1, 2020
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