In this week's news we saw Canada calling out the United States for being awful to immigrants, Joe Biden pretending to care about people in prison for marijuana possession, Colorado running out of water and two Indigenous women being elected to the Brazilian congress.
A look into the resistance of the Indigenous Totonaco communities from the Sierra Norte of Puebla against transnational mining, fracking and hydroelectric projects, and how they are building new forms of community resilience following the COVID-19 pandemic.
A guest post from Kontinentalist, the platform using creative storytelling, data visualisation and empathy to cut through the noise around Asia’s key topics.
A spotlight on the Indigenous and Afro-descendent communities in the mountains of Guerro, Mexico who have organised to defend their territories against violence and extractivism
How the Lenca Indigenous community is struggling to preserve their territories and their rights to autonomy and self determination against transnational mega-projects.