Andrew E. Miller

BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem
Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩

Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.…

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.

No Indigenous Rights = No Climate Justice

Indigenous Peoples protect vast lands and much of the world’s biodiversity, yet often face threats, displacement, and violence when defending their territories. (1/3) #ClimateJustice #IndigenousPeoplesDay

En Ecuador, la minería ilegal destruye un afluente del Amazonas y amenaza a una ciudad Entre 2017 y 2024, la minería ilegal destruyó 1740 hectáreas en Napo, el equivalente a 2500 canchas de fútbol, de acuerdo con MAAP.

🇪🇨🚨 En Ecuador, la minería ilegal está destruyendo un afluente del Amazonas y amenaza seriamente a la ciudad de Tena, en la provincia del Napo. Esta crisis ambiental y social preocupa a comunidades, autoridades y expertos. es.mongabay.com/2025/07/ecua...

Motherfucking wind farms…

YouTube video by CNN Israeli rights groups accuse government of genocide: 'We are doing it with a heavy heart'

B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories has issued a report titled, "Our Genocide", joining the global human rights movement in condemning the atrocities that the Israeli government is perpetrating in Gaza. Watch this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kNJb...

A Curse of Gold: Mining and Violence in Venezuela’s South | International Crisis Group Illegal gold mining is doing growing damage to southern Venezuela, its delicate ecosystem and its people. Curbing this harm is up to the government in Caracas. Foreign capitals should use whatever mea...

Record gold prices have made illegal mining more profitable than ever.

In the Venezuelan Amazon, this means not only organized crime is capitalizing, but state authorities like the army are involved as well.

Our new @crisisgroup.org briefing 🇻🇪⛏️

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Oil ‘does not guarantee stability’: Colombia’s environment minister on energy transition The energy landscape is a shifting terrain, full of twists and turns, according to statistics in the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While some countries are backtracking on…

Colombia has a goal to progressively move away from oil and gas while strengthening local renewable energy and storage capacity.

Lena Yanina Estrada, the new environment minister and first Indigenous person to hold the position, argues that it’s a model that helps bring long-term stability.

Amazon’s ‘tipping point road’ gets new push with ease on licensing rules As a controversial bill nears passage in Brazil, environmentalists and civil society prepare for what they call the

The highway cuts through one of the most preserved regions of the Amazon, and its restoration is likely to lead to widespread deforestation, as happened with other roads.

Rafael Spuldar for @mongabay.com

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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

‘We Don’t Want Contact Because You Are Bad’: Loggers Close In on Uncontacted People in Peruvian Amazon Logging, drug trafficking and the climate crisis endanger the world’s largest isolated Indigenous group, on the border with Brazil Leia esta história em português. In 1999, Beatriz Huertas, then a...

Criminal activities in the Peru-Brazil border are zeroing in on the Mashco Piro's, the world’s largest isolated Indigenous group, territory putting their way of life at risk.

Story by grantees John Reid and Daniel Biasetto for @theguardian.com.
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Brazil: threats and intimidation of indigenous Ka'apor human rights defenders in the state of Maranhão (joint communication) This is the summary of a joint communication sent to the Governments of Brazil and the USA, as well as the US headquartered company Wildlife Works, about alleged threats and intimidation of indigenous...

Now public: communication to #Brazil & others on threats against indigenous Ka'apor defenders raising concerns about possible human rights violations linked to a carbon credit project proposed by the US-headquartered Wildlife Works. I continue to follow the case.
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The Indigenous Rikbaktsá people, also known as the “Canoeiros” because of their skill with canoes, live in the Brazilian Amazon relatively uncontacted until the 1940s. They faced deadly epidemics & land theft.

They've got some of their territory back and have kept up the resistance for their lands.

Home - Amazon Underworld

1/ Today we kickstart Amazon Underworld, an alliance of investigative journalists and a project very close to my heart.

We have an amazing team that worked its socks off to begin providing you with new reporting from the Amazon 👇 🧵

amazonunderworld.org

#TeslaTakedown Arlington boycott line took it to a whole new level on Saturday with signs asking the public “What Is Fascism?” Story and video: dcmediagroup.us/2025/07/05/t...

