Colombia's Latest Lessons in State-Driven Climate Activism

A few recent articles on mining strikes, fuel pressures, and Indigenous sovereignty illustrate the material challenges for leaving our old energy economy, worldwide

Oct 22, 2024

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Snapshots of three articles of relevance to the article below: one on Indigenous sovereignty, one on local strikes, and one on the challenges for energy policy reforms in Colombia.

Another day, another workers’ strike. Colombia is a country very comfortable with direct democracy, so protest movements are given plenty of advance and concurrent media coverage, with positions made clear to the general public, and there’s always a lot of coordination with urban metro and news systems to advise on road closures and alternate travel rou…

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