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1 day ago
Social justice

Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say

Social justice
fromFuturism
1 day ago

Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma has banned data center construction on its land, becoming the first Indigenous nation to do so.
Non-profit organizations
fromTruthout
3 days ago

Indigenous Activists Decry "Data Colonialism" of AI Boom in Their Communities

The AI industry's data center expansion poses significant threats to Indigenous communities and the environment, according to activist Krystal Two Bulls.
fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

Cubans' Despair

The boat's crew of 20 or so young campaigners carried about 14 tons of humanitarian aid, flew the Cuban flag, held a LET CUBA LIVE sign, and protested against the U.S. oil sanctions.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 days ago

South American migrants deported to DRC say facing pressure to return home

We feel pressured to agree to go back to our country, regardless of the risks, a 29-year-old Colombian woman, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of reprisals, told Reuters.
Washington DC
#migration
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago
Miami Marlins

Migrants struggle back across Latin America after Trump shuts asylum door: It's hard to know what to do'

Mario Torres faced life-threatening challenges while migrating from Venezuela to the US, including a violent encounter with armed men in Mexico.
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago
Miami food

The tired faces of Cuban deportees to Mexico: I'm already old, I don't want to die here'

Deported migrants from the U.S. face dire conditions in Tapachula, struggling to survive and longing to return home.
Miami food
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

The tired faces of Cuban deportees to Mexico: I'm already old, I don't want to die here'

Deported migrants from the U.S. face dire conditions in Tapachula, struggling to survive and longing to return home.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 days ago

Sexual violence in the West Bank emerges as tool to intimidate Palestinians

Qusay told Al Jazeera that the settlers divided themselves into groups to attack the Palestinian tents. Five of the settlers attacked his tent where he had been asleep and began beating him severely with their hands and sticks.
Women
#reparations
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago
History

Slavery reparations are just, but who exactly owes whom?

Some African elites benefited from the slave trade, complicating the narrative of reparations in the context of historical injustices.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
UK politics

What are reparations for slavery and colonialism and will the UK pay?

Reform UK party plans to stop visas for countries seeking reparations for historical injustices related to slavery.
History
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Slavery reparations are just, but who exactly owes whom?

Some African elites benefited from the slave trade, complicating the narrative of reparations in the context of historical injustices.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

What are reparations for slavery and colonialism and will the UK pay?

Reform UK party plans to stop visas for countries seeking reparations for historical injustices related to slavery.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Why are Harvard's slavery researchers quitting or being fired?

Newman stated, 'There is an absolute direct connection from Antigua and what was going on there to the slave trade at Harvard. We should really start looking into this Antigua thing, because there's some teeth here.' His insistence on exploring these connections was met with silence from his colleagues.
Higher education
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Reparations take many forms': what the UN's landmark vote on enslavement means for restorative justice

The United Nations voted to describe the transatlantic chattel slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparations as a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.
Social justice
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found

Living in a constrained environment reflects the ongoing impact of historical injustices and the struggle for dignity and self-worth.
#slavery
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
UK politics

Reform's temper tantrum about slavery reparations shows it doesn't understand Britain's place in the modern world | Kojo Koram

UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Reform's temper tantrum about slavery reparations shows it doesn't understand Britain's place in the modern world | Kojo Koram

The Zong incident highlights the brutal history of slavery and the ongoing debate over reparations for affected countries.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

We took clothes, a blanket and a dog': the people displaced by a dam 50 years ago, but still fighting for justice

The Itaipu hydroelectric dam construction displaced the Ava-Guarani people, disrupting their territory and culture, with ongoing struggles for justice and recognition.
fromSmithsonian Magazine
3 weeks ago

Native Nations Fought in the American Revolution to Protect Their Ancestral Lands. After the War, Settlers Seized Their Territory Anyway

"Once the Declaration of Independence is issued by Congress, then it kind of changes the calculus. Then, both sides are putting pressure on Native people to join one side or the other."
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

Venezuela: 21st-century colonialism?

