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By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 7 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

COP22 – the conference in which world leaders meet to discuss how to fight climate change – is happening this week. Read about the UN’s report that 2016 will be the hottest on record, how Trump could roll back U.S. environmental protections, and our previous COP coverage.

COP22 – the conference in which world leaders meet to discuss how to fight climate change – is happening this week. Read about the UN’s report that 2016 will be the hottest on record, how ...

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Everyone loves the lady-stoner, just as long as she’s white.

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Machi Francisca Linconao, Mapuche indigenous healer and advocate, has been suffering from severe medical problems in prison. Her supporters claim she was imprisoned for her work to end illegal logging in her region of Chile, and are calling for her release.

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

22 mothers detained in Pennsylvania’s Berks County Residential Center launched a hunger strike, demanding their release from the center. The women say that they have been held between 277-365 days, not the average 20 day stay DHS secretary Jeh Johnson cited.

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

Report: The Environment as the new battleground for human rights

Last year was the most lethal year on record for land and environmental defenders, according to a new report from Global Witness. In 2015, the organization documented the murders of 185 people who were righting to protect their land, forests and rivers against destructive industries.

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

Around the globe, thousands protest to break free from fossil fuels

Over the last two weeks, over 30,000 people around the world took part in actions to demand that as a global community, we Break Free from fossil fuels. From the Philippines, to Wales, to Nigeria, to Brazil, protestors hit the streets and the internet to demand change.

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

In 1996, Bill Clinton signed a bill that set the stage for the mass deportation machine that is our immigration system today. Today, a coalition of immigrant rights groups are calling on Congress to restore due process for immigrants and end local police and ICE collaboration.

In 1996, Bill Clinton signed a bill that set the stage for the mass deportation machine that is our immigration system today. Today, a coalition of immigrant rights groups are calling on Congress ...

By Juliana Britto Schwartz • 8 years ago

13 year-old girl from Standing Rock Tribe stands up to proposed oil pipeline

Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer and thirty young people from the Standing Rock Reservation are campaigning to stop a pipeline they say will leak into their water. In the few weeks since they started it, over 70,000 people have signed their Change.org (where full disclosure, I work) petition and a string of celebrities have endorsed it over social media.