By Renee Lewis / Source TRT World TAHOLAH, Washington State – The Quinault Indian Nation’s creation story says the first humans climbed out of a clamshell thousands of years ago. The Quinault have made their homes on the shores of the Pacific Ocean ever since. For hundreds of years, their territory extended up the river to…
By Renee Lewis / Source Fusion A Washington state tribe trying to stop a planned oil terminal expansion near its reservation says grassroots resistance is working—citing a trend of similar proposals being dropped in the state and the success of the sustained resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. “We know we can…
By Renee Lewis / Source Fusion.net Scientists and others who work with the topic of climate change have reported having nightmares about its impacts. “I’ve had nightmares of a dystopian future — think Silent Green or Mad Max,” said Michael Mann, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Pennsylvania State University and director of its Earth…
By Renee Lewis / Source Al Jazeera English Portland, United States – Protesters in Portland who have staged days of rallies following Donald Trump’s shock election victory say they must build a strong grassroots resistance movement to survive his presidency. “I’m devastated by what has happened,” said Cindy Quale, who attended Friday’s rally at Portland’s City…
With reporting by Renee Lewis / Source Al Jazeera English Thousands of protesters have taken their frustration over Donald Trump‘s presidential election win onto the streets for a third straight night, following previous outbreaks of window-smashing and fire-setting. Protests swept on Friday across the cities of Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco and Portland – where…
By Renee Lewis / Source Fusion.net GRANDVIEW, WA — Plumes of dust blowing off of piles of manure, the smell of ammonia in the air, polluted groundwater, and a deadly birth defect cluster have residents of Yakima’s Lower Valley worried a new state permit meant to regulate dairy farms won’t do enough to protect their…
By Renee Lewis / Source Fusion.net EUGENE, Ore.—‘The most important lawsuit on the planet right now’ was born in a small, unassuming office on a tree-lined street in the liberal Oregon city of Eugene. The office is home to Our Children’s Trust, a nonprofit founded in 2010 to bring coordinated legal actions on behalf of…
