Corporate plunder in the global mining industry is severely aggravating social and economic inequalities.
Extractivism
The Bolsonaro administration’s plan violates indigenous land rights as guaranteed under Brazil’s 1988 constitution.
Such disasters symbolize capitalism’s failure to secure basic human rights and environmental protections in Brazil.
The “pink tide” governments undermined themselves by committing to extractivism, says author Mike Gonzalez.
Standing Rock has created new connections in the struggle to protect water and Indigenous territory worldwide.
The assassination of a prominent environmental activist in Honduras presents a troubling message to movements in the region.
Titanium mining is threatening communities’ ecological stability and disrupting collective decision-making practices in Chiapas.
Bolivian President Evo Morales escalates the stakes in the debate over extractivism as an anti poverty strategy.
Imagining alternative world orders from the ground up.
To prevent global ecological collapse we must radically retrench and close down unsustainable industries.