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This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate On Earth Day, we speak with two of the more than two dozen Indigenous authors of a new book that looks at the history of resistance against colonialism and capitalism and lays out a vision for the future to address the climate crisis. “The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth” details the centuries of Indigenous resistance that created the movement at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access pipeline and what movements centering justice for Indigenous people must look like. The book offers a “people’s program to p...

– Walidah Imarisha Last month, Obama inspired a renewed flurry of think pieces and arguments with his comments that “defund the police” is nothing but a “snappy slogan” which serves only to alienate potential allies rather than bring about needed police reforms. In the ensuing blowback, a video of Vice President Kamala Harris resurfaced in which she arrogantly mocks the demand to “build more schools, less jails” and declares that we, as abolitionists, do not really mean what we say when we argue police have no place in public safety. In the UK, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer h...

The demolition of the largest coal-fired power plant in the Western US brings reflection, hope to the northern Navajo Nation Zak Podmore (Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) Spectators gather to witness the demolition of the Navajo Generating Station on December 18, 2020. © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune Page, Ariz. • A series of deep booms shook the desert around here on Friday morning as hundreds of people gathered to witness the end of an era that has shaped life on the northern Navajo Nation since the 1970s. Three 775-foot concrete smokestacks toppled in quick succe...