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My Time at Standing Rock
By Harmony Lambert (Chumash Nation) Three weeks ago, I returned from a three-week stint at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in Standing Rock. While there, I represented Greenpeace in the most…
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How Donald Trump Is Connected to the Flint Water Crisis
Flint, Michigan still does not have clean drinking water. Now, President-elect Donald Trump — whose campaign stump speech included a crude joke about the city’s water crisis — has tapped…
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Lessons for My U.S. Allies in Trump’s America, From a Brexit Survivor
After Brexit, the U.K. Left had a food fight. When the last egg had been thrown in their civil war, the combatants looked up and saw they’d lost their mandate…
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Porter Ranch Residents to Fossil Fuel Industry: Shut It ALL Down
This past Sunday marked the one year anniversary of the worst natural gas blowout in American history, the Porter Ranch gas leak. When I learned last year of the leak…
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‘These Are Our Prayers in Action’ — A Look at Life in the #NoDAPL Resistance Camps
As I turn off the two-lane highway that courses through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation into Oceti Sakowin Camp (technically an overflow camp from the original Camp of the Sacred…
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Do You Know What Goes Into Your Bimbo Bread?
If you grew up going to la tienda with your parents to buy groceries like we did, you’re probably very familiar with Bimbo. You might even recognize their catchphrase: “Con…
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Colorado’s “Raise the Bar” Ballot Initiative
“Raise the Bar” would make it harder for people to bring ballot measures up for a vote in Colorado. It is part of a multi-year oil and gas-funded campaign to…
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A Deadly Trade-off: IOI’s Palm Oil Supply and Its Human and Environmental Costs
This Greenpeace International investigative report looks at the Malaysian palm oil company IOI Group and its downstream subsidiary in Europe and North America, IOI Loders Croklaan. Despite policies to ensure…
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How Your Generosity Is Helping #NoDAPL Camps Keep Up the Resistance
Right now, the eyes of the nation are trained squarely on the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Native-led, peaceful resistance to its construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry…
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My Arctic Home
I live in Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River) in the Canadian Arctic. Most people have never heard of my town. It’s 450 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle with a population of…
