Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining
This film follows resistance to mining companies and the Peruvian government by local residents, focusing on the small town of Tambogrande.
This film follows resistance to mining companies and the Peruvian government by local residents, focusing on the small town of Tambogrande.
This film recounts the formation and rise of Greenpeace as one of the world’s most prominent environmentalist organizations.
These essays showcase examples from Canada and Western Europe, offering insights into how different forms of environmental knowledge and environmental politics come to be seen as legitimate or illegitimate.
Sandlos and Keeling explore Indigenous resistance to arsenic pollution. Indigenous communities mobilized knowledge around environmental pollution and its health impacts. The authors show how this resistance to environmental racism is connected to other Indigenous struggles over industrial development and to issues such as land claims, sovereignty, and colonial dispossession.
This special “Samhain-Yule” issue of Earth First! is dedicated to Samhain, the Celtic term for “summer’s end,” a time to reassess goals and strategies. It discusses endangered rivers, tar sands, protection from environmental degradation, information about US climate justice activism (MCJ), the “Green Scare,” Deep Ecology, and the G20 Summit. Letters to the editor and songs are included as well.
This issue of Forest Voice offers a primer, “Your Forests: Slated for Slaughter.” It includes a summary of the National Forest Protection Acts, a package of draft legislation developed by the Native Forest Council, satellite images comparing deforestation in the U.S. to that in Brazil, and an instructional graphic titled, “Nature Pays, You Pay, Your Children Pay.”
These EXIT Times is the authoritative voice of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT, pronounced “vehement”). The VHEMT slogan is “May we live long and die out.”
Once a benefit to humanity but now a scourge, the environment of the Niger Delta has been transformed into a haven for violence, militancy, and criminality.
Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.
Indigenous groups in Nayarit, Mexico, reaffirmed their sacred environmental sites through social movement.