Essay: Indigenous Mexicans turn inward to survive COVID-19, barricading villages and growing their own food
In an article first published on The Conversation, JEFFREY H COHEN, professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University, looks at how Indigenous communities in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca are responding to the coronavirus pandemic…
Privatisation “wave” hurts poor as pandemic heightens risks
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A push to privatise land and other resources in countries from Ukraine to Papua New Guinea is hurting Indigenous people and the rural poor, while increasing the risks linked to climate change, researchers at a US-based thinktank said on Tuesday. From a rise in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, a push […]
As US states ease coronavirus lockdowns, remote towns stay shut
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation Tucked up against the Canadian border in northwest Montana, the Blackfeet Reservation shut itself off in March as first word of the novel coronavirus spread, prohibiting visitors and implementing curfews. And while Montana, like half the US states, is gradually reopening businesses, the Blackfeet’s tribal council toughened their protective […]
Mexico’s Indigenous towns impose their own coronavirus lockdowns
Mexico City, Mexico Thomson Reuters Foundation Indigenous communities across Mexico have installed blockades and imposed curfews in a bid to protect their isolated towns from the new coronavirus, leaders and local officials said. In areas of at least five of the country’s states there have been shutdowns in communities that are often used to self-organising […]