Sustainability

The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 -- a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn.

Local resisters are calling for a different economic model — one that prioritizes clean water and soil, healthy communities, peace, dignity, and self-determination.

Climate activists are demanding total elimination of the anti-democratic investor-state dispute settlement system.

Environmental and climate justice movements flexed their growing power in Washington, beating back a dirty environmental deregulation bill — for now.