The consolidation of an adaptive authoritarianism with global impact represents a kind of 21st-century colonialism, influenced by the Trump administration's interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine. This model seeks economic efficiency and limited tolerance for dissent, while configuring an ideal opposition that lacks real power to contest authority.
World politics
#un-resolution
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago
Social justice

UN resolution fuels global slavery reparations debate

The UN General Assembly declared the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparatory justice discussions.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago
Social justice

What to know as Africans welcome UN vote on slavery reparations but questions remain

The U.N. resolution on trafficking of enslaved Africans calls for reparations and restitution of cultural items, widely welcomed across Africa and by advocates.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Don't look at who voted to call the slave trade the gravest crime', look at who didn't | Kenneth Mohammed

The Ghana-led UN resolution on slavery highlights global disparities in acknowledging historical injustices, with significant opposition from Western nations.
Social justice
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

UN resolution fuels global reparations debate

The UN General Assembly declared the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparatory justice discussions.
Social justice
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

UN resolution fuels global slavery reparations debate

The UN General Assembly declared the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparatory justice discussions.
Social justice
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

What to know as Africans welcome UN vote on slavery reparations but questions remain

The U.N. resolution on trafficking of enslaved Africans calls for reparations and restitution of cultural items, widely welcomed across Africa and by advocates.
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

ICE's growing detention footprint, and the communities fighting back

The Trump administration is significantly expanding migrant detention facilities, aiming to detain and deport a record number of immigrants in U.S. history.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

White Girls and the Global South

Spring offers a variety of art books to rejuvenate reading habits, featuring diverse themes and historical insights.
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Rupture and Repair Under Fascist Conditions

"We have a great opportunity in our movements to learn how to be opponents without being enemies," says Tanuja Jagernauth. This perspective emphasizes the importance of maintaining respect and understanding even amidst conflict.
Social justice
Arts
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Amazonia's Indigenous peoples dismantle Western cliches

European depictions of the Amazon as a timeless wilderness ignore its cultural diversity and historical complexity.
fromThe Walrus
1 month ago

Where Do the Disappeared Go? | The Walrus

There is nothing more dangerous than an enforced disappearance. Think about the word for a moment: disappearance. Imagine waking up to find that a relative has vanished without a trace, or that you've been torn away from your family with no explanation. When you're disappeared, anything can happen to you, from verbal humiliation to physical torture or even death.
World news
Social justice
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

It's Not Just Huerta. For Many Survivors, Silence Seems Like the Only Option.

Sexual abuse within movements, exemplified by Cesar Chavez, must be addressed to foster change and protect survivors' dignity.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

These connections are overlooked': how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition

The case is one of the most notorious examples of British involvement in illegal enslavement in Brazil, said historian Joseph Mulhern and a stark symbol of how, even after the UK Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, British citizens and companies profited from slavery in Latin America's biggest country for another half century.
History
Philosophy
fromApaonline
2 months ago

Indigenous Antif*scism

Relational Indigenous knowledge and practices must be mobilized to dismantle settler colonial state-forms, capitalism, and fascism while building constellations of co-resistance.
Miscellaneous
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement

Indigenous slavery in the Americas lasted centuries under various names, and a public history project aims to accurately document and recognize this historical reality.
History
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

The hidden history of Afro-Bolivians: From slavery in silver mines to fighting for power

Cerro Rico produced massive quantities of global silver through enslaved African labor under brutal conditions in colonial Bolivia.
Artificial intelligence
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Gender, racism and xenophobia: The biases of artificial intelligence in Latin America

Large language models reproduce gender, class, racial, and xenophobic stereotypes when responding to prompts in Spanish, with classism, racism, and xenophobia showing the most striking biases.
Silicon Valley
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

I tracked how a single algorithmic decision in Singapore cascades into loan denials in Lagos and job rejections in Sao Paulo - this is what digital colonialism actually looks like - Silicon Canals

Algorithmic credit-scoring models trained on Southeast Asian data fail when exported globally, perpetuating financial exclusion through culturally-specific assumptions presented as universal technology.
Environment
frombigthink.com
1 month ago

Widening the frame: Indigenous land rights and the future of climate policy

Indigenous land rights are essential to climate action, with Indigenous representatives at COP30 demanding recognition of their ancestral land ownership and management authority.
Education
fromTruthout
1 month ago

We Must Defend Black History - It Fuels Freedom Dreams of Students Under Attack

Teachers must transform curricula to eliminate biases and systems of domination while protecting vulnerable students, particularly Black students and students of color, from contemporary educational injustices.
fromApaonline
1 month ago

Recently Published Book Spotlight: Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics: A Cinematic Exploration

