by Christine Ahn | Dec 22, 2025 | Hawaii, Indigenous Sovereignty, Militarism, Military, Native Hawaiians, News Analysis, Sustainability
Since 1964, the U.S. military has leased roughly 47,000 acres of land from the State of Hawai‘i — for a token $1. The leases, which account for 18 percent of military lands in Hawai‘i, are set to expire in 2029, offering Hawai‘i a rare opportunity to reclaim land from the war machine. As the expiration date looms, Hawai‘i residents are at a crossroads: remain a staging ground for U.S.
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by Peter Gelderloos | Nov 21, 2025 | Amazon Rainforest, brazil, Climate Crisis, COP30, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indigenous Peoples, News Analysis, Sustainability
A crowd of protesters — largely Indigenous Amazonian people — marched into a restricted area of the 30th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) this month in Belém, Brazil, declaring that their forests are not for sale. “We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers,” one Tupinamba community leader proclaimed.
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