A Zapotec activist faces death threats for organizing an indigenous resistance movement to combat violent land appropriation for wind farms and "green" energy projects.

Despite the drug war, urban blight and systemic demolition of neighborhoods, you can still hear the echoes on Seventh Street that once made West Oakland known as the “Harlem of the West”.

Deep n the interior of Mozambique, national interests and foreign conservation biologists are deciding the fate of a pristine rainforest despite the presence and opinions of its indigenous inhabitants.

Just two days shy of the impending October 31st Brexit deadline, an extension to January 31, 2020 now promises to draw contentious debate into the new year.

Communities of indigenous Iko’ots fight over their cultural identity and economic futures as multinational “clean” energy producers invest billions of dollars in Oaxaca’s valuable wind industry.

Childhood curiosities are awakened during an “encounter” with cryptozoological archivist and Bigfoot Discovery Museum founder Michael Rugg in the redwood forests outside Santa Cruz.

Although of little solcaeFrancisco Goya's paintings remind the author of a comparably depraved period of history in anticipation of the 2020 U.S. election.

The author wonders if the pandemic's catastrophic impact on social, political and economic structures is not symptomatic of longer held fears of collapse.

A Jingpo (Kachin) artist leaves her home in China and moves to an internally displaced peoples (IDP) camp in northern Myanmar to help war-torn children process trauma through painting and poetry.

When 15 indigenous Iko'ots activists are found brutally murdered after allegations of abuse of power, a community finds its loyalties and its lands divided over territorial disputes.

Writing becomes a tool of revolution and sanity for refugees, asylum seekers and captive bodies from Myanmar, Afghanistan, Syria and Uganda to Norway and Greece.

Long known as the haunt of subversive artists and thinkers, a new generation of Oaxacan muralists have appropriated the city walls as a public reminder of the protests and violence that engulfed the city in 2006.

Reflections from the Bogside on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

Accountant by day, conceptual artist by night, Edith Morales documents Oaxaca's endemic maize species while cultivating an urban "milpa" garden to study ancient systems of agriculture.

While paying their respects at a roadside cemetery south of San Antonio, a group of artists, musicians and photographers find themselves unprepared to confront the ghosts of the corridos.

Zapotec hip-hop artists Juchirap have earned respect across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec for their proud, progressive lyrics and performances in their native Diidxazá language.

Amidst a record-breaking heat wave and second year of historic wildfires, a group of dancers experiment with a new form of environmental advocacy in the California redwoods.

Reflections from the razor's edge of the American Dream.