Two refugee women and children sit on a stoop, looking tired and hungry.
By Juliana Britto Schwartz • @JulianaBrittoS • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

According to the Women’s Refugee Commission, women and girls migrating to Europe face the risk of violence at each stage of their journey, yet governments and NGOs are missing every opportunity to mitigate that risk. 

Ecuador just signed a contract to allow a Chinese oil company to exploit millions of acres of indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest. The Sápara and the Kichwa people of Sarayaku are pushing back.

Is the booming marijuana industry too white? Meet Wanda James, co-owner of the only black woman-run cannabis dispensary in Colorado.

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Juliana is a digital storyteller for social change. As a writer at Feministing since 2013, her work has focused on women's movements throughout the Americas for environmental justice, immigrant rights, and reproductive justice. In addition to her writing, Juliana is a Senior Campaigner at Change.org, where she works to close the gap between the powerful and everyone else by supporting people from across the country to launch, escalate and win their campaigns for justice.

Juliana is a Latina feminist writer and campaigner based in the Bay Area.

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