Neskantaga First Nation sees their rights eroded and livelihood encroached by Canada's mining juggernuts, all in the name of "clean energy."
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Nadir Bouhmouch’s breathtaking documentary film Amussu (2019), exemplary of "art from below," breathes life into a counter-archive of Amazigh tradition and immotalizes Imider commune's ongoing anti-extractivist struggles.
At the turn of the twentieth century, a small and dwindling crocodile population lived in the Zor al-Zarqa/Kabbara marshlands near Palestine’s Mediterranean coast. Colonial zoologists had a geographically disproportionate fascination with...
Sebãstiao Salgado is like a sensitive instrument that vibrates in tune with what he is viewing and experiencing. Through his camera, he expresses solidarity and acknowledges the gifts he receives from his subjects—the exact opposite to the...
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill evokes grim, apocalyptic images. But arose from this familiar story of negligence, corporate greed, and disregard for nature belies another story of grassroots disaster response, environmental activism...
In May 2018, over two thousand academic student workers went on strike at the University of Washington, the largest strike in the state of Washington in three years. About half of these workers were graduate students in STEM fields, with...
STEM departments remain some of the most abusive, inequitable, and inaccessible workplaces within academia. Rates of bullying are higher in STEM academia than other environments, and when complaints of abuse or harassment against...
We write from a recent hard-won collective organizing campaign, the MIT Graduate Student Union–United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (MIT GSU–UE), to offer a partial reflection of what it entails to organize from within...
As thousands of academic workers in the United States strive to unionize across different university campuses, many organizing campaigns struggle to engage a key demographic: PhD students in STEM departments. Reasons for hesitation among...
On the evening of December 8, 2021, history was made when the University of California system recognized that the majority-STEM UC Student Researchers United-United Auto Workers (SRU-UAW) had won the healthy support of 10,441 out of a...