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Big corporations want you to believe they’re doing all they can—but they’re greenwashing.

Over the weekend, we found out that executives from big corporations including Apple, Disney, Amazon, and Microsoft have their hands in dirty business. They’ve been backing a fight against a major US climate bill, which contains measures to fight climate change. This matters because they're doing this in a time when such measures are the…

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Smallholder farmers are missing from the UN Food Summits: here’s why we should care

This article was co-written by Chloe Prasetya, Lavanya Prakash, Melanie Ang, Nicole Wong and Sammie Ng from Speak for Climate. This is also part of a wider collaborative effort between Speak for Climate and Singapore Climate Rally to explore local and regional food systems through the lens of labour, justice and ecology. Recently in Singapore,…

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#SecondhandSeptember isn’t enough: the truth about fashion’s waste crisis

As we approach the end of #SecondhandSeptember and celebrate a month of raising awareness of the importance of reducing firsthand consumption, perhaps it’s time to ask questions about how the movement and hashtag can go further. Amidst calls to decolonise fashion and ask more questions about how we can adopt a more actively anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist…

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Indigenous Resistance is an integral part of the climate movement. Here’s why.

Just weeks after the latest IPCC news, The Indigenous Environmental Network and Oil Change International released a new climate report. Its findings demonstrate that Indigenous resistance has stopped or delayed greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions. This is huge news. So, why is no one talking about…

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OPINION: How do we move past finger pointing and purity politics hindering social and environmental movements?

"You can't call yourself an environmentalist if you eat meat." Sound familiar? Virtually every social media post about climate change will have countless calls to "just go vegan!" in the comment section. This is a manifestation of a number of phenomena affecting social justice and climate activism spaces in 2021 - black and white thinking…

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CBS is airing a show called “The Activist”. Real activists aren’t having it.

EDITOR'S NOTE: As of 16th September, Global Citizen has issued a statement that they are changing the show's format. However, many of the critiques still apply.  This is one of those, “tell me we’re in late-stage capitalism, without telling me we’re in late-stage capitalism” moments. CBS’ new show, “The Activist”, is a Hunger Games-esque competition…

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