Gaia Guatri 5/27/26 Gaia Guatri 5/27/26

Holding the Line: How Defenders Continue to Act When Space is Closing

In the third and final installment of her mini-series, Defending the Defenders: The Global Rise of Legalized Repression, Gaia Guatri examines how civil society actors around the world are adapting to the changing structures of repression around them.

Steve Peraza 5/22/26 Steve Peraza 5/22/26

Who Cares: Looking for the Place Where Workers’ Rights Meet Disability Rights

Steve Peraza examines ongoing tensions driven by the entry of private equity into the NY state home care system - and opportunities for care workers and consumers to make common cause.

John Collins 5/15/26 John Collins 5/15/26

Weave Flashback: On Nakba Day, We Must Affirm That Rights Are Not Narratives (2011)

Who says journalists must be neutral in a cynically constructed “debate” that serves the interest of a colonial power? A question from 2011 continues to resonate today.

Gaia Guatri 5/11/26 Gaia Guatri 5/11/26

Targeting the Press: How Legal Harassment, Violence and Financial Pressure Silence Journalists

In the second installment of her mini-series, Defending the Defenders: The Global Rise of Legalized Repression, Gaia Guatri explores how states and other powerful actors are increasingly constraining the work of journalism through law, violence, and intimidation.

Mathani Ahmed (GIJN) 4/27/26 Mathani Ahmed (GIJN) 4/27/26

Following the Money Fueling Environmental Destruction in War: A Case Study from Sudan

Mathani Ahmed writes for the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN): In fragile, conflict-ridden states like Sudan, environmental harm is a byproduct of the economic strategies. When companies or state-linked entities avoid the high costs of treating industrial pollution or waste, their saved money eventually acts as an unreported subsidy that journalists can trace to understand why pollution is permitted to continue.

Gaia Guatri 4/20/26 Gaia Guatri 4/20/26

When Repression Wears a Suit: How Law Became the World’s Most Powerful Weapon Against Dissent

In the first installment of her mini-series, Defending the Defenders: The Global Rise of Legalized Repression, Gaia Guatri examines how repression is evolving to encompass lawfare, judicial harassment, detention, and other forms of “legal containment.”

Mariam Waqar Khattak 4/7/26 Mariam Waqar Khattak 4/7/26

International Water Law and Our Post-Crisis Reality

In January 2026, a flagship report by UN researchers disclosed that the world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy’. Mariam Waqar Khattak analyzes the implications.

Adam Termote 2/27/26 Adam Termote 2/27/26

Imminent Ecosystem Collapse Demands a Food System Transition

The framework of food sovereignty remains a powerful alternative to an agribusiness food system that is fueling the climate crisis, writes Adam Termote.

John Collins 2/23/26 John Collins 2/23/26

What’s Left in Spain: Responses to Rufián Reveal Old Divisions and New Opportunities

John Collins surveys some of the key perspectives within an ongoing dialogue about the present and future of Spain’s perpetually fragmented Left. Is a change on the horizon?

John Collins 1/25/26 John Collins 1/25/26

American Shock: The NYT Magazine Goes to Minnesota

The “newspaper of record’ misses a golden opportunity to explain the material connections between violence “there” and violence “here.”

Fernando Luengo 1/23/26 Fernando Luengo 1/23/26

The Rich Are to Blame for Climate Change - Don’t Let Them Fool Us!

The common message of “we are all to blame, we all have to do our part” serves to shield the global elite from responsibility for the current crisis, writes Fernando Luengo.

Weave News 1/8/26 Weave News 1/8/26

Geo Maher: US Attack on Venezuela Must Be Seen in the Context of US Imperial Decline

In a Q&A recently conducted on Facebook, the widely cited author of We Created Chávez argues that the US attack “was never about democracy or drugs” and that “revolution is a process - always.”