By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams
In a vindication for press freedom and land protectors fighting against the Dakota Access Pipeline, North Dakota has dismissed the "riot" charges against Democracy Now! journalist Amy Goodman, issued after she reported on pipeline company security guards physically assaulting nonviolent, mostly Indigenous land protectors in September.
By Nika Knight, Common Dreams
In an ominous sign for press freedom, documentary filmmaker and journalist Deia Schlosberg was arrested and charged with felonies carrying a whopping maximum sentence of up to 45 years in prison—simply for reporting on the ongoing Indigenous protests against fossil fuel infrastructure.
By Matt Stannard, Occupy.com
From Standing Rock Reservation to the Florida Everglades, 2016 has been an unprecedented year in people’s resistance to the fossil fuel economy.
By Albert Bates, The Great Change
On April 1, in the last phase of istawicayazan wi, the moon of sore eyes, acting with love and fierce determination, the youth of the Standing Rock reservation stood together in prayer at the place called Sacred Stone.
By Marcus Costello , Future Perfect
If nothing is done to stop the impact of climate change, some of the oldest living cultures in the world could die out. An all-Indigenous youth activist group in Australia has risen to the challenge.
By John Foran, Resilience.org
The challenge is greater than preparing individuals and groups to fight back.
By John Foran, Resilience.org
So now, here’s a neither random nor comprehensive compilation of climate justice happenings and musings from the middle of May to the end of June 2016.
By Lisa Herzog, Open Democracy
Although the effective altruists are asking serious questions about what it means to be a moral agent, they seem to be missing something essential about the world in which we live...
By Justin Kenrick, Bella Caledonia
Everyone is the mother of victory; No one is the father of defeat.
By Danny Chivers, Jess Worth, New Internationalist Blog
This brand new climate deal will kick in in 2020. But is it really as ‘ambitious’ as the French government is claiming?
By John Foran, Resilience.org
Hypocrisy can take many forms, but at COP 21 it has one underlying purpose:
By John Foran, Resilience.org
2016 is a leap year. Strange and magical things can happen on that day. May it be a whole year of leaps for climate justice.