Climate action is a human rights obligation NOT a political choice

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' advisory opinion has affirmed that states have an obligation to take immediate, concrete, and positive action to urgently tackle the climate crisis.

Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules Costa Rica-based inter-American court of human rights says states have obligation to respond to climate change There is a human right to a stable climate and states have a duty to protect it, a top court has ruled. Announcing the publication of a landmark advisory opinion on climate change on Thursday, Nancy Hernández López, president of the inter-American court of human rights (IACHR), said climate change carries “extraordinary risks” that are felt particularly keenly by people who are already vulnerable. Continue reading...

Countries must protect human right to a stable climate, court rules

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. 

They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. 

Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.

Indigenous people's health tightly tied to speaking their own languages, review finds | CBC News Researchers analyzed 262 academic and community-based studies from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and determined 78 per cent of them connected Indigenous language vitality with ...

Indigenous people's health tightly tied to speaking their own languages, review finds. Positive outcomes include better physical and mental health, and more social connections, UBC researchers say, by Santana Dreaver www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #reconciliation

Brazilian activists vow to fight Amazon oil auction in court Months before hosting COP30, Brazil auctioned 47 oil and gas blocks in the Amazon. Activitsts have vowed to challenge the process in court.

Brazil has faced criticism over last week’s auction of exploration blocks just months before it hosts COP30 talks focused on shifting away from fossil fuels
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Lessons in courage, care and collective action from the international accompaniment movement Developed in Central America during the 1980s, accompaniment strategies show how movements can reduce attacks and resist state repression.

LESSONS IN COURAGE, CARE, & COLLECTIVE ACTION from the international accompaniment movement.

From @moira.bsky.social & Zia Kandler on @wagingnonviolence.org

Big respect for WNV, their writers, and their consistently good, important, articles for these times.

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Sanctuary District | Bonfire Protect DC's Sanctuary Laws!. DC's sanctuary laws are under attack from both Congress and our own Mayor. In 2020, the DC Council unanimously passed the Sanctuary Values...

✨ New shirt drop! Tired of Congress & Muriel Bowser betraying DC immigrants? Need a new t-shirt? We got you!

Join us in telling them that DC is and will always be a Sanctuary District!

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While the world watches Israel's war with Iran, Netanyahu's extremist government continues to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza.

Today, Israeli forces again opened fire on people desperately trying to collect food aid, killing dozens. Over 56,000 have been killed so far.

✅Illegal & expensive Tariff War

✅Illegal & callous decimation of the federal workforce.

✅Illegal invasion of Iran.

REMIND ME, again… who are the “ILLEGALS?”

Democrats cannot complain about Trump’s authoritarianism while ignoring their own constitutional responsibility regarding taking the country to war. Democrats must support Sen. Kaine’s War Powers Resolution.

The U.S. must not get involved in Netanyahu’s war.

California is to examine its Amazon oil ties following pleas from Indigenous leaders from Ecuador The California Senate has introduced a landmark resolution to have the state examine its crude imports from the Amazon, following a visit this week by Indigenous leaders from Ecuador who urged lawmake...

I was on the SF Bay this morning with kayaktivists Rich City Rays and our Indigenous allies from the Ecuadorian Amazon. This article just dropped: apnews.com/article/cali... California to examine its Amazon oil ties after plea from Ecuador Indigenous leaders | AP News

Finishing Dom Phillips’ posthumous book was ‘the hardest thing emotionally’ co-authors say “The journalist should not be part of the story.” Jonathan Watts, British journalist based in Brazil, recalls the words of fellow British journalist Dom Phillips and the challenges they posed to finis...

“For me, it’s all about collaboration and solidarity. That’s really what this is a gesture of,” says @jonathan-watts.bsky.social, who led a group of expert writers to finish Phillips’ book. ‪@andrew.intercept.com.br
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A graphic that reads: Happy Juneteenth.

On Juneteenth, we celebrate Black joy, Black history, Black brilliance, and Black emancipation.

We honor our ancestors whose resistance and sacrifice made this day possible, and we thank today’s freedom fighters who carry forward their legacy.