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Haiti as Empire’s Laboratory

As the United States and its allies push renewed foreign intervention, the...

Occupied Haiti: White Intervention with Black Face

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism  Streamed live on October 29, 2023   The...

Stealth Game: “Community” Conservancies Devastate Land & Lives in Northern Kenya

“COMMUNITY” CONSERVANCIES DEVASTATE LAND & LIVES IN NORTHERN KENYA"

Lockdown Therapy for Capitalism

"It is imperative that we recognize the predicaments of the people who are most oppressed within our society, while we firmly recognize the dynamics within the capitalist hierarchy, and stay away from being a part of the mechanism which safely turns our predicaments into driving forces of capitalism."

The Best Lecture You Will Ever Watch on “Conservation”

"That hot afternoon in Amboseli; I experienced my road to Damascus. I realized that I was part of a system that had no respect for the very bedrock on which it stood. I was a qualified black face put in place to smooth over fifty years of exploitation in two and to create a pleasant backdrop that would allow for the renewal of this insidious arrangement."

WATCH: A Message to Nature Conservancy & African Wildlife Foundation from Evicted Samburu

"The Samburu of Kisargei, in Kenya’s Laikipia district, were brutally evicted from the lands they call home in 2010 after the land was sold to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF). AWF, using funds from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), says it bought the land on the understanding that no-one lived there. When the Samburu protested and took the matter to the courts the land was hurriedly ‘gifted’ to the government."

Keep Off The Grasslands | Mark Dowie On Conservation Refugees

"He also discovered that the large conservation organizations were partnering with corporations that wanted to build oil wells or gas pipelines or mine for minerals on these lands. Originally conservationists were opposed to drilling and mining, but, Dowie says, the lines between the conservation giants and the corporate giants are being blurred: “International conservation organizations remain comfortable working in close quarters with some of the most aggressive global resource prospectors.”

Kenya’s Samburu People ‘Violently Evicted’ after US Charities (Nature Conservancy & African Wildlife Foundation) Buy Land

Around 2,000 Samburu families have stayed squatting on edge of disputed territory,...