Though critical to forest protection and reversing the climate crisis, indigenous rights are under attack and losing the fight in Bolivia against agricultural interests.
Iokiñe Rodríguez and Mirna Inturias
Earth’
Monarch mural in Mexico. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Midwest Region.
Raúl Hernández Romero received death threats before his body was found, family says.
Julia Conley
Human rights
As tensions around Matamoros camps rise, witnesses observe ominous signs that ‘Remain in Mexico’ may soon be supplanted by dangerous new policies of shipping asylum-seekers by plane to unfamiliar countries.
In the absence of an effective response by Brazil’s right-wing government to an oil disaster five months ago, civil society is rising to the challenge.
Marina Martinez
A major
Witnesses report two disturbing new trends: parents who send children over the border unaccompanied to escape the “Remain in Mexico” tent camps, and asylum-seekers deported to unsafe third countries.
Marisol
Hurts may not always be visible, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t intended, panelists say.
Greg Harman
This week, a handful of parents were allowed to fly into
The White Earth Band of Ojibwe Legally Recognized the Rights of Wild Rice. Here’s Why.
Editor’s Note: Originally published last year in YES! Magazine, this piece by Indigenous
Marisol Cortez
In this Weekly Witness series, we share some of the most significant messages posted to the public Facebook group Witness: Tornillo. Target: MPP by volunteers who have staked
Greg Harman
A coalition of organizations and individuals launched a public campaign this week calling for the end of the violent eviction of the birds of Bird Island on San
As part of #TargetMPP, witnesses begin reporting back on the disastrous impact of Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” program in Brownsville/Matamoros.
Marisol Cortez
I met Joshua Rubin, I think,
Interfaith Welcome Coalition invites people of conscience to a powerful action that begins this Sunday, January 12, and continues “until the policy of MPP [Migrant Protection Protocols] is reversed and
San Antonio Tenants Union’s year-end summary of organizing successes and call for ongoing support.
Pancho Valdez
After complaining for over six months and having our issues ignored by the
