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How Serbia and Brazil’s pro-democracy coalitions won surprise election victories

For Indigenous communities, this is a victory worth celebrating. But it is also a reminder of why our collective work remains so urgent.

The post The Power of the Indigenous Vote in Brazil first appeared on Amazon Watch.

After barring the opposition party from November’s elections, the far-right government of Daniel Noboa has arrested its leader, Luisa González, blurring the line between democracy and dictatorship.

We attended the Scottish National Party (SNP) Conference in Aberdeen to run an event on private jet tax in Scotland.

The post SNP Conference, Scotland – Private Jet Tax first appeared on Safe Landing.

The post SNP Conference, Scotland – Private Jet Tax appeared first on Safe Landing.

Argentina’s experience unmasks the IMF’s liberal narrative and makes it clear that its sole objective is to subordinate countries through the extortion of foreign debt.

The post Argentina: The Impact of the IMF- No Future for Our Peoples Under the Extortionate Yoke of Foreign Debt appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

On the affordability crisis, petrochemicals, punishing polluters, forever chemicals, and the costs of climate change

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In the new film Fatherland, Thomas Mann is a standard-bearer for a tradition of liberal humanism that, though in many ways noble, proves completely incapable of fending off the most terrible evils.

Ahead of Saturday’s mass protests in France, the government seemed almost desperate for new violent scenes. Lumping the organized left and protesters in with black bloc groups, it seeks to justify a broad crackdown on the high schoolers’ movement.

Electric vehicles can serve as home backup batteries. But so far, most EVs have needed expensive bidirectional chargers to do that — a tough sell for customers. Ford aims to remove this cost obstacle with its  forthcoming Ford Fathom electric pickup truck . On Tuesday, the U.S. automaker  revealed that the Fathom,…

We demand an immediate end to the U.S. blockade against Cuba—a silent genocide that violates human rights and condemns our people.

The post Cuba: To sow is to Resist, and to Resist is to Triumph appeared first on La Via Campesina - EN.

NY-17: Fourth in a series on the environmental stakes behind one of the nation’s most fiercely contested congressional races. After the Democratic primary election in New York’s hotly contested 17th Congressional District this June, William Knox, a veteran and self-described “anti-MAGA Republican,” said he was impressed by the winning candidate, a combat veteran who deployed […]

Florida’s gubernatorial race features two candidates with very different views on the environment and climate: One largely supports maintaining the status quo in state policy while the other advocates for renewing a climate change and clean energy strategy in the state. Both candidates spent time in the House of Representatives before running for the Sunshine […]

Before a utility can raise electricity rates, it must get approval from regulators. In Ohio, some groups are looking to step into that process to make sure FirstEnergy, whose utilities supply power to over 2 million customers in the state, uses some of the money it will receive from ratepayers to equitably enable the…

“We have to elect people who won’t destroy our rights, who won’t destroy our forests, and who won’t cause the kind of impact that comes from all the talk by other politicians about, rare earths, illegal mining."

The post Brazil’s Vote Is a Victory for the Amazon, Environmentalists Say first appeared on Amazon Watch.

Environmentalists worldwide are celebrating the re-election of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a win for the Amazon’s future and global climate policy.  The three-term incumbent narrowly defeated right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who climate activists warned would have stripped away environmental policies and institutions protecting the world’s largest rainforest if elected.   The victory […]

While the federal government seeks to intimidate activists, demonstrations continue. Photo: Randy Furst IN LATE SEPTEMBER, flurries of email and text messages reported that Texas state police were surrounding the homes of people in Austin and San Marcos who had participated in a protest vigil the previous Sunday, following the violent arrest and ICE shooting… Continue reading Confronting Rampant Repression

Just as it has throughout Latin America, the Trump administration was openly working to defeat a left-wing government in Brazil and replace it with a far-right one. With Lula’s victory, Trump failed.

Op-Ed by Victoria Higgins, CCAN Action Fund’s Virginia Director, initially published in Richmond Times Dispatch. Recently, NextEra CEO John Ketchum joined President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to celebrate a $54 billion investment in a new gas pipeline in Alaska. In his remarks, Mr. Ketchum said Trump has done an “amazing” job on energy. Really? If NextEra […]

The post NextEra Support for Trump Energy Policies Is a Concern  appeared first on Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

From France to India, young people have led the current wave of protests. Rather than deny the importance of generational politics, we can see it as a way that people make sense of their life chances and of the opportunities they are denied.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Global fashion brands must help pay for Bangladesh’s shift to clean energy, speakers said at a national multi-stakeholder dialogue in Dhaka today. They called for renewable power and electrification to go hand in hand with fair purchasing practices, accessible finance and real protection for workers. The dialogue, titled “From Framework to Action: Advancing a […]