Anticolonialism, Ontology, and Semiotics draws upon Africana anticolonial philosophy-especially the work of Frantz Fanon and two of his most influential interpreters, Eldridge Cleaver and Sylvia Wynter-to develop a basic analytical model for doing anticolonial political theory. I wanted to show that there is something distinctive, something special, to be found in this tradition of thought that has not been fully appreciated by philosophers and theorists in other fields.
Philosophy
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Latin America: In the Shadow of the US | Ep 2 Wars

The 1980s bring revolutionary wars, CIA-backed conflict and the violent birth of a new democratic era. Episode 2: Wars begins with Nicaragua's Sandinista revolution, which promised egalitarian transformation through literacy crusades. But civil war erupted as United States President Ronald Reagan's administration covertly backed the Contra rebels, plunging the nation into turmoil and suffering. Panama transitioned from Omar Torrijos's diplomatic triumphs over the Panama Canal to Manuel Noriega's sinister collaboration with both the CIA and drug cartels.
US politics
fromEmptywheel
2 months ago

Time to Burn Lord Jeffrey Amherst's Genocidal Blankets

Lord Jeffrey Amherst was a soldier of the king And he came from across the sea, To the Frenchmen and the Indians he didn't do a thing In the wilds of this wild country But for his Royal Majesty he fought with all his might For he was a soldier brave and true He conquered all his enemies whenever they came in sight And he looked around for more when he was through.
#un-general-assembly
Social justice
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans

The U.N. General Assembly declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparations.
Social justice
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

UN classes slave trade as 'gravest crime against humanity'

The UN General Assembly recognized the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity, with 123 countries voting in favor.
Social justice
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans

The U.N. General Assembly declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity and called for reparations.
Social justice
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

UN classes slave trade as 'gravest crime against humanity'

The UN General Assembly recognized the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity, with 123 countries voting in favor.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

From Crimea to Cameroon: Ukraine's minorities reflect on life during war

A Muslim cultural centre offered shelter to displaced Ukrainians, fostering cohesion, dispelling anti-Muslim misconceptions, and promoting understanding of Ukraine's longstanding Muslim heritage.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

State violence against Black Americans laid the groundwork for fascism | Jason Stanley

Expansion of racially targeted, arbitrary state violence into broader populations exemplifies an imperial boomerang, where colonial tactics return domestically and risk fascist normalization.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

What a viral speech in Ireland reveals about colonial history and Caribbean English

Jamaican English origins trace primarily to southwest England, East Anglia, and Monmouthshire rather than Ireland, despite popular perceptions of Irish linguistic influence.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

If Cuba falls, the Global South is to blame, too

The United States intensifies pressure on Cuba while its supposed allies offer perfunctory support and avoid confronting US actions.
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Report From the Progressive International's Nuestra Summit

"Don't go!" more than one voice could be heard shouting in the packed Teatro Colón on January 24. The plea was in response to Colombian senator María José Pizarro Rodríguez's declaration that Colombia's President Gustavo Petro would be traveling to the White House on February 3 "in an act of courage." While the popular Pacto Histórico senator was mostly met with cheers and chants of the Chilean protest song, " El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,"
World politics
Philosophy
fromAeon
2 months ago

Lessons in pluralism from a 17th-century African town | Aeon Essays

Crispina Peres, a powerful 17th-century Cacheu trader of mixed African-European heritage, was prosecuted by the Inquisition for blending African healing practices with Catholicism.
#british-monarchy
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

What ICE is doing to America is familiar to me as a Palestinian

Today Americans are getting a taste of what Palestinians have experienced for decades: state terror. The escalation of state violence in the United States has been unprecedented. In the span of three weeks, two people were shot dead in Minneapolis during anti-immigration raids. Both were branded domestic terrorists. Meanwhile last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents used five-year-old Liam Ramos as bait to get his asylum-seeking father to come out of their home;
US politics
World news
fromTruthout
2 months ago

AOC Says Cuba Blockade Part of "New Era of Depravity" Ushered by Gaza Genocide

The Gaza precedent has normalized punitive blockades and starvation, enabling actions that endanger civilians globally, including a severe humanitarian crisis unfolding in Cuba.
World politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

Latin America seeks its own voice in a turbulent world

Seven Latin American heads of state convened in Panama at CAF's 2026 forum, turning a trade-focused meeting into a politically charged regional multilateral summit.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Behind the myths of the British Empire: Nigel Biggar and Mehdi Hasan

Britain once ruled over the largest empire in history. For many Britons, it remains a source of pride. Others argue its power was built on a legacy of brutality, colonial conquest and the enslavement of millions. Can Britain reckon with that past and make amends?
UK politics
US politics
fromTruthout
2 months ago

Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.

