By Sue Branford, New Internationalist
The outcome of the indigenous struggle is important to all of us. A Guarani person recently put it this way: ‘If indigenous peoples become extinct and dead, the lives of all are threatened, for we are the guardians of nature. Without forest, without water, without rivers, there is no life, there is no way for any Brazilian to survive.
By Tracy L. Barnett, Cheryl Angel, Esperanza Project
Now I understand that sustainable sovereign economies are needed to replace the system we support with our purchasing power, and our ancient teachings have all of those economies passed down in traditional families.
By Lai Sanders, Intercontinental Cry
The evidence is clear: Indigenous Peoples and local communities have long been the backbone of the world’s environmental protection efforts, safeguarding what remains of our planet’s precious forests and natural resources despite mounting threats to their lands and their lives.
By Shoshi Parks, YES! magazine
That Route 66 road trip is one of erasure, one that conceals the Indigenous history of this land with the expanding White capitalism of early Americana.
By Deonna Anderson, YES! magazine
The idea behind establishing a land trust, which was sparked after Gould attended a meeting with existing Native-led land trusts in 2012, was for these Indigenous women to create a land base for their community.
By Staff, Excluded Voices, Excluded Voices
The West African part of the action-research programme - Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty - has made a conscious effort to include members of both advocacy and practitioner movements.
By Michelle Lim, The Conversation
We are also undermining the capacity of the Earth to sustain thriving human societies. We have the power to change this – but we need to act now.
By Tracy L. Barnett, Esperanza Project
What do I want to be called? Water Protector. Spiritual Activist. Unci. In reality, I’m just one person who stood up with thousands of others when the water called them.
By Terri Hansen, YES! magazine
The tribes in the Pacific Northwest are leaders in climate adaptation and have mounted multifaceted responses to the threats they face, Krosby said. CIG’s tailored, state-of-the-art climate data further provide resources and data at a level of detail not yet available to most cities around the country.
By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
The wild native garden lays its stamp on us through its regional appropriateness. It changes us to something other than what we were. We settle in, become of the earth.