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“They have important stories to tell. They are extremely passionate. And they don’t do this for money – what they seek are rights for their communities.”
More people are joining the movement after the fatal shooting of Renee Good
Elvis Takahashi Mantello writes for Global Voices
News on climate resistance, land restoration efforts, digital activism, and more.
Which stories from our global network of grassroots journalists topped the list this year?
Indigenous voices at the COP30 summit highlight this month’s round-up
Mashal Baloch brings us the story of Farishta Azizi
News on extractive industries, AI, the rights of nature, and struggles over Indigenous Peoples Day.
News of Indigenous resistance, leadership, education, and reflection on the impact of AI.
Benju Lwagun writes for Global Voices
Climate migration is at Europe's doorstep, and the continent is far from ready.
Understanding Public Law No. 119-21 and Its Impacts on Buffalo, New York
“They are united in their crimes, and we are united in our solidarity”
From Jose Couso to Mariam Abu Daqqa
News from Mexico, Thailand, Cambodia, and Argentina
A reminder of the power of solidarity
News from the Pacific, Nepal, Mexico, Finland, and more.
Germany’s political landscape is undergoing a significant transformation.
News from Brazil, Malaysia, India, Guatemala, Aotearoa, and more.
Ongoing Indigenous struggles in the Amazon and important dialogue at the UN.
As the people of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand continue to suffer the effects of the earthquake that struck the region on March 28, a coalition of more than 200 Myanmar, regional, and international civil society organizations is calling for the international community to make sure that aid is not provided in a way that benefits the country’s ruling military junta.
This bulletin devoted to Global Indigenous Peoples News, part of the Glocal Exchange project of Weave News, seeks to highlight some of the current issues from Indigenous communities in different parts of the world. Issue #3 highlights stories related to Indigenous struggles in the Arctic, land rights in the Amazon region, and more.
This newly launched bulletin focused on Global Indigenous Peoples News, part of the Glocal Exchange project of Weave News, seeks to highlight some of the current issues from Indigenous communities in different parts of the world. Issue #1 of the bulletin was published in Weave Notes, our Weave News newsletter. The focus of the bulletin is aligned with the overall purpose of the Glocal Exchange project, which examines globalization through its impact from the perspective of local communities. It also supports the Weave News mission to “investigate and report about contemporary issues that are either underreported by establishment and other corporate media or reported in a way that excludes essential context, perspectives, and voices.” These are “issues that have a strong justice component and that reveal connections across communities, borders, struggles, and experiences.”
On a day when Donald Trump, surrounded by tech titans such as Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, was inaugurated for the second time, a group of determined residents in northern New York took to the streets seeking to re-energize the struggle against oligarchy and predatory capitalism.
As apocalyptic wildfires continue to burn and proliferate in and around Los Angeles, CA, it is important to seek out coverage and perspectives that help contextualize the story, connect it with larger structures and processes such as the world’s escalating climate crisis, and point readers toward opportunities to provide grassroots support. Below we are curating and aggregating important coverage from US-based independent and grassroots media outlets and also from global outlets that are looking at events from outside the US.
During 2024, Weave News was pleased to be able to publish a wide range of original content from our global network of grassroots journalists. These stories focused on a variety of social justice issues across the global-local continuum, from urgent struggles to protect waterways to the ongoing struggle against genocide in Palestine. As a turbulent year draws to a close, we feature the ten Weave News original stories and translations that were read the most throughout the year.
The result of the recent US elections provides further confirmation that what we are witnessing in much of the world is the consolidation of a 21st century form of fascist authoritarianism grounded in the rising power of Big Tech as well as resurgent forms of racism, misogyny, and xenophobia. But it is also an elite project of meeting present and future climate crisis, with all of its horrifying ripple effects, through mass violence (including genocide) and mass manipulation. What does such a moment mean for those of us who work in grassroots and independent media? What does it demand of us?
On May 22, 2024, the air outside Berlin’s Humboldt University was thick with tension. Over a hundred people had peacefully gathered at Universitätsstraße in solidarity with a group of students. The students had occupied the nearby Institute for Social Sciences and renamed it Jabalia Institute after one of the largest refugee camps in Gaza—known as a historic stronghold of resistance. Their voices rose together in steady, rhythmic chants, demanding peace and justice for people facing genocide and violence in Palestine and Lebanon.
The far right is on the march in public discourse, but media watchdogs and grassroots solidarity provide important counterweights.