Tracy L. Barnett

The COVID-19 pandemic has hurt communities all over Mexico. But a network of Indigenous artisans is finding a way to survive during the shutdown.

In the absence of big NGOs, volunteers regularly cross into Mexico to support asylum seekers stranded there by U.S. policy.

Food security, traditional agriculture, and local self-reliance are key to regenerative societies of the future, say water protectors taking the movement’s lessons forward.

Activists camped outside a sprawling tent city in the Texas desert bring a message to migrant children detained there: No estás solo. You are not alone.

With a unique “gentle protest” approach, new craftivists are channeling homespun energy into social justice.