Tag: Water Protectors
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On the Coast of Oaxaca, Afro and Indigenous Tribes Fight for Water Autonomy
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In southern Mexico, a multi-ethnic network of towns has halted the construction of a mega-dam. Now they are organizing to manage their own natural resources and revitalize their culture as native water protectors.
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The Bayou Bridge Pipeline’s Entangled Hierarchies of Power
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Lately I’ve been struck by a picture of Melinda Tillies, a Louisiana homeowner recently featured in an article by Julie Dermansky in DeSmogBlog.* Tillies is standing in front of her house. In the background (not more than “25 feet away”) is a crane, its arm lifted, ready to plunge into the earth. Tillies looks into…