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Katie Surma @ Inside Climate News:
The Amazonian Community That Beat Big Oil Is Sharing Its Secrets
Indigenous leaders challenging Brazilian oil projects traveled to Ecuador to learn how the Sarayaku people fought back and helped reshape laws around the globe.
SARAYAKU, Ecuador—The canoe motor rattled against the current as Guisel Marworno and Wagner Karipuna traveled down the Bobonaza River. The Brazilian Indigenous leaders had come seeking help.
Last year, state-owned Petrobras began exploring for offshore oil near their coastal territories. The prospect of an oil boom is already reshaping the nearby city of Oiapoque, where new settlers are ratcheting up pressure on Indigenous lands also facing threats from pollution and climate change.
Across the Amazon basin, such forces are bearing down upon Indigenous territories, with governments imposing oil and gas concessions over some 31 million hectares of those lands, an area roughly the size of Poland.
Projects like these—fundamentally at odds with many Indigenous communities’ cultures and spiritual philosophies—often arrive as foregone conclusions. Companies arrive armed with high-powered lawyers, investment dollars and promises of economic growth. Communities, with far fewer resources, are forced to navigate unfamiliar legal systems while trying to hold their communities together under mounting pressure.
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Rebecca Solnit:
The Dam Broke, the River Roared…
The sheer magnitude of this election is difficult to grasp. There were seats that hadn’t been held by Democrats in twenty, forty, sixty years; there may be the first Black congressman from Mississippi since Reconstruction, there hasn’t been a Democratic or a woman governor in Texas since Ann Richards – but there has never been a Latina or Latino governor in Texas; Hinojosa will be the very first. That is, some of what happened Tuesday had not happened in a long time. Some of it has never happened before. New Mexico’s Deb Haaland will be the first Indigenous woman governor in this country, just as Peggy Flanagan will be the first Indigenous woman senator (or one of the two first if Peltola joins her, as I dearly hope she will). Georgia has its first Black woman governor and all but one of the top positions in that state that have always been held by white men will be held by Black women.
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Dean Blundell:
America Fired Trump on Tuesday. On Friday He Hired Stephen Miller to Get EvenDays after the biggest repudiation of his presidency, Trump made the architect of the deportation/concentration camp machine his chief of staff. On purpose. To Punish YOU.
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – November 7, 2026… President Trump today reinforced his need for division and hatred by offering the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the chief executive officer of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, whom he described as a “violent Fighter and Warrior.” Trump encouraged White to take the job and bring along a number of his UFC fighters.
“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left,” Trump posted.
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Broad Daylight News:
The Approved List for Nvidia’s China Chips Includes an Empty BuildingThe government collects a 25 percent tariff on advanced chips bound for China. A New York Times investigation found approved companies with empty offices, one with owners tied to a blacklisted firm.
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