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Oaxaca Indigenous Public Schools: Lessons Learned on Community Education
mall testimony of my participation in the implementation of Oaxaca’s Community High School model. With the emergence of the Zapatista uprising that sought the vindication of indigenous peoples during ...
The dangers of more “green” mining in the Americas for the energy transition in the North
The myths of “green,” “sustainable” and “climate smart” mining are gaining traction across the world. Companies are marketing these mines as “green,” and present them as the solution to the climate cr...
Indigenous Midwives and Healers Denounce Appropriation of Traditional Medicine via Mexico’s Health Law Reform
Last April, the House of Representatives approved reforms to Mexico's Health Law to regulate traditional and complementary medicine. Several indigenous and civil society groups have rejected the refor...
Bioregional Plan to Protect the Lungs of the Planet
FROM THE EDITORS: A large alliance representing 30 indigenous nationalities, inhabitants and protectors of 35 million hectares of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon, published the “Bioregional P...
Indigenous Activism Has Helped Lower Greenhouse Gases by 24 Percent
A new report released by the Indigenous Environmental Network and Oil Change International, shows the positive impact indigenous peoples’ fight for the environment has had in lowering greenhouse...
New Lawsuit Filed to Defend the Rights of Nature and Wild Rice
Chippewa indigenous leaders presented a lawsuit on behalf of Manoomin, or wild rice. The lawsuit is making a last attempt to stop the construction of Line 3 oil pipeline by Enbridge corporation in Min...
Tzam: 13 Seeds in 13 Months to Celebrate 130 Indigenous Voices
FROM THE EDITORS: With this article, we present a project in Mexico by Desinformémonos, Tzam:13 Zapatista Seeds, a space for dialogue (Tzam meaning dialogue in Ayapaneco) between indigenous artists, w...
Peru: 50 organizations call for an ecological transition towards economic recovery
We ask the new executive and legislative authorities to drive economic recovery hand in hand with a green and clean transition; thus replacing the polluting extractivist model with more sustainable ec...
Amazon’s Ancestral Medicine Against COVID-19
In Ecuador, like many Latin American countries, due to the global inequity of access to vaccines against COVID-19, only 10% of the population has so far received both doses of the vaccine. Indigenous ...
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