It’s a beautiful spring day. The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining and you want to go for a stroll around a park or picnic on the grass, maybe with your dog, or your kids, or your grandmother. Are you close to a park with picnic tables and …
Cenaida Gauchagmida was 13 years old when paramilitaries contracted by Ascendant Copper stormed her community to tranquilize local resistant to a planned copper mind. Despite the mine’s known impacts on local communities and the environment, mining corporations had fought for decades to expand their operations in Ecuador’s biodiverse Intag Valley. …
On January 18th 2023 at nine in the morning, Georgia state troopers raided an activist encampment and murdered environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Teran. Manuel, known to friends as “Tortuguita,” was a non-binary, Venezuelan 26-year-old environmental activist, a graduate of Florida State University and, most recently, a member of the …
