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Colonialism
Colonialism Created Food Insecurity in Haiti, Now Climate Change Compounds It
The U.S. must end its unfair trade practices and stop flooding Haiti's markets with food that can be grown locally.
We Can’t Just Let Blinken Give Israeli Apartheid the US Stamp of Approval
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says “shared values” bind the U.S. and Israel. He must mean settler-colonialism.
US Corporations Are Complicit in the Repression of Uyghurs
The Xinjiang fire should be understood within a much broader context of Uyghur oppression.
America’s Biggest Museums Have Failed to Return Native American Human Remains
Decades after a federal law called for them to be returned, more than 110,000 Native ancestors remain in collections.
States Take Tax Revenue Vital for Funding Tribal Services
State and local governments often tax economic activity on tribal land, reducing what tribes can collect for themselves.
House Passes Bill to Allow Puerto Ricans to Vote on Statehood or Independence
Ocasio-Cortez said the vote to let Puerto Rico decide on statehood, independence, or otherwise was a “watershed moment.”
We Are Running Out of Time to Use Failing Strategies Against the Climate Crisis
Author Peter Gelderloos describes the limits of governmental and market solutions and argues for bottom-up insurgency.
False Corporate Solutions at COP27 Further Entrench Capitalism and Colonialism
COP27 sidelines human rights to advance false corporate solutions, says Indigenous Climate Action’s Eriel Deranger.
My Childhood Was Stolen, Says Linda Raye Cobe, Indian Boarding School Survivor
Linda Raye Cobe discusses the growing movement of survivors seeking to heal from the “Indian boarding school” system.
Hurricane Fiona Damage Shows Puerto Rico Still Hampered by US Colonial Control
Yet, says Democracy Now!'s Juan Gonzalez, Puerto Rican people have developed their own resilient methods of survival.