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Report: Electric Vehicles Dependent on Exploitation of Miners in the Congo
Big Tech companies dodge accountability for buying battery components sourced from mines relying on forced child labor.
![This banner, displayed at a community meeting in the Sierra Norte, says, "The Sierra Norte of Puebla can't be sold nor rented out – Nahua and Totonaco Indigenous Peoples."](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8939-400x300.jpg)
Land Defenders Shut Down a Toxic Mine. Now Its Corporate Backers Want Damages.
A Canadian firm is demanding $200 million in damages from Mexico following the cancellation of its mining concessions.
![Ecuadorean activist Donald Moncayo Jimenez (49) chief coordinator of the Union of People Affected by Texaco (UDAPT) stands next to a gas flare from the refinery operated by Petroecuador in Shushufindi, in the Sucumbíos Province, Ecuador, on January 14, 2023.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2023/08/2023_0821-Ecuador-400x300.jpg)
Ecuadorians Vote to Reject Oil Drilling in Precious Amazon Region
Sunday's vote makes Ecuador the first country to restrict fossil fuel extraction through the citizen referendum process.
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Tesla Plans to Build Huge Factory in Mexican City Struggling With Water Scarcity
Activists from Mexico are decrying the plan as a prime example of “colonial extractivism.”
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Indigenous Argentineans Resist Becoming “Sacrifice Zone” for Ecocolonialism
The Global North’s demand for lithium threatens a new chapter of colonial dispossession.
![People look at t-shirts at the San Diego Green New Deal Alliance Day: Justice For Mother Earth panel on April 30, 2022, in San Diego, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/2022_1124-climate-shirt-400x300.jpg)
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.
![The sun shines through high security fencing surrounding Norwich Prison on August 25, 2005, in Norwich, England.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/04/2022_0414-prison-fence-400x300.jpg)
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition, the Climate Crisis and What Must Be Done
Kelly Hayes and Ruth Wilson Gilmore discuss organizing, extraction and time.
![Melting ice on the Kuskokwim River near the town of Bethel on the Yukon Delta in Alaska on April 12, 2019. Bethel is located 73 miles from the proposed mine.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/GettyImages-1140636088-400x300.jpg)
Alaska Tribes Are Fighting Back Against Plans to Open Colossal Gold Mine
Two Alaska Native corporations are working to develop what would be one of the world’s largest gold mines.
![Activists lead an Anti-Columbus Day Tour at the American Museum of Natural History on October 8, 2018, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-1229039144-400x300.jpg)
Growing Movement Pushes Museums to Cut Ties With Colonialism and Apartheid
Museums have profited from colonial violence for centuries. Strike MoMA and other activists worldwide say, “no more.”
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Extractive Companies Privatize Repression and Counterinsurgency in the Americas
As resistance to fossil fuels grows, private militaries have become a lucrative business, especially in Latin America.