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Is Brazil a Venezuelan outpost?

Indigenous and afro-descendant peoples from Brazil are facing setbacks usually found in countries with no rule of law. The judiciary is their only hope. Español Português

By Daniel Cerqueira

/ 22 Aug 2017

Environmental and land activist killings hit an all-time high

At least 200 environmental and land rights defenders were murdered in 2016 – 60% of them in Latin America. Español Português

By Open democracy

/ 24 Jul 2017

Would you bulldoze your own temple?

"We are our land and our land is us." Hawaiians stand for a mountain.

By Shannon Biggs

/ 13 Sep 2015

Why is there so little action on climate change?

Are there new ways to engage the public in mass action to reduce global warming, or should we focus on adapting to the inevitable?

By Georgie Wingfield-Hayes

/ 12 Jan 2015

We need more humans, not more heroes

Exaggerated by the growing celebrity culture of social change, hero worship is on the rise. In the process we risk rendering ourselves perpetually mediocre.

By Robert Holtom

/ 23 Jul 2014

No surrender: responding to the new breed of climate change in-activists

Waiting for death in the planetary hospice is not a convincing response to climate change: a response to Carolyn Baker.

By Shannon Biggs

/ 18 Jun 2014

Welcome to the planetary hospice

Surrendering to the implications of climate change is an act of courage not cowardice. This is the first article in a new debate on Transformation. Shannon Biggs responds here.

By Carolyn Baker

/ 17 Jun 2014

Brought together by the Keystone Pipeline fight, "Cowboys and Indians" heal old wounds

As Native Americans and ranchers work together to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, they're also learning to understand each others' history, culture, and relationships with the land.

By Kristin Moe

/ 6 May 2014