Photo Essay: The Healing Power of Matriarchs
A photographer’s connections with eight Indigenous women have helped her come to terms with her own Native ancestry and colonial trauma.
Pipeline resistance
Stand for Indigenous Land Justice: Stop STAMP
Will New York perpetuate the shameful practices of the colonialist past—or take a stand for justice at last?
The Radicalization of Climate Activism
The climate emergency is here. Our political system isn’t responding at scale, so climate activists are stepping up their game.
Banking (Literally) on Climate Solutions
More and more people are beginning to grasp something important: Our cash is our carbon.
Manchin’s Pipeline Loss Shows Frontline and Green Groups Are Gaining Steam
“We launched our movement to breathe clean air … amid the Movement for Black Lives chanting ‘we can’t breathe’ and a pandemic disproportionately killing Black people.”
Organizing Across State Lines to Stop a Pipeline
Activists in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska are proving that building collective community power can successfully counter Big Oil’s monied interests.
What if Legal Personhood Included Plants, Rivers, and the Planet?
A new podcast explores the rights of nature movement and its potential to shift Western legal doctrine around environmental protection.
Climate Justice Through Divestment
“We are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance.”
3 Indigenous Women Talk COP26 and What Real Climate Solutions Look Like
“It’s not just swapping out oil and gas. It’s about changing the system so that it’s sustainable for everybody.”
How the Women of Standing Rock Inspired the World
“A nation isn’t defeated until the hearts of the women are on the ground.”
Settlers Have an Obligation to Defend Treaty Rights, Too
“The treaties are not just a concern for Indigenous people. They were entered into by the U.S. government, and as citizens, we have a responsibility to ensure our government honors that law.”
To End Fossil Fuels, End Settler Colonialism
Much environmental framing misses the point about capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty.
Pipelines Make Uncomfortable Neighbors in Appalachia
Residents face the threat of disasters, construction noise, and loss of control over their land.
Water Protectors Hold Their Ground in Wild Rice Country
A report from occupied Palisade, where Water Protectors confront a dying, but still deadly, energy behemoth.
Meet the 18-Year-Old Championing Indigenous Rights in Alaska
Quannah Chasinghorse is continuing the legacy of Gwich’in women working to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Police Violence Meets Spiritual Resistance in the Struggle Over DAPL
An appeals court overruled the shutdown of DAPL, pending a full environmental review. The fight against a pipeline that provoked unprecedented resistance continues.
Indigenous Blockades Don’t Just Decry Destruction—They Affirm Life
By protesting the Coastal GasLink Pipeline and blocking Canadian railways, the Wet'suwet'en resistance camp is asserting the rights of First Nations.
Why Aren’t Fossil Fuel Companies Held Accountable for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?
Resource extraction takes a toll on more than just the economy and the environment.
Appalachia’s Deep History of Resistance
Protest runs through the region’s veins like coal seams through the mountains.
9 Things You Need to Know About the Pipeline Blockade in B.C.
Since 2010, the Unist’ot’en have fought the transit of fossil fuels through their hereditary lands. In the last few days, police finally moved in. Here’s how we got to this point.
Standing Rock’s Surprising Legacy: A Push for Public Banks
The effort to divest from Wall Street—and stop environment-killing projects gained momentum after the historic pipeline protest. Here’s what a city needs, and could gain, from municipal banking.
Our Ladies of Perpetual Activism: Nuns for Social Justice
These spirited sisters act to change the world in specific ways.
First Nations Celebrate Win Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Here’s how indigenous leaders pulled together a grassroots movement to resist the pipeline expansion.
Water Protectors Take Action to Keep Pipeline Out of Black and Indigenous Communities
An encampment of protesters in Louisiana is resisting the crude oil industry, whose environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor and people of color.
Indigenous Women Built These Tiny Houses to Block a Pipeline—and Reclaim Nomadic Traditions
The houses are affordable and energy-efficient, and are bringing back elements of the Secwepemc’s hunter-gatherer culture.
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