200 Indigenous Leaders Demand Their Rights in Malaysia
Yesterday, in Kuching, our fact finding team meet with 200 leaders from Indigenous communities around the state of Sarawak. Some had traveled by boat to attend, some had traveled 8…
Hey Citi, Coal is Over! Start Funding Wind and Solar!
Today is Citi’s annual shareholders’ meeting. It’s the day where the company executives give a report on the state of the company (which is pretty bad for Citi right now,…
Malaysia: State Agency Could Use PR Training
This morning, our international fact finding team in Malaysia was scheduled to meet with officials from the Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (Salcra), the state agency that officially works…
Oil Palm Devastating Indigenous Communities
I just returned to Kuching after visiting with seven Indigenous communities in northern Sarawak (in Malaysian Borneo). What we saw was a tragic and infuriating picture of collusion between the…
Justicia Now! Shame on Chevron!
This week has filled me with immense pride for work of the Indigenous and campesino communities who have been waging a campaign for social and environmental justice in the Ecuadorian…
On a mission to expose the human costs of palm oil
I just arrived in Kuching, Malaysia, after 20 grueling hours of travel from San Francisco. I’m here to take part in a fact finding mission organised by Sarawak Dayak Iban…
Hey New York, Start Spreading the News, Citi’s AGM is coming to town
Shareholder season is upon us. It’s the time of the year where the corporations get together with their stockholders and give their annual reports about how they are profiting from…
Investing in Agrofuels is Dirty Business
This weekend the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) governors and directors are in Miami for their annual meeting. And where there is unaccountable and unsustainable finance, there is also a broad…
Indigenous prisoners of conscience
Earlier this week 6 political leaders of the Indigenous Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation were sentenced to 6 months in jail for refusing to allow mining and exploration on their…
Grassy Narrows women take action
Last week women from Grassy went out to the edges of their land, near where some cutting of the forest is still taking place. One of the women sent out…