Colin Bogle

YouTube video by VICE News How a Sovereign Group in Jamaica Is Fighting a US Mining Company

youtu.be/5nbHC24Z0rQ

Another well documented environmental campaign that people may have heard of

What gave this campaign weight is their ability to inform the public on the financial drawbacks associated with DSM, which were even more important than explaining why is it bad for the environment.

Environmental campaigns against extraction in the region have a lot to do to build out alternatives. Too often being anti mining is seen as being anti progress.

The Caribbean's experience with advocacy is similar to that of the Pacific island nations, and there is a lot of room for collaboration both intellectually and spiritually in that domain. This campaign drew a lot on shared ecological stewardship between native pacific islanders and Maroons.

The primacy takeaways are: the fight against extractivism and environmental exploitation in the region is ecofeminist in nature. A lot of advocates identify as women and use their lived experiences to inform their fight against the kind of petromasculinity informing exploitation in the region.

It was very important to me to write down how the advocacy campaign has been going because I have noticed that a lot of Caribbean environmental advocacy is not recorded, and it means a lot to be able to write down what works and what doesn't work.

Mine Yuh Business Not The Ocean MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

www.mediafire.com/file/ag46kgk...

I'm still in a fistfight with my publishers but this *should* be the link to download an article about the fight against Deep Seabed Mining here in Jamaica that I've been documenting for the past few months.

ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sw...

Mine Yuh Business Not The Ocean MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

www.mediafire.com/file/ag46kgk...

Agreed

Letter of the Day | Can Jamaica afford to make Dubai’s mistakes? THE EDITOR, Madam: Speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony last Saturday, both Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett lauded the construction of The Pinnacle, a luxury r...

jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lett...

Ja should consider carbon debt swap THE EDITOR, Madam: While the recent blocking of bauxite mining by the Supreme Court ought to be celebrated as a victory by the environmental justice movement, it is a testimony to the difficult balanc...

jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lett...

The Caribbean | Sustainable Finance

wiki.oikos-international.org/sustainable-...

The Climate Injustices—and Solutions—Shared by Puerto Rico and Jackson, Mississippi Solidarity can go a long way in connecting communities working through similar challenges.

www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022...

Opinion | Billionaires Will Not Save Us. Here’s What Will Relying on billionaires is a colonialist solution. It is high time that we instead draw from Indigenous peoples and learn how to work with the natural world, not against it.

www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022...

Opinion | How “Whitey on the Moon” Perfectly Captures Bezos’ Space Joy Ride The themes of Gill Scott-Heron’s seminal poem written decades ago resonate more strongly than ever as billionaires like Jeff Bezos spend their money on lavish vanity projects.

www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2021...

Other things I have written:

The Real Reason Texas Isn’t Turning Blue Every few years, we’re told that Democrats are about to break through in the red state. Here’s why they continue to lose.

Their approach failed spectacularly and isolated a lot of progressive voters who otherwise would have supported them. It's worth nothing that Allred only visited close to 60 of the over 200 counties in the state.

newrepublic.com/article/1882...

They need to ditch the billionaires

How Biden, Harris and the Democrats Abandoned the Working Class Working-class voters didn’t unite behind a Democratic Party that failed to address economic pain—and Trump exploited those grievances to win back the presidency.

I think they really failed to build a broad working class coalition, instead focusing on paying lip service to identity politics (with no real commitments to protecting the marginalized), and disregarding the economic pain people feel.
inthesetimes.com/article/bide...

Basically, a big problem with tbis election cycle is that democrats really didn't offer strong policy alternatives, and instead contorted themselves rightward to try to entice republican voters

I'm glad you liked it. This article here explains a lot of what went wrong:
www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...

Its focused not just on the election, but on the general lack of accountability in the Texan political system that comes when Repubs control every state-wide seat for nearly 30 years- and what that means for climate action.

In Texas, a Crisis of Inaction Without Consequence In the face of our leaders’ blatant disregard, short-lived outrage is not enough. It’s time for everyday Texans to take back their power.

Using my first ever post on bluesky to share this op-ed I wrote:
www.texasobserver.org/a-crisis-of-...