Tag: environment
Turbulence in Eastern Mediterranean: How Warships and Warming Seas Strangle Fish and Fishermen
With military tensions soaring, the Eastern Mediterranean is increasingly criss-crossed by military vessels, and at the risk of the same environmental damage seen on its neighboring seas. With world leaders openly talking of a global conflict just round the corner, what is to happen to the seas that we hardly got to know?
The Mediterranean at Breaking Point
The alarm was launched on April 5, from somewhere in the Central Mediterranean. A small boat departed from Tajoura, a town in the northwest of […]
Roots of Resistance: How Gen Z Indigenous Women Are Defending Their Heritage in Southeast Asia
“Just this June, an 11-year-old Indigenous girl from the community was brutally raped.” The words come from Ushing, a 26-year-old Indigenous activist from Bandarban, a […]
A Message from Venezuela: An Alternative Must Be Built Beyond the Regime and the US
The people want and need an end to the persecution under the current political regime. Above all, the end of this repression would allow social and political forces in Venezuela to reorganize so that an alternative to the US-led projects can be strengthened.
Downwinders: The Forgotten Stories of America’s First Atomic Bomb
Half a million people lived within a 150-mile radius of Trinity nuclear testing site in 1945. Only 15% of the plutonium in the bomb fissioned, while the remaining radioactive fallout blew downwind into surrounding communities and seeped into the soil.
The Earth Under Siege
The year 2025 must be the year we reject militarism, but not only with our tax money and feet on the ground at protests. We must also fight against the mentality we are asked to accept
Utopia, Not Futurism
The following text is a transcript of the speech the American philosopher and ecologist Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) delivered on August 24, 1978, at the Toward […]
Activists Under Fire: The Rising Criminalization of Civil Movements Across Europe
As authorities clamp down, grassroots groups and NGOs remain resilient and interconnected in building solidarity networks across borders to amplify their demands and unify their struggles.
Urban Landscapes in the 21st Century: Can Eco-Cities Tackle Climate Change and Pollution?
Turning Point talked with municipal officials, grass roots organizers, researchers, and residents in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas to map out urban strategies for adaptation to climate change and to find out more about the prospects of finding an alternative to the current, ecologically devastating forms of urbanization.
Alternatives Are a Matter of Survival
In 2024, trust in institutions is plummeting. With a lack of options, people are turning to alternatives that once may have seemed radical but are […]