An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Life Over Lithium: Protecting the Sacred Site Peehee Mu’huh (Thacker Pass)
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Exposing PFAS “Forever Chemicals” – Global Contamination & One Lawyer’s Battle For Justice
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The Wild Yards Project: Transforming Lawns into Biodiverse Habitats
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A Vessel for Empowerment: Overcoming Superstorm & Petrochemical Invasions with Roishetta Ozane
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Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
Daily Dose of the Wild
Twittering from the Trees
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Garífuna Culture Archive
“Little Canada” Honduras Neocolonists Denounce Garifuna Defenders
Posted on October 4, 2017 | 4 CommentsCanadians facilitate illegal land sales of ancestral land in Caribbean Honduras, and members of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH) denounced for defamation by tourism investors Patrick Daniel Forseth (Carivida Villas) and Randy Jorgensen (Life Vision Developments) -- see any issues of neocolonialism here?Inequality and Injustice – The Garifuna Struggle in Honduras
Posted on January 9, 2017 | 4 CommentsInternational tourism and state-sponsored repression threaten the Garifuna culture and people in Caribbean Honduras. Did you consider how 5-star hotels and cruise ship terminals came to take over Indigenous land? They stole it...Garífuna People Face Tourism Repression in Honduras
Posted on September 19, 2016 | 1 CommentThe coup-backed neo-liberal government of Honduras, pushing tourism and expatriate resort developments, continues to repress and evict Garífuna communities along the Caribbean Coast. The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) reports, with multiple personal statement videos.Obama Must Stop Funding Honduras’ Corrupt President
Posted on March 12, 2015 | 2 CommentsDana Frank writes on why the U.S. must stop funneling money to Honduras for repressive militarization and "free trade" projects that sacrifice labor and environmental standards in favor of multinational corporate hegemony. He must start treating its president like the corrupt ruler he really is.Drilling in the Caribbean: Honduran Indigenous Communities Speak Out
Posted on November 25, 2014 | 3 CommentsIn 2013, the Honduran government granted BG Group oil and gas exploration rights in a 35,000 square kilometer block off the Caribbean Coast of the Moskitia. Miskitu and Garifuna community leaders, in the absence of organized support from environmental NGOs and scientists, are speaking out to defend their territories from oil and gas activity.Garifuna Culture in Honduras: Dancing in a Changing World
Posted on May 22, 2014 | 4 CommentsHonduras’ Garífuna people, with their rich culture and homeland spread across the Caribbean Coast of Central America recently asked an international court in Costa Rica to help them recover ancestral land, which they say has been lost to development. We present the dark and the light of this vibrant way, threatened by neoliberal development schemes, palm oil plantations, mega-tourism, and drug trafficking.Honduras: Mega-Tourism and Garifuna Communities Collide
Posted on December 29, 2013 | 13 CommentsCanadian "Porn King" Randy Jorgensen's mega-tourism "development" projects are stirring conflict and destroying Afro-Caribbean Garífuna communities in Trujillo on the north coast of Honduras.Honduras: Neo-Colonial “Free Market” Charter Cities, Democracy Not Included – By Annie Bird
Posted on September 25, 2012 | 5 CommentsFree marketeers and Libertarians advocate for the world's first Charter City, with authoritarian governance, facilitated by a military coup, coordinated using political sway with business partners, using public funds from the IDB for infrastructure plans, and built on land "purchased" from indigenous communities, small farmers and the state of Honduras.Caribbean Garífuna: Masked Warriors Dance into the New Year
Posted on April 27, 2012 | 19 CommentsThe masked dance ritual called Wanaragua, takes place as part of the New Year's celebration among the Garífuna villages on the Caribbean Coast of Central America.