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.