Systematic efforts to erase Black history and undermine Black representation threaten Black dignity, agency, and collective meaning-making.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Sanctions are economic warfare with civilians as collateral damage | Kenneth Mohammed

Sanctions operate as instruments of economic warfare that harm civilians, depress growth, increase inequality, and serve geopolitical domination more than targeted human-rights protection.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Where the Silence Breaks | Ep 3 Colombia

Colombian military soldiers confess to extrajudicial killings of innocent civilians through the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, a transitional justice mechanism established by the 2016 peace agreement.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

America's contract to protect white women has always been tenuous

In the hours after the 7 January fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three, gut-wrenching footage of her killing was released, discrediting initial claims from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the Department of Justice that she was shot in self-defense. As a response to the public outcry, the Trump administration and a chorus of conservative public figures unleashed a litany of dehumanizing and defamatory remarks about Good,
US politics
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

What 'banana republic' means and why its history matters

In the coastal city of Trujillo, he'd observed how the US-owned United Fruit Company dominated the city's railways and docks and wielded significant political influence. This inspired his novel "Cabbages and Kings" (1904), in which he wrote about the fictional republic of Anchuria — a 'small, maritime banana republic' whose government bent to the interests of a powerful foreign corporation.
World news
fromWorld History Encyclopedia
1 month ago

The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa

Cacheu, located in present-day Guinea-Bissau, was a small but vital Atlantic port where African, European, and Afro-Portuguese communities interacted daily. It functioned as a hub linking West Africa to Brazil and the wider Atlantic world. Rather than presenting Cacheu as a peripheral outpost of European expansion, Green shows it to be a dynamic society with its own social hierarchies, customs, and systems of authority.
History
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Latin America: In the Shadow of the US | Ep 1 Coups

US-backed Cold War interventions in Latin America led to military coups, dictatorships, covert operations, resistance movements, regional repression, and lasting political instability.
fromtruthout.org
2 months ago

Greenland Is Not for Sale: An Indigenous Activist Speaks Out Against the US

Donald Trump's second presidency has been defined by lawless, fascist actions at home and imperial ambitions and performative militarism abroad. He has threatened scores of countries while depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the U.S. His obsession with Greenland has caused severe strains between Europe and the United States and even prompted several European nations to send troops to one of the world's largest islands, which has a population of less than 60,000.
US politics
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Ghana takes transatlantic slavery case to UN

Ghana will table an AU-backed UN General Assembly resolution in March to recognize the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Great Resistance by Carrie Gibson review a panoramic account of the fight to end slavery

Enslaved Africans and their descendants across the Americas mounted the largest, longest-running, and most diverse sustained insurrection for freedom from the 1500s to the 1800s.
fromEsquire
2 months ago

America Is Failing Its Most Vulnerable Communities

About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building's Haitian staff in their apartments. "That reminds me of Anne Frank," Rachel Blumberg, president and CEO of the center, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. "There's a kindred bond between our residents being Jewish and seeing the place that the Haitians have gone through."
US politics
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Venezuelan deportee welcomes chance of US return but fears repeat of ordeal

A federal judge ordered that deported Venezuelan men be allowed to return to the US to pursue immigration cases, with the US government covering travel costs.
Social justice
fromFortune
2 months ago

I've studied nonviolent resistance in war zones for 20 years and Minnesota reminds me of Colombia, the Philippines and Syria | Fortune

Organized, disciplined nonviolent community action and mutual aid can protect migrants from violent immigration enforcement but requires courage and carries real risk.
Social justice
fromTruthout
2 months ago

Living Under a Concentration Camp Regime - and Fighting Back

Mass detention systems expand through legal 'end runs' and normalization; rapid U.S. detention infrastructure growth signals a dangerous escalation requiring organized resistance.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

History longs to heal': how Africa hopes to advance campaign for reparative justice

The African Union declared 2025 the year of reparations and extended it through 2036, advancing a continental push for justice and redress for colonialism, slavery, and their lasting impacts.
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