Posts Tagged indigenous resistance

Farmers
By Reina Gattuso • 6 years ago

Students strike, farmers march, and women rise: This week in India’s social movements

You don’t need me to tell you that these are dark times. From Mississippi’s recent (and definitely unconstitutional) banning of abortion at 15 weeks, to Trump’s revolving-door series of government appointments which are now slated to include a known torturer, the news is bleak. And it’s not only in the U.S.: Authoritarian right-wing governments are on the up worldwide. Including in my current home, India, where the right-wing BJP has been in power since 2014.

You don’t need me to tell you that these are dark times. From Mississippi’s recent (and definitely unconstitutional) banning of abortion at 15 weeks, to Trump’s revolving-door series of government appointments which are now

A group of activists hold signs near the potomac river protesting a proposed pipeline.
By Rachel Goldstein • 6 years ago

These women are leading the campaign against new “Potomac Pipeline” near DC, Maryland

Tomorrow, the Maryland Department of the Environment will hold a public hearing on the “Potomac Pipeline,” a gas pipeline extension that would put the drinking water of millions of people at risk. A women-led, grassroots movement is urgently organizing to stop it.

Tomorrow, the Maryland Department of the Environment will hold a public hearing on the “Potomac Pipeline,” a gas pipeline extension that would put the drinking water of millions of ...

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By Reina Gattuso • 7 years ago

This Thanksgiving, Support Indigenous Resistance

As much of America sat down to Thanksgiving dinner last year, the American government had just released water cannons, rubber bullets, and teargas on indigenous protestors on the Standing Rock reservation. Their supposed crime? Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline and corporate and federal government incursions on their sovereignty and the environment.

As much of America sat down to Thanksgiving dinner last year, the American government had just released water cannons, rubber bullets, and teargas on indigenous protestors on the Standing Rock reservation. Their supposed crime? Protesting the Dakota ...