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Climate ambitions do not take into account the irreversible consequences of mining. In northern Chile, an ancient ecosystem and a 12,000 year-old culture are being sacrificed. Are climate policies destroying precisely what they could fix?
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We are living through a critical moment for global justice struggles. The effects of the deepening climate crisis are becoming visible to all. Inequality is rampant and growing. State repression and surveillance are increasing. Many proposed ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis – from carbon markets to agrofuels – will intensify these dynamics as they rely on land-grabbing, extractivism, and the creation of new sacrifice zones and sacrificial peoples around the world, so deepening inequality and multiplying the wealth of the very few. Social movements are struggling not only to block the worst of these advances, but also to build a more just world, to negotiate new relationships with ‘nature’ and each other, and to resist and roll back the rapacity and destruction of capitalist accumulation.
This new (open access) book by Saturnino M. Borras Jr and Jennifer C. Franco provides a vital and timely contribution to these struggles. With wisdom and humility born of decades of work with and for agrarian and environmental justice movements, the authors unpack the role of the scholar-activist; the critical contributions they can make to movements; and the tensions, risks, challenges, and pitfalls of their work.
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Climate ambitions do not take into account the irreversible consequences of mining. In northern Chile, an ancient ecosystem and a 12,000 year-old culture are being sacrificed. Are climate policies destroying precisely what they could fix? This article examines the impact of lithium mining on the ecosystem and its inhabitant communities in the Atacama desert in Chile. A first-person perspective by Darko Lagunas, the article demonstrates the urgent need for those communities who are the prime rights-holders to be genuinely front and center in any movement building around these impacts.
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. While much attention has been given to the devastating effects of the war, much less is known about the sanctions regime inflicted against the Iraqi people, which predates the 2003 invasion by over a decade. In this article Doa Ali delves into the painful legacy of dismantling a country.
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This article explores the endless multitude of gender just visions through a conversation with Sakura and Noe Noe, two transgender women working as peer educators and advocates at the Myanmar MSM and Transgender Network , an organisation specialised in HIV prevention and care related activities in various parts of Myanmar.
The conversation with Sakura and Noe Noe shows that there is so much that the HIV movement – particularly involving transgender women – can teach us about gender justice.
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Bolivian media habitually describe the current situation for coca producers as a ‘tense calm’: no large scale protests or conflicts are on the immediate horizon, but a generally gloomy atmosphere, and a highly uncertain future prevails. Although the coca war is currently at a low intensity, it is not likely to end any time soon.
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Today seven companies rule the internet: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Alibaba, Microsoft and Tencent. Their CEOs say their power is due to their unique ideas and hard work, but hide the truth about the money that allowed them to become so big and the way they have rigged the system to maintain their power. Nick Buxton from the Transnational Institute presents five reasons why Big Tech became so powerful.
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Through a series of interviews with experts in their respective fields, TNI Associate, Arun Kundnani, set out to explore all the different facets of the pandemic’s impacts, from the growing role of major Pharmaceutical corporations in global healthcare, to the response of global governance bodies such as the WHO and the UN, to the part played by Big Tech Companies, the impact on the global debt and on migration and race politics. We had a chance to sit with him and explore his findings, and to see what alternatives are available for us when the next crisis comes rolling in, something which is all but inevitable.
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