No Good Billionaires: Yvon Chouinard Uses Philanthropy and the Language of Environmental Justice to Secure and Maintain His Hoarded Wealth
there’s nothing eco-friendly about an eco-billionaire.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was An Anti-Indigenous, Anti-Black #GirlBoss
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was attached to whiteness and I never saw her confront or challenge this. She’s not my hero. She shouldn’t be yours.
On This Day 157 Years Ago: What Happened in Payahüünadü Then, What's Happening Now, and How It's All Interconnected
Not too long ago, on July 11, 1863 (yesterday about 157 years ago), 1,000 Paiutes from Payahüünadü (what settlers/colonizers consider the Owens Valley/Bishop area), were forced from their homelands to march 250 miles to Fort Tejon, where now exists the Tejon Reservation.
Cops Kill, Anti-Blackness Infiltrates Our Language and Headlines, and Why We Need to Support Black Women and Femmes Directly
Today as uprisings and rebellions continue to bloom all over the country and globe to protest Black genocide and police murders, and advocate for police/prison abolition, Black women and femmes are being killed at devastating rates.
Saving MA Forests: The Fight For Clean Air During COVID-19 and Climate Change
Berkshire County is home to an abundance of beautifully forested land and natural resources. Our forests, parks, and wetlands have become an important pillar of our economic stability, as well as a critical player in our ecological diversity and public health. Yet our state forests are currently standing on the threshold of losing protections against commercial logging, and removal for biomass fuel.
#BoycottBlackDiamond: Everything You Need to Know and How You Can Help
Black Diamond and Pieps are owned by Clarus Company, an under-the-radar, little known growth stock that is in its early stages as Mike Berner describes in his article, “Clarus: Potential Compound Machine in Outdoor Recreation.” The Executive Chairman and controlling shareholder of Clarus Company is Warren B. Kanders who describes himself as an “American businessman and philanthropist.” But there’s nothing philanthropic about this filthy rich white man who is also the CEO of Safariland, the premier maker of equipment for the law enforcement industry. Safariland is a U.S. based manufacturer that sells law enforcement and “security products,” including tear gas. On August 4, 2016 Safariland proudly announced a $7.3 million sale of ballistic equipment to the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”).
"There Are Going to be Such Explosions": What Constitutes Violence in a Settler Colonial Society, the Unethical Use of Tear Gas, and the Importance of Media Literacy
Today, in 2020 we are experiencing the largest civil rights movement in the world, and as Ericka Hart says, “This is a civil war.” All 50 states plus 18 countries have participated in protests against police brutality in defense of Black Lives as of June 3. More than 450 protests have been organized. The demand is simple: Defund the police.
Tear gas, flash-bang grenades, pepper spray, and rubber bullets are supposedly “non-lethal,” but these violent tools of war indeed are deadly. Tear gas increases respiratory illnesses and can have fatal consequences on those with pre-existing conditions like asthma. Although tear gas is explicitly prohibited in warfare, police are using it excessively to quell and silence the valid outcry of people who are fed up with a punitive system and police force that disproportionately targets and kills Black people.
This is All We Can Think About: The Deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Nina Pop, the False Binary of Covert/Overt White Supremacy, and Where to Redistribute That Stimulus Check
Anti-racist action must be taken all year round, seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Not just when someone’s life has been taken through racist rage. Not just when it fits into our schedule.
Where to Donate That Stimulus Check
Real scarcity is not having enough $ for food or rent, swimming in debt, no family/parental safety net, no access to federal or state benefits. I invite my owning class friends to join me in rethinking scarcity and give bigger. Together we can take care of each other. Fuck capitalism, smash the state, community care for the win!
Stay the Fuck Home: White Entitlement, Anti-Blackness, and COVID-19
You're not staying home just for your own safety, more importantly, you're staying home to not be a burden on an already burdened medical system that was designed to kill Black and Brown folks. The LEAST we can do as white people is stay the fuck home if we can.
Hey, It’s John Muir’s Birthday, So Here’s a Reminder of His Racist Legacy
In response to Adventure Journal’s recent piece today glorifying John Muir we decided to offer up our feminist analysis of the racist asshat.
Say NoThanks to #Thankstaking
Tomorrow many families across the United States will sit down at a table to celebrate a holiday rooted in colonization and genocide. The history of the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights and self-determination has been co-opted and re-written by colonizers to make forced removal seem amicable. But the fable that is “Thanksgiving,” what many Indigenous leaders and activists call “Thankstaking,” was anything but friendly and good-natured.
Anti-Blackness and Colonization: There is No Decolonization Without Uplifting Black Lives
As a black woman of Turtle Island I am asking EVERYONE to STOP speaking of “Decolonization” without explicitly naming and confronting Anti-blackness. Anti-blackness is deeply, unshakably inherent to colonization — as much as land theft, rape, genocide, white supremacy, hierarchy.
“Pretty Good”: The American Alpine Club’s Continued Exclusion, Exploitation, and Tokenization of Black and Indigenous Communities and How White People Rationalize It Away
At the most recent Craggin’ Classic in Payahüünadü (so-called Bishop, CA), Indigenous Women Hike, Legendary Skies Enterprises, and Climb the Gap were invited to the yearly event by The American Alpine Club with the expectation that each organization would be participating in some sort of panel discussion to speak about their org’s work and mission. But in the days following the event, Climb the Gap and Indigenous Women Hike reported on their Instagram stories that they felt disrespected, exploited, and tokenized.
Building Terra Incognita Media: Confronting Failure, Self-Sabotage, and Imposter Syndrome
Erin Monahan, founder of Terra Incognita Media, shares what it’s been like behind the scenes at Terra, what it has taken to build the platform you see today, and some exciting shifts that are going to happen as we enter 2020. She writes, “Some of the original people who answered my call for support ended up leaving because my vision changed. It went from a feminist/political climbing journal, as embarrassing as that is to admit, to the feminist response to the outdoor industry that is today. It’s nothing like it was at the beginning because the platform has evolved as I have evolved. I hope in ten years it’s nothing like it is today.”