Plans for Europe’s largest open-pit gold mine in Romanian commune Roșia Montană galvanized all layers of Romanian society, from villagers to presidents. The two-decade fight against a project that aimed to erase four mountains and three villages has radical social and political consequences.
As Europe offshores border control to Libya – where horrific human rights abuses have been well documented – migrants too have been joining forces between North Africa and Italy, in a unified movement for safety and recognition under international law.
Soviet eco-activism exposed state rot – but it also provided the networks, platforms and experience for ordinary people to become anti-authoritarian campaigners.
An alliance that came together against embezzlement of road tolls is using a winning combination of civil disobedience, public protest and crowd-funded strategic litigation to challenge corruption at the highest levels of South African power.
In the Philippines, archivists fight to preserve evidence of the country’s bloodied past, in hope that it will provide lessons for the future.
Plans for Europe’s largest open-pit gold mine in Romanian commune Roșia Montană galvanized all layers of Romanian society, from villagers to presidents. The two-decade fight against a project that aimed to erase four mountains and three villages has radical social and political consequences.
As Europe offshores border control to Libya – where horrific human rights abuses have been well documented – migrants too have been joining forces between North Africa and Italy, in a unified movement for safety and recognition under international law.
Soviet eco-activism exposed state rot – but it also provided the networks, platforms and experience for ordinary people to become anti-authoritarian campaigners.
An alliance that came together against embezzlement of road tolls is using a winning combination of civil disobedience, public protest and crowd-funded strategic litigation to challenge corruption at the highest levels of South African power.
In the Philippines, archivists fight to preserve evidence of the country’s bloodied past, in hope that it will provide lessons for the